Read the Books in the Cabinet
Read the Books in the Cabinet is a Versal quest started by Dello.
Part of A Plea from Versal: see every quest in order.
Requirements
- Finish Stop the Temple Raid
Dialogue
- Offer
- Hi there, traveler! I'm Dello. A healthy mind leads to a healthy body, you know! Would you like to know more about the cabinet next to me? There are two old books in it about why Versal's sky is so dark.
The funny thing is, the two books don't agree at all! One is a farmers' tale, and the other is a chronicle. Want me to read them to you? I'll tell you everything I know. - In progress
- Are you ready to read? Just say the word. Two books, the farmers' tale and the chronicle.
- Completion
- This first one is a children's book. It's printed backwards, like everything in Versal. Listen... 'Once the sun shone on Versal, and the onions grew fat. The farmers paid the beast Crushmom to guard their fields... and forgot to sing to the sun.'
'The sun grew weak, and Crushmom grew hungry. One night it leapt into the sky and swallowed the sun whole! Brave hunters made it cough the sun back up, but it came back pale. Now it only shines when we sing to it. Those days of song are Versalmas.'
And this heavy one is the chronicle. Listen... 'Crimsonheart guarded the Antellion. His wife Glona died defending it. Their foster son Naricain blamed his father, stole a piece of the light, and killed his own brother Subani, who only wanted him to come home.'
'Crimsonheart sealed Naricain in a void beyond time. Then, with Grandmaster Lukan and a traveler from the future at his side, he broke the Antellion so no one could misuse it. It cost him his life.'
'The flash carried all of Masteria into Versal for a thousand years, until Subani's restless spirit made a deal with a Maple World mayor, Icebyrd Slimm, to send it home. Without the Antellion, our ninety-nine days of light became thirty.'
So the farmers blame a beast, and the chronicle blames a son. Pietta believes the chronicle. Me? I just think it's funny that one dark sky has two stories. I hope you learned something, traveler!