Lost in Love
Normal
Act: 3
Reward: Skill Gems
Defeat Piety and her guards in the Crematorium.
#Name
1Defeat the guards
Defeat Piety and her guards in the Crematorium.
  • Kill Piety and her guards

  • Area: The Crematorium
    2Bring Tolman's bracelet to town
    You have found a bracelet belonging to Tolman, who is now dead. Return to town and find out more information about him.
  • Talk to Maramoa

  • Area: The Sarn Encampment
    NPC:
  • Clarissa Tolman: Poor Tolman. I made this bracelet for him... when he first arrived here. Idiot said he'd never take it off. I called him a liar. He didn't, though. Not once.
  • Clarissa Tolman: I don't mean to sound ungrateful but we've no time for talk. Tolman was out here with me and now... you found him? Where?

    Oh my God... Tolman.

    This bracelet, I made it for him when he first arrived here. Idiot said he'd never take it off. I called him a liar. He didn't, though. Not once.

    I'll meet you back at the encampment, later... we'll talk some more then. Just for now, I need to be alone.
  • Ahuana Victario: Oh, you've heard of my father? I've never met him. My mother only rolled her eyes whenever I asked about him. She told me of him once, the night before she left on her final campaign. She said he spoke with a poet's grace and made myriad boastful promises, but his heart truly belonged to a dead woman. He remained in Sarn when she took our people home, so he must have died in the Cataclysm. I would very much like to know more about him.
  • Ahuana Victario: Oh, you've heard of my father? I've never met him. My mother only rolled her eyes whenever I asked about him. She told me of him once, the night before she left on her final campaign. She said he spoke with a poet's grace and made myriad boastful promises, but his heart truly belonged to a dead woman. He remained in Sarn when she took our people home, so he must have died in the Cataclysm. I would very much like to know more about him.
  • 3Find Clarissa and Tolman
    Clarissa and Tolman have gone missing in the City of Sarn. Find them.
  • Find Clarissa and Tolman

  • Area: The City of Sarn
    4Defeat the guards and rescue Tolman
    You have found Tolman in the Crematorium but not Clarissa. Defeat the guards and rescue him.
  • Kill Piety and her guards

  • Area: The Crematorium
    5Find Clarissa
    You have found Tolman in the Crematorium and taken his bracelet. Find Clarissa in the City of Sarn.
  • Find Clarissa

  • Area: The City of Sarn
    6Defeat the guards and rescue Clarissa
    You have found Clarissa in the City of Sarn but not Tolman. Defeat the guards and rescue her.
  • Kill Clarissa's guards

  • Area: The City of Sarn
    7Defeat the guards and rescue the girl
    You have found a girl in the City of Sarn tied up by some Blackguards. Defeat them and free her.
  • Defeat the guards and rescue the girl

  • Area: The City of Sarn
    8Defeat the guards
    You have found Tolman in the Crematorium and Clarissa in the City of Sarn. Defeat the guards and rescue them.
  • Kill Clarissa's guards
  • Kill Piety and her guards

  • Area: The City of Sarn, The Crematorium
    9Defeat the guards and rescue Clarissa
    You have found Tolman in the Crematorium and taken his bracelet. You have also found Clarissa in the City of Sarn. Defeat the guards and rescue her.
  • Kill Clarissa's guards

  • Area: The City of Sarn
    10Find Tolman in the Crematorium
    You have rescued Clarissa but still need to find Tolman in the Crematorium.
  • Find Tolman in the Crematorium

  • Area: The Crematorium
    NPC:
  • Clarissa Tolman: You're alone. So Tolman's... You didn't go to the Crematorium?

    No, of course you didn't, this isn't your fight. I'm sorry. It was wrong of me to put that on you, to ask you to risk your life for someone you don't even know.

    Don't worry. I'll work something out. I always do.
  • Grigor Tolman: I no longer dream when I sleep. I have a nightmare, the same nightmare, over and over. The Mirror. It's never my reflection looking back.

    The first time that mirror appeared to me, it was Kole I saw. A rapist from Oriath I had the displeasure of sharing a pen with in Gravicius' stockade. Piety took him for her experiments and that night, I saw her handiwork while I slept.

    This time, it was Tolman. Flesh dried to leather. Organs shrunk to husks. Blood trickling through his skeleton like red dust in an hourglass. It's Piety's gift to me, that mirror.

    At least I won't be seeing Clarissa the next time I look into it. Make sure it's not you I see, either.
  • Grigor Tolman: Listen carefully, Witch. Thanks to your sister-in-art, Piety, I no longer dream when I sleep. I only have nightmares. The same nightmare, over and over. The Mirror. It's never my reflection looking back.

