The Sords enter the long-awaited Forest of Fading Hopes.
Tezot characters without any convictions must pass an endurance check against a roll of '1-30', or they must bash their heads against a stone, tie it to themselves, and jump into the river, and so on. Sometimes, Rurek and other Sords see human skeletons tied to the branches of trees.
- These trees are special, - Gaal always says, - according to the logic of the universe, they shouldn't grow here and need "sunlight" - whatever that means - but this species gets nutrients directly from the soil! By the way, you can find rare but useful wood here.