The Eternal Nightmare
Normal
Act: 4
Reward: Support Gems
Dialla is waiting for you on the Aqueduct. Talk to her and see what she wants.
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1Talk to Dialla
Dialla is waiting for you on the Aqueduct. Talk to her and see what she wants.
  • Talk to Dialla

    • Area: The Aqueduct
    2Go to Highgate
    Dialla has asked you to go to Highgate, north of the Aqueduct. Travel there to learn more.
  • Go to Highgate

    • Area: Highgate
    NPC:
  • Sonja, the Farmer The Soil: I have come to learn more about the land's bounty. Far beneath the sand and clay, there is a hidden layer of volcanic soils, and a thick band of ash. These are rich and fertile deposits. Given our distance from the mountains on Tujen's map, I have no doubt that something terrible ravaged this land a very long time ago. Middengard is mostly comprised of volcanoes, but none like this. I am surprised there are people still present on Wraeclast after what must have happened...
    • 3Talk to Dialla
    You have reached Highgate, an encampment occupied by the Maraketh. Dialla is here waiting for you. Talk to her and see what she wants.
  • Talk to Dialla

    • Area: Highgate
    4Talk to Oyun
    Dialla wants you to destroy the darkness in the mountain. Talk to Oyun for advice.
  • Talk to Oyun

    • Area: Highgate
    5
    Dialla wants you to destroy the Beast slumbering within the Mines. However, the entrance has been long sealed by Sekhema Deshret. Find a way to break her Seal and gain access to the Mines.
  • Find a way into the mountain

    • Area: The Mines
    NPC:
  • Lady Dialla Deshret's Banner: Impatient reekings. They waft to me from that mountain. That's all I can smell, Not-a-Cockroach. Stinking anticipation.
  • Lady Dialla Voll: Voll the Pure, they called him. Voll the Murderer, I call him. In his name, an Emperor was murdered. In his name, an Empire was murdered.

    Yes, it was Malachai's lips that kissed me. Yes, it was Malachai's hand that led me to the Rapture. No, no and no again. It was Voll's words that put me there.
  • Kira Voll: I've led many a war party against Voll and his unmen, and I've seen too many of my {dekhara} die. I shall look for your return, but I shall not expect it.
  • Tasuni Deshret: The Red Sekhema was the woman who forged what it meant to be 'Maraketh', a people united, strong. Deshret lit fires in the hearts of women and loins of men. When she fell, so did the Maraketh. We've been falling ever since.
  • Tasuni Voll: The Maraketh speak of his betrayal, but Voll did what he thought was necessary to destroy the Beast.

    Now he wanders the desiccation, tortured as much by his failure as by Nightmare.
    • 6
    You have used Deshret's Banner to break her Seal, which was blocking all access to the Mines. Talk to Dialla for more information about her quest.
  • Talk to Dialla

    • Area: Highgate
    7Find the Rapture Device
    Dialla has asked you find the Rapture Device and use it to kill the Beast. Find it deep within the Mines.
  • Find the Rapture Device

    • Area: The Crystal Veins
    NPC:
  • Lady Dialla The Rapture Device: The Rapture was to rend open the hide of Nightmare and broil the Beast's bitter innards in the sweet fire of mortality.

    The vessel was strong and oh-so willing.

    The medicine was oh-so weak.
    • 8Talk to Dialla
    You have found the Rapture Device deep within the Crystal Veins. Talk to Dialla there.
  • Talk to Dialla

    • Area: The Crystal Veins
    9Find the Eyes of Fury and Desire
    Dialla requires two special power sources to activate the Rapture Device and kill the Beast. Find the Eye of Fury and the Eye of Desire and give them to her.
  • Power the Rapture Device with the gems from Kaom and Daresso

    • Area: The Crystal Veins
    NPC:
  • Oyun Daresso: Daresso? Yes, Petarus has spoken of him. The disturbing question is this:

    How does a man who, by all accounts, has been dead for over a hundred years end up as a Nightmare monarch in the bowels of Highgate?

    Unlike Kaom, there is utterly no trace of his passing, and we have scouted every footstep of this mountain and its surrounds. There is no other entrance. No physical entrance.

