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Eivor spoke with [[Randvi]] about pledging to Cent.
Eivor spoke with [[Randvi]] about pledging to Cent.
*'''Eivor:''' ''Tell me more about Cent.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Tell me more about Cent.''
*'''Randvi:''' ''[[Basim Ibn Ishaq|Basim]] has written, claiming to have found the woman Fulke and asking for your aid. He has taken shelter at [[Saint Hadrian's Priory]].''
*'''Randvi:''' ''[[Basim ibn Ishaq|Basim]] has written, claiming to have found the woman Fulke and asking for your aid. He has taken shelter at [[Saint Hadrian's Priory]].''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Any news of Sigurd?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Any news of Sigurd?''
*'''Randvi:''' ''Nothing he mentioned. But if he has found the [[Palatinus|Paladin]] Fulke, Sigurd cannot be far behind.''
*'''Randvi:''' ''Nothing he mentioned. But if he has found the [[Palatinus|Paladin]] Fulke, Sigurd cannot be far behind.''
Eivor pledged to Cent.
Eivor pledged to Cent.
*'''Eivor:''' ''I will go as soon as I can.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''I will go as soon as I can.''
*'''Randvi:''' ''Good. Be safe, Eivor.''
*'''Randvi:''' ''Good. Be safe, Eivor.''  
Eivor left Randvi.
Eivor went to leave but halted to talk with [[Dag Nithisson]] in the main hall.
*'''Eivor:''' ''Basim has news of Sigurd. I should find him soon.''  
Eivor went to leave but halted to talk with [[Dag Nithisson]].
[[File:ACV The Abbot's Gambit 1.jpg|thumb|250px|Eivor and Dag argue about Eivor's leadership]]
[[File:ACV The Abbot's Gambit 1.jpg|thumb|250px|Eivor and Dag argue about Eivor's leadership]]
*'''Eivor:''' ''Dag. Basim has brought word of Sigurd's location. We are leaving at once to find him.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Dag. Basim has brought word of Sigurd's location. We are leaving at once to find him.''
*'''Dag:''' ''Well done, Eivor. After so long, it finally occurs to you to search for our [[jarl]]. I applaud your half-hearted effort. I will not be joining you.''
*'''Dag:''' ''Well done, Eivor. After so long, it finally occurs to you to search for our [[jarl]]. I applaud your half-hearted effort. I will not be joining you.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Dag, this is no joke. On the [[Eivor's longship|ship]]. Now.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Dag, this is no joke. On the [[Sea-Chariot|ship]]. Now.''
*'''Dag:''' ''Someone needs to stay home and direct the affairs of the [[Ravensthorpe|settlement]]. As you seem to shun this place as often as possible, it must fall to me.''
*'''Dag:''' ''Someone needs to stay home and direct the affairs of the [[Ravensthorpe|settlement]]. As you seem to shun this place as often as possible, it must fall to me.''
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*'''Eivor:''' ''Do you doubt me so completely that you will not raise your axe to save your jarl?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Do you doubt me so completely that you will not raise your axe to save your jarl?''
*'''Dag:''' ''A fine way of putting it, [[Wolf]]-Kissed. But go ... find the jarl, bring him back. Only do not get lost along the way, as you seem to more and more these days.''
*'''Dag:''' ''A fine way of putting it, [[Wolf]]-Kissed. But go... find the jarl, bring him back. Only do not get lost along the way, as you seem to more and more these days.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''This is not done, Dag. We will speak when I return.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''This is not done, Dag. We will speak when I return.''
Eivor left Dag behind as a different raider took his seat on the [[Sea-Chariot]].
After sailing and riding through the southern shires of England, Eivor finally crossed the border into Cent.
*'''Eivor:''' ''Basim has news of Sigurd. I should find him soon.''
[[File:ACV The Abbot's Gambit 3.png|thumb|250px|Basim disputing with Hortbert on the Christian teachings]]
[[File:ACV The Abbot's Gambit 3.png|thumb|250px|Basim disputing with Hortbert on the Christian teachings]]
Eivor left to find Basim at Saint Hadrian's Priory. Upon arrival, Eivor found Basim conversing with [[scholar|priest]]s near some barrels.
Eivor followed the roads to Saint Hadrian's Priory. Upon arrival, Eivor found Basim conversing with [[scholar|priest]]s near some barrels.
*'''Brother [[Hortbert]]:''' ''Did not [[Augustine of Canterbury|Augustine]] make a distinction between faith and understanding? That is my point.''
*'''Brother [[Hortbert]]:''' ''Did not [[Augustine of Canterbury|Augustine]] make a distinction between faith and understanding? That is my point.''
*'''Basim:''' ''So you hold no stock in faith, only in rational proof? The science of the divine. You're bold to defy your teachings.''
*'''Basim:''' ''So you hold no stock in faith, only in rational proof? The science of the divine. You're bold to defy your teachings.''
*'''Brother Hortbert:''' ''No ... no ... that's not what I mean. Let me ... let me explain if I might. How to put it...?''
*'''Brother Hortbert:''' ''No... no... that's not what I mean. Let me... let me explain if I might. How to put it...?''
Eivor joined the conversation.
Eivor joined the conversation.
*'''Brother Hortbert:''' ''What I mean to say is, faith is paramount. Yes. For without it, [[Jesus of Nazareth|Christ]]'s sacrifice means nothing.''
*'''Brother Hortbert:''' ''What I mean to say is, faith is paramount. Yes. For without it, [[Jesus of Nazareth|Christ]]'s sacrifice means nothing.''
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*'''Brother Hortbert:''' ''Yes, evil persists. Because he gave us free will.''
*'''Brother Hortbert:''' ''Yes, evil persists. Because he gave us free will.''
*'''Basim:''' ''Does a newborn babe slain by a despot have free will?''
*'''Basim:''' ''Does a newborn babe slain by a despot have free will?''
*'''Brother Hortbert:''' ''Yes ... no, I mean ... that is too simplistic.''
*'''Brother Hortbert:''' ''Yes... no, I mean... that is too simplistic.''
*'''Basim:''' ''Or the priest who's heart is torn from his chest by the wolf? [[Judas Iscariot|Judas]], who was predestined to betray the Nazarene?''
