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The '''Pahn Kahl rebellion''' iswas an attempt by the [[Pahn Kahl]] to free their people from the rule of [[Hallandren]] that occurred approximately 300 years after the [[Manywar]].{{book ref|wb|55}}

The Pahn Kahl as a people havehad harbored resentment for centuries due to the abuse they havehad received at the hands of the Hallandren: their subjugation,{{book ref|wb|55}} relegation to the lowliest jobs,{{book ref|wb|54}} and seeming total assimilation to the point that most Hallandren assumeassumed their culture no longer existsexisted.{{book ref|wb|14}}{{wob ref|6964}}

The Pahn Kahl people havehad worked towards a rebellion for generations. They used their positions as stewards, scribes, and clerks, where they were responsible for performing many of the key functions in the palace, to gain influence in the kingdom slowly and quietly. [[Bluefingers|Bluefingers']] position in particular was passed down from a Pahn Kahl before him; this type of set-up greatly aided in accumulating more and more influence.{{wob ref|7381}}

A Pahn Kahl named [[Vahr]] led an unsuccessful attempt at a rebellion prior to Bluefingers' own attempt. Vahr spent more than a decade working towards the freedom of his people. He garnered the financial support of some of the Idrian slumlords and some of Hallandren’s economic competitors to raise an army.{{book ref|wb|31}}{{wob ref|6020}} Bluefingers, however, felt that Vahr's plans threatened his own by drawing too much attention to the otherwise overlooked Pahn Kahl, so he leaked information to the [[Returned]] to assist in Vahr's capture; after this, Vahr's rebellion fell apart.{{wob ref|6983}} [[Dedelin]], king of [[Idris]], was displeased to hear of Vahr's capture because he had hoped Hallandren would focus on the Pahn Kahl in lieu of Idris. It is due to Vahr's capture and Hallandren's subsequent renewed attention on its enemies that Dedelin decidesdecided, in an attempt to stave off an impending war at least until winter, to fulfill his contract with [[Susebron]] by sending [[Siri]] to [[T'Telir]].{{book ref|wb|1}}

The Pahn Kahl who held the position of steward prior to Bluefingers was instrumental in manipulating the priests into constructing an extensive tunnel system below the [[Court of the Gods]] and keeping it a secret from the Returned. As the project continuescontinued, Bluefingers usesused it for his own ends both by misappropriating some of the funds and also as cover for digging projects of his own.{{wob ref|7381}} He iswas eventually able to use the tunnels below the court to grant covert entry to mercenaries and to Pahn Kahl Awakeners. He sequesterssequestered a large number of the former in the tunnels in preparation for the final attack and he setsset the latter to the task of breaking the Lifeless army.{{wob ref|7298}} The Awakeners managemanaged to break some of the Lifeless and commandcommanded them to attack with deadly force if any Idrian iswas aggressive towards them, which resultsresulted in a chaotic and deadly scene when the City Watch raidsraided Vivenna’s meeting with the Idrian slumlords.{{wob ref|6971}}

When Siri arrivesarrived in T'Telir to marry Susebron, [[Bluefingers]] strivesstrived to gain her trust at the expense of the Hallandren. He thinksthought her trust in the Hallandren priests would preclude war between the two nations and hopeshoped to use her to manipulate, by extension, the Idrians of the city. To this end, he invitesinvited her pity on the Pahn Kahl by drawing attention to their lowly stations. He also allowsallowed her to believe he iswas more ignorant of palace scheming than he really iswas, not letting on that he knowsknew about Susebron's missing tongue, and expressesexpressed to her that his real concern iswas the Pahn Kahl not being able to retain their positions when a new [[God King]] succeedssucceeded Susebron, as the usual custom iswas to replace all of the servants.{{wob ref|6983}} Knowing that [[Treledees]] hashad instructed Siri that she and Susebron must have a child as quickly as possible, Bluefingers further underminesundermined her trust in the God King’s priests by warning her that this would actually bring danger to the couple.{{book ref|wb|24}} This plan worksworked to the extent that Siri asksasked him to get her and Susebron out of the palace should they become endangered.{{book ref|wb|34}} Bluefingers' plan regarding Siri morphsmorphed, however, when [[Denth]] successfully capturescaptured and exploitsexploited [[Vivenna]] in their efforts to stir up the people of T'Telir, and Bluefingers instead conceivesconceived of the idea of Siri dying at the apparent hand of the Hallandren priests.{{wob ref|6723}}

Meanwhile, Denth's crew, whom Bluefingers had hired for the purpose of inciting the people of T'Telir, iswas busy out in the city. The crew attacksattacked the supplies needed for war and, together with Vivenna, incitesincited the Idrians in the slums. Denth also hatcheshatched a plan to kidnap the child of [[Nanrovah]], [[Stillmark|Stillmark's]] high priest who vocally opposesopposed war in the debates in court. His idea iswas to hold Nanrovah's daughter in order to blackmail him, but Vivenna eventually tumblestumbled to Denth’s real motives and teamsteamed up with [[Vasher]] to rescue the girl and begin working against Denth's crew.{{book ref|wb|49}}

