Bestowal dialogue
The fragment of stone you recovered from Iothete's home has a story behind it, and you are ready to hear it.
Background
The fragment of stone you recovered from Iothete's home has a story behind it, and you are ready to hear it.
Objective 1
Iothete is in his hut in the Whitshaws.
You should speak with Iothete.
- Iothete: 'These lands were woods so fair...
- 'I will tell you everything I remember, <name>. You will wish me dead when you hear what I did to Wildermore.'
Objective 2
Iothete is in the woods of the Whitshaws.
You should speak with Iothete and listen to his memory of a fateful day.
- Iothete says, "If you wish to know how I came by the stone, I will tell you."
- Iothete says, "It was a year ago or so, and it was a fine green day."
- Iothete says, "I walked often when it was warmer, for the woods were fair and hale..."
Objective 3
Iothete is in the woods in the northern Whitshaws.
You should speak with Iothete.
- Iothete: Iothete's voice paints a picture in your mind of his walk on the fateful day a year or so ago.
- The woods of the Whitshaws feel very different than the bare white tines protruding from the snow today.
- Iothete remembers walking in the green woods of the Whitshaws
- Iothete says, "Is that a fellow wanderer I see ahead?"
- Iothete says, "Hail, traveller!"
- Iothete says, "What is your errand, my good fellow?"
- Old Wanderer says, "Are you from this land? Pray answer."
- Iothete says, "Why... yes I am. Can I --"
- Old Wanderer says, "I am weary. You will invite me to your home, to discuss many things."
- Iothete says, "I... I see that you are weary, sir."
- Iothete says, "Won't you come and sit at my home? Dunfast is not far."
Objective 4
Iothete is in the woods in the northern Whitshaws.
You should speak with Iothete.
- Iothete: 'Yes... do come rest at my home. We can discuss whatever you'd like.'
Objective 5
- Listen to Iothete's memory
You should follow Iothete's memory into his home in Dunfast.
- Iothete remembers sitting for a long while with the old wanderer
- Old Wanderer says, "Tell me: who is the leader of these lands?"
- Iothete says, "Why, that would be Gárwig, Reeve of Wildermore..."
- Old Wanderer says, "How old is he? Is he strong? Hale?"
- Iothete says, "His line is strong, but he is no longer young."
- Old Wanderer says, "Indeed? And who will succeed him?"
- Iothete says, "Our Reeve has many fine sons! Gárnoth, Gárferth, Edsig, Cúthbald, Gársig..."
- Iothete says, "...and there is also Thrymm Red-beard, the hero of Wildermore!"
- Iothete says, "He is like a son to Gárwig. None can best him in battle."
- Old Wanderer says, "Is that so?"
- Old Wanderer says, "Now tell me: what strongholds have you in this land?"
- Iothete: 'He wanted to know everything about Wildermore. I do not know why...'
- Old Wanderer says, "I thank you for your time and hospitality."
- Old Wanderer says, "This has been most... informative."
- Old Wanderer says, "I leave you with this gift, so that you may remember your service to an old wanderer."
- Iothete: 'And that was when he placed the stone exactly where you found it. The cold came instantly! I was so afraid...'
Objective 6
You should follow Iothete's memory into his home in Dunfast.
- Iothete: Iothete concludes his tale:
- 'The memory is strange, foggy, unsettling. I do not feel like I was there -- merely looking on from a distance while I spoke too much of things that do not concern strangers. I told my neighbors, but they dismissed me as being mad. The stone terrified me. It made me cold.
- 'So I left.
- 'Now it is cold everywhere, and it is my fault.'
- 'And now you see what the stone has wrought? The cold came over our lands not long ago, and it was as unnatural as this stone that froze my home a year ago. Is it my fault? Is it because I told him so much?'
- Completed:
- Instance: The Story of a Strange Stone
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