The captured fragment glows within Mara’s restored token as the silver chamber opens a voluntary path toward the Hall’s outer welcome. Slaan walks beside her, staff lowered.
Behind them, Ilyd’s preserved pattern remains with the veiled names and untouched threshold. The witnesses stay beyond the boundary, while no trace of Ilyr’s pattern follows.
Slaan
The path carries an offered truth, not a command. We will see how the Hall presents choice beyond its preserved lattice.
The passage unfolds into impressions of Phandelver: a weary healer accepting a remembered warning, a child of the town turning from a stranger’s offered testimony, and elders listening in silence.
Slaan
Each may accept, refuse, or ask nothing further. Their responses will remain theirs, even when the Hall remembers that they were offered a choice.
The impressions fade without judgment. Ahead, the outer welcome gathers into an open arch of pale light, its threshold untouched by Ilyr’s former pattern.
Slaan
There is the next threshold. It waits for a witness, but it does not summon one. We may approach, observe, or leave it unopened.
✓ Quest Accepted
Reach the Hall’s outer welcome
“I carry the offered fragment toward the Hall’s outer welcome.”
Mara carries the offered fragment beneath the pale arch. Its clear radiance rests within the restored token, illuminating the path without drawing upon anything beyond what was freely given.
The outer welcome widens around her and Slaan. Impressions of Phandelver gather along the threshold, each showing choice without directing its outcome.
Slaan
The fragment enters as testimony, not authority. The Hall will remember that it was offered, and nothing more.
Mara steps across the threshold. The token answers with a soft chime, and the fragment settles into the Hall’s open lattice beside other freely carried truths.
Ilyd
The welcome remains open. What is offered may be preserved, while every unoffered truth remains with its bearer.
Behind Mara, the silver arch stays clear. No command follows her through it, and no trace of Ilyr’s pattern disturbs the fragment or the Hall’s outer light.
Slaan
You carried it faithfully. The Hall has received the choice without claiming the one who made it.
Gain the townsfolk’s acceptance of the token’s witness
Quest Complete
Reach the Hall’s outer welcome