Blue fire parts around the tower doors, revealing a circular chamber lined with sealed witness alcoves. The ancient vessel remains moored beyond the awakened bridges, while Crescent Harbor and its shipmaster lie far behind.
The crystal tablet casts golden lines across the chamber floor. They converge upon an empty central dais, where a ring of pale stone waits beneath a suspended crown.
Tall Harbor Warden
Namaris preserved one final testimony beneath its law. The record cannot be opened by crown, staff, or summoned authority. It must be presented by the marked witness.
Penelope remains close at Alexios’s side, her azure scales reflecting the tablet’s radiance. The wyvern folds its vast wings near the threshold, watching the alcoves rather than the wardens.
Penelope
The dais is waiting for the record. Whatever Namaris sealed here, it has kept beyond every crown’s reach.
Wyvern
Let the bearer approach only when the testimony is ready. The chamber will answer truth, and nothing fashioned to command it.
Around the empty dais, the sealed alcoves begin to glow one by one. Their inscriptions remain unreadable, but the crystal tablet’s golden lines now point directly toward the waiting stone.
✓ Quest Accepted
Present the final testimony
“I approach the central dais with the crystal tablet raised.”
Alexios advances across the circular chamber with the crystal tablet raised before him. His darkened bindings keep the wounded shoulder close as golden lines gather beneath his steps.
The central dais receives his approach without resistance. The pale stone ring brightens, and the suspended crown lowers slightly over the waiting record.
Tall Harbor Warden
The marked witness has come before the law. Present the testimony, and Namaris will preserve what the crowns concealed.
Alexios reaches the dais and holds the tablet above its center. Crystal light pours downward, filling the ring with names that spiral toward the sealed alcoves.
Penelope
It recognizes the record. The final testimony is opening, Alexios.
One by one, the alcoves unlock with quiet stone chimes. Their seals part without breaking, revealing tablets and preserved inscriptions beneath the chamber’s blue fire.
Wyvern
Truth has entered its appointed place. Let the chamber speak.
Quest Complete
Present the final testimony