The employer of the soliders was after Tamil. The soliders were supposed to take Tamil and deliver him in a hidden box somewhere in the city. Roxanne suggested that she could take Tamils place in the box, since she can alter her appearance with magic to look like Tamil, while the rest of the party could watch and follow the ones that would pick her up. What the party didn’t think of was that no one would pick up the drop of. The box had a false bottom and its content could be collected from underneath. Roxanne was quickly apprehended by some thugs under the box and taken to her capturer. The rest of the party slowly figured that something was amiss and after a check up found that Roxanne was taken.
They followed the underground corridors to an abanoded area in Trauges merchant district. Roxanne was in one of the buildings there and was being tortured for answers. Before any real harm could come to her the building was assaulted by her friends. The leader threatened to kill her if any partymember attacked him. Roxanne was helplessly bound and her magic restricted. The party was about to give in when Mesin’ha saw a small window to act. He lunged foreward and pushed Roxannes capturer back enough for her to flee. After that the criminals harshly prevented from doing anything else, ever.
The criminals had a link to Caution as well and learned where he lived. Because the party had not enough hard evidence to take down the head of this cartell they decided that Mesin’ha should go and have a look.
During this nightly raid Mesin’ha was discovered by Caution himself who, surprisingly, let Mesin’ha go after a short conversation. Caution was very insistent on that he had no direct part in the assassination of jarl Endorin Garmèl. He had hired a small band of jor’dnaga to work as a decoy for another interested party and planned to kill them after, but didn’t know what his contracts plot was. He seemed rather annoyed that because he had been fooled and framed by his contract and wanted to help the party find the culprit of the assassination. He didn’t recognize his employer, but said that they were somhow connected to Trauges nobility.
This led the party to the nobel quarter, and the inn “Blå krone” (the blue crown). Here Katla and Mesin’ha, with their knowledge about nobility and their ways, posed as nobility and made friends among other nobels. Most of the nobel families seemed to have some kind of a grudge toward other houses. Especially the Garmèl and Kastan families. The odd one out was a small, but ambitious, house. This was Kahtan, with Nettin Kahtan as their head. He welcomed the newcomers with open arms in to his own house and slowly got to know the party as themselves and not their disguises.
The entire nobility in Trauge was invited a few days later to a grand ball where Andorin was to be coronated as the new jarl. Here the feast was infiltrated by more assassins. They were first suspected as jor’dnaga, but Katla stalled the newly appointed jarl to stay his hand towards Tragues jor’dnaga population until the culprits could be found. And they were. The assassins proved to be silfs, much to Andorins surprise. The party was then asked to go to the great jor’dnaga city of Norn Graz to warn, and help them if needed be, about the silf threat. Then Andorin left for Cor Talgin again, leaving the city in his mothers, Titania Garmèl, and her close silf advisors, Solos Te’thatra, hands. The Te’thatra name was very troubling for Mesin’ha. It was an old royal silf name that had been wiped out long ago. The name was obviously a fake one.
The jor’dnaga in Norn Graz is a proud and strict people. Their society thrives because of their firm belief in familiy, order, “the stone” and military might. Norn Graz has a small area near its entrance where outsiders can manage their affairs and the rest of the city is mostly clan houses. Each clan practices different crafts and arts, but each clan takes particular pride in specializing in one craft. The city has and intricate design with water from the mountains of Goldah and Kohn streaming through the city and on top of the walls to irrigate small fields, fill the reservoires and help power the city defenses.
The party met with the head of Norn Graz most powerful clan: Thondar Jernhov (Iron hoof). He welcomed the extra help since they recently had a failed assassination attempt happen in their own clan house, even though he was very sceptical of outsiders and other races. The partys investigation led them to the grand arena where they unearthed a conspiracy to sabotage several important locations in Norn Graz by Hakano Goldah. A captured Hakano Goldah sympathiser named Varin told the party about the structure of the cartel and that they had been contacted by four silfs. The silfs had planned the sabotages and bought Hakano Goldah to do their dirty work. Varin also spilled the name of the other leaders of Hakano Goldah, including the top seat, Branka.
With this new information the party slowly tracked down where the silf could access the city and sealed it. Then they tracked down the hideout of Hakano Goldah. Mesin’ha was sent in as an inflitrator, but due to poor communication and a handful of bad luck the mission ended in the party defending themselves against, and killing, a large group of jor’dnaga criminals, including one of their leaders. This hindered the party from ever gaining trust from Hakano Goldah. Seeing that he liked the jor’dnaga governments handling of criminals and unwanted, by executing them, Cohen also told Thondar where the cartel hideout was and thus gave the jor’dnaga leaders enough information to cleanse the city of Hakano Goldah members and other unwanted. Several other partymembers strongly disagreed to this, but could do nothing to stop it.
Because of the famine in the lowlands there had been brewing some unrest in Trauge and surrounding towns. This escelated to a full fledged rebellion during the time when the party was in Norn Graz. The jor’dnaga inhabitants of Trague was forcefully evicted of the city and the city nobels and guards was taken and held under close guard. The party tracked down the rebellion leader after freeing the guards and nobels, effectively ending the rebellion, and interrogated him. While they talked to him an unknown silf attacked them and tried to murder the rebel leader to stop him from talking. He was fortunatly saved and explained that Solos Te’thatra had made him lead the rebellion.
Framing Titanias most trusted advisor with no hard evidence proved to be difficult and so, in an elaborate plan involving Roxanne stalling Solos, Mesin’ha sneaking into Solos’ living quarters, Katla keeping Titania busy and the rest keeping a tight watch of the jarl mansion, they managed to find evidence of Solos being the high priestess of a silf cult to an ancient god of revenge. With this they confronted Solos which then unleached Solos’ long prepared magic. The Garmèl guards turned on Titania and the party and they barely got away. At Nettins estate they regrouped and laid plans to attack Solos. After a long hard battle in the jarl mansion the party emerged victorious and the hidden silf threat ended for now.