Doryani Topic /19
| NPC | Name |
|---|---|
| Doryani's Invitation | "You can invite them but you can never be sure who will come knocking." - Doryani, Queen's Thaumaturgist |
| Doryani's Catalyst | The result of the catalytic reaction would be either immortality for all, or death for all. It was a risk Doryani was willing to take. |
| Doryani's Fist | Doryani's ingenuity raised the Vaal Empire to unprecedented heights. His curiosity reduced it to ruins and bones. |
| Doryani's Machinarium | We are ever the makers of our own undoing. |
| Doryani's Delusion | "Every day we choose safety or knowledge. Live and stagnate, or risk death for truth. I would rather see the end of the Vaal than help it tread water." - Doryani, Queen's Thaumaturgist |
| Doryani's Prototype | "This was the first step in some grand design, lost to the ages, now ours to decipher." - Dominus, High Templar |
| Dream Fragments | Doryani stumbled into a realm of madness And awoke its Master. |
| Vaal Caress | "The gems are strangely human at times. They simply love to be held." - Doryani, First Seer to the Queen |
| Quecholli | "The finest prosperity grows from the direst carnage. Such is the nature of progress." - Doryani of the Vaal |
| Timeclasp | "To us mere mortals, time is slippery. I'm just evening things out." - Doryani, Queen's Thaumaturgist |
| Specialised | "Curiously, as I deepen my understanding of Thaumaturgy, I find I better understand the land we inhabit and everything in it." - Doryani, Queen's Thaumaturgist |
| Blood of Corruption | In my dream, a voice spoke to me. It said: 'My reach knows no bounds. All that is pure is destined to rot. All that lives is destined to serve.' - Doryani, Queen's Thaumaturgist |
| Cane of Unravelling | "Creation is the act of making the intangible tangible. To work backwards, to make the tangible intangible, is to step into the mind of a god." - Doryani, Queen's Thaumaturgist |
| Panquetzaliztli | "The most dizzying heights are surrounded by precipitous falls. Progress cannot be eternal." - Doryani of the Vaal |
| Timetwist | "Even for the great Magi, time passes without relent." - Doryani, Queen's Thaumaturgist |
| Fate of the Vaal | Doryani promises immortality, yet we build great structures, carve magnificent works into stone, so a part of us lives onward. A sign of faithlessness through action. |
| Doryani's Epiphany | "Virtue gems have facets beyond those that can be seen by the mortal eye. Let us look deeper..." |
| The Ethereal | - Doryani, Queen's Thaumaturge} |
| Doryani's Institute | The enlightened fall victim to Doryani's dark dictum. |
Doryani FlavourText /37
| name | flavour |
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| Doryani's Machinarium AtlasNode | We are ever the makers of our own undoing. |
| The Ethereal BaseItemTypes | - Doryani, Queen's Thaumaturge} |
| Doryani's Epiphany BaseItemTypes | "Virtue gems have facets beyond those that can be seen by the mortal eye. Let us look deeper..." |
| Doryani's Institute IncursionRooms | The enlightened fall victim to Doryani's dark dictum. |
| Doryani's Institute IncursionRooms | "Doryani himself conducted gem research at Atzoatl in its final days. What brilliant discoveries were lost with that temple?" - Icius Perandus, Antiquities Collection, Third Ciphered Tablet |
| SiosaTranslation1 NPCTextAudio | My word. Vaalish contextualized syntax is a slippery eel indeed. Let me see if I can grab it by the gills... They carried their virtue gems to... "Doryani's bed"... no, that's not quite right. Ah yes, Doryani's {cradle}. The historian finishes that it was a price they needed to pay to ensure a Vaalish future. A cradle of virtue gems? What sort of 'Vaalish future' did Doryani hope to ensure? |
| SiosaTranslation2 NPCTextAudio | Splendid. Let's see what this page has to offer us... It talks of Queen Atziri. Now here's a portentous line: {She drenches her altars with the blood of those deranged enough to question her vision.} The next piece is a real eye-crosser, but I believe it refers to a 'communion', something to do with the harvest moon? Again, Doryani seems at the heart of it. Good, this line I can read without issue: {This will be our final night of fear, our final night of suffering.} Sacrifice, communion, the harvest moon... an unsettling combination. |
| SiosaTranslation3 NPCTextAudio | Oh my, this first line is frighteningly clear: {Our Queen is dead. Doryani is dead. So many have fallen. So many have changed.} The latter text is almost indecipherable. It practically hums with agitation. Let me see... I can make out the words "sleep", "nightmare" and... "the Beast", whatever that may be. Our historian finishes with: {We have succeeded where our forebears did not. We have failed ourselves.} I need not imagine the fall of the Vaal. I saw the nightmare with my own eyes. |
