Demoniacal Cult

Demoniacal Cult
Details
Type:	Main
Questline:	A Cure for Malichor
Rewards:	+1700 XP

Demoniacal Cult is a main quest in Greedfall.

Objectives

• Go to the village indicated by Petrus.
• Talk to the missionaries sent by the Mother Cardinal.
• Question Derdre, the village chief.
• Question the village doneigad.
• Question the village inhabitants.
• Speak to Sister Ephesia about the information retained.
• Search the nervous man's home
• Divert the worried man's attention.
• Report your discoveries to Sister Ephesia.
• Hide at the village exit and wait for night to fall.
• Discreetly follow the nervous man.
• Follow the road.
• Find a way to enter the passage.
• Light the Candles in the right order.
  • Wind
  • Lightning
  • Fire
  • Death
  • Water
  • Life
• Investigate in the cave.
• Speak to Derdre about what you saw in the cave.

Dialogue

• Go to the village indicated by Petrus.

Talk to the missionaries sent by the Mother Cardinal.

• Sister Ephesia: Ah! You are from the continent, are you not? You are different than the people from here.
• (If Petrus is present)
  • Petrus: Delighted to see you again, Sister Ephesia.
  • Sister Ephesia: Father Petrus? Is that really you? What are you doing here?
  • Petrus: Merely a courtesy call.
• (If Petrus is not present)
  • De Sardet: Indeed. I am from the Congregation of Merchants. My name is De Sardet. To whom do I have the privilege?
  • Sister Ephesia: Sister Ephesia, envoy of Thélème, by the grace of the Illuminated. Enchanted! The Mother Cardinal has tasked me to investigate the activities of this village.
  • De Sardet: She also sent me here, to be your second.
  • Sister Ephesia: What excellent news! You cannot imagine how much comfort that brings me.

• Sister Ephesia: How might I help you?
  • Speak about the heretic investigation
    • De Sardet: How has your mission fared up until now, sister?
    • Sister Ephesia: Not very well, I'm afraid. I haven’t been able to get very much from these villagers. Their chief and their…priest are evasive when questioned. As for the other natives, their behavior can be quite odd. They’ll spend hours just staring into the void. But as soon as I come close they chase me away. They frighten me, I must admit. There is a heavy veil of evil here. I feel it, but I'm not able to find from whence it comes. Perhaps you should talk to them. They may speak to you. Anything else?
  • Speak about her arrival in the village
    • De Sardet: Have you been here for a long time?
    • Sister Ephesia: Since the beginning of my investigation. A few weeks, perhaps. Although it feels like months. I’m not particularly fond of the wild and I find this place unsettling.
    • De Sardet: I see.
    • Sister Ephesia: Anything else?
• De Sardet: That will be all, Sister Ephesia, thank you.

Question Derdre, the village chief.

• Derdre: Beurd tír to mad, on ol menawí. I am Derdre, daughter of Enora, daughter of Rowenna, mál of this clan. What do you seek?
• Speak about the Mageocracy investigation
  • Ask her about their beliefs
    • De Sardet: Can you tell me something about your beliefs?
    • Derdre: We believe that we are part of an everything, and that life depends on a balance that comes from this everything. Our strength is drawn from that which we protect, all that surrounds us. And that which surrounds us feeds and protects us in return.
  • Ask her about their rituals
    • De Sardet: What can you tell me about your rituals?
    • Derdre: Ah, I have heard this question before. You sound like the Mind Shaker woman. The rituals are the business of the doneigada, not of the renaigse.
  • Ask about her clan
    • De Sardet: What can you tell me about your clan?
    • Derdre: My people are proud, full of courage and tough. That which destroys others makes us stronger. Many of them fear us, even amongst the other clans, because the fury of the storm warriors is a story often told. But when we are not fighting, we are peaceful people, and we are happy guarding over our sacred woods.
  • Ask her about the missionaries
    • De Sardet: Tell me about the missionaries that came here.
    • Derdre: They came to meet us and used their magic to shake our minds, tempt us to turn away from our ways. But it takes more than a few illusions to make us abandon our beliefs. They gave up and left, and we do not miss their presence. The woman and her guards came after that. They are more silent, but we keep our eyes open wide.
  • Ask about the demon
    • De Sardet: Do you know anything about a demon that would be worshipped by your clan?
    • Derdre: It is not enough to take us for idiots, and now you accuse us of bowing down to evil creatures. But a lack of understanding leads to fear, so I will not prove you wrong. An enemy who knows fear is already defeated.

