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Lost Mysteries of the Ancients

Part 3C - Environmental Dialogue

Child:

When I grow up, I want to be just like you!

Is Tamlen dead? Everybody says he's not coming back.

Why do we have to leave again? We're always going somewhere. Why can't I go to the shem city?

I miss Tamlen! I want him to come home.

I think that's all. Thank you.

Generic Female NPCs:

Thank the Creators! We were sure we'd lose you last night!

Are you going to help look for Tamlen? Poor boy, lost somewhere out there!

Why would the keeper call for a move so early? We were not expecting to leave for weeks.

I'm glad you survived. Losing two of our young would be a great blow to the clan.

Female Hunters:

Losing Tamlen would be a bad sign. He's one of our most promising hunters.

That shemlen was a Grey Warden. They are supposed to be great warriors.

How could Tamlen be lost? He knows this area well...

It's good to see you healthy. We feared you would perish.

Male Hunters:

Search parties have been looking for Tamlen since the Grey Warden brought you back. No luck so far.

Have you fully recovered? I heard the keeper was confounded, that she had never seen anything like it.

Can we trust this Grey Warden? How do we know he didn't hurt Tamlen?

It's good to see you healthy. We feared you would perish.

Navigation:

Lost Mysteries of the Ancients Masterpost

< Part 3B: Important NPCs | Part 4: Return to the Elven Ruins >

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Flirt: You Seem Different Now

Available after Zevran refuses to have sex.

Player: You seem different now.

Zevran: Hmm. I thought that this might be it.

Zevran: Are you certain you wish to talk about this? I really do not know what to say.

Dialogue Options:

Yes, I want to know what's changed. [1]

If you don't want to talk, that's fine. [2]

Are you having second thoughts about us? [2]

(if player accepted earring) Do you want your earring back? Is that it? [3]

1 - Yes, I want to know what's changed.

Zevran: (sighs) Very well. [4]

2 - If you don't want to talk... / Second thoughts

(+ Low approval increase from "If you don't...")

Zevran: I... no, this... I am acting like a child, I realize. I apologize. Let me try to explain. [4]

3 - Do you want your earring back?

Zevran: No, I gave it to you. I want you to have it. Let me... attempt to explain. [4]

4 - Continue

Zevran: An assassin… must learn to forget about sentiment. It is dangerous. You take your pleasures where you can, when life is good. To expect anything more would be reckless.

Zevran: I thought it was the same between us. Something to enjoy, a pleasant diversion and little more. And yet…

Dialogue Options:

Are you saying you're in love with me? [5]

That's all it is to me, Zevran. [6]

Don't go there. Seriously. [12]

I know what you mean. [13]

5 - In love?

Zevran: I don't know. How would you know such a thing? [13]

6 - That's all it is to me

(- Very large approval decrease; Zevran and the player break up.)

Zevran: Ah. Yes, that… that does make it easier, in fact. [7]

7 - Continue

(Romance is cut off)

Zevran: I knew I was being foolish and now I am proven correct. This is really for the best, I think.

Dialogue Options:

I'm sorry you feel this way. [8]

This doesn't mean we can't be friends, I hope. [9]

We don't need to end this, Zevran. [10]

8- I'm sorry.

Zevran: As am I. [11]

9 - Still friends?

Zevran: Not in the way we have been perhaps, but yes… I hope the same thing. [11]

10 - We don't need to end this.

Zevran: I do. [11]

11 - Continue.

Zevran: Come. Let us return to matters at hand. There is much for you to do… Grey Warden.

(Zevran is marked as still in love)

(Dialogue Ends)

12 - Don't go there.

(Zevran and the player break up)

(- Extreme approval decrease)

Zevran: I see. This is good, then. It is better that I know how you feel. [7]

13 - I know what you mean

Zevran: I grew up amongst those who sold the illusion of love, and then I was trained to make my heart cold in favor of the kill. Everything I have been taught says what I feel is wrong.

Zevran: Yet I cannot help it. Since you asked me into your tent, I have been nothing but confused. Do you understand me at all?

Dialogue Options:

I am no wiser than you in that area, Zevran. [14]

I do. And I feel the same way. [16]

I don't feel the same way, I'm sorry. [6]

Maybe it would be better for you if we stopped. [22]

14 - No wiser than you

Zevran: All I need to know is if there might be some future for us, some possibility of… I do not know what.

