Missing body
Door: Michael van Gemen
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23 Januari 2018 | Nederland, Velden
As news that the assassin has been apprehended spreads (although is she?), the mood in Korvosa once again calms down.
Yet during the mob fervor and riots revolving around the queen's announcement, a group of racist thugs took the opportunity to use the unrest to fuel their own agenda.
Tensions between Korvosa and the Shoanti have simmered since the city's foundation some 300 years ago, but in recent years those Shoanti who continue to dwell in Korvosa have sought a more peaceful accord.
Led by a visionary known as Thousand Bones, a large group of Shoanti have been in talks with the Korvosan government for years now, hoping to find a way their two people can coexist in peace.
Thousand Bones's mission is anything but easy. A large number of Krvosa's citizens are prejudiced against the Shoanti and see them as little more than violent barbarians.
Curbing and moderating the violence between these racists and the quick-to-anger Shoanti who dwell in and near Korvsa as a contants battle for the man.
Thousand Bones's patience reaches its limit when one of his grandsons, a young warrior named Gaekhen, is murdered by a mob that uses the unrest in Korvosa as a feeble excuse for vigilantism.
Cressida Kroft isn't alone in her office after Trinia has been safely turned over.
Kroft introduces the old man as Thousand Bones and explains he is a Shaman of the Skoan-Quah, Clan of the Skull.
"My people have worked hard to understand those who dwell in Korvosa, yet it seems everyday we see new examples of how this city's people work just as hard to foster old hatreds.
My grandson is dead, beaten to death by cowards in your city street.
I do not blame you, yet Gaekhen is still dead, and my son and his kin are not as forgiving as I.
They wish to return to the Skoan-Quah in the Cinderlands, to join with the Sklar-Quah and rally to war.
This would be disastrous, for both our peoples. Amends must be made.
Our ways are not as yours. If a body does not go whole to the fires of the ancestors, the smoke of a warrior's spirit cannot rise to the Great Sky.
If I could send Gaekhen's body to the Great Sky with honor and dignity, his father and brothers would listen to me and stay their wrath.
But he was not just murdered. His body was taken from the scene of his death, sold by a peddler of corpses to a necromancer known as Rolth, a criminal to both our peoples.
I have spoken with the spirits, and they have revealed to me that Gaekhen's body has been taken to a place below this city's graveyard, a place the spirits call the Dead Warrens.
With this knowledge, I could surely lead a group of my finest warriors into your graveyard to retrieve my grandson, but this would be seen as an act of aggression by your people.
No, it falls to you to make amends for what has been done.
You must bring me my boy, lest we be forced to recover him ourselves.
And although it pains my heart to say it, we will not be gentle if it comes to this!"
He then rises, nods curtly to Cressida, and leaves the room.
Field Marshal Kroft apologizes for the man's brusqueness, but clearly agrees with his assessment.
Who is Rolth?
Rolth Lamm has long been a thorn in my side. A failed Acadamae student, Rolth´s a monster of a man who was expelled after the true nature of his experiments was revealed.
He was butchering vagrants, stray animals, and enything else he could get his hands on to try to build some sort of Golem.
Personally, I suspect he is responsible for a large number of additional murders over the past decade, each involving mutilation to the body, but he´s a slippery one and I´ve never been able to find any evidence against him. Any Questions?
What are the Dead Warrens?
Korvosa's graveyards, in the Gray District, are riddled with undergroun chambers, some of them burrowed by Ghouls or other monsters, others remnants of ancient Shoanti burial grounds.
Some of these are patrolled and kept clear of monsters by the Church of Pharasma, yet the Gray District is a large place and the tunnels below are vast and tangled.
You can find the Dead Warrens in the chambers that lie under Potter's Ward, where the bodies of the poor and homeless are buried.
How do we enter the Dead Warrens?
We have the man who sold Gaekhen's body to Rolth in custody, a simpleton named Elkaris. He spilled everything when we told him what was going on and how much trouble he was in.
He says he delivered the body via wheelbarrow to a partially collapsed mausoleum deep in Potter's Ward, near the southern edge.
A toppled and headless statue of a sword-wielding Gargoyle lay in the dirt near its entrance, he was told to leave the body behind that statue.
So that's the best place to start the search.
How will we recognize Gaekhen's body?
Thousand Bones described him as an 18-year old with short brown hair and a distinctive scar from a Firepelt's claw on his left cheek.
Furthermore, he had several large Shoanti tribal tattoos on his arms and torso.