*'''Basim:''' ''Or the priest who's heart is torn from his chest by the wolf? [[Judas Iscariot|Judas]], who was predestined to betray the Nazarene?''
*'''Brother Hortbert:''' ''Some argue Judas was used...''
*'''Brother Hortbert:''' ''Some argue Judas was used...''
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Another priest walked into the conversation.
Another priest walked into the conversation.
*'''Brother [[Cedric (monk)|Cedric]]:''' ''Do my ears deceive me, Brother Hortbert? You question the scriptures? Declare Judas an innocent? A preposterous blasphemy!''
*'''Brother [[Cedric (monk)|Cedric]]:''' ''Do my ears deceive me, Brother Hortbert? You question the scriptures? Declare Judas an innocent? A preposterous blasphemy!''
*'''Brother Hortbert:''' ''N-no, that is not what I said! Brother Cedric ... am I not the most pious of [[Christianity|His]] servants?
*'''Brother Hortbert:''' ''N-no, that is not what I said! Brother Cedric... am I not the most pious of [[Christianity|His]] servants?
*'''Brother Cedric:''' ''Out! Out!''
*'''Brother Cedric:''' ''Out! Out!''
Brother Cedric pushed Brother Hortbert away as Eivor went to talk with Basim.
Brother Cedric pushed Brother Hortbert away as Eivor went to talk with Basim.
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*'''Basim:''' ''Hm. Surely Hytham sounds like me ... if I have taught him well.''
*'''Basim:''' ''Hm. Surely Hytham sounds like me ... if I have taught him well.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Your creed and your tenets, you mean?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Your creed and your tenets, you mean?''
*'''Basim:''' ''That's right. And our sense of ... how should I say ... deep responsibility to the betterment of mankind.''
*'''Basim:''' ''That's right. And our sense of... how should I sa ... deep responsibility to the betterment of mankind.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''That's quite an ambition. But it doesn't explain what you see in Sigurd. My brother is not so generous.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''That's quite an ambition. But it doesn't explain what you see in Sigurd. My brother is not so generous.''
*'''Basim:''' ''Ah, but your brother is ... someone special. Important. And I want him to see that. I hope to show it to him.''
*'''Basim:''' ''Ah, but your brother is... someone special. Important. And I want him to see that. I hope to show it to him.''
Eivor and Basim walked to talk with the abbot.
Eivor and Basim walked to talk with the abbot.
*'''Cynebert:''' ''Is this not a blessed plot? God's own country. And this [[Eden]] should be given to his servants to tend.''
*'''Cynebert:''' ''Is this not a blessed plot? God's own country. And this [[Eden]] should be given to his servants to tend.''
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*'''Eivor:''' ''Let's cut to the point. What favor would you ask in exchange for Fulke?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Let's cut to the point. What favor would you ask in exchange for Fulke?''
*'''Cynebert:''' ''Some weeks ago, our [[ealdorman]] in Cent was called to God. A terrible loss. King [[Alfred the Great|Aelfred]] has chosen his replacement, but has not yet announced the name. I must know it ... now.''
*'''Cynebert:''' ''Some weeks ago, our [[ealdorman]] in Cent was called to God. A terrible loss. King [[Alfred the Great|Aelfred]] has chosen his replacement, but has not yet announced the name. I must know it... now.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''All of Cent will see soon enough which ''[[thegn]]'' he has chosen. Why not wait?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''All of Cent will see soon enough which ''[[thegn]]'' he has chosen. Why not wait?''
*'''Cynebert:''' ''I want ... early access. To woo him, before his exalted position is made public and every fool is at his door.''
*'''Cynebert:''' ''I want... early access. To woo him, before his exalted position is made public and every fool is at his door.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Who else knows the chosen man?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Who else knows the chosen man?''
*'''Cynebert:''' ''The king's emissary. Sent with a letter of congratulations to the new ealdorman. Intercept him and bring me the news. When I know the thegn's name, we'll discuss how I might win his favor.''
*'''Cynebert:''' ''The king's emissary. Sent with a letter of congratulations to the new ealdorman. Intercept him and bring me the news. When I know the thegn's name, we'll discuss how I might win his favor.''
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*'''Eivor:''' ''I suppose we'll see. What will you do?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''I suppose we'll see. What will you do?''
*'''Basim:''' ''I am not done playing with these Christians yet. I will see you in Folcanstan.''
*'''Basim:''' ''I am not done playing with these Christians yet. I will see you in Folcanstan.''
Eivor and Basim shook hands and departed from each other. Eivor traveled to the inn below Tonbridge Monastery.
Eivor and Basim shook hands and departed from each other. On her way out of the priory, she witnessed the two monks from earlier engaged in a brawl.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 1:''' ''Augustine said "Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand"?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 2:''' ''In the four centuries since Augustine wrote, many advances have been made in our understanding of the scripture!''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 1:''' ''I... only meant that the scripture alone...''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 2:''' ''Enough! I will not hear another word. The scripture alone... this is bordering on blasphemy.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 1:''' ''Blasphemy! No, no brother...''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 2:''' ''Never speak again until you have learned to obey God's will and not your own.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 1:''' ''You would force a vow of silence simply because God gave me an enquiring mind?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 2:''' ''Ah! Blasphemy! Blasphemy!''
 
