Divided We Fall

Divided We Fall was a thread started by Mraize on June 6, one week before Tension on the Horizon became inactive.[1] The last RP post was on August 2, and the thread was closed on August 6. It was Phase 3 of the Guild War.[2]

## Events

A month after the events of Tension on the Horizon, Rhaizen (Mraize) is in hiding with Yzabet (I Am Witless) in a safehouse in Scadrial, which was built by Mace Klasten's family (Archer). He managed to get an Aviar named Marion, although his infection is worsening. Rhaizen decides to contact Kane Mentiz (BitBitio) and Li TaiRu (Arlin) using the Tia cards he had stolen. Drako He'Stan (Grey Knight) arrives in the area with several troops, gifts Rhaizen a sword called Nocturne's Claw, along with other assorted gifts, and states that his Salamanders are guarding the city. Rhaizen reveals his plan for the future - divide the Worldspike into pieces to avoid the destruction that he saw in his visions. Other characters begin to gather in the area.

Drako attacks Mace for killing many of his troops when detonating the monkey in Calm Before the Storm. Rhaizen eventually succumbs to the nightmaw poison in his infection and dies. In the Cognitive Realm, he requests that his powers be transferred to a man named Solace (Mraize), which Death (LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian) agrees to. Solace steals Rhaizen's corpse and travels to the Ghostblood building, where he tasks ZhiShu (Mraize), a kandra, with impersonating Rhaizen. Once finished, the transformed ZhiShu begins planning to host a party at the Ghostblood building, sends a message to Yzabet telling her that Rhaizen survived, and requests that Li TaiRu, Tevarah (Jehioda) and Veil Stormrise (ShardBreaker) come to him immediately. When they arrive, he poses as Rhaizen, although they all eventually work out his true identity.

ZhiShu then enters a Ghostblood council meeting, and announces that Rhaizen will be stepping down so that Solace can take his place as leader of the Ghostbloods. Kane begins to teach Solace some ChayShan katas - something that Rhaizen planned to do but never achieved. Shelan (BitBitio) possesses Kane, and forces him to leave abruptly. Solace then leaves to learn Forgery from TaiRu, and Shelan attempts to kill Nalizar (5ith Ideal), but loses him. Once Solace is happy with his Forgery abilities, he sends invitations to a number of people throughout the Alleyverse, including Voidus himself.

Soon after, a space marine assassinates Solace, and Veil finds the corpse. Rashan Caer (Itiah), Tevarah, Devaan Sheonar (Nohadon), Li and Hazekiller (disguised as Kane) all rush to the scene, and Rashan and Li start to heal him with Regrowth and Forgery. Hazekiller (who also uses the name Typhoon) reveals himself and declares that he has been sent to destroy the Worldspike, and kill Solace (mirroring the visions that Rhaizen saw.) Devaan puts everyone except Hazekiller in a Bendalloy bubble, and they outline a plan. The bubble is dropped and the battle begins.

Rashan is killed by Hazekiller, and Devaan is stabbed by a Shardblade. Devaan swears the Second Oath of the (Edgedancers?) and heals both of them. Naerman and Veil return to Solace, finding the battle. Mace returns to aid Hazekiller, but misses the battle. Rashan awakens as does Solace, but Rashan is still split between the Realms and is close to being torn apart. Devaan transports his allies to his house, but Hazekiller follows them. Once defeated, Typhoon then takes the name Rohan and saves Rashan from being torn apart, but he passes out.

Solace bonds an Alleyspren and summons the rest of the Ghostbloods to meet him near the Worldspike (as close as they can get without triggering the DA's protections). Drako He'Stan sees that he is planning something and swears to fight against him. Rashan awakens once again, his connection allowing him to access Fortune and view the future, but also causing immense mental strain and amnesia. Seeing into all three realms, accidentally views Rohan's entire life. The exertion nearly kills him. When he awakens, aided by the others, he predicts that a guild war is coming, and that there would be "deaths like *none have seen".*

Solace relocates to just outside of the Alleycity, with a small battalion consisting of 750 heavy infantry, 150 calvary, 50 units of seige equipment and two Mistborn-controlled chasmfiends. He declares that they will attack at dawn. Guilds begin to take sides: TUBA swears to fight against the Black Crusade, as their leader Drako had betrayed their existence, and against the DA with which they had long been at odds. The Sentinels split in half between the two forces. Rohan, Death and Devaan agree to stop Solace if things get out of hand, and Rashan decides to join Mace, as the strain on his mind has made him forget that Klasten killed his mentor.

When dawn breaks, the Seven Day War begins.