The Fall of Thjazi Fang | Critical Role | Campaign 4, Episode 1 Part 1

Summary

Critical Role Campaign 4: Episode 1, Part 1 — "The Fall of Thjazi Fang"

Original Air Date: October 9, 2025
Host: Brennan Lee Mulligan, with the full Critical Role cast

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Episode Overview

The debut of Campaign 4 plunges listeners into the city of Dolmakyar, in the land of Kahad—a place etched with revolutionary legacy, looming divides of power, and whispers of magical unrest. This episode pivots around the public execution of Thiazi Fang, a renowned orcish revolutionary, and the shockwaves his death sends through his extended family and former comrades. Competing agendas, deep-seated grief, and political intrigue simmer during the wake at the Fang family home, hinting at old plans gone wrong and larger forces at work in Dolmakyar.

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Key Discussion Points & Story Highlights

1. Prologue: The Gallows at the Guardian Wall

• Players Introduce New Characters:
  • Helen Dio Fang Hal (Matthew Mercer): An older orc gentleman, well-respected, carrying the weight of imminent family tragedy.
  • Azune Nayar (Luis): Human-presenting Arcane Marshal, stoic, muscular, marked by honor and sympathy toward Hal and Thiazi.
• Public Execution:
  • The city's revolutionary icon, Thiazi Fang, is presented in manacles before a swelling crowd—his fate overseen by the rival noble houses.
  • Azune’s Secret Help: Azune covertly uses magic (Detect Magic, Message) to communicate with Thiazi, revealing hope for escape via a magical charm.

    "Earlier today somebody placed an object on you, a ward ... upon adding just a little bit of pressure, it will be the very thing that sends you away from here." —Matthew Mercer as Azune (12:00)

• Last Moments Between Brothers:
  • Hal and Thiazi share a fraught, wordless farewell, loaded with failed plans and deep unspoken love.
  • Memorable Quote:

    “You’ve lit many fires throughout your years, and they all still burn.” —Matthew Mercer as Azune to Thiazi (12:52)

• The Trap is Sprung
  • Despite secret hopes of escape, the execution proceeds. Thiazi uses his final words to indict the powers that condemned him—leaving Hal, Azune, and the crowd reeling.

Notable Quotes & Moments

• Thiazi to Hal (Telepathically, moments before his death, ~19:00):

  “…you’re my hero and I... If I don’t see you for a long time...”

• Executioner's Announcements and Political Tensions (15:24):

  “Traitor, arcanist and murderer Thiazi Fang, to be put to death ... sedition against the beneficence of the city and its peoples.”

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2. The Wake: Grief, Blame, and Gathering Shadows

• Setting: The episode transitions to Hal’s modest yet welcoming home in the Rookery, Dolmakyar’s neighborhood of poets and performers.
• Family and Allies Arrive:
  • Shadia (Hal's daughter): Emotionally preparing for the Orcish wake (Farav).
  • Ol’good Akarat (business partner, family-friend): Offers support, foreshadows a deluge of guests—some with their own unanswered questions.
  • Tysha (Aabria Iyengar): Hal's former partner, a druid of significant lineage, brings both comfort and anxiety about the failed rescue plan.
• The Failed Rescue Plan:
  • Multiple characters (Azune, Tysha, Octus) allude to a meticulously planned but disastrously failed attempt to free Thiazi.
  • The absence of Thimble, a key coconspirator, looms large.
  • Hal’s Quiet Anguish:

    “For someone whose life has been all about words, I have none to give.” —Matthew Mercer as Hal (16:55)

• Political Complications:
  • Tense arrivals from various factions, including members of the newly ascendant Candescent Creed and other noble houses.
  • Wikander Haylovar (“Wick,” Sam Riegel): Out-of-touch priest, awkward noble, arrives carrying Thiazi’s bloodied sword—symbolizing both guilt and class division.
  • Tyranny (Whitney): Goatskin demon and Creed aspirant, irreverent, kindles tension with her presence and humor.

Memorable Family Moment

• Shadia and Hal (35:08):

  “Now is the time to lean on your family. Lean on your mother, your sister. They’ll be here soon. Crying’s fine.” —Hal

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3. Old Warriors, New Mysteries

• Arrival of Teor Prytsire (Travis Willingham):
  • Lionfolk veteran of the Falconer's Rebellion, arrives with Loza Blade, another legendary fighter. They’re both dismayed by Thiazi’s end, questioning how things soured so drastically in Dolmakyar.
  • Veteran’s Lament (~66:48):

    “There was remorse, there was sadness, there was confusion. And that’s where Teor feels ... how did this man ... meet an end like this?”

• Former Comrades Collide:
  • Azune and Teor reconnect, share questions about shifting allegiances, and pledge to hunt for answers together.
  • Hints that another comrade, Cid, was supposed to help the failed rescue but never arrived.

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4. Alliances and Tensions at the Wake

• Interactions Among Mourners:
  • Strained, sometimes comic, attempts at hospitality—“Yargrass” (the orcish Malört) flows freely, with demons and priests alike recoiling.
  • Tysha resumes druidic funeral rites but drinks herself into oblivion in a moment of emotional and physical collapse.
  • Wick tries to atone, meets Hal in private, and earnestly (if naively) pleads ignorance at his family's role in Thiazi’s execution.

    “I had made a request to save this man’s soul… I don’t know what went wrong. And I feel like everyone down there hates me now.” —Sam Riegel as Wikander (115:28)

• Blame Spirals:
  • Hal’s grief turns to simmering anger as he confronts Wick, who claims political commutation was promised but denied. The theme of unseen manipulations grows.

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5. The Mission for Answers

• Thimble’s Disappearance:
  • Azune, Teor, and Octus decide to track down Thimble in the Tanners, suspecting she holds clues to the failed escape.
• Break-into the Secret Lair (129:00–134:00):
  • Via magical means, they discover Thimble’s hidden laboratory ransacked, blood pooling on the floor, and Thimble (a tiny, battered pixie) barely clinging to life, unconscious in a grate.
  • Cliffhanger: The party must stabilize Thimble after a clear ambush—foreshadowing deeper threats and betrayals.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Roleplay Moments

• Thiazi’s Defiance at the Gallows (21:00):

  “The false authority that now condemns me to death will fall. I regret only that I will miss the glorious celebration when your calumny and destruction comes to an end.”

• Loza Blade, on Thiazi:

  “You married a noble just from ... whatever moxie you had ... and two years after you married her, you joined a rebellion against her house. You were the craziest bastard I ever met.” (79:10)

• Tysha’s Coping Mechanism (119:00):
  • Tysha: “We fell in love when we were like 19... I became a Druid and I abandoned our kids... I have to get back to doing the rites really quick.”
    (Moments before blacking out, holding a demon’s ear.)
• Comic Relief: Demon and Alcohol Shenanigans (101:13):
  • Tyra: “You put the whole thing away. Olga goes, ‘Amazing. You shouldn’t be able to survive that.’”
• Hal’s Nail in the Coffin (116:07):
  • Hal to Wick: “You were a fail safe, Wick. A lot of things fell through today.”

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Important Timestamps

• 03:08: Hal’s first introduction
• 07:55: Azune’s first introduction
• 13:19: Discovery of Thiazi’s magical escape attempt
• 21:00: Thiazi’s final speech and execution
• 31:37–36:00: Shadia and Hal, grieving and preparing the wake
• 39:12: Tysha described, family gathering continues
• 54:05: Azune brings Thiazi’s body home, scene of mourning
• 62:08: Teor Prytsire and Loza Blade arrive, reflect on Thiazi’s legacy
• 82:11: Wick and Tyranny arrive (with comedic demon chaos)
• 98:51: Demon meets Hal, awkward introductions follow
• 111:57: Wick’s private apology to Hal over the failed commutation
• 129:00–134:00: Break-in and discovery of Thimble’s fate, cliffhanger ending

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Episode Tone, Structure, and Takeaway

This episode blends Critical Role’s trademark mix of emotional sincerity, world-weary humor, and intricate political drama. There’s a palpable sense of loss but also accountability, as characters’ old wounds and new suspicions bubble amid shared mourning. Nearly every player has a moment to showcase new characters with distinct voices, motivations, and secrets. The episode’s cliffhanger promises new dangers in Dolmakyar and a longer arc about the true cost of both revolution and betrayal.

For newcomers and longtime Critters alike, this opener is an ensemble masterclass—setting the stage for stories about family, legacy, and power, all beneath the shadow of the Revolution’s fading fires.

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End of Part 1

To hear what happens next, listeners are directed to Part 2 (airing Tuesday after the premiere).