    Deshret, and now this... Daresso. Yes, most disturbing.
  • Oyun Dialla: Dialla said but one thing to me before descending into the Mines: "My love awaits."

    I know not why, but those three words frightened me more than any I have heard in my lifetime.
  • Oyun Kaom: We read the land, learn its stories. Kaom and his warriors entered those Mines some twenty years before Deshret sealed them and bound our {akhara} to this mountain.

    Neither soil nor stone speak of Kaom's return. Now we know why. He became a monarch of Nightmare, like Voll before him. It seems the Beast has uses for those with a talent for conquest.
  • Petarus and Vanja Daresso: Petarus: Daresso? He's down there, inside the mountain?

    Vanja: Are we talking about {the} Daresso? The Sword King?

    Petarus: Seems like it. But... how did he get in there? He left Oriath about a century and a half ago, hoping to find a cure for his lady, Merveil. He would have had to fight his way through the Maraketh, but... Oyun's never mentioned anything of the sort.

    Vanja: Maybe he didn't go in alive.

    Petarus: What do you mean?

    Vanja: We live in a land where the dead walk and {things} like Dialla live for centuries.

    Petarus: You think he died somewhere else and then the Beast got hold of him?

    Vanja: Could be.

    Petarus: Well, if the Beast can do that, then... what bloody good was Deshret's Seal?

    Vanja: Exactly.
  • Tasuni Daresso: Nightmare is not without sophistication.

    In life, Daresso was tortured by frustration and shame. In death, Nightmare has erased his past and forged a dream world in which Daresso would remain contented and loved.

    What if Nightmare could do that for all of us? Would we really wish to destroy it then?
  • Tasuni Kaom: My understanding of Kaom, the man, is that he was a prisoner of his own delusions. Now? He is a prisoner of someone else's.

    The power of Nightmare to manipulate the soul never ceases to impress me.

    That could be you one day, should you continue to follow this dark and winding path.
  • Tasuni The Beast: Beneath your feet, Creation shivers and writhes. It yearns for transformation like a worm in a cocoon that dreams of wings and freedom. A transformation that only the Beast can excite.

    A dark God of ancient sacrifice, a muse to the twisted and vile... the Beast, the Nightmare, the Darkness... names given to it by mortals that think with slugs bound in shells of bone.

    Yet, one man knew the Beast's true name, understood its impenetrable nature.

    Malachai.
    • 10
    The Rapture Device has drained Dialla of much of her life force and failed to kill the Beast. However, it has opened a gaping wound in its exterior. Travel inside the Beast and kill it from within.
  • Destroy the Beast within

    • Area: The Belly of the Beast
    NPC:
  • Lady Dialla The Rapture: Malachai's devices, his creations... He loved them all. Not me.

    He betrayed me then. Said he loved me. Then said he wanted me to die. He betrays me now. Lets me suffer. Lets me wither.

    Am I the one and only mistake that you ever made, Malachai?

    Yes, that's me. Dialla the Gemling Queen. Malachai's misdemeanour.

    Make him regret his mistake, Not-a-Cockroach. Tear open the Beast's black heart. Rip Malachai from his filthy little nightmare. Cut him, crush him, burn him from existence!

    He deserves no better, and I deserve no worse. No love for me. No love, no love... no love.
  • Kira Dialla: The Gemling Queen has given of that black life of hers... for what? To wound and wake the Beast that should have been slaughtered in its sleep.

    Dialla's path would lead us into Cataclysm. Follow your own path from now on.
  • Oyun Dialla: Dialla's hopes may be crushed, but ours still thrive... in you, Curse-breaker.

    From what Tasuni tells me, the Beast's innards are now yours to penetrate. Dialla has served her purpose. Now comes the time for you to serve yours.

    Find this Malachai that Dialla mutters about so incessantly. If my understanding is true, then he is the mind of the Beast. Kill him, and the body of Nightmare will die with him.
  • Petarus and Vanja Dialla: Petarus: Dialla saw the mistakes of the past with her own eyes, and now she's given everything to fix them. Right, Vanja?

    Vanja: I don't know, Petarus. I saw people die for each other in Sarn. I saw clarity, resolution in their eyes. In Dialla's eyes... I see ghosts.

    Petarus: Those eyes have seen horrors that we can't even imagine.

