John realizes, for reasons unknown, that his magical gauntlets allow him to mimic the properties of any metal they come into contact with. When his close friend Logan finds out about this he recommends a trip to Salvar over Alerar. John would have none of it, and eventually informs Logan of his crime and his banishment. At first Logan and Jamie offer to assist in disguising John as a woman to help him sneak into Salvar, even going so far as to acquire some of the necessary items for the scheme. John however, won’t go along with this idea, and eventually the concept is dropped in favor of having John disguised in a coffin. The ruse being that Logan and Jamie are bringing him back to collect on outstanding bounties, and see him berried. Things nearly go awry when an unknown noble shows up to see the body. This unknown noble happens to be John’s father-in-law, and together the group manages to get the titanium from out of the noble’s holdings, while making it look as though the vault has been robbed; thus allowing John’s relation to use this as pressure against one of the other noble families that’s been striving to coerce him.