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Transcript

[Matthew Mercer]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Matthew Mercer]

My name is Helen Dio Fang Hal. I am a An older dark haired with streaks of white orc gentleman, dressed in fairly fine but not ostentatious clothing and has smile lines at the eyes. From a life well lived. Trying in this moment to hold on to the spirit that has buoyed him through his life. Maybe not doing as well as he'd like to. In this moment.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This moment, you stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of the city of Dolmakyar. Its gray stone standing proud here at the eastern edge of the land known as Kahad. You stand under the Guardian Wall. Heroes of the Shapers war. Carved in statue some 80ft tall. Their torsos emerging from masonry. From the rock and stone of the mountainside, lean and hold the mountains of Kavros at bay. These statues arrayed side by side. Orcs and dwarves, elves and humans, halflings, gnomes, beast folk. Rendered here as heroes of a revolution now fading from memory. Their looks of determination, heroism and strength carved forevermore into their faces. What hope they bear in their noble visages. Under their arms stands the base of this massive wall at the eastern edge of the city Dolmakyar. Towering spires that follow the River Vrosh. Step by step down from the mountains as the city comes to life. Over your own neighborhood you see a flight of of magpies. Black wings, white breasts take to the sky, flying over the stream as the mist rises on this gray day. The days have been mostly gray recently. The Guardian Wall, like much of Dhul Makyar, is a place dedicated to heroism, camaraderie, the struggle of the mortal world to make a brighter day. And it is here, under the Guardian Wall that they have strung up the hangman's noose to kill your brother. Thiazi Fang. Behind the wall a wagon approaches. Soldiers, their heraldry and tabards alive with the crests of the sundered houses. Taconis, Hailovar. Royce. Einfassen. Cormoray. March. You would think some beast of legend was left within this wagon, barred with iron, as it is for the amount of soldiers marching this man to the gallows. But it is just one man. The wagon pulls up to a small dais wooden staircase and a door leading through the wall out to the awaiting crowd in the hangman's noose, waiting at the steps, his eyes on the approaching wagon. Luis is your character. Could you please introduce us to your character?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes. Azune Nayar stands tall, proud, human in appearance. He is just over five' ten, but gives the presence of someone that's taller than that. His pride carries him above his height? He is strong, lean, muscular. He has medium brown skin and coppery auburn brown hair that's tied back in a braid, a birthmark that goes up the right side of his neck, up his face and up to his forehead. Around his eye. His eyes look like a sunset on an ocean. The bottom half of his irises are a deep blue. His pupils are yellow like the sun that burst out into an orange and then into a teal and then into a light gray. He is wearing full armor, as is given to him by his station in Dolmakiar. He is a member of the Revolutionary Guard and Arcane marshal specifically, and his arms are exposed. Along his right bicep are tattooed the words have mercy on those I send you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The door to the wagon opens. Soldiers of House Taconis retrieve a figure from inside the shadows and a handsome orc smile across his fanged face. Nice shiner indicating some degree of glibness or flippancy in the face of these guards. Wearing his soiled coat and his old boots, his effects having been taken from him, he's marched out in manacles. The man you followed into battle all those years ago, dragged forward here. He looks up at you as he approaches. Not you. Anybody but you.

[Matthew Mercer]

I put my hand up to stop the rest of the soldiers. I am the arcane marshal assigned to scan the prisoner and I begin a ritual. My palm is facing up and I start to trace a circle around my palm as I begin a ritual of detect magic. But as I do that, I point my fingers towards him and I actually cast message.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hidden from those guards here, not first. In the arcane, you feel yourself connect through this act of sorcery to Thiazi. Fang.

[Matthew Mercer]

Study his face for a moment. Thiazi I can bias a few moments. If you have something that you want to say to someone and want me to pass it to them, now is the time.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

As you feel this spell connect to you, he smiles and goes, anything I have to tell anybody, I can tell them myself.

[Matthew Mercer]

You notice that look in his eyes, that glint? And I say more. In a moment I'm going to scan you to see if I can pick up any arcane residue, and my hope is that I do. Earlier today somebody placed an object on you, a ward, and watch me closely. When I'm done, if I sense it, I'll give you a nod and then I'll gesture to let you know where it is. It's delicate, it breaks easy, and upon adding just a little bit of pressure, it will be the very thing that sends you away from here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Understood.

[Matthew Mercer]

One last thing. A message from your brother.

[Sam Riegel]

Hal.

[Matthew Mercer]

Says he's here with you until the end. And you've always been a hero in his eyes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Well, that makes one of us. I don't know that I'll be able to see him again after today. Probably, right? I mean, you guys getting me out of here, I'm not going to be able to.

[Matthew Mercer]

Diazi. You've lit many fires throughout your years, and they all still burn. With that, instead of casting the ritual, I'm actually going to use a spell slot and cast detect magic. In that moment, an updraft of wind moves up towards me. A pulse radiates out and detect magic. Scan him.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

A gleam of magic hidden in the back of his coat, quite near his manacled hands, registers to you a little bit of conjuration, little bit of illusion. Just enough trickery for Thiazi Fang to make one last daring getaway.

[Matthew Mercer]

Good. I step back. I give him a nod and I turn around and I put my hand on the small of my back so he can see me indicate where it is.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He nods to you. And in that last moment of the message cantrip, he makes eye contact with you and says, I know you'll have to stay here. I'm sorry for all the distance I kept. I hope all those fires I set were worth it. Make sure you set some of your own when the time comes. And he walks up to the gallows, a spring in his step moves through the door as he walks out under the gallows, the crowd seeing him for the first time. From many parts of the crowd, a cheer goes up. The lords and ladies of the sundered houses anticipating this moment, strike up the trumpets attempting to quiet this noise. You see your brother and you see him looking throughout. A crowd of several hundred people looking for you.

[Matthew Mercer]

Raise an arm to the air.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He nods to you. A herald of House Taconis steps forward. Herein sentenced to death by the authority of the Chamber of Lords, advisory to the Revolutionary Council, is the traitor, arcanist and murderer Thiazi Fang, to be put to death. His crimes enumerated, befouling, arcanism, theft, skullduggery, murder and sedition against the beneficence of the city and its peoples. At this last accusation. A murmur moves through the crowd. Another voice stands, this one from an elderly woman dressed in white, the matriarch of House Haylovar, scion of the Candescent Creed. Let the light shine and let peace be restored to this blessed city and its heroic legacy. As she continues to speak in this moment, Fyazzi turns to you. Hal.

[Matthew Mercer]

I think. Anxiety rising in my gut, I'm severely tempted to dart my eyes around this open space, looking for any hand to any to see any result of all of the beseeching and deal making I have been making behind the scenes for weeks. But I won't let my brother look at that if these are to be his final moments. So I hold his look and for someone whose life has been all about words, I have none to give.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He looks at you smiling, shakes his head no, and at this distance you can't hear him over the speech of the Fotarch of the Candescent Creed, this elderly matriarch speaking, but you see him mouthing the words to you and this moment of desperation. So many strings were pulled. Something's got to happen. This can't be. He looks at you and goes mouthing just so you can read his lips. What are you doing for lunch after this? What, you didn't plan a funeral? Don't you like me at all? If I don't see you for a long time, you're my hero and I. His eyes dart up to the sky. I'd like you to make an insight check for me.

[Matthew Mercer]

Natural 20.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

In this moment. In this moment on a nat 20, you look and see his eyes and I think your bardic magic swells and you connect through him and can hear his voice. He looks up and you see reflected in his eyes, distant. You can't see it from where you are in the crowd looking up. All of the people of Dolmachia are gathered here in this place, skyboxes filled with nobles looking out over balconies from the higher level, near the shoulders of the mighty statues. You look and see he sees something, something in the sky and his face changes. There's panic. On a Nat 20 the residue of Azune's message cantrip comes to you and I will allow you to speak mentally to your brother in this moment on that NAT20 as he looks out and sees and panics, he goes no, no. He looks at you.

[Matthew Mercer]

You have to tell me what to do.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Matthew Mercer]

Nestled in not at the very top, but near it is a medium sized, modest house. Hal is not a man of deep pockets or wealth, but he lives happily and comfortably in this home with its view of the river and my theater down below at the foot of the hill. This neighborhood makes me happy just to walk through it on any given day. It is my home, it is my heart, it is my life's work. All started in these streets. From my house on the hill I can look out at most of the city and on a place where I spend most of my days. The house is again modest. It has lots of bedrooms. This house is meant for hosting and guests staying with us, both family and friends alike. Passing through. There is a large greeting room on the first floor meant for having gatherings at. Upstairs there is a back room that is littered with paper and scrolls and walls of books, musical instruments perched on stands scattered about. There are songs in mid composition, there are verse half composed on a number of different desks. In here everything is a work in progress. My life is a work in progress.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Stunned, moving through the home you see with the outline of dried tears on her face is your young daughter, Shadia. You see, Shadia wipes her nose and goes about the task of getting your home ready for for the Farav, which is essentially a wake. It is in orcish custom in Kahad, basically the day of a death, or as soon as possible, you begin the grieving process and part of that is putting the body in a state of viewing where loved ones can come and pay their respect. Shadia has not had to say goodbye to anybody and you can see absentmindedly is setting the table for the many dinner parties and large family dinners you have here. She's setting the table and you know that that table is where Thiazi is going to have to go.

[Matthew Mercer]

I place my hand on her right and gently let the plate down on the Table. Come, come.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Come here.

[Matthew Mercer]

And I feel the way she does, but I just hug her and take a moment of quiet with her. I know, I know. I'm right there with you. But now is the time to lean on your family. Lean on your mother, your sister. They'll be here soon. Crying's fine.

[Sam Riegel]

Always.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hey. I love you. And he did too. And that's what we'll remember.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I love you, Dad. I wish Aligar was here. I. I can't sent those birds to him. But it didn't. I just. I just wish. And you hear a knock at the door. The door opens up and an older Orcish gentleman, Olgood, shows up. You look and see, see that? This is Olgood Akarat, your business partner, who enters the home and goes.

[Matthew Mercer]

Come on in. All good. I just pull him and clap him hard on the back.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He claps you hard on the back. I thought at the.

[Matthew Mercer]

You and me both. Two weeks. Two weeks I have talked my way through the Royce home and Aranessa.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Is she coming today? She has to.

[Matthew Mercer]

I hoped she'd come a little sooner.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, shit. I brought a cranberry corner cream rolls and flowers.

[Sam Riegel]

Right.

[Matthew Mercer]

Right. Shadi, take that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, Shadi says hi, Uncle Allgood. Not her uncle uncle, but effectively as good as an uncle to her. She takes it and he looks and goes.

[Matthew Mercer]

People are gonna be here soon. Maybe you could help us.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, I'll funnel people if anyone's. Do we know how many of Thiazi's.

[Matthew Mercer]

Friends and I think a considerable amount. Yeah, yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Thiazzi, obviously a hero. Hero to us. Falconer's Rebellion hero. Hero. But, you know, he knew some. Well, I'll just keep an eye on it.

[Matthew Mercer]

My brother had irons and a lot of fires. Yes, he did.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He sure did. Two more figures approach the house. And I would love if we could get Aabria and Alex out here. Welcome, Abria and Alex.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hello.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Creepy. For the audience at home. There's so many people so close to. To where I am right now. We're being so quiet, actually trying so hard.