    Vanja: Maybe, but this 'sacrifice' of hers? I think it was more like a {deal} and Dialla didn't quite get what she'd bargained for.
  • Tasuni Dialla: When a boil is fat with infection, it glistens with the lustre of false youth. Lance that boil and it weeps its corruption away and shrivels to nothing.

    Whether by purpose or desire, you are the physician who has revealed Dialla's truest nature.
  • Tasuni Ghasts: Upon death, our bodies return to the ground. Those that are marked with darkness nourish the corruption. Those that were mighty in life are stolen away.

    They are carved and crafted, manipulated with malevolent creativity into becoming Malachai's servants. Forged into Ghasts of pure Nightmare.
    • 11Enter the Belly of the Beast
    The Rapture Device has drained Dialla of much of her life force and failed to kill the Beast. However, it has opened a gaping wound in its exterior. Travel inside the Beast and kill it from within.
  • Enter the Belly of the Beast

    • Area: The Belly of the Beast
    12
    The Rapture Device has drained Dialla of much of her life force and failed to kill the Beast. However, it has opened a gaping wound in its exterior. Travel inside the Beast and kill it from within.
  • Destroy the Beast within

    • Area: The Belly of the Beast
    13Kill Piety
    A nightmarish Piety blocks your way through the Belly of the Beast. Kill her and continue on your way to kill the Beast from within.
  • Kill Piety

    • Area: The Belly of the Beast
    14Talk to Piety
    Piety seems to have reverted to her human form and wants to parley. Talk to her in the Belly of the Beast.
  • Talk to Piety

    • Area: The Belly of the Beast
    NPC:
  • Dialla Piety: The little cockroach witch? Malachai chose her... chose her over me?!

    Use her then. Use her as Malachai uses her. Burn betrayal with betrayal. It's all they deserve!
    • 15
    Piety has revealed that Malachai is in control of the Beast, and is residing in the Black Core. Find your way inside and kill him.
  • Find a way into the Black Core

    • Area: The Harvest
    NPC:
  • Petarus and Vanja Piety: Vanja: Piety... she still lives?

    Petarus: Then she needs to die {again}...

    Vanja: ...{permanently} this time. I honestly don't know who I'm more scared of, the Beast or that black-hearted Witch!

    Petarus: It's the combination that scares me, and it should scare you too, exile.
  • Tasuni Malachai's Apprentices: Malachai's apprentices. Shavronne of Umbra, Doedre Darktongue and Inquisitor Maligaro. You'll find no more devoted servants in all of Nightmare. In life, they were the three finest forgers of corruption in the Empire.

    I'm inclined to agree with Malachai on this one. It would have been such a waste to let them languish in death.

    Poor Deshret. Each had their wicked way with her, you see, their turn at trying to subsume Deshret into the collective corruption. Ingenious, they are. True artists. Had Deshret been in possession of an imagination, they might well have succeeded in creating a Ghast of her. Fortunately for us, Deshret never had such a faculty.
  • Tasuni Malachai: Malachai is what every Ghast aspires to be. The hands and eyes, the voice and mind of the Beast itself.

    I see him in my dreams, forming his designs, crafting his tools, refining the chaos of nightmare into a vision. A future that you and I would not recognise.

    That neither you or I belong to unless, of course, we choose to accept the dark embrace.

    This is Malachai's greatest work. An act of invention like none other. Should he succeed, he will awaken the Beast.

    What then? The Beast is not Death. Life will go on. A life like nothing we have seen before.
    • 16Enter the Black Core
    Piety has used Malachai's organs to gain access to the Black Core and offered to help fight him. Go inside and kill Malachai.
  • Enter the Black Core

    • Area: The Harvest
    NPC:
  • Dialla Malachai: Yes, I see my Malachai dancing within the darkest. Puppet and Master, power and bondage, cut the strings and the puppet falls. The show ends.

    Before you cut the cords, my Not-a-Cockroach, tell my dearest Malachai that he has played his part most wonderfully.

