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The Pahn Kahl people have worked towards a rebellion for generations. They used their positions as stewards, scribes, and clerks, where they were responsible for performing many of the key functions in the palace, to gain influence in the kingdom slowly and quietly. [[Bluefingers|Bluefingers']] position in particular was passed down from a Pahn Kahl before him; this type of set-up greatly aided in accumulating more and more influence.{{wob ref|7381}}
A Pahn Kahl named [[Vahr]] led an unsuccessful attempt at a rebellion prior to Bluefingers' own attempt. Vahr spent more than a decade working towards the freedom of his people. He
== Gestation ==
=== The Tunnels ===
The Pahn Kahl who held the position of steward prior to Bluefingers was instrumental in manipulating the priests into constructing an extensive tunnel system below the [[Court of the Gods]] and keeping it a secret from the Returned. As the project continues, Bluefingers uses it for his own ends both by misappropriating some of the funds and also as cover for
=== Manipulation of Siri
When Siri arrives in T'Telir to marry Susebron, [[Bluefingers]] strives to gain her trust at the expense of the Hallendren. He thinks her trust in the Hallendren priests would preclude war between the two nations and hopes to use her to manipulate, by extension, the Idrians of the city. To this end, he invites her pity on the Pahn Kahl by drawing attention to their lowly stations. He also allows her to believe he is more ignorant of palace scheming than he really is, not letting on that he knows about Susebron's missing tongue, and expresses to her that his real concern is the Pahn Kahl not being able to retain their positions when a new [[God King]] succeeds Susebron, as the usual custom is to replace all the servants.{{wob ref|6983}} Knowing that [[Treledees]] has instructed Siri that she and Susebron must have a child as quickly as possible, Bluefingers further undermines her trust in the God King’s priests by warning her that this would actually bring danger to the couple.{{book ref|wb|24}} This plan works to the extent that Siri asks him to get her and Susebron out of the palace should they become endangered.{{book ref|wb|34}} Bluefingers' plan regarding Siri morphs, however, when [[Denth]] successfully captures and exploits [[Vivenna]] in their efforts to stir up the people of T'Telir, and Bluefingers instead conceives of the idea of Siri dying at the apparent hand of the Hallendren priests.{{wob ref|6723}}
=== Denth's Crew ===
Meanwhile, Denth's crew, whom Bluefingers had hired for the purpose of inciting the people of T'Telir, is busy out in the city. The crew attacks the supplies needed for war and, together with Vivenna, incites the Idrians in the slums. Denth also hatches a plan to kidnap the child of [[Nanrovah]], [[Stillmark|Stillmark's]] high priest who vocally opposes war in the debates in court. His idea is to hold Nanrovah's daughter in order to blackmail him, but Vivenna eventually tumbles to Denth’s real motives and teams up with [[Vasher]] to rescue the girl and begin working against Denth's crew.{{book ref|wb|49}}
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== Final Attack ==
The fact that the [[Court of the Gods]] plans to assemble to take a formal vote on war with [[Idris]] precipitates a final attack in the culmination of all of Bluefingers' plans. When Bluefingers sees the priests act preemptively in securing the God King and Queen inside the palace, he believes that they are suspicious of him and reacts by seizing both the God King’s palace and Blushweaver herself from her palace.{{wob ref|7369}}
=== The Tunnels ===
[[Vasher]] attempts to break into the palace to stop Denth, but Denth and his mercenaries ambush and capture him. [[Vivenna]] soon comes to his rescue. Before he can go far, however, Vasher is confronted by a squad of fifty Lifeless. He is forced to draw [[Nightblood]] to defeat them, though doing so drains him of most of his Breaths. Having successfully manipulated Vasher into losing his Breath, Denth then challenges him to a duel.{{book ref|wb|56}} Although he fights with divine strength and ancient skill, Vasher is no match for the peerless Denth. Just before Denth is about to kill him, Vasher transfers his few remaining Breaths to Denth, stunning him momentarily and providing Vasher an opening to kill Denth with his dagger.{{book ref|wb|57}}{{wob ref|7469}}▼
[[Bluefingers]] orders the capture and torture of [[Blushweaver]] so that the rebels can get the [[Lifeless]] command phrases from her. In the meantime, Lightsong enters the tunnels of his own volition, guided by his prophetic dreams and seeking the answer to why tensions between the two nations have risen so high even after the wedding. He and [[Llarimar]], who comes with him, stumble onto the group of Pahn Kahl posing as priests as they torture Blushweaver, and they are both captured in their rescue attempt.{{book ref|wb|52}} After their success extracting the Command phrase from Blushweaver, the Pahn Kahl kill her in front of Lightsong and obtain his Command phrase when they threaten to kill Llarimar too.{{book ref|wb|53}}
After Susebron is sent into the tunnels, he ends up in a cage next to Lightsong. Bluefingers plans to leave Susebron's body in the palace dungeons and to place Blushweaver's and Lightsong's bodies in the Lifeless barracks surrounded by the corpses of Idrians.{{book ref|wb|55}} When the Pahn Kahl retrieve Susebron from his cage in order to kill him, however, Lightsong thwarts their efforts by giving up his divine Breath (and his life with it) to heal Susebron's missing tongue.{{book ref|wb|57}}
=== The Palace ===
When Susebron's priests hear about the impending vote, they are concerned for the God King and Queen's safety and sequester them in the palace under the pretext of discovering that Siri is with child.{{book ref|wb|50}}{{wob ref|7369}} After the fighting begins, [[Treledees]] takes Siri to reunite with Susebron. Bluefingers arrives and suggests that they flee through the tunnels under the palace, but on the way there Siri puts together the facts and understands that really this is a rebellion of the Pahn Kahl, with Bluefingers as the ringleader. They instead head towards the front gates.{{book ref|wb|54}}
▲[[Vasher]] attempts to break into the palace to
Meanwhile, Treledees and the other of the God King's priests take Siri and Susebron towards the front gates in an attempt to escape the palace. Bluefingers and a force of Lifeless ambush the group and kill the priests; Susebron is sent into the tunnels while Bluefingers takes Siri to the fourth floor. There, he intends to kill Siri and place her on an altar surrounded by the corpses of Hallandren priests as proof that they only wanted her to come to T'Telir so they could sacrifice her to the God King. The rumors that she is with child would only make her death in such a manner more powerful.{{book ref|wb|57}}
Susebron's healed tongue, which Lightsong restores to him in the tunnels, allows him to use [[Peacegiver's Treasure]], the fifty thousand Breaths of which he is guardian. With such an incredible awakening force, Susebron efficiently quells the rebels' attack on the palace with a storm of awakened cloths and rescues Siri from Bluefingers' clutches.{{book ref|wb|58}}
=== The Lifeless Army ===
Upon obtaining the Command phrases from Blushweaver and Lightsong, a small group of Pahn Kahl imprint the whole Lifeless army of Hallandren with a new Command phrase. Bluefingers directs them to give the army orders to march on Idris. All those who know the new Command phrase are then to kill themselves with poison so that no one will be able to stop the attack.{{book ref|wb|55}}
Bluefingers intends to stage a scene in the now empty Lifeless barracks: with Susebron's body in the dungeons, he hopes that when the Hallandren find Lightsong and Blushweaver, the sole two holders of the army's Command phrases, in the barracks surrounded by the bodies of Idrians, it will appear that Lightsong and Blushweaver sent the army to Idris in revenge for their God King's death.{{book ref|wb|55}}
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== Aftermath ==
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