[Marisha Ray]

We're doing so good.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Outside of the Fang home, two figures walk up the cobblestone street, heading up the hill. Aabria, would you please describe your character for us?

[Marisha Ray]

Tysha is a. She's tall for an orc. 6 4. Desaturated green skin, curly long dark hair. She's beginning to show the signs of graying. But her Druidic connection means that the age of her is being lost in her face. She's already started slowing down. So she Appears in her mid to late 30s. Her eyes, the scleras and pupils are black. But her irises are silver with a ring of red. And on her hands her fingers go red and black at the tip. She is aloy a family that means something in this city. And she wears those colors, blood and the soot and silver of smiths. And she swishes up the street in fine clothes. But doesn't even seem to be aware of her presence. And her presence as she speaks with her companion in hushed and panicked tones about what went wrong. We just need to think. Figure out what happened. He was supposed to be there. He was supposed to.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I don't know. Alex. Who do we see speaking in this moment?

[Matthew Mercer]

You see a small young man about small in presence. He's about five' eleven, tiny. He is thin with dark hair and light olive skin and bright green eyes. And wearing dark noble clothing that is clean but worn. And with an array of implements around his belt and a book strip to his leg. And he is glassy eyed. He is just staring and not blinking. With him is a small white and other colors fox. I don't know. That wasn't what was supposed to happen.

[Marisha Ray]

Obviously we need to see with Azune. And Thimble. And Thimble something. Are you okay?

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm fine. I've never done anything like this before.

[Marisha Ray]

It's okay. Normally they go better than this.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm going to hazard to say that he heard conversation coming up the cobble streets and spotted them out the window. So by the time you arrive at the Hal is leaning against the frame just smiling at you as you approach.

[Marisha Ray]

I think that's the moment where all of the planning and that frustration that can still feel purposeful ends at your face because it looks so much like your brothers and like her sons and our daughters.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, you're a Cyphosauris. And I just bury myself in her and just drink in the familiar scent. I think it's subtle, but you can feel Hal's frame shudder just a little bit.

[Marisha Ray]

Finally, she doesn't let you go right away. That first the moment she feels you pull back. When propriety says this is enough for an embrace. She pulls you a little tighter. And I'm actually going to cast enrichment on this spot.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Awesome.

[Marisha Ray]

For the next year, plants in a half mile radius from exactly right here will be a little more fruitful and.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

A little more green.

[Matthew Mercer]

I place my hand on your cheek.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm sorry. We were supposed to. I don't know what happened.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We were gonna.

[Marisha Ray]

We were supposed to get him out of the city. And.

[Matthew Mercer]

Come on, your daughter needs you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Walking into a home, which there is no corner of, that is unfamiliar to you, though you haven't seen it in quite some time. You see, your daughter Shadia, this beautiful young Orcish woman who wears a harlequin pattern to her breeches and is studying to be a performer like her father, looks out and she goes, jasmine. And as jasmine grows along the outside of the windows, and she gives you an enormous hug. Hi, Mom.

[Marisha Ray]

Hi, baby.

[Sam Riegel]

Are you okay?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Um. Bad things are better when we're together. Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sorry.

[Marisha Ray]

No, this is on me. Hi. This is Octus.

[Matthew Mercer]

Welcome to my home, Octus. Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Octus, this is my daughter, Shadia.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hi, Shadia.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hi, Octis. Nice to meet you. I'm Shadia. Are you helping with. Are you a member of the old path? And she sort of cocks an eyebrow very much.

[Matthew Mercer]

Not just a friend. Oh, I also knew him.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I mean, everybody knew Uncle Thiazzi, but you knew him like he was.

[Matthew Mercer]

He. He helped me when I was a child.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He did that for me, too. If you want a. Are you hungry? Do you want some food or drink? I can get something.

[Matthew Mercer]

We have more cold meats than we know what to do with. Please. I hope you'll help us chip away at it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sure.

[Matthew Mercer]

Who's this? Oh, that's Pin and the fox up onto my shoulder. The first fox is mostly white with one leg that is from a different fox and eyes that are purple buttons.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, you see that? Shadi looks over at you and goes like. I don't know why. I thought he was a member of the old path. He's not a member of the old path.

[Marisha Ray]

Definitely just very low.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Don't even.

[Marisha Ray]

I'll tell you later. Don't.

[Matthew Mercer]

Pin.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I think.

[Matthew Mercer]

I think.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And Pin disappears. Oh, you didn't have to. It's just probably Shadi goes, ah, sorry. Sorry.

[Sam Riegel]

She.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'll go get you a cranberry cream roll. And she walks.

[Marisha Ray]

Hey, that was pretty good. That was good. That was a good start. You're doing great.

[Matthew Mercer]

Take you by the elbow, will you? Are you staying?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Um.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh.

[Marisha Ray]

And this is that moment where she just realized she wasn't supposed to be here. We should have been on the road out of town by now.

[Sam Riegel]

Um.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, for. For a little bit, at least, if it's okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Is it okay? Yes. Your room's ready.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Thank you. You hear the turning of wheels, outside approaching horse hooves. And the noise of armor descending from the driver's seat of a wagon. Luis, can we have you come in?

[Marisha Ray]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Marisha Ray]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Travis Willingham]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Travis Willingham]

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[Sam Riegel]

I'm back.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh God.

[Matthew Mercer]

Two slide. So it's better.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes.

[Marisha Ray]

All here.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Luis Azune appears outside of the house with a wagon from a carriage from the Brethren Hall. You see that two of your enquirers, this would be Horace and Grotto, open the doors at the back revealing not a coffin but a basically cushioned carrying surface with a body and a white sheet draped around and over it.

[Matthew Mercer]

I will make my way over to them and I can take it from.

[Sam Riegel]

Here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Of course, Lieutenant.

[Matthew Mercer]

And I look at this, the body of Thiazi that is now covered on this. And I It's so formal and so wrong. And I'm going to take him off of whatever this is, this thing that he's been laid on, and I'm going.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

To scoop him up and I'm going.

[Matthew Mercer]

To carry him inside myself.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You pick him up. This white funereal sheet provided by the Candescent Creed in the house of Haylovar is left on the cobbler stones by the carriage. And you walk in, I think, a moment from many years ago in the Falconer's Rebellion, where it was your head on his collarbone and him shouting, medic. Moving throughout as spells fired overhead and arrows flew through the sky. And you look down and see him. What do you see when you look down at Thiazi's face in this moment?

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm transported to this memory. And I remember as he was carrying me, I looked up at his face and how young and strong he was, the fighter that led us with such a cause that I knew was worth the. And now I look down at this man who has met an end that I never thought I would live to see. And I try to almost superimpose the fighter, the strong leader. That face that I remember, I try to superimpose that right onto the face that I see that's lifeless. His eyes are a little open and they're glassy. And I. The lines on his face, they stand out to me almost a bit of the last expression that he had frozen on his face still. And I don't want Hal to see him like this. So I try to smooth it over.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Whatever fear or panic was left from the violence of that moment, the tips of your fingers brush away until some visage of repose is left on Thiazi's face. And you walk through the door.

[Marisha Ray]

And.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Behold the Azzy's family here.

[Marisha Ray]

Sinai.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Taisha.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hal. I'm so sorry. Where should I put him? Bring him inside. I'll guide Azune to off of. There's an alcove to this large area that I have family and friend gatherings on the first floor of the house. And there is. I don't know what the right word is. It's not a chaise, and there's no backrest on it, but it is the length of a body. And I want to say comforting, but there's no comfort for him. No, you can. You can rest him here. I carefully carry Thiazzi's body as instructed. Gently set him down.

[Marisha Ray]

Tycha is pacing back and forth and it's that mixture of. She knows everything in her training and her beliefs is about the repose and return of death. But she just wants to question you. She knows that you are one of the links in the chain. And the desire to figure out what went wrong is warring with trying to maintain the peace and serenity of this.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Tycha. You would know that there is some privacy in Hal's office upstairs as well. Look, if there's. It's a moment as people begin to arrive, that you would want to move.

[Matthew Mercer]

In that direction simultaneously. I'm just looking at my brother and thinking of all the days that make up a life. And I can see him as a 10 year old, giving me shit and chasing each other around and wrestling in the back of the. Of our father's house. I can see him leaving as a young man. I can imagine the entirely other life that he largely shielded me from with you in very dangerous fields of battle. And with you a whole thread of.

[Travis Willingham]

His life.

[Matthew Mercer]

Outside of my own. And then I look at the kids, our daughter, and I look at Octus, and I think he's just staring at the body. He's got his whole life. She's got her whole life ahead of them. Full of days like the one that filled this man's life. And now he's gone. Octas walks up next to you and is still laser focused on the body and crouches down and sits next to it and looks and goes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hi.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's been a long time. Sorry I didn't see you before I. For you. You look good. Doesn't look too bad on you actually. You seem to be retaining your color. I don't know, I just thought I'd. Thanks.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You've studied many cadavers, but not one like this.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Shadia moves, puts a hand on her uncle's hand and goes to prepare the table for the. She starts to place candles on the table. There's some bottles of a sort of favorite liqueur that you kept here. Pretty much. It's a disgusting thing, but Thiazi liked it. So that's going up at the head and there's a little dish of coins and some other things. I mean, so much of Thiazi's stuff is here. Thiazi's life got so dangerous towards the end that things that mattered to him that couldn't be picked up in a fast Escape ended up living here. The tools of his trade had to stay with him. But a little chattering tin box with old Orcish runestones in it from childhood. They're not really magic, but neighborhood kids will say that stuff that's still here. And a lifetime of adventure and mischief begins to gather on the table with space left when the time comes to move his body into this place of the beginning of this ritual. I think walking up as the hour draws near when people are expected to arrive. Arrive. Our first guests of the funeral arrive. Travis, could we get you in here? Travis is in.

[Sam Riegel]

This guy.

[Travis Willingham]

Who'S your favorite.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wherever you like. Wherever you like. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

I don't feel weird about that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Destroyed.