    The first time that mirror appeared to me, it was Kole I saw. A rapist from Oriath I had the displeasure of sharing a pen with in Gravicius' stockade. Piety took him for her experiments and that night, I saw her handiwork while I slept.

    This time, it was Tolman. Flesh dried to leather. Organs shrunk to husks. Blood trickling through his skeleton like red dust in an hourglass. It's Piety's gift to me, that mirror.

    At least I won't be seeing Clarissa the next time I look into it. And for that alone, I hope it's not you I see, either.
  • Grigor Clarissa: Keep your distance, exile. The name's Grigor, and when you've had your eyes' fill of my twisted visage, how about you turn those fine jellies of yours eastward.

    Yes, you've brought Clarissa home to us, and once again she pesters me with pity. There's only so much broth, so many bouquets that a man can take. For a criminal, Clarissa has a strangely soft centre.

    Still, I'd rather not see that heart of hers harden. See if you can find that lost boy-mate of hers. With him around, Clarissa doesn't have as much time to bother me.
  • Grigor Clarissa: Come no closer, Witch. The name's Grigor and, as you can see, I've had my fill of your kind.

    So once you've finished admiring your sisterhood's handiwork, turn those icy orbs of yours eastward.

    Yes, you've brought Clarissa home to us, and once again she pesters me with pity. There's only so much broth, so many bouquets that a man can take. For a criminal, Clarissa has a strangely soft centre.

    Still, I'd rather not see that heart of hers hardened. Use those dubious talents of yours for something worthwhile. Find her boy-mate, Tolman. Prove me wrong about your kind.
  • Hargan Tolman: A stranger walks into a town with a lost lover in tow. Sounds like the beginning of a jest. Which I wish it bloody were. Problem is, we're still one doe-eyed lover short, which ain't much good to anyone. They tend to come in pairs, you see.

    Since you seem to be in the 'good deeds' business, how about throwing a Tolman into the bargain.
  • Hargan Tolman: Now you're a familiar face! A face that cost me a good deal of coin back at the arenas in Theopolis. Took you for a privileged pretty boy with a death wish. Bet all I had against you.

    Turns out you're as dandy with a blade as you were with your wardrobe. Well, at least you've brought Clarissa back to us. I'll take that as half payment of what I figure you owe me.

    Problem is, {one} doe-eyed lover isn't much good to anyone. Like gloves, they tend to be more useful in pairs. The missing glove, in this case, is a young fella named Tolman.

    Fetch Tolman back for us and you and I can happily call it quits.
  • Hargan Tolman: A templar... in Exile? Now I've seen it all. Dominus must've run out of honest businessmen to banish and is finally getting to the real criminals. Just joking with you, your Worship. In truth, I'm grateful to you for returning Clarissa to us.

    Problem is, {one} doe-eyed lover ain't much good to anyone. Like gloves, they tend to be more useful in pairs. The missing glove, in this case, is a young fella named Tolman.

    May God above light your way to Tolman's salvation, brother.
  • Hargan Tolman: "You can't catch a Shadow", that's what we honest businessmen were told when considering your services. But here you are. I call that false advertising.

    Well, at least you've brought Clarissa back to us. That's gone part way to polishing up that tarnished reputation of yours.

    Problem is, {one} doe-eyed lover ain't much good to anyone. Like gloves, they tend to be more useful in pairs. The missing glove, in this case, is a young fella named Tolman.

    See if you can finish the job, eh? Find Tolman. And I know it's not really in your job description, but we'd like him alive, please.
  • Hargan Introduction: I'll miss the boy. He was always up for a laugh, whether it was at his expense or not. But I would've missed our Clarissa more.

    Hargan's the name, by the way. And it's my honour to welcome you to dirty old Sarn, the metropolis of opportunity. The opportunity to make something of yourself or the opportunity to have a very messy death.
  • Hargan The Slums: The Slums are east of here. Used to house the unwashed of the Empire a couple centuries back. Now it's home to the walking ulcers and sores of this poor city.
  • Maramoa Clarissa: Maramoa Patua thanks you, exile, for returning our Clarissa to us. She is the gentle heart of this place, a spirit still capable of love in this wasteland of hatred.

    Yet that gentle heart remains in jeopardy. Tolman isn't deserving of Clarissa, but she'll not smile until he's by her side.
  • Maramoa Clarissa: Maramoa Patua thanks you, son of the Ngakuramakoi, for returning our Clarissa to us. She is the gentle heart of this place, a spirit still capable of love in this wasteland of hatred.

