# Tescalian Military Funeral After Tescalian, Talador and the soldiers burned the bodies of Jefferson and Hodges because safe transport to Bastion was impractical. The rite included drawn blades, cut thumbs, blood touched to lips and silence before the fire. Elena abstained, sensing that her non-Solland service might be unwelcome; her perception is not a recorded ban. ([[Lineage of the Veiled Kin/01 - Sessions/Session 35 - Together We Grow|Session 35]]) ## The named losses Jeff Jefferson the third, son of Jeff, died defending the isolated Persephone in the manor. Wayne was his surviving comrade; Raphius comforted him and ordered him to escort three villagers towards Vosandra. Hodges’s death was reported by Talador after the wider ambush, without a witnessed death scene in these accounts. Exact guard totals and every survivor’s later fate remain unestablished. ([[Lineage of the Veiled Kin/01 - Sessions/Session 33 - The Missing of Tescalian|Session 33]]) ([[Lineage of the Veiled Kin/01 - Sessions/Session 34 - Zuri, Hand of Q'ruhm|Session 34]]) ([[Lineage of the Veiled Kin/01 - Sessions/Session 35 - Together We Grow|Session 35]]) Raphius and Talador remained after the other soldiers left and spoke of loss, fellowship and reclaiming Solland. Mourning and duty do not amount to clearing Raphius’s legal exile. ([[Lineage of the Veiled Kin/01 - Sessions/Session 35 - Together We Grow|Session 35]])