Fiddler, Apsalar, Crokus, Icarium, Mappo, Rellock, Iskaral Pust, and the five Hounds of Shadow arrive at the entrance to the vast maze of roots that surrounds Tremorlor. At their feet, they find four broken bodies that Mappo recognizes as Nameless Ones, priests of the Azath. He does not reveal this fact, but is startled when the bodies spark a memory in Icarium. The Jhag recalls arriving at the ruins of a Trellish town destroyed by sorcery and being welcomed by a similar robed priestess. The priestess admits to destroying the town in order to secure Icarium a companion. In his thoughts, Mappo refuses to disbelieve the story the Nameless Ones told him. That Icarium had been the one to destroy Mappo's village.