Die Gärten des Mondes/Kapitel 3

Thelomen Thartheno Toblakai...
finde die Namen eines Volkes,
das sich weigert,
im Vergessen zu verschwinden...
Ihre Legendelässt meinen
zynischen Auswurf verfaulen und vereitelt
meine Augen mit strahlendem Ruhm...
>Überquere den loyalen Käfig,
den ihr unanfechtbares Herz umarmt...
...überquere nicht diese unerschütterlichen Menhire,
die ewig loyal zur Erde sind.<
Thelomen Thartheno Toblakai...
Diese hoch aufragenden Säulen, die immer noch stehen,
beschädigen den eisigen Schaft
meines Verstandes...

―Gothos' Narretei (II.iv)
Gothos (geb. ?)

Kapitel 3

Ganoes Paran

Captain Paran receives instructions from Topper as he travels by ship to Genabaris. He is to take command of Whiskeyjack’s squad because the possessed Sorry is in the squad. From Genabaris, Paran flies by Green Quorl to Pale.

Tattersail and Bridgeburners

Interpretation of the Virgin of High House Death by Mister Adam

In Pale, the injured Bellurdan mourns for Nightchill and tells Tattersail that he will soon go out into the Rhivi Plain to raise Nightchill’s barrow.

Whiskeyjack, Kalam and Quick Ben believe that the Bridgeburners are being setup to be eliminated as part of Laseen’s effort to remove the Emperor’s old guard. An officer had been garotted and they suspect Sorry may be the assassin, whether she is a Claw or not. Quick Ben and Kalam get Whiskeyjack to agree with their plan to turn the tables, with Hairlock as their surprise player.

Tattersail conducts a Reading of the Fatid for Tayschrenn, with an Ascendant reaching through her. She draws: Orb, Virgin of High House Death, Assassin of High House Shadow, Oponn with Lady’s head high and Crown. She believes Death’s Virgin to be Sorry, although somehow The Rope is connected, information she does not share with Tayschrenn. She wants to talk with Whiskeyjack.

Paran

Outside Pale, Paran meets up with Toc the Younger, the last Claw in the 2nd Army who conveys him into the city. Toc comments that Whiskeyjack once commanded the Seventh Company in Seven Cities and that the sergeant and Dujek Onearm command much loyalty among the Genabackan armies. He also tells Paran that his own Clawmaster was garotted two days earlier.

Paran meets Corporal Picker and Sergeant Antsy, then goes to Knobb's Inn and meets Hedge, Mallet and Trotts from the Ninth Squad of the Bridgeburners.

On his way back to the barracks, he is assassinated by Sorry (Cotillion). Shadowthrone (Ammanas) appears briefly and notes that something has entered the Warren of Shadow.