A Practical Guide to Evil II: The Last Thread's On Fire, But It's Not Our Fault

[Rydiro]

I also thought the gnomes were setting rather than story.
There's lots of dangling threads though: Assassin, Larat, a human civilisation living in the Serenity... Scribe is always a dangling thread as well, so forgettable

I'm pretty sure that scribe is assassin and thats not ink on her hands.