Dialogue Options:

I don't know. But I know how I feel about you. [15]

I hope so. [20]

(if player is male) We are both men, Zevran… [21]

No. I don't think so. [12]

15 - I know how I feel about you

(+ Medium approval increase)

15a - if player previously rejected earring [see 15a below]

15b - if player previously accepted earring [see 15b below]

15A

Zevran: I… still have the earring. I would like to give it to you… as a token of affection. Will you take it?

Dialogue Options:

I will. [16]

That sounds like a proposal. [18]

And I told you to keep it. [19]

15B

Zevran: Then we need say no more. That is all I wished to hear. [16]

16 - Enough for him.

(Zevran gives the player the earring if he has not yet.)

Zevran: Then that is enough for me. [17]

17 - Continue

Zevran: I am sorry for acting so strangely. I think I will be better, now. Much better.

(Zevran and PC kiss. Zevran will now have sex when asked.)

(Dialogue ends.)

18 - Proposal?

Zevran: Not unless you wish it.

Dialogue Options:

I'll take it. [16]

No, that's too much. [19]

19 - Too much.

(Zevran and the PC break up)

Zevran: Then what we feel is not enough, is it? [7]

20 - I hope so

(+ Small approval increase)

20a - if player previously rejected earring [see 15a above]

20b - if player previously accepted earring [16]

21 - We are men

(- Very large approval decrease; Zevran and the player break up)

Zevran: We are, indeed. And this is for the best, then, that I know what cannot be. [7]

22 - Better for you

Zevran: Maybe it would. But only if it is impossible that there might be something between us, some possibility of… I do not know what.

I don't know. But I know how I feel about you. [15]

I hope so. [20]

(if player is male) We are both men, Zevran… [21]

No. I don't think so. [12]

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The Lost Mysteries of the Ancients

Dalish Elf Origin, Part 2b – Speaking with Tamlen

Tamlen: This place makes me nervous.

1 - Dialogue Options:

What do you think all this is? [2]

So talk, if that will calm you down. [3]

How did you know all that about the statue? [4]

How could walking corpses be here? [5]

You said something about a veil? [6]

Let's keep going. [7]

2 - What do you think all this is?

Tamlen: I'm not sure. This looks like a very old human place. Why did the they build this? And why would elven artifacts be here?

Tamlen: Maybe some of our ancestors lived here, in caves like the dwarves. I'll stick to roaming the land, myself.

Dialogue Options:

This doesn't feel like anyone's home.

Tamlen: I don't know. I have this odd sensation that we've… disturbed something. Like we just walked into a dragon's lair.

More likely the elves here were slaves.

Tamlen: The keeper said it took a long time for slavery to erase our ancestors' history. Maybe whoever lived here still wrote and spoke elven. Tamlen: It does feel… sinister here, doesn't it?

Do you think the keeper will want to come here?

Tamlen: She takes any opportunity to gather elven lore. When the clans come together, they exchange whatever they've found. Tamlen: She shouldn't come without hunters to guard her, though. The air here feels so… sinister.

Why did you want to come down here so badly?

Tamlen: Aren't you curious? We could be discovering our history. Minstrels will write songs about us! Dialogue options: - You aren't fooling me, Tamlen. - I am curious. - I'm just worried about the danger here. Tamlen: If I were to bring some valuable ancestral artifact back to the keeper, she might forgive me for… well, you know. Dialogue options: - Thank you for covering for me, by the way. > Tamlen: Of course. You know I'd do anything for you. > sets troublemaker flag - We were both brawling. I don't see why you got punished. > Tamlen: Because I was caught and wouldn't give up any names. Of course she was angry with me. > sets fight flag - You get into far too much trouble, Tamlen. > Tamlen: And you get into far too little… which is probably why the keeper sent you with me. > sets cautious flag Tamlen: At any rate, I wasn't expecting this place to… feel quite like this. Maybe this wasn't the best idea… (END DIALOGUE)

Tamlen: Well, whatever it is, it… it won't stop me. A Dalish hunter fears nothing!

(END DIALOGUE)

3 - So talk, if that will calm you down.

