Open Threads

• What ancestral grievance drove Derek to murder Cassiandros?

• Was Derek connected to the traitorous house represented by the hidden animal-crested helmet?

• Who accompanied Derek when he first found Rensselaer's survivors, and was that person involved in the assassination?

• Who is Anseletta, and what connection did she have to Derek and his family?

• What caused the drowning sound and fragmented references heard from Derek's dead voice?

• Who or what was watching Cassiandros from the darkness after her death?

• Could Mathias truly have resurrected Cassiandros through a soul-for-soul exchange?

• Why did Mathias test Whisper's willingness to sacrifice Lily or himself?

• Will Wylas use his ships, soldiers, and provisions to take control of the Southern Eye?

• Can Aemon, Rensselaer, and the scattered Gavran authorities prevent a Velpan takeover?

• What will happen when Madame Iris learns about the forged succession document naming her?

• Are Rensselaer and the armada survivors safe after returning to the keep?

• What is the sleeping giant, and why did he come to the Southern Eye by raft?

• What undead beings inhabit the waters near the northern coast?

• What happened to the other vessels and crews swallowed by the vortex?

• Who granted Ilk passage aboard the Maelstrodomus, and what greater purpose does he serve?

• What is the Bridge of Callus, and where did Ilk come from?

• Why does the Black Worm hunger, and what unfinished vision does it hold for Torrin?

• What story connects Whisper's ring to the Plains of the Black Mountain?

• Why does Ilk call the dream of Vyr's crystal necklace incomplete?

• Are the falling strands truly Eth's tears, light from the Ithelion, or something else?

• Why can Helena's vial capture the strands, and has Stefon's light truly returned?

• Can the Maelstrodomus survive the vortex that destroyed Gavra's armada?