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Found
during the Taste of Twilight event.
The Completed Dispatch is made by
combining 3 trophies:
--Dusty Scrap from a Great Skeleton
--Decayed Scrap from Dark Revenant
--Tattered Scrap from Horrible Mu-Miyah.
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Dusty Scrap of
Paper |
A small
sheaf of paper, covered with Dericostian runes, recovered from a
powerful undead. The runes appear to be cut off, as if most of the
message were missing.
To use this item, find other pieces. |
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Value |
20 |
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Burden |
25 |
You give Kuyiza bint Zayi
the Translator Complete Dispatch.
Kuyuza bint Zayi the
Translator tells you, "Heavens and earth, do you know what this is?
This is nothing less than the undeads' own analysis of the Shadows
activity."
Kuyiza bint Zayi the Translator tells you, "I have little doubt that
this information will be invaluable in the near future. You may have given
us a crucial edge."
Kuyiza bint Zari the Translator gives you Translated
Dispatch.
My Lord Anadil, esteemed
peers, and captains of the alliance, I send you greetings and news.
After much research and
observation, my agents and I have discerned much truth about the Yalaini
method of storing the shattered array. I will caution my colleagues,
however, that there remain large and potentially dangerous gaps in our
knowledge.
As we knew before, the
crystal array used by the Yalain Council shattered into its six component
pieces when the Servant was contained. Each piece was, in some sense,
under the control of the Servant. For this reason, each attempted to dig
itself into the ground upon coming to rest. Doubtless this was an attempt
to evade the detection of his captors. One of these pieces was thrown as
far as Aerlinthe, and the Lady Aerfalle observed soldiers of Yalain
recover and send it oversea. We believe this was the core piece that was
found sealed in the Nexus facility, where the component pieces of the
array were grown in the first place.
Of the six pieces, the
Yalain appear to have recovered five. The missing piece, thanks to the
explorations of the outlanders, we now know to have landed in the
mountains to the west of Velacixque, where it dug itself into the ground.
It was later found by a small group of our descendants, and their
experiments on it ultimately led to their destruction, and the present
crisis.
The energy released by the
planar rupture that trapped the Servant also destroyed the Council (save
Asheron Realaidain of Knorr, whose means of survival remain unknown to
us), one of the Thorns, and the mass of the Spawn army - hundreds of
thousands of Dark Spawn, if the reports of our agents were to be believed.
This decimation of the enemy's forces, when combined with the loss of the
Servant, effectively ended the war. The mass of their power in the world
was penned, and much of the remainder destroyed.
The Servant's generals
appear to have been, like their lord, too powerful to be destroyed by mere
explosion. Note it took the concentrated efforts of the entire Yalaini
Council to put the dark witch Elithra down at the battle of Dernehale. The
generals appear to have been, for lack of a better explanation,
"dispersed." That is, their physical forms were destroyed. Their
consciousnesses seem to have survived. How they accomplished this, and
where they have been in the meantime, remain open questions. There is no
question that they have returned. The recent sport they had with the
outlanders proves it, though they seem not to have recovered their
previous strength yet.
I have walked the ash of
the titanic crater that marks the site of the war's end. It is still
blackened and barren, with only that repulsive fungus able to survive. The
ash stirs restlessly in the breeze, and the rumbling of magical thunder
can be heard even in clear daylight. The currents of mana in the area are
still profoundly disturbed. However, with careful study, my comrades have
been able to isolate certain magical harmonics in the peculiar, humming
crystals created by the explosion.
These crystals share some
form of connection with the Soul Stones that once formed the Council's
Array. My studies into the geomancy of the ancient Falatacot proved quite
fruitful here. We have, to be brief, been able to use harmonics of the
crystals in the wasteland to discern the approximate locations of an
additional three pieces of the array, by divining their telltale aural
vibrations. They would seem to have been locked in special storage
facilities, deeply buried in the earth and protected from detection by
various magical wards. The Yalain never possessed much ability at
geomancy, so I doubt that these are decoy facilities.
I regret to say, however,
that my agents sent to search these locations for possible methods of
entry have not found any. They have encountered large numbers of the
Spawn, which forces me to conclude that the Enemy is also aware of the
Yalaini facilities. It is perilous to think, but they may indeed have
gained access to one or more already.
It now becomes a race, my
colleagues. We must find these facilities first.
I would also note that with
this discovery, we still have no information on one of the Soul Stones. My
agents continue to scour the islands with methods both magical and mean. I
have left instructions that finding this last Stone should be our top
priority. |
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