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0,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_000","Either some great nonsense is afoot, or someone inside the church is throwing a funeral."
1,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_001","When you've found whoever you think is responsible, come and talk to me. Until then, take pains. Be perfect. Adieu."
2,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_010","The fae barrier may still be active, but you've banished the worst of our troubles."
3,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_011","For your job half done, I offer half my services as a storyteller. May they be half as useful to you as you were to us."
4,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_012","Well, well, shallowroots! At the rate you're going, you'll make a worn, wan pilgrim yet! Unless your insatiable wanderlust has you considering other vocations? Those of a Madbloom, perhaps?"
5,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_013","You've penned your page in this age-old tale─from humble beginnings to happily sometime after. But be not <Emphasis>too</Emphasis> proud, for beyond your mortal folly...we await."
6,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_Q1_000_020","What will you do?"
7,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A1_000_021","Ask about achievements."
8,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A1_000_022","Accept achievement reward."
9,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A1_000_023","Speak with Aenc Daen."
10,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A1_000_024","Nothing."
11,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_Q2_000_030","What will you ask about?"
12,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_031","Fae folk."
13,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_032","Aenc Daen."
14,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_033","Sin eaters."
15,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_034","The ornamental leafman at traverse stone 10."
16,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_035","The forgiven emulation at traverse stone 20."
17,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_036","The forgiven treachery at traverse stone 30."
18,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_037","The forgiven naivety at traverse stone 40."
19,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_038","Ogbunabali at traverse stone 50."
20,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_039","The ancestral Maliktender at traverse stone 60."
21,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_040","The forgiven zeal at traverse stone 70."
22,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_041","The forgiven profanity at traverse stone 80."
23,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_042","Malacoda at traverse stone 90."
24,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_043","Eminent Grief at traverse stone 99."
25,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_044","Nothing."
26,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_050","<Emphasis>Illumed Invocations</Emphasis>? Now that's a nostalgic title. Used to be able to find a tome in any pious household. "
27,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_051","Utterly useless now, of course, unless you've got a door that needs propping open..."
28,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_052","But an enterprising pixie could possibly strip it of lingering magicks. Give what books you find to Ose Wyd, and maybe they'll make something pretty."
29,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_SYSTEM_000_053","You can exchange copies of <Emphasis>Illumed Invocations</Emphasis> for four types of accessories by speaking to Ose Wyd."
30,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_SYSTEM_000_054","If you speak to Aenc Daen with all four of these accessories equipped or in your inventory, you will earn an achievement and a rare item."
31,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_055","You're here, I bet, to boast and brag.
0,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_000,"Either some great nonsense is afoot, or someone inside the church is throwing a funeral."
1,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_001,"When you've found whoever you think is responsible, come and talk to me. Until then, take pains. Be perfect. Adieu."
2,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_010,"The fae barrier may still be active, but you've banished the worst of our troubles."
3,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_011,"For your job half done, I offer half my services as a storyteller. May they be half as useful to you as you were to us."
4,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_012,"Well, well, shallowroots! At the rate you're going, you'll make a worn, wan pilgrim yet! Unless your insatiable wanderlust has you considering other vocations? Those of a Madbloom, perhaps?"
5,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_013,"You've penned your page in this age-old tale─from humble beginnings to happily sometime after. But be not *too* proud, for beyond your mortal folly...we await."
6,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_Q1_000_020,What will you do?
7,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A1_000_021,Ask about achievements.
8,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A1_000_022,Accept achievement reward.
9,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A1_000_023,Speak with Aenc Daen.
10,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A1_000_024,Nothing.
11,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_Q2_000_030,What will you ask about?
12,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_031,Fae folk.
13,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_032,Aenc Daen.
14,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_033,Sin eaters.
15,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_034,The ornamental leafman at traverse stone 10.
16,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_035,The forgiven emulation at traverse stone 20.
17,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_036,The forgiven treachery at traverse stone 30.
18,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_037,The forgiven naivety at traverse stone 40.
19,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_038,Ogbunabali at traverse stone 50.
20,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_039,The ancestral Maliktender at traverse stone 60.
21,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_040,The forgiven zeal at traverse stone 70.
22,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_041,The forgiven profanity at traverse stone 80.
23,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_042,Malacoda at traverse stone 90.
24,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_043,Eminent Grief at traverse stone 99.
25,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_044,Nothing.
26,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_050,*Illumed Invocations*? Now that's a nostalgic title. Used to be able to find a tome in any pious household.
27,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_051,"Utterly useless now, of course, unless you've got a door that needs propping open..."
28,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_052,"But an enterprising pixie could possibly strip it of lingering magicks. Give what books you find to Ose Wyd, and maybe they'll make something pretty."
29,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_SYSTEM_000_053,You can exchange copies of *Illumed Invocations* for four types of accessories by speaking to Ose Wyd.
30,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_SYSTEM_000_054,"If you speak to Aenc Daen with all four of these accessories equipped or in your inventory, you will earn an achievement and a rare item."
31,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_055,"You're here, I bet, to boast and brag.
You seek reward? Empty your bag!♪"
32,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_SYSTEM_000_056","To collect your reward, ensure you have sufficient inventory space and speak with Aenc Daen once more."
33,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_057","Collected a fae king's ransom in baubles, I see!"
34,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_058","In a different time and place, you might have been shunned as a <If(PlayerParameter(4))>woman<Else/>man</If> obsessed."
35,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_059","But your passion for Il Mheg has not gone unnoticed by our Madbloom majesty."
36,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_060","They entrusted me with a gift for you, a relic from the royal vault. Your very own chandelier of First Light!"
37,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_061","...Acknowledging that you require only so many decorative lamps, we enchanted the thing to hurtle over park and pale at exhilarating speeds. A much better use for it, if you ask me."
38,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_062","Mortals are generally so banal with their objects, but you appreciate our fae whimsy, don't you? Now, get on your chandelier, and be off with you!"
39,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_070","Who constitutes “fae folk” is highly dependent upon time and place."
40,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_071","While Fuath and pixies have always been quintessential examples, the Nu Mou and old blood amaro are more recent additions to the ranks."
41,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_072","These days, we are defined as “what resembles a child of man, yet is too strange to be one.”"
42,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_073","Speech is a good measure of that resemblance─a beast that barters may be fae, but one that only barks is but a beast."
43,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_074","Indeed, the true difficulty lies in determining how strange is too strange for mankind."
44,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_075","So let me ask, since I've run out of answers─what constitutes a “person”? And how can you be sure you're one of them?"
45,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_080","Me? I enjoy long walks on the shore and reading books in my spare time, though I tend to dampen the pages something dreadful."
46,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_081","Judging by our first meeting, you're already familiar with Fuath─you know our mischief is as dark as the water we drag mortals into."
47,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_082","Perhaps you also know that, just as pixies are born from the souls of unbaptized children, Fuath too have a unique origin."
48,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_083","Namely, the water in which we ourselves drowned. We are souls lost to the deep, unnoticed and unmourned."
49,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_084","A lonely end...which is why we're always seeking company."