    Yet that gentle heart remains in jeopardy. Tolman isn't deserving of Clarissa, but she'll not smile until he's by her side.

    There are days when I've questioned the Ancestors. Why bring me here, to Wraeclast, so far from all that I love?

    Seeing you vindicates their decision. It is easy to be Karui when you are surrounded by Karui, but to walk the Karui Way through this accursed land, that is the true test of a warrior.

    And as is our fate, our calling demands our sweat and our blood, every moment of every day. Help us, cousin. Help us by finding Tolman.
  • Maramoa Clarissa: Maramoa Patua thanks you for returning our Clarissa to us. She is the gentle heart of this place, a spirit still capable of love in this wasteland of hatred.

    Yet that gentle heart remains in jeopardy. Tolman isn't deserving of Clarissa, but she'll not smile until he's by her side.

    You have the walk, the grace, of a woman who knows Death intimately. Men are born with that knowledge. We have to earn it.

    So from one woman to another, I ask for your help, Ranger. Please, find Tolman for us.
  • Maramoa Clarissa: Tolman's dead then. Another victim of Piety's cruelty. Perhaps he escaped lightly. Look upon Grigor to see what life entails under Piety's influence.

    I give you this, in recognition of all that you have done for us. We shall mourn Tolman's death as we shall treasure Clarissa's life.
  • 11Defeat the guards and rescue Tolman
    You have rescued Clarissa and found Tolman in the Crematorium. Defeat the guards and rescue him.
  • Kill Piety and her guards

  • Area: The Crematorium
    12Bring Tolman's bracelet to Clarissa
    You have rescued Clarissa and found Tolman. Bring his bracelet to her in the Sarn Encampment.
  • Talk to Clarissa

  • Area: The Sarn Encampment
    13Get Tolman's bracelet
    Get Tolman's bracelet from the Crematorium.
  • Get Tolman's bracelet

  • Area: The Crematorium
    NPC:
  • Clarissa Tolman: I'm sorry, I can't... I need some time. We should talk, I know. But please, not now.
  • Clarissa Tolman: I don't mean to sound ungrateful but we've no time for talk. Tolman was out here with me and now... you found him? Where?

    Oh my God... Tolman.

    Wraeclast takes everything from us... My family, we always keep something from those we've lost. A silly tradition, yet we hold on to what we can, especially here. Please, if... I don't know why you would... but if you are in the Crematorium again, could you find Tolman's bracelet for me? It would mean a great deal.

    No, you go on ahead. I'll meet you back at the encampment, later... we'll talk some more then. Just for now, I need to be alone.
  • Clarissa Tolman: I don't mean to sound ungrateful but we've no time for talk. Tolman was out here with me and now... you found him? Where?

    Oh my God... Tolman.

    Wraeclast takes everything from us... My family, we always keep something from those we've lost. A silly tradition, yet we hold on to what we can, especially here. Please, if... I don't know why you would... but if you are in the Crematorium again, could you find Tolman's bracelet for me? It would mean a great deal.

    No, you go on ahead. I'll meet you back at the encampment, later... we'll talk some more then. Just for now, I need to be alone.
  • Grigor Tolman: I no longer dream when I sleep. I have a nightmare, the same nightmare, over and over. The Mirror. It's never my reflection looking back.

    The first time that mirror appeared to me, it was Kole I saw. A rapist from Oriath I had the displeasure of sharing a pen with in Gravicius' stockade. Piety took him for her experiments and that night, I saw her handiwork while I slept.

    This time, it was Tolman. Flesh dried to leather. Organs shrunk to husks. Blood trickling through his skeleton like red dust in an hourglass. It's Piety's gift to me, that mirror.

    At least I won't be seeing Clarissa the next time I look into it. Make sure it's not you I see, either.
  • Grigor Tolman: Listen carefully, Witch. Thanks to your sister-in-art, Piety, I no longer dream when I sleep. I only have nightmares. The same nightmare, over and over. The Mirror. It's never my reflection looking back.

    The first time that mirror appeared to me, it was Kole I saw. A rapist from Oriath I had the displeasure of sharing a pen with in Gravicius' stockade. Piety took him for her experiments and that night, I saw her handiwork while I slept.

    This time, it was Tolman. Flesh dried to leather. Organs shrunk to husks. Blood trickling through his skeleton like red dust in an hourglass. It's Piety's gift to me, that mirror.

    At least I won't be seeing Clarissa the next time I look into it. And for that alone, I hope it's not you I see, either.
  • Hargan Introduction: I'll miss the boy. He was always up for a laugh, whether it was at his expense or not. But I would've missed our Clarissa more.

