The silver basin lies empty, its last ash settled like frost. Kitiara’s sealed palm remains wholly their own, the branching scar reduced to a pale mark.
Behind them, the lower chamber stays sealed around the extinguished curse. The vow-bound paladin remains the only companion, having held the wards above and now descended to open the upper exit.
She raises the relic before a cracked archway. Gold light parts the stone, revealing a hall lined with broken genealogical tablets and drifting dust.
the vow-bound paladin
The evidence endured, even where the bloodline did not. Read Vael’s final account before the library closes its hand around this truth.
Clear letters ignite across the nearest tablets: Vael Uth Matar’s concealed testimony, naming the stolen pact and the deliberate severing of the witch’s binding.
the vow-bound paladin
No spirit answers those words. No dead ancestor will explain them. What remains is testimony, and testimony must be witnessed.
Far below, the wards begin to close with slow, grinding thunder. The vow-bound paladin holds the arch open, while the burning account waits in the fractured hall.
✓ Quest Accepted
Preserve Vael’s testimony as undeniable public truth
“I do as she tells me.”
SUCCESS (Superb Lore, rolled +1)
Kitiara approaches the nearest genealogical tablet as dust drifts through the gold-lit arch. The burning letters sharpen beneath their gaze, and Vael Uth Matar’s final account unfolds.
Vael Uth Matar records that the witch offered House Uth Matar a covenant to guard descendants, not elevate the house. He admits he severed the binding and stole its power into his blood.
The account names the concealment that followed: sacred records were altered, witnesses silenced through omission, and each heir taught to call the curse a divine inheritance.
A final passage bears Vael Uth Matar’s seal. He confesses that the bloodline’s strength was never its own, and that every descendant carried a debt disguised as destiny.
the vow-bound paladin
Now you have his truth, not a legend polished by your house. Remember it as testimony, and let the covenant judge what remains.
The letters fade from the tablets, but their meaning remains clear within the hall. Beneath Kitiara’s feet, the closing wards grind louder, and the archway’s gold light holds steady.
“"I will make sure to reveal all that he has done to my family I need proof of this i want my remaining family my mom who I never love to see her family and what he did. She is so proud and prideful and the people believes everything she says and rules with an iron fist. To see the truth revealed to them is a blessing."”
SUCCESS (Great Willpower, rolled -1)
Kitiara places their unscarred palm against Vael Uth Matar’s sealed tablet and directs its testimony toward every surviving branch of House Uth Matar, beginning with their mother.
The gold archway gathers the account into a column of light. Vael Uth Matar’s confession, the altered records, and the silenced testimony pass through the library wards and emerge before the family’s ancestral hall.
the vow-bound paladin
A witness may carry truth farther than a blade. Let every heir hear what your house concealed.
Across the distant connection, the voice of Kitiara’s mother commands the hall into silence. Pride and authority sharpen each word, but Vael Uth Matar’s own seal answers louder than denial.
Kitiara’s mother
Read it again. Every line. No one leaves until the account has been heard.
The testimony repeats before the gathered family, naming the stolen covenant and the inheritance built upon concealment. Even the matriarch’s iron rule now forces the truth into the open.
The relic dims after completing its work. Above, the wards continue their grinding closure, while Vael Uth Matar’s testimony remains preserved in the family’s sight and memory.
Quest Complete
Preserve Vael’s testimony as undeniable public truth
Skill Upgrade: Lore Superb→Legendary