Rashmi discovered a way to transport inorganic matter through the Blind Eternities. She understood the achievement as a new frontier for research. Tezzeret understood that an army protected by mineral armour might pass through it, and that his master needed exactly such a route after the Mending closed older planar portals.
The Fair gave Tezzeret access to the device and to the other inventions required to scale it. He kept Rashmi close enough to extract knowledge while dismissing her authorship. Calling the result his advancement was part vanity and part strategy: ownership of the story discouraged everyone around him from seeing how many minds had made resistance possible.
Liliana recognised the interplanar danger before the whole coalition agreed on its priority. The local revolt and the Bridge could not be separated. A machine capable of linking worlds meant that coercion imposed in Ghirapur could supply a war on a plane whose inhabitants had never heard of the Consulate.