After asking Derdre two questions, the dialogue changes to:

• Speak about the Mageocracy investigation
  • De Sardet: Concerning this story about a cult…
  • Derdre: Enough! Enough questions, I have nothing more to say.

Question the village doneigad.

• De Sardet: Good day, are you the… wise man of this village?
• Valan: Beurd tír to mad, renaigse. I am the doneigad, yes.
• De Sardet: I would like to ask you a few questions, if you don't mind.
• Valan: The people of your island are constantly asking questions, yet reject any answers that displease them. Questions have no value when one already claims to know the answers.
• De Sardet: But—
• Valan: It is your case. You believe you know the answers, you seek only their echo. Answer your own questions, at least then, the answers will please you, and we shall be done with your foolishness.
• De Sardet: That is not what I—
• Valan: Kwa awelam seg! May your answers fill your day with bounty!

Question the village inhabitants.

• Male Vedleug Villager: Beurd tír to mad, on ol menawí. What do you want?
  • Ask him his role in the village
    • De Sardet: You’re different from the others; what is your role in the village?
    • Vedleug Villager: Different? Why?
    • De Sardet: Well, for one, you answer me when I speak.
    • Vedleug Villager: You others, when we don’t answer you, you start digging for answers everywhere else. I am a gatherer, I hunt a little. I do my part for the life of the village.
  • Ask questions about their beliefs
    • De Sardet: What can you tell me about the beliefs of your village?
    • Vedleug Villager: The beliefs of the village? That is a strange question for an on ol menawí. Our beliefs are the same as those of the other clans. We believe in the earth that carries us, and feeds on our dead, in the rains that quenches us, and drowns us, in the beasts that feed us, and in those that eat us. I do not know what more I can say to you. Everyone shares these beliefs.
  • Ask him about their rituals
    • De Sardet: What can you tell me about your rituals?
    • Vedleug Villager: Our rituals? Nothing… nothing at all. They do not concern me. I am not a doneigad, even you, you should be able to tell that. Why you bother me with these questions? I am only a gatherer. Go and bother someone else.
  • Ask him about the missionaries
    • De Sardet: Tell me about the missionaries that came here. Those who wear the symbol of the sun on their clothing.
    • Vedleug Villager: When they came, they spoke about their bright and shiny god. They told us we were wrong, said that nature was just nature, and not to be worshiped. These men know nothing. We ignored them. They finally left and then the woman came to us. She sniffed around everywhere, asking many questions, just like you. I was told that she tried to enter my own home. I even saw her trying to follow me in the woods. She must be careful, it is easy to get lost in the woods… or cross paths with wild beasts.
  • Ask about the demon
    • De Sardet: This question will seem strange to you, but do you know anything about a demon?
    • Vedleug Villager: A demon?
    • De Sardet: A dark spirit, if you prefer.
    • Vedleug Villager: No! There is no such thing as dark spirits. Your question is not strange—foolish, perhaps.

• Female Vedleug Villager: Beurd tír to mad, renaigse.
• De Sardet: Good day.
• Vedleug Villager: Do you want something?
  • Ask her about the village cult
    • De Sardet: Could you answer a few questions?
    • Vedleug Villager: Questions, questions. It is a word that you adore. Let us play a game. If you answer my questions, I will answer yours.
    • De Sardet: If it’s the only way to get answers, then, let’s play.
    • Vedleug Villager: I am pleased, we will have fun. But beware, no lies.