Eivor traveled to the inn south of Tonbridge Monastery.
*'''Eivor:''' ''If Aelfred's emissary spent a few days here, someone may know where he went.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''If Aelfred's emissary spent a few days here, someone may know where he went.''
Eivor spoke to a man, who was moving hay.
Eivor spoke to a man.
*'''[[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] Man 1:''' ''You're not welcome here.''
*'''[[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] Man 3:''' ''You're not welcome here.''
Eivor soon spoke to a man talking with a child.
Eivor spoke to another man, who brushed her off twice.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 2:''' ''We are not friends, be gone.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 4:''' ''I have no time for your twittering.''<br>''We are not friends, be gone.''
Eivor overheard some commotion from behind the inn.
Eivor overheard some commotion from behind the inn.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 3:''' ''Did she speak to you of the Betrayer's scriptures? I am troubled in my spirit.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 5:''' ''Did she speak to you of the Betrayer's scriptures? I am troubled in my spirit.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 4:''' ''Shhh, it is heresy to even think of it. Forget her words, her blasphemies. Think only on Christ and his redemptive message.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 6:''' ''Shhh, it is heresy to even think of it. Forget her words, her blasphemies. Think only on Christ and his redemptive message.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 3:''' ''She spoke freely of a deceit of angels. That we are the defiled race, ones who can never find salvation.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 5:''' ''She spoke freely of a deceit of angels. That we are the defiled race, ones who can never find salvation!''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 4:''' ''If you are Hell-bent on believing this, you are already lost to the Lord of Flies.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 6:''' ''If you are Hell-bent on believing this, you are already lost to the Lord of Flies.''
Eivor spoke to a woman.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 1:''' ''Stay away from me, stranger.''
Eivor spoke to another woman.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 2:''' ''I'm busy, leave me be.''
A third woman also brushed her off.
Anglo-Saxon Woman 3:'''Get away with you.''
 
