The Three-Diamond Faction
An unseen, well-funded organisation — mark, three diamonds — that operates across the Vorin states and beyond. Beyond the Davar Soulcaster thread out of Jah Keved, they are now revealed as the patrons who hired Tyn to murder Jasnah Kholin aboard the Wind's Pleasure and as researchers chasing a lost city — almost certainly Urithiru — from elsewhere now that the Jasnah line of inquiry seems closed. SA:WoR:Ch 34
An unseen, powerful organisation — mark, three diamonds — that gave Brightlord Davar his now-broken Soulcaster. They want it back through Luesh (now dead in his sleep) and through quiet threats to Nan Balat at the manor. SA:WoK:Ch 29 superseded at SA:WoR:Ch 34
Known facts
- leave-a-blood-threat-for-jasnahA scrawl of blood is left in Jasnah's rooms — the symbol of the Ghostbloods. Jasnah burns it without alarm, having seen the like before, but warns Shallan that the danger is real and that the work is no longer abstract.SA:WoK:Ch 74
- tashikk-relay-tradecraftThe Ghostbloods route operative contact through a Tashikk intermediary, authenticate with a quintet-letter spanreed cipher, and keep one of their senior cells in a sub-basement under a Sebarial warcamp tenement — a cut-stone hide that predates the Alethi settlement.SA:WoR:Ch 43
- racing-thaidakar-restares-and-tukarFrom inside the boulder Shallan overhears Mraize tell a courier to carry her pages to Master Thaidakar himself, says Restares's allies are close behind on the same trail but unworthy of fear, and warns more pointedly of a being in Tukar he is not convinced is human and certainly not of the local species. The Ghostbloods are racing rivals for whatever Amaram is also chasing.SA:WoR:Ch 54
Events
- SA:WoK:Ch 74 Calling card left for Jasnah
Relations
- relatedLuesh — Wore the three-diamond pendant; likely the original liaison from the faction to Brightlord Davar SA:WoK:Ch 29
- mentionsNan Balat — Tattooed visitor implies the Soulcaster must be returned — they will not accept a broken one SA:WoK:Ch 29
- fulfillsKabsal — Carried the matched poison-and-antidote for Jasnah on every alcove visit; dies of his own setup when Shallan shares his food SA:WoK:Ch 48
Backreferences
- factMoonlight
- factKnightbridge District
- factDarkwater
- factThe Set
- factCodenames Are Stupid
- factTwinSoul
- factIndependence Tower
- factThe Basin Tires Factory
- factThe Basin Tires Factory
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 40
- factKelsier
- factKelsier
- factMarasi
- factJar of Purified Dor
- factJar of Purified Dor
- factAwake Lock
- factFloating Sphere
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 42
- factGhostbloods Tenets
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 68
- factMarasi
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 70
- factMarasi
- summaryMB2:TLM:Epilogue
- factKelsier
- factMarasi
- factMarasi
- factTwinSoul
- factDlavil
- summarySA:OB:Ch 18
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- summarySA:OB:Ch 25
- factIshnah
- summarySA:OB:Ch 36
- summarySA:OB:Ch 42
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- factIshnah
- factHouse Hamaradin
- summarySA:OB:Ch 51
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- summarySA:RoW:Ch 6
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- factFormless
- factNalathis
- factScadarial
- factTal Dain
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 13
- factLasting Integrity
- factSea of Lost Lights
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 20
- factThe Compact of the Three
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 24
- factIalai's Journal
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 36
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 78
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 82
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 93
- factAla
- factLuesh
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 39
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 42
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 48
- factKabsal
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 71
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 74
- factThe Three-Diamond Faction
- summarySA:WaT:Prologue
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 3
- factShallan Davar
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 15
- summarySA:WaT:I-1
- factFelt
- factAla
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 16
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- factIsom
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 18
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 20
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- factJayn
- factArray
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 23
- factShallan Davar
- factShade
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 25
- factFelt
- factAika
- factJezinor
- factIcy Tongue
- factZora
- factChain
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 26
- factLieke
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 28
- factErinor
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 29
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- factIsasik
- factBreteh
- factEnlightened
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 32
- factLieke
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 44
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- factShallan Davar
- factShallan Davar
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 143
- factShallan Davar
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 1
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 24
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 34
- factShallan Davar
- factTyn
- factTyn
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 42
- factShallan Davar
- factPattern
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 43
- factShallan Davar
- factShallan Davar
- factThe Three-Diamond Faction
- factMraize
- factMraize
- factVeil
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 54
- factThe Three-Diamond Faction
- factLightweaving
- factTukar
- factJin
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 63
- factShallan Davar
- factIyatil
- factBordin
- factBordin
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 64
- factShallan Davar
- factShallan Davar
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 88
- factAmaram
- factAmaram
- factTalenelat'Elin