Arzades and his accomplices managed to kill only one of the Chosen before the other escaped to the West. And it cost one of their number to manage even that much.
Now, they've split up. Arzades and his love travelling northward to Skyreach, to make Arzades into a mage to rival his father; the others travelling south to the Kyrie lands to lead the rebellion forward.
But there is safety in numbers, and what awaits them both is the unknown.