Two weeks later the party left Akhisar for the nearest of the Kingdoms of the Five Sisters, and traveled with a caravan through the Saddyahi-Ashban, the mountains between the desert and the Kingdoms of the Five Sisters. The caravan was attacked twice by bandits during the trip, and every second night a member of the caravan was found dead, apparently killed by someone in the caravan. A Jann war party also accosted the caravan; they were raiding in retaliation for bloody, savage attacks by human bandits, but when they found out Basgoot had saved the life of their sheik's son (from who came the amulet), the Jann allowed the caravan to pass, after the party gave their oath to track down the bandits who killed the Jannee. Finally, they reached the Castle of the Desert Gate (sometimes called Castle Ashban by the hasty), at the pass out of the mountains into the plains of the Five Sisters. There the killer was discovered: one of the caravan guards was a were-tiger, who went on a rampage through the castle. In the ensuing fight the were-tiger was killed, but several party members were infected and Korbel Noir died.