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Gingkage
Location: Path connecting Falconreach (Book 3) and Swordhaven Border -> Down, Keep Up, Gingkage's Past, Showdown in Paradise
Quests given
Potion Help
Proof of Innocence
The Dola
Keep Up
Gingkage's Past
Showdown in Paradise
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Dialogue
Path connecting Falconreach (Book 3) and Swordhaven Border
Gingkage: Ah, the Frozen One. I had hoped to meet you eventually. I could use your help.
Talk
Gingkage: Greetings, <Character>.
- Who are you?
Gingkage: My name is Gingkage. I'm a wolf rider as well as a mage.
Gingkage: Hmm?
Gingkage: Oh, of course. This is Blaze.
Gingkage: Don't touch him. He bites.
- Wolf Rider?
Gingkage: As the name suggests, I ride Blaze, both for transportation and into combat.
Gingkage: He is my best friend and closest companion. He chose me as a cub as his human and we've forged a life-long bond.
- The Rose?
Gingkage: The Rose?
Gingkage: That's a harder question to answer than you would think.
Gingkage: While I can't condone their closed-minded stance on magic, I also can't deny they've done a lot of good.
Gingkage: Largely, so long as they leave Blaze and myself alone, I am willing to keep my distance from them, neither aiding them nor fighting them.
Quests!
Gingkage: I am Gingkage, the Wolf Rider. This is Blaze.
- Potion Help
Gingkage: I'm glad to see you, <Character>! I'm running low on potions.
Gingkage: I can make more, but I could use your help to gather the reagents for me.
Gingkage: Something has spooked the creatures in the woods and I don't want to send Blaze in after it until I'm ready to hunt.
Gingkage: Will you go for me while I go through my spells?
- Innocent
Gingkage: <Character>, the situation has become dire.
Gingkage: Several farms have been... pillaged and Blaze stands accused.
Gingkage: I know he couldn't have... wouldn't have attacked these farmers and their families.
Gingkage: I need to stay and keep him safe...
Gingkage: ...and make sure those who would try to take him... retain all their limbs.
Gingkage: Please, go into the woods and try to find evidence to prove Blaze innocent!
- The Dola
Gingkage: Something that... mimics voices? White fur, broken antlers, and... carrots?
Gingkage: Oh no...
Gingkage: Be very careful, <Character>.
Gingkage: A Dola stalks through the woods. Hunt for it on the edge of Betrubung Swamp.
Gingkage: Don't let your last words be used to lure it's next victim.
- The Letter - accessible after completion of The Dola.
If you have not completed Tomix Saga's Epilogue:
quote:
No Letter has Arrived...
Gingkage hasn't received word from anyone... yet. If you continue questing in Book 3 Ravenloss she should get mail soon.
If you have completed Tomix Saga's Epilogue and The Dola:
Gingkage: Thank you so much for your help, <Character>. Unfortunately, there's no time for celebration.
Gingkage: I need to find my friends.
- Keep Up
Gingkage: This... this is...
- Start Quest! - begins Keep Up quest.
- Gingkage's Past
Gingkage: ...
- Showdown
Gingkage: It's time to reclaim Hunter's Paradise, <Character>. Are you with us?
Heal & potions - fully replenishes HP, MP, and potions.
Keep Up
Gingkage: I have to go.
Gingkage: If you can keep up.
Gingkage: I'm not sure yet.
Gingkage: Karina, what's happening? You sounded desperate.
Gingkage: Them.
Gingkage's Past
Gingkage: That's... a bit of a long story.
Gingkage: All right. I'll tell you what you need to know.
Gingkage: I was raised in a forest far from here.
Gingkage: If you three are going to talk after everything I say, we'll be here all year.
Gingkage: Far.
Gingkage: When I was old enough to be safely taught, my mother taught me how to make potions.
Gingkage: I'm not as skilled as she is, but I'm able to keep myself and Blaze alive.
Gingkage: When it was discovered I had an aptitude for magic, I was trained as a mage.
Gingkage: Hadn't been born yet.
Gingkage: Patience. This is already more than I've told even Karina and Teral.
Gingkage: After Blaze was born, he chose a mage as a rider.
