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The Dreaming Dwarf
"I say again: show yourself to us, villain! Only cowards hide behind such a veil of deception!"
Background
A strange sorcery envelops the forgotten chamber deep below Gundabad. What secrets lie within?
Objective 1
- Talk to Durin in the forgotten chamber
Durin stands in the forgotten chamber deep beneath Gundabad, boiling with rage.
- Durin: 'Something is not right, <name>. Some servant of Mótsog the Traitor may lie in wait, seeking to harm us.
- 'Remain on your guard.'
Objective 2
Durin has asked you to remain alert for any sign of danger.
- Durin says, "The statue of the Traitor is so life-like. Is this a tomb?"
- Durin says, "I can almost hear him."
- Durin says, "But how can I know the sound of the Traitor's words?"
- Durin says, "The bearer of that voice died long ago!"
- Durin says, "And yet I am put in mind of the Anvil of Winterstith, and of a voice that spoke through the ice."
- Durin says, "It spoke of dwarves long-dead, and of great deeds."
- Durin says, "It was the voice of a dwarf, not a dragon."
- Durin says, "It was the voice of a friend, courteous but stern."
- Mótsog says, "It was I who spoke to you, Durin my friend."
- Durin says, "Fell sorcery!"
- Durin says, "Explain yourself, villain!"
- Mótsog says, "Sorcery, aye, but not of the sort you fear."
- Mótsog says, "This is the work of the First Crafter."
- Durin says, "Lies!"
- Mótsog says, "I would not speak falsely to you, Durin, my friend."
- Durin says, "And yet you bear the visage of Mótsog the Traitor!"
- Durin says, "How do you know my name?"
- Mótsog says, "I know you for my friend Durin, for I have seen you in all your guises during my long sleep."
- Mótsog says, "Your outward form does not hide you from the sight of my dream."
- Durin says, "You say you know me."
- Durin says, "So too do I know you: Mótsog the Traitor, leader of the Greymauls, father of treachery."
- Durin says, "Why should I trust your words?"
- Mótsog says, "I have seen much you have forgotten."
- Mótsog says, "I will show these sights to you, that you may remember them."
- Durin says, "What do you think, <name>?"
Objective 3
The dwarf claiming to be Mótsog says he can show Durin what he has forgotten.
- Mótsog: 'You are a friend of Durin? Then you too will see what I have to show him.'
Objective 4
- Witness the visions granted by the stranger
The dwarf claiming to be Mótsog has promised to show Durin forgotten sights.
- See, then, what you have forgotten
- Durin says, "How can this be?"
- Durin says, "That is... Durin the Sixth! We have to help him!"
- Mótsog says, "There is no help we can provide, my friend."
- Mótsog says, "This was to be your end."
- Durin says, "Every dwarf knows the tale. But this vision is so lifelike..."
Objective 5
It cannot be denied that Mótsog possesses a curious power. How can he reveal these visions to you?
- Mótsog: 'They called it Durin's Bane, but I knew it by another name, in another age. Long before the creature came to hide in this forgotten cavern I knew it as Askâdurs, and the memory of its scorching passage through my city in the heights is cruel.
- 'But that was long ago.'
Objective 6
- Witness the visions granted by Mótsog
Mótsog has promised to show Durin forgotten sights.
- Durin says, "Durin the Fifth, slayer of the dragon Thorog!"
- Mótsog says, "So you were, and yet..."
- Mótsog says, "...the dragon was also your end."
- Durin says, "Does it always end thus?"
Objective 7
It cannot be denied that Mótsog possesses a curious power. How can he reveal these visions to you?
- Mótsog: 'Aye. That is the fate of Durin in every age in which he appears.'
- Mótsog's expression is devoid of emotion and impossible to read.
- 'I have seen them all.'
Objective 8
- Witness the visions granted by Mótsog
Mótsog has promised to show Durin forgotten sights.
- Durin says, "Durin the Fourth came to the aid of the Last Alliance, in distant Mordor."
- Durin says, "How is it you beheld this?"
- Mótsog says, "The First Crafter gave to me the dreaming sight."
- Mótsog says, "I have seen all your victories and all your defeats."
Objective 9
It cannot be denied that Mótsog possesses a curious power. How can he reveal these visions to you?
- Mótsog: 'It has been both curse and blessing to see these trials, for it was the will of the First Crafter that I should be unable to look away.
- 'I have seen moments of triumph, but so too have I seen defeats that would scar the iron heart of any dwarf, marking him forever with its imprint.'
Objective 10
- Witness the visions granted by Mótsog
Mótsog has promised to show Durin forgotten sights.
- Durin says, "When Sauron waged his war upon Eregion, Durin the Third fought well and bravely!"
- Durin says, "Did he not?"
- Mótsog says, Many were the glorious deeds you accomplished in that war, my friend."
- Mótsog says, "But this was the last: retreating into Khazad-dûm, and sealing the doors."
- Durin III says, "Is it done?"
- Warrior of Khazad-dûm says, "Aye, my king. The outer door is sealed."
- Durin says, "But the dwarves survived. The king did what needed to be done."
Objective 11
It cannot be denied that Mótsog possesses a curious power. How can he reveal these visions to you?
- Mótsog: 'It has always been difficult for me to see these trials, unable to intervene.
- 'It is no reward, friend of Durin, to remain helpless in this. But is could not be otherwise. The dreaming sight cares not.'
Objective 12
- Witness the visions granted by Mótsog
Mótsog has promised to show Durin forgotten sights.
- Durin says, "Durin the Second ruled in Gundabad."
- Durin says, "Would that I could have seen it at its height!"
- Mótsog says, "But you did, my friend."
- Mótsog says, "Can you not see yourself behind the guise of each ruler I have shown to you?"
- Mótsog says, "Here it was that you offered Gundabad to the Zhélruka."
- Durin says, "Stop! Stop these visions!"
- Durin says, "Put an end to this nonsense!"
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