Bestowal Dialogue
A Promise Kept
"Raphûz invited you to speak with him after you assisted him at Telperiën's Wall."
Background
Over tea and a smoke, Raphûz tells you why he joined the Tale-wardens and recalls the story of his family.
Objective 1
Join Raphûz by the fire.
- Raphûz smiled as you approached and asked you to join him
Objective 2
- Sit with Raphûz by the fire
- Listen to Raphûz's story
Raphûz offers a seat by the fire.
- Raphûz says, "I am grateful for your assistance, <name>. When I lost my pack, I thought I would lose my post and shame my family. Now, I question whether I should leave my post of my own accord."
- Raphûz says, "Why, you ask? I saw a woman back on the road before Telperiën's wall. It is why I stopped and ventured away from the caravan."
- Raphûz says, "My mother warned of the visions and voices of Shagâna as she lay on her deathbed."
- Raphûz says, "Not even a week out of Umbar, I see my first vision. Lose the pack I need for my livelihood and try to hide it."
- Raphûz says, "You must think me a fool."
Objective 3
- Tell Raphûz you do not think him a fool with no
- Listen to Raphûz's story
Continue conversing with Raphûz.
- Raphûz says, "You saw the vision too? Maybe it was no vision."
- Raphûz says, "I wanted to talk to her. I wanted to ask her why she stood so far from the caravan. Was she following us? Watching us? Why?"
- Raphûz says, "As I strayed, my mother's voice came into my head. 'Be wary of the voices in Shagâna. They will tempt you. They will make you wander and follow them to your death.'"
- Raphûz says, "As I drew near, I saw she looked beautiful but fierce. Akin to a storm in the summer."
- Raphûz says, "I heard a call from the caravan and turned. Kizeri beckoned me to return to the caravan."
- Raphûz says, "When I turned back. The woman was gone."
- Raphûz says, "I thought it was my mother's tale made manifest."
Objective 4
- Smoke with Raphûz's device
Raphûz suggested you share his tobacco.
Objective 5
- Cough at Raphûz, alerting him to your difficulty with his device
- Listen to Raphûz's story
You used Raphûz's hookah, but the experience is different than smoking with your pipe.
- Raphûz says, "My mother was Umbari, and my father was Shagâni. They met in the lower docks of the city."
- Raphûz says, "We lived a wonderful life. My father died years ago, naturally. My mother followed him within the past several months."
- Raphûz says, "Before she passed, she bid me return to my father's homeland to restore his name."
- Raphûz says, "That story is best saved for another time."
Objective 6
- Smoke with Raphûz
- Listen to Raphûz's story
You continue listening to Raphûz's story. You should share a smoke with him using your pipe.
- Raphûz says, "My father fled Shagâna in disgrace. I pledged to my mother I would restore his name."
- Raphûz says, "I took work with the Phetekâri because I had no other means to travel here."
- Raphûz says, "I expected the work would keep me busy enough while I learned what I could of my father and how I could restore his name."
- Raphûz says, "The training was not hard but came with warnings of what we may face in Shagâna. Little is known of the people, my father's people."
- Raphûz says, "We know the Ordâkhai hold - held power here until the temples fell in Umbar, and now my father's people rebel against the Ordâkhai."
- Raphûz says, "We are here to observe and preserve. How can I uphold my promise if I am only to observe?"
- Raphûz says, "...and now a woman haunts my waking moments."
- Raphûz says, "Not a woman I have met, but a beauty I saw only from afar whose freedom stirs me deeply."
- Raphûz says, "I began this journal as a boy. They are the stories of my mother and father. I hoped to fill it with stories of my own."
- Raphûz says, "It is because of your actions I still have this opportunity."
- Raphûz says, "I am sorry I cannot offer you more than a sad story from a confused young man, a smoke, and some tea for your efforts."
Objective 7
- Bow to Raphûz and take your leave
The evening grows long. Perhaps it is time to retire.
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