DemonicDarkwraith
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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, 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.
Next Up: [link=]???[/link]
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