Open Threads

• Did Helena's theft cause the darkness that fell across Tel'Dorath, or did Vanis merely foresee it?

• Why did Tel'Dorath possess an Ithelion reserve, and who originally entrusted it to the Vanari?

• Do the images from Stefon's vial identify where he is, what he faces, or a sequence Helena must follow?

• Who is the chain wielder atop the falling mountain in Helena's vision?

• What are the green obelisk, familiar door, pulsing light, black sea kingdoms, and helping hands?

• Can Helena ever return to Tel'Dorath, and what has happened there during the Age of the Dark Moon?

• What removed Birkenstock's bodies and caused tracks to end in open ground?

• Did sunlight truly turn the invading shadows into black glints, and can every glint become a person or creature again?

• Who sabotaged the Velpa warehouse, and were they trying to destroy glints, hide records, or release the shadows?

• How are Wylas Velpa, Yore and Gander, Captain Solomon, and the Arcanium dividing control of the mines and shipments?

• What lies in the cavern of dark stars, and why did the company continue mining after workers disappeared?

• Are the many voices within the shadow creatures memories of their victims or separate souls trapped inside them?

• Why does one defeated shadow leave a prospector's corpse while another disappears completely?

• What are the winged horrors revealed by the Ithelion light?

• Who built the lower temple, which faith came first, and how was it changed during the Tangle War?

• Why does the temple suppress all magic but activate Bjorn's ancient-warning watch?

• What is the purpose of the four slabs and the enormous pure glint?

• What exactly did the mechanism remove from Whisper when it declared him good?

• What will emerge when the new black glint erupts beneath Whisper?

• Can the party leave the temple, reunite with Lily's Song, and still locate the Maelstrodomus?