'Will you go about my hall and learn what you can? I must settle these rampant rumours before they drive me mad.'0/1
1.2) Speak toBelgur (Show dialog)
'The latest word from the Iron Hills is this: that the Easterlings only feigned retreat, gathering their forces anew just beyond our ken. Then, not two days ago, under cloak of night they flooded the Ironfold and hold it in complete blockade.
'That is why we have had no other word from our brethren there. Dale is all but lost and we ourselves must prepare to seal our gates.'0/1
1.3) Speak toBombur (Show dialog)
'Have you heard of the wounds Lord Náin took in the battle? He bears an agate eye now, and a gold ear beside. They say he sits in the Járnfast keep in the Iron Hills now, mired in despair, mourning his wounds and his lost comrades, and that he has ordered the gates sealed and no dwarves to come or go.
'Now strangers from the south, Men, yea, and dwarves too, wander the Ironfold as they will.'0/1
1.4) Speak toSnállar (Show dialog)
'Lord Náin's new steel teeth, it is said, bedevil him with phantom pains. His false eye, too, aches in the dead of night and he cannot sleep. He has fallen into an eternal black mood, or so I have heard, and has ordered the north-eastern road in the Iron Hills walled off, and the stair at Skald's Drop broken so that it may no longer be traversed.'0/1
1.5) Speak toMálmi (Show dialog)
'Did you feel the earth tremble the day the fighting ended? I can feel it as if it were moments ago, though more than a month has passed.
'Well, and some say the shaking was far more severe to the east in the Iron Hills. Some even say that Járnfast keep fell to the ground, if you can believe it!'0/1
1.6) Speak toLaurík (Show dialog)
'If any dwarf tries to tell you that Járnfast fell when the ground shook the Iron Hills, it is nothing but a vicious lie. I have the truth, on good authority, too, and it is this: the keep stands, but something below that was sealed away has been freed, and the Dwarves of the Ironfold have all fled in terror, every one.'0/1
1.7) Speak toBróthi (Show dialog)
'In the land before the Iron Hills lies the small Dalish township of Utterby. If rumours are to be believed, Easterlings of all stripes have taken up there, pillaging and striking terror into all who travel through.'0/1
1.8) Speak toMargald (Show dialog)
'There are strange whispers these days... whispers of strange dwarves arriving in the Iron Hills. They come from the east, it is said, and have neither beard nor hair on the tops of their heads. Their ears face behind instead of ahead.
'Furthermore, when asked about good news, they always lie - but on subjects of bad news, tell ever the truth. Or so the whispers say. I know not. I have not set foot beyond the Lonely Mountain since the fighting began.'0/1
1.9) Speak toSpall (Show dialog)
'Rumours? Yes, I have heard rumours, but I am beyond my wits knowing which to believe. The Iron Hills are overrun, they say. The Iron Hills are blockaded. Lord Náin is dead - or he is mad - or he has second sight through his agate eye!
'Or the lot of it is nonsense and idle talk. Unless it is not.
'What someone really ought to do is go out there and settle all these rumours for once and for all. Then we should have some peace. Or at least a little certainty!'0/1
2 Speak toKing Thorin III (Show dialog)
You relate the rumours you heard and Thorin listens intently. After you finish, he thinks for a long moment and then speaks.
'From my own people, I have heard seven wastes of breath and one single, half-sensible thought. Would you be a good ${CLASS} once more and go tell Spall the Lore-master that he should come and stand before me?'0/1
3 Speak toSpall (Show dialog)
'Me? I - before King Thorin? Oh, I must surely have stuck my foot in it now. Stuck my foot in what? Player, I cannot imagine. Some rumour about me has spread. Surely that is it. I would be the last to hear. Well, I suppose I shall hear it now.
'Gather your wits, Spall! You are a proud Lore-master. Not to mention, you have hardly done anything wrong.
'Ahem! Very well. I - I shall be there directly, I suppose.'0/1
4 Speak toKing Thorin III (Show dialog)
'Ah, there you are Spall, Player. Please, be at your ease. There is a matter about which I wish to speak.'0/1
Mark of the Longbeards (3)
