Shadows Over Solarean - Episode 7

At a public execution, villagers watch as the King of North and his sons’ bodies are declared traitors and ordered to be burned. Mr. York, a wealthy merchant, appears and even offers to buy the corpses, prompting whispers that he sent a secret message. Guards move to throw the bodies into the burner, but a bystander recalls Mr. Hill shipping cinnabar to refine bones into Devotion Pills. Accusations fly, Mr. Hill threatens imperial reprisal yet negotiates a sale of bone carvings to a Northern buyer. The trade is agreed—then someone demands, “Who exactly are you?”