50,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_085","By luring other unfortunates to the place of our demise and dramatically dispatching of them, we feed our instinctual desire to be noticed. To be loved."
51,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_086","Not that I have even the foggiest where I croaked! It's been far too long. Even were I to recollect, there's bound to be naught left of the old mortal coil. Perhaps the smallest chip of bone, waiting to be swallowed by a fish..."
52,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_090","You've encountered sin eaters, but has your mortal mind fully grasped the horror of what it is to become one?"
53,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_091","Your outsides wrought into a grotesque parody of beauty, your insides ravaged into structures that defy the chirurgeon's healing touch. To say nothing of your soul!"
54,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_092","In many ways, 'twould be a mercy if the metamorphosis always destroyed the creature's essence. And yet..."
55,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_093","Should you find any sin eaters that look significant, I might be able to share the tale of who they were before they began indiscriminately slaughtering passersby."
56,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_094","Only those important enough to be immortalized upon the page, mind. As with the church itself, records of its era have outlived natural memory─and unnatural memory, for that matter."
57,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_100","A frondent lob of rainbows? Why, that would be no sin eater, but a leafman!"
58,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_101","Mutated from a greener state, perhaps, but all leafmen are fundamentally the product of pixie transmogrification.
32,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_SYSTEM_000_056,"To collect your reward, ensure you have sufficient inventory space and speak with Aenc Daen once more."
33,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_057,"Collected a fae king's ransom in baubles, I see!"
34,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_058,"In a different time and place, you might have been shunned as a woman obsessed."
35,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_059,But your passion for Il Mheg has not gone unnoticed by our Madbloom majesty.
36,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_060,"They entrusted me with a gift for you, a relic from the royal vault. Your very own chandelier of First Light!"
37,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_061,"...Acknowledging that you require only so many decorative lamps, we enchanted the thing to hurtle over park and pale at exhilarating speeds. A much better use for it, if you ask me."
38,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_062,"Mortals are generally so banal with their objects, but you appreciate our fae whimsy, don't you? Now, get on your chandelier, and be off with you!"
39,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_070,Who constitutes “fae folk” is highly dependent upon time and place.
40,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_071,"While Fuath and pixies have always been quintessential examples, the Nu Mou and old blood amaro are more recent additions to the ranks."
41,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_072,"These days, we are defined as “what resembles a child of man, yet is too strange to be one.”"
42,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_073,"Speech is a good measure of that resemblance─a beast that barters may be fae, but one that only barks is but a beast."
43,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_074,"Indeed, the true difficulty lies in determining how strange is too strange for mankind."
44,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_075,"So let me ask, since I've run out of answers─what constitutes a “person”? And how can you be sure you're one of them?"
45,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_080,"Me? I enjoy long walks on the shore and reading books in my spare time, though I tend to dampen the pages something dreadful."
46,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_081,"Judging by our first meeting, you're already familiar with Fuath─you know our mischief is as dark as the water we drag mortals into."
47,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_082,"Perhaps you also know that, just as pixies are born from the souls of unbaptized children, Fuath too have a unique origin."
48,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_083,"Namely, the water in which we ourselves drowned. We are souls lost to the deep, unnoticed and unmourned."
49,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_084,A lonely end...which is why we're always seeking company.
50,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_085,"By luring other unfortunates to the place of our demise and dramatically dispatching of them, we feed our instinctual desire to be noticed. To be loved."
51,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_086,"Not that I have even the foggiest where I croaked! It's been far too long. Even were I to recollect, there's bound to be naught left of the old mortal coil. Perhaps the smallest chip of bone, waiting to be swallowed by a fish..."
52,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_090,"You've encountered sin eaters, but has your mortal mind fully grasped the horror of what it is to become one?"
53,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_091,"Your outsides wrought into a grotesque parody of beauty, your insides ravaged into structures that defy the chirurgeon's healing touch. To say nothing of your soul!"
54,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_092,"In many ways, 'twould be a mercy if the metamorphosis always destroyed the creature's essence. And yet..."
55,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_093,"Should you find any sin eaters that look significant, I might be able to share the tale of who they were before they began indiscriminately slaughtering passersby."
56,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_094,"Only those important enough to be immortalized upon the page, mind. As with the church itself, records of its era have outlived natural memory─and unnatural memory, for that matter."
57,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_100,"A frondent lob of rainbows? Why, that would be no sin eater, but a leafman!"
58,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_101,"Mutated from a greener state, perhaps, but all leafmen are fundamentally the product of pixie transmogrification.
Enjoy a mortal's company
And give them leaves before they flee!♪"
59,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_102","Chatty, fidgety leafmen are not unheard of, but to think that one might try pressing you like a flower! An ambitious bush, indeed."
60,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_103","Curiouser still is its ability to multiply at a moment's notice. Are its blossoms more show than substance, then? What a rich display of mortal vanity!"
61,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_104","And yet you say its words reflected only a heart of flora, its flesh and blood forgot... The hazards of chronic shrubbery, I'm afraid."
62,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_110","The blanched husk of an ambulatory tree that once thrived deep in our forests. Similar to the werewood, which I'm sure you've seen."
63,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_111","I know a plant where the wild weeds grow,
59,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_102,"Chatty, fidgety leafmen are not unheard of, but to think that one might try pressing you like a flower! An ambitious bush, indeed."
60,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_103,"Curiouser still is its ability to multiply at a moment's notice. Are its blossoms more show than substance, then? What a rich display of mortal vanity!"
61,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_104,"And yet you say its words reflected only a heart of flora, its flesh and blood forgot... The hazards of chronic shrubbery, I'm afraid."
62,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_110,"The blanched husk of an ambulatory tree that once thrived deep in our forests. Similar to the werewood, which I'm sure you've seen."
63,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_111,"I know a plant where the wild weeds grow,
Where songbirds and the seeking creatures go,
Quite over-canopied with mushrooms and leaves,
A roving woodland where to be at ease.♪"
64,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_112","Full often did I laze upon the back of that gentle giant."
65,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_113","But once it turned, all it touched became corrupted by Light..."
66,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_114","So remain the bodies of those that once sought sanctuary in its boughs. A cold wind blows through our roving woodland now... "
67,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_120","Ah yes, the aforementioned archbishop. I have since dribbled many a puddle in the royal library while reading up on his celebrity. The Nu Mou keepers were less than pleased, but when are they ever?"
68,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_121","Before he became a sin eater, Sladfort was but another strapping Galdjent from the Kingdom of Voeburt."
69,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_122","He was happily possessed of a healthy mind and healthy body, both of which he honed by strict regimen. "
70,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_123","A quiet, disciplined sort. A paragon of authenticity. As a person and as a clergyman, he was loved and admired."
71,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_124","Alas, when the sin eaters robbed him of his soul, his very devotion betrayed him."
72,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_125","Though the thousand thousand prayers he had offered to the Light remained steeped in his body like a second blood, their power now turned upon all he had once served."
73,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_126","You did lay him to rest in the church of his faith, however, so perhaps his prayers were answered after all."
74,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_130","From the sound of it, you visited the oceanic chapels of Kholusia."
75,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_131","Architecture built from the reefs was once a common sight in those parts, and the churches were considered some of Kholusia's finest structures."
