The masked figures part around a basalt throne beneath hanging black coins. Veiled Handmaster waits there, while Ashkar remains at Vesuvius’s side and Maelin watches the observers.
Veiled Handmaster
You seek Maloric the Damned, fallen god of death and disease. He lies beyond Loric’s old plague road, within the Sepulcher of Withered Kings.
The Handmaster rises and crosses to a stone table. From beneath a folded cloth, the master places a sealed map marked with grey wax and a faceless coin.
Veiled Handmaster
The exact route is here. But your testimony shines with a golden judgment-mark, and heaven’s sight may follow anything you carry from this chamber.
Ashkar
Name the proof you require. Vesuvius did not descend beneath Loric to leave his enemies an easy trail.
Maelin Voss
The eastern masks are too still. If betrayal waits here, it waits behind the map, not beyond the door.
Veiled Handmaster
Conceal the testimony from the watching mark. Do that, and the seal breaks. Fail, and Maloric’s road remains hidden.
✓ Quest Accepted
Secure access to Maloric
“i ask for direction to the fallen god and wait for reply”
SUCCESS (Legendary Willpower, rolled +1)
Vesuvius
Tell me the route to Maloric the Damned. I will have the direction plainly.
The chamber quiets around the basalt throne. Vesuvius’s black halo hangs above the Flame Crown, while Ashkar’s ember gaze fixes upon the Handmaster.
Veiled Handmaster
Take the eastern plague road beyond Loric’s ash orchards. Follow the dead wells until the road descends between two crowned stones.
Veiled Handmaster
There, turn beneath the broken bell tower. A stair of white bone leads into the Sepulcher of Withered Kings. Maloric lies beyond its sealed gate.
The Handmaster unfolds the grey-waxed map and traces the route with one gloved finger. The marked path ends at a black sigil beneath the sepulcher.
Ashkar
I know the ash orchards. Their dead wells still breathe plague-cold air. Give the word, Vesuvius, and I will lead you through them.
Veiled Handmaster
The direction is yours, exile. Maloric’s sepulcher stands east of Loric, and this map will carry you to its gate.
Quest Complete
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