• Note: Both you and the villager have 5 available questions, the conversation will continue until you have both asked 2.
• Vedleug Villager: What name is given the place from where you come?
  • Answer her
    • De Sardet: I come from Serene, a grand city on the continent of Gacane.
    • Vedleug Villager: Really? It is possible that you come from there, but I believe that this is not your land. Your turn!
    • (Result: Ask the villager a question)
  • Refuse to answer
    • De Sardet: I'm not in the mood to answer that question.
    • Vedleug Villager: Truly? Even though the question is very simple? Let’s try something else.
    • (Result: The villager will ask you a different question)
• Vedleug Villager: Are you on ol menawí with your land, or did you inherit your link from your parents?
  • Answer her
    • De Sardet: I’m not bound, or at least I haven't done anything in particular to bind myself.
    • Vedleug Villager: Then it was your parents. One of them at least must have been doneigad. Your turn.
    • (Result: Ask the villager a question)
  • Refuse to answer
    • De Sardet: I don’t know how to answer you.
    • Vedleug Villager: Let’s try something else.
    • (Result: The villager will ask you a different question)
• Vedleug Villager: Why do the mind shakers wish to trouble our spirits?
  • Answer her
    • De Sardet: The people of Thélème believe there is only one true god: the god of Light. They think that all those who do not believe in their god are in error, and they must learn the truth. That if they convert everyone to their belief, then the world will be saved.
    • Vedleug Villager: Saved from what? No, don’t answer. You are sincere, but what you are saying makes no sense. If the people think truly what you have said, then they are fools. Your turn.
    • (Result: Ask the villager a question)
  • Refuse to answer
    • De Sardet: I cannot answer for them.
    • Vedleug Villager: Let’s try something else.
    • (Result: The villager will ask you a different question)
• Vedleug Villager: How…do your staffs spew the metal rocks?
  • Science (1) - Answer her
    • De Sardet:
    • Vedleug Villager:
    • (Result: Ask the villager a question)
  • Refuse to answer
    • De Sardet: I cannot answer you, I don't know what makes them work.
    • Vedleug Villager: Let’s try something else.
    • (Result: The villager will ask you a different question)
• Vedleug Villager: Why do the renaigse come to our home?
  • Answer her
    • De Sardet: They don’t all have the same reasons, but most of them are fleeing a continent that is dying. Over there, where I come from, a terrible sickness kills many of our people, and the land is scarred by war.
    • Vedleug Villager: And so your land rejects you, and you come running to our land. I am sad for your people, renaigse, but I would prefer you to run somewhere else. Your turn.
    • (Result: Ask the villager a question)
  • Refuse to answer
    • De Sardet: I cannot answer that question.
    • Vedleug Villager: You don’t have many answers to give me. Should we try again?
    • (Result: She will ask you the first question again, then ask the others again in the same order, until you answer one)

• Ask about the village
  • De Sardet: Your village seems different than the others, why is that?
  • Vedleug Villager: Each village is different than the others, it is the reflection of those who live in it and all that surrounds it. Vedleug is the village of the lightning struck wood in your language.
  • De Sardet: Why do you call it that?
  • Vedleug Villager: It is said that there was once a great fire that burned all the surrounding woods caused by the storm. But one tree that burns nourishes a new tree. Greener and stronger than before, the forest returns. We are like her: even wounded, we rise again, stronger than we were before. Our warriors are known for this by all clans. They fear us.
  • (Result: the villager will then ask you a question)
• Ask her about their beliefs
  • De Sardet: Could you tell me more about your beliefs?
  • Vedleug Villager: What a strange question. I don't believe, I know. Nature is alive, a forest is like a village. Every river, every rock, every beast, the land itself, all live, all speak to us. In exchange for these gifts, we honor her, give her our dead: this is the way of things. We do everything in our power to protect her.
  • (Result: the villager will then ask you a question)
• Ask her about the rituals
  • De Sardet: What can you tell me about the rituals?
  • Vedleug Villager: Oh, I see what interests you. You want to know how our warriors are so strong. But I don't have an answer. It is a secret of the doneigad. The rituals I know are made to celebrate nature, to honor and bring her blessings upon us.
  • (Result: the villager will then ask you a question)
• Ask about the missionaries
  • De Sardet: Tell me about the missionaries that came here.
  • Vedleug Villager: The mind shakers came here to our home, and tried to convince us to abandon our ways. No one wanted to listen to them, so they finally decided to leave. I suppose that they were full of disappointment, or angry, or simply tired… And then the others arrived. The woman is truly strange; she is aggressive and spies on us at every turn. I would prefer that she leaves as well.
  • (Result: the villager will then ask you a question)
• Ask about the demon
  • De Sardet: This is a delicate question, but would you know anything about a demon?
  • Vedleug Villager: A demon? I think that that is what the bright and shiny mind shakers call the spirits, no? There are spirits everywhere, in you, and in us, in each tree, in each spring. There is not only one. I cannot tell you more if you are not more precise in what you seek.
  • (Result: the villager will then ask you a question)

• (After asking and answering two questions)
• Vedleug Villager: It was fun! More than with the woman who makes light. She did not want to play.

