When they arrive at Ali’s mother Hatset’s home, it’s clear she wants to keep her son safe and sound there, but it turns out the other marid are none too happy with what’s been going on and threaten to decimate Ta Ntry unless Ali surrenders to them. Oh, and they also have a run-in with some pirates, but they convince the enslaved shafit from the crew to mutiny and then bring them to Ta Ntry. So they head off to Ta Ntry and his Ayaanle family, only to be attacked along the way by an ifrit…but thankfully saved by a marid named Sobek. They spend some time with Nahri’s apothecary friend Yaqub, but eventually go on their not-so-merry way because Ali finally convinces her that eventually they’ll be discovered, anyway. Perhaps that should have given us an inkling of what was to come, but we’ll get into that a bit later…īecause first, we meet back up with Nahri and Ali, who are alive – and eventually even kind of WELL – in Egypt. When Empire of Gold begins, it’s with a doozy of a prologue that finally puts us in Manizeh’s head…and y’all, she is somehow even MORE evil than we thought she was – without going into too much detail, she straight-up offers Nahri’s true, given name to the ifrit, knowing that this will likely lead to her daughter becoming a slave.
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