Quest:Instance: Beyond Living Memory

Instance: Beyond Living Memory
Level	150
Type	Solo
Starts with	Your Sleeping Mat
Starts at	Girhâzi's Lodge
Start Region	Ambarûl
Map Ref	[21.8S, 80.9W]
Quest Group	The Song of Waves and Wind
Quest Chain	The Song of Waves and Wind: Chapter 10

Walkthrough & Notes
This dream partially takes place in the Citadel of Winds, Sûr Akil in Urash Dâr, and Thuringwath in Morgul Vale. Complete the instance.

Rewards
None.

Quest Text

Bestowal Dialogue Beyond Living Memory "Rest well. If you should dream, rue it not! The dreamless sleep holds no wisdom." Background Despite the comfortable accommodations given to you by Girhâzi, your sleep has been disturbed by strange dreams. Objective 1 Talk to Corudan in your dream The hallway outside the tower room in the Citadel of Winds swims from the recesses of your sleeping mind. Corudan: '<name>! Have you seen Sigileth? I have been calling for her ever since she came this way, but she has not responded! 'She will not turn back from this course!' Corudan says, "Sigileth! Come back!" Corudan says, "Sigileth!" Unnatural flames bar the way Cruel Dancer says, "It was too much to hope for sunlight, I suppose." Objective 2 Enter the tower room in your dream The unnatural flames barring the way into the tower room high within the Citadel of Winds have disappeared, granting you passage. Balakhôr the Scourge glares at you from across the chamber Objective 3 Examine the image of Balakhôr the Scourge conjured by your dreaming mind Though he has been dead for months, the image of Balakhôr the Scourge glowers at you from the other side of the tower room. Balakhôr the Scourge: Balakhôr appears as you remember him. Months ago, before the end of the War of the Ring, the leader of the Heirs of Castamir stood on the deck of the Night-jewel, defying Aragorn and the Army of the Dead in what proved to be his final moments. Objective 4 Listen to familiar voices conjured by your dreaming mind Familiar images and voices emerge from your dreaming mind. Balakhôr the Scourge says, "You give one name, but I know you by another." Balakhôr the Scourge says, "Bane of Umbar!" Ushu says, "Forgive Enât her distrust, stranger, but we have reason to be wary." Ushu says, "It is hard, heavy work, and there are fewer of us now than there used to be." Ushu says, "Azagath has dismissed some of our fellows before now, but..." Ushu says, "...no one seems to know where Sadûkh has gone." Hármelak says, "It may be he spirited Balakhâd out of the city, and now seeks to rejoin his master." Balakhôr the Scourge says, "I am defeated, my son... but you must carry on my legacy!" Balakhôr the Scourge says, "Grow strong, Balakhâd! Bring death to each of our enemies!" Objective 5 Talk to Corudan in your dream The tower room in the Citadel of Winds swims from the recesses of your sleeping mind. Corudan: 'Where might Sigileth have gone, <name>? She spoke of wishing to meet the Kinta Elves. Do you think she has gone to see Shanthar, the Elf-warden of Arwáth?' A feeling of disorientation clouds your mind: this is not the grove of Arwáth Objective 6 Maintain focus as your dream continues You are gripped with a sense of unreality as an unfamiliar land coalesces before your sleeping eyes. Objective 7 Examine the image of the Grim Southron conjured by your dreaming mind You expected your dreaming mind to bring you a vision of the grove of Arwáth, but it is not so. It seems the course of your dream is not so easily-controlled. The Grim Southron: Somehow, your unconscious mind knows this wraith to be the Nazgûl known in the annals of Gondor as the Grim Southron... but he and the others of his kind perished with Sauron. Is this a vision of the distant past, when the Nazgûl still lived? Objective 8 Listen to unfamiliar voices conjured by your dreaming mind Unfamiliar images and voices emerge from your dreaming mind, of events you never could have seen. Gurzant says, "My lord, if you would only tell us what the Master seeks..." The Grim Southron says, "A secret power, hidden even from him." Núfulg says, "Hidden from the Master? How can such a thing be?" The Grim Southron says, "Silence!" The Grim Southron says, "Continue the search!" Gurzant says, "It must be a deadly power indeed if the Master seeks it." Gurzant says, "What power could be beyond his own?" Núfulg says, "Keep your eyes open. Could be we might find it for ourselves." Gurzant says, "Ha! You have always been a fool, Núfulg." Objective 9 Examine the scorpion conjured by your dreaming mind Your dreaming mind conjures unusual images before you, with familiar voices emerging from unexpected places. Unusual Scorpion: You suffer a feeling of unreality as Corudan's voice emerges from the body of the scorpion. 'She cautioned us that the creatures possess great reserves of patience,' he says. 'They might lie in wait for hours, hidden from careless observation, and strike without any warning.' Objective 10 Maintain focus as your dream continues An image from the darkest corner of the Morgul Vale swims from the recesses of your mind. Mithrandir stands within Thuringwath, Valley of the Secret Shadow Objective 11 Examine the image of Mithrandir conjured by your dreaming mind In your dream the Wizard Mithrandir stands before an unpleasant statue in the Valley of the Secret Shadow. Mithrandir: Even seen through the haze of unreality conjured by your dreaming mind, you can see lines of care and worry on the Wizard's face. Some great effort has left its mark upon him, and his exhaustion is apparent in every movement. Objective 12 Witness the strange images conjured by your dreaming mind The dream feels so real to you. Ranger Taurdir says, "Has it gone?" Mithrandir says, "No, Taurdir. The spirit remains. It can never leave its prison." Mithrandir says, "But I believe the contest is finished. Each of us has exhausted our will." Ranger Taurdir says, "I should not have fled, Mithrandir! I am shamed by my cowardice!" Mithrandir says, "Be not shamed, Taurdir, for Megorlam is both ancient and powerful." Mithrandir says, "Only I or one of my order might stand and speak with him, and then only briefly." Ranger Taurdir says, "Did you... did you learn aught of use from that terrible spirit?" Objective 13 Talk to Mithrandir in your dream Thuringwath swims hazily before your dreaming eyes. Mithrandir: 'For many days Megorlam whispered to me from the stone and I came to understand he was a prisoner. I know not the precise reason for which Sauron imprisoned him, though I might make a guess. The chains that bind him within this statue remain unbroken; the Dark Lord must have drawn upon another source to fashion those bonds. They survived his own defeat, to the sorrow of Megorlam. 'My struggle with the captive spirit has revealed this much, Taurdir: he possessed knowledge of some secret that even Sauron knew not. He taunted the Dark Lord with this secret, claiming that this power was beyond Sauron, impossible for even that terrible sorcerer to harness. "This power is beyond all living memory!" he said to Sauron, and great was the Dark Lord's anger. As I strove against Megorlam, he repeated these three words over and over again: "beyond living memory," he cried, "beyond living memory!" 'I believe Megorlam thought to ensnare me with the promise of knowledge, attempting to steal my powers and use them to break from his prison. I proved more capable than he expected, Taurdir, and he has relented in that effort, but I dare not speak to him again lest he overcome my defences. 'But his words trouble me, my Ranger friend. A power beyond Sauron...' Mithrandir says, "Beyond living memory..." Mithrandir says, "I wonder..." Completed: Instance: Beyond Living Memory