The Dojisigin Plot to Assassinate Lord Tatiseigi was an unfiled Guild attack that exposed a route from Murini’s people through the Kadagidi house to the Atageini clan. It endangered guests at Lord Tatiseigi’s home, including Ilisidi, Cajeiri, Bren Cameron, a ship-aiji, and three human children from the space station; its political consequences grew when confessions and other records connected the attack to the upheaval in the south.

The attack and its intended target

The first account of the plot came in a document delivered to the Guild the night before the discussion. It contained confessions from two Guild members from Dojisigin Marid, who had been coerced into waiting for Lord Tatiseigi. The attack was unfiled, and its significance extended beyond its intended target: Lord Tatiseigi had guests in the house, so the plan placed them in danger as well.

Those guests included Ilisidi, Cajeiri, and Bren Cameron, as well as a ship-aiji and three young people from the space station. The children were diplomatic guests of the Aishidi’tat, making their presence relevant not only to the immediate security breach but also to the standing of the Aishidi’tat and its relations with the human visitors. The evidence establishes that the guests were disturbed by the Guild assassins; it does not establish that any of them was injured.

A proposed private resolution

Bren Cameron presented the visit to the Kadagidi estate as an attempt to settle the matter discreetly. He and a ship-aiji went there in person to advise Lord Aseida privately that the attack had put the guests at risk, and to seek an apology on behalf of Ilisidi, Cajeiri, and Lord Tatiseigi. Bren’s account stresses the limited remedy he had initially sought: if Lord Aseida had appeared and offered a verbal apology, the affront to Lord Tatiseigi’s honor could have been resolved in private and the incident brought to an end.

Bren also allowed for the possibility that Lord Aseida might not have known about the foreign guests, who were under close security. That qualification matters: the account records an effort to give Lord Aseida the opportunity to respond, not proof that he knew the guests were present or that he had directed the attack. Banichi, addressing the estate’s representative, made clear that Bren was acting on behalf of Tabini and speaking for the aiji’s minor son, Ilisidi, the ship-aiji, and the children whose presence had been disrupted.

Confessions, route, and evidence

The confessions supplied more than an account of the planned attack. They traced the two Dojisigin Guild members’ route from Murini’s people in the Marid through the Kadagidi house to the attack on the Atageini clan. Evidence extracted from the house also showed a connection between that Guild unit and the recent upheaval in the south, broadening the incident from a threat against Lord Tatiseigi into evidence of a larger political network.

Lord Aseida was interviewed while being transported to Lord Tatiseigi’s house, where he was to give his account to Ilisidi. The records included the confessions, the evidence recovered from the house, and the interview with Lord Aseida. They were to be sent to the Guild, made available to Guild members, and ultimately made available to members of the legislature. The account therefore distinguishes between the initial effort at a quiet apology and the formal preservation and circulation of evidence once the matter had become institutionally consequential.

Political significance

Tabini’s stated aim was to find a suitable resolution as quietly and quickly as possible. Yet the evidence could not remain a purely private dispute: the plot had endangered diplomatic guests, implicated a route through the Kadagidi house, and revealed a connection to Murini’s people and the southern upheaval. Its handling joined personal honor and immediate security to the Guild’s responsibility to examine its members’ conduct and to the legislature’s eventual access to the record.

The episode turns on the widening gap between a remedy that might have sufficed at first—a private apology—and what the confessions made necessary: an evidentiary account available to Guild members and legislators. The attempt against Lord Tatiseigi thus served as both a direct threat to those gathered at his home and a disclosure of connections reaching beyond the house itself.