The King of Desire
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Act 4
Dialla requires the Eye of Desire to activate the Rapture Device, but it is guarded by Daresso, King of Swords. Take it from him and deliver it to Dialla.
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Dialla requires the Eye of Desire to activate the Rapture Device, but it is guarded by Daresso, King of Swords. Take it from him and deliver it to Dialla.
  • Find Daresso and the Eye of Desire

  • Area: The Grand Arena
    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.
  • 2Kill Daresso
    Dialla requires the Eye of Desire to activate the Rapture Device, but it is guarded by Daresso, King of Swords. Kill him and deliver the Eye to Dialla.
  • Kill Daresso

  • Area: The Grand Arena
    3Take the Eye of Desire
    Dialla requires the Eye of Desire to activate the Rapture Device. Take it and deliver it to Dialla in the Mines.
  • Take the Eye of Desire

  • Area: The Grand Arena
    4Deliver the Eye of Desire to Dialla
    Dialla requires the Eye of Desire to activate the Rapture Device. Deliver it to her in the Mines.
  • Deliver the Eye of Desire to Dialla

  • Area: The Crystal Veins
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  • Lady Dialla The Eye of Desire: Pried the Desire from Daresso's dead hand, did you? Or is it 'dead again' hand? Or 'redead' hand? Or is 'undeath' really just death with benefits?

    In which case, you didn't kill Daresso because he was already dead. It's all a bit of a grey area, really. And completely beside the point.
  • Lady Dialla The Rapture: Fury and Desire, together again. Lovely and lovely. Facets so shiny, replete with the vim of murdered souls.

    My Malachai did the crafting. Beautiful work. General Adus did the murdering. Equally beautiful work, in its own juicy way.
  • Lady Dialla The Rapture: Fury and Desire, together again. Lovely and lovely. Facets so shiny, replete with the vim of murdered souls.

    My Malachai did the crafting. Beautiful work. General Adus did the murdering. Equally beautiful work, in its own juicy way.
  • 5
    Quest Complete - You have killed Daresso and delivered the Eye of Desire to Dialla. Once you have delivered both Eyes, she will reward you.
    NPC:
  • Lady Dialla The Rapture: Fury and Desire, together again. Lovely and lovely. Facets so shiny, replete with the vim of murdered souls.

    My Malachai did the crafting. Beautiful work. General Adus did the murdering. Equally beautiful work, in its own juicy way.
  • Lady Dialla The Eye of Fury: Yet we're still one gem short. Go, Not-a-Cockroach, and relieve Kaom of his Fury.
  • Lady Dialla The Rapture: Num nums time, my little Rapture!

    {"Have you ever been to the End of the World before, my King?" asked the Blackest Monkey.

    "No, I have not." realised the Monkey King.

    "There is my reason to go where you go, be where you be, my King," concluded the Blackest Monkey in a voice as warm and welcoming as death.}

    Do you know who wrote that, Not-a-Cockroach? Victario Nevalius, the People's Poet of Sarn. He was my friend... and I betrayed him. Took his love and burned it before his eyes.

    Now I am betrayed. My heart burned black by the one man I loved... Malachai.

    He's found a new heart, you see. A Beast's heart to cuddle up to, to keep him warm and safe at the End of the World.

    Today, I remind Malachai of his betrayal. Today, it is his turn to burn...
  • Petarus and Vanja Daresso: Petarus: You killed the Sword King?

    Vanja: Daresso wasn't {actually} alive, Petarus.

    Petarus: Daresso must have thought he was alive.

    Vanja: True. Thinking and being... a bit of a blurred line here in Wraeclast.

    Petarus: Exactly.
  • Tasuni Daresso: Daresso was always a good man at heart, chained to an eternity of love and triumph.

    You set him free.
  • 6
    Quest Complete - You have killed Daresso and delivered the Eye of Desire to Dialla. Talk to her in town for a reward.
  • Talk to Dialla in town for a reward

  • Area: Highgate
    NPC:
  • Lady Dialla The Rapture: Fury and Desire, together again. Lovely and lovely. Facets so shiny, replete with the vim of murdered souls.

    My Malachai did the crafting. Beautiful work. General Adus did the murdering. Equally beautiful work, in its own juicy way.
  • Lady Dialla The Eye of Desire: Yet we're still one gem short. Go, Not-a-Cockroach, and relieve Daresso of his Desire.
  • Lady Dialla The Rapture: Num nums time, my little Rapture!

    {"Have you ever been to the End of the World before, my King?" asked the Blackest Monkey.

    "No, I have not." realised the Monkey King.

    "There is my reason to go where you go, be where you be, my King," concluded the Blackest Monkey in a voice as warm and welcoming as death.}

    Do you know who wrote that, Not-a-Cockroach? Victario Nevalius, the People's Poet of Sarn. He was my friend... and I betrayed him. Took his love and burned it before his eyes.

    Now I am betrayed. My heart burned black by the one man I loved... Malachai.

    He's found a new heart, you see. A Beast's heart to cuddle up to, to keep him warm and safe at the End of the World.

    Today, I remind Malachai of his betrayal. Today, it is his turn to burn...
  • Oyun Kaom: I am told that you have put King Kaom down to his final rest.

    Curse-breaker, and now the Murderer of Legends. Great names hatch upon you like ticks on a rhoa.
  • Tasuni Kaom: Nightmare gave Kaom everything he ever dreamed of. How did it feel to make that dream die?
  • 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...
  • 7Quest Complete
    Quest Complete - You have killed Daresso and delivered the Eye of Desire to Dialla. She has rewarded you.
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