Events

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- ✔ Abellaime's entry into the sealed temple · Pretenders to the Thro ch 5 - backstory; she broke a four-hundred-year ward and took the temple after the last priest of Ffen bound it with spite - ✔ assault on the city · House of Open Wounds ch 21 - ✔ attack on the Rectitude · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3 - the Red Grieving Bat Society attacked the Palleseen supply carrack the previous month; the goods taken from it led Angilly to observe Lasaret's meetings - ✔ Aullaime's diversion · City of Last Chances ch 45 - the freeing of mill demons that attacked Palleseen patrols across the city; marked by ragged demon bodies near the Anchorage - ✔ Bracite civil war · House of Open Wounds ch 26 - the conflict after the Bracite dynasty's iron grip eroded through internecine squabbles and the rise of viziers; half a dozen factions fought in the streets, blood enough to turn the river red, until the Palleseen marched in "to keep the peace" - ✔ Brandery's ultimatum · Pretenders to the Thro ch 14 - the demand that prompted the current ceasefire and the locals' decision to seek "proper talks" - ✔ Defenestration · Pretenders to the Thro ch 7 - ✔ Game · City of Last Chances ch 3-31; House of Open Wounds ch 28 - gambling venue also called "the Anchorage Game"; run by Langrice; where Vulture soldiers and others drink and gamble - ✔ God's hard bargain · House of Open Wounds ch 51 - the agreement by which Lidlet, Foley, and others chose servitude to God rather than death; now being spread as a survival strategy across the Sway - ✔ Gownhall uprising · City of Last Chances ch 33 - a recent insurrection at Gownhall; soldiers are blockading streets the night after; Vinchec references "the parlous state of education in this city, what with the, you know" - ✔ Hobbers inquest · House of Open Wounds ch 39 - the formal inquest into Cohort-Archivist Hobbers' death, conducted by a duty Inquirer; ends with a reprimand to Alv and a "formal statement of understanding" on Callow's record - ✔ Ibaleth treaty renewal · Days of Shattered Fait ch 11 - an annual ceremony where the Alkhand sits by the riverbank and Kass the Ibaleth queen brings pearls and a carved ogrodon horn in exchange for fish and a handful of muddy earth; the Ibaleth display ogrodons and fire batons - ✔ Ilmar uprising · House of Open Wounds ch 25 - ✔ Ilmari uprising · Pretenders to the Thro ch 39 - ✔ labourers march · City of Last Chances ch 37 - the factory mob crossing the river toward Gownhall; Nisbet reports it is larger than expected and containment is uncertain - ✔ Last Calm Night · City of Last Chances ch 32 - the night between the student uprising and the expected Palleseen counter-assault; "the city holds its breath" - ✔ Liberation of Jarokir · Days of Shattered Fait ch 1 - a famous event depicted in a picture on the wall of Slate House - ✔ Mellister's shooting · Pretenders to the Thro ch 29 - Brandery shot Mellister when she confronted him about skimming resources; she had the God-contract paper and was healed - ✔ Ochelby's murder · City of Last Chances ch 2 - the swapping of the warding bundle for a straw doll at Mother Guame's circle house, leading to the Anchorwood beasts killing Ochelby and most of his escort - ✔ Pal-Loruthi War · Days of Shattered Fait ch 21 - a past war in which Flint led a company of marines in the naval element; Pals won "against great odds" - ✔ prisoner exchange · House of Open Wounds ch 39; Pretenders to the Thro ch 3 - scheduled for the next day; Prassel demands to send one of her people with it; Sherm arranges it - ✔ Runkel's death · House of Open Wounds ch 43 - the Sage-Monitor dies hours after Jack's refusal; the Whitebellies keep cranking the bellows over his corpse until the Fellow-Monitor discovers he is gone - ✔ sea-cult attack on the shore camp · Pretenders to the Thro ch 23 - "a passing flotilla of mad cultists" punched the main camp "full of holes"; Dantell cites it to Aspel as failure of range defence - ✔ the Advent of Perfection · City of Last Chances ch 48 - a historical moment referenced in relation to how long the people of the Anchorwood have "lived with the Wood and what's beyond it" - ✔ the Alkhand's declaration · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 10 - the Alkhand stands in court, denounces Gorbudan, banishes him and his followers, and names Dekamran heir - ✔ the arrest of the Gownhall scholar · City of Last Chances ch 13 - a Gownhall academic detained for matters "touching the heart of the Perfecture"; caused continuing student unrest - ✔ the battle at the Lighthouse · Pretenders to the Thro ch 38 - Kiffel ea Leachan held up the Dead Company's advance against the Lighthouse before the current siege; referenced by the Lich Queen as the reason Kiffel is the "champion" - ✔ the battle of Cevaern Straits · Pretenders to the Thro ch 26 - Conn Leachan took a hundred heads in one day; referenced in the epigraph legend - ✔ the big push · House of Open Wounds ch 10 - a major advance "across the contested stretch to break the Loruthi lines and take another few miles off them"; the reason for the special meal - ✔ the Bracinta engagement · House of Open Wounds ch 33 - the ongoing battle in which the Loruthi use fireberg artillery against the combined Palleseen battalions; the battle's stakes are Bracinta's plantations and mines, "the jewel of their mercantile crown" - ✔ the Brothers' War · Days of Shattered Fait ch 22 - named at the first engagement: "That is the first engagement of the Brothers' War"; Gorbudan vs. Dekamran for the throne of Usmai - ✔ the burning of Angilly's parents · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 4 - eleven years ago in the old garrison compound; a blazing woman priestess set rain on fire and burned them alive; the only place the old garrison "exists" is in Angilly's memory - ✔ the butchering at Revelation House · House of Open Wounds ch 50 - Ollery's infamous massacre, unnamed in the text but the source of his epithet "The Butcher of Revelation House"; an event "so ghastly, so unthinkable" it was discussed across the Archipelago - ✔ The Camp Exterminations · Pretenders to the Thro ch 40 - the Commission's post-war genocide of Palleseen cult prisoners; regulars balked, Unnaturals proved conflicted, so the Commission sent Prassel and her dead to finish the job - ✔ the conquest of Jarokir · House of Open Wounds ch 5 - celebrated by the Pals as a great achievement; the Palleseen burned the sacred groves of Jarokir as a final offering to no god - ✔ the coronation at the pools · Days of Shattered Fait ch 17 - Gorbudan's declaration as Alkhand seven days ago; held at the pools halfway up the waterfall cliffs, visible from most of Alkhalend; the Usrani coaxed Kakrops from the cave; the Grand Moerend Arkanith rushed through the formalities; "Nobody had really got into the festive spirit" - ✔ The Cotto harbour disaster · Days of Shattered Fait ch 23 - referenced: in the Alkhand's youth the Cotto attacked Alkhalend by sea and were destroyed; wreckage took a month to clear from the harbour mouth - ✔ the crash of the Gallete island · House of Open Wounds ch 34 - a Gallete floating island destroyed and crashed against the earth during the battle, killing all aboard; seen as a shattered mountain of stone and broken buildings - ✔ the curse attack · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1 - the supernatural fire that destroys the refectory; food rots and seethes, fire moves with "a serpent's body, a lizard's legs," ignites damp wood and even stone - ✔ the Day of the Three Walls · Pretenders to the Thro ch 12 - the single-day Palleseen assault that takes the first two walls, is stalled at the third, and costs Guillen oa Pedrig his life. - ✔ the death of Kakrops · Days of Shattered Fait ch 26 - the frog god of Alkhalend goaded into battle by Gorbudan and killed by massed Palleseen fire - ✔ the declaration of war between Lor and Pallesand · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9 - word arrives four days after the pool scene on the swiftest courier skiff out of Peor - ✔ the defenestration of the Perfector · Pretenders to the Thro ch 9 - the Perfector of Eres Ffenegh was thrown from the Lighthouse window, both an Os-Fferegh tradition of disposing of tyrants and a sacrifice to the Fisher King - ✔ the deicide · Days of Shattered Fait ch 28 - the killing of Kakrops during the night of the 18th; the divine corpse and its blood stained the coronation pools; the entire city and the Usrani are in mourning - ✔ the delegation for the royal reception · House of Open Wounds ch 49 - a planned Palleseen attendance at a reception for the new king of Bracinta; officers jockey for places; "It wasn't often that a Pal got invited to a royal reception" - ✔ the extirpation of the old gods · House of Open Wounds ch 44 - after the Temporary Commission's accession, the Palleseen drove out old worship, smashed temples, drained relics, and defaced icons; speaking the old language or telling old stories became arrestable offences - ✔ The fall of Eres Ffenegh · Pretenders to the Thro ch 41 - the final day of the siege; the Resolute Battalion breaches the Left-city, the Gaelensreach is held by counter-curse, the Pandaemonium is stormed, and the Pal army retreats before the demon legion - ✔ The Fall of the Moeribandi Empire · Pretenders to the Thro ch 37 - the Empire fell "not from division or invasion, but from a steady retreat into its own tomb, the doors pulled closed from within" - ✔ the fox hunt · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5 - the operation conducted by Angilly's team; Pal soldiers and a dozen-plus demons raid the city to flush out Halseder or provoke his emergence or prove his absence - ✔ the Great Advance · House of Open Wounds ch 2 - a much-fabled planned offensive against the Loruthi, dependent on Prassel's necromantic mine-clearing support - ✔ the Great War · City of Last Chances ch 42 - the total war on Hellgram's home world; "Great, because on