    Tell him that I love him, from the bottom of my hate.
    • 17Enter the Black Core
    You have killed all three of Malachai's guardians. Enter the Black Core and kill Malachai.
  • Enter the Black Core

    • Area: The Harvest
    18Kill Malachai's remaining guardian
    Kill Malachai's remaining guardian, Maligaro, to access the Black Core.
  • Kill Maligaro to access the Black Core

    • Area: The Harvest
    19Kill Malachai's remaining guardian
    Kill Malachai's remaining guardian, Shavronne, to access the Black Core.
  • Kill Shavronne to access the Black Core

    • Area: The Harvest
    20Kill Malachai's remaining guardian
    Kill Malachai's remaining guardian, Doedre, to access the Black Core.
  • Kill Doedre to access the Black Core

    • Area: The Harvest
    21Kill Malachai's remaining guardians
    Kill Malachai's remaining guardians, Maligaro and Shavronne, to access the Black Core.
  • Kill Maligaro Kill Shavronne

    • Area: The Harvest
    22Kill Malachai's remaining guardians
    Kill Malachai's remaining guardians, Doedre and Maligaro, to access the Black Core.
  • Kill Doedre Kill Maligaro

    • Area: The Harvest
    23Kill Malachai's remaining guardians
    Kill Malachai's remaining guardians, Doedre and Shavronne, to access the Black Core.
  • Kill Doedre Kill Shavronne

    • Area: The Harvest
    24Kill Malachai's three guardians
    Kill Malachai's three guardians, Maligaro, Doedre, and Shavronne, to access the Black Core.
  • Kill Doedre Kill Maligaro Kill Shavronne

    • Area: The Harvest
    25Kill Malachai
    Piety has helped you gain access to Malachai's inner sanctum, the Black Core. Kill him to destroy the Beast.
  • Kill Malachai

    • Area: The Harvest
    26Talk to Tasuni
    Quest Complete - You have entered the Black Core and killed Malachai. Now talk to Tasuni in Highgate.
  • Talk to Tasuni

    • Area: Highgate
    NPC:
  • Akoya The Return of the Gods: Like many others, the Karui gods have awakened, but aside from Tukohama and Kitava, we have heard nothing of their activities. They walk Wraeclast like in times of old, so—where are they? Our descendants come to us and ask us when the gods will return home. For this, we have no answer. Even Hinekora seems unwilling to speak on what she sees.
  • Akoya The Return of the Gods: Like many others, the Karui gods have awakened, but aside from Tukohama and Kitava, we have heard nothing of their activities. They walk Wraeclast like in times of old, so—where are they? Our descendants come to us and ask us when the gods will return home. For this, we have no answer. Even Hinekora seems unwilling to speak on what she sees.
  • Dialla Malachai: A Shadow returns from the darkness. A shadow that stinks of vengeance served. A shadow drenched in the End of the World. The blackest shadow.

    My Malachai is dead. I knew it, felt it, understood it the moment you struck the final blow. I am, I was... the Gemling Queen, and now my King is dead.
  • Dialla Malachai: The little girl walked into a dark, dark cave. The little girl met a dark, dark Beast. The little girl ate its dark, dark heart.

    My Malachai is dead. I knew it, felt it, understood it the moment you struck the final blow. I am, I was... the Gemling Queen, and now my King is dead.
  • Dialla Malachai: "The righteous shall inherit." Voll said that, in a candlelit sermon on the eve of cataclysm. The only smart thing that idiot ever said. The only time God actually agreed with him.

    My Malachai is dead. I knew it, felt it, understood it the moment you struck the final blow. I am, I was... the Gemling Queen, and now my King is dead.
  • Dialla Malachai: I've met just one other man like you upon this long and twisted thread that is my life. Chitus. A man who understood what it took to give himself absolutely to Glory.

    Yet, you and he are different in one tiny, little way. Chitus died gloriously. You did not.

    And now it is my Malachai who is dead. I knew it, felt it, understood it the moment you struck the final blow. I am, I was... the Gemling Queen, and now my King is dead.
  • Dialla Malachai: Malachai once said to me that those that hunt for love will never find it, and those that accept that they are love's prey are sure to be found... and devoured.

    Of course, he had never met you, until now.

    My Malachai is dead. I knew it, felt it, understood it the moment you struck the final blow. I am, I was... the Gemling Queen, and now my King is dead.
  • Dialla Malachai: You have fought a long war. A war to end a world, and begin a new one. And you've learned the most important thing about war.

