| abstract | - Manus drew the symbol when he encountered Lief, Barda and Jasmine, though they did not understand its meaning at the time. The four of them later came across the symbol scratched into a wall beside a window of a house. Lief felt guilty taking items from the house, but Manus explained that it was the owner's way of defying the Shadow Lord even in defeat and represented their hope for the future. He also explained to them the symbol's significance as a symbol and the new meaning it had come to be known by. Now knowing the symbol's meaning, the group noticed the symbol more frequently on their way to the Lake of Tears. They found the freedom mark chalked on crumbling walls and fences, marked out with pebbles on the ground and scratched into the trunks of trees. This raised Lief's hope, who saw the repetition of the sign as evidence that no matter how dire things were in Del, there were people willing in the countryside to resist the Shadow Lord as he was.
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