76,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_132","Water everywhere you look! Hugging the wide windows, pooling gracefully in the halls..."
77,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_133","Considering the numerous aqueducts, it's little wonder that a sin eater swam in with a cohort."
78,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_134","Those finnèd pests beguile and make their play
64,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_112,Full often did I laze upon the back of that gentle giant.
65,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_113,"But once it turned, all it touched became corrupted by Light..."
66,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_114,So remain the bodies of those that once sought sanctuary in its boughs. A cold wind blows through our roving woodland now...
67,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_120,"Ah yes, the aforementioned archbishop. I have since dribbled many a puddle in the royal library while reading up on his celebrity. The Nu Mou keepers were less than pleased, but when are they ever?"
68,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_121,"Before he became a sin eater, Sladfort was but another strapping Galdjent from the Kingdom of Voeburt."
69,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_122,"He was happily possessed of a healthy mind and healthy body, both of which he honed by strict regimen. "
70,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_123,"A quiet, disciplined sort. A paragon of authenticity. As a person and as a clergyman, he was loved and admired."
71,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_124,"Alas, when the sin eaters robbed him of his soul, his very devotion betrayed him."
72,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_125,"Though the thousand thousand prayers he had offered to the Light remained steeped in his body like a second blood, their power now turned upon all he had once served."
73,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_126,"You did lay him to rest in the church of his faith, however, so perhaps his prayers were answered after all."
74,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_130,"From the sound of it, you visited the oceanic chapels of Kholusia."
75,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_131,"Architecture built from the reefs was once a common sight in those parts, and the churches were considered some of Kholusia's finest structures."
76,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_132,"Water everywhere you look! Hugging the wide windows, pooling gracefully in the halls..."
77,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_133,"Considering the numerous aqueducts, it's little wonder that a sin eater swam in with a cohort."
78,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_134,"Those finnèd pests beguile and make their play
With mighty jets and spouts and blinding spray.
Pity their prey, for poor and wretched be
The victims of absolved naivety!♪"
79,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_135","If you ask me, those salty brats should know their place. We Fuath make a far better art of drowning!"
80,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_140","A visage more terrifying than the ghastliest of sin eaters─you have met Ogbunabali, ancient beast of Amh Araeng."
81,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_141","What is a jade mandible for, if not devouring the power of earth and rendering stone to sand?"
82,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_142","Some say it shifts the land's aetherial balance, while others claim it conjures shockwaves deep underground. Is any of this true? Piffle."
83,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_143","Any who <Emphasis>do</Emphasis> encounter the elusive Ogbunabali are, in most cases, immediately buried. Sudden death does wonders to prevent significant research."
84,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_144","Sand clogging your throat as you choke your last breath... Unable to fight, even to flail! The thought alone makes me ill..."
85,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_145","No, suffocation is best done in water. Care to give it a try? For you, I'd be happy to lend my services!"
86,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_150","That old eccentric is still alive and stomping? Some legends are too timeless to succumb to sin eaters!"
87,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_151","The mightiest of gigatenders are crowned with the title of king, but that fellow's chief humor is for a tyrant."
88,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_152","It shears prongs from its brow to serve as soldiers, ordering them around like a true monarch."
89,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_153","And like true peasants, his feeble squadron soon wastes away under the demands of its overlord."
90,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_154","The golden crown is a work of conceit, lovingly carved and adorned with jewels. All by its own two stubs!"
91,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_155","The lengths kings will go to assure themselves of dominion... Still, we can enjoy a laugh at its expense."
92,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_156","For if you observe closely, you will see that its needles issue not only from its head, but sweet bottom!
79,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_135,"If you ask me, those salty brats should know their place. We Fuath make a far better art of drowning!"
80,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_140,"A visage more terrifying than the ghastliest of sin eaters─you have met Ogbunabali, ancient beast of Amh Araeng."
81,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_141,"What is a jade mandible for, if not devouring the power of earth and rendering stone to sand?"
82,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_142,"Some say it shifts the land's aetherial balance, while others claim it conjures shockwaves deep underground. Is any of this true? Piffle."
83,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_143,"Any who *do* encounter the elusive Ogbunabali are, in most cases, immediately buried. Sudden death does wonders to prevent significant research."
84,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_144,"Sand clogging your throat as you choke your last breath... Unable to fight, even to flail! The thought alone makes me ill..."
85,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_145,"No, suffocation is best done in water. Care to give it a try? For you, I'd be happy to lend my services!"
86,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_150,That old eccentric is still alive and stomping? Some legends are too timeless to succumb to sin eaters!
87,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_151,"The mightiest of gigatenders are crowned with the title of king, but that fellow's chief humor is for a tyrant."
88,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_152,"It shears prongs from its brow to serve as soldiers, ordering them around like a true monarch."
89,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_153,"And like true peasants, his feeble squadron soon wastes away under the demands of its overlord."
90,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_154,"The golden crown is a work of conceit, lovingly carved and adorned with jewels. All by its own two stubs!"
91,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_155,"The lengths kings will go to assure themselves of dominion... Still, we can enjoy a laugh at its expense."
92,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_156,"For if you observe closely, you will see that its needles issue not only from its head, but sweet bottom!
So regally it plays the part
Yet cannot hide its deadly fart!♪"
93,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_160","There survives a tale from the old Nabaath Empire, worn smooth by the times it has been told."
94,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_161","Long ago, in the heart of the desert, the people of an oasis were beset by a vicious brute─the One-eyed Wight."
95,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_162","The One-eyed Wight was as fierce and fearsome as a sandstorm. Aye, its glare alone could engulf a man in flames! Its power was matched only by its thirst for gold, they say, and so the village soon found itself destitute..."
96,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_163","It is here the hero enters, his cue past. A lad both brave and clever defeats the fiend, claims its hoard of treasure, and everyone lives happily ever after. The end!"
97,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_164","...Well, I never promised the tale would be <Emphasis>original</Emphasis>, now did I? But the sin eater you described may be the One-eyed Wight of eld."
98,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_165","Distorted by Light, its immolating eye a mawkish, milky white..."
99,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_166","Does not misfortune render evildoers in a sympathetic hue? Just imagine the tears it must weep alone, condemned to a ninny's tomb..."
100,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_170","Deep in the craggy mountains, there once lived a beast with magnificent antlers and a coat as dark as night."
101,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_171","By means unknown, it would appear before the injured and ailing, and gently draw its body close. "
102,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_172","Lulla, lulla, lullaby,
93,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_160,"There survives a tale from the old Nabaath Empire, worn smooth by the times it has been told."
94,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_161,"Long ago, in the heart of the desert, the people of an oasis were beset by a vicious brute─the One-eyed Wight."
95,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_162,"The One-eyed Wight was as fierce and fearsome as a sandstorm. Aye, its glare alone could engulf a man in flames! Its power was matched only by its thirst for gold, they say, and so the village soon found itself destitute..."
96,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_163,"It is here the hero enters, his cue past. A lad both brave and clever defeats the fiend, claims its hoard of treasure, and everyone lives happily ever after. The end!"