Tamlen: I suppose so… hey, weren't you supposed to be assisting Master Varathorn* today? How did you end up coming with me?

(* He's supposed to refer to Master Ilen here.)

Dialogue Options:

I got out of it. I prefer to hunt.

Tamlen: Me too, even if you are a better hunter than I am.

You know me. I get away from camp whenever I can.

Tamlen: I've never known anyone so eager to wander. I bet you'll end up a flat-ear someday, living in the cities like a shem. Sets wanderer flag

(female only) I wanted to be with you, of course.

Tamlen: I… thought that might be the case. I'm glad. Sets romance flag

(male only) I wanted to keep you out of trouble.

Tamlen: Wanted to? Or were sent to? Never mind… I can guess.

Actually, it's a punishment.

Tamlen: Typical. What did you do? Never mind… I can just imagine. Sets troublemaker flag

Tamlen: Let's just find whatever's here and get out. We can talk later.

(ENDS DIALOGUE)

4 - About the Statue

Tamlen: I saw a picture of it in one of those old books the keeper never lets anyone touch.

Tamlen: It was one of the old gods. The keeper called him a "friend of the dead."

Dialogue Options:

"Friend of the dead?" What does that mean?

Tamlen: He was a guide who took people across the spirit land to their final rest in the Beyond.

Maybe this was a place of worship.

Tamlen: Yet these are human ruins, remember? Why would they worship an elven god? Tamlen: He was a guide who took people across the spirit land to their final rest in the Beyond.

(if walking corpses encountered) Then it's no coincidence there are walking dead here.

Tamlen: He was some sort of guide who took people to their final rest in the Beyond. He didn't bring them back.

Is that all you remember?

Tamlen: Maybe if you'd paid more attention when we were fledglings, you'd know yourself. Tamlen: He was a guide who took people across the spirit land to their final rest in the Beyond.

Perhaps this place is a tomb.

Tamlen: An elven tomb built by shems? I doubt it. Tamlen: It's said that the old ones never truly died; they just went somewhere and… slept forever. And this god would come to guide their spirits away.

Tamlen: But he wasn't an evil god, not like Fen'Harel--the Great Wolf. It doesn't seem right that a place so… wrong… would be his. [1]

5 - Walking Corpses

Tamlen: Hahren Paivel once said that in places where many people died, it can become setheneran--a land of waking dreams. The Veil becomes weak and spirits slip into our world.

Tamlen: Then they possess corpses and walk around. (shudders)

Dialogue Options:

You think many elves died here?

Tamlen: There's certainly enough bones… Maybe nobody was left to bury them.

(If Bereskarn killed) Maybe this is the "demon" the humans saw.

Tamlen: It's hard to imagine anything else could live here with these… creatures. Tamlen: Still, worse things may be ahead. This place reeks of something… wrong. Can you feel it?

Do you want to turn around?

Tamlen: Mmm, no. This place must have been important for so many to have died here. I'm curious…

Let's press on… I want to know how our people were involved with this. [1]

6 - About a Veil

Tamlen: I'm no storyteller. All I remember of the hahren's tales is that a veil separates our world from the spirit world.

Tamlen: He said that spirits are jealous of us, and always try to steal our souls. They want to be like us so badly they'll even possess our dead, which drives them insane.

Tamlen: But for them to enter our world, the Veil must be weak. Is that why this place feels so strange?

Dialogue Options:

I don't like that idea.

Tamlen: Neither do I. [1]

If they show themselves, we'll kill them too.

Tamlen: I doubt it would be that easy. More likely, we'd get possessed too. [1]

You believe that superstitious nonsense?

Tamlen: Say what you will, but those walking corpses were real enough. [1]

7 - Let's keep going.

if PC is female:

Tamlen: Lead on, lethallan.

otherwise, if PC is male:

Tamlen: Lead on, lethallin.

(ENDS DIALOGUE)

Lost Mysteries of the Ancients Quest Masterpost

Part 2: Elven Ruins

< Part 1: Humans in the Forest | Part 3: Dalish Camp >

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Lost Mysteries of the Ancients

Part 3B - Important NPCs (Ilen)

First Conversation:

Ilen: I'm glad you've recovered. Once we find Tamlen, we can concentrate on the journey northward.