Eivor also overheard two women speaking to each other.
Eivor also overheard two women speaking to each other.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 1:''' ''A [[bear]]? Of furs and tears? Why does he cry?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 4:''' ''A [[bear]]? Of fur and tears? Why does he cry?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 2:''' ''My brother saw him in the old stone ring with his own eyes. Rubbed them twice to be sure.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 5:''' ''My brother saw him in the old stone ring with his own eyes. Rubbed them twice to be sure.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 1:''' ''Someone should do something.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 4:''' ''Someone should do something.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 2:''' ''What? Ask him to move on? Or perhaps he can live with us here and the children will ride with matted back?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 5:''' ''What? Ask him to move on? Or perhaps he can live with us here and the children will ride his matted back?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 1:''' ''They sent my husband to work at the [[Beamasfield]], the lumber mill. They mean to fortify us against the Danes.''
She also overheard some women talking about the Danes.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 2:''' ''My sister said they're all tall and strong. Muscles rippling, hair braided and woven with spice.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 6:''' ''They sent my husband to work at the [[Beamasfield]], the lumber mill. They mean to fortify us against the Danes.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 1:''' ''And what will you do if one carries you off?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 7:''' ''My sister said they're all tall and strong. Muscles rippling, hair braided and woven with spice.''
Eivor spoke to a woman looking towards the sky.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 6:''' ''And what will you do if one carries you off?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 3:''' ''Stay away from me, stranger.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 7:''' ''Dream of the pretty, straw-haired bairns ''(children)''I'll have.''
Eivor spoke to a woman within the inn.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Woman 4:''' ''I'm busy, let me be.''
Eivor spoke to a drunk man near the barrels.
Eivor spoke to a drunk man near the barrels.
*'''Eivor:''' ''Are you sober enough to answer me?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Are you sober enough to answer me?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 5:''' ''You have fine hair. It shimmers like ... woven [[silk]].''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 7:''' ''You have fine hair. It shimmers like... woven [[silk]].''
*'''Eivor:''' ''I don't have time for flattery. I seek Aelfred's emissary.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''I don't have time for flattery. I seek Aelfred's emissary.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 5:''' ''The only man of Aelfred's I know is Orvyn the legless.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 7:''' ''The only man of Aelfred's I know is Orvyn the legless.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''And he is...?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''And he is...?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 5:''' ''Hm. Haven't seen him in years. Probably dead drunk, or just dead in a ditch. Why do you think they called him legless?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 7:''' ''Hm. Haven't seen him in years. Probably dead drunk, or just dead in a ditch. Why do you think they called him legless?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Because he has no legs?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Because he has no legs?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Baw! It's a figure of speech, Lord in Heaven.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 7:''' ''Baw! It's a figure of speech, Lord in Heaven.
Eivor overheard another conversation about Cynebert's ambitions.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 8:''' ''God teaches obedience and humility, and yet our abbot would defy Aelfred?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 9:''' ''How so? He is simply being a good shepherd, keeping Cent and her rich lands in the hands of the Church.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 8:''' ''But the Danes? Do they not nestle at our borders? Like ash-scaled [[snake|serpent]]s?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 9:''' ''Danes in Cent? I don't believe it. Aelfred overspeaks their danger so he may take from us as he pleases.''
Eivor also heard chatter about the previous ealdorman.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 10:''' ''I heard he was captured by Danes, and they ate his heart.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 11:''' ''Ealdorman [[Deogol]] got blind drunk and likely staggered off the white cliffs.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 10:''' ''So who will take his place? Thegn [[Fairfax]]? [[Landry]]? [[Tedmund]]?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 11:''' ''None are worth the shit on a sheep's arse. I would not case my vote for one of them.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 10:''' ''A defiant stance for one who cannot cast a vote.''
She overheard some soldiers.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 1:''' ''He's gotten so paranoid now, he won't even leave the [[Rouecistre Fortress|keep]] tower. Captain's calling him Mouse-Balls.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 2:''' ''What's made him so frightened?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 1:''' ''He said the Danes are coming. Coming for him. He saw it in a dream. Let's hope Mouse-Balls doesn't end up our next ealdorman.''
[[File:ACV The Abbot's Gambit 9.png|thumb|250px|Eivor questioning the man at the desk]]
[[File:ACV The Abbot's Gambit 9.png|thumb|250px|Eivor questioning the man at the desk]]
Eivor found and talked to a man writing at a desk.
Eivor found and talked to a man writing at a desk.
*'''Eivor:''' ''I'm looking for someone.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''I'm looking for someone.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 6:''' ''Speak your piece, I have work to do.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 12:''' ''Speak your piece, I have work to do.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Seen anyone here on the king's authority?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Seen anyone here on the king's authority?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 6:''' ''I've been wondering that myself! Did someone bring news of the ealdorman? Lord Landry's make a good one.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 12:''' ''I've been wondering that myself! Did someone bring news of the ealdorman? Lord Landry's make a good one.''
Eivor spoke to a man within the crowd.
 
