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Upon her arrival in Hallandren, the crew ingratiated themselves to Vivenna, doing a thorough job of manipulating her into thinking that due to Lemex’s demise she was now their employer.{{book ref|wb|10}} While Vivenna believed the crew was helping her to help her people, they actually used her as a symbol to inflame the local Idrian population against the Hallandren leadership and to show the Hallandrens that the Idrians were worth going to war against. First, they discussed and employed such tactics as disrupting the food supply to the city and inciting revolts in the dye fields. They also met with merchants, crime lords, and politicians, using Vivenna’s [[Royal Locks]] as proof of her identity.{{book ref|wb|22}}
Denth knew he must walk a fine line between manipulating Vivenna into doing what he wanted her to do and allowing her to feel like she was in charge, so he allowed her to come along when they robbed a salt merchant's shop, setting fire to a building and attacking a priest's carriage as cover for the robbery.{{book ref|wb|25}} He also went along with her plan to meet up with some forgers. The forgers agreed to falsify documents proving that certain priests were extorting Idris, although Denth privately intended to stop the documents from ever being used.{{book ref|wb|28}}{{wob ref|6960}} The next day, the crew discovered that Vasher had killed a gang of thieves they had previously worked with in the same garden as the meeting with the forgers (though this was actually just a coincidence).{{wob ref|6963}}{{book ref|wb|29}} Denth next agreed to support Vivenna on a trip into the Idrian quarter of T'Telir to some slums called the Highlands, to meet with some of her people. She first tried to speak to the people directly, but they were uninterested in her promises; she met with the slumlords, but was disgusted when she realized they were motivated by greed instead of patriotism. This venture ended when the city watch raided the meeting and Clod saved her from the Lifeless soldiers.{{book ref|wb|31}} That night, after the crew's return to their safehouse, [[Vasher]] kidnapped Vivenna because he thought she was confederate with Denth.{{book ref|wb|
Vivenna escaped from Vasher quickly, but upon her return to the safehouse she discovered the bodies of [[Parlin]], of all of Tonk Fah's recent pets, and of a number of Idrian soldiers her father had sent after her. Denth and Tonk Fah confronted her, but she used Clod's security phrase and ordered him to attack Denth, successfully distracting the crew long enough to escape to the streets.{{book ref|wb|35}} Denth set a bounty on Vivenna's head, but she survived for a couple of weeks wandering the streets as a [[Drab]] until a group of thugs finally caught up with her. As they were taking her to Denth, Vasher intervened by allowing [[Nightblood]] to tempt the men into drawing him.{{book ref|wb|41}} Vasher initially took in Vivenna purely to keep her out of Denth's hands, but once each was convinced that the other sincerely wanted to avoid war they ended up working together to counter what the crew had been doing.{{book ref|wb|43}} While discussing possible ways to get ahead of Denth, Vasher and Vivenna realized that the robbery of the salt peddler was only a cover for the crew’s true motive: kidnapping the daughter of [[Nanrovah]], high priest of [[Stillmark]], to blackmail him into changing his vote at court to one for war. They rescued the girl, [[Misel]], and returned her to her father, convincing him to argue against war once more.{{book ref|wb|49}}
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