[Travis Willingham]

It's just personal.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Walking up a cobblestone street in a neighborhood of Dolmach Yar called the Rookery.

[Marisha Ray]

Is.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

A that I think has never actually seen where old Thiazi Fang grew up. Two figures walk side by side. One of them an older orcish woman who is broad shouldered, tall, powerful square jaw. Beautiful tusks with filigreed runic rings of gold set into the middle of her tusks. She's got her hair up in a gray and white messy bun up on top of her head and an enormous battle axe across her back. She is of such an advanced age that the muscles remaining on her body are clinging to pure spite. At this point, the musculature of this ancient warrior is evidence of a willpower greater than the biological processes of those creatures of the world of Ahriman. She steps forward. By her side, her companion. Travis, would you describe your character for us?

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah. You see a very tall, very powerfully built lion man. Dark silver fur coming down from his head onto his shoulders. He has a golden breastplate and adornments that would match his station as a vanguard marshal. Purple vestments and a shield on his back as well, with a cape flowing behind him. And his feet, of course, uncovered, as is custom for our kind. Powerful arms. A tattoo running up the upper left side of his arm. And you see braids coming down from his mane down onto his chest. And he is moving alongside this orcish woman, but also scanning while he does so. It's habit. It's part of what he does.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me a perception check. Okay, Just coming for me. Don't. You said you're scanning, right?

[Marisha Ray]

What do you and I.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And I see?

[Travis Willingham]

Let's find out. That is 1919.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, shit. First voice scanning the horizon. You look out, you see some magpies, sort of the eponymous Bird of the rookery. But you see some off in the distance. You see a couple of owls headed off in the direction of the western ed of the city. A few smaller doves here and there. There's an off white, increasingly gray rock dove that's native to the cities, but that no one tends to really keep. Those tend to just be living here of their own volition. Off in the distance, you see peeling high overhead on that, a falcon kiting on a thermal. No flapping, just rising slowly and steadily up above. We move back. You made it here just in time. Coming in through the passage from far to the east, the old fallen Obra Demian empire work with lloza, concluding in a series of skirmishes that are merely pale echoes of earlier, greater causes. You arrived here basically with enough time to find, find out where the execution was happening and got to at least be there for those last moments. What was Teor feeling at the back of the crowd as that moment unfolded and the rope snapped taut?

[Travis Willingham]

I think in that moment, it was.

[Sam Riegel]

About.

[Travis Willingham]

Trying to understand what had come to pass that led up to this moment. Arriving in time was one thing, but this man deserved more. More fanfare, more people next to him, just more. And as we arrived, we noticed a mixed bag of reactions. There was certainly the celebration, the trumpets, all the sound and the show of celebration, justice being done. But the faces that we saw, if you looked closer, there was remorse, there was sadness, there was confusion. And that's where Teor feels, that's what he's feeling now. How did this man that has done so much for so many, far beyond himself, how did he meet an end like this?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Teor is a soldier and a mercenary, not a politician, no great judge or magistrate or lord. But you know plenty about conflict. You know a lot about war. There was a war happening. The gallows placed under the heroes of the revolution, under the guardian statues of the shapers. War. There was a war between those trumpets, those decrees and pronouncements, and something that Thiazi could see in the hearts of those people in that crowd. And it was not lost on you either. What is lost on you is why. There are questions. And with each fall of the pads of your mighty paws, the questions rebound and rebound. What has happened in Dolmakyar? What has happened here in the city of the revolutionary council of the pariah blades of this history? What has happened that it has come to this? And you arrive at a home and Loza looks up at you and says, I can't believe that that crazy bastard grew up here in a poet's house.

[Travis Willingham]

Are we to believe that this is. This is where he grew up?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No. Maybe not. Pay our respects. Either way.

[Travis Willingham]

Do you know anyone of his immediate family?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I've met Hal before. He's a good man. Hal fought as well. He didn't stay. He didn't become a mercer. But he might have caught the tail end of the war of axe and vine.

[Travis Willingham]

His brother.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

If I can hear speaking on the far side of the door in tones that are not immediate family, but still fundamentally low and kind, the jasmine growing up. I will force it to be bloom a little more and give its scent off a little more.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Welcome walking into the home Loza blade. This ancient orcish woman, commander of the torn banner that once was, steps into the home.

[Matthew Mercer]

Loza.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Welcome, Helen. Deal. Big embrace.

[Matthew Mercer]

Quite a day.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What a day indeed. I don't know if you'll remember, it's been many years, but. This is Teor Pryde. Sire.

[Travis Willingham]

I am Teor. My condolences.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh.

[Matthew Mercer]

I could take your hand. I appreciate that. You are a friend of my brother?

[Travis Willingham]

Yes. We serve together in the family Falconer's Rebellion. He was a good man.

[Matthew Mercer]

I think so, too. You'll have to come in here. I grab a bottle, say, this tastes like piss. But my brother loved it and it gets the job done. Please, have a drink with me.

[Travis Willingham]

That is very kind of you. Lose it, do you?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hey. If you're selling it like that, start spreading around the room. You see that? She takes it and goes. Wife. I think he suffered a tongue injury in the Falconer's Rebellion.

[Matthew Mercer]

No, I've never understood it.

[Travis Willingham]

As we take a sip, I'll take the sip. But I also use it to look over the edge of the cup, just around the room. Take in faces new or known.

[Matthew Mercer]

As our eyes meet. I just go, oh.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Never having seen anyone like you before.

[Matthew Mercer]

Just with all the cards.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Nope.

[Marisha Ray]

You're doing great. You're in it now. Can you pour him like a half of one?

[Matthew Mercer]

Sure.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I can do a whole one.

[Travis Willingham]

I'll go over. I'm sorry if my presence is. I am Teor Prytsire. It is nice to meet you, Octus.

[Marisha Ray]

Nice to meet you, Octis. And Aisha.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's fine.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's me. I'm just. We'll call this one three quarters don't replace.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me a history check, Teor, and you can get the help. Action from Loza as she leans over.

[Travis Willingham]

I know what that means.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Call it a difficulty of 15.

[Marisha Ray]

Be so smart.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, no.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Nine. Yeah. You see a young. This young kid, looks like some sort of academic type.

[Matthew Mercer]

Takes a sip of this.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm just going to very quickly just grab that.

[Travis Willingham]

You could tell him to nurse that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's cool.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's definitely Malort in my mind.

[Travis Willingham]

You go a long way.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Dolmat, Gary, Chicago. This is Malort. The pain's the point.

[Marisha Ray]

It's horrible.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Fiazi, now that guests are arriving, moved within the circle of relics and belongings. There you see Loza nods to you and says, I'll go pay my respects. And you see, goes up with a traditional whispered orcish custom under the old path. She leans up, looks at you and goes, tycha, it's been a long time.

[Marisha Ray]

And using the excuse to be. Put that down. Cause that is fucking terrible.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Go and give her a big hug. You go give her a big hug.

[Marisha Ray]

You look so old. How are you alive?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

How am I alive?

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Who would kill me? Not death itself.

[Marisha Ray]

Fair. Too mean.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

She looks over and goes, thank you for the jasmine. And you see that she plucks just a little tiny strand of a white jasmine flower and goes and puts it behind Thiazi's ear and gets down on one knee. And you see, she starts whispering something. She doesn't speak Druidic, but she knows enough and you can understand in Druidic that what she's saying in this sort of ancient orcish Druidic hybrid is basically like the path to the next life. I hope is set with flowers and begins to sort of repeat these little whispered prayers.

[Matthew Mercer]

I think that once you arrive, really only made the smallest amount of greeting and small talk and have not said more. And as guests arrive and fill in and Hal is moving about like you do at awake and make, making sure that people are eating and seeing if anyone needs anything, that I keep catching your eye across the room. I am ultra present with Hal and have him in my periphery if I'm not directly looking at him. I think it is probably very obvious every time we sort of lock eyes across the room that I'd like to talk to you. But then he just continues moving through the guests and refilling Malort. I watch you leave and that's when I notice Teo and I stop in my tracks as I see someone from so many years ago that I spent some time fighting in the Falconer's Rebellion with. And I wait to see if you recognize me because I was so young and I've grown up.

[Travis Willingham]

You have. My question is, in that execution, could I see Azune anywhere on or near the stage when it was happening, I'm.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Going to say after it happened as you and Loza both, because you had gotten there towards the back of the crowd. I think as people started to leave, you stayed for a moment. Moment Azune would have come out afterwards. In other words, the show of force was from the questions that terror has right now is. You saw House Taconis, House Hailovar was there. House Haylovar is now going by the candescent creed, this new sort of faith. There's a lot of things going on in the city that you're like, that was not here last time. That was not here last time. That was not here last time. You had heard that Azunev had joined the Revolutionary Guard. But the show of force was foreign almost. Yeah. It was like the sundered houses did this execution and then tossed it over to the Revolutionary Guard to clean up. You saw Zune come out at the end. In other words, they were like, we were just here to kill this guy. We were not here to clean up the corpse. You guys do your thing.

[Travis Willingham]

We have spent too many years together spilling blood in the same mud for us not to recognize each other immediately.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

I will gauge Azunay's expression and see if it is one of interest and welcome.

[Matthew Mercer]

I look at you and I feel like I'm sort of scanning you as well.

[Marisha Ray]

Can I insight check these boys? Insight checking each other?

[Travis Willingham]

You both kind of see the shoulders, both kind of come back and just.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'll give a nod.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me insight.

[Marisha Ray]

Jesus. It's under the spider.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Why do you have a spider?

[Marisha Ray]

Don't worry about it. 17, 16, 17.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I think that passes. What's your deception score? I think it passes your. And you're not trying to be deceptive right now.

[Travis Willingham]

Nope, I'm not.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Teor has a similar vibe that you have right now. You clock a vibe from Tear similar to your vibe, which is why did bad things happen.