his world, it had eclipsed all creeds and boundaries and divisions and occupations"; deployed gas, demon artillery, monsters, and the weapon that separated Hellgram from his wife - ✔ The hangings · City of Last Chances ch 28 - a recent large public execution carried out by the Pals; treated by the workers as the rope tightening around the city's throat; included a Gownhall maestro and a student - ✔ The Hospitallers breaking ranks · Pretenders to the Thro ch 30 - the Hospitallers "broke ranks and joined with the Os-Fferegh to throw the army out"; this happened before the current siege fighting - ✔ the Housebreaking · Days of Shattered Fait ch 45 - the Under-warden's ritual, completed by the Reckoner, which overloads the House of Hard Angles' ghost-trap, frees the centipede creature, consumes and releases all the ghosts, recharges the tablethi, kills Drathel, and resurrects Premath. "He's done it," Caecelian whispers. - ✔ the Jarokir incident · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 2 - referenced as "the incident" and "the garrison"; the fire that killed Angilly's parents and left her with severe scarring and a lasting phobia of flame - ✔ the killing of the Loruthi emissary · Days of Shattered Fait ch 6 - the previous night's duel; the Alkhand formally rules it "a thing belonging to your war, and not a thing belonging to my nation, or within my jurisdiction" - ✔ the killing of the Sage-Archivist · City of Last Chances ch 1-6 - the Sage-Archivist of the School of Correct Erudition murdered in the Anchorwood, two streets from the boarding house; reported as wildfire news - ✔ the Kings Below's purge of dissidents · City of Last Chances ch 16 - a street-to-street roundup of political organisers in the Infernal Realms; the rounded-up demons were shipped to Ilmar on contracts as if they were ordinary labour - ✔ The Leachan Name Contract · Pretenders to the Thro ch 13 - Abellaime's price for the Crabshell demon's service: Kiffel ea Leachan surrenders her family name and lineage, with the implication that descendants of her line will be "touched by Hell" - ✔ the liberation · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1 - ✔ the liberation of Magnelei · House of Open Wounds ch 22 - a Palleseen military victory against the Loruthi, achieved at trivial cost; celebrated with rummell rations - ✔ the liberation of Oloumann · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 6 - a military/political operation in which Professor-Invigilator Flockersly oversaw the destruction of a "culinarily-blessed religion" - ✔ The Lighthouse raid · Pretenders to the Thro ch 27 - Palleseen commandos emerge from a summoned supernatural forest directly at the top of the Lighthouse, kill the Pope, and wound the Mouth and Niev - ✔ the Loruthi counterattack · House of Open Wounds ch 16 - the battle eight days prior; resulted in Alv being carted away blind, and Banders, Masty, and Jack going missing - ✔ the Loruthi wars · Days of Shattered Fait ch 48; Pretenders to the Thro ch 19 - a past conflict; veterans of it are among the Pal defenders who hold their squares - ✔ the Magnelei prisoner exchange · House of Open Wounds ch 40 - a negotiated swap of prisoners between Palleseen and Loruthi forces, conducted in the city square with officer delegations, Bracite civilian overseers, and attending servants - ✔ the massacre of Callow's squad · House of Open Wounds ch 46 - Alv kills ten of Callow's sympathetic-magic scholars in his tent with a four-foot cleaver, "as though there could be a giant with an axe loose in camp"; only Skilby survives to die moments later - ✔ the Moeribandi necropolis expedition · Pretenders to the Thro ch 20 - a research expedition beyond the Sway into the Successor Steppes to find a sealed necropolis of the Moeribandi Empire; the narrator was sent partly to remove her from regimental dinners - ✔ the Night · Days of Shattered Fait ch 34 - the night of Kakrops's death, referred to obliquely ("after what happened on the... the Night"); it drove a wedge between the throne and the Palleseen while binding them irrevocably together - ✔ The night of the thirteen · City of Last Chances ch 28 - the Pals kicked in doors across the Hammer Districts, arresting thirteen Siblingries organisers; took them to the Donjon - ✔ the Osseach of Defiance meeting at the Pandaemonium · Pretenders to the Thro ch 7 - the Osseach of Defiance council now conducts its sessions at the Pandaemonium; its arrival forces Kiff into hiding - ✔ the Pal attack on the Varinaen · Pretenders to the Thro ch 9 - at the very start of the siege, the Palleseen struck a blow against Varinecthes that "neutered" him without killing him; the archmage now refuses all contact - ✔ the Pal invasion of Allor · Pretenders to the Thro ch 17 - the Palleseen conquest that forced Abellaime's family to flee, collapsing her inherited vendetta into irrelevance - ✔ the Palleseen conquest of Nihilostes' homeland · City of Last Chances ch 19 - temples torn down, gold and relics carried off or rendered