00:05This was your mother's pendant.
00:08Khan gave it to you, didn't he?
00:09He did the glorious class victory in Aphtelra in Morning Lessons.
00:13All my life I've been taught to fear the Mari spirits.
00:15This underly magic is what Monfort used so many years ago
00:19to bring death and destruction to our lands.
00:22This archivist, you say he's an expert on Mari.
00:25Could he get this thing out of me?
00:27You'll need a guide.
00:28Joran is a good guide.
00:30You like books, young lady?
00:33Han-san!
00:35He can read me.
00:41What's going on?
00:42Payment on delivery.
00:46He will see you now.
01:07I am Thomas, Featherwell Rye, master of this castle, and known to some as the Archivist.
01:18Welcome, Numari.
01:21I was dragged into a carriage by two of your goons.
01:26Did they hurt you?
01:27I regret a cesspool like the heretics market.
01:30It is not a place for subtlety or manners.
01:33Or common sense.
01:35I've been on my way to you for weeks.
01:38You didn't need to hire brutes to compel me.
01:41I understand your friend, Hunter.
01:44My guide and I had an agreement to get me to you.
01:49Well, evidently it's worked out.
01:52Just as you intended.
01:56May I?
02:02You can count the dots.
02:06They're all there.
02:11Forgive me, I never thought I would see this in my lifetime.
02:14A new Mari.
02:19May I ask what gifts it grants you?
02:21There's been so many stories.
02:23Hardly gifts.
02:26People have died.
02:28And lived.
02:29I understand.
02:38My hospitality has been appalling.
02:40You must be exhausted.
02:43Jaggery.
02:43Please show our honored guest to her room.
02:48Very good, Rai.
02:51Young Jorunn left this for the lady.
03:34I appreciate the pleasure.
03:36You'll be able to join me.
03:38I'll be able to join you next time.
03:41You have to join me.
03:42I'll be able to join me now.
03:42I'll be able to join you.
03:42It's my family, too.
03:42It's the best.
03:43I'll be able to join you.
04:50The Rye left this for you, my lady.
05:01It's all right.
05:03Your mayor, is it?
05:24The Rye left this for you, my lady.
05:35The K'nath saved us from him, and from the evil of the spirits.
05:40The spirits can heal as well.
05:43I've seen it.
05:47I've done it.
05:51No one ever taught us the Numari could do that.
05:54I've never heard such a thing, to be sure.
05:58Now, we shouldn't keep the Rye waiting.
06:01How old do you know him?
06:06My family have served the Rye and his family for many years.
06:10The whole castle was once as grand as the Leith Hall.
06:14Times may be hard, but he's always treated us well.
06:20Well, he's a good man, so he is.
06:37I trust that the dress is to your liking.
06:40Few have seen my little collection.
06:46Needless to say, the K'nath would not approve.
06:49Fortunately, the castle has some interesting original features.
07:10After you.
07:12The K'nath.
07:15I don't know.
08:02I don't know.
08:12I don't know.
08:13I don't know.
08:21I don't know.
08:21Where did all this come from?
08:23Collected over the years.
08:26It all started in Helgoth.
08:28The Parai still teach in that cursed place, I assume.
08:32The insurrection.
08:34They defied the Knath.
08:37Helgoth lay on the edge of my father's estate.
08:39The entire Third Army swept through it to the rage that had not been seen since the Seven Year War.
08:45My earliest memory was seeing the sky turn black with smoke.
08:50Afterwards, my father took me to the ruins.
08:55Everything he built, destroyed.
08:58Such senseless waste.
09:01And all those people killed?
09:04There was a woman.
09:07They say executed by the Knath Master.
09:11She must have been someone of note.
09:13I saw her body.
09:15She died clutching a child's toy.
09:19A Lath Wolf beautifully whittled.
09:23And my father wasn't looking.
09:25I took it.
09:28And that was the first artifact of my collection.
09:32But that was all you saw.
09:34A treasure to be hoarded.
09:36Not hoarded.
09:38Preserved.
09:41When the ruins and the bones of the dead are gone,
09:45I could still hold in my hand the last memory of Helgoth's revolt.
09:51Learn from it.
09:54Knowledge is power, Brynn.
09:58The Knath know this.
10:00That's why they control the truth so tightly.
10:03And where is this treasure now?
10:07I have others that are far greater.
10:16The Battle of Nathtena.
10:18Where Lord Montfort of Dormuth and the Twelve Families took their final stand against the King's Army.
10:25They say that Lord Montfort conduit a storm that lasted ten days and ten nights.
10:31A storm?
10:35The power to control the elements themselves.
10:43This is a fragment of his armor.
10:52The Knath's glorious victory at Nathtena.
10:56The 52nd year of the Griffin.
11:14It was a hundred and twelve years ago.
11:17A century is but a blink of an eye, Frinu Mari.
11:20Of course.
11:23Even the Mario and I were incredibly long-lived.
11:25Sorry!
11:27No.
11:38Well, where did not die?
11:41No!
11:44The two in the sea were killed.
11:49The 3rd half we were killed.
11:50The two in the sea were killed.
12:00You are as one, newly born, in the light of Nireth.
12:07She has called you to her purpose.
12:12Talon of the Holland Sea, you are Nomari.
12:17In the light of Nireth.
12:19In the light of Nireth.
12:53If your bonding with the spirit was an accident,
12:56may I ask, how did you come by a Mairai pendant?
13:05This is all very impressive, but I didn't come here to learn about the Mairai.
13:10I came here to get it out of me.
13:13The first new Mairai in a century.
13:17And you would reject that honour.
13:18Can you do it?
13:20Because if not, I thank you for your hospitality, but I need to leave.
13:26Here.
13:31The pride of my collection.
13:36All rescued from the K'nath's book burnings during the cleansing.
13:39Reading tutors are not easy to come by these days.
13:42It has taken me years to learn this skill.
13:47Although there are texts here that I still cannot fathom.
13:52I believe that this is a spell book.
13:56Although it defies all my attempts at interpretation.
14:02The language is just so ancient.
14:06I'm told that it predates the North Kings.
14:10But these diagrams here...
14:12Rukkadam.
14:15The sundering of a host from a Mairai.
14:18You can read it.
14:24Lathwolf's claw steeped in boiling salt water over a flame of Ica wood beneath Nardaev's tear shall they be riven.
14:36This is it.
14:37This is how to get it out.
14:40Nardaev's tear.
14:42The full moon?
14:44Three weeks.
14:50Rukkahale.
14:52The bonding of a Mairai with a host.
14:57Eye of Nirrath, culled with silver.
15:02Set aflame its dust of the moor.
15:06Wren, I've devoted my life to learning about the new Mairai.
15:10I did not seek Aretha merely to lock the spirit away.
15:16As a new Mairai.
15:17With all the gifts that it would bestow.
15:20I might repair all that the Kanath have broken.
15:24Do me the honor.
15:27Allow me to take this burden from you.
15:38Have a great day.
15:58Transcription by CastingWords
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