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1.6.5 - Temple of Njord depths

You raised a drowned god's temple, and then the Speaker pulled back his hood and told you that you had been his tools all along.

The temple was failing as you moved through it, your very presence cracking the old magic, water roaring in through new fissures. You cut through the sea-devils and the dimming commerce-runes, where gold turned out to be rusted iron and barnacle, then through a hall where the undead of three mad priests had been killing each other for centuries. At the bottom waited the Drowned Sanctum: three acolytes bound in seaweed chains, and above them a Spirit of Corruption, the warped soul of a fourth priest, leaping from body to body and riding each acolyte's stolen aspect in turn, current and commerce and depth. You broke the corruption loose and destroyed the spirit without letting the acolytes die, and Njord's waters ran clean again. The temple rose. At the base of his statue you took the Symbol of Njord, four of eight, and his blessing settled on you.

You carried the good news back toward the council, and that is where it broke. The Speaker was waiting, and this time he did not pretend. He had walked you through all of it. He told you the truth through one of his own. Hannah, a hard half-elf girl the highborn spat on, was promised power by a hooded servant of Osgilliath, the Lord of the Depths. She cut off her own arms on a black altar, and the pit answered, filling her with molten fire and burning claws. She died on a cross and rose as Hannah the Forsaken, and the blood she fed her followers made the Blood Elves. For centuries they have served her, waiting. And the prison she had been kept in was the very portal you shattered at the start of all this. You freed her soul. You returned her to Osgilliath. All that was left to find was a host of Heimdall's line strong enough to hold her, and the Speaker's eyes went to Ivar. Then he raised hooked claws and demonic limbs out of his robes, his patience finally spent, and the Blood Elves fell on Hammerfall in force.

Remember For Next Time

  • Njord's rune claimed: four of the eight, and Njord's blessing with it.
  • Hannah the Forsaken: a half-elf who gave herself to Osgilliath, Lord of the Depths, and rose a monster. The Blood Elves drink her blood. This is who you are racing to stop.
  • You were used: the girl you freed from the portal at the very beginning was Hannah's imprisoned soul. Breaking that ruby played straight into the Speaker's plan.
  • A host of Heimdall's line: the resurrection needs one. The Speaker's eyes fell on Ivar.
  • The Speaker is no man: he revealed himself a clawed, demonic thing, and Hammerfall is under all-out Blood Elf attack.

Where We Are

Njord's rune in hand and the Speaker unmasked, Hammerfall erupting into a Blood Elf assault with Hannah's resurrection now in motion.