Disarming and Dispersal of Dojisigin Guild Units

The disarming and dispersal of Dojisigin Guild units turned a regional security deployment into a test of the Assassins’ Guild’s own authority and accountability. Local Guild members were disarmed, separated, and sent into problem districts without sidearms; two members later gave an account linking the orders to a threat against their village and an unfiled assassination. The disclosures prompted Tabini to seek an investigation under his seal and brought the question of responsibility before the Guild’s leadership.

Background and disputed command

The episode emerged amid a wider dispute over the Guild Council’s conduct after the coup. Jago explained to Bren Cameron that senior Guild members had remained underground or officially dead rather than return to duty at the Council’s repeated demand. These retirees had twice watched the Guild purge itself, and the conflict between them and the current leadership had continued after the coup. Jago said that the Council’s three leaders were not acting as a united body: one followed the other two, while the other two had a pattern of action that Jago and her allies questioned.

Among the disputed decisions was the rapid approval of recommendations from the Office of Assignments, including the recent assignment of chief officers in the Dojisigin Marid. Jago also cited an earlier delay in moving forces during trouble in the west, which led Tabini to take the field himself, and a later mission to arrest senior retirees when assistance had been requested for action in the south. In her account, that arrest mission distracted the Guild from the requested operation and ended with one unit dead and the retirees officially outlawed. The Dojisigin deployment thus came under scrutiny within an already fraught argument about whether current Guild leadership was exercising its authority responsibly.

Disarming and separation of the units

Ilisidi later described the handling of the local Guild in a deposition intended for presentation as evidence. According to her account, local members were disarmed and kept under arrest; they were then released and sent out to protect their respective villages. Their units had been split apart, and members were deployed into problem districts without even sidearms. The arrangement left them responsible for protection while withholding the ordinary equipment that might have helped them perform that duty.

The division also created uncertainty beyond the immediate deployment. Two Dojisigin Guild members were in Ilisidi’s custody, separated from the other team in their unit. At the time of her report, the whereabouts of that team were unknown, as were the orders it might have received and the possible hostages at stake. The two men asked permission to go south to find their partners. Ilisidi denied the request, leaving them in custody while the situation around the missing team remained unresolved.

The threat behind the orders

The two men’s account supplied a specific reason for investigating the deployment. Ilisidi stated that their village had been threatened with destruction if they refused to carry out an unfiled assassination of a northern lord. This made the matter more than a disputed choice of equipment or a questionable division of personnel: the evidence presented to the Guild connected the orders to coercion directed at a village and to a killing that had not been filed through the Guild’s established procedure.

Ilisidi warned Lord Machigi that he might be a target of a second operation based in the Dojisigin Marid. She personally asked him to negotiate a bloodless surrender if the missing partners entered his territory, and she intended to urge him to make a public statement about what had happened once the operation planned for that night went forward. Her response addressed both immediate uncertainty and the possibility that the danger could extend beyond the two men already in custody. The available account does not establish the fate of the missing partners or the outcome of that planned operation.

Evidence placed before the Guild

Ilisidi gave Tabini a sealed deposition describing the local Guild’s disarmament, the separation of the units, their arrest and release, and their deployment without sidearms. Tabini approved the plan and passed the documents to Cenedi. The deposition gave the accusation a formal evidentiary path rather than leaving it as an unrecorded dispute between political rivals and Guild officers.

Bren Cameron subsequently appeared before the Guild with Tabini’s seal ring and documents in the aiji’s name. He requested an investigation into orders in the Dojisigin Marid concerning local Guild members who had been disarmed, separated, and sent into the field without equipment. He also submitted Ilisidi’s sealed deposition concerning the two members whose village had been threatened if they refused the unfiled assassination. The Guildmaster accepted the documents for entry into the record, establishing the request as a matter for the Guild’s attention.

Consequences and significance

The affair exposed a sharp contradiction in the local deployment: Guild members were assigned to protect villages after being deprived of arms, while at least two members reported that their own village had been used as leverage to demand an assassination. The division of units compounded that contradiction by separating partners and leaving their location, orders, and possible hostage situation unknown. These details made the consequences of command decisions concrete without resolving every question about who issued them or what happened to the absent team.

The episode also tested the boundary between political authority and Guild procedure. Tabini’s request carried his seal, while Ilisidi’s account supplied a deposition for the Guild to examine; the requested investigation focused on orders rather than treating the matter as already adjudicated. In a Guild whose leadership was already challenged by senior members refusing to return, the Dojisigin case made accountability, the handling of local forces, and the legitimacy of official orders inseparable. Its documented outcome is the submission of evidence and a request for inquiry, not a recorded final judgment.