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The Legacy of Durin
"The battle was ended, but there were tears still to shed."
Background
The curtain of memory has pulled back, revealing to Durin the lives he lived and the places he saw. He knows now what before he did not.
Objective 1
Durin has the knowledge now to finish the tale of Mótsog.
- Durin: 'The two armies of the dwarves had won the day, but each had suffered grievous losses. And yet their wounds did not quench their battle-fury; Longbeard and Greymaul alike pursued the retreating Orcs, slaying them by the thousand. The Orc-host was so badly defeated it would not trouble the Misty Mountains for the remainder of the age.
- 'Consumed with frustrated wrath, Morgoth's lieutenant Sauron witnessed his allies' defeat and fled with the surviving dragons back to Thangorodrim, where he would face his master's displeasure.
- 'Let us hurry. The memory of the charnel house that Biriz-zahar became pains my heart.'
Objective 2
- Listen to Durin conclude the tale
Durin has agreed to conclude the tale of Mótsog, for it is not that dwarf's tale alone, but Durin's as well.
- Mótsog says, "So many dead..."
- Mótsog says, "Módvit, my son..."
- Mótsog says, "What have I done?"
- Mótsog says, "You must give me death, Durin."
- Mótsog says, "It is what I deserve."
- Durin says, "I held the axe that would end your life, Mótsog."
- Durin says, "Even now I can feel the weight of it in my hand."
- Mótsog says, "Why do you hesitate?"
- Mótsog says, "I remember the tears on my face, tears so bitter they burned holes in my armour."
- Durin I says, "Too many have died in this war, Mótsog."
- Durin says, "So many of our people slain."
- Durin I says, "I will not water this earth with more of our kindred's blood."
- Ragna the Fierce says, "You will spare his life?"
- Ragna the Fierce says, "Even after such treason?"
- Durin I says, "I spare him not for his treason."
- Durin I says, "I spare him for setting it aside."
- Ragna the Fierce says, "What is to keep the Greymauls from again taking arms against you, my king?"
- Durin I says, "The memory of so much death, Ragna."
- Ragna the Fierce says, "It is not enough."
- Ragna the Fierce says, "If the Greymauls are to keep their lives, let them cut their beards short as penance."
- Ragna the Fierce says, "It will be a reminder to them, and to others, of their shameful crimes."
- Durin I says, "Let it be so."
- Durin I says, "The wisdom of Ragna will guide me in this, as it so often has."
Objective 3
Durin has more to say of the Sunder-battle's aftermath.
- Durin: 'The Greymauls who survived the Sunder-battle, though they were few in number, were granted mercy. They were made to shear their beards short as penance for raising weapons against their proper king and for allying with the Orcs, and for generations after no child of a Greymaul was permitted to wear his or her beard longer than a hand's breadth.
- 'Many dwarves looked upon the Greymauls with distrust for years afterward, but none more so than Ragna the Fierce. She it was who suggested that dwarf-women should remain ever-vigilant in the halls of their folk, for hearth and home can be endangered when watchfulness fails. Ragna swore to never again allow such rebellion to grow and thrive in the halls of her people, and for all her remaining years and for those of her daughters, it did not.'
Objective 4
- Listen to Durin conclude the tale
Durin has agreed to conclude to tale of Mótsog, for it is not that dwarf's tale alone, but Durin's as well.
- The wounds of the Greymaul Rebellion were never forgotten, but Mótsog himself disappeared into legend
Objective 5
Durin wishes to conclude the tale.
- Durin: 'A simple dwelling was fashioned in the caverns deep beneath Gundabad, and it was there that Mótsog went to live out his remaining years. I brought supplies and provisions to that deep cavern from time to time, for Mótsog refused to walk among the dwarves who lived in the halls above. As a hermit he lived, he who once pretended to kingship. He never again raised a weapon in anger.
- 'Was I his jailor or his friend, <name>? I see now that I was both, but it was not I alone who kept him here. Mótsog remained in this place for the guilt he felt, and as the years passed, folk who lived in Gundabad and elsewhere forgot the dwarf he had been and remembered only his name and the ill repute of his deeds.'
Objective 6
- Listen to Durin conclude the tale
Durin has agreed to conclude the tale of Mótsog, for it is not that dwarf's tale alone, but Durin's as well.
- Mótsog says, "You were my only friend in those days, Durin, as you had been in the beginning."
- Mótosg says, "None others visited in my solitude."
- Mótsog says, "And that was just."
- Durin I says, "Mótsog?"
- Durin I says, "What has happened?"
- Durin says, "On my last visit, I found that you had entered a deep slumber from which you would not wake."
- Durin says, "Sleep well, my enemy and my friend."
- Durin says, "I wish for you pleasant dreams."
- Durin says, "May they show you that our people live on and are strong."
- Durin says, "Farewell, Mótsog."
- I knew it not at the time, but the First Crafter heard my words
- He gave to you the dreaming sight, to last until I returned and awakened you
- Durin says, "And now I have, these many lives later."
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