The Crimson Gauntlet
- fighting ring in Settings and Places/Places/Cabernet/Cabernet
- has black-armored elite guards
- offer Ophelia Von Carstein her usual box when The Party enters
- high end and very nice
- Rules: 50 gold for lower entry, 100 g higher entry. Straight to top of tournament for 200g. Prize pool for every set of fights.
- announcer is Elthoon
- Ophelia sponsors Gregor Sonbeinn for a fight
- Ophelia has the fight rigged so that Gregor will win
- Gregor gets paired with a scrawny, malnourished 16 year old human (probably his first fight ever)
- Gregor hits the kid once, and the kid drops
- a servant hypes him up on his "awesome fight" before saying that the result was just sad
- servers seem intimidated by Ophelia
- the next fight
- Gregor vs. Stephen Von Richten
- Stephen was not meant to fight Gregor - he jumped in because he was so insulted by the prior performance
- Gregor wins, just barely
- Gregor fights Riker Von Krieger and loses
- we return to the Grand Cathedral
- Astell fights a wizard from the house Della Grimaldi
