Ilisidi’s Operations in the South and Dojisigin Marid

Ilisidi’s operations in the south and Dojisigin Marid joined urgent protection of people and territory to a larger effort to establish what local Guild officers had done. Her report ranged from the liberation of a village and the safe return of Tabini’s son to the preservation of sworn testimony. The operations mattered not only because they disrupted immediate threats, but because their evidence could support a lawful investigation rather than leave the response to political decree or force alone.

Southern Operations and Their Immediate Results

Tabini asked what had been done with two Dojisigi members in Ilisidi’s custody. She answered that they had been fed and housed, asked to remain in their quarters, and required to answer questions when needed. Her account placed their detention amid a concentrated sequence of operations: since the preceding midnight two days earlier, her party had liberated a Marid village from armed men, defused a bomb, removed a traitor from a lordship, taken down a Shadow Guild leader in the Marid, and brought Tabini’s son safely home. The breadth of the list conveys the pressure of the situation: security work, political intervention, and the recovery of a threatened member of the ruling family were unfolding together.

Ilisidi did not present the two prisoners merely as people to be held. A second sealed parchment contained a signed and witnessed deposition for later submission as evidence. It described the conduct of Guild officers in charge of Dojisigin Marid, including the disarming of local Guild members, their detention, and their eventual release and reassignment to protect their own villages. The deployment split units apart and sent them into troubled districts without even sidearms. Those details made the organization of the operation itself central to the case: the question was not only what danger the local Guild faced, but how its officers had arranged and limited the forces expected to respond to it.

The Dojisigi Testimony and the Unresolved Threat

The two detained members had been separated from the rest of their team. Ilisidi’s party did not know where the others were, what orders they might have received, or whether hostages were at stake. The captives asked permission to go south and search for their partners; Ilisidi refused. Keeping them in custody preserved control of the immediate situation while leaving their colleagues’ location and assignment unresolved.

Ilisidi warned Lord Machigi that he might be a target of a second operation based in Dojisigin. She personally asked him to negotiate a bloodless surrender if the missing partners entered his territory. She also intended to urge him to make a public statement about what had happened in Dojisigin Marid once the operation planned for that night went forward. Her response therefore extended beyond holding witnesses and collecting their account: it sought to alert a potentially endangered lord, reduce the chance of another violent encounter, and bring the events into public view.

Tabini accepted the plan without criticism and passed the documents to Cenedi. That approval connected Ilisidi’s field report to a formal process. The deposition was not simply an account offered in private conversation; it was prepared for placement in evidence at the appropriate time, with signatures and a witness. In a later presentation to the Guild, Bren summarized the allegations under Tabini’s seal: local Guild had been disarmed, separated into units, and sent into the field without equipment, while the dowager’s document described two Dojisigi members whose village was threatened with destruction unless they carried out an unFiled assassination of a northern lord.

From Field Report to Guild Investigation

The testimony entered a wider crisis over the conduct and legitimacy of the Assassins’ Guild. Jago described senior Guild members who had gone underground after Murini came to power; some had been listed as dead despite being alive, and some had helped organize the network that restored Tabini. Although those exiles had not favored Tabini because of his association with humans, they had cooperated with humans on Mospheira during Murini’s rule in order to restore the law. They now gave their word to return, leave their assumed identities and family lives behind, and help take back the Guild, examine its records, and restore the law.

The Dojisigin evidence supplied a specific basis for scrutiny of the current leadership. Jago said that two of the three members of the current Guild Council had pushed through Office of Assignments recommendations without debate, had delayed moving forces when assistance was needed in the west, and had diverted a requested southern mission into an attempt to arrest senior retirees. The deposition about the Dojisigi units thus belonged to a broader pattern of disputed decisions, but it also offered concrete testimony that could be tested rather than relying only on suspicion. Jago warned that a direct assault on Guild Headquarters might cost innocent lives and destroy records; if Shishogi believed dismissal was imminent, he might destroy them. The aim was to establish the case before the Guild itself and demonstrate that the Council had broken the law.

Consequences and Institutional Aftermath

The immediate operation at Guild Headquarters ended with Shishogi dead after an incendiary fire, apparently by suicide, but the records were damaged rather than destroyed. One person was intercepted carrying several notebooks from the Office of Assignments. The eventual accounting included two resistance members dead, three counting Shishogi, fourteen people wounded in the building, one hundred forty-seven voluntarily standing down pending resolution, and sixteen under arrest for sorting and testimony. A new Council was about to meet to declare a quorum, record the change, and close the meeting. These outcomes underline the danger Ilisidi’s evidence was meant to help address: the confrontation produced casualties and arrests, yet preserved records and testimony for the next stage of review.

At a later meeting, Tabini reported that the old Guildmaster had returned, missing members had come back, and retirees had rescinded their retirements. Five high officials installed in the previous year could not be found. The restored leadership began interviewing members, starting with assignments to Bujavid and examining man’chi, kinship, past service, references, and other testimony. The movement from Ilisidi’s sealed deposition to a wider review of personnel shows how the southern operation fed into institutional reconstruction. Its significance lies in that passage from intervention to proof: threats were addressed in the field, while the claims against the Guild’s officers were placed before bodies capable of investigating them.