Bestowal dialogue
'There. I think I am ready to begin hobbling my way home. And see, <name>, I need not live to old age. I am already acquainted with aches and infirmity!
'Luckily, I know these wetlands well and can find the path with ease. That is why we agreed to meet here, my brothers and I. When I need to rest we will stop. How is that?'
Background
Malhar is ready to travel back to Ost Rimmon.
Objective 1
Talk to Malhar when you are ready to begin the journey out of the Mouths of Entwash.
- Malhar: 'Good? Then off we go. See if you can keep up, <class>! Ha ha!'
Objective 2
Accompany Malhar on the path out of the mouths of Entwash.
- Malhar says, "When first I slipped my bonds, oh what a thrill of freedom!"
- Malhar says, "Ugh. I must not move in that way."
- Malhar says, "Then safe amongst the reeds, I thought fortune had truly smiled on me."
- Malhar says, "But fortune may be fickle and freedom its own curse."
- Malhar says, "For soon the waterways I knew and loved turned upon me."
- Malhar says, "They spun me round, wrenched my foot with hidden roots."
- Malhar says, "They buzzed and stung and leeched me."
- Malhar says, "It is one thing to go marshing on a summer's day..."
- Malhar says, "Entirely another to make a home here!"
Objective 3
Malhar has stopped for a rest at a point in the Mouths of Entwash. Talk to him and see if you can be of any help.
- Malhar: 'Water,' Malhar croaks. 'I am parched. It is sapping my strength.'
- He proffers you an empty water-skin.
- 'Fresh water should... uh!... not be far off... to the west.'
Objective 4
- Find water
- Fill the water-skin
Find fresh water near Malhar, at a point in the Mouths of Entwash, and fill his empty water-skin.
- This water is muddy and unsuitable for drinking
- This water looks fresh and clear
Objective 5
- Give Malhar the water-skin
Bring the filled water-skin to Malhar, where he waits at a point in the Mouths of Entwash.
- Malhar: Malhar takes the water-skin in both hands and drinks greedily.
- 'There, that is better. How is it, <name>, of all the things I asked you to fetch for me before setting off, water was not one?
- 'Well, we have set that right. Now let us be on our way.'
Objective 6
Accompany Malhar on the path out of the mouths of Entwash.
- Malhar says, "I indulge in pity on myself out here..."
- Malhar says, "Then I think on the deaths my father and eldest brother chose."
- Malhar says, "How the Variag dogs cut them down."
- Malhar says, "Oh, what an old man I am!"
- Malhar says, "And I think though Nature be cruel, Man surely is crueller."
- Malhar says, "Yet moreso Orc than Man, eh?"
- Malhar comes to a halt and looks around, hesitating
Objective 7
Malhar has stopped for a rest at a point in the Mouths of Entwash. Talk to him and see if you can be of any help.
- Malhar: 'Now I must gather my wits and decide which way to go. We have come far enough that there may be enemies near. I must also think on what paths will let us make our way without being seen.'
- Malhar furrows his brow and thinks for a moment.
- 'No, I cannot decide this just by brooding here. I must ask you scout ahead and bring word of what you see. This area stretches south and west of here. Canvas its breadth and return to me.'
Objective 8
- Scout ahead to the south
- Scout ahead to the west
- Scout ahead to the south-west
Malhar has asked you to scout ahead, south and west of the point where he has stopped in the Mouths of Entwash.
- Scouted to the south
- Scouted to the west
- Scouted to the south-west
Objective 9
Return to Malhar where he waits at a point in the Mouths of Entwash and describe what you saw scouting ahead.
- Malhar: You relay all that you encountered.
- 'I see then. No path is safe, I think, but I judge our best course is to head due south. Yes, I think so.'
Objective 10
Accompany Malhar on the path out of the Mouths of Entwash.
- Malhar says, "It is not far, now."
- Malhar says, "How glad I shall be of a warm bed in Ost Rimmon."
- Malhar says, "What was that?"
- Malhar says, "Hm..."
- Malhar has stopped and seems to be listening hard for some sound
Objective 11
Malhar has stopped on his path in the Mouths of Entwash. Talk to him to hear what he has to say.
- Malhar: 'Did you hear that? I would swear that I heard something. Humour me and check ahead. Be wary!'
Objective 12
Investigate the noises Malhar thinks he heard, just south of the point he stopped in the Mouths of Entwash.
- Armed men jump out at you
Objective 13
The noises Malhar heard ahead of him in the Mouths of Entwash turned out to be a Variag ambush!
Objective 14
Return to Malhar where he waits at a point in the Mouths of Entwash and let him know that the path ahead is clear.
- Malhar: 'So I was right! I am glad you could handle them, friend. We are nearly out. Let us keep up our pace.'
Objective 15
Accompany Malhar on the path out of the Mouths of Entwash.
- Malhar says, "If it is safe, then let us go."
- Malhar says, "The weeds are thickest before the clear, eh?"
- Malhar says, "Yes, this way."
- Malhar says, "I am soaked to my very bones, friend."
- Malhar says, "I think now I make the water wetter!"
- Malhar says, "There it is, in sight!"
- Malhar says, "The Beacon Hills, my dear and longed-for home!"
Objective 16
Malhar stopped again, just as the Beacon Hills came into full view. Talk to him to hear what he has to say.
- Malhar: 'There it is, <name>. My home soil. I cannot say how this view warms my heart. We have done it. We are out of the marsh and the going will be easy. Let us meet back at Ost Rimmon.'
Objective 17
You have led Malhar safely out of the Mouths of Entwash. Go with him to Glánhar in the centre of Ost Rimmon.
- Glánhar: 'I have much to thank you for, <name>, although I have much to grieve for, it appears. It is a sorrowful day, indeed!
- 'I had understood, as all Gondor marches to war, that men of my blood might be taken from me. I never imagined, though, that cruel fate would take them so near to my door or that your kind hands would free some of them from its grip.
- 'But enough of such goings-on! As I began - you have my earnest thanks. You shall ever be known as friend here in the Beacon Hills, so long as I am keeper of it.'
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