Bestowal Dialogue
'They returned to the city a few days ago and now recover in Dâr Tabib. You can find this Apothecary in the Tor-gardens of Umbar Baharbêl.'
Background
The recent upheavals scarred the city, but now it begins to heal, as do some of the companions who fought by your side.
Objective 1
The Apothecary of Dâr Tabib is located in the Tor-gardens of Umbar Baharbêl.
- Daxamat: 'You should visit them at Dâr Tabib, in the Tor-gardens of Umbar Baharbêl. I know Corudan and Sigileth will be pleased to see you!'
- Many of the beds of Dâr Tabib are occupied by the wounded
Objective 2
Corudan lies in one of the beds of Dâr Tabib.
- Corudan: '<name>, my friend... my wound is well on its way to healing... but to see you return with victory... eases the pain. I understand Umbar has been saved from... Nakási and Balakhâd? Has Gondor too... escaped from their wrath?'
- You tell Corudan that King Elessar and his soldiers fought bravely against the Song, and Gondor survived. He smiles weakly.
- 'Then the last of Sauron's schemes... has been frustrated, <name>. I am glad for my part in it...'
- You insist that Corudan rest, and you will speak with him when he is more fully healed.
Objective 3
Sigileth watches over her brother in Dâr Tabib.
- Corudan: 'Our return to the city... was not uneventful. My sister... will speak of it to you.'
- Sigileth: 'I understand Nakási is slain and the Song of Waves and Wind defeated, <name>. May there now be peace for a time!
- 'I heard tell that five ships of the Song survived the passage to Gondor, and waged war upon the Harlond? More might have joined them, had the rapids of the Ikorbân not proved too perilous; we saw the ruin of many smaller ships dashed upon the rocks as we travelled this way from Sûg Nidar. The builders of the fleet likely intended that to be a one-way voyage, but they had not counted upon Cúridwan's damaging solution, or your great haste in opposing those who escaped it.
- 'The raft-bridge of the Wrackwade did not last long against the Narghâk cannons. When we rejoined Rahâzi at Iridír she said her mother intended to see it rebuilt. It would not surprise me to learn she has already done so! But I have gotten ahead of myself. There is more to tell.
- 'While you pursued the Song toward Umbar, my brother and I and Cúridwan made our own way westward. Our return journey... was not uneventful.'
Objective 4
Sigileth is in Dâr Tabib.
- Sigileth: 'Yes, I will tell you what transpired after you left us.'
Objective 5
Sigileth is in Dâr Tabib.
- Sigileth: 'I cannot say with certainty that the spirit was Silirtas, or that she heard my words. But I believe it was, and she did. I will not hurry to join her, but when at last I come to that place, I hope she and I will reside in comfort and in peace, beyond the loneliness and fear that so troubled Silirtas when she contemplated the unknown days ahead.
- 'That is my desire, <name>. I cannot know if it will come to pass, but if hope leads us ever onward, the pleasant dream of it will live in my heart until the last of my days arrives.'
Objective 6
Caebar is in Dâr Tabib.
- Sigileth: 'Caebar has visited every day, and kept us informed of events in the city.'
- Caebar: Caebar flushes.
- 'Oh! I am sorry to interrupt, <name>! I did not know you had returned! I have visited our friends every day while Corudan recovers, and they have spoken to me of your adventure in the Fearwater.
- 'Please, finish your visit! I will speak with you afterward.'
Objective 7
Sigileth is in Dâr Tabib.
- Sigileth: 'That reminds me. My brother collected some papers from the Ordâkhai while we adventured in the Fearwater. He intended to give them to Caebar, but the matter has slipped our minds until now. Look for them among Corudan's belongings, and give them to Caebar.'
Objective 8
Corudan's possessions can be found in the satchel at the foot of his bed.
- Sigileth: 'Look for these papers among Corudan's belongings, and give them to Caebar.'
- You retrieve a sheaf of Corudan's notes from the satchel
Objective 9
 Stack of Notes
Caebar is in Dâr Tabib.
- Sigileth: 'Give Caebar the papers my brother collected during our time in the Fearwater.'
- Caebar: Caebar accepts the papers and briefly studies them.
- 'Wait... you say that Corudan found these in an Ordâkh encampment in the Fearwater? I do not want to pester him with questions, <name>, so let us speak of this outside.'
- Caebar bids farewell to Corudan and Sigileth and departs Dâr Tabib
Objective 10
Caebar waits for you in the Tor-gardens outside Dâr Tabib.
- Caebar: You find Caebar excitedly studying the papers Corudan retrieved from the Ordâkhai of Sûg Nidar.
- 'The soldiers would not have understood the meaning of this parchment, <name>, but I do. They must have found it among the Ruins of Kasukhín while searching for treasure; thinking it unimportant, they kept it unguarded among their belongings, where it went overlooked until it was picked up by Corudan.
- 'These are the words of Vinyarion, twenty-fourth King of Gondor, who bore the title of Hyarmendacil II: "the South-victor." Set down by a trusted retainer in his old age, only days before his death, these words claim that he repented of his long campaign in Harad, and wept at the bones of Shâraban, a city he destroyed in the days of his youth. On the return journey of his tenth pilgrimage to the lands he once conquered, he rested at the hilltop fort of Kasukhín and died there, peacefully, in his sleep. Sigileth tells me the land around that fort is now changed, and what was once a hill is now an island; might Vinyarion's bones lie there to this day, kept isolated from discovery by the creation of the Fearwater?
- 'His story raises complicated emotions in my heart, <name>; he is considered very differently in Shagâna than he is in Gondor, and it is difficult to reconcile those two perspectives. I am put in mind of the relationship the Umbari must now have with the Kindred of the Coins that preceded the Ghad Imghêda, the Kindred Redeemed.'
Objective 11
- Wait for Caebar to speak again
Caebar thinks for a moment about what you have shown him.
- Caebar emerges from his musings with a nod
Objective 12
Caebar stands in the Tor-gardens outside Dâr Tabib.
- Caebar: 'The Kindred of the Coins was neither entirely evil nor entirely good, <name>. Like Hyarmendacil II, they achieved both lasting good and enduring harm. Does one erase the other? Wiser scholars than I may be able to weigh the value of each... but I cannot. Must we forget the instrumental roles played by Azagath and Nakási in the freeing of Umbar from the Heirs of Castamir and the cultists of Sauron? Must we forget Khôltekh's deeds during The Dagor Carlanthir, or Hármelak's advice that Dâr Laja be opened to the needs of her people? Must their later crimes strike from the record their earlier heroics and wise governance?'
- Caebar studies the ground intently.
- 'Must my mother's refusal to see me erase the happy years I spent as a child in Ethring, <name>? I think it cannot. So we celebrate the good and we work to remedy the bad, and by so doing we mend what wounds we can, and seek to avoid inflicting further harm. That is healing, of a kind, is it not?'
- The Gondorian scribe heaves a sigh and looks up at you again, forcing a smile.
- 'From conversation with the Umbari I have sketched the members of the original Kindred of the Coins, <name>. Umbar will remember both their fine qualities and their faults, neither excusing the other, and with these drawings I hoped to capture that balance. Choose one of your liking and it is yours; the others I will give to the city of Umbar Baharbêl, that it may remember its history and not forget it.'
- And as a light breeze passes over the sea, thus ends 'The Song of Waves and Wind'
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