| SiosaOnDoryani NPCTextAudio | I suppose every civilisation has its Doryani... its Malachai. Men of divine talent and demented ambition. Without them, history would be a far less 'interesting' place. |
| SiosaOnAtziri NPCTextAudio | Malachai would never have risen so far without the patronage of an emperor like Chitus. It would appear that Doryani and Queen Atziri shared a similar relationship. It was said of the beautiful Atziri that she "wished to see her likeness reflected in the still waters of history". Chitus was no less self-impressed. Of all the Sins, Vanity is the most hideous. |
| MalachaiJournalLab NPCTextAudio | Tear down the walls that imprison the mind... that is what the gems do. That is their true 'virtue'. The moment my fingertips brushed the cool, silken planes of that first gem, I felt it. My skull ached, as if its contents were growing, pressing against the bone, searching for a way to break free. That night, once the wine had dulled the pain enough to allow the onset of sleep, the dreams began. I have not been without them since. Nor would I be. Every spark of thaumaturgy that I wield, every device that I forge, every creature that I transfigure, I owe to these lessons cloaked in Nightmare. From whence do these precepts hail? Certainly not the mundane grey between my ears. I possess only one reference that bears faith. Translated with unquestionable clarity by that idiot savant, Icius Perandus. "The Beast". Doryani of the Vaal knew the truth. Soon now, so shall I. Malachai |
| LibraryMilitary3 NPCTextAudio | {Book 3: The Queen's Thaumaturgist} In a culture festooned with gems and steeped in thaumaturgy, Doryani must have had quite the exceptional mind to rise to such preeminence as he did. Or perhaps he was simply more ruthless than his counterparts. Such is the impression one tends to garner from the accounts written of events following Zerphi's death. Atziri's orders are quoted in a number of different texts. Doryani was "to make any effort within the realms of possibility, and to act without fear of question or consequence". And to what was Doryani expected to apply this supreme effort? The investigation of Zerphi's longevity and youthful vitality. There is a particularly chilling manifest, containing endless lists of names, page upon page. The names of young men and women, ranging in age from sixteen to twenty-six, sent to Doryani for "processing". Only those of "full and recent maturity" were deemed capable of accommodating the "necessary procedures" required without succumbing to "premature expiration". Yes, Queen Atziri was prepared to slaughter her own people in the desperate pursuit of perpetual youth and beauty. Vanity, indeed, is the most insidious of all Sins. { -Trinian - Intellectus Prime} |
| VaalLetter5 NPCTextAudio | "I should have drawn the last breath from him. Yet all I did was draw his blood. Doryani will take my head in the morning and I have my shaking hands to thank for it." |
| SinOnBeast NPCTextAudio | The Beast was never a cruel master. It didn't want to destroy, to corrupt, to terrorise. It simply existed to exist. I made it that way. Unfortunately, in neglecting to provide it with ambition, I made it vulnerable to the ambitions of others. Queen Atziri and Doryani. Emperor Chitus and Malachai. Others even before them. I created a Beast that would free humanity from the tyranny of the gods. Yet all I really did was provide the perfect tool with which humanity could tyrannise itself. |
| SinBeastQuest NPCTextAudio | The Dark Ember remains nestled deep within the putrid flesh of my dead Beast. With many of Highgate's tunnels now collapsed, we must forge another way inside. I have divined one weak point in the Beast's flank, an ancient wound wrought by that Vaalish overreacher, Doryani. The wound was healed shut by a thick membrane but the right decoction should dissolve the tissue and allow us inside. Of course, for a cordial of such potency I shall require two ingredients of utmost rarity. First, our viscous concoction shall require Basilisk Acid, a princely poison which drips from the caustic heart of the Basilisk, and Trarthan Powder, an explosive substance oft used in the mining of Virtue gems. With these two bitter harvests, I shall brew something worthy of eroding the membrane of my decaying pet. |