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 7:''' ''I'm in no mood for wind-belching. So choose your words well?''
Out of all the Anglo-Saxon men and women gathered at the inn, only three were of any value to her investigation.
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*'''Eivor:''' ''I heard the king's men came through here, caused a stir. A man of your wit noticed them I bet?''
Eivor went inside the stables and found a [[soldier]] by himself.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 7:''' ''I am witty! Finally someone sees. I'm always telling my wife, but will she listen? Will she bollocks.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 3:''' ''You trying to catch flies, or would you ask something of me?''
|-|You choose your words well=
*'''Eivor:''' ''You choose your words well. What do you know about Aelfred's emissary?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 7:''' ''{{'}}Course I do! I'm apprentice to a famous flyter, the [[Quiescis|Silent Monk]]. Challenge me for it!''
*'''Eivor:''' ''You'll call me word crusher, your wits I will addle.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 7:''' ''Eh ... alright, you bested me.''
|-|The emissary. What do you know?=
*'''Eivor:''' ''The king's emissary ... I need to know where he went, after he stayed here.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 7:''' ''And I need to know why I've started getting boils under my armpits. Time will tell, eh?''
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*'''Eivor:''' ''Aelfred's emissary. Where?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 7:''' ''Him and the [[Gowan|bard]] ended up in the copse by the bridge doing the Lord knows what. Sounded like they were murdering a cat.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Singing?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 7:''' ''If you say so.''
Eivor went inside the inn and found a [[soldier]] by himself.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 1:''' ''You trying to catch flies, or would you ask something of me?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''I'm looking for a man. He passed through here on the king's business.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''I'm looking for a man. He passed through here on the king's business.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 1:''' ''Bugger off, eh? Or I'll call the guards. I'm sick of people. You need to heal your own ills.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 3:''' ''Bugger off, eh? Or I'll call the guards. I'm sick of people. You need to heal your own ills.''
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|-|(165 silver) I need information, and I will pay=
(165 silver) I need information, and I will pay=
*'''Eivor:''' ''Maybe some coin will loose your lips?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Maybe some coin will loose your lips?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 1:''' ''He was pissed as a newt. Last I saw, he was passed out in trees between the harbor and bridge. Now go find someone else to vex.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 3:''' ''A wise move, mud-wit. It so happens I did see Aelfred's man. He's long gone though. Maybe Gowan the Bard knows where?''
|-|(Fight) And people are sick of you=
*'''Eivor:''' ''Where will I find him?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 3:''' ''He was pissed as a newt. Last I saw, he was passed out in trees between the harbor and bridge. Now go find someone else to vex.''
The soldier's information provided all Eivor needed to know.
{{!}}-{{!}}
(Fight) And people are sick of you=
*'''Eivor:''' ''And people are sick of you.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''And people are sick of you.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 1:''' ''Jesus wept! Guards, guards! A Dane, saints preserve me!''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 3:''' ''Jesus wept! Guards, guards! A Dane, saints preserve me!''
The soldier ran out as Eivor chased him towards some guards.
The soldier ran out as Eivor chased him towards some guards.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 1:''' ''Help me! This Dane has murder in mind!''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 3:''' ''Help me! This Dane has murder in mind!''
The guards attacked Eivor, who bested them, as the soldier ran off.
The guards attacked Eivor, who bested them, as the soldier ran off. With no information to go on, Eivor had to find others to speak to.
|-|(Level 3 Charisma) How about you help me?=
{{!}}-{{!}}
(Level 3 Charisma) How about you help me?=
*'''Eivor:''' ''How about you help me from the goodness of your heart? And then I leave you alone?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''How about you help me from the goodness of your heart? And then I leave you alone?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 1:''' ''A wise move, mud-wit. It so happens I did see Aelfred's man. He's long gone though. Maybe Gowan the Bard knows where?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 3:''' ''A wise move, mud-wit. It so happens I did see Aelfred's man. He's long gone though. Maybe Gowan the Bard knows where?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Where will I find him?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Where will I find him?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 1:''' ''He was pissed as a newt. Last I saw, he was passed out in trees between the harbor and bridge. Now go find someone else to vex.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 3:''' ''He was pissed as a newt. Last I saw, he was passed out in trees between the harbor and bridge. Now go find someone else to vex.''
