The Tower of Rings members hadn't made up the story Lena told at the last moment about the previous generation's Master Purifier sacrificing herself to pinpoint the location of the Bone-Biter King and calling down the Sun Ship to attack from above.
In fact, the Blood Eagle Clan's history recorded it too.
Though Triss had been "dead" for a long time by then, Salokdar had been one of the faction leaders who personally took part in the Fourth Calamity. According to the diary of Salokdar that Murphy found in the Scarlet Corridor, on that fateful day that decided the Bone-Biter King's defeat, it had indeed taken the sacrifice of a great person to pave the way to victory.
It was all but certain that the "great person" he mentioned was Master Miredin.
And this was the diary of a vampire duke. The fact that an ancient being like him had so lavishly praised the feat of a human in his own diary showed just how magnificent Miredin's image had been a hundred years ago.
It also spoke to the terrible pressure the Bone-Biter King had placed on everyone in that era.
Even a man like Salokdar had breathed a sigh of relief at the fall of Phirel. He had even recorded the events of that day in solemn detail, his hand trembling and his heart finally at ease.
Still, Murphy had his doubts that the Tower of Rings, which seemed to have done nothing but evil, could have produced such an upright, selfless hero. It wasn't until Lena had to sleep in a coffin to adapt to her new vampire powers that Triss introduced Murphy and Femis to the Tower of Rings as she saw it.
"Actually, I think Lena's account has some truth to it. In my time, the