    Hargan's the name, by the way. And it's my honour to welcome you to dirty old Sarn, the metropolis of opportunity. The opportunity to make something of yourself or the opportunity to have a very messy death.
  • Hargan Tolman: A shame about the boy. A nice kid. None too smart though. The same can't be said for Clarissa. She's a survivor. Go and make sure she lives up to her reputation, will you?
  • Maramoa Clarissa: Tolman's dead then. Another victim of Piety's cruelty. Perhaps he escaped lightly. Look upon Grigor to see what life entails under Piety's influence.

    I give you this, in recognition of all that you have done for us. We shall mourn Tolman's death as we shall treasure Clarissa's life.
  • Maramoa Tolman: Tolman's dead then. Another victim of Piety's cruelty. Perhaps he escaped lightly. Look upon Grigor to see what life entails under Piety's influence.

    And there was no sign of Clarissa? Then she's either avoided capture or the Blackguards are keeping her for some other purpose. Either way, a shard of sunlight graces her survival. Find her, before that light wanes.
  • 14
    Quest Complete - You have rescued Clarissa and brought her Tolman's bracelet. Talk to Clarissa and Maramoa in town for rewards.
  • Talk to Maramoa
  • Talk to Clarissa

  • Area: The Sarn Encampment
    NPC:
  • Clarissa Tolman: I'll meet you back at the encampment, later... we'll talk some more then. Just for now, I need to be alone.
  • Clarissa Tolman: I need to give you something. I asked a lot of you out there in the Slums. More than I should have.

    You tried, and that's all we exiles can ever hope to do.
  • Grigor The Gemling Queen: I walked halfway across this forsaken continent because of an ode. {Of Jewels and Eternity}, it's called.

    {For twinkled promises}
    {Of jewels and eternity,}
    {The Gemling Queen gave her heart}
    {And body}
    {To the King of Shades}
    {For one more day in the sun,}
    {The last day in the sun.}

    That's but a portion of the full epic. "The Gemling Queen" lived, and she's the enigma behind the fall of the Ezomytes and the Eternals both. Look to the Solaris Temple to the north-east. Find the Gemling Queen's remains before Piety does... and destroy them.
  • 15
    Quest Complete - You have rescued Clarissa and brought her Tolman's bracelet. Talk to Maramoa in town for a reward.
  • Talk to Maramoa for your reward

  • Area: The Sarn Encampment
    NPC:
  • Clarissa Tolman: Sorry, I... I need some more time to... to think. We'll talk soon, I promise.
  • Clarissa Sewer Keys: Those keys unlock the gates to the sewers. Tolman found them... figured that in the worst of times people will hide their wealth in the worst of places.

    We were never game to test his theory, not with the Undying down there. But you're strong... stronger than any of us here. I don't think {you} need to fear the dark.
  • Hargan General Gravicius: Gravicius is the mailed and bloodied right hand of Dominus. And I thought the Templar were meant to be spiritual men of deepest humanity. You noticed the sarcasm in my tone, right?

    Had to smuggle a fellow out of Theopolis once. Got a bit too friendly with Gravicius' wife, he did. Every Blackguard was out on the streets looking for him, so I had to think lateral-like. We took to the drains and didn't pop our heads above the pavement until we sniffed the sea. A grubby bloody job it was, but worth it for the coin he paid.

    You want a piece of Gravicius? Then sometimes the only way 'up' is 'down'.
  • Hargan Victario: Victario was a poet what ended up leading a rebellion, right under the nose of Emperor Chitus. But here's what really interests me. Our wordsmith was quite the talented larcenist as well. Pulled off the heist of the century, in the name of the people, of course. Three finely-crafted platinum busts commissioned by Chitus for his favourite trio of generals.

    Victario and his cobbers holed up in the sewers. Now that you have Clarissa's keys, perhaps you'd be inclined to search out those heroic busts for me. I'm sure I could make it worth your while.
  • 16
    Quest Complete - You have rescued Clarissa and brought her Tolman's bracelet. Talk to Maramoa in town for a reward.
  • Talk to Maramoa for your reward

  • Area: The Sarn Encampment
    NPC:
  • Clarissa The Purity Rebellion: Chitus thought that the Gemling was the pinnacle of human progress. "These glorious gems have brought us within spitting distance of godhood", he once said.

    The High Templar at the time, Voll of Thebrus, thought they were a perversion. He wanted the Empire made pure, "cleansed of the stain of thaumaturgy". You look at Sarn and tell me which one you think was right.