    There is no winning. There is only remaining.

    My Malachai is dead. I knew it, felt it, understood it the moment you struck the final blow. I am, I was... the Gemling Queen, and now my King is dead.
  • Dialla Malachai: It was said that Malachai was the greatest mind of our age. Our age is gone. This new age, it belongs to you. It was also said that 'great minds think alike'. Let's hope not.

    So my Malachai is dead? Yes... I knew it, felt it, understood it the moment you struck the final blow. I am, I was... the Gemling Queen, and now my King is dead.
  • Dialla Dialla: What is that in your eyes? That glistening, that... softness. Is that pity?

    Take those pitying eyes away before I pluck them from your face!
  • Kira Malachai: What cannot be understood should be feared. It is the first rule that a child learns.

    There is no shame in my saying this: I fear you, Witch.
  • Kira Malachai: You have slain the Nightmare for your own reasons, Shadow.

    It worries me that I don't know what those reasons are. It would worry me even more if {you} didn't know either.
  • Kira Malachai: What do we call you now? Saviour? Messiah?

    Just remember this, Templar. Your 'Faith' didn't kill the Nightmare. You did.
  • Kira Malachai: A predator is defined by its prey.

    Now that your prey is dead, great hunter, what will become of you?
  • Kira Malachai: The Beast is dead, and Wraeclast owes you its life. Is this the grand ending you were hoping for, Duelist?

    Yes, you must be very proud of yourself.
  • Kira Malachai: I've never met a man more able, more ready, to take life and crush it in his hand.

    Is there anything else you can do? If not, this land has something more it needs to worry about.
  • Kira Malachai: The Nightmare is gone and my {akhara} is free to return to the plains.

    We thank you, Lady of Oriath... but do not mistake our gratitude for debt.
  • Navali Hinekora: The Mother of Death is all that stands between us and oblivion. Before she embraced us, those that died simply ceased to be. Now, the souls of the Karui people continue on, lending their wisdom and strength to those that follow. When you slew the Beast and allowed her to awaken, you did the Karui people a great service. We will weave you into the sung tales of our heroes.
  • Navali Hinekora: The Mother of Death is all that stands between us and oblivion. Before she embraced us, those that died simply ceased to be. Now, the souls of the Karui people continue on, lending their wisdom and strength to those that follow. When you slew the Beast and allowed her to awaken, you did the Karui people a great service. We will weave you into the sung tales of our heroes.
  • Navali The Awakening of the Gods: When you slew the Beast, you ended the Slumber of the Gods. Hinekora is finally awake, and the Halls of the Dead clamour with the joyous songs of our people. You cannot possibly understand the import of this change. The greater sum of our people, countless generations of Karui warriors, have never known their goddess. I myself have only ever spoken to her in her dreams. To hear her voice is to know that every sacrifice I made for my people was justified. This is the gift that you have given us... that you have given me.
  • Navali The Awakening of the Gods: When you slew the Beast, you ended the Slumber of the Gods. Hinekora is finally awake, and the Halls of the Dead clamour with the joyous songs of our people. You cannot possibly understand the import of this change. The greater sum of our people, countless generations of Karui warriors, have never known their goddess. I myself have only ever spoken to her in her dreams. To hear her voice is to know that every sacrifice I made for my people was justified. This is the gift that you have given us... that you have given me.
  • Oyun Malachai: I was right to have faith in you, Curse-breaker.

    You have succeeded where we have failed. You have slain a creature that was thought to live forever in the minds of those who came before you.

    Voll, Daresso, Kaom, Deshret... the greatest champions Wraeclast has seen in the last three hundred years. You stood where they fell. Now you are the champion of champions, and Wraeclast should bow at your feet in gratitude.

    You certainly have my gratitude, and that of my {akhara}. We have been exiled from our land by fear and misguided duty. Now we may return, to ride where we will, live how we wish.

    Curse-breaker, Giver of Freedom... we thank you.
  • Petarus and Vanja Malachai: Petarus: It's obvious to everyone now.

    Vanja: There's no one like you, Witch.

    Petarus: The Beast learned that the hard way...

    Vanja: ...and the whole of Wraeclast will learn about it, one way or another.

