The ancient vessel glides beneath the second drowned tower. Its sealed crown splits with a thunderless crack, and a bronze gate rises from the sunken road.
Names cover the gate in concentric lines, each answering the crystal tablet’s testimony with a brief glow. Black water streams from the bronze leaves.
Penelope
Here are the eastern witnesses: Maeron of the Third Council, Selka of the Salt Archives, and Orestes, keeper of the crescent gate.
Penelope reads onward from beside Alexios, her azure scales catching the gate’s pale radiance. Each name she speaks settles into the bronze like a living seal.
Wyvern
Marked witness, remain before the prow. If the vessel loses sight of you, the gate will close and the eastern road will drown again.
The golden current narrows around the vessel. Far behind, the shipmaster and sailors remain at Crescent Harbor, while the wyvern accompanies Alexios and Penelope aboard.
Penelope
The final inscription is hidden beneath the gate’s crown. Alexios, the tablet must answer it before we can pass into Namaris.
✓ Quest Accepted
Open the eastern gate to Namaris
“I keep the tablet before the prow and guide the vessel onward.”
SUCCESS (Superb Agility, rolled +0)
Alexios keeps the crystal tablet before the prow, his darkened bindings holding the wounded shoulder close. The vessel answers his steady guidance and glides toward the bronze gate.
Golden current gathers beneath the hull, flowing through the second drowned tower as the tablet’s light touches the gate’s hidden crown.
Penelope
It answers you. The crown is opening, and the eastern witnesses are granting passage.
The tablet’s crystal radiance spreads across the bronze leaves. Concealed lines emerge beneath the crown, joining Maeron, Selka, and Orestes to the route beyond.
Wyvern
The marked witness has guided the vessel lawfully. The gate recognizes the testimony and releases the eastern road.
The bronze gate rises fully from the black water. Beyond it, a clear channel curves eastward beneath drowned arches, its luminous current carrying the vessel onward.
Penelope
Namaris lies beyond this passage. Keep the tablet before the prow, and the harbor’s forgotten witnesses will hear us.
Quest Complete
Open the eastern gate to Namaris