    And while you're out there, look out for monkeys. No, not those bloody monkeys from Phrecia. These ones are painted on the walls. I think you'll find them enlightening.
  • Clarissa Vinia: Vinia was arrested for 'Consorting with the Unholy' and condemned to the pyre. This was before the banishments.

    Dominus shared a last supper with her, heard her confession. Most think Vinia earned Dominus' patronage on her back. I don't. Vinia gave Dominus her 'better life' and got a new name in return.

    You can count on one thing: Piety's grand future won't include the likes of you, me, or Tolman.
  • Clarissa Cataclysm: On the fall of the Empire, the historians are deathly silent. After the Purity Rebellion, the Kingdom of Kaom blockaded Oriath, preventing any trade or correspondence with the mainland. It's said that Kaom planned to invade.

    Only when the Karui retreated did Oriath get any news from Wraeclast, but by that time there wasn't really anyone left to tell the tale.
  • Clarissa Grigor: No one should have to go through what Grigor has. I help him as much as he'll let me, but he's a proud one... and so he should be.

    He's survived what has destroyed... too many of us.
  • Clarissa Hargan: Hargan likes to think he was my kind, old 'uncle' back in Theopolis. Granted, the work he gave me saved my parents and I from starvation.

    This was after my father lost the family fortune at the card table and we had to give up the manor in the country for a flea-box in Theopolis.

    But he's not half as generous as he makes out. When Hargan gives you something, you can be damned sure that he's getting his pound of flesh in return.
  • Clarissa The Lunaris Temple: You find a high enough spot and you can see the Lunaris Temple over the river, at the western edge of the city.

    Since the Blackguards arrived, the clouds above that temple have been stained with the blackest of smoke. You can see it sometimes, when the westerly blows. It stinks worse than death.
  • Clarissa Maramoa: Maramoa? I've heard that the Karui have this philosophy... {makanui}, the Way of the Warrior. I don't think you could get any more {makanui} than her.

    She took it upon herself to look after me... before Tolman arrived. Saved my skin more than once. I'm fine with that. Beats being on her bad side.
  • Clarissa Piety: Halfway across the world and yet the tie between Vinia and I endures. That was Piety's real name back in Theopolis, before her rise to greatness.

    Vinia sold her thaumaturgy in the day, her body at night. Sought after, she was. Enough so to become one of my best buyers.

    But money never meant much to Vinia. No, she was striving for something better... nobler. Used to tell me that "Life needn't be this hard. It's time you all realised that."

    I bet she fed Tolman the same bloody line.
  • Clarissa Piety's Gems: The Blackguards talked about Piety's precious gems being "infected with nightmare"...

    Tolman... what did she {do} to you...?
  • Clarissa Statues: I know, so strange that stone and metal should move and live as you and I.

    Still, I read that Chitus' sculptors used to soften their materials with 'thaumetic sulphite', a by-product of gem refining. It's the only connection that I can fathom between the cataclysm and the living sculptures of Sarn.
  • Hargan General Gravicius: Gravicius is the mailed and bloodied right hand of Dominus. And I thought the Templar were meant to be spiritual men of deepest humanity. You noticed the sarcasm in my tone, right?

    Had to smuggle a fellow out of Theopolis once. Got a bit too friendly with Gravicius' wife, he did. Every Blackguard was out on the streets looking for him, so I had to think lateral-like. We took to the drains and didn't pop our heads above the pavement until we sniffed the sea. A grubby bloody job it was, but worth it for the coin he paid.

    You want a piece of Gravicius? Then sometimes the only way 'up' is 'down'.
  • Hargan Victario: Victario was a poet what ended up leading a rebellion, right under the nose of Emperor Chitus. But here's what really interests me. Our wordsmith was quite the talented larcenist as well. Pulled off the heist of the century, in the name of the people, of course. Three finely-crafted platinum busts commissioned by Chitus for his favourite trio of generals.

    Victario and his cobbers holed up in the sewers. Now that you have Clarissa's keys, perhaps you'd be inclined to search out those heroic busts for me. I'm sure I could make it worth your while.
  • 17
    Quest Complete - You have rescued Clarissa and returned Tolman's bracelet to her. Speak with her for a reward.
    Area: The Sarn Encampment
    NPC:
  • Maramoa Tolman: Clarissa will weep for Tolman. She must. The cloud is darkest before the rain.
  • 18Quest Complete
    Quest Complete - You have rescued Clarissa and returned Tolman's bracelet to her.
    19
    Quest Complete - You have rescued Clarissa and returned Tolman's bracelet to her.
    Lost in Love
    Normal
    Act: 3
    Reward: Sewer Keys