for raw magic; the big gods' persecution of little gods ended, but the conquered people's subversive cults were exported across the Sway - ✔ the Palleseen defeat near Magnelei · House of Open Wounds ch 37 - a bloody setback that left units fragmented and prompted the Sage-Archivist's reform agenda - ✔ the Palleseen invasion of Allor · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5 - announced at chapter's end; "the Palleseen army has marched into Allor. The filthy demon-worshippers had been asking for it" - ✔ the Pals' assault at Eres Ffenegh · Pretenders to the Thro ch 34 - the chapter's final line: "that's when the Pals come in"; the siege breaks into direct action - ✔ the Poem That Stopped the Dead · Pretenders to the Thro ch 12 - Guillen oa Pedrig's final sea-song, an old banned boat-song, halts the Dead Companies' charge and shatters their compulsion. - ✔ the Proclamation of the Wood · City of Last Chances ch 6 - the Indweller declares the Anchorwood barred to Pallesand on pain of death until restitution is made - ✔ the purge · House of Open Wounds ch 44; Pretenders to the Thro ch 11 - the silent internal war of "purge and counter-purge" on the Archipelago, involving Culling Lists, interrogations, and quota-filling; Dantell knows "if they didn't make quota then they got to round off the numbers in person" - ✔ The raid on the Impounded Evidence Office · City of Last Chances ch 30 - an overnight incursion using a mind-erasing mist/fog; two workers left mentally empty, one vanished, only the Indweller's mask taken - ✔ the rebellion in Hell · Pretenders to the Thro ch 34 - Caeleen's uprising; the slave pens broken open, the palaces stormed; the Kings Below fear her - ✔ the Reproach's breaking free · City of Last Chances ch 46 - "The Reproach had left its prison at long last and had come to the Wood" - ✔ the Sergyen incident · City of Last Chances ch 4 - the previous day's botched "chastisement" of Sergyen the chandler by Ruslav, Benno, and Ergice; Sergyen fled or was killed; a substitute was roughed up instead - ✔ the shark rite · Days of Shattered Fait ch 40 - a Cotto sea-rite in which a hidden object (symbolic faith) is surgically removed from a person and fed to a shark; Loret undergoes it in a flooded hold - ✔ the Siblingries' march · City of Last Chances ch 41 - the failed uprising; produced the wounded flooding into Yasnic's cellar and the subsequent arrests - ✔ the siege of Eres Ffenegh · Pretenders to the Thro ch 1-3 - the seven-month siege by the Palleseen, triggered by Varinecthes's arrival and the city's expulsion of the Palleseen garrison; described as involving ruined districts, artillery, deaths by magic and weapon, cold, and sickness - ✔ the succession crisis · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5 - a decade ago, the king died; his relatives all claimed the throne; "the halls of the Wolf Palace ran red with blood, and then so did the streets of the capital"; the heir vanished; the viziers called in the Pals and Loruthi - ✔ the surrender negotiations of Eres Ffenegh · Pretenders to the Thro ch 18 - the top-level talks held in the Pandaemonium between Resolute Battalion and the interim Carcer administration, from which three "bogeymen" are excluded before the real negotiation begins - ✔ The Three Nights · House of Open Wounds ch 48 - three nights of assassinations in Magnelei after competing claimants and royal scions vied for the throne - ✔ the Usmiat-Peost border raids · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 10 - repeated swift raids by Gorbudan's followers on Palleseen factoras, mills, and plantations; officially denied by the court - ✔ the usurpation of the Varatsins · City of Last Chances ch 17 - the Armiger families cast down the Varatsin Dukes, exterminated their line, scattered their adherents, and took their palace and grounds - ✔ the venture towards the Lighthouse · Pretenders to the Thro ch 28 - the recent Palleseen assault that gained Wards and a wedge between upper and lower city but did not reach the Lighthouse itself; Lovern's mission severed the city's link to the sea cults during this action - ✔ the war against the Loruthi · Pretenders to the Thro ch 1 - the earlier conflict between the Palleseen and the Loruthi in which Varinecthes was "employed on the other side" - ✔ Third Goupa Uprising · Days of Shattered Fait ch 21 - "brutal fighting" in which Flint served, referenced in his background - ✔ Vestry's botched summoning · Pretenders to the Thro ch 5 - the rogue demon incident at the Pandaemonium; a four-handed, goat-headed, scorpion-tailed demon conjured against the Lighthouse but turned on its caller - ✔ Wielding of the Hammer · City of Last Chances ch 37 - mentioned as something Vorkovin has "only the vaguest notion" of; presumably a planned uprising action elsewhere in the city - - the trial · House of Open Wounds ch 19 - Jack's court-martial referenced at the chapter's opening; outcome was death sentence commuted to conscription; Lidlet's fate was also decided there