    Petarus: So, I guess this is the happily-ever-after they promised us when we were kids, right, Vanja?

    Vanja: For us, for Wraeclast... maybe. What about you, sister? Do you even know what that looks like for you?

    Petarus: There's plenty of happiness to go around now.

    Vanja: You deserve a piece of it.
  • Petarus and Vanja Malachai: Petarus: There's no arena, no trophy, no accolade, no title...

    Vanja: ...no end to what Petarus could spout in your honour.

    Petarus: In this case, I think it's all right to do so for a bit, don't you? We're standing in the presence of the greatest Duelist that ever lived.

    Vanja: For once, I actually agree with him.

    Petarus: You've done more than attain glory, Duelist. You've saved the entire bloody world!

    Vanja: We needed a hero and you rose to the occasion. Thank you.
  • Petarus and Vanja Malachai: Petarus: I am proud to be part of the Order. Your order, my Lord.

    Vanja: And I am sorry. I should have had more Faith. I've always believed in God. It's just that, until now, I didn't think the Templar did.

    Petarus: I guess sometimes it takes a miracle, something to prove that we're not on our own in this world.

    Vanja: True. Thank you, Templar, for reminding me what it's like to believe. It's a luxury that I haven't been able to afford.

    Petarus: Yet it's something that all of Wraeclast can have now.
  • Petarus and Vanja Malachai: Vanja: I am proud to know you, Karui.

    Petarus: And I'm sorry. I should have been less hasty...

    Vanja: ...bigoted?

    Petarus: {Quick to judge}, but, then... Wraeclast tends to bring that out in people. Quick to judge or quick to die... it's been that way for far too long.

    Vanja: But thanks to our warrior here, that could all begin to change.

    Petarus: Dominus is gone. The Beast is gone. Feels like we can all start again now.

    Vanja: Oriathan and Karui, everyone. Thanks to you.
  • Petarus and Vanja Malachai: Petarus: We are in your debt, my Lady, and soon enough all of Wraeclast will understand the thanks it owes you.

    Vanja: You're actually the first highborn woman I've ever met who {deserves} to be called 'my Lady'.

    Petarus: Vanja!

    Vanja: It's true and she knows it. Leadership isn't about power, it's about responsibility, and this Lady took the burden from the entire world.

    Petarus: Well said, Vanja!

    Vanja: It'd pay for Petarus to listen to me more often, but when it comes to you, Scion, I'm glad he didn't.
  • Petarus and Vanja Malachai: Vanja: You are indeed a wonder, mountain cat.

    Petarus: Oh, so she's allowed to share our campfire now, is she?

    Vanja: I can admit when I'm wrong.

    Petarus: Sure, someone just has to save the world before you do it.

    Vanja: A girl's got to have standards, Petarus.

    Petarus: Well, I think it's safe to say, Vanja, that our Ranger here has managed to set a whole new standard. One that the whole of Wraeclast will need to live up to.

    Vanja: I'm happy to say that I think you're right, Petarus. So utterly, wonderfully, right.
  • Petarus and Vanja Malachai: Vanja: I thought you were going to teach us how to survive, Shadow. Instead, you've given us all the chance to far more than just that. You've given us a chance to live.

    Petarus: Yes... maybe I was wrong about you.

    Vanja: Maybe?

    Petarus: Completely and utterly wrong, and happy for it. How's that?

    Vanja: Perfect.

    Petarus: And what's next for you, Shadow? You've committed the greatest murder in the history of Wraeclast. How will you top that?

    Vanja: He's a resourceful man, Petarus. He'll figure something out.
  • Tasuni Malachai's Apprentices: If Deshret were able, she'd thank you for dispatching her tormentors, Malachai's wicked little trio. You'll have to content yourself with my thanks, instead. Deshret has been avenged, as is the way of the Maraketh. Tidiness helps one sleep at night, don't you think?
  • Tasuni Malachai: It took a Shadow to destroy the darkness. The progeny of light, bound to obey the candle whether he likes it or not.

    I know that's not quite what you expected to hear but then the expected is not always what's needed. You have come to the end of the world, and now you need to return to the beginning.