• The other villagers will not enter into a conversation with you, and will only comment aloud.
  • Traitor! An on ol menawí does not wear the dress of the strangers.
  • Can’t you leave us alone? Monisainaig!
  • Leave me be, even your thoughts are loud and break my peace!
  • E renaígse ya toigend cwa hesa da elu deis… Samel míla. Mach diwígánder.

Speak to Sister Ephesia about the information retained.

• De Sardet: Anything new?
• Sister Ephesia: No, the investigation has gone stale. The villagers won’t even engage in conversation with me now. Perhaps you should talk to them, they may speak to you.
• De Sardet: I managed to exchange a few words with some villagers, but I admit they don’t seem keen to talk.
• Sister Ephesia: And did they tell you anything worth sharing?
• De Sardet: I know a little more about your beliefs. They worship nature and do not intend to change. It is certainly different from the luminous faith, but it's hardly demonic worship. Yet, there’s something strange about this village. One of the villagers that spoke with me seemed truly worried, on edge even.
• Sister Ephesia: I think I know of whom you speak: a man always looking over his shoulder. He often sneaks out of the village like a thief. I attempted to follow him, but he always eludes me. I tried to get into his… hut, to see if he was hiding anything, but someone was always there.
• De Sardet: Then we should give it a try. Perhaps we’ll fare better.

• Note: Only one companion will speak during each of the following two exchanges.
  • (If present) Petrus: This fellow did not seem very honest to me. If he’s hiding something from us, perhaps we can find out what it is by searching his house?
  • (If present) Síora: That man was looking uneasy, he must be hiding something. Maybe in his house?
  • (If present) Vasco: That fellow was really nervous. Perhaps we should try and search his house to see what he’s hiding.
  • De Sardet: He doesn’t look inclined to let us in. We’ll have to distract him.
  • (If present) Petrus: I wonder if that eccentric young lady could help us, she seems to like you. Or, of course, we could create a diversion by breaking some of these pots.
  • (If present) Vasco: I'm sure this young lady could help us. She appears to be playful and to love pranks. Or we could just break some of these pots, that’d keep him busy.
  • (If present) Síora: We could break one of his pots, that would keep him busy. Or we could ask for help.
  • De Sardet: I can pretend to be clumsy, but we’ll have to be fast and it will only work once.

Search the nervous man's home

• (Approaching the nervous man’s home if he is not distracted)
• Vedleug Villager: Go away, renaigse! You are not welcome in my home!

• Vedleug Villager: Do you want something?
  • Ask her about the nervous man
  • De Sardet: Might I ask you a few questions about the villagers?
  • Vedleug Villager: More questions? You really like this game, you really do!
  • De Sardet: If we could avoid the…
  • Vedleug Villager: Very well, but be brief then, because it is not good fun.
    • Ask about the nervous man
      • De Sardet: What can you tell me about that man down there? I spoke to him and he seemed… nervous.
      • Vedleug Villager: Don’t hold it against him. The people of the Light have already questioned us, that makes him distrustful. He is a man of few words, but he is devoted to the village and listens to the doneigad with great attention. He is a gatherer but everyone wants to know he wants to become the next voglendaig. The next…servant...of doneigad.
    • Ask where the man’s home is
      • De Sardet: Where does this man live?
      • Vedleug Villager: Down there. His dwelling is right in front of my own.
      • De Sardet: I would like to take a look inside.
      • Vedleug Villager: What? Why would you want to do that? It is his home. You have nothing to do there if you are not invited.
        • Ask her for help
          • (If Síora is present)
            • De Sardet: I really must go inside. I need to clarify something… if you can help us.
            • Síora: This request is strange, I know it is for you as well. But we must prove that the suspicions cast upon our village are not true. These people of Thélème will not give up their search without this.
            • Vedleug Villager: Hmm… Very well. I shall distract him, but be discreet and very quick. And be respectful of what you find there, be good.
            • (Result: She will immediately go distract the nervous man)
          • (If Síora is not present)
          • De Sardet: I really need to go inside, I must verify something…if you can help us…?
          • (If present) Petrus: My child, I understand you might be shocked by this request, but have no fear, we have no intention of taking or destroying anything. We would just like to put to rest a few rumors.
            • Vedleug Villager: You are one of them, aren’t you? One of these men who shakes our minds, a man of the Light?
            • Petrus: Well, that’s correct, I am a priest of Thélème.
          • (If neither Síora nor Petrus are present) De Sardet: I'm leading an investigation for the nation of Thélème, and this man is suspected of being part of a dark cult. If I could gain access to the dwelling, I would be satisfied.
          • Vedleug Villager: All of that are just words, and it is not fun. If you want my help, I want the hat of the mind shaker woman.
            • Be offended
              • De Sardet: What? Is that some sort of joke?
              • Vedleug Villager: Yes, it is… So? Perhaps she will stop coming to bother me when it is I who am wearing her hat.
              • (Result: Must choose one of the other options)
            • Accept
              • De Sardet: Very well, I will go and ask her. But I cannot promise she will accept.
            • Refuse
              • De Sardet: No, I am sorry, but I cannot ask that of her. I’ll find another means.
              • Vedleug Villager: If you change your mind…
              • (Result: Must find another way to distract the man, or accept the villager's request)
        • Attempt to intimidate
          • De Sardet: Believe me, it would be better if you help us! If I'm not able to get into that dwelling, a war party of inquisitors will rain down upon this village!
          • Vedleug Villager: We know how to fight, renaigse. If an army comes on our lands, they will nourish the earth. All of that are just words, and it is not fun. If you want my help, I want the hat of the mind shaker woman.
          • (Result: Must respond to the villager's request with one of the above options)