Male Hunter: Thank you for the bow, Master Ilen. It is light and sturdy... much better than the one I made last year.

Ilen: You are more than welcome. My father made it and used it in battle against the Clayne tribes.

Male Hunter: I will carry it with honor.

Dialogue Tree:

May I see your crafts, Master Ilen? [1]

Could I ask you for a bow as well, Master Ilen? [2]

I would like to hear the story of your father's battle. [3]

Why would you relinquish such a relic? [4]

I should go. [5]

1 – May I see your crafts, Master Ilen?

Ilen: Of course. Take whatever you need. [Exit conversation, opens shop window]

2 - Could I ask you for a bow as well, Master Ilen?

Ilen: One of my own crafting, perhaps? Dialogue Options: - Yes. Thank you. >>> Ilen: It may not have a history, but you'll provide one for it soon enough, yes? - No, maybe not. >>> Ilen: Then I will keep my crafts for those who need them. [Return to dialogue tree]

3 - I would like to hear the story of your father's battle.

Ilen: Then I am proud to tell it. Ilen: Our clan was one of the first to flee the Dales. When we came to Ferelden, the fiercest of the shemlen were the barbarians known as the Clayne. Ilen: We didn't wait for them to attack us. Every Dalish clan in Ferelden united to bring the battle to them. Dialogue options: - We attacked them first? >>> Ilen: They were barbarians without honor. They would have slain us without a second thought. - Ha! Serves the humans right! Let them fear us! >>> [Continue conversation] - There are more Dalish clans in Ferelden? >>> Ilen: In Ferelden, in Orlais, wherever there are wild lands the humans cannot hold, we bring our aravels. You met some at the last Gathering. Ilen: The ensuing battle went well for us. That day, we carved out our reputation of being the deadliest archers. Ilen: Our arrows won us the right to wander these woods at will. It was this very bow that my father used that day. Male Hunter: Thank you for the tale, Master Ilen... and especially the bow. I will honor its history. [Return to Dialogue Tree]

4 - Why would you relinquish such a relic?

Ilen: We are all the same clan. His hand is as my hand. I have relinquished nothing. Ilen: It was my father who first spoke of the Vir Tanadhal--the Three Ways of the Hunter. Ilen: The first is the Vir Assan--the Way of the Arrow: to reach for our goal, unrelenting. Ilen: The second is the Vir Bor'assan--the Way of the Bow: to bend, but not to break. Ilen: The last is the Vir Adahlen--the Way of the Wood: we are as ancient as the forests, each tree a part of the greater land. Ilen: All Dalish are united in this: One day we shall have a homeland again. [Return to Dialogue Tree]

5 – I should go.

Ilen: May the Creators guide your path. [End conversation]

Later Conversations:

Ilen: Ah, back again?

[Enter Dialogue Tree]

Navigation:

Lost Mysteries of the Ancients Masterpost

Part 3: Dalish Camp

Part 3B: Important NPCs

Part 3C: Environmental Dialogue

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Zevran Masterpost

(note: Zevran doesn't actually have a companion quest.)

Scripted Cutscenes

Camp Dialogues

Romance Dialogues:

You seem different now.

Gifts

Antivan Leather Boots

Dalish Gloves

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Alistair Masterpost

Scripted Cutscenes

Camp Dialogues

Romance Dialogues:

Gifts

Alistair's Mother's Amulet

Duncan's Shield

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Lost Mysteries of the Ancients

Part 3B - Important NPCs (Maren)

Conversation (Plays on first interaction):

Maren: Aneth ara. It's good to see you recovered.

Dialogue Options:

How are the halla faring, Maren? [1]

Thank you. I should go. [2]

1 - How are the halla faring, Maren?

Maren: They fare well. The keeper called for the clan to move on, and they will be ready to take us. Maren: One is heavy with calf, but it shouldn't be a problem. Maren: May I ask of Tamlen's fate? Some say the clan will leave before we find him. Dialogue Options: - I won't allow that to happen. - We're going to find him; don't worry. - He may very well be dead. Maren: The halla mourn our fallen. No sound is more heart wrenching than their mourning cry. Maren: At least they won't be crying over you. They are quite fond of you. Dialogue Options: - They are your friends, then? [3] - The halla are beautiful creatures. [4] - Should that make me happy? [5]

2 – Thank you. I should go.

