A widow named Lysara asked for my help. She’s been visiting her husband’s grave every day since his passing, but this morning found a sealed bottle of Doll’s Tears resting on it. It’s pure, too fine for anyone in this village. She doesn’t want revenge, only to know who left it and why. I agreed to take a look at the grave.
| Difficulty | Giver | Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| Lysara | NPC: Lysara NPC: Miron Juras NPC: Viktor Ferrant Npc Quest: Meeting the Halmayans |
| # | Step | Summary | NPC | Bring | Completion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Examine Grave | Investigate the grave. | I found the grave easily, simple, freshly damp from rain. The bottle sits untouched atop the soil, sealed with wax and marked by a strange insignia. No smudges, no spills. Whoever placed it here didn’t do so in mourning — they wanted it to be noticed. | ||
| 2 | Pickup Bottle | Pick up the bottle. | The glass was cold, the liquid inside catching the light with an odd blue shimmer. It smells sweet, sharp, unmistakably Doll’s Tears, but cleaner, almost sacred. Whoever crafted it was no amateur. I need to find out where it came from. | ||
| 3 | Talkwith Elder | Miron Juras | I showed the bottle to Elder Miron. He recognized the scent instantly, pure Doll’s Tears. He said no one in the village could make such a brew. The seal, he told me, belonged to the old Halmayan alchemists. He advised me to speak to Viktor Ferrant, the local alchemist, whose craft still bears their mark. | ||
| 4 | Talkto Viktor | Viktor Ferrant Npc | Viktor was surprised. He swore he never brewed Doll’s Tears and that his seal couldn’t be forged easily. He mentioned learning his methods from the old Alchemists’ academies, but claimed their obsession destroyed them. He suspects someone is imitating his mark, or something worse. He told me to check Sorwynn’s shrine by the cliffs, where offerings are sometimes… change hands. | ||
| 5 | Goto Wine Shrine | Go to Sorwynn’s shrine. | The shrine was quiet, marked by wind and salt. Offerings of bottles and coins lay scattered, many cracked and empty. | ||
| 6 | Examinethe Shrine | Examine the skeletons. | I found the same seal burned into older bottles, the same as the one from the grave. Whoever left the new one must have taken it from here. Some of the offerings looked disturbed, and I couldn’t shake the feeling that the dead weren’t the only ones drinking here. | ||
| 7 | Returnto Lysara | Lysara | GiftsfromtheBeyondQuest_GraveBottle x 1 | Lysara listened carefully. I told her about the shrine and Viktor’s denial. She said she’d prayed to Sorwynn before, for peace, for a dream of her husband. Maybe the god answered. Maybe not. She thanked me anyway, gave me a small reward, and asked that if I ever return to the shrine, I thank Sorwynn for her. She seemed at peace, for now. |