• De Sardet: Did you learn anything?
• Sister Ephesia: No, nothing more. Were you able to get inside the nervous man’s hut?
• De Sardet: I’m working on it.
• Sister Ephesia: Anything else?
  • Ask her for her hat
    • De Sardet: This may seem a strange request, but I've something to ask. I need you to give me your hat, so that I might sneak into the hut of the native.
    • Sister Ephesia: My hat? I don't see how it could possibly make you more discreet. Is this some sort of joke?
    • De Sardet: No, a girl is willing to help me in exchange for your bonnet.
    • Sister Ephesia: Go ahead and mock…it matters not. My mission takes precedence over my pride. Take it!

• Vedleug Villager: Do you want something?
  • Give her the hat
    • De Sardet: Here, I present you her hat.
    • Vedleug Villager: Hmm… Very well. I shall distract him, but be discreet and very quick. And be respectful of what you find there, be good.

• (If you speak with the female villager a third time)
• Vedleug Villager: You renaigse know how to make great houses and giant boats, but you are too crazy to hear the voice of nature.

• (Examine the mask in the nervous man's home)
• (If present) Síora: The cengeden anedas are known for being terrifying on the battlefield. Perhaps they wear masks such as this one?
• (If present) Vasco: I wouldn’t like to cross paths in a dark alleyway with someone wearing a mask like this.
• (If present) Petrus: What a horrible mask. How can someone wear such a thing unless they’re worshipping some dark creature?
  • (If present with Petrus) Síora: This is just a mask they wear in battle to intimidate their enemies, nothing more.
• De Sardet: I will admit that it’s rather ghastly, but I’m almost certain that the warriors of this island wear these things in battle.

• (Examine the altar in the nervous man's home)
• De Sardet: This altar is incredibly morbid. I wonder what sort of spirit could be venerated in this way.
• (If present) Síora: This sort of offering and its seals resembles nothing that we call upon in our rituals. I have never seen anything like it. It is a troubling sight.
• (If present) Petrus: This is exactly the kind of proof we’ve been looking for. An evil cult, far from some naive veneration of nature and other island spirits.
  • (If present with Petrus) Síora: The man that worships a magic lamp speaks of being naive? Oh, how it is charming.
  • Petrus: Síora, I am sorry. What I really wanted to say was that—
  • Síora: Leave it, old man, I know exactly what it is you wanted to say.

