Final Ward

Status: Narrative plan completed

Rishi and Maeril return to Baldur’s Gate as builders.

Lantern Hall has grown around the work they began: beds, wards, kitchens, records, defenders, witnesses, and people learning that care does not have to rest on one body alone.

That is what the enemy comes for.

Kethra, Rishi’s sister, knows where mercy still hurts. The Dead Three gather around domination, murder, death, and grief. Manshoon’s shadow lingers in mechanisms of ownership, return, and revenge. They do not need Rishi to become cruel. They only need him to remain beautifully predictable.

Every rescue may be a map. Every act of mercy may become a road. Every person he loves may be placed where his body will try to go first.

So the old answer is no longer enough.

The enemy expects one merciful body waiting for the next blow.

The Monk and The Witch have been building something wider.