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The soldier's information provided all Eivor needed to know.
:Eivor may have found a man behind a barred door and talked with him.
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*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 8:''' ''Who are you? Loitering and lollygagging?''
|-|Flyter=
Eivor spoke to a man within the crowd of drinkers gathered behind the alehouse.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 13:''' ''I'm in no mood for wind-belching. So choose your words well?''
{{#tag:tabber|
A man of wit!=
*'''Eivor:''' ''I heard the king's men came through here, caused a stir. A man of your wit noticed them I bet?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 13:''' ''I am witty! Finally someone sees. I'm always telling my wife, but will she listen? Will she bollocks.''
{{!}}-{{!}}
You choose your words well=
*'''Eivor:''' ''You choose your words well. What do you know about Aelfred's emissary?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 13:''' ''{{'}}Course I do! I'm apprentice to a famous flyter, the [[Quiescis|Silent Monk]]. Challenge me for it!''
*'''Eivor:''' ''You'll call me word crusher, your wits I will addle.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 13:''' ''Eh... alright, you bested me.''
{{!}}-{{!}}
The emissary. What do you know?=
*'''Eivor:''' ''The king's emissary... I need to know where he went, after he stayed here.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 13:''' ''And I need to know why I've started getting boils under my armpits. Time will tell, eh?''
}}
*'''Eivor:''' ''Aelfred's emissary. Where?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 13:''' ''Him and the [[Gowan|bard]] ended up in the copse by the bridge doing the Lord knows what. Sounded like they were murdering a cat.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Singing?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 13:''' ''If you say so.''
The man's information was somewhat helpful, but Eivor needed more.
|-|Sleeper=
Eivor may have found a man behind a barred door and talked with him.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 14:''' ''Who are you? Loitering and lollygagging?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''I'm looking for someone, an emissary from Aelfred. Have you seen such a man?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''I'm looking for someone, an emissary from Aelfred. Have you seen such a man?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 8:''' ''O, la-di-da. Listen to you all high and mighty. Get away with you, yer valley-lily.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 14:''' ''O, la-di-da. Listen to you all high and mighty. Get away with you, yer valley-lily.''
<tabber>
{{#tag:tabber|
|-|I can threaten if you prefer?=
I can threaten if you prefer?=
*'''Eivor:''' ''If you would rather feel the edge of my blade, it can be arranged.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''If you would rather feel the edge of my blade, it can be arranged.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 8:''' ''Now that I respect! Forceful, to the point, as refreshing as a summer ale.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 14:''' ''Now that I respect! Forceful, to the point, as refreshing as a summer ale.''
|-|Tell me what you know=
{{!}}-{{!}}
Tell me what you know=
*'''Eivor:''' ''Tell me what you know, or this will go badly.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Tell me what you know, or this will go badly.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 8:''' ''For you, maybe. I'll be dead, and you still won't know a thing.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 14:''' ''For you, maybe. I'll be dead, and you still won't know a thing.''
|-|I am wasting my time with you=
{{!}}-{{!}}
*'''Eivor:''' ''TBA''
I am wasting my time with you=
</tabber>
*'''Eivor:''' ''I'm wasting my time with you.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 14:''' ''Now that's just hurtful. No need to dig the blade in.''
}}
*'''Eivor:''' ''You're a strange fish. Did you see the man or not?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''You're a strange fish. Did you see the man or not?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 8:''' ''I did. He was getting pie-eyed with that bard Gowan and causing quite a ruckus. They left together. See? That wasn't hard was it?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 14:''' ''I did. He was getting pie-eyed with that bard Gowan and causing quite a ruckus. They left together. See? That wasn't hard was it?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Harder than it should have been.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Harder than it should have been.''
Eivor made her way out of the inn as she heard a conversation.
The man's information was somewhat helpful, but Eivor needed more.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 9:''' ''God teaches obedience and humility and yet our abbot would defy Aelfred?''
</tabber>
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 10:''' ''How so? He is simply being a good shepherd, keeping Cent and her rich lands in the hands of the Church.''
 