97,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_164,"...Well, I never promised the tale would be *original*, now did I? But the sin eater you described may be the One-eyed Wight of eld."
98,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_165,"Distorted by Light, its immolating eye a mawkish, milky white..."
99,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_166,"Does not misfortune render evildoers in a sympathetic hue? Just imagine the tears it must weep alone, condemned to a ninny's tomb..."
100,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_170,"Deep in the craggy mountains, there once lived a beast with magnificent antlers and a coat as dark as night."
101,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_171,"By means unknown, it would appear before the injured and ailing, and gently draw its body close. "
102,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_172,"Lulla, lulla, lullaby,
Comfort those whose death is nigh.
Still their breath, a final sigh.
So, good night, with lullaby.♪"
103,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_173","Bluntly put, the creature's invigorating Darkness would quicken the advent of an inevitable passing."
104,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_174","You can imagine how sinister this must have seemed to the Church of the First Light. A deplorable shadow, they called it."
105,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_175","So in the self-righteous fashion of mortals, they dragged the beast from the mountains and sealed it away in some far, forsaken land."
106,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_176","There, we can suppose it turned, its once glossy black coat now a desiccated white."
107,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_177","Perhaps, by latent instinct, it sought to end your own suffering, pilgrim. Usher you through death's door, following Darkness like a dream..."
108,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_180","What say you of the pilgrim road, bendyspire? You've paid homage to many a ruined chapel, after all."
109,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_181","Had the Flood not swallowed most of the world, you might have been able to tour the churches outside Norvrandt as well. Alas."
110,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_182","Regardless, traverse stone eighty-one marks a significant turn─one into the heart of Lakeland."
111,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_183","There, the Church of the First Light originated, and so chapels are both numerous and old. Elegant, even."
112,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_184","What I can't explain are your reports of the pervasive Darkness... Night may have returned to Norvrandt, but last I checked, it hasn't nested upon Lakeland like some grumpy amaro."
113,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_185","As for this Malacoda, well, I haven't the faintest clue of what it is. I'm impressed you managed to catch its name at all."
114,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_186","Any practitioner who can simultaneously juggle so many incantations is far too nimble to be a mindless sin eater. That much I can say for certain."
115,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_187","But what indeed was passing fell and wrath,
103,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_173,"Bluntly put, the creature's invigorating Darkness would quicken the advent of an inevitable passing."
104,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_174,"You can imagine how sinister this must have seemed to the Church of the First Light. A deplorable shadow, they called it."
105,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_175,"So in the self-righteous fashion of mortals, they dragged the beast from the mountains and sealed it away in some far, forsaken land."
106,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_176,"There, we can suppose it turned, its once glossy black coat now a desiccated white."
107,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_177,"Perhaps, by latent instinct, it sought to end your own suffering, pilgrim. Usher you through death's door, following Darkness like a dream..."
108,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_180,"What say you of the pilgrim road, bendyspire? You've paid homage to many a ruined chapel, after all."
109,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_181,"Had the Flood not swallowed most of the world, you might have been able to tour the churches outside Norvrandt as well. Alas."
110,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_182,"Regardless, traverse stone eighty-one marks a significant turn─one into the heart of Lakeland."
111,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_183,"There, the Church of the First Light originated, and so chapels are both numerous and old. Elegant, even."
112,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_184,"What I can't explain are your reports of the pervasive Darkness... Night may have returned to Norvrandt, but last I checked, it hasn't nested upon Lakeland like some grumpy amaro."
113,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_185,"As for this Malacoda, well, I haven't the faintest clue of what it is. I'm impressed you managed to catch its name at all."
114,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_186,Any practitioner who can simultaneously juggle so many incantations is far too nimble to be a mindless sin eater. That much I can say for certain.
115,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_187,"But what indeed was passing fell and wrath,
Haunting the stones upon the holy path?
A plague of Darkness! Pilgrims all for fear
Creep into empty pews and hide them there.♪"
116,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_190","Eminent Grief... The king betrayed little regarding its nature."
117,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_191","And who am I to tread loudly in the domain of their silence? Tyr Marn may delight in revealing the secrets of both the living and insensate, but woe betide the fae who unwittingly betrays royal secrets."
118,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_192","To satisfy your mortal curiosity, I suppose I can tell you the obvious: the fiend is a marriage of Light and Darkness."
119,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_193","Opposites attract, do they not? Regardless of their origins, 'twas an edict in destiny that they collided─like a union of true lovers crossed!"
120,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_194","Whatever its cause, their meeting was marked by a ferocious contest of wills. Mayhap Darkness devoured more, but it could not digest the most tenacious of sin eaters. So persisted their hungry and unwilling embrace..."
121,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_195","Yet by and by, their contrary aethers learned a reciprocity that would sustain the unholy union until its interment."
122,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_196","One stone shall serve as barrow for them both: one heart, one end, two wretches, and one troth."
123,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_197","Mortal though you well may be,
116,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_190,Eminent Grief... The king betrayed little regarding its nature.
117,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_191,"And who am I to tread loudly in the domain of their silence? Tyr Marn may delight in revealing the secrets of both the living and insensate, but woe betide the fae who unwittingly betrays royal secrets."
118,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_192,"To satisfy your mortal curiosity, I suppose I can tell you the obvious: the fiend is a marriage of Light and Darkness."
119,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_193,"Opposites attract, do they not? Regardless of their origins, 'twas an edict in destiny that they collided─like a union of true lovers crossed!"
120,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_194,"Whatever its cause, their meeting was marked by a ferocious contest of wills. Mayhap Darkness devoured more, but it could not digest the most tenacious of sin eaters. So persisted their hungry and unwilling embrace..."
121,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_195,"Yet by and by, their contrary aethers learned a reciprocity that would sustain the unholy union until its interment."
122,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_196,"One stone shall serve as barrow for them both: one heart, one end, two wretches, and one troth."
123,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_197,"Mortal though you well may be,
Traveled you so trippingly.
Arms in hand, with faerie grace
Did you cleanse and bless that place.♪
@@ -149,5 +146,5 @@ Now, until a darker day,
Fortune smiles upon all fae.
Mark my words, and mark them true:
Ev'ry thanks, we give to you!♪"
124,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_198","...That was lofty! Now 'tis time for Aenc Daen the Merry to close the tome upon these antic fables and faerie toys."
125,"TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_199","Should you demand more stories of such a weak and idle theme, I tell you─not for my faerie kingdom! No more words. Away! Go, away!"
124,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_198,...That was lofty! Now 'tis time for Aenc Daen the Merry to close the tome upon these antic fables and faerie toys.
125,TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_199,"Should you demand more stories of such a weak and idle theme, I tell you─not for my faerie kingdom! No more words. Away! Go, away!"
1 key 0 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_000 1 Either some great nonsense is afoot, or someone inside the church is throwing a funeral.
2 # 1 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_001 When you've found whoever you think is responsible, come and talk to me. Until then, take pains. Be perfect. Adieu.
3 int32 str 2 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_010 str The fae barrier may still be active, but you've banished the worst of our troubles.
