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DemonicDarkwraith -> Stolen Souls (7/12/2025 0:25:57)
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Stolen Souls
Location: Falconreach Inn (Book 3) -> ODD JOBS -> Aiding Mortem -> Stolen Souls
Requirements: Completion of The End of the Beginning
Release Date: July 11th, 2025
Objective: Katia has asked for your help in aiding Mortem.
Objective completed: Time to find the stolen souls!
Experience rewarded: Scaled
Gold rewarded: Scaled
Monsters
(3) Beez
(3) Borowik
(1) Dola
(2) Iele
(2) Lakanica
(3) Leszi
NPCs
Katia
Saga
Rewards
Volkenraand Traveler's Belt (I-V)
Access to Stolen Souls Loot for DCs.
Dialogue
*You meet with Katia near Edelia on Tkaanie; Katia is now wearing a Chaosweaver attire with Master Soulweaver's soullooms following her final exams in Edelia; she looks at you with great sight as they were Tomix's companion.*
Katia: Ooooh... yeah. I can see what he saw in you.
<Character>: Uh...
<Character>: Beg your pardon?
Katia: Nothing! Thank you for coming, <Character>, and on such short notice. I'm Katia!
<Character>: Hello!
<Character>: Nice to finally meet you!
<Character>: You said in the letter that your hometown is afflicted by some sort of a disease? Could you, perhaps, elaborate?
Katia: Someone much more knowledgeable will, I'm just the messenger! Please, follow me, hero.
*You follow Katia to the intersection between Mortem and Edelia on the Tkaanie Path; you and Katia meet a weaver named Saga, who is wearing a headmaster attire similar to Danyel.*
Katia: <Character>, may I introduce you to Saga! They are the new principal of Edelia and someone who finally has the guts to help Mortem!
Saga: Greetings, hero.
*You greet Saga with a questioning look.*
<Character>: ...Hello.
<Character>: Uh, why do you need me, then, if you already have the help?
Katia: The more, the merrier!
Saga: Please, Katia, allow me.
Katia: O-of course!
Saga: <Character>, what I'm doing isn't exactly... by the books. I am acting on my own.
Saga: Going rogue, so to speak, abandoning the Weaver's Council's pitiful inaction.
Saga: Mortem was, at one point, also my home, and it pains me to see its people suffer.
<Character>: Right.
<Character>: What does that have to do with me, exactly? Katia specifically requested my assistance.
<Character>: Don't get me wrong, of course I'll help!
<Character>: Just look at me, I'm a helper!
<Character>: Thing is... why couldn't you do it, yourselves?
Katia: Well, you see, we kind of need you to—
Saga: Katia.
Katia: Oh, sorry! Please, go ahead.
Saga: As you see, it's just the two of us. Well, three now. All of this is not, strictly speaking, a sanctioned endeavour.
Saga: Like I've said, I'm acting on my own. I'm going against the Weaver's Council decision... because I'll be casting a forbidden magick.
*You question Saga's plan to use a forbidden magick.*
<Character>: And that's... bad, yes?
Saga: Positively extremely very not good, correct.
Saga: Katia agreed to help me, because I have history with her family.
Katia: What's left of it, anyway...
*You and Saga sadly acknowledge the dwindling Katia's family—the Danao surname—following the deaths of Tomix and Danyel.*
Saga: When I asked her if she could think of someone else who would be willing to "bend the rules", so to speak, she told me about you.
Saga: I recognized your name right away. Who wouldn't.
Saga: You've been rather naughty in Nieboheim.
Saga: All over, really... and word has spread.
<Character>: Naughty?!
Saga: The Shapeless Gazette tends to exaggerate. "From zero, to hero, back to zero"... and whatnot.
<Character>: ...
Saga: Moving on, the forbidden magick.
Saga: I was able to deconstruct and retranslate one of the forbidden spells that I came across, into something that will allow me...
Saga: ...Us, rather... to physically enter the Plane of Elemental Spirits.
Saga: Because that's where the souls of Mortem's people have been taken.
Saga: Yes, taken.
Saga: And held captive, most likely. Why, I do not know, but knowing the location is enough to put an end to this.
Saga: What maladies Mortem is not a disease or an affliction. SomeONE, or someTHING, is deliberately gathering human souls...
Saga: ...and storing them in the Plane of Elemental Spirits.
<Character>: Oh... I just remembered something! Tomix told me that the human soul shouldn't remain in the Plane, or it won't be able to return to its body!
<Character>: Some of the villagers' souls must have been there for a long time! How would we get them back?
Saga: We will cross that bridge when we get to it. We ourselves won't be affected, thanks to the spell.
Saga: And so... will you—
<Character>: Oh, I am in! I was already willing to help, but now there's no way I'm backing out! What needs to be done?
Saga: I'm glad to hear that!
Saga: To set the forbidden spell up, a runic circle has to be drawn around the village, accompanied by focal points, which I already prepared.
Saga: But...
Saga: Umm...
Katia: ...
*Multiple question marks surround your head, indicating what Saga is trying to do.*
Katia: That would mean harming household spirits, because they'd retaliate...
*You question Saga's decision to harm household spirits in order to cast a forbidden magick.*
<Character>: Okay?
Saga: We can't do that!
*You scream at Saga for the reason why you're here in the first place: harming household spirits.*
<Character>: THAT'S what you need me for?!
Saga: We simply cannot bring ourselves to harm our forest guardians... it would be sacrilege!
Katia: But you could do that! Easily!
Saga: We'll follow you as you clear the path, while I draw the circle and place the foci.
<Character>: I'm... I'm questioning the morality of this. Doesn't this seem a little disrespectful?
Saga: The last time you were here, you left a path of beaten-up household spirits. It is known throughout the country.
*You blink repeatedly before smiling as you recall the events of Culture Shock.*
<Character>: Oh yeah, I totally did that.
<Character>: Let's go, then!
*You fight various monsters as you draw a runic circle; after drawing the runic circle, Saga looks at it upon its completion.*
Saga: And... there.
Saga: Once I activate this, per my retranslation of the spell, a dome should engulf Mortem.
Saga: If it does, that means the spell worked. And when we enter said dome, we should be in the general vicinity of where the stolen souls are...
Saga: ...in the Plane of Elemental Spirits!
<Character>: Should?
Saga: This is my FIRST time deconstructing and retranslating a FORBIDDEN magick spell... found in a BANNED book!
Saga: I may be a prodigy, but I'm quite literally creating brand new magicks here, so accidents MIGHT happen!
<Character>: ...
<Character>: Understandable.
Saga: *Deep breath*
*Saga touches the runic circle, activating the forbidden magick; the magick's activation creates a dome around Mortem, which causes a portal to the Plane of Elemental Spirits to appear; as a consequence of activating the forbidden magick, a part of Saga's hair turns white.*
<Character>: It worked!
Katia: Are you alright?
Saga: ...Yes, Katia, I'm fine.
<Character>: So, do we just...
Saga: Enter, yes.
<Character>: Understood. Keep close and stay behind me.
*You, Katia, and Saga enter the Plane of Elemental Spirits; scene cuts to black.*
Complete Quest
Loot for DCs - opens Stolen Souls Loot for DCs shop.
Other information
During the quest, after clearing the room from all monsters, the player must draw the circle before continuing, similar to The Feast quest.
Pop-up headline during the quest:
quote:
You must draw this section of the circle before moving on.
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