Red Seas Under Red Skies: The Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Book Two

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As the battle turns into a stalemate, one of the Orchids who had actually been working for Rodanov brings up an alchemical sphere capable of quickly burning through the ship's hull and threatens to ignite it unless Zamira surrenders. Note: there is no false light on Tel Verrar because the Elderglass doesn’t reflect the setting sun like it does in Camorr. She then tells Jean about Requin cutting off people’s hands who cheat in the Sinspire and removing the kneecaps of the last person who drew blood there and filling the wounds with red ants.

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Even the mansions at the top of the Golden Steps, though, are not the finest establishments in Tal Verrar. Locke admires the fortress, which is decorated with sculptures of mythical creatures and aqueducts that send water cascading down them.

Over the years solari upon solari has been spent by the wealthy trying to climb levels and gain the favour of the Sinspire’s Master. Locke says he would be a perfect floor monitor, he knows how to cheat at every game and so could watch for others doing what he has been getting away with.

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Requin is fed up of talking about his vault and moves back on to why Locke has decided to talk to him now.They discover he’s the one who has been sending assassins after them at the Magi’s bidding when they’re in Tal Verrar. Someone from their past who has every intention of making the impudent criminals pay for their sins. Requin offered 1,000 solari, no questions asked, to the man who could give him the name of the assassin. Jean doesn’t relent, he tells Gallardine that he can come up with a way that minimises her involvement. Its formulation makes it such that it can’t be tested for ingredients, and the only preparatory instructions are in the alchemist’s mind.