'We should return to Sírlond to speak with Handarod about this. He knew the location where Narndir kept this journal. Perhaps he will know why some of the pages were removed.'1/1
1 Speak toHandarod (Show dialog)
'Missing pages? I cannot say I know anything about that, Player, but I do not think Narndir would have torn pages from his own journal. Someone else must have removed them... although I cannot guess why such a one would return the journal to its hiding-place.'
Handarod rubs the side of his face, thinking deeply.
'There was one day that I spoke with Narndir and marked that he acted quite strangely, however. I encountered him on the Greenway, not far from the lone square ruin that stands beside the road to the north-west of Herne. Now that I think on it, his manner was quite peculiar, and it seemed he was not his usual self. What did he say? He said something strange to me, but I cannot remember it!
'If he did remove pages from his journal, which was not like him at all, that is the only day on which I would believe it. I wish I could remember what he said, but perhaps it will come to me. You should search that square ruin beside the road in Ruddymore. Maybe you will find something to shed light upon this mystery.'1/1
2 Enter areaSearch the strange square ruin beside the road in Ruddymore where Handarod once saw Narndir acting strangely1/1
3 Use itemOpen the small wooden box and search for the missing pages of Narndir's journal1/1
4 ObtainCollect the missing pages of Narndir's journal from Orcs, half-orcs, or goblins in the South Downs or Ruddymore (x/6)6/6
5 Use itemPut Narndir's Journal in Suitable Sorting Place1/1
6 Use itemRead Narndir's restored journal1/1
7 Hand inNarndir's Journal to Meneldir1/1
8 ObjectiveWTF1/1
9 Speak toThe Grey Fear (Show dialog)
'By the time he finally reached Dol Ernil,' Narndir writes, 'Prince Ostir's keep was a ruined shell. Its people lay heaped and bloody in the streets, the heads of its defenders mounted on stakes above its gates. Of his mother Luilloth, there was no sign at all. And in the shattered hall, seated upon Ostir's throne, was the Grey Fear.
'I hesitate to write what I have learned, but I must. I must! My duty compels me to write it, to write the truth! But can it be right to put into words such horror, such shame as this? It wars within me.
'Prince Ostir stood in the charnel-house that was Dol Ernil, and he looked in the eyes of the creature that sat upon the throne, and he knew the identity of the Grey Fear. It was Prince Amondir who sat there, Ostir's own grandfather, but the servant of evil that stared back was a stranger entire. With a horrible smile upon its mocking visage, the apparition raised its hand, pointing at Amondir's terrified grandson.
'And the Dead rose.'1/1
itemTalkConsider the death of Ostir, Last Prince of Cardolan, as described in the writings of Narndir1/1
Iron Coin of Cardolan (2)