4 0 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_000 3 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_011 Either some great nonsense is afoot, or someone inside the church is throwing a funeral. For your job half done, I offer half my services as a storyteller. May they be half as useful to you as you were to us.
5 1 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_001 4 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_012 When you've found whoever you think is responsible, come and talk to me. Until then, take pains. Be perfect. Adieu. Well, well, shallowroots! At the rate you're going, you'll make a worn, wan pilgrim yet! Unless your insatiable wanderlust has you considering other vocations? Those of a Madbloom, perhaps?
6 2 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_010 5 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_013 The fae barrier may still be active, but you've banished the worst of our troubles. You've penned your page in this age-old tale─from humble beginnings to happily sometime after. But be not *too* proud, for beyond your mortal folly...we await.
7 3 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_011 6 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_Q1_000_020 For your job half done, I offer half my services as a storyteller. May they be half as useful to you as you were to us. What will you do?
8 4 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_012 7 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A1_000_021 Well, well, shallowroots! At the rate you're going, you'll make a worn, wan pilgrim yet! Unless your insatiable wanderlust has you considering other vocations? Those of a Madbloom, perhaps? Ask about achievements.
9 5 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_013 8 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A1_000_022 You've penned your page in this age-old tale─from humble beginnings to happily sometime after. But be not <Emphasis>too</Emphasis> proud, for beyond your mortal folly...we await. Accept achievement reward.
10 6 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_Q1_000_020 9 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A1_000_023 What will you do? Speak with Aenc Daen.
11 7 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A1_000_021 10 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A1_000_024 Ask about achievements. Nothing.
12 8 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A1_000_022 11 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_Q2_000_030 Accept achievement reward. What will you ask about?
13 9 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A1_000_023 12 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_031 Speak with Aenc Daen. Fae folk.
14 10 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A1_000_024 13 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_032 Nothing. Aenc Daen.
15 11 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_Q2_000_030 14 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_033 What will you ask about? Sin eaters.
16 12 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_031 15 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_034 Fae folk. The ornamental leafman at traverse stone 10.
17 13 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_032 16 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_035 Aenc Daen. The forgiven emulation at traverse stone 20.
18 14 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_033 17 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_036 Sin eaters. The forgiven treachery at traverse stone 30.
19 15 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_034 18 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_037 The ornamental leafman at traverse stone 10. The forgiven naivety at traverse stone 40.
20 16 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_035 19 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_038 The forgiven emulation at traverse stone 20. Ogbunabali at traverse stone 50.
21 17 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_036 20 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_039 The forgiven treachery at traverse stone 30. The ancestral Maliktender at traverse stone 60.
22 18 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_037 21 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_040 The forgiven naivety at traverse stone 40. The forgiven zeal at traverse stone 70.
23 19 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_038 22 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_041 Ogbunabali at traverse stone 50. The forgiven profanity at traverse stone 80.
24 20 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_039 23 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_042 The ancestral Maliktender at traverse stone 60. Malacoda at traverse stone 90.
25 21 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_040 24 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_043 The forgiven zeal at traverse stone 70. Eminent Grief at traverse stone 99.
26 22 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_041 25 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_044 The forgiven profanity at traverse stone 80. Nothing.
27 23 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_042 26 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_050 Malacoda at traverse stone 90. *Illumed Invocations*? Now that's a nostalgic title. Used to be able to find a tome in any pious household.
28 24 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_043 27 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_051 Eminent Grief at traverse stone 99. Utterly useless now, of course, unless you've got a door that needs propping open...
29 25 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_A2_000_044 28 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_052 Nothing. But an enterprising pixie could possibly strip it of lingering magicks. Give what books you find to Ose Wyd, and maybe they'll make something pretty.
30 26 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_050 29 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_SYSTEM_000_053 <Emphasis>Illumed Invocations</Emphasis>? Now that's a nostalgic title. Used to be able to find a tome in any pious household. You can exchange copies of *Illumed Invocations* for four types of accessories by speaking to Ose Wyd.
31 27 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_051 30 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_SYSTEM_000_054 Utterly useless now, of course, unless you've got a door that needs propping open... If you speak to Aenc Daen with all four of these accessories equipped or in your inventory, you will earn an achievement and a rare item.
32 28 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_052 31 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_055 But an enterprising pixie could possibly strip it of lingering magicks. Give what books you find to Ose Wyd, and maybe they'll make something pretty. You're here, I bet, to boast and brag. You seek reward? Empty your bag!♪
29 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_SYSTEM_000_053 You can exchange copies of <Emphasis>Illumed Invocations</Emphasis> for four types of accessories by speaking to Ose Wyd.
30 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_SYSTEM_000_054 If you speak to Aenc Daen with all four of these accessories equipped or in your inventory, you will earn an achievement and a rare item.
31 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_055 You're here, I bet, to boast and brag. You seek reward? Empty your bag!♪
33 32 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_SYSTEM_000_056 32 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_SYSTEM_000_056 To collect your reward, ensure you have sufficient inventory space and speak with Aenc Daen once more. To collect your reward, ensure you have sufficient inventory space and speak with Aenc Daen once more.
34 33 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_057 33 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_057 Collected a fae king's ransom in baubles, I see! Collected a fae king's ransom in baubles, I see!
35 34 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_058 34 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_058 In a different time and place, you might have been shunned as a <If(PlayerParameter(4))>woman<Else/>man</If> obsessed. In a different time and place, you might have been shunned as a woman obsessed.
36 35 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_059 35 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_059 But your passion for Il Mheg has not gone unnoticed by our Madbloom majesty. But your passion for Il Mheg has not gone unnoticed by our Madbloom majesty.
37 36 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_060 36 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_060 They entrusted me with a gift for you, a relic from the royal vault. Your very own chandelier of First Light! They entrusted me with a gift for you, a relic from the royal vault. Your very own chandelier of First Light!
38 37 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_061 37 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_061 ...Acknowledging that you require only so many decorative lamps, we enchanted the thing to hurtle over park and pale at exhilarating speeds. A much better use for it, if you ask me. ...Acknowledging that you require only so many decorative lamps, we enchanted the thing to hurtle over park and pale at exhilarating speeds. A much better use for it, if you ask me.
39 38 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_062 38 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_062 Mortals are generally so banal with their objects, but you appreciate our fae whimsy, don't you? Now, get on your chandelier, and be off with you! Mortals are generally so banal with their objects, but you appreciate our fae whimsy, don't you? Now, get on your chandelier, and be off with you!
40 39 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_070 39 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_070 Who constitutes “fae folk” is highly dependent upon time and place. Who constitutes “fae folk” is highly dependent upon time and place.
41 40 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_071 40 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_071 While Fuath and pixies have always been quintessential examples, the Nu Mou and old blood amaro are more recent additions to the ranks. While Fuath and pixies have always been quintessential examples, the Nu Mou and old blood amaro are more recent additions to the ranks.
42 41 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_072 41 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_072 These days, we are defined as “what resembles a child of man, yet is too strange to be one.” These days, we are defined as “what resembles a child of man, yet is too strange to be one.”