[Marisha Ray]

I think that's the turning point. She wanted to pull you away to speak to you if you are already moving in the same way. I think the sort of which side of the she will fall on resolves itself and she'll leave you two to it. And I'm gonna go stand behind Loza and sort of hands on her shoulders, begin matching her cadence and harmonizing with her druidic and take over these rights and step away from the family and people of this and do what I was made and created called to do.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You speak words of comfort and purpose that flow from the very heart of this World Loza. Hearing a druid of the old path speak. This is able to break into just speaking orcish again. And she just looks out, surrounded by your spiritual embrace of this moment, and go. You married a noble woman. Commoner kid from Dolmakyar. Grew up on the other side of the river from my family. And you married a noble just from. I don't know, whatever moxie you had cut of your jib must have been pretty impressive. And two years after you married her, you joined a rebellion against her house. You were the craziest bastard I ever met.

[Marisha Ray]

Fully crack up mid channel.

[Matthew Mercer]

She just.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

She sees.

[Marisha Ray]

She.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

She takes laughter in this. Like. You see, her hand is like, all knuckle and just goes. And she takes the azzy's hand and goes. Like, when we said goodbye, I knew it wasn't forever. And it still won't be. Whatever I am in my next life, I hope I'm lucky enough to find you again. And she kisses the hand. Teor and Azune, you guys, I think, have a moment to sort of find each other privately here as well.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

I'll cross to Azune.

[Matthew Mercer]

And as soon as you start to cross, I meet you.

[Travis Willingham]

I extend my hand, and we clasp forearms a la beastmaster.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes.

[Travis Willingham]

The shake of the soldiers.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's right.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I keep.

[Matthew Mercer]

The grip for a moment, and I give you a tug. Mm. It's been a long time.

[Travis Willingham]

It is good to see you.

[Matthew Mercer]

You're welcome here, Tara.

[Travis Willingham]

Thank you. You have gotten taller and a little lighter as well.

[Matthew Mercer]

I have grown up, yes.

[Travis Willingham]

I'm sorry to be meeting under these circumstances. I'm sure it will come to no surprise to you that I have many questions.

[Matthew Mercer]

I do as well.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

At this moment, a carriage arrives outside. Sam and Whitney, can I get you guys in at the table?

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, my God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, no.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, no.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

It's up to them. It's up to them.

[Marisha Ray]

Well, no, they probably want to be together. Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Scoochy.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay. You can figure it out yourself, dumb fox.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You do a little scoochy. Okay. Move your diamond spider.

[Marisha Ray]

But she's doing.

[Travis Willingham]

Don't worry about that.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes, I said I got so much.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

On me. Sam and Whitney, welcome, welcome. As your characters arrive here. Question for you, Sam. Would your character be arriving in a carriage with the emblem of his house on it or not?

[Sam Riegel]

Of course.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Of course. Arriving here to the funeral, all of you see a carriage moving along the street and turn to see the symbol of the candescent creed.

[Marisha Ray]

Shit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

A beautiful point of light hovering above a pillar, stylized to look almost like the pillar of the sun or perhaps simply a humble candle, depending on the size of the emblem. For the light surrounds us all within that carriage, being driven by a carriage driver and a guard placed beside them to the right of the driver. But in the carriage there are only two figures. I would like, Sam, for you to describe your character for us.

[Sam Riegel]

Well, sitting in the back of the carriage is a tall man, 5 foot 11.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Impossible, wild. Tallest is in the mind.

[Sam Riegel]

He's a very beautiful young man, maybe 28 or 30 years old. He has light teal and white hair with teal and white robes. I think the most distinction distinguishing characteristic about him would be the pearlescent, shimmering face markings that he has tattoos all over about half of his face. They seem to shimmer with a light that they make on their own. He is clutching very, very hard and sort of fingering nervously a cane that he carries with the symbol of the candescent creed on the top of it. And he's got a lot of sweat on his upper brow right now, sort of rocking back and forth.

[Matthew Mercer]

I mean, I just.

[Sam Riegel]

I've just never seen a real dead body like that before. And it was just sort of hanging there, all sort of the color drained out of him and it was very.

[Matthew Mercer]

I just.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm going to need a drink as soon as we get there. All right.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Whitney, could you please describe to whom this gentleman is speaking?

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, okay. People tend to smell her before they see her. Think of like a warm chocolate chip cookie laced with a little bit of sulfur. It's animalic, it's musky, a bit acrid, but with like a creamy sweetness that doesn't make it so unpleasant. It's interesting and it sticks around. She's beautiful. Of course. She's got bubblegum colored skin, white hair, blunt bangs that are sort of haphazardly tucked behind a veil a bunch sticking out. She's got yellow goat's eyes, soft goat's ears, and she's got a silver arrow piercing through one of them. And of course a forked tongue. Hooves put her at around 5, 3, not including the horns jutting out. Her tail peeks out of just an abomination of ruffles that mark her as an aspirant to the candescent creed of the house of Halovar. Hi. I'm a demon and my name is Tyranny. And I really am sorry that when they killed that guy I said, can I eat that? It's just a little demon humor. I don't know.

[Sam Riegel]

I think several people heard you say that and it was inappropriate and in the presence of royalty and nobles and nobility and.

[Marisha Ray]

Let's go here.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm new.

[Marisha Ray]

You want me to get you a drink? Do you have like, let's overhear that. And the jasmine, like, if you're looking towards the door, the jasmine grows in and blocks your path.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh.

[Travis Willingham]

Driver?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, my lord?

[Sam Riegel]

Is something wrong?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wait.

[Sam Riegel]

We've stopped just shy of the house.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The house will I believe there might be. The plants seem to have a mind of their own.

[Sam Riegel]

All right, we'll just hoof it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see as you emerge. Tyranny. You are currently holding a beautiful, well made, well used scimitar in a leather scabbard with some hooks and chains to be affixed to a sword belt. This is the weapon of Thiazi Fang and I think Wikander Hailuvar. You look down and see the last effect of Thiazi here. You see, the driver says, milord, do you require escort or security? You're entering the funeral of the man that was just put to death.

[Marisha Ray]

Are people going to be so mad at you?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Shh.

[Sam Riegel]

I mean, maybe I hadn't thought that through. I need to deliver this to Hal. And you know what? No, I do not require security. I'll be just fine. I am. My family is beloved in this.

[Marisha Ray]

The vines grow thorns.

[Sam Riegel]

My family's name shall protect me. And the holy light of the universe shall protect me.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Of course. You are ordained by the light mind.

[Sam Riegel]

Ah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

A magpie starts attacking the driver. Devil bird. Bird of devils.

[Sam Riegel]

All right, help him.

[Marisha Ray]

All right. Hey, guy. What's your name?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

My name? Yeah, also swat. What's that?

[Travis Willingham]

I don't know.

[Marisha Ray]

I thought I'd talk him through it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Are you trying to give me notes on how I'm fighting this magpie?

[Travis Willingham]

I take the.

[Marisha Ray]

I throw the scimitar at the magpie.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You roll the scimitar. Give me an attack roll. First attack roll of the campaign and.

[Marisha Ray]

Not in the dice. 17.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

17. You hurl this scimitar and just pin this magpie to the side of a neighboring building.

[Sam Riegel]

No, no, no. You've got blood all over this holy relic. I'm gonna go over and gingerly sort of pry the scimitar out of the dead bird's body.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You go, it's just sticking in someone else's house. As you go to pull it out, a little shutter open and you see an older Orcish woman leans her head out and goes, can I help you?

[Sam Riegel]

May the beam reach you. This is hail of our business. I'll be.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Are you Here. About the beam. No, no, there's some water damage.

[Sam Riegel]

No, all is in the light.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, the beam's not in the light. It's inside.

[Sam Riegel]

Have a good day. I need this scimitar that's in your house.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Whatever day I please you, stranger. And she closes the shutter.

[Marisha Ray]

May the light reach you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see as you pull the sword out. Look at it. Covered in magpie blood, this dead bird collapses to the ground. You today didn't start this way. And we move back quickly through time to the noble's box at the execution. Tyranny by your side, looking out. How were you feeling in the moments prior to Thiazi walking out on that gallows stage?

[Sam Riegel]

I was a bit nervous in general. Obviously, at any execution, everyone's gonna be a bit nervous not knowing what's gonna happen. But I was feeling pretty confident. Especially when I saw my grandmother take the stage and start her speech and mention how the light sees all and forgives all. I remember In Embers, verse 17, it says that the light sees all, and in us exists filament and forgiveness. And that is what my grandmother has just sort of said. That means that even though this gentleman has committed a significant crime, it will be forgiven. And she's going to commute his sentence to life instead. Watch.

[Marisha Ray]

Just crazy. Cause it's like he's already up there. And so why would they.

[Sam Riegel]

I think it's for the spectacle, the drama.

[Marisha Ray]

She's gonna be like, just kidding.

[Sam Riegel]

Well, I spoke not directly with her, but I spoke with my parents, and I made a plea for forgiveness.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And the photoarch approaches you in the Noble's box. Grandmother, you see, she looks and says, wakenda, how's it going, love? You doing all right?

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, yes, Grandmother, I'm doing quite well. We're all on the edge of our seats to see how this will go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I spoke to Goddard. He mentioned that you'd been sort of.

[Sam Riegel]

I had made a request to save this man's soul. For obviously any soul can find the light. Take Tyranny here, for instance.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Once from the shadows, now finding the light, little tyranny. See, she pinches your cheek. Lovely. You look over and see your father and mother. Your father, this enormous, powerful man, who also has white hair, white beard, long ponytail with a white ribbon tied around it. You see that his back. There's something as large and powerful as he is. He has some almost spinal curvature, so his back gets really big behind him. The only piece of black on him is a black blindfold that he wears in perpetuity. He Steps out. You see, next to him, tyranny. You see one of your siblings, the aspirant Enmity, who turns over. This is sort of a deep speckled red. Red and black. You see, there's almost like lava congealing into stone. But wearing a white, candescent, almost priestly garb. Unlike your horns that go straight up. These curl ram like around, you see, Enmity turns over to you and says, sister, do you attend to your ward?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, I am. I mean, he's right here. Ask him.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You are so immediately hostile.