Gingkage: I don't think I've ever seen people so mad. Mages don't ride wolves. It's considered safer for everyone.
Gingkage: No one even thought a mage could be chosen.
Gingkage: But Blaze chose me, and the wolf's choice is unchangeable, so they had to teach me what I needed to know.
Gingkage: But it meant that I never fit in at home. A mage among warriors.
Gingkage: So once Blaze was grown, and we'd learned all we needed from our teachers, we left.
Gingkage: ... I left, wanting to find somewhere I fit. Blaze came because he had to stay with his chosen rider.
Gingkage: Blaze and I are magically bound. Not dissimilar, I was led to believe, to yourself and the dragon I've heard so much about.
Gingkage: So yes, when I made the choice to leave, he had to stay with me.
Gingkage: Necessity. A nomadic life is rewarding, but hazardous.
Gingkage: I frequently ran out of supplies that I needed, that couldn't always be foraged, so always needed money.
Gingkage: And sometimes it's nice to have food that I don't have to get myself.
Gingkage: I'd heard of Hunter's Paradise as a place that always has jobs available for good money, so I visited.
Gingkage: Blaze and I weren't fond of this forest. The scents are too different for Blaze to be comfortable, and I grew up in a much greener forest.
Gingkage: But I have to admit, there aren't many places where a giant wolf won't draw too much attention, and Hunter's Paradise welcomes everyone.
Gingkage: Not really. Blaze just hates towns and cities, and I'm not a fan of walls.
Gingkage: Where was I? Right.
Gingkage: I took on one of Karina's jobs, specifically a bear that had turned itself into a nuisance.
Gingkage: And after I had taken on a few more jobs, we started talking, and she introduced me to Teral.
Gingkage: Doomwood isn't our forest, but it is a home of sorts.
Gingkage: I'm coming to that.
Gingkage: They're a bunch of... I guess bandits works. I've always called them 'Reds'.
Gingkage: Made fake potions and sold them to anyone naive enough to fall for it.
Gingkage: I've been making potions for as long as I can remember. I know a fake when I see one.
Gingkage: There were too many for me to take care of by myself, so I asked Karina and Teral for their help.
Gingkage: It took some doing, but we managed to... persuade them to stop.
Gingkage: That was... three, four years ago?
Gingkage: We weren't able to defeat their three leaders. They scattered before we could get to them.
Gingkage: If I had to guess, they regrouped, and didn't forget just who it was that stopped them before.
Gingkage: If I were them, I'd want revenge.
Gingkage: 'We'?
Gingkage: It's not your fight, <Character>.
Gingkage: If you want to help, then that's your choice.
Gingkage: But first.
Gingkage: Karina, I need to know what happened.
Showdown in Paradise
Gingkage: Wow. Someone actually figured out how to make a working potion.
Gingkage: Not specifically. There are a few different potions that can do what Karina described.
Gingkage: All I know for certain is that whatever potion they made would be complicated to make.
Gingkage: Not without knowing the specific reagents. And even then, it wouldn't be a sure thing.
Gingkage: I'd be guessing how much of each reagent was used and basing any counter on those guesses.
Gingkage: And guess-work when it comes to making potions is rarely wise. I could easily make things worse instead of better.
Gingkage: Interesting.
Gingkage: It's a benefit of being bonded to Blaze. He can communicate what he senses to me, and I'm able to interpret it.
Gingkage: His nose is able to detect some of the different reagents used.
Gingkage: What my mother taught me is enough to know that I shouldn't need to make a potion to counter it.
Gingkage: I said it was a working potion. I never said it was a good one.
Gingkage: They already know we're after them. If we're reclaiming the place, we might as well knock. Hard.
Gingkage: That is, if Karina and Teral aren't too fond of these gates?
Gingkage: In that case, everyone back up.
Gingkage: Ah. I overdid that potion.
Gingkage: After you, <Character>.
Gingkage: I said that's what I called them. I've never cared what they call themselves.
Gingkage: Blaze and I will help as much as we can.
Gingkage: Especially the gate, since I was the one who broke it.
Also See: Gingkage (forum user)
Thanks to Jay for image.
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