• (Examine the fresco in the nervous man's home)
• De Sardet: This painting is frightening, evoking war, a massacre. A blood bath under the likeness of a grimacing face.
• (If present) Síora: I have never seen anything like this before. This is very violent and bloody. Derdre’s clan has always been a bit…different.
• (If present) Petrus: All these gruesome and bloody horrors leave no room for doubt. There is a demonic cult here.
• (If present) Vasco: I do not believe in all those demon stories, but all these horrors do make you think.
• (If present) Petrus: We should go tell Sister Ephesia.
• (If Petrus is not present) De Sardet: We should go tell Sister Ephesia about it, she will have some advice for us.

Divert the worried man's attention.

• (If you enlisted the help of the other villager)
• Vedleug Villager: Oi! Toig, es radei em radid cwad.

• (If you broke the nervous man's pots)
• Vedleug Villager: Nod fradí! What has happened here? Who broke my pottery? It is a curse. These are broken too! If I had my hands on that joker!

Report your discoveries to Sister Ephesia.

• De Sardet: Did you learn anything?
• Sister Ephesia: No, nothing more. Were you able to get inside the nervous man's hut?
• De Sardet: I was able to sneak into the hut of our mystery man.
• Sister Ephesia: And what did you discover?
• De Sardet: Some troubling things. A ritual mask, a rather morbid altar, and a fresco depicting a massacre.
• Sister Ephesia: By the Enlightened! To think these unholy things were so near! Finally, the proof we need that there’s a blood-worshipping cult here. They cannot perform their heinous pagan rituals in the village, and I’m certain that it’s where our nervous friend sneaks off to. I failed to find where he goes, but you have already proven more competent than I.
• De Sardet: I shall try. Hopefully he won’t lead us into a trap.
• Sister Ephesia: Thank you for your help, and good luck.

Hide at the village exit and wait for night to fall.

• De Sardet: We should wait until nightfall and follow him.

• De Sardet: Here we could hide and wait. We would be able to see where this sleepless boy goes during nightfall.
• (If present) Kurt: Wake up, Green Blood, he’s here.
• (If present) Vasco: Wake up, he’s coming.
• (If present) Petrus: My child, it’s time to wake up, our nervous friend is here!

Find a way to enter the passage.

• De Sardet: Where could our man have gone?
• (If present) Síora: He must have gone through this door made out of roots.
• (If present) Petrus: These strange roots are forming some sort of door. This must be where he went.

• (If present) Síora: What’s happening? You are so pale, did the lightning-struck tree speak to you?
  • De Sardet: In a way. I saw many images. They were so real, as if I was the tree itself.
  • Síora: Do tell. This vision is surely the key to the portal.

• (If present) Vasco: Be careful! Is everything okay? You started wobbling all of a sudden.
  • De Sardet: I had a sort of flash vision: just for an instant, I was a tree in a storm.
  • Vasco: What exactly did you see? Perhaps these images will help us find an entrance into the sanctuary.

• (If present) Petrus: my child, you are very pale, as if you just saw something terrible.
  • De Sardet: That’s precisely what has happened. For a brief moment, I was this tree.
  • Petrus: This is truly some strange sorcery! What exactly did you see? Perhaps it is some sort of key.
• (If present) Kurt: That couldn’t have been pleasant. What did you see? It could be the key to entering into that cave.

• De Sardet: I was this tree and my branches were shaken by a storm so strongly that they hurt terribly. The heavens caught fire several times and I felt the lightning strike and pierce me through and through. A sinister warmth took hold of my entire body in an instant and flames began to devour me. Life left me, all was calm and I had a taste of cinder in my mouth. In spite of this, I continued to feel, and the rain began to fall on my roots. And at the very heart of my being, I felt the sap begin to flow again. A shoot appeared on my darkened roots. Then the vision dissipated. I have never experienced anything like it before.

Light the Candles in the right order.

• Wind
  • De Sardet: This stone bears the image of a storm…or perhaps the wind.
• Lightning
  • De Sardet: The drawing on this stone represents lightning.
• Fire
  • De Sardet: The drawing on this stone makes me think of fire, I am certain.
• Death
  • De Sardet: This stone is blackened, eaten away. I think it’s supposed to evoke death.
• Water
  • De Sardet: This stone is adorned with the etching of a drop of water.
• Life
  • De Sardet: This drawing looks like an infant, could it represent life?

• (If present) Síora: You did it right! By awakening these stones in the right order, the door opened.
• (If present) Vasco: You did it, it worked!
• (If present) Petrus: This island really is full of surprises and mysteries. This weird puzzle actually opened the door!