43 42 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_073 42 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_073 Speech is a good measure of that resemblance─a beast that barters may be fae, but one that only barks is but a beast. Speech is a good measure of that resemblance─a beast that barters may be fae, but one that only barks is but a beast.
44 43 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_074 43 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_074 Indeed, the true difficulty lies in determining how strange is too strange for mankind. Indeed, the true difficulty lies in determining how strange is too strange for mankind.
45 44 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_075 44 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_075 So let me ask, since I've run out of answers─what constitutes a “person”? And how can you be sure you're one of them? So let me ask, since I've run out of answers─what constitutes a “person”? And how can you be sure you're one of them?
46 45 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_080 45 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_080 Me? I enjoy long walks on the shore and reading books in my spare time, though I tend to dampen the pages something dreadful. Me? I enjoy long walks on the shore and reading books in my spare time, though I tend to dampen the pages something dreadful.
47 46 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_081 46 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_081 Judging by our first meeting, you're already familiar with Fuath─you know our mischief is as dark as the water we drag mortals into. Judging by our first meeting, you're already familiar with Fuath─you know our mischief is as dark as the water we drag mortals into.
48 47 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_082 47 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_082 Perhaps you also know that, just as pixies are born from the souls of unbaptized children, Fuath too have a unique origin. Perhaps you also know that, just as pixies are born from the souls of unbaptized children, Fuath too have a unique origin.
49 48 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_083 48 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_083 Namely, the water in which we ourselves drowned. We are souls lost to the deep, unnoticed and unmourned. Namely, the water in which we ourselves drowned. We are souls lost to the deep, unnoticed and unmourned.
50 49 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_084 49 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_084 A lonely end...which is why we're always seeking company. A lonely end...which is why we're always seeking company.
51 50 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_085 50 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_085 By luring other unfortunates to the place of our demise and dramatically dispatching of them, we feed our instinctual desire to be noticed. To be loved. By luring other unfortunates to the place of our demise and dramatically dispatching of them, we feed our instinctual desire to be noticed. To be loved.
52 51 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_086 51 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_086 Not that I have even the foggiest where I croaked! It's been far too long. Even were I to recollect, there's bound to be naught left of the old mortal coil. Perhaps the smallest chip of bone, waiting to be swallowed by a fish... Not that I have even the foggiest where I croaked! It's been far too long. Even were I to recollect, there's bound to be naught left of the old mortal coil. Perhaps the smallest chip of bone, waiting to be swallowed by a fish...
53 52 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_090 52 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_090 You've encountered sin eaters, but has your mortal mind fully grasped the horror of what it is to become one? You've encountered sin eaters, but has your mortal mind fully grasped the horror of what it is to become one?
54 53 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_091 53 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_091 Your outsides wrought into a grotesque parody of beauty, your insides ravaged into structures that defy the chirurgeon's healing touch. To say nothing of your soul! Your outsides wrought into a grotesque parody of beauty, your insides ravaged into structures that defy the chirurgeon's healing touch. To say nothing of your soul!
55 54 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_092 54 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_092 In many ways, 'twould be a mercy if the metamorphosis always destroyed the creature's essence. And yet... In many ways, 'twould be a mercy if the metamorphosis always destroyed the creature's essence. And yet...
56 55 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_093 55 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_093 Should you find any sin eaters that look significant, I might be able to share the tale of who they were before they began indiscriminately slaughtering passersby. Should you find any sin eaters that look significant, I might be able to share the tale of who they were before they began indiscriminately slaughtering passersby.
57 56 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_094 56 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_094 Only those important enough to be immortalized upon the page, mind. As with the church itself, records of its era have outlived natural memory─and unnatural memory, for that matter. Only those important enough to be immortalized upon the page, mind. As with the church itself, records of its era have outlived natural memory─and unnatural memory, for that matter.
58 57 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_100 57 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_100 A frondent lob of rainbows? Why, that would be no sin eater, but a leafman! A frondent lob of rainbows? Why, that would be no sin eater, but a leafman!
59 58 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_101 58 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_101 Mutated from a greener state, perhaps, but all leafmen are fundamentally the product of pixie transmogrification. Enjoy a mortal's company And give them leaves before they flee!♪ Mutated from a greener state, perhaps, but all leafmen are fundamentally the product of pixie transmogrification. Enjoy a mortal's company And give them leaves before they flee!♪
60 59 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_102 59 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_102 Chatty, fidgety leafmen are not unheard of, but to think that one might try pressing you like a flower! An ambitious bush, indeed. Chatty, fidgety leafmen are not unheard of, but to think that one might try pressing you like a flower! An ambitious bush, indeed.
61 60 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_103 60 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_103 Curiouser still is its ability to multiply at a moment's notice. Are its blossoms more show than substance, then? What a rich display of mortal vanity! Curiouser still is its ability to multiply at a moment's notice. Are its blossoms more show than substance, then? What a rich display of mortal vanity!
62 61 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_104 61 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_104 And yet you say its words reflected only a heart of flora, its flesh and blood forgot... The hazards of chronic shrubbery, I'm afraid. And yet you say its words reflected only a heart of flora, its flesh and blood forgot... The hazards of chronic shrubbery, I'm afraid.
63 62 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_110 62 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_110 The blanched husk of an ambulatory tree that once thrived deep in our forests. Similar to the werewood, which I'm sure you've seen. The blanched husk of an ambulatory tree that once thrived deep in our forests. Similar to the werewood, which I'm sure you've seen.
64 63 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_111 63 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_111 I know a plant where the wild weeds grow, Where songbirds and the seeking creatures go, Quite over-canopied with mushrooms and leaves, A roving woodland where to be at ease.♪ I know a plant where the wild weeds grow, Where songbirds and the seeking creatures go, Quite over-canopied with mushrooms and leaves, A roving woodland where to be at ease.♪
65 64 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_112 64 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_112 Full often did I laze upon the back of that gentle giant. Full often did I laze upon the back of that gentle giant.
66 65 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_113 65 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_113 But once it turned, all it touched became corrupted by Light... But once it turned, all it touched became corrupted by Light...
67 66 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_114 66 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_114 So remain the bodies of those that once sought sanctuary in its boughs. A cold wind blows through our roving woodland now... So remain the bodies of those that once sought sanctuary in its boughs. A cold wind blows through our roving woodland now...
68 67 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_120 67 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_120 Ah yes, the aforementioned archbishop. I have since dribbled many a puddle in the royal library while reading up on his celebrity. The Nu Mou keepers were less than pleased, but when are they ever? Ah yes, the aforementioned archbishop. I have since dribbled many a puddle in the royal library while reading up on his celebrity. The Nu Mou keepers were less than pleased, but when are they ever?
69 68 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_121 68 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_121 Before he became a sin eater, Sladfort was but another strapping Galdjent from the Kingdom of Voeburt. Before he became a sin eater, Sladfort was but another strapping Galdjent from the Kingdom of Voeburt.
70 69 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_122 69 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_122 He was happily possessed of a healthy mind and healthy body, both of which he honed by strict regimen. He was happily possessed of a healthy mind and healthy body, both of which he honed by strict regimen.
