Bestowal dialogue
'You wonder why I grieve so? I am recently wed to Thane Ordlac, but here I have not found love. Alas, I must call his home mine, yet I do not recall that he has ever come to this house since we were married.
'Truly, even did he show his love to me, I do not think I could be consoled, for my heart does not care for him as it should.
'Would you bring me a cup of wine from the table? If you are willing to hear my tale, then I shall need the refreshment to soothe my thirst.'
Background
Thane Ordlac sent you to his house to protect his young wife Lúfa from the would-be assassins which the half-orcs intend to use against her.
Objective 1
- Collect wine from the table
The wine is on the table in Thane Ordlac's house.
Lúfa has asked you to bring her a cup of wine to ease her thirst while she tells you her tale.
- Collected wine from the table
Objective 2
- Bring the cup of wine to Lúfa
Lúfa is at Thane Ordlac's house in Oserley.
Lúfa awaits the wine she requested from you.
- Lúfa: 'Thank you. You have shown me a kindness.
- 'If you wish to know why I grieve so as the wife of such a young and handsome thane, it is because my heart belongs to another. I am only wed to Ordlac because my father desired an alliance with Oserley.
- 'I do not think my father would have promised me to Ordlac if he knew the lonely life I would lead here, but it is done now....'
Objective 3
- Lúfa says, "Ordlac visited Garsfeld often in the past, ingratiating himself to my grandfather, Gísil."
- Lúfa says, "One day, not long before the Orcs began openly roaming the Mark, he came professing his love for me and asking for my hand in marriage...."
- Lúfa says, "My father, Gísling, believed that Ordlac was sincere and saw in our union the opportunity for an alliance against the Orcs. He granted Ordlac my hand."
- Lúfa says, "What my father did not understand is that my heart already belonged to Torferth, son of Thane Tordag of Torsbury...."
- Lúfa says, "I begged father not to require me to wed Ordlac, but it was to no avail. He told me that I was young and that I would learn to love the thane as he loved me...."
- Lúfa says, "Alas, since I came to this place, Ordlac has put me aside with seeming indifference, like a trophy for the wall. I do not recall him even visiting this home that is supposed to be ours."
- Lúfa says, "How can I learn to love a man who has rent my heart from my breast and left me a lonely and hollow shell of a woman?"
- 'Lúfa says, "The worst part is that Torferth believes that I married Ordlac willingly. When he learned of our marriage, he was angered believing that I had betrayed him...."
- Lúfa says, "There have been moments when I felt that I would rather die than continue in this miserable life."
Objective 4
- Talk to Lúfa in Ordlac's house
Lúfa is at Thane Ordlac's house in Oserley.
Lúfa has finished her tale and wishes to speak with you again.
- Lúfa: 'Now do you understand why I grieve? I will abide by my father's wishes, for I love him and would not be disobedient, even for my own sake, but I begin to feel like I will become old from sorrow and loneliness before my time.
- 'I do have one request to ask of you though: if you continue to Torsbury as you say you must, would you bring this, my favour, to Torferth? He thinks me unfaithful, and I wish him to know that my heart still belongs to him, even though we may never fulfil our hearts' desires.'
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