Mara’s radiance has vanished into the Last Lantern, leaving the bier quiet beneath its linen cloth. Teren remains beside it, while Vaeroth’s ember warms Silas’s injured palm.
The clay cup stands empty near the bier. Only a single votive flame survives, trembling in its niche as the gray road beyond the shrine waits beneath the paling sky.
Teren Vale
Death-priest, would you carry that small flame for her? Let it be Mara’s final remembrance upon the road, wherever your path leads.
Teren lifts the little clay lamp from its niche, shielding its glow with both hands. His grief has quieted, but his eyes remain fixed on the covered bier.
Teren Vale
She kept the first lantern through every winter. I think she would like to see one traveling beyond this shrine.
The lamp’s gold reflection touches Silas’s scorched glove. Beneath it, Vaeroth’s ember answers with a gentler pulse, reminding him that another name still waits beyond the Ashlands.
Teren Vale
I will remain here until the ashes are gathered and the shrine is tended. Go when you are ready, death-priest.
✓ Quest Accepted
Carry Mara’s final remembrance onward
“I accept Mara’s lamp and step onto the gray road.”
Sir Silas accepts Mara’s clay lamp from Teren’s waiting hands. Its small flame warms his scorched glove, while Vaeroth’s ember answers beneath the other.
Teren Vale
Carry her light safely, death-priest. May every traveler who sees it remember that no road is walked alone.
Teren releases the lamp and bows beside the quiet bier. Behind him, the Last Lantern’s empty niche holds only a curl of fragrant smoke.
Silas steps beyond the shrine’s carved threshold and onto the gray road. The morning air is cool, and the lamp’s glow remains steady against the paling sky.
Teren Vale
Go when you are ready, death-priest. Mara’s remembrance travels with you now, and I will keep the shrine for those who follow.
The road accepts his measured tread, winding away from the Last Lantern toward distant hills. No voice calls him back; only ash-soft wind follows from the south.
Within his keeping, two lights endure: Mara’s flame for the living memory of her passage, and Vaeroth’s ember awaiting the elder beyond the road.
Quest Complete
Carry Mara’s final remembrance onward
+ New Item Acquired
Mara’s Clay Lamp