71 70 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_123 70 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_123 A quiet, disciplined sort. A paragon of authenticity. As a person and as a clergyman, he was loved and admired. A quiet, disciplined sort. A paragon of authenticity. As a person and as a clergyman, he was loved and admired.
72 71 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_124 71 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_124 Alas, when the sin eaters robbed him of his soul, his very devotion betrayed him. Alas, when the sin eaters robbed him of his soul, his very devotion betrayed him.
73 72 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_125 72 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_125 Though the thousand thousand prayers he had offered to the Light remained steeped in his body like a second blood, their power now turned upon all he had once served. Though the thousand thousand prayers he had offered to the Light remained steeped in his body like a second blood, their power now turned upon all he had once served.
74 73 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_126 73 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_126 You did lay him to rest in the church of his faith, however, so perhaps his prayers were answered after all. You did lay him to rest in the church of his faith, however, so perhaps his prayers were answered after all.
75 74 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_130 74 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_130 From the sound of it, you visited the oceanic chapels of Kholusia. From the sound of it, you visited the oceanic chapels of Kholusia.
76 75 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_131 75 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_131 Architecture built from the reefs was once a common sight in those parts, and the churches were considered some of Kholusia's finest structures. Architecture built from the reefs was once a common sight in those parts, and the churches were considered some of Kholusia's finest structures.
77 76 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_132 76 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_132 Water everywhere you look! Hugging the wide windows, pooling gracefully in the halls... Water everywhere you look! Hugging the wide windows, pooling gracefully in the halls...
78 77 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_133 77 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_133 Considering the numerous aqueducts, it's little wonder that a sin eater swam in with a cohort. Considering the numerous aqueducts, it's little wonder that a sin eater swam in with a cohort.
79 78 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_134 78 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_134 Those finnèd pests beguile and make their play With mighty jets and spouts and blinding spray. Pity their prey, for poor and wretched be The victims of absolved naivety!♪ Those finnèd pests beguile and make their play With mighty jets and spouts and blinding spray. Pity their prey, for poor and wretched be The victims of absolved naivety!♪
80 79 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_135 79 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_135 If you ask me, those salty brats should know their place. We Fuath make a far better art of drowning! If you ask me, those salty brats should know their place. We Fuath make a far better art of drowning!
81 80 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_140 80 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_140 A visage more terrifying than the ghastliest of sin eaters─you have met Ogbunabali, ancient beast of Amh Araeng. A visage more terrifying than the ghastliest of sin eaters─you have met Ogbunabali, ancient beast of Amh Araeng.
82 81 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_141 81 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_141 What is a jade mandible for, if not devouring the power of earth and rendering stone to sand? What is a jade mandible for, if not devouring the power of earth and rendering stone to sand?
83 82 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_142 82 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_142 Some say it shifts the land's aetherial balance, while others claim it conjures shockwaves deep underground. Is any of this true? Piffle. Some say it shifts the land's aetherial balance, while others claim it conjures shockwaves deep underground. Is any of this true? Piffle.
84 83 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_143 83 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_143 Any who <Emphasis>do</Emphasis> encounter the elusive Ogbunabali are, in most cases, immediately buried. Sudden death does wonders to prevent significant research. Any who *do* encounter the elusive Ogbunabali are, in most cases, immediately buried. Sudden death does wonders to prevent significant research.
85 84 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_144 84 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_144 Sand clogging your throat as you choke your last breath... Unable to fight, even to flail! The thought alone makes me ill... Sand clogging your throat as you choke your last breath... Unable to fight, even to flail! The thought alone makes me ill...
86 85 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_145 85 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_145 No, suffocation is best done in water. Care to give it a try? For you, I'd be happy to lend my services! No, suffocation is best done in water. Care to give it a try? For you, I'd be happy to lend my services!
87 86 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_150 86 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_150 That old eccentric is still alive and stomping? Some legends are too timeless to succumb to sin eaters! That old eccentric is still alive and stomping? Some legends are too timeless to succumb to sin eaters!
88 87 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_151 87 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_151 The mightiest of gigatenders are crowned with the title of king, but that fellow's chief humor is for a tyrant. The mightiest of gigatenders are crowned with the title of king, but that fellow's chief humor is for a tyrant.
89 88 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_152 88 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_152 It shears prongs from its brow to serve as soldiers, ordering them around like a true monarch. It shears prongs from its brow to serve as soldiers, ordering them around like a true monarch.
90 89 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_153 89 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_153 And like true peasants, his feeble squadron soon wastes away under the demands of its overlord. And like true peasants, his feeble squadron soon wastes away under the demands of its overlord.
91 90 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_154 90 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_154 The golden crown is a work of conceit, lovingly carved and adorned with jewels. All by its own two stubs! The golden crown is a work of conceit, lovingly carved and adorned with jewels. All by its own two stubs!
92 91 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_155 91 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_155 The lengths kings will go to assure themselves of dominion... Still, we can enjoy a laugh at its expense. The lengths kings will go to assure themselves of dominion... Still, we can enjoy a laugh at its expense.
93 92 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_156 92 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_156 For if you observe closely, you will see that its needles issue not only from its head, but sweet bottom! So regally it plays the part Yet cannot hide its deadly fart!♪ For if you observe closely, you will see that its needles issue not only from its head, but sweet bottom! So regally it plays the part Yet cannot hide its deadly fart!♪
94 93 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_160 93 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_160 There survives a tale from the old Nabaath Empire, worn smooth by the times it has been told. There survives a tale from the old Nabaath Empire, worn smooth by the times it has been told.
95 94 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_161 94 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_161 Long ago, in the heart of the desert, the people of an oasis were beset by a vicious brute─the One-eyed Wight. Long ago, in the heart of the desert, the people of an oasis were beset by a vicious brute─the One-eyed Wight.
96 95 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_162 95 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_162 The One-eyed Wight was as fierce and fearsome as a sandstorm. Aye, its glare alone could engulf a man in flames! Its power was matched only by its thirst for gold, they say, and so the village soon found itself destitute... The One-eyed Wight was as fierce and fearsome as a sandstorm. Aye, its glare alone could engulf a man in flames! Its power was matched only by its thirst for gold, they say, and so the village soon found itself destitute...
97 96 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_163 96 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_163 It is here the hero enters, his cue past. A lad both brave and clever defeats the fiend, claims its hoard of treasure, and everyone lives happily ever after. The end! It is here the hero enters, his cue past. A lad both brave and clever defeats the fiend, claims its hoard of treasure, and everyone lives happily ever after. The end!
98 97 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_164 97 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_164 ...Well, I never promised the tale would be <Emphasis>original</Emphasis>, now did I? But the sin eater you described may be the One-eyed Wight of eld. ...Well, I never promised the tale would be *original*, now did I? But the sin eater you described may be the One-eyed Wight of eld.
99 98 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_165 98 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_165 Distorted by Light, its immolating eye a mawkish, milky white... Distorted by Light, its immolating eye a mawkish, milky white...
100 99 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_166 99 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_166 Does not misfortune render evildoers in a sympathetic hue? Just imagine the tears it must weep alone, condemned to a ninny's tomb... Does not misfortune render evildoers in a sympathetic hue? Just imagine the tears it must weep alone, condemned to a ninny's tomb...
