Tear Jerker / Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

• Edgin's backstory about how his wife was killed by Red Wizards, especially when it's revealed that it's partially his fault. He was so tired of living in poverty that he stole Red Wizard gold, not knowing they could track it to his home.
  • Even worse, he has Survivor Guilt from the ordeal, feeling since he wasn't home at the time, his wife and daughter paid the price for the fact he couldn't live by the Harper's code.
• Holga makes a stop on their journey to visit her ex-husband, Marlamin, who married another woman while she was in Revel's End. The meeting is perfectly civil and even warm, but there's clear hurt from both parties on Holga getting sent to prison and leaving Marlamin alone, and little wonder why he moved on.
  Holga: Does [Gwynne] make you happy? Happier than I did?
  Marlamin: Well... I'll put it this way; she makes her living honestly. She, uh, doesn't drink herself silly. And she doesn't make me weep in the small hours... wondering where she is.
  Holga: I was in pain! I was banished from my damn tribe to be with you.
  Marlamin: And I tried to build us a home so you could forget all that. But you never could.
• The flashback to Xenk's childhood when the Red Wizards turn his people into armies of undead slaves. Xenk barely escapes as his parents try to grab him. The Feast of the Moon tie-in comic shows he still feels Survivor Guilt over this.
• Doric's backstory in The Druid's Call. Her parents are ashamed to have given birth to a tiefling child so they keep her in an attic and tell the village their baby died. Doric thinks this is normal until her human sister is born and isn't sent into the attic with her. When Doric sneaks out, her parents drug her and abandon her in the forest. She tries to go home, but turns back because she doesn't want to see how happy they are without her.
• Holga's brief death due to getting stabbed with a Red Wizards blade. She reassures both Edgin and Kira that she's okay with this, spending her last moments singing a song with the pair, but seeing as Holga was the one helping raise Kira for the majority of her life, losing the woman she saw as a mother figure is understandably heartbreaking. Granted, it doesn't last long since Edgin revives her with the Tablet of Reawakening, but it can still be quite sad.

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