Maren: Indeed. May the Creators walk with you.

[End conversation]

3 - They are your friends, then?

Maren: They're more friends than servants. We do not dominate them as the shemlen do their horses and dogs. [6]

4 - The halla are beautiful creatures.

Maren: I admire them for their strength and pride. They are equals, not servants like the shemlen horses. [6]

5 - Should that make me happy?

Maren: Halla guide us because they wish to; they are not servants like the shemlen horses. It's an honor that such a creature admires you. [6]

 6 – Continue conversation

Maren: At any rate, I do not envy the keeper's decision. I'll pray for Tamlen's safe return. [End conversation]

Environmental Dialogue:

Maren: You look well for one who's recently returned from the brink of death.

Navigation:

Lost Mysteries of the Ancients Masterpost

Part 3: Dalish Camp

Part 3B: Important NPCs

Part 3C: Environmental Dialogue

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Introduction

Golden text appears on a black background:

"And so is the Golden City blackened With each step you take in my Hall. Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting. You have brought Sin to Heaven And doom upon all the world." - Canticle of Threnodies 8:13

The text fades away in a shower of golden flecks. A golden palace appears, with black hooded figures before it. These figures are doing a ritual.

Duncan: The Chantry teaches us that it is the hubris of men which brought the darkspawn into our world.

The golden palace drains of colour and turns black. Veins sprout out of the palace and join to a black tree enclosed within a black box.

Duncan: The mages had sought to usurp Heaven, but instead they destroyed it.

The tree loses its leaves and drains further down, to previously hooded figures, faces now revealed. They drain of all colour and their eyes turn white.

Duncan: They were cast out, twisted and cursed by their own corruption.

The screen flashes, showing their faces contorted in horror. The camera pans down, showing five hunched figures with distorted faces. The scene fades to black.

Duncan: They returned as monsters, the first of the darkspawn.

The camera pans to a burning wagon with a dead dwarf lying beside it. As it continues to move, more bodies are revealed as something off screen drags an injured dwarf.

Duncan: They became a Blight upon the lands, unstoppable and relentless.

Another dwarf helps the injured dwarf to stand, joined by a legion of dwarves and a stone golem. Something pounds at a great stone gate. The legion prepares to attack, showing even more dwarves and golems. An ogre crashes through the door and darkspawn begin to slaughter the dwarves. The scene fades to black on a dwarf impaled on a spear.

Duncan: The dwarven kingdoms were the first to fall, and from the Deep Roads the darkspawn drove at us again and again until finally we neared annihilation.

Humans run at darkspawn on the surface.

Duncan: Until the Grey Wardens came.

They destroy a horde of darkspawn. A mage sets a small group on fire. An elven archer shoots an arrow through a genlock about to attack the mage. A dwarven warrior jumps past the archer and cuts a hurlock in half. Elves and humans alike flee an oncoming horde of darkspawn as the city around them burns. A dwarf brings his hammer down upon a hurlock. Cut to black.

Duncan: Men and women from every race, warriors and mages, barbarians and kings… the Grey Wardens sacrificed everything to stem the tide of darkness… and prevailed.

Arrows are embedded in a cliff face. Three bodies hang from a tree. Duncan walks past the remnants of a skirmish in the forest, a few dead bodies on the ground while a small fire burns in the background. He approaches the edge of the cliff and rolls a body over with his foot to inspect it. Two hurlocks approach him from behind.

Duncan: It has been four centuries since that victory and we have kept our vigil. We have watched and waited for the darkspawn to return. But those who once called us heroes… have forgotten.

He pushes one hurlock to the edge of the cliff while he stabs the other. He leaves his sword in its chest as he returns to the hurlock at the edge. He shoves it off, then takes a moment to catch his breath and wipe his mouth with the back of his hand. He turns around, fires burning in the forest in the background.

Duncan: We are few now, and our warnings have been ignored for too long.

The camera zooms into the background, focusing on the fire and storm clouds gathering above the trees in the distance.

Duncan: It may even be too late, for I have seen with my own eyes what lies on the horizon.

Cut to black. Player enters character creation.