Bestowal Dialogue
Standing outside the entrance to Starkhaven, your eye is drawn by the great light-house across the bridge to the east. Climbing the steps in front of the light could lead to a good vantage point from which you could
observe the mighty fleet and the ship-yard at which it was constructed.
Background
A mighty light-house stands guard outside Starkhaven, providing a good view of the surrounding lands and aiding the passage of the ships that sail at Sûg Nidar.
Objective 1
Standing outside the entrance to Starkhaven, your eye is drawn by the great light-house to the east.
Objective 2
- Climb the steps leading to the light-house
From atop the steps that lead to the light-house you might obtain a good view of the ship-yard of Starkhaven.
- The south-eastern side of the light-house will give you a better view of the ship-yard
Objective 3
- Find a good vantage point on the south-eastern side of the light-house
- Look to the south at the ships under construction
If you walk to the south-eastern side of the light-house you will have a better place from which to look at the ship-yard.
- Your study of the ships is interrupted by the feeling that you are being watched
Objective 4
- Talk to the man with the furtive air
A man with a furtive air watches you from the shadows...
- Engéru: The man has a furtive air as he looks you up and down.
- 'This is not your place, stranger. I have lived here for all the years of my life, as did my father before me. I am Engéru. Mine is a family of ship-builders; we have known nothing else. But you have climbed to this height with ruin in your eye. You wish to see the Song destroyed.
- 'No, do not deny it! I said I was a ship-builder, and that is true. But I am not a soldier. For decades we worked here in Starkhaven, and every new ship that was added to the fleet seemed a trophy for my family. I did not believe they would ever sail, but now a man of Umbar has come to Sûg Nidar, and he commands hundreds of Corsairs. The woman Nakási orders that new weapons be mounted upon the ships, weapons that breathe terrible blue fire. The Orcs have always been here, but they used to keep to themselves across the lake; now we are expected to work alongside them?
- 'My wife Isamó and I decided to leave Starkhaven, but I am being watched. I will be pressed into service upon one of the war galleys once I descend from this light. Will you meet with my wife and tell her I cannot join her? She must carry out our plan without me. I have eyes only for Isamó; my heart goes with her, even as we must part.
- 'See you the chimneys to the east and south of here? That is where we intended to meet. Go now and guide my wife from this place, I beg of you. I will decide how to descend from this light: swiftly, on my own terms, or slowly, pressed into service aboard the weapons I helped create. Either way, I want to know my Isamó was given a chance to escape. Thank you, my friend.'
Objective 5
Engéru asked you to find his wife Isamó somewhere among the chimneys on the western side of Starkhaven and to give her his message.
- Isamó: The woman watches you carefully.
- Engéru: Engéru gazes out over the vast fleet before speaking again.
- 'Look for Isamó among the buildings with the chimneys to the east and south of here, friend. Please go.'
- A woman in the alley between the buildings watches you carefully
Objective 6
- Talk to Isamó in the alley
Isamó stands in an alley between buildings on the western side of Starkhaven.
- Isamó: The woman watches you silently, but when you give her Engéru's message she cries out.
- 'We must return and save him from the soldiers! He will not try to fight them, but you can!'
- You shake your head and tell Isamó that it was her husband's only wish that she escape Starkhaven, and that she is to carry out the plan they devised. There will be little time before the soldiers find her, unless she leaves now.
- 'I cannot do this by myself,' she says, and you cannot tell if she refers to the escape plan or to the unknown days ahead, without Engéru.
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