The Night the Light Broke
The Night the Light Broke is a Versal quest started by Hera.
Part of The Versal storyline and A Plea from Versal: see every quest in order.
Requirements
- Finish Tower of the Past
Next
Dialogue
- Offer
- You steadied the past, but the town is still stuck on the night the light broke. Its people only remember a song about a beast. If they learn the truth, the night can end. Then Mera and I can give you our light and become Teardrops, like the others.
I can send you back on purpose, to the Versal Goddess Temple, at the moment Naricain reaches for the Antellion. Reach the light before his hand closes. The spirit inside will tell you everything.
Grandmaster Lukan is in town asking about that same night. He went back once to warn Crimsonheart, and he was too late. Please be quicker than he was. - In progress
- Reach the light in the Versal Goddess Temple before Naricain's hand closes, and learn what really happened that night.
- Completion
- (Time holds its breath. Naricain's hand hangs an inch from the light. Then the light turns to you, and takes the shape of a woman.)
Do not be afraid. I am Rhinne, the spirit of the Antellion. The heroes of Versal gave their lives to become my light. You have come a long way, so I will tell you plainly what happened here.
Naricain was Crimsonheart's foster son. He stole a piece of my light. His brother Subani begged him to come home, and Naricain killed him. Glona, Crimsonheart's wife, died protecting me. Tonight he has come for all of me.
In a moment, Crimsonheart will seal the son he raised in a void beyond time. Then he will break me into pieces, so no thief can ever use my light again. It will cost him his life. He chose it.
My pieces fell across Versal and slept. Over the years they woke as people. Shah Mar, Larelle, Wu Gong, Arsen, and now Hera and Mera. They are the six Teardrops. And since that night, Versal has had thirty days of light a year instead of ninety-nine.
When time broke, Versal forgot this night and kept only a song, about a beast called Crushmom that swallowed the sun. It was easier to sing about a monster than about a son. Now you know the truth, and the night can end.
(Far away in Versalibrium, Hera and Mera take each other's hands. Their light flows into the Relic, two gold Teardrops lie where they stood, and the town's clocks start ticking. That makes all six.)
Take all six Teardrops to Elpam at the Versal Nexus, and set them in his ring of cacti. That is how a sun wakes in Versal. But remember this. My light cannot pass through Naricain's Blood. If even a drop of it is near, I cannot wake.