[Marisha Ray]

It's really good to see you.

[Sam Riegel]

Tyranny has been. Tyranny has been making leaps and bounds in her progress, I'm pleased to say. She has only dimmed a few times this week. She cursed a few times.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, I'm so fucking right.

[Sam Riegel]

That's a few too many.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, Emity looks over and says to use profane language when we cursed of demonkind have been saved by the light. Oh, my God. Diminishes the status of the creed.

[Marisha Ray]

Well, I just got here, so, you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Know, I also just got here and I'm doing great.

[Marisha Ray]

Where's your guy? All right, like, go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He's right behind me. You see, Jesters.

[Sam Riegel]

It's also not a contest. Everyone at their own pace.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Why not? Sorry. Yelling dims the lot. Turns around and you see. You see, your grandmother sort of touches the bridge nose and says, God, were the demons a big mistake? No, no. They are a testament to the power of the light. No more cursing, lovey.

[Marisha Ray]

Sorry. Sorry, Mommy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Grandmommy. And you see, she turns to you and says, I heard you mentioned that this man's brother is a sort of beloved figure. Is this the lad that we just gave the theater to? The big one?

[Sam Riegel]

Yes, it is, Hal. He's opening a theater. He is beloved by all. And it is a fine, fine way to carry our message to the masses.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

If.

[Sam Riegel]

If he were to perform a play at his theater that talked about the Candescent Creed, and in good. In a good light, it could tell our message to a new audience.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You are doing so well here, little Wiki. You're doing amazing.

[Sam Riegel]

Thank you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And the city, this is the exact kind of survey, you know, we. Obviously, we've had a basis for. There are many plans of ours that are unfolding here in Dolmak Yar, but we haven't cracked the nut of the Creed really spreading. This is the seat of the revolution, after all.

[Sam Riegel]

But, well, if you put your faith in me, I'm sure I can get the job done.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You have my utmost faith, my grand. You are the future of the house of Haylovar. He's gotta die.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm sorry.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He's dying. We'll talk more later.

[Sam Riegel]

Wait, what?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

She turns out as the. No, no.

[Sam Riegel]

But that's not what we discussed.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Your father, her son, puts a massive hand on your shoulder and his voice kind of reverberates in your chest. I'm sorry, my son. It must be so. There are important lessons you will learn in the nights and days to come. And you see that he turns out. As your grandmother gets up, hearing the herald speak, and you see, she goes, fucking robes, dress. Gets up and goes and begins to speak as a cantrip, sort of projects her voice and goes, people of Dol Machia. And her voice completely changes. You are outside the home of Hal Fang.

[Marisha Ray]

Remember when she called you Wicky? Can I call you that?

[Sam Riegel]

You may not call me wicky. The proper term is your radiance or bearer of the filament. Wicander. Wick. Wick. I prefer wick. I think.

[Marisha Ray]

No, we'll do your radiance.

[Sam Riegel]

That is the proper terminology, Yes. I gently wipe the blade on my hand, but now I've got blood on my hand and. Do you mind?

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, my God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's going poorly out there.

[Matthew Mercer]

Thank you.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm in here praying and I can see through the plants and I want to kill them.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm still inside the house.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, we're about to go in.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Are you.

[Matthew Mercer]

You're really.

[Marisha Ray]

Sweaty guy. You're in. Oh, my God.

[Matthew Mercer]

What?

[Marisha Ray]

Okay. I take my robe and. I shouldn't have. I saw that coming. You want a drink? What kind of drink do you want?

[Sam Riegel]

I'm just not feeling well. Seeing a dead body was just more than I thought I would do today. Can you knock for us?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, I knock as you knock, Hal. Inside the house. You look up here, knock at the door. There is a. A cold iron nail over the door. One of the original nails crafted by the Loy family. A little gift from the mother of your son and daughter. Baby mama. It's a bohemian lifestyle here in Dolmakyard. Not a lot of people tie in the knot. You see that the. You look up and the cold iron nail is beginning to burn hot. With a knock at the door and smoke.

[Matthew Mercer]

Could someone get. I'm sorry. I'm holding a tray with more of this liqueur on it. Could someone get the dis.

[Sam Riegel]

Get the door for me, please, God.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, I'll get it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see that your friend Olgood takes a shot of it and goes, oh, Yargrass. Why did he drink this?

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, I got this.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Opens the door, there's a demon in front of you.

[Marisha Ray]

Hi.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Ah, hi.

[Marisha Ray]

A special delivery of what? Me and him. Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

Hello. The light is all, oh, you're quite short, aren't you?

[Matthew Mercer]

Vikander sees Hal across the room holding this tray with bottles on it. And eyes up, gaze met, his face just goes blank. And I just make my way back towards the kitchen with the tray. Do immediately recognize me as one of the house Taconis.

[Marisha Ray]

Ah.

[Sam Riegel]

But one I haven't seen in quite some time. No.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hello. Come in. I guess.

[Marisha Ray]

Where's the refreshments? Over here, next to the druid chanting.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, cool.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm going to get you your drink. All right.

[Matthew Mercer]

Thank you.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, I'll be right back. I'm just.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Clomp, clomp, clomp, clomp. You clomp over there. You see, there's an older Orcish gentleman. He's got silver at the temples and a little bit darker on top. He looks over, he has a bottle of a thing that says Yargraz and Orcish on it and goes, it's bad, but I gotta wash down those cranberry rolls.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. Can I have some of that, please?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, hi. Hi.

[Marisha Ray]

Hi. Yeah, please, I'll have some of that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He hands it over to you and says, hello. I'm all good.

[Sam Riegel]

All good.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm Tyranny. Nice to meet you.

[Travis Willingham]

You're the bartender?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, no, I'm a theater producer. You're a demon.

[Marisha Ray]

I am a demon.

[Sam Riegel]

Sink that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, have the bottle. By all means.

[Marisha Ray]

Thank you. I'll bring it back. I think that I know your theater company, but we'll talk later, I'm sure.

[Sam Riegel]

Thank you.

[Marisha Ray]

You're so sweet.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, that's very kind. You're very. It's a pleasure to meet you.

[Marisha Ray]

Thank you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

If you ever are looking to get into theater, you'd be a great ingenue if you ever want to audition or anything like that.

[Marisha Ray]

God, people love me. It's so cool. All right, I take this bottle and I'm gonna.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You just knock it back yourself. Give me a constitution savings.

[Marisha Ray]

18 plus more.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You put the whole thing away. You see? Olga goes. Amazing. You shouldn't be able to survive that.

[Marisha Ray]

Fuck, I forgot. I'm supposed to get some for my friend. Do you have any more of this stuff?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Or just any, like, do you Any really gross stuff?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Cause that was good. That was the really gross stuff.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay. Do you have any potions?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Potions?

[Marisha Ray]

What has happened?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, not at all.

[Marisha Ray]

Can I make, like, a suicide with, like, a bunch?

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, yes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You know, I know. You want to go in the kitchen and make your own drink.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Well, I have no way to stop this.

[Marisha Ray]

We're pals, right?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I don't feel safe. Yes, we're pals. Okay, cool. I'm gonna do that. Do I have. Does saying that give you some power over me? I feel it.

[Marisha Ray]

I mean, I feel something. I'm feeling something. Are you? Or is that the drink? I don't know.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You drank 3/4 of a bottle of Yargrass in less than 10 seconds. Most frightening thing I've ever seen.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's so cool.

[Marisha Ray]

All right, I'm gonna go to the kitchen.

[Travis Willingham]

I lean over to Zuna, and I go. I'm going to need you to explain who these people are.

[Matthew Mercer]

I unfortunately don't know who. At least those two that have recently come in don't know them well.

[Travis Willingham]

Understood.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I think at this moment, Wick, you enter tyranny. You go to the kitchen with Allgood to make a suicide with a. You go back in, you see that there's a young orcish girl in there who's like, this is my home.

[Marisha Ray]

Hi.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hi.

[Marisha Ray]

We're out of refreshments. I'm so sorry to bother you. Can we make a little cocktail here?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes. There should be bottles. There should be bottles out on the table. But do you. Sorry, do you want, like. Like, our spices from our kitchen where we live?

[Marisha Ray]

I'm not really sure. I've never been to a funeral before. I'm not really sure it's appropriate.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But I just. Olga is gonna make an insight check. Are you trying to be honest in this moment?

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, yeah. Always. See?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Olga goes and suddenly realizes that you're brand new in the realm and looks over and goes like, oh, you never been to a funeral before? Mm. Mm. Oh, this one's lit.

[Marisha Ray]

Lit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He looks around and goes, essentially. Well, let me see if I can give you. Do you want a little guide list of some pointers of what to do?

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, absolutely.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great. So this is a. Because this funeral is in someone's home, we're not gonna raid their kitchen. But what we can do is see what they've put out and mix that.

[Marisha Ray]

I don't want to do that, but.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Well. And here's something funny that I'm learning about you. Something we do here in the realm of mortals is sometimes do things that we don't want.

[Marisha Ray]

Why?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And sometimes, and actually, maybe even more critical, not do things we do want.

[Marisha Ray]

That's Weird. I'm gonna start grabbing the moment I hear that I'm double tapping trading off with the org and I'm peeking around the corner. Hi, can I help you?

[Sam Riegel]

Hi.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. You were looking for alcohol?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Come with me. Okay, thanks.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, Shadi looks at you and says, thank you, mom. I got you, baby girl.

[Marisha Ray]

Hi. Hi, I'm Tierney. Hi, I'm Tysha. Don't go back in that kitchen.

[Matthew Mercer]

What do you need?

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, I don't know. I just need. My friend wanted a drink and I told him I'd get him something, but he didn't specify what, so whatever. Weird. Honestly, like, the grosser the better. I don't really like this guy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wicander, you are right behind tyranny holding Theazi's sword. As she says that we're gonna cut over to Azune and Teor as you guys have your sort of private interaction. I don't know if Octis would be around for that.