Investigate in the cave.

• De Sardet: Quiet!

• Valan: Clos duis, a to de yam ceneded olei! Tad olaun vrandí, olaun aleis, ag en olei veyí. Clos e garmam e talemí ol flínauí ca grem! Clos e ciedom ta jenteis ol arbínauí a ol slaí! Farn cwa sa cengedan fradem a dígelam! Lincwíd dwint da darbau sa ya galansend ní. Togomber neis grem ol senagauí a ren casí e crimoderem da negau ed dent. Clos duis, a ruicht neis dírí!
• En on míl frichtimen: Clois deis rharman a deis giedon, a rhenta! Es farnau fradí da ma gengedan ya digalaidándi ent. Es farnau fradí da wint gaishedon ag es farnau fradí da wint grem ol snegauí.

• (If present) Síora: What a strange ritual. I have never seen anything like it. The rituals of my village are not quite as scary.
• (If present) Petrus: There is no longer any doubt! The creature who was talking through this tree is a demon!
• (If present) Vasco: I…I’m starting to think the priest was right. This ceremony sends shivers down my spine.
• De Sardet: In any case, Thélème’s story suddenly sounds way more plausible. The doneigad who performed the ritual was the village’s. We should go talk to Derdre.

Speak to Derdre about what you saw in the cave.

• Derdre: What do you seek?
• Speak about the Mageocracy investigation
  • De Sardet: We found your sanctuary and assisted in one of your blood rituals. Was the apparition we witnessed the demon the priests were talking about?
  • Derdre: What is clear is these priests know nothing, and you know nothing.
  • (If Síora present)
  • Síora: The ritual… I've never seen anything like it. I hoped you’d be able to explain what they were trying to achieve. As you can see, my companion is not a renaigse like the others, he bears our likeness. Please share your knowledge with us. Grant us the chance to understand.
    • (Result: Proceed to Derdre's explanation below)
  • (If Síora is not present)
  • Threaten to speak of the ritual to Thélème
    • De Sardet: Explain yourself! Or, we will reveal what we have seen to the inquisitor of Thélème, he will be far less understanding than I.
    • If you think we are afraid of these men of Light… You look like us, but you act just like them. A renaigse, an enemy that seeks only to conquer the spirits of these lands. You pretend to understand our customs, so show you are worthy of our trust. If you confront in fair contest my warriors and defeat them, I will speak with you.
    • (Must defeat the Tempest Warriors in combat to proceed)
      • Derdre: I admit that for a renaigse, you know how to fight with honor.
      • Natives: Reputation +1
      • (Result: Proceed to Derdre's explanation below)
  • Charisma - Try to convince her
    • De Sardet: I am not from Thélème, I cast no judgment upon your beliefs. But if you want us to help you, you need to help us understand.
    • (If successful)
      • Derdre: I doubt that you would be able to understand, but…
      • (Result: Proceed to Derdre's explanation below)
    • (If failed)
      • Derdre: You may not be one of the women of the Light, but you are not from here. You come here thinking you know the face of god, yet you call the spirit that guides us demon. You look like us, but you act just like them. A renaigse, an enemy that seeks only to conquer the spirits of these lands. You pretend to understand our customs, so show you are worthy of our trust. If you confront in fair contest my warriors and defeat them, I will speak with you.
      • (Must defeat the Tempest Warriors in combat to proceed)
        • Derdre: I admit that for a renaigse, you know how to fight with honor.
        • Natives: Reputation +1
        • (Result: Proceed to Derdre's explanation below)

• (If Siora is present, Charisma check is successful, or Tempest Warriors defeated)
  • Derdre: Very well. I’ll attempt to help you make sense of what you witnessed. The ritual you saw is a ceremony to summon forth the strength of our warriors. Our people have always lived in harmony with nature, our very existence revolves around her. She talks to us and takes on many faces. What you’ve witnessed is just one of many. Confronting the threat that the renaigse make up, we called them for their blessing, and they appeared to us.
  • De Sardet: Can we contact them? I mean, is communication possible?
  • Derdre: What you witnessed was not a discussion. But if you visit a sanctuary, you may see one of the faces and then you will be able to talk. Pass the mountains and head to the swamps. There, if you perform the ritual, you will see them come…though what you will hear may not be to your liking.

See also

• Quests