The Eternal Nightmare
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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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1 | Talk to Dialla Dialla is waiting for you on the Aqueduct. Talk to her and see what she wants. Area: The Aqueduct |
2 | Go to Highgate Dialla has asked you to go to Highgate, north of the Aqueduct. Travel there to learn more. Area: Highgate NPC: |
3 | Talk 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. Area: Highgate |
4 | Talk to Oyun Dialla wants you to destroy the darkness in the mountain. Talk to Oyun for advice. 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. Area: The Mines NPC: 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. 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. Area: Highgate |
7 | Find the Rapture Device Dialla has asked you find the Rapture Device and use it to kill the Beast. Find it deep within the Mines. Area: The Crystal Veins NPC: The vessel was strong and oh-so willing. The medicine was oh-so weak. |
8 | Talk to Dialla You have found the Rapture Device deep within the Crystal Veins. Talk to Dialla there. Area: The Crystal Veins |
9 | Find 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. Area: The Crystal Veins NPC: 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. I know not why, but those three words frightened me more than any I have heard in my lifetime. 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. 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. 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? 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. 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. Area: The Belly of the Beast NPC: 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. Dialla's path would lead us into Cataclysm. Follow your own path from now on. 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. 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. Whether by purpose or desire, you are the physician who has revealed Dialla's truest nature. They are carved and crafted, manipulated with malevolent creativity into becoming Malachai's servants. Forged into Ghasts of pure Nightmare. |
11 | Enter 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. 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. Area: The Belly of the Beast |
13 | Kill 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. Area: The Belly of the Beast |
14 | Talk to Piety Piety seems to have reverted to her human form and wants to parley. Talk to her in the Belly of the Beast. Area: The Belly of the Beast NPC: 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. Area: The Harvest NPC: 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. 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. 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. |
16 | Enter 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. Area: The Harvest NPC: 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. |
17 | Enter the Black Core You have killed all three of Malachai's guardians. Enter the Black Core and kill Malachai. Area: The Harvest |
18 | Kill Malachai's remaining guardian Kill Malachai's remaining guardian, Maligaro, to access the Black Core. Area: The Harvest |
19 | Kill Malachai's remaining guardian Kill Malachai's remaining guardian, Shavronne, to access the Black Core. Area: The Harvest |
20 | Kill Malachai's remaining guardian Kill Malachai's remaining guardian, Doedre, to access the Black Core. Area: The Harvest |
21 | Kill Malachai's remaining guardians Kill Malachai's remaining guardians, Maligaro and Shavronne, to access the Black Core. Area: The Harvest |
22 | Kill Malachai's remaining guardians Kill Malachai's remaining guardians, Doedre and Maligaro, to access the Black Core. Area: The Harvest |
23 | Kill Malachai's remaining guardians Kill Malachai's remaining guardians, Doedre and Shavronne, to access the Black Core. Area: The Harvest |
24 | Kill Malachai's three guardians Kill Malachai's three guardians, Maligaro, Doedre, and Shavronne, to access the Black Core. Area: The Harvest |
25 | Kill Malachai Piety has helped you gain access to Malachai's inner sanctum, the Black Core. Kill him to destroy the Beast. Area: The Harvest |
26 | Talk to Tasuni Quest Complete - You have entered the Black Core and killed Malachai. Now talk to Tasuni in Highgate. Area: Highgate NPC: 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Take those pitying eyes away before I pluck them from your face! There is no shame in my saying this: I fear you, Witch. It worries me that I don't know what those reasons are. It would worry me even more if {you} didn't know either. Just remember this, Templar. Your 'Faith' didn't kill the Nightmare. You did. Now that your prey is dead, great hunter, what will become of you? Yes, you must be very proud of yourself. Is there anything else you can do? If not, this land has something more it needs to worry about. We thank you, Lady of Oriath... but do not mistake our gratitude for debt. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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: 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: 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. 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? 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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? Nice working with you, matey. I wish you luck on your travels but, from what I seen, you won't be needing it. Nice working with you, matey. I wish you luck on your travels but, from what I seen, you won't be needing it. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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? 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? 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? |
27 | Talk to Tasuni Quest Complete - You have entered the Black Core and killed Malachai. Now talk to Tasuni in Highgate. Area: Highgate |
28 | Quest Complete - You have entered the Black Core and killed Malachai. |
29 | Quest Complete - You have entered the Black Core and killed Malachai. |
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