[Matthew Mercer]

I think I'm with Tycha leaving the room. I'm just standing there, not really knowing.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What to do with myself, just kind of fidgeting and. Wick, you absolutely. See this kid? He's not in your circles. You haven't seen him in years. Probably last time you saw him, he was a kid kid. But he is, I don't know, umpteenth in line for the seat of house Taconis. Absolutely. Azune and Teor, you guys get a little ways away.

[Matthew Mercer]

As we started kind of coming together and this entered into the space, the first thing that pulls my attention away from Teor is howlstorming away. Yeah. And I'm looking, I'm taking in everything that's happening here that's within earshot.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But.

[Matthew Mercer]

But you see, Teor, that my attention keeps going back towards where Hau left. And then it comes back to you. It's good to see you, old friend. It's been a long time since our days fighting side by side.

[Travis Willingham]

It has.

[Matthew Mercer]

If there is. If there's anything that you're up to tonight, let me know. I want a part of it.

[Travis Willingham]

Understood.

[Matthew Mercer]

What kinds of questions did you say that you had?

[Travis Willingham]

I would start with all of them. To be fair, this place has changed much since last time I was here. I don't recognize the banners or the people or that man that just came in and acts as if he is there of some sort of religion.

[Matthew Mercer]

He is. From what I understand, he is of one of the noble Houses. And that Noble house has been shifting their beliefs over the last few years.

[Travis Willingham]

Their beliefs? I would like to know why a man such as Thiazi found himself on the hangman's movie noose. And if these shifting beliefs or the people behind them need to answer, then I would very much like to know what you've known these past many years.

[Matthew Mercer]

What have you been up to since I saw you last, Hale? Have you stayed out there fighting?

[Travis Willingham]

No. We have stayed out of Dolmarkia. Loaza Blade Than I have been helping others from the Torn Manor. We take up contracts here and there, help where we can. But it's been hard finding one place to be. I often wondered about you. About my brother Cid and what this city had to offer. And we thought it would be a good time to return. And we found it disappointment when we heard of Thiazi's nose.

[Matthew Mercer]

There are a great number of us here that don't believe what happened to him was just or right. And that there should be someone to answer for. But that's a conversation for another time.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Perhaps not.

[Matthew Mercer]

Here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'll say this too. I was in as Teor mentions his younger brother, Tal Sid. Amir. Cid. You wonder where Cid is. Cid was supposed to be part of what was supposed to happen.

[Matthew Mercer]

Have you seen your brother?

[Travis Willingham]

I have not. We traveled as fast as we could to make it in time. And I was hoping to see him in the crowd, but I haven't. Of you.

[Matthew Mercer]

No. I will find you later tonight. And I am. I start going across the room. I look again towards where Hal went. And I stop myself because I'm going straight to Tysha.

[Marisha Ray]

Tysha at this point is taking the bottle at the Ozzie's head and is going to pour off a shot. And then druidcraft like rotten egg and skunk on the lip of the glass. I also don't like Wick. He's got a bad energy. He's weird vibes. Right? Okay, honest. What's your whole thing? We've turned a corner in the last 30 seconds. I take the first shot, repour it, hand it off to you. I take this one. Oh, I keep forgetting it's not supposed to get him.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, one more.

[Marisha Ray]

Thank you. Pass it down.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

Hey. I got you your drink. Sorry it took me a little while. I'm making so many friends.

[Sam Riegel]

Thank you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It was perfect. What? What did you give me?

[Marisha Ray]

This. It's called. It's called the Oops.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We did it.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, no. From photonic verses?

[Marisha Ray]

No.

[Sam Riegel]

Verse 63.

[Marisha Ray]

You spit alcohol at the honored judge.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm not allowed to drink alcohol. Any impurity dims the spark. And I Am not allowed to touch it to my lips.

[Marisha Ray]

You asked for a drink.

[Sam Riegel]

Not that. Something to settle my stomach. Something calmer. Water. Lemonade. Pink lemonade.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, Shadia walks up and has a small sort of rose velvety drink with a little sort of one or two ice cubes in it that have been chipped off of an ice block off in the corner of the kitchen. You see that she passes it to you and says, here, this is a sort of flower brew, but there's no alcohol in it.

[Sam Riegel]

Thank you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

How did you know my uncle?

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, my dear, I can't say that I knew him very well, but his esteem was known to all of us and he was well respected.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

She looks and sees her uncle's sword in your hand and says, having seen her father storm off, she says, let me bring you to my dad. And you see that? She walks across the room, off in the back where Hal has gone to.

[Matthew Mercer]

I think she follows and trails up to that room at the back of the house on the second floor that is full of writing and music.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

She leads you into a room with a desk. On that desk you see a deed of title granted by the Revolutionary Council, signed off by various and sundry lords and potentates of the city, deeding the Dithyram of Azra, ancient and forbade to one Halon Diel Fang on the condition of his safeguarding it against any arcane shenanigans that might unfold. If you're going to be given this public space to do with as you will as a theater troupe, then you know you're responsible. You got to keep any, you know, arcane, magical hijinks under wraps, liable and.

[Matthew Mercer]

On the hook for it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Liable and on the hook.

[Travis Willingham]

Did you say the Dithygram? Osgra.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The Dithyram of Osgra. Dithyram's a real word. Osgra's made up. We all knew which one. We all knew which one on your desk. Shadia walks in and says, dad, this Wick not Lord.

[Sam Riegel]

Something light. Priest Wikander Haylevar.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hello, Wikander. Why don't you take a seat, Shadi? Thank you. I was getting ready to come find him. You've saved me the trouble.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

She closes the door and she looks over at you, and for some reason you see that her expression softens and she goes, thanks for whatever you tried. And she closes the door.

[Matthew Mercer]

When you turn back towards Hal, he has got a bottle of the Malort and he's just knocking it back and plants it down.

[Sam Riegel]

I trick that. It's very.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, that's Bad on the deed that's on the desk and walks up to the chair that you're now sitting in and rests his hands on the armrests that you're sitting between. Well.

[Sam Riegel]

You know, the candescence is asymmetric and mysterious.

[Matthew Mercer]

And.

[Sam Riegel]

Illumination finds us in unevenness.

[Matthew Mercer]

We talked about this. You told me it was done. You told me it was taken care of.

[Sam Riegel]

I don't know what happened. I failed. I failed you. I spoke with my family. I had it on their full assurance that he would be spared. It is not our way to ruthlessly punish people for nothing. Crimes against a house that we don't even care about. The Taconis house is whatever they can.

[Matthew Mercer]

Help me understand. Why Wickander? Why Hal? If they didn't care if your family didn't meet him, want him, care about him. If it meant nothing.

[Sam Riegel]

I don't know. I don't know. And I. And I don't know who to ask.

[Travis Willingham]

I'm.

[Sam Riegel]

I could have sworn that he would be spared because that would be a great for our family's name across the city. Thiazi had so many fans. He was well respected by so many people. And we could have used this as outreach, you know, commuting his sentence or something. Shows I don't know what went wrong. And I feel like everyone down there hates me now.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'll give him a quick of instead inside check just to make sure he's not bullshitting me.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yeah. Go for it.

[Matthew Mercer]

Wake up screen.

[Sam Riegel]

Wake up.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wake up.

[Sam Riegel]

Wake up.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wake up.

[Matthew Mercer]

It is low. It is just a eight.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

An eight, I think. On that eight insight. You're left not having clarity.

[Sam Riegel]

I can tell you this. It is against my faith to lie and deceive. And I respect you as a person, as a teacher, and as a performer. And I would never do anything to deceive the in any way.

[Matthew Mercer]

And it's fine.

[Sam Riegel]

It's not fine. He was killed.

[Matthew Mercer]

You were a fail safe, Wick. A lot of things fell through today.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm so sorry about your brother. Losses unknowable. But in my faith, when a soul passes on, we believe that that light rejoins the candescence of the universe. And with every death, in a way, the universe grows brighter. So may that give you something.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Comfort.

[Matthew Mercer]

That is a nice notion. I pour. I grab two glasses and I fill them with the liqueur and I plant one in his hand. Drink with me. To my brother.

[Sam Riegel]

Is this alcoholic?

[Matthew Mercer]

His favorite.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We move back downstairs. Azune, Tysha and Octys.

[Marisha Ray]

I've been trying to Go bar for bar with tyranny on the other bottle. I just want to check if I'm dead.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, my God. Give me a constitution. Saving you.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

Thank you.

[Marisha Ray]

It's under the spider. And that's an eight.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is an eight.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You are not doing great.

[Marisha Ray]

So tell me, what is your deal? What's your whole entire story? What's your story? Oh, God, I love you. I love you too. You're so sweet. And your ear looks very soft there.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You can.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, God now.

[Marisha Ray]

Thank you. I'm just locked in on an ear, giving her my entire like. You get the full mess between me and Hal. We fell in love when we were like 19. Hold on. I need that year when we were 19. And then we had kids. But I felt like. Cause his art was so beautiful. I fell in love with the world. So I became a Druid and I abandoned our kids. And I'm just gonna. I have to get back to doing the rights really quick. Okay. Thank you for telling me all of that.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Do you wanna stay here for this Bahain? Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna continue to do the rites and just black out. Holding a demon's ear.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Incredible you can do. Doing the rites, touching the softest demon's ear you've ever touched. Can I go home, Truly? Oh, what's that?

[Marisha Ray]

Can I go home?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You wanna go home? I wanna leave. Okay. You guys are just. You're just doing the rights. You guys can walk away from the table as you guys are doing the rights.

[Marisha Ray]

She consciousness leaves, but she remains and continues to pray.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Goodbye. Goodbye. Are you taking me with you?

[Marisha Ray]

No.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay. You stay here. You're still.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This is bad.

[Matthew Mercer]

I feel like I arrived right in time to witness this. And I fully miss this like shift.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That happened to Tyisha.

