do you honestly think you're too good for your own human nature?

*voice of someone craving even the tiniest sliver of control* i could make a spreadsheet,

Thinking about how Thjazi not breaking the glyph was a snap decision. He didn't plan his own execution in advance as part of a masterstroke play, based on how he was joking with Hal he clearly expected to escape using the glyph. And then he saw that falcon, presumably Mara the Wing. Others have mentioned that he likely chose to die because what he was doing with the blood from the River Gavzidra required someone be in the Tenebral Reaches, and him seeing Mara signaled to him that her passage had been blocked, and he realized he had an express if one way ticket to exactly where his plans needed someone to be. So Thjazi chose to allow his own execution to proceed, and rushed out his last words to Hal in the scant few seconds he had. Circumstances very suddenly required him to willingly sacrifice himself for his cause, and he made that choice very decisively even as he was clearly scared to die. Thjazi was certainly a lot of things, but one of those things was that he was a man who was willing to give up everything if it meant living out his ideals.

keeping it brief but like, Bolaire continues to just not do anything that ever makes sense. Like, last episode his whole deal was trying to look into Occtis and the Stone of Nightsong despite having no time for that and neither Occtis nor Vaelus really wanting to do so. This episode he decided to go to the Villa Aurora and not the play, which is already a wild choice, but also the way in which he is being smuggled into the Villa Aurora fundamentally demands that either Sam or Whitney not be in a scene that is highly relevant to their characters (this btw is a big part of why I've never been into the idea of other PCs wearing Bolaire. I mean if it happens willingly with discussion sure, do what you want, but unless it's an internal Mask Prison scene it actively forces someone else out of the scene in real life with no ability to get back into it on their own) or just means he sits in a handbag the whole time. You can be cagey in-character, but you do in fact need to let your fellow D&D players in on your plans. It feels increasingly like he's on a wildly different page than everyone else, and he's also failing to explore any storylines that are actually about him, and every time he's like "you can put me on this body or just leave me forever" I'm like that's demanding everyone else be collaborative in a way that supports your gameplay that you are seriously failing to reciprocate.

Occtis making the excellent point that Bolaire continually insisting that he and Wicander are very important just makes it sound like he's interested by them being undead/aasimar and wants to collect them

"i'm starting to think you think we're important because we're a liiiiiiiiiiiiitle weird"