The Girl in the Crypts

In Aklier, Nadu recruits a pious follower named Milk while Roach learns that the Unscarred have organic components, like brains. After leaving Aklier and traversing the desert of Imalar, the party stumbles across a large, bare tree known as the Ormalix. Curious, they explore the elven catacombs beneath it, bypassing a magically sealed door and encountering a group of raiders in the midst of a meal, leading to a quick fight ending in their surrender.

A disheveled girl named Twig is freed from the raiders' captivity, but all she seems to care about is summoning the so-called Rott Sisters, green hags who stole a weapon called the Emerald Rod that once belonged to her father. Alexander interrogates Staghorn, the raiders' leader, and convinces him to work for the party in exchange for a quick death.

Meanwhile, Taigus plays mercenary roulette with three of the other raiders; two of them survive, one of them dies. The party collectively decides to help Twig, gathering severed fingers and an eyeball for her strange binding ritual. As a show of determination, Twig rips out her own eyeball to provide the ritual's final ingredient.