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Bestowal Dialogue
The Ghost Returns
"This land is new to me, but it will be good to see an old friend. Will she be pleased to see us, I wonder?"
Background
Corudan has asked to go with you to visit an old friend.
Objective 1
After a lengthy journey, Corudan and your other companions stand outside the village of Lhanuch.
- Corudan: 'This is Lhanuch, the village of the Uch-lûth from which Nona came? I am pleased to see it. She did not speak of it often, but when she did her voice was fond... despite her attempts to prevent it, I think.
- 'You had better go on ahead, <name>. Nona's people will remember you. The rest of us will be considered... what was the word? Duvodiad? Yes, that was it.
- 'The rest of us may be duvodiad, but in Lhanuch I believe you will be welcomed.'
Objective 2
- Enter Lhanuch and climb the hill
Corudan encouraged you to climb the hill into Lhanuch and ensure that your group will be welcome.
- Suvulch nods in greeting
Objective 3
Suvulch stands partway up the hill in Lhanuch.
- Suvulch: 'I knew you would one day climb this hill and come again to Lhanuch, <name>. I saw it in the Pool of the King only weeks after my daughter Nona departed, following the dream that carried her away to fight another kingdom's war. She returned months afterward with a broken heart and a child in her belly, and I thought you would return in the company of this man, this Horn who was the father of the child. But sun and moon rose and fell, and he never showed his face.
- 'My daughter sits by the summit of the village, by the fire on the right. She will be glad to see you. As for the others who wait below... who can say? If they do not speak the right words, they may learn the daughter of Suvulch can be even more dangerous than he is, and that is no small amount!'
Objective 4
- Find Nona up the hill near the summit of Lhanuch
Suvulch told you Nona is further up the hill within Lhanuch, and will be delighted to see you.
- Nona smiles as you approach
Objective 5
- Talk to Nona by the fire near the summit of Lhanuch
Nona sits by the fire near the summit of Lhanuch.
- Nona: '<name>, my dear friend! It is good to see you again at last! If you waited a few more months you might meet my son or my daughter... but I am glad you did not wait.
- 'No, I do not yet know what my child will be! When the days feel longest I wonder if Hildegard would tell me whether I am having a son or a daughter... but I cannot bring myself to return to the soothsayer's cave. If she had not spoken as she had, perhaps Horn...
- 'It does not matter. It has been months but my anger has not cooled. It is said the Uch-lûth love even more fiercely than they fight, and you should cross them in neither! Someone should have told that to Horn before he sent me away, the fool. Yes, I know he thought he was doing right. He was wrong, and should have listened.'
Objective 6
- Stand beside the fire with your friends
It is a reunion of friends and adventurers near the summit of Lhanuch, but not everyone is welcome.
- Nona says, "Corudan!"
- Nona says, "We thought you were dead!"
- Corudan says, "It is not so, my friend."
- Corudan says, "But I grieved to miss the rest of your adventures."
- Nona says, "Who are these folk?"
- Corudan says, "He is Caebar, a scribe of Gondor and friend of <name>. He is an artist."
- Corudan says, "And this is my sister Sigileth."
- Nona says, "These are truly days of wonder, when even ghosts return!"
- Corudan says, "They rescued me from the clutches of the Kindred of the Coins, in Umbar."
- Nona says, "It sounds like you have quite a story to tell."
- Horn says, "Nona... I..."
- Nona says, "What are you doing here?"
- Corudan says, "He wanted to see you. He has spoken of nothing else."
- Nona says, "Have you come here to die, then?"
- Nona says, "For I will slay you where you stand!"
- Horn says, "I would welcome it, Nona."
- Nona says, "Do not test me, fool! I will become Wadu's Ghost once more!"
Objective 7
- Talk to Nona and keep her from once again becoming Wadu's Ghost
Nona is prepared to become Wadu's Ghost and slay her former lover... but you cannot stand idly by.
- Nona: 'Stand aside, <name>. To return here, after sending me away... his wits are more addled than they used to be! How can you explain his presence here?'
- Nona's eyes boil with fury, but your keen eyesight reveals that the hand holding her brother's sword trembles. She does not want to become Wadu's Ghost again, despite her words and the anger she has nursed for Horn since he sent her away from the war. If only there was some way for you to break the tension. You cast your thoughts back to the days you spent travelling with Horn and Nona, and then you have it. You recount your cautious steps within the deserted village of Dunfast, in Wildermore, when Nona had left your little party, leaving you in the company of Horn, the minstrel Gléowine, and Corudan. The Elf felt eyes upon your group, and it was with heightened senses that the four of you crept towards the bush that seemed to contain the unwelcome and hostile eyes. Horn valiantly approached the bush, his hand upon his sword, prepared to face whatever evil lurked within...
- ...and promptly fell down on his rump when the shrew within leapt out of its hiding-place
Objective 8
- Stand beside the fire with your friends
You prevented Nona from becoming Wadu's Ghost... but it was a close thing.
- Nona says, "You are right, <name>."
- Nona says, "It is a wonder Horn survived this long without me."
- Nona says, "Very well."
- Caebar says, "Thank the Powers!"
- Horn says, "My love... I am sorry..."