    Oriath. Upon the mountain high, a gateway has opened, one that shall lead you back home. Hurry, for as the death throes of the Beast soften and still, I see the gate beginning to close.

    Follow the light, for that's what Shadows do, don't they?
  • Tasuni Malachai: Ah, Witch. I knew you would embrace the Beast. Yet I couldn't know that you would squeeze the very life from it. Honestly didn't think you had that much love in you.

    Now one thing remains to be seen. Your regard, your touch, your embrace... can mean only doom for the loved. Please, choose your loves wisely, Witch, lest you break poor Oriath's heart.

    Yes, that's right. Oriath. Upon the mountain high, a gateway has opened, one that shall lead you back home. Hurry, for as the death throes of the Beast soften and still, I see the gate beginning to close.

    Follow your heart, Witch, no matter how dark it becomes.
  • Tasuni Malachai: You are a confusing creature, Duelist. Your heart beats for no one but yourself yet you have committed the greatest and most selfless of acts. Was it an act of the heart or merely... an act?

    Regardless, you may now stride heroically into the sunset, back to your grand arena.

    Yes, in Oriath. Upon the mountain high, a gateway has opened, one that shall lead you back home. Hurry, for as the death throes of Beast soften and still, I see the gate beginning to close.

    Ever pursue your glory, Duelist, lest you be forgotten.
  • Tasuni Malachai: You're going to tell me that you didn't kill the Beast, that it was simply your God acting through you. Please don't. I fear I might be ill upon your self-righteous toes.

    No, Templar. You did this. The oh-so-ordinary man who shall be heralded as 'the chosen one' by the adoring sheep of Oriath.

    Yes, Oriath. Upon the mountain high, a gateway has opened, one that shall lead you back to your flock. Hurry, for as the death throes of Beast soften and still, I see the gate beginning to close.

    Continue to believe in those lies, Templar. It brings out the best in you.
  • Tasuni Malachai: For a lover of nature, Ranger, you surely know how to destroy it. Yes, you can argue, that the Beast was beyond nature, unnatural to its blackened core. I won't believe you though. It {died} after all. Quite a natural thing to do, wouldn't you say?

    Something to think about on your way back to Oriath, Ranger.

    Yes, Oriath. Upon the mountain high, a gateway has opened, one that shall lead you back home. Hurry, for as the death throes of Beast soften and still, I see the gate beginning to close.

    Continue your wild ways, Ranger. They seem to come so... naturally.
  • Tasuni Malachai: I'm sure your Ancestors are very proud of you, Marauder. Yet also rather... confused. For even the great and powerful Beast could not slay you! And if you can't be killed then how will you ever sit at your Ancestors' table?

    Quite a conundrum that. Something to mull over on your way back to Oriath.

    Yes, Oriath. Upon the mountain high, a gateway has opened, one that shall lead you back to where it all began. Hurry, for as the death throes of Beast soften and still, I see the gate beginning to close.

    No one ever said that the Karui Way was an easy way, Marauder.
  • Tasuni Malachai: You had no idea who you were when you left Oriath, did you? A slave to the names others gave you. So you went ahead and forged yourself anew. Bane of Nightmare, Purger of Corruption.

    But that leaves us with a rather tricky question, doesn't it? Who are you, when everything you have lived for is gone? Perhaps the answer awaits you in Oriath.

    Yes, Oriath. Upon the mountain high, a gateway has opened, one that shall lead you back home. Hurry, for as the death throes of Beast soften and still, I see the gate beginning to close.

    So many questions, Scion. Yet the answer is so often the same.
  • Alira Hand in Amulets: That was almost better than Oriathan chocolate. You keep this trinket... to remember me by on your travels.

    I'd ask you to stay but I think we both know where that would lead. How does the old maxim go? Oh yes: "familiarity breeds contempt, and contempt is murder's concubine."

    A threat? No, my dear. Merely reality.
  • Alira Hand in Amulets: That was almost better than Oriathan chocolate. You keep this trinket... to remember me by on your travels.

    I'd ask you to stay but I think we both know where that would lead. How does the old maxim go? Oh yes: "familiarity breeds contempt, and contempt is murder's concubine."

