Using the hastily put together sleds, the Mothers dragged Levi and the human to the ranger cave where their horses were tethered. The dwarves and the elf accompanied them. Once they had reached this relative safety they rested, while the mages learnt spells that would speed them home. In the morning, Jito and Fonesca cast some phantom steed spells and no one had to walk, though the speed of the party was determined by the two sleds and their bumpy progress over the ground. This journey took three weeks, most of the time was taken reaching Castle Crag in the foothills of the mountains north of Arabel, where the Mothers had first worked as border guards. After the Crag, progress was swifter on better roads and using a borrowed cart. On reaching the city, Guthranka took the cart directly to the temple and consulted with the priests there. A time was set on the next day for the healing ceremony for Levi and the other madman. Meanwhile Gaspode sat at a table in his room at the inn counting through all of the coins and gems that they had obtained from the giants. He divided out the money under the watchful gaze of Fonesca, who had some suggestions as to the fairness of the split. The two main new companions, the dwarf and the elf were each given large sums, while the architect, the remaining dwarves and the madman were each given a lesser share. Guthranka came back to the inn and let Gaspode know the cost of the dual healing ceremony. Fonesca also mentioned that she would like to visit her War Wizard friend for some further training. Gaspode managed to stay on his stool at this news, but his face had gone ashen. When Guthranka mentioned the tithe that both she and Levi would have to pay, Gaspode seemed to give up all will, asking her to just state what she wanted to give.
The next day, Fonesca started training with the war wizard which would take her two weeks. Guthranka brought the payments and tithes to the temple of Tyr and the healing ceremony was duly performed. Levi and the human prisoner were cured and stared about them as though new-born. Levi asked to be able to speak to the lore masters in the temple as he remembered some pieces of information from his experiences and needed to sort out a coherent picture of what had occurred. From what he and Guthranka could remember of the temple, the elders suggested that it was a temple dedicated to the goddess Shar. But not a recent temple to her, as the forms maintained and the layout, was that of an ancient version of her cult. In present times worshippers of Shar, the goddess of darkness, night, loss, and forgetfulness, never build temples to her, rather having hidden shrines that move over time. They also mentioned in passing that Shar was one of the oldest of the deities worshipped in the pantheon of gods, her enmity to the goddess Selûne, being one of the oldest conflicts known in existence. Levi was concerned by this, not knowing how the ancient diggings by Shar worshippers could have any connection to gatherings of giants, especially since they were too large to even reach the temple.
The Mothers brought along their hoard of items for the war wizard to identify, once Fonesca had been given instruction. He took them for examination and translation and said that he would speak to them on the following day. When they returned the next day, the wizard told the Mothers that they had a Flametongue Longsword, a Bastard Sword of Giant Slaying, a powerful magical spear, a quiver of magical arrows and a chain that would not show as magical in his researches, but was identified as being part of a ritual that could transport the group to the frozen north beyond the great desert Anauroch by the scroll and map that the Mothers had given him to translate. The giantish spoke of laying the chain in a figure of eight on the ground at dusk. Those who wished to use the device would stand in either loop with one of their number holding the map. When the command word Grugnar is spoken, they would be transported to the location Arrival mentioned on the map.
Over the rest of the two weeks Fonesca studied and was rewarded with a new spell and the ability to cast more. Gaspode and Fonesca went to inform the Lord High Seneschal of their progress so far with the giant threat. He seemed very pleased that the immediate problem had been dealt with, although he was somewhat concerned about the large numbers of orcs now free in the area. He urged the Mothers to continue on, following the clues that they had found, as he was still convinced that the giants would not have been acting alone. The rest of the group honed their skills in whatever way they could, given the confines of the inn.