- Nona says, "You should never have left us."
- Nona says, "Did you learn nothing? Only together can we face what comes."
- Horn says, "I learned it, Nona, but too late."
- Nona says, "It is not too late."
- Nona says, "By my reckoning you learned it with a few months to spare."
- Nona says, "You are fortunate our child has more patience than I!"
- Caebar says, "She would not have really slain him, would she?"
- Corudan says, "You have only met Nona today, Caebar... or you would not ask that question!"
- Nona says, "Sit, my friends. I would hear of the adventures I have missed!"
Objective 9
- Sit by the fire and reminisce about your adventures
Nona has called for you and the others to sit and reminisce about your adventures.
Objective 10
- Reminisce about your adventures
You and your friends sit by the fire and reminisce about your shared adventures.
- And so we sat and spoke together, all of us, late into the night...
- '...old friends and new.'
- Completed:
- Instance: The Ghost Returns
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Bestowal Dialogue
The Ghost Returns
"This land is new to me, but it will be good to see an old friend. Will she be pleased to see us, I wonder?"
Background
Corudan has asked to go with you to visit an old friend.
Objective 1
After a lengthy journey, Corudan and your other companions stand outside the village of Lhanuch.
- Corudan: 'This is Lhanuch, the village of the Uch-lûth from which Nona came? I am pleased to see it. She did not speak of it often, but when she did her voice was fond... despite her attempts to prevent it, I think.
- 'You had better go on ahead, <name>. Nona's people will remember you. The rest of us will be considered... what was the word? Duvodiad? Yes, that was it.
- 'The rest of us may be duvodiad, but in Lhanuch I believe you will be welcomed.'
Objective 2
- Enter Lhanuch and climb the hill
Corudan encouraged you to climb the hill into Lhanuch and ensure that your group will be welcome.
- Suvulch nods in greeting
Objective 3
Suvulch stands partway up the hill in Lhanuch.
- Suvulch: 'I knew you would one day climb this hill and come again to Lhanuch, <name>. I saw it in the Pool of the King only weeks after my daughter Nona departed, following the dream that carried her away to fight another kingdom's war. She returned months afterward with a broken heart and a child in her belly, and I thought you would return in the company of this man, this Horn who was the father of the child. But sun and moon rose and fell, and it was not you who first came to Lhanuch with tidings.'
- Suvulch frowns, and you remember that he considers himself more gifted with weapons than with words.
- 'It was a minstrel, an old one with white hair and a solemn face. He said he served a king of the horse-lords who perished fighting the Dark Lord, and he had sad tidings for Nona. "Horn is dead," he said to her, and while she had raged with anger in the wordless months that passed, her fury was replaced all at once, and with sorrow. I wept with the two of them. Yes, even I! But I am her father, and I raised my Nona to be strong. Her tears showed to me how deeply she loved this Horn, even though she buried that love beneath the rage she held for him, and which he deserved! So I wept alongside them, and when the minstrel departed I embraced my daughter and I told her that I would never again say a cross word about the man Horn.
- 'I meant it even then, but in time I have come to understand he was a man of courage who believed he was not courageous, <name>. That is a curious thing, and not common among the Uch-lûth. But perhaps not all can be as honest as Suvulch, who is certain of his courage and acts upon it every day.'
- He roughly clasps your arm, and then points up the hill.
- 'My daughter sits by the summit of the village, by the fire on the right. She will be glad to see you.'
Objective 4
- Find Nona up the hill near the summit of Lhanuch
Suvulch told you Nona is further up the hill within Lhanuch, and will be delighted to see you.
- Nona smiles as you approach
Objective 5
- Talk to Nona by the fire near the summit of Lhanuch
Nona sits by the fire near the summit of Lhanuch.
- Nona: '<name>, my dear friend! It is good to see you again at last! If you waited a few more months you might meet my son or my daughter... but I am glad you did not wait.
- 'No, I do not yet know what my child will be! When the days feel longest I wonder if Hildegard would tell me whether I am having a son or a daughter... but I cannot bring myself to return to the soothsayer's cave. When Gléowine came to Lhanuch and told me of what transpired before the walls of Minas Tirith... it was as if I was hearing of it for the second time, seeing it again, feeling anew all the pain of it. So I will not return to Hildegard.
- 'Gléowine spoke also of your deeds, and I know Horn was avenged. I would have become Wadu's Ghost once more and done it myself, but you can see that I am somewhat occupied for now. So I thank you, and I know Horn does as well, and so does his child.'
Objective 6
- Stand beside the fire with your friends
It is a reunion of friends and adventurers near the summit of Lhanuch.
Objective 7
- Examine the gift you and Corudan worked with Caebar to prepare
Nona has set down the gift you and Corudan worked with Caebar to prepare.
Objective 8
- Stand beside the fire with your friends
Nona is grateful for the gift you and Corudan worked with Caebar to prepare.
Objective 9
- Sit by the fire and reminisce about your adventures
Nona has called for you and the others to sit and reminisce about your adventures.
Objective 10
- Reminisce about your adventures
You and your friends sit by the fire and reminisce about your shared adventures.
- Completed:
- Instance: The Ghost Returns
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