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 9:''' ''But the Danes? Do they not nestle at our borders? Like ash-scaled [[snake|serpent]]s?''
With her investigation around the inn exhausted, Eivor left to find the bard.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 10:''' ''Danes in Cent? I don't believe it. Aelfred overspeaks their danger so he may take from us as he pleases.''
Eivor also heard about the last ealdorman.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 11:''' ''I heard he was captured by Danes, and they ate his heart.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 12:''' ''Ealdorman [[Deogal]] got blind drunk and likely staggered off the white cliffs.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 11:''' ''So who will take his place? Thegn [[Fairfax]]? [[Landry]]? [[Tedmund]]?''
Eivor left to find the bard.
*'''Eivor:''' ''There was a bard drinking with the emissary. I should find him, see if he knows anything.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''There was a bard drinking with the emissary. I should find him, see if he knows anything.''
Eivor went to the bridge above the inn and looked around its premises.
Eivor went to the bridge above the inn and looked around its premises.
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[[File:ACV The Abbot's Gambit 12.png|thumb|250px|Eivor finding the drunken bard below the bridge]]
[[File:ACV The Abbot's Gambit 12.png|thumb|250px|Eivor finding the drunken bard below the bridge]]
Eivor looked around and heard a voice below the bridge.
Eivor looked around and heard a voice below the bridge.
*'''Drunken Bard:''' ''... So cold ... brrrr ... Someone stole my trews?''
*'''Drunken Bard:''' ''... So cold... brrrr... Someone stole my trews?''
Eivor spoke to the drunk bard.
Eivor spoke to the drunk bard.
*'''Eivor:''' ''You there ... you alive?''
*'''Eivor:''' ''You there... you alive?''
*'''Drunken Bard:''' ''Patience is a tired [[horse]], plodity, plod, plod.''
*'''Drunken Bard:''' ''Patience is a tired [[horse]], plodity, plod, plod.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Another tottering teat-sucker who can't hold his drink. Let's clear your head.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Another tottering teat-sucker who can't hold his drink. Let's clear your head.''
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</tabber>
</tabber>
*'''Eivor:''' ''You and Aelfred's emissary were drinking in the tavern. Tell me where he went.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''You and Aelfred's emissary were drinking in the tavern. Tell me where he went.''
*'''Gowan:''' ''Were we? I was so ale-addled ... perhaps a small and silver thing upon my palm might help me recall?''
*'''Gowan:''' ''Were we? I was so ale-addled... perhaps a small and silver thing upon my palm might help me recall?''
<tabber>
<tabber>
|-|How about something long and sharp?=
|-|How about something long and sharp?=
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*'''Gowan:''' ''My thanks, weaver of the obvious. Now leave me to my unholy punishment.''
*'''Gowan:''' ''My thanks, weaver of the obvious. Now leave me to my unholy punishment.''
[[File:ACV The Abbot's Gambit 13.jpg|thumb|250px|Eivor interrogates Gowan the Bard]]
[[File:ACV The Abbot's Gambit 13.jpg|thumb|250px|Eivor interrogates Gowan the Bard]]
Eivor left the bard as she traveled to Dover Fortress.
Eivor left the bard and began a long journey across Cent to Dover Fortress.
*'''Eivor:''' ''The emissary made for Dover Fortress, on the southeast coast.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''The emissary made for Dover Fortress, on the southeast coast.''
Eivor arrived at Dover Fortress.
On her way to the fortress, she overheard two more soldiers opining on the state of Cent.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 4:''' ''Cent is in disarray.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 5:''' ''How so?''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 4:''' ''No one to lead us, no hand upon the helm.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 5:''' ''Aelfred will choose a new ealdorman.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 4:''' ''He already has, and yet we know nothing. And now all trace of the edict is gone.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 5:''' ''Someone will step up, take the reins. And it will be as it ever is. They will lead, and we will follow.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Soldier 4:''' ''You have the curiosity of a day-dead flounder.''
Eivor arrived in the vicinity of Dover Fortress.
*'''Eivor:''' ''Dover. The emissary is somewhere here. Perhaps I can find the letter without bloodshed? The bard said paladins trained at this fortress. This will not be an easy fight.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Dover. The emissary is somewhere here. Perhaps I can find the letter without bloodshed? The bard said paladins trained at this fortress. This will not be an easy fight.''
Eivor made her way through the fortress and found the emissary.
Eivor made her way through the fortress and eventually overheard the emissary bemoaning his task.
:If caught, the emissary let out a demand.
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 15:''' ''I carry the king's word, but there's no hand to put it in.''
*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 13:''' ''Who interferes with the king's business? Guards! Guards!''
*'''Eivor:''' ''If I could steal the letter without killing the emissary, it would keep me out of trouble.''
:If caught, the emissary cried out.
:*'''Anglo-Saxon Man 15:''' ''Who interferes with the king's business? Guards! Guards!''
:Eivor had to fight her way through any guards that came to his aid, before ending the emissary himself.
[[File:ACV The Abbot's Gambit 16.png|thumb|250px|Eivor taking the letter from the emissary]]
[[File:ACV The Abbot's Gambit 16.png|thumb|250px|Eivor taking the letter from the emissary]]
Eivor took the letter from the emissary and read it.
Eivor took the letter from the emissary and read it.
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==Outcome==
==Outcome==
Eivor learned the name of the next ealdorman of Cent for Abbot Cynebert.
Eivor learned the name of the next ealdorman of Cent for Abbot Cynebert.
==Behind the scenes==
The additional ambient conversations in this memory may trigger at other points than the ones listed, so long as there are sufficient "Anglo-Saxon Man" and "Anglo-Saxon Woman" NPCs in close enough proximity. For example, the conversation between two men that are clearly discussing Fulke may trigger at the church in Saint Hadrian's Priory, and the conversation about Abbot Cynebert's ambitions may trigger between two guards in Dover Fortress.
Although there are at least three interrogations available at the inn, the progress bar will fill and the objective will update to seek the bard after two are completed, and all other conversation options will disappear. The "soldier" at the stables, however, will complete the objective all by himself, provided the player does not use the "Fight" option.