The fact that the [[Court of the Gods]] plansplanned to assemble to take a formal vote on war with [[Idris]] precipitatesprecipitated a final attack in the culmination of all of Bluefingers' plans. When Bluefingers seessaw the priests act preemptively in securing the God King and Queen inside the palace, he believesbelieved that they arewere suspicious of him and reactsreacted by seizing both the God King’s palace and Blushweaver herself from her palace.{{wob ref|7369}}

[[Bluefingers]] ordersordered the capture and torture of [[Blushweaver]] so that the rebels cancould get the [[Lifeless]] command phrases from her. In the meantime, Lightsong entersentered the tunnels of his own volition, guided by his prophetic dreams and seeking the answer to why tensions between the two nations havehad risen so high even after the wedding. He and [[Llarimar]], who comescame with him, stumblestumbled onto the group of Pahn Kahl posing as priests as they torturetortured Blushweaver, and they arewere both captured in their rescue attempt.{{book ref|wb|52}} After their success extracting the Command phrase from Blushweaver, the Pahn Kahl killkilled her in front of Lightsong and obtainobtained his Command phrase when they threatenthreatened to kill Llarimar too.{{book ref|wb|53}}

After Susebron isBluefingers sent Susebron down into the tunnels, he endsended up in a cage next to Lightsong. Bluefingers plansplanned to leave Susebron's body in the palace dungeons and to place Blushweaver's and Lightsong's bodies in the Lifeless barracks surrounded by the corpses of Idrians.{{book ref|wb|55}} When the Pahn Kahl retrieveretrieved Susebron from his cage in order to kill him, however, Lightsong thwartsthwarted their efforts by giving up his divine Breath (and his life with it) to heal Susebron's missing tongue.{{book ref|wb|57}}

When Susebron's priests hearheard about the impending vote, they arewere concerned for the God King and Queen's safety and sequestersequestered them in the palace under the pretext of discovering that Siri iswas with child.{{book ref|wb|50}}{{wob ref|7369}} After the fighting beginsbegan, [[Treledees]] takestook Siri to reunite with Susebron. Bluefingers arrivesarrived and suggestssuggested that they flee through the tunnels under the palace, but on the way there Siri putsput together the facts and understandsunderstood that really this iswas a rebellion of the Pahn Kahl, with Bluefingers as the ringleader. They instead headheaded towards the front gates.{{book ref|wb|54}}

[[Vasher]] attemptsattempted to break into the palace to rescue Siri, but Denth and his mercenaries ambushambushed and capturecaptured him outside Siri's door. [[Vivenna]] comescame to his rescue and successfully freesfreed him, but after being knocked out a window in the ensuing fight, Vasher iswas forced to draw [[Nightblood]], who consumes Breath when unsheathed, in his effort to get through a group of soldiers and back to Denth. Having successfully manipulated Vasher into losing most of his Breaths, Denth then challengeschallenged him to a duel.{{book ref|wb|56}} Vasher in his weakened state iswas no match for Denth. Just before Denth iswas about to kill him, Vasher transferstransferred his few remaining Breaths to Denth, inducing such momentary ecstasy as to provide Vasher an opening to kill Denth with his dagger.{{book ref|wb|57}}{{wob ref|7469}}

Meanwhile, Treledees and the other of the God King's priests taketook Siri and Susebron towards the front gates in an attempt to escape the palace. Bluefingers and a force of Lifeless ambushambushed the group and killkilled the priests; Susebron iswas sent into the tunnels while Bluefingers takestook Siri to a room on the fourth floor. There, he intendsintended to kill Siri and place her on an altar surrounded by the corpses of Hallandren priests as proof that they only wanted her to come to T'Telir so they could sacrifice her to the God King. The rumors that she iswas with child would only make her death in such a manner more powerful.{{book ref|wb|57}}

Susebron's healed tongue, which Lightsong restoresrestored to him in the tunnels, allowsallowed him to use [[Peacegiver's Treasure]], the fifty thousand Breaths of which he iswas guardian. With such an incredible awakeningAwakening force, Susebron efficiently quellsquelled the rebels' attack on the palace with a storm of awakened cloths and rescuesrescued Siri from Bluefingers' clutches.{{book ref|wb|58}}

Upon obtaining the Command phrases from Blushweaver and Lightsong, a small group of Pahn Kahl imprintimprinted the whole Lifeless army of Hallandren with a new Command phrase. Bluefingers directsdirected them to give the army orders to march on Idris. All those who knowknew the new Command phrase arewere then to kill themselves with poison so that no one willwould be able to stop the attack.{{book ref|wb|55}}

Bluefingers intendsintended to stage a scene in the now empty Lifeless barracks: with Susebron's body in the dungeons, he hopeshoped that when the Hallandren findfound Lightsong and Blushweaver, the sole two holders of the army's Command phrases, in the barracks surrounded by the bodies of Idrians, it willwould appear that Lightsong and Blushweaver sent the army to Idris in revenge for their God King's death.{{book ref|wb|55}}