Hype Person™

Of the Employed People, Bolaire has no reason to leave Dol-Makjar and his job is currently the most secure, so I imagine he’s staying. While Hal is about to throw a HUGE middle finger to the creed, it may or may not be in a way that requires him to get the fuck out of town afterwards, and he doesn’t really have anything drawing him outside of the city.

With Wick back in Yanessas good graces and Tyranny’s connection to Tsul'rekshi,they’re set up super well to be scheming (unless something goes horrifically wrong, which is honestly plausible). But also it doesn’t really seem like they have anywhere else to go, and we’ve already seen them get sort of dragged along without knowing what’s going on once so i kind of doubt it’ll happen again.

Azune just got this huge promotion, but it feels like his jenga tower of lies is getting unsustainable and the fallout from that is going to have him on the run. That’ll give him the excuse he needs to go after Mayali, which is going to require going to Argosia and/or Timmony. Murray’s position at the Penteveral might not be secure, especially because the last time Primus was in town he wanted to kill her/have her fired. She’s also got a reason to go to Timmony, and she did say she would help Azune find Mayali. (This is definitly wishful thinking on my part because I just want more Gus/azune/murray scenes).

Kattigan, Teor, Julien, and Occtis are on at least one of the priestly houses shitlists so they’re not staying. Teor wants to help the other Paladins who’ve been petrified by the Tachonis (and Azune is also a Paladin so there’s a justification for him to go! And that’s gonna be through Timmony, which works for Murray). Julien wants to go to the orchard, but before that he needs to find the Tachonis with the cure for his sister, so this group makes sense for him too.

Thimble needs to go to the Golden Orchard to rally the remaining fairies, and Occtis seems determined to stick with Thimble. (Plus I think he deserves a break from dealing with Tachonis bullshit). Vaelus has said she wants to go back to the Mournvale, but she also wants to stick with Occtis and with all these revelations about Sylandri she may be more interested in the connection with Faerie. Plus it’s not like she’s got any kind of deadline to go back home.

The person I’m the least sure about is Thaisha. She needs to go to Dol-Rungja, but she doesn’t WANT to, and she’s stated that the Druids need more of a political presence in Dol-Makjar, especially with the sundered houses potentially voting no-confidence on the revolutionary council. However, it would also make sense for her to go with whichever group is headed in the direction of Dol-Rungja with the intention of returning to Dol-Makjar afterwards. I dont know if Timmony or the orchard are particularly in the right direction (Map of araman WHEN), but I think the golden orchard group generally makes more sense.

TL;DR, my dream groups would be:

Staying in the city: Bolaire, Hal, Wick, Tyranny.

Going to The Orchard: Thimble, Occtis, Vaelus, Thaisha.