Garaena the Emissary

Lore & Dialog
The rotting woman inclines her head stiffly, and a disembodied voice seeps across your mind like oil. "Child, you walk among the tombs of the Sand Kings. Long ago they were mighty captains in service to the powers behind the Ice Throne. Now they rest, and dream of new plots. Yet still they hold themselves great power, and are ageless and fey." "My mistress sent me hither to solicit their aid in a great cause. Perhaps you could serve, for I shall call the enemy of mine enemy friend. Those in shadow...thralls of the one called Slayer of Hope...beset our isle. If you give me a note worth 50,000 of the Yalaini pyreal, to fund my mission to bribe the Sand Kings, I shall open the gate for you. "Be warned; only the mightiest may pass through this gate, and I will not allow you to tie to it."

You give Garaena the Emissary Trade Note (50,000). The voice in your mind purrs, "Ai, this will serve. Seek the dark ones and destroy them...yet meddle not with the devices you may find on our island of Aerlinthe. Perilous they are to those who do not understand their art."

"Garaena, the girl you sent me before the eruption, I sent to moot with the Sand Kings. Their armies have long since blown away into dust, but it is their minds I desire. Before their disgrace at the feet of Gelid, they were the greatest of Dericost's generals; subtle and relentless. Having them with us would be a tremendous boon.

'' For a child of Yalain, Gari (for so she insists I call her... a sweet girl) has a mind almost Dericost in its political shrewdness. When you singled her out from among your academy's students, you chose well indeed. Her only failings seem to be a lack of appreciation for the thoughtless violence the outlanders are prone to, and an obnoxious tendency to pine for her home on Atermore. I believe her charm will woo the Kings to our cause, unless she chats their ears off about that cursed island of hers.'' "