Gild

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of gender discrimination, emotional abuse, animal death, and death.

As they ride through the city, Digby orders Auren to keep her hood up so that no one can see her golden face. People line the streets to see the procession of carriages and gold-armored guards ride through, and as the surroundings grow more dismal, Auren is struck by the city’s poverty. She cannot understand how Midas can allow the people just beyond his castle gates to live in such poor conditions when he has so much gold. Sail shrugs and says that there are areas even worse than this.

They soon reach the outskirts of the city, which are a ruin of stagnation and abject poverty. Horrified to see a group of children huddling around a pile of garbage, Auren drops from her horse to approach them despite Digby’s objections. The children are scared at first, but she reaches into her pockets and starts handing out gold coins. When she finishes, Digby orders her back to the carriage. Her hood fell as she was speaking with the children, and now people have realized who she is.