| SinBeastQuestQuarry NPCTextAudio | The Dark Ember remains nestled deep within the putrid flesh of my dead Beast. With many of Highgate's tunnels now collapsed, we must forge another way inside. Before us lies a weak point in the Beast's flank. It is an ancient wound wrought by that Vaalish overreacher, Doryani. The wound was healed shut by a thick membrane but the right decoction should dissolve the tissue and allow us inside. Of course, for a cordial of such potency I shall require two ingredients of utmost rarity. First, our viscous concoction shall require Basilisk Acid, a princely poison which drips from the caustic heart of the Basilisk, and Trarthan Powder, an explosive substance oft used in the mining of Virtue gems. With these two bitter harvests, I shall brew something worthy of eroding the membrane of my decaying pet. |
| TrialmasterGossipDoryani NPCTextAudio | I was once mortal, and I know how the mortal I once was would have felt about certain things. That man would have hated Doryani with a passion for bringing about the fall of the greatest civilisation this world has ever known. Fortunately, I am no longer troubled by such attachments. Through the grace of Chaos, I now understand that all things that can happen, do. Even now I am testing the might of another survivor who washed up on Wraeclast instead of you, and to her, you are dead. All that you accomplish is meaningless. All that Doryani ruined was equally meaningless. |
| CadiroOnDoryanisFist NPCTextAudio | Doryani's Fist, hmm? This weapon seems to weave its way in and out of history... |
| CadiroOnDoryanisDelusion NPCTextAudio | Icius had much to say about Doryani. Doryani was a cold and calculating figure, one motivated only by a desire to save his people... forever. Take that ominous note as you will. A shame we never managed to excavate Utzaal. |
| HinekoraTalkSeven NPCTextAudio | ... listen, quickly... the messenger from the stars was once a man, but before that, he was a father. A sliver of his heart still remains, somewhere deep inside... he knows something vital, but he doesn't know that he knows... I cannot see it, for I was... never a Mother... Doryani is missing... |
| HinekoraTalkNine NPCTextAudio | ...the Vaal Empire will fall. Doryani... where is Doryani? Malachai must construct his Grand Design, a crucible in which you will be forged, and thus he will be the architect of his own doom. You must... slay the Beast... when the time is right... |
| Doryani's Invitation UniqueItems | "You can invite them but you can never be sure who will come knocking." - Doryani, Queen's Thaumaturgist |
| Dream Fragments UniqueItems | Doryani stumbled into a realm of madness And awoke its Master. |
| Vaal Caress UniqueItems | "The gems are strangely human at times. They simply love to be held." - Doryani, First Seer to the Queen |
| Doryani's Catalyst UniqueItems | The result of the catalytic reaction would be either immortality for all, or death for all. It was a risk Doryani was willing to take. |
| Quecholli UniqueItems | "The finest prosperity grows from the direst carnage. Such is the nature of progress." - Doryani of the Vaal |
| Timeclasp UniqueItems | "To us mere mortals, time is slippery. I'm just evening things out." - Doryani, Queen's Thaumaturgist |
| Specialised UniqueItems | "Curiously, as I deepen my understanding of Thaumaturgy, I find I better understand the land we inhabit and everything in it." - Doryani, Queen's Thaumaturgist |
| Blood of Corruption UniqueItems | In my dream, a voice spoke to me. It said: 'My reach knows no bounds. All that is pure is destined to rot. All that lives is destined to serve.' - Doryani, Queen's Thaumaturgist |
| Doryani's Fist UniqueItems | Doryani's ingenuity raised the Vaal Empire to unprecedented heights. His curiosity reduced it to ruins and bones. |
| Cane of Unravelling UniqueItems | "Creation is the act of making the intangible tangible. To work backwards, to make the tangible intangible, is to step into the mind of a god." - Doryani, Queen's Thaumaturgist |
| Doryani's Machinarium UniqueItems | We are ever the makers of our own undoing. |
| Panquetzaliztli UniqueItems | "The most dizzying heights are surrounded by precipitous falls. Progress cannot be eternal." - Doryani of the Vaal |
| Timetwist UniqueItems | "Even for the great Magi, time passes without relent." - Doryani, Queen's Thaumaturgist |
| Fate of the Vaal UniqueItems | Doryani promises immortality, yet we build great structures, carve magnificent works into stone, so a part of us lives onward. A sign of faithlessness through action. |
| Doryani's Delusion UniqueItems | "Every day we choose safety or knowledge. Live and stagnate, or risk death for truth. I would rather see the end of the Vaal than help it tread water." - Doryani, Queen's Thaumaturgist |
| Doryani's Prototype UniqueItems | "This was the first step in some grand design, lost to the ages, now ours to decipher." - Dominus, High Templar |