    A threat? No, my dear. Merely reality.
  • Alira Alira's Rivals: Now go, my best of friends, and temper that sharp mind of yours in the blood of my enemies. I shall await your return with much... anticipation.
  • Alira Alira's Rivals: Now go, my best of friends, and temper that sharp mind of yours in the blood of my enemies. I shall await your return with much... anticipation.
  • Clarissa The Ankh of Eternity: Exile... you've helped me before. You can help me again, can't you?

    The Ankh of Eternity. If the legends are correct, the Ankh has powers over life and death... when paired with the correct Azmerian ritual.

    I've learned the ritual. All I need is the Ankh of Eternity and I know I can bring Tolman back.

    Will you retrieve the artefact for us?
  • Kraityn Hand in Amulets: Ah, sweeter than mother's milk. Might as well take this pretty husk with you. Something to remember me by.

    Nice working with you, matey. I wish you luck on your travels but, from what I seen, you won't be needing it.
  • Kraityn Hand in Amulets: Ah, sweeter than mother's milk. Might as well take this pretty husk with you. Something to remember me by.

    Nice working with you, matey. I wish you luck on your travels but, from what I seen, you won't be needing it.
  • Kraityn Kraityn's Rivals: No pain, no gain, I once heard someone say. Make sure it's Oak and Alira's pain now, won't you. And lots of it.
  • Kraityn Kraityn's Rivals: No pain, no gain, I once heard someone say. Make sure it's Oak and Alira's pain now, won't you. And lots of it.
  • Oak Hand in Amulets: Quite the rush to the head, that. You keep this, as a souvenir of your fine efforts.

    Now be on your way. Find yourself a patch of dirt to call your own, far from here. As you may have gathered, I have little tolerance for neighbours.
  • Definitely Oak Hand in Amulets: Quite the rush to the head, that. You keep this, as a souvenir of your fine efforts.

    Now be on your way. Find yourself a patch of dirt to call your own, far from here. As you may have gathered, I have little tolerance for neighbours.
  • Oak Oak's Rivals: I knew you were worthy. Rid this troubled land of two of its worst ailments... and before the light leaves Kraityn's and Alira's eyes, be sure to tell them that Oak sent you.
  • Definitely Oak Oak's Rivals: I knew you were worthy. Rid this troubled land of two of its worst ailments... and before the light leaves Kraityn's and Alira's eyes, be sure to tell them that Oak sent you.
  • Piety Malachai's Organs: You work fast!

    You know, it is no mere 'freak of nightmare' that fashioned that monstrous version of myself, the one you so kindly despatched.

    The Godless Three took great pains in getting me looking... 'just so'. They were none too gentle about it either.

    So no need to play softly with the remaining two. Treat kindness with kindness.
  • Piety Malachai's Organs: You work fast!

    You know, it is no mere 'freak of nightmare' that fashioned that monstrous version of myself, the one you so kindly despatched.

    The Godless Three took great pains in getting me looking... 'just so'. They were none too gentle about it either.

    So no need to play softly with the remaining two. Treat kindness with kindness.
  • Piety Malachai's Organs: Good! Two down, one to go.

    You know, prior to meeting Maligaro, Shavronne and Doedre, I rather admired them. Their work, their accomplishments... sheer genius! As it turns out, genius is something better appreciated from afar.

    So let's remove this one, last genius from the vicinity, shall we?
  • Piety Malachai's Organs: Good! Two down, one to go.

    You know, prior to meeting Maligaro, Shavronne and Doedre, I rather admired them. Their work, their accomplishments... sheer genius! As it turns out, genius is something better appreciated from afar.

    So let's remove this one, last genius from the vicinity, shall we?
  • Piety Malachai's Organs: Good! Two down, one to go.

    You know, prior to meeting Maligaro, Shavronne and Doedre, I rather admired them. Their work, their accomplishments... sheer genius! As it turns out, genius is something better appreciated from afar.

    So let's remove this one, last genius from the vicinity, shall we?
    • 27Talk to Tasuni
    Quest Complete - You have entered the Black Core and killed Malachai. Now talk to Tasuni in Highgate.
  • Talk to Tasuni

    • Area: Highgate
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    Quest Complete - You have entered the Black Core and killed Malachai.
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    Quest Complete - You have entered the Black Core and killed Malachai.
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