Fjon raised Dilaf to arteth, though he didn't have the authority to do so. Dilaf states he went to Naen and gained a Derethi following, then returned to Kae when the chapel was built. He only encounters one arteth with the proper potential, Dilaf, who explained how while he was Arelene, he had learned to follow the Derethi faith. Hrathen meets with Fjon's former underlings and realizes how disordered and corrupted by Arelon the chapel's staff had become. Fjon confronts Hrathen, asking for another chance to serve in Kae, but when reading the scroll, realizes that he could not have carried out the orders held within, and takes his leave to return to Fjordell. Hrathen organizes his new office, and ruminates about a holy scroll written by Wyrn Wulfden the Fourth, containing his orders.
Hrathen orders Fjon to return to Fjordell to be remediated in his religious faith, stating that Fjon has been corrupted by being in Arelon for too long. Hrathen is displeased with Fjon, and with the lack of order he encounters at the chapel, and orders all the Derethi priests to be gathered. En route, he is met by Fjon, Kae's Derethi head arteth. Hrathen's presence and appearance, with the imposing plate armor of a Derethi high priest, causes a stir as he walks to the Derethi chapel. He surveys Elantris and the surrounding areas with a military eye, judging it to be too poorly organized to be defensible. He has a three month deadline to finish the conversion, or else his god Jaddeth will destroy the Arelene people. Hrathen, Fjordell gyorn, arrives by ship in Arelon to convert the people to Shu-Dereth. He offers to void the marriage contract for her Sarene is tempted, but decides that it is best for Teod if she remains. After settling in to her new rooms, she holds a conference with her father, King Eventeo, to inform him of the death of her husband.
She is taken to King Iadon, whom rudely dismisses her and hands her off to his wife, Queen Eshen, who proves to be a scatterbrained, frivolous woman. She discusses with Ashe the necessity of her marriage treaty and the alliance it brings to help ward off Fjorden invaders. She contemplates the loneliness of her life up to this point and the city of Kae. At the wake, Sarene is not allowed to look in the casket (the excuse given is that the disease was disfiguring), and finds Iadon's absence from the funeral and the funeral's formality suspicious. She asks a servant of King Iadon, Ketol, to take her to the prince's wake.
She discusses the relevant clause in the marriage contract with Ashe, her seon, who confirms that the contract is firm on this point. Princess Sarene of Teod arrives in Arelon to find that she is now considered a widow to the presumed dead Raoden, despite the fact that they were only engaged and had never met. Part 1: The Shadow of Elantris Chapter 1 Characters It is revealed that Elantris fell from glory ten years previous. The radiant, magically powerful city of Elantris and its inhabitants are described.
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