Signed in Blood

Start NPC:   Sobane - Southern San d'Oria (D-6)   Requirements:   San d'Oria Reputation: 3   Items Needed:   Cathedral Tapestry   Ordelle Chest Key   Title:   None   Repeatable:   No.   Reward:   Cunning Earring   3500g         Previous Quest:   None   Next Quest:   Tea with a Tonberry?

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Walkthrough

• Talk to Sobane, she is willing to give you a quest, but she needs to be able to trust that you'll keep your mouth shut. She wants you to retrieve a Cathedral Tapestry.
• Obtain a Cathedral Tapestry by killing Orcish Fighters in Fort Ghelsba or the Yughott Grotto.
• Trade the tapestry to Sobane and she'll explain the next step.
• Travel to Selbina, where you will find that the person you are looking for is nowhere to be found. Talk to the mayor, and he'll have no idea what you're talking about (liar). He will mention something about a diary he found, and that some key pages are missing... perhaps his lips will loosen if you help him find them.
• Travel to Ordelle's Caves and hunt for an Ordelle Chest Key. Once you find a key, look for a Treasure Chest and open it.
  • Only people who have this quest flagged will receive some Torn-Out Pages (key item).
  • Thief can open chest and receive key item using Thief's Tools or Living Key .
  • This key item takes precedence over the Magical Pattern from The Goblin Tailor RSE quest; if both are active, a character opening the chest will receive this key item first.
• Return to Selbina and talk to the mayor. He'll reveal some information to you which will prove interesting to Sobane.
• Return to Sobane to complete this quest and to receive your reward.

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Game Description

Client: Sobane (House on Pikeman's Way, Southern San d'Oria)
Summary:

Sobane has heard some disturbing news from her husband, the head royal chef. She wishes to make a request concerning that tale, but first requires you to bring a "cathedral tapestry" to prove your integrity.

Game Script

Southern San d'Oria

Sobane: My name is Sobane, and my husband is the royal family's head chief.

Sobane: Just currently, he told me the most unsettling news. Thus I was impelled to seek the aid of an adventurer...

Sobane: If word of my request reaches the wrong ears, it may place my family in danger.

Sobane: Should you decide to take up my request, would you be willing to swear a blood oath?

Sobane: You must swear to Altana, Goddess of the Dawn, to breathe not a single syllable of this matter to anyone...

Choice 1: On my honor.

Choice 2: Only if I hurt myself.

Choice 1 selected: On my honor;

Sobane: My thanks. As proof of your oath, I ask that you bring me a Cathedral Tapestry.

Sobane: My family's fate is in your hands.

Southern San d'Oria

After trading the requested item;

Sobane: Thank you adventurer. I accept this Cathedral Tapestry as proof of your word.

Sobane: I once again insist that you breathe not a word of this to anyone. Now, to the matter at hand.

Sobane: Several days ago, Count Varonbiriaux M Teulomme was granted audience with the royaulais.

Sobane: Do you know of count Teulomme? He resides in a mansion built within the Carpenters' Landing territory.

Sobane: Thirty years ago, those lands belonged to Knights Mistalle.

Sobane: However, the head of the family, Francmage M Mistalle, lost his life under mysterious circumstances...

Sobane: His inexplicable death dealt a terrible blow to the knights.

Sobane: Francmage's only son and member of the Royal Knights, Leservieus M Mistalle, was swept up in a whirlwind of rage and despair.

Sobane: He became embroiled in an argument with Lord Epuliphont, a Temple Knight with whom he was not on good terms. Enraged by the slanderous conjecture on his father's fate, Leservieus challenged Epuliphont to a duel to the death.

Sobane: He has always been the case in San d'Oria, duels are strictly forbidden by law.

Sobane: When word of their battle reached the royal court, both families were stripped of their titles, and Leservieus's wife returned to Selbina with her infant child in tow.

Sobane: Thirty years have passed since that time.

Sobane: The son born to Leservieus and his wife grew up to become a magnificent knight.

Sobane: He has embarked on a journey to redeem his family's name.

Sobane: When Count Teulomme learned of this, he ordered his vassals to search for this heir to the Knights Mistalle.

Sobane: The count, under the pretext of wishing to know the truth of what happened thirty years ago, is offering to assist the knight in his endeavor...

Sobane: However, the count's cook believes that Teulomme is more concerned with losing his lands to their rightful owner.

Sobane: Please do not take a cook's words lightly. Much information reaches a man who prepares the meals for a household.

Sobane: If Count Teulomme is truly seeking to cause harm to the heir of the Knights Mistalle, we have a duty to warn him of the danger.

Sobane: I am certain as adventurer of your caliber will be able to locate this man before anything untoward occurs.

Sobane: Please find the knight of Mistalle. He must know of the threat to his life.

Selbina

Abelard: I'm Abelard, mayor of this village.

Abelard: You say you're looking for Lady Leffine?

Abelard: You're not the first to ask that question, but I'm sorry to say there's no one here by that name.

Abelard: Even if you've been requested to do so, you shouldn't be poking around into other people's pasts.

Abelard: What's that? So why am I trying to find out about Gwynham Ironheart, you ask?

Abelard: That's not the same thing, lass. I haven't got the slightest interest in his provate life.

Abelard: I already know all there is to know about him, in any case.

Abelard: Have you heard of Lord Torresapet B Ordelle? It was feared he would die a demented death in Ordelle's Cave before he completed the map of those twisted tunnels.

Abelard: He gathered the facts about Gwynham Ironheart's life into a single volume. I have the book right there.

Abelard: It's just that... Before that book came into my possession, Gwynham's daughter, Enid, tore out several pages and threw them away.

Abelard: I'm curious as to what was written on those pages, but I suppose there's a reason Enid removed them in the first place.

Abelard: I guess I should respect that. Besides, I doubt anyone could find them anyway...

Selbina

After obtaining the key item;

Abelard: Th-these are the missing pages! Where did you find them!?

Abelard: They were left inside Ordelle's Caves...?

Abelard: If somebody left these pages on purpose, then we have duty to read them. Seems that Enid didn't throw them away after all.

Abelard: Hm? If I'm going to read these pages, then I should tell you where to find Lady Leffine?

Abelard: Fair enough. As did the great Gwynham Ironheart, Lady Leffine passed away many years ago.

Abelard: However, her son, Louverance, grew up to become a fine young man. Last I heard, he joined the Royal Knights of San d'Oria.

Abelard: I haven't seen him visit his mother's grave lately, though. Has something happened to him, I wonder.

Abelard: Speaking of which, there's another thing that's been bugging me.

Abelard: Earlier, I had another visitor looking for Louverance.

Abelard: It was a young hume lady. Made some mention of Atarefaunet's Band.

Abelard: In any case, she left Selbina after discovering Lady Leffine was no longer with us.

Abelard: Is that all you wanted to know? Now if you don't mind, I'll get to reading these pages you retrieved.

(to be continued when I progress on this quest further)