Master Trader Hajeem blackmails Jarik by telling him that he has arranged a deal with Kazhir in which Azhtar's society will be co-opted to provide information in exchange for not being destroyed, evidence will be gathered to destroy them if they betray Hajeem or Kazhir, and if Jarik doesn't cooperate, then bad things could happen. He then makes the generous offer of allowing Jarik to assume a new identity by arranging an 'accident' to befall him, and having the death reported to the Temple