oh, holy shit. that was brutal. andragoras takes each and every thing arslan has with a few words in rapid succession. daryun was kind of expected, but he made narsus stay, whom he'd kicked out and hates, and also jaswant, whom he knows nothing about...and arslan rides out of the gates with literally no one (besides azrael!! <3 ). expecting farangis, gieve, elam, and alfreed will follow, but even so...wow. that was rough.