It's unlikely that any other freshly killed Shoanti are in the Dead Warrens today, so that should be a dead giveaway..
Yet during the mob fervor and riots revolving around the queen's announcement, a group of racist thugs took the opportunity to use the unrest to fuel their own agenda.
Tensions between Korvosa and the Shoanti have simmered since the city's foundation some 300 years ago, but in recent years those Shoanti who continue to dwell in Korvosa have sought a more peaceful accord.
Led by a visionary known as Thousand Bones, a large group of Shoanti have been in talks with the Korvosan government for years now, hoping to find a way their two people can coexist in peace.
Thousand Bones's mission is anything but easy. A large number of Krvosa's citizens are prejudiced against the Shoanti and see them as little more than violent barbarians.
Curbing and moderating the violence between these racists and the quick-to-anger Shoanti who dwell in and near Korvsa as a contants battle for the man.
Thousand Bones's patience reaches its limit when one of his grandsons, a young warrior named Gaekhen, is murdered by a mob that uses the unrest in Korvosa as a feeble excuse for vigilantism.
Cressida Kroft isn't alone in her office after Trinia has been safely turned over.
Kroft introduces the old man as Thousand Bones and explains he is a Shaman of the Skoan-Quah, Clan of the Skull.
"My people have worked hard to understand those who dwell in Korvosa, yet it seems everyday we see new examples of how this city's people work just as hard to foster old hatreds.
My grandson is dead, beaten to death by cowards in your city street.
I do not blame you, yet Gaekhen is still dead, and my son and his kin are not as forgiving as I.
They wish to return to the Skoan-Quah in the Cinderlands, to join with the Sklar-Quah and rally to war.
This would be disastrous, for both our peoples. Amends must be made.
Our ways are not as yours. If a body does not go whole to the fires of the ancestors, the smoke of a warrior's spirit cannot rise to the Great Sky.
If I could send Gaekhen's body to the Great Sky with honor and dignity, his father and brothers would listen to me and stay their wrath.
But he was not just murdered. His body was taken from the scene of his death, sold by a peddler of corpses to a necromancer known as Rolth, a criminal to both our peoples.
I have spoken with the spirits, and they have revealed to me that Gaekhen's body has been taken to a place below this city's graveyard, a place the spirits call the Dead Warrens.
With this knowledge, I could surely lead a group of my finest warriors into your graveyard to retrieve my grandson, but this would be seen as an act of aggression by your people.
No, it falls to you to make amends for what has been done.
You must bring me my boy, lest we be forced to recover him ourselves.
And although it pains my heart to say it, we will not be gentle if it comes to this!"
He then rises, nods curtly to Cressida, and leaves the room.
Field Marshal Kroft apologizes for the man's brusqueness, but clearly agrees with his assessment.
Who is Rolth?
Rolth Lamm has long been a thorn in my side. A failed Acadamae student, Rolth´s a monster of a man who was expelled after the true nature of his experiments was revealed.
He was butchering vagrants, stray animals, and enything else he could get his hands on to try to build some sort of Golem.
Personally, I suspect he is responsible for a large number of additional murders over the past decade, each involving mutilation to the body, but he´s a slippery one and I´ve never been able to find any evidence against him. Any Questions?
What are the Dead Warrens?
Korvosa's graveyards, in the Gray District, are riddled with undergroun chambers, some of them burrowed by Ghouls or other monsters, others remnants of ancient Shoanti burial grounds.
Some of these are patrolled and kept clear of monsters by the Church of Pharasma, yet the Gray District is a large place and the tunnels below are vast and tangled.
You can find the Dead Warrens in the chambers that lie under Potter's Ward, where the bodies of the poor and homeless are buried.
How do we enter the Dead Warrens?
We have the man who sold Gaekhen's body to Rolth in custody, a simpleton named Elkaris. He spilled everything when we told him what was going on and how much trouble he was in.
He says he delivered the body via wheelbarrow to a partially collapsed mausoleum deep in Potter's Ward, near the southern edge.
A toppled and headless statue of a sword-wielding Gargoyle lay in the dirt near its entrance, he was told to leave the body behind that statue.
So that's the best place to start the search.
How will we recognize Gaekhen's body?
Thousand Bones described him as an 18-year old with short brown hair and a distinctive scar from a Firepelt's claw on his left cheek.
Furthermore, he had several large Shoanti tribal tattoos on his arms and torso.
It's unlikely that any other freshly killed Shoanti are in the Dead Warrens today, so that should be a dead giveaway..
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