Summary

A little further exploration of Gaedren's fishery led you to a spider's nest in the bowels of a rotten ship before you returned to Yargin Balko's office.  Unfortunately for Jaysac, you were unable to find any information within his files with more information about your expulsion from the acadamae.

Upon leaving the fishery it is apparent that something has gone very wrong with the city:

     Korvosa is in flames.  Smoke rises on the horizon.  The frantic clang of alarm bells sing out in harmony with a multifarious cacophony of screams, the clash of steel on steel, moans, and even the periodic detonation of arcane power.  A wing of Sable Company griffon riders swoops overhead, angling toward Castle Korvosa at a breakneck pace.  One of the badly wounded mounts rains blood down on the street around you before it succumbs and crashes headlong into a statue, taking its rider and itself to a bone-crunching demise.  The others don't slow or even look back toward their fallen comrade.  
     Amid the chaos the voice of a Korvosan herald cuts through the din:  "The king is dead! Long live the Queen!" only to be shouted down by ragged cries of "Hang the Queen!" and "The usurper whore must die!"  
    You can even see contingents of an outside military force, Hellknights from the Order of the Nail, clad in dark iron armor and horned helms putting down rioters and looters.  
   Every time you venture into the streets you face angry mobs, Imps and Pseudodragons gone wild, mad prophets, and many other dangers.


You return to Zellara's home, where her spectre appears to you and explains that she brought you together to see the city through the coming disaster.


Among the encounters you've had in the streets thus far you encountered Grau Soldado.  At first glance he seemed like nothing but a filthy drunk but under the grime, vomit, and mud you recognize him as a formerly well liked Watch Sergeant.  He manages to slur through an explanation of his problems, and further explain them when you sober him up at the temple.  In short he was involved in a love triangle with two other important figures in the city: Vencarlo Orisini and Sabina Merrin.  Orisini is one of Korvosa's most talented sword-fighters who tutored Grau in his youth.  Grau was not the only exemplary student; Sabina Merrin was a student that Orisini became completely infatuated with.  Unfortunately Grau was also smitten by Sabina.  To complicate matters further, Sabina is far more interested in Women than men.  Eventually this lead to a three way confrontation of frustration and misunderstandings, with Grau successfully engineering a duel between Orisini and Sabina, a duel that resulted in the loss of two of Orisini's fingers and a scar on Sabina's cheek.  Sabina left the school, and when Orisini discovered Grau's hand in the events, expelled him in a rare rage.  


Currently, you are resting at the temple and recuperating from the effects of some nasty poison.