[Matthew Mercer]

And I go with this intention to have a conversation, a certain kind of conversation with her, as the name Cid Pridesire was mentioned earlier. And I see her in this moment and I go to you, Octus word with you. Please, absolutely. Please help me. I don't think anything can help what's about to happen there. It seems to be going further and further and further down the path that it is inevitably going to get to. Yeah. Okay. Let's just leave that for now. What? What? Pull you to the side, into a corner and completely with interact in your mind. I am sending you a message. We need to come together and figure out what went wrong with our plan. But clearly Tyisha is.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And so I think it's just Tycha.

[Matthew Mercer]

Tycha. Tycha is not in a state to be a part of reconciling this.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm at a loss. As am I. And now it's even more complicated with. Hey. Levar here.

[Marisha Ray]

We need to find Thimble.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's my understanding that Thimble is very likely going to be arriving here. Did you see Thimble during the execution?

[Marisha Ray]

I didn't.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I don't know what happened.

[Matthew Mercer]

We need to find out where the chain broke. I did the scan, yes. As far as I know, Thimble's did her part. Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

I mean, obviously never showed up for.

[Matthew Mercer]

Us, so never got our part of the plan. Never had happened. I don't. That part is out of my hands.

[Marisha Ray]

I know.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm not blaming you, of course.

[Matthew Mercer]

I just don't know. I don't know where it went off. I don't know how any of this works. Do you see that man? And I'll point out Teor. Yeah. Yes, of course.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I think everybody was aware of your.

[Matthew Mercer]

Reaction to him when.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm sorry.

[Marisha Ray]

It's just surprising.

[Matthew Mercer]

His brother is who was supposed to be helping us and he hasn't seen him. Okay. You haven't seen him.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Octis. I'll say. For Azune and Octys. You both know which of Thiazi's secret kind of flop houses that Thimble was working on the glyph. Working on the thing hidden in his. Hidden behind him. It's not too far from here. You guys are in the rookery. And this would be two neighborhoods south. It would be in the Tanners, which is a grimy working class neighborhood of the far south of Dolmak Yarn.

[Marisha Ray]

It's not far from here.

[Matthew Mercer]

We can.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Go see if she's there then.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's do that. Okay. I need one moment. Okay. I'll meet you outside. I'll be outside. And I'm going to. Oh, no, he's not down. Never mind. I'm going to head out.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Actually, I'll say. If you two are getting ready to head out, would you grab anybody else from here before heading out or just knowing that Fimble's maybe potentially in danger? I would, yes.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm going to. The two things that I would want to do very quickly is I would want to find Hal and just let him know that I'm going out for some air. And then I would beeline to Teor. Do you want some answers?

[Travis Willingham]

Yes.

[Matthew Mercer]

Meet me outside in five minutes and I can take you to where we might find some answers.

[Travis Willingham]

Very well.

[Matthew Mercer]

I do walk up to Tasha, and as they're I go to say something, then I walk away walking past tyranny and say, you're very much not welcome here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And I leave and actually curveball. We are not going to stay at the Fang Hall. I'm gonna ask Liam, Sam and Whitney to step away. And we're gonna keep our friends here. We're gonna keep. The tenor is really different if she walks away and you don't. You were like parting where I stay.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm very sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm actually out of here.

[Sam Riegel]

This is a quarter before we go. Brennan, did I hand this over yet? Should I hand this over to.

[Travis Willingham]

Is that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, you'll do that when we. Okay, so you hold onto that. We'll have a moment for that.

[Marisha Ray]

Great. I got your fucking number, brother.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm gonna fucking get your ass.

[Sam Riegel]

Scooch.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So a moment. After you bandy barbs with a demon, after you bandy barbs with a demon, you go outside and I think two veterans of the Falconer's Rebellion watch the most anxious, like, finely dressed necromancer in the world step up outside in the dark. To both of you. Hi.

[Matthew Mercer]

I just said you've met Teor before.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, yes.

[Travis Willingham]

You met Teor, Right?

[Matthew Mercer]

Nice to meet you.

[Marisha Ray]

I just said something really stupid to a demon. Today's been a hard day.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so we need to find Thimble. Do you.

[Travis Willingham]

Thimble's. I know who.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, great.

[Matthew Mercer]

You know where to find her? Yes, I do. I know which house she was working out of.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hopefully she's there. That's the best lead I have right now.

[Matthew Mercer]

Then we should go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. The three of you take off walking through Dul Machiar. I mean, no one's going to stop you. You have an arcane marshal here, and I think Teilhard, the last time you saw Azuneh, he was like the young one of the younger people in you and Thiazi's battalion. But heading off here, you look through the streets. The rain begins to fall. You arrive. The Tanners is named for its many tanneries, the smell of leather being cured, of flesh, macerating. This is a grimy native brother. What is.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, okay, this is so confusing.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What is one of the sons of.

[Matthew Mercer]

The Halovar family doing?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Why were they involved?

[Travis Willingham]

I'm also just checking our six as we move and seeing if anyone's tracking our movement size.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Watching you walk up Azune, there is a wall that you know is not a wall. Up ahead there, there's some bricks outlined here, big whitewashing letters. The Ogromson leather tannery. And you know the S in that Ogromson is where you need to walk up to.

[Matthew Mercer]

As I am heading towards that. My friend Thimble might be in trouble. That might have been been at peace in something that went awry. I would prepare yourself just in case. Oh. Hold on. Any disguised self himself. I shouldn't be me. Good call.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What do you look like?

[Matthew Mercer]

Transforms himself into someone.

[Marisha Ray]

The first thing he thinks of.

[Matthew Mercer]

Which is someone who looks very similar but not the same as Tysha's oldest son.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Cool. You look like a young Orc. Orcish warrior. Ranger soldier.

[Matthew Mercer]

Very specifically.

[Sam Riegel]

Not him.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm going to do something as well.

[Travis Willingham]

I look at Izuni's demeanor. Is he going in empty handed or is he arming himself?

[Sam Riegel]

I am.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I am armed.

[Matthew Mercer]

I technically just kind of came off of the job. So I'm still in my full gear.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

And you see me do something that you probably didn't see me do while in our time in the Falconers rebellion. I have a necklace around me with a small child's bracelet hanging from it. And I close my eyes and I reach towards it. I touch it and I whisper.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm not alone.

[Matthew Mercer]

And in my mind's eye I see a spectral form step out from me. And then take a defensive stance. And then dissipate as I cast false life.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Awesome. You cast the spell on yourself. You move up.

[Marisha Ray]

You're not going to report me for doing magic, Right?

[Matthew Mercer]

What I don't see goes nowhere.

[Marisha Ray]

Great.

[Matthew Mercer]

I was looking the other way. Thankfully.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You approach the wall as you do so. Go ahead and give me arcana with advantage. You can do the same. You've both been here before.

[Marisha Ray]

18.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me perception.

[Matthew Mercer]

19. 20. 27. 20.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

20.

[Matthew Mercer]

30.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

20. You walk up Octus. You see the residue of magic on the doorway here. There are three bricks that have been touched by magical hands more than any other. There's only so many ways you can arrange three bricks in order. And you can try a couple different combinations and get this door to open. Perception. 17 as axis. Opening the door. You're gearing up. They think something really bad happened. Teor. You look down. It's been cleaned hastily. Underneath the hinge of a secret door. There's blood. Fresh.

[Travis Willingham]

I'll just grab Azune's arm and point to the ground. Redirect his vision.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The door slides open. You look a slender staircase going up in a hidden wall in between two halves of this larger tannery. A secret apartment up in this larger work area. Almost like a Loft that's been hidden away and bricked in. And there's blood on the staircase coming down, a lot of it. You look and see, I think without even having to second guess, you think that bodies got dragged out of here. Thundering up the staircase. Laura Bailey, I'd like you to come out. What is happening?

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, goodness. Oh, great.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Thundering up the stairs because time, whatever has happened, has happened in time is now of the essence. You get up the staircase, a door is completely shattered off its hinges. And you look in and see a apartment of an illegal arcanist, an occultist that has been completely turned upside down. Papers soaked with blood all over the ground. A mattress flipped up against the wall, cut open with daggers or long swords to search inside the mattress. Shattered mirror. Clearly signs of a scuffle. What? You look and see this. Teor and Asuna, you would both recognize this. Whoever they were fighting in here is not someone that they would have been capable of throwing around. I need all three of you to make an investigation. Check for me, if you'd be so kind.

[Travis Willingham]

What Was that before?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

1919.

[Matthew Mercer]

That would be a total of 10, 10, 7.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Teor immediately smelling around as much as you can. You guys are looking at and seeing. This is obviously Thiazi's handiwork everywhere, but it is just partially destroyed. Teor, your nostrils come online and you smell honeysuckle. A smell of something effervescent. In other words, a dim light is dying in the corner. There is a great. This place is a tannery, which means that it has offput of everything. Whatever this place was before Thiazi turned it into a hiding spot. There was a grate sluice in the stone floor. And you see a dim light fading quickly.

[Travis Willingham]

Is this a set that's familiar to me?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

I will rush over there and throw. Throw furniture out of the way as.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I do so you look down in the grate. In that grate. Laura, could you describe your character for us and the state we find her in?

[Marisha Ray]

You see a very small, 4 inch tall pixie with short brown hair. She's older than the last time you saw her. She can't tell. She thinks she looks almost 18 at this point. She's in. Her clothes are a bit tattered now. They're dark green. Her wings, which are normally a bright spring green, are almost muted at this point. And the wing is a little bent. And she's unconscious and askew on the ground. Her two swords, the needles have scattered away from her grasp.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Looking down beside her, you see this grate is only she could fit through it. And you see that there is also a small ceramic rune next to her in the hidden that would have slid in through here, here. But you see Thimble, your old friend Fiazi's partner in all things Kaora.

[Marisha Ray]

Is she there?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We're going to make your death saving throws after the break. Welcome to Campaign 4. I don't know. Tough. I said backup characters, right? Welcome to Campaign 4, baby. And that's where we'll leave our story for now. Part two of this episode of Campaign 4 drops this Tuesday. Thanks for listening and we'll see you soon for more Critical Role.

[Marisha Ray]

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