101 100 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_170 100 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_170 Deep in the craggy mountains, there once lived a beast with magnificent antlers and a coat as dark as night. Deep in the craggy mountains, there once lived a beast with magnificent antlers and a coat as dark as night.
102 101 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_171 101 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_171 By means unknown, it would appear before the injured and ailing, and gently draw its body close. By means unknown, it would appear before the injured and ailing, and gently draw its body close.
103 102 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_172 102 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_172 Lulla, lulla, lullaby, Comfort those whose death is nigh. Still their breath, a final sigh. So, good night, with lullaby.♪ Lulla, lulla, lullaby, Comfort those whose death is nigh. Still their breath, a final sigh. So, good night, with lullaby.♪
104 103 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_173 103 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_173 Bluntly put, the creature's invigorating Darkness would quicken the advent of an inevitable passing. Bluntly put, the creature's invigorating Darkness would quicken the advent of an inevitable passing.
105 104 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_174 104 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_174 You can imagine how sinister this must have seemed to the Church of the First Light. A deplorable shadow, they called it. You can imagine how sinister this must have seemed to the Church of the First Light. A deplorable shadow, they called it.
106 105 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_175 105 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_175 So in the self-righteous fashion of mortals, they dragged the beast from the mountains and sealed it away in some far, forsaken land. So in the self-righteous fashion of mortals, they dragged the beast from the mountains and sealed it away in some far, forsaken land.
107 106 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_176 106 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_176 There, we can suppose it turned, its once glossy black coat now a desiccated white. There, we can suppose it turned, its once glossy black coat now a desiccated white.
108 107 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_177 107 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_177 Perhaps, by latent instinct, it sought to end your own suffering, pilgrim. Usher you through death's door, following Darkness like a dream... Perhaps, by latent instinct, it sought to end your own suffering, pilgrim. Usher you through death's door, following Darkness like a dream...
109 108 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_180 108 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_180 What say you of the pilgrim road, bendyspire? You've paid homage to many a ruined chapel, after all. What say you of the pilgrim road, bendyspire? You've paid homage to many a ruined chapel, after all.
110 109 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_181 109 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_181 Had the Flood not swallowed most of the world, you might have been able to tour the churches outside Norvrandt as well. Alas. Had the Flood not swallowed most of the world, you might have been able to tour the churches outside Norvrandt as well. Alas.
111 110 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_182 110 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_182 Regardless, traverse stone eighty-one marks a significant turn─one into the heart of Lakeland. Regardless, traverse stone eighty-one marks a significant turn─one into the heart of Lakeland.
112 111 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_183 111 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_183 There, the Church of the First Light originated, and so chapels are both numerous and old. Elegant, even. There, the Church of the First Light originated, and so chapels are both numerous and old. Elegant, even.
113 112 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_184 112 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_184 What I can't explain are your reports of the pervasive Darkness... Night may have returned to Norvrandt, but last I checked, it hasn't nested upon Lakeland like some grumpy amaro. What I can't explain are your reports of the pervasive Darkness... Night may have returned to Norvrandt, but last I checked, it hasn't nested upon Lakeland like some grumpy amaro.
114 113 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_185 113 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_185 As for this Malacoda, well, I haven't the faintest clue of what it is. I'm impressed you managed to catch its name at all. As for this Malacoda, well, I haven't the faintest clue of what it is. I'm impressed you managed to catch its name at all.
115 114 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_186 114 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_186 Any practitioner who can simultaneously juggle so many incantations is far too nimble to be a mindless sin eater. That much I can say for certain. Any practitioner who can simultaneously juggle so many incantations is far too nimble to be a mindless sin eater. That much I can say for certain.
116 115 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_187 115 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_187 But what indeed was passing fell and wrath, Haunting the stones upon the holy path? A plague of Darkness! Pilgrims all for fear Creep into empty pews and hide them there.♪ But what indeed was passing fell and wrath, Haunting the stones upon the holy path? A plague of Darkness! Pilgrims all for fear Creep into empty pews and hide them there.♪
117 116 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_190 116 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_190 Eminent Grief... The king betrayed little regarding its nature. Eminent Grief... The king betrayed little regarding its nature.
118 117 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_191 117 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_191 And who am I to tread loudly in the domain of their silence? Tyr Marn may delight in revealing the secrets of both the living and insensate, but woe betide the fae who unwittingly betrays royal secrets. And who am I to tread loudly in the domain of their silence? Tyr Marn may delight in revealing the secrets of both the living and insensate, but woe betide the fae who unwittingly betrays royal secrets.
119 118 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_192 118 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_192 To satisfy your mortal curiosity, I suppose I can tell you the obvious: the fiend is a marriage of Light and Darkness. To satisfy your mortal curiosity, I suppose I can tell you the obvious: the fiend is a marriage of Light and Darkness.
120 119 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_193 119 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_193 Opposites attract, do they not? Regardless of their origins, 'twas an edict in destiny that they collided─like a union of true lovers crossed! Opposites attract, do they not? Regardless of their origins, 'twas an edict in destiny that they collided─like a union of true lovers crossed!
121 120 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_194 120 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_194 Whatever its cause, their meeting was marked by a ferocious contest of wills. Mayhap Darkness devoured more, but it could not digest the most tenacious of sin eaters. So persisted their hungry and unwilling embrace... Whatever its cause, their meeting was marked by a ferocious contest of wills. Mayhap Darkness devoured more, but it could not digest the most tenacious of sin eaters. So persisted their hungry and unwilling embrace...
122 121 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_195 121 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_195 Yet by and by, their contrary aethers learned a reciprocity that would sustain the unholy union until its interment. Yet by and by, their contrary aethers learned a reciprocity that would sustain the unholy union until its interment.
123 122 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_196 122 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_196 One stone shall serve as barrow for them both: one heart, one end, two wretches, and one troth. One stone shall serve as barrow for them both: one heart, one end, two wretches, and one troth.
124 123 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_197 123 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_197 Mortal though you well may be, Traveled you so trippingly. Arms in hand, with faerie grace Did you cleanse and bless that place.♪ Now, until a darker day, Fortune smiles upon all fae. Mark my words, and mark them true: Ev'ry thanks, we give to you!♪ Mortal though you well may be, Traveled you so trippingly. Arms in hand, with faerie grace Did you cleanse and bless that place.♪ Now, until a darker day, Fortune smiles upon all fae. Mark my words, and mark them true: Ev'ry thanks, we give to you!♪
125 124 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_198 124 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_198 ...That was lofty! Now 'tis time for Aenc Daen the Merry to close the tome upon these antic fables and faerie toys. ...That was lofty! Now 'tis time for Aenc Daen the Merry to close the tome upon these antic fables and faerie toys.
126 125 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_199 125 TEXT_CTSDDD4AENCDAENTALK_00945_AENCDAEN_000_199 Should you demand more stories of such a weak and idle theme, I tell you─not for my faerie kingdom! No more words. Away! Go, away! Should you demand more stories of such a weak and idle theme, I tell you─not for my faerie kingdom! No more words. Away! Go, away!
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