Open Threads

• What exactly is the Heart of the Chain, and can Whisper take it without violating Gram's rule against stealing a life?

• Will Father Patches honor the bargain to protect Gram, Lily, and Madame Iris?

• Why does Father Patches specifically warn Whisper to watch Ernan?

• Who scarred Ernan with chains, erased or blocked his childhood memories, and left him in Scarsden?

• What will Whisper's mother's key lead Ernan to find?

• How is Torin still restraining Alderian Titus, and how will fear in Gavra weaken that hold?

• Why must the Ithelion disappear before Titus will allow Torin to die?

• What is Cecil's former divine domain as Xandra, and why did her mother kill children to conceal her?

• Who is the woman Cecil loves, what changed her after the expedition, and can the Ithelion cure her?

• Why did Azeron fail to answer his devotee, and is his power absent from Tyve?

• What caused the companions to forget Torin whenever he was absent, and how long can the Tomorrow doll resist that effect?

• Is the glasslike tower a surviving Veyan structure, and can it be reached from the sea?

• Why are newly mined glints darker and more closely associated with the Plague?

• Can Rue safely contain the fist-sized black glint, and could it restore or destroy another darkling?

• Why can Aggie hear the Tangled One's song, and what is drawing her away from the others?

• What truth is Helena withholding about Stefon's vial and its guiding light?

• What is burning in the Shattered Isles, and what happened to the settlement's inhabitants?

• Who is the massive armored executioner, and is he the Heart of the Chain?

• How will the party find a vessel capable of crossing the Maelstrom after reaching the Shattered Isles?