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The rebellion of the Pahn Kahl is an attempt to free the Pahn Kahl people from the rule of the Hallandren pantheon[1].

Cultural Background

The Pahn Kahl harbored resentment for the centuries of abuse they received at the hands of the Hallandren: their subjugation,[1] relegation to the lowliest jobs available,[2] and seeming assimilation to the point that most Hallandren assumed their culture no longer existed.[3][4]

The Pahn Kahl people have planned for the rebellion for generations[citation needed]. Since the Pahn Kahl people are mostly viewed as harmless, they slowly climbed in ranks. The many head scribes before Bluefingers were also Pahn Kahl.[citation needed] Although compared to priests they were low in rank, they had much power by performing many functions in the palace. The Pahn Kahl helped one another reach higher positions, gaining power and preparing to start the rebellion.

Premeditation

Bluefingers is the ringleader.[1][5] When Siri and Susebron get married, Bluefingers realizes that the power the Pahn Kahl have built up over the years would soon be gone, as the servants would be replaced when a new God King came to power.[citation needed] Under such pressure, he is forced to get into action soon.

The greatest obstacle to the rebellion is the powerful Lifeless army of Hallandren. In order to get rid of it, Bluefingers attempts to start a war between Hallandren and Idris to keep the army away and occupied. He hired Denth's crew to raise the tension between Hallandren and Idris[6]. Denth attacks the supplies needed for war, incites the Idrians in the slums and even kidnaps the children of priests that oppose war in order to blackmail them. These actions effectively push the tide towards war.

Course of Events

Bluefingers instructs the capture and torture of Blushweaver and Lightsong.[7] When they surrender the command phrases, it allows Bluefingers to command the forty thousand Lifeless troops of Hallandren to march on Idris[1]. He also captures the God King and Queen, planning to kill them on an altar to further enrage the people of both countries.[1]

Vasher attempts to break into the palace to stop Denth, but Denth and his mercenaries ambush and captures him; Vivenna soon comes to his rescue. When Vasher confronts fifty soldiers shortly after, he draws Nightblood and slays with incredible fury, nearly draining him of his Breaths. Denth then challenges him to a duel. Although he fights with divine strength and ancient skill, Vasher is no match for the peerless Dent. Just before the last blow falls, Vasher bestows his few remaining Breaths upon Denth, stunning him, followed by a lethal thrust of the sword.[8][9].

The rebellion is thwarted by Lightsong, when he heals Susebron of his missing tongue with divine Breath[8], which allows Susebron to use Peacegiver's Treasure, the fifty thousand Breaths. With the incredible awakening force, Susebron quells the rebels' attack on the palace with a storm of awakened cloths[10].


Kalad's Phantoms are activated by Susebron with the command phrase given by Vasher. They are sent against the Lifeless army[11], which turned out to be successful.[12]

If the war had been allowed to occur, Yesteel would have given the Idrians Awakened Shardblades that would have tipped the scales in favor of Idris and its allies, resulting in the destruction of T'Telir and throwing the region into chaos.[13]

Notes

History of Nalthis
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