Taf

The wizard Falstad told Raphael that no one alive but Raphael could come on the errand, and that Taf would have to be killed. Raphael sent Taf in through Falstad's passage with the coin that opened it; when Raphael followed, he found Taf's body without a wound, and Falstad said he had killed him painlessly. Falstad then raised the body as a walking corpse and took it with them into the Collector's hoard.^{3 4}

The dead Taf kicked at a warded door until his foot broke apart, and later dealt heavy blows to the Collector. The Collector, weakened, said he could not bring back Taf's soul.^{5 6 7}

When Falstad left, the body fell still again, and Raphael carried it out and dragged it back to the Followers of Zolan. He left the whole of his reward for Taf's daughter and told Fazon who had killed him.^{8 2}

Fazon called the killing of a partner on a job the gravest breach of the company's rules, and said that Zolan would speak with Taf's spirit to learn how he died.⁹

Falstad later offered to raise Taf truly from afar with his dark book, and to change his memories so that he would remember Raphael trying to save him. That night he performed the ritual, and the next day Fazon told Raphael that Taf had in the end been brought back. Whether his memories were changed is not known.^{10 11 12}