The events surrounding Witness Protection left more than a rescued witness and a captured criminal in their wake. When the Phoenix Guild protected Edmund Hawthorne from an assassination contract, Sylvan took matters into his own hands, tracking down the contract broker at the Rusted Tankard and convincing him that Edmund was dead. Rather than treating the encounter as a one-time deception, Sylvan asked for more work. The broker told him to return in a tenday. That time has now passed, and the door into the assassination underworld is finally beginning to open.