==Gallery==
==Gallery==

Latest revision as of 01:06, 25 May 2026

The Abbot's Gambit was a virtual representation of one of Eivor Varinsdottir's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.

Description[edit | edit source]

Eivor travelled to Cent to track down Fulke and her brother Sigurd.

Dialogue[edit | edit source]

Eivor spoke with Randvi about pledging to Cent.

  • Eivor: Tell me more about Cent.
  • Randvi: Basim has written, claiming to have found the woman Fulke and asking for your aid. He has taken shelter at Saint Hadrian's Priory.
  • Eivor: Any news of Sigurd?
  • Randvi: Nothing he mentioned. But if he has found the Paladin Fulke, Sigurd cannot be far behind.

Eivor pledged to Cent.

  • Eivor: I will go as soon as I can.
  • Randvi: Good. Be safe, Eivor.

Eivor went to leave but halted to talk with Dag Nithisson in the main hall.

Eivor and Dag argue about Eivor's leadership
  • Eivor: Dag. Basim has brought word of Sigurd's location. We are leaving at once to find him.
  • Dag: Well done, Eivor. After so long, it finally occurs to you to search for our jarl. I applaud your half-hearted effort. I will not be joining you.
  • Eivor: Dag, this is no joke. On the ship. Now.
  • Dag: Someone needs to stay home and direct the affairs of the settlement. As you seem to shun this place as often as possible, it must fall to me.

  • Eivor: Sigurd's life is at stake. We need you there.
  • Dag: No. I am needed here.

  • Eivor: If you wish to stay, so be it. But when Sigurd is back among us, we will see what status you have among the raiders.
  • Dag: Say whatever makes you feel superior, Eivor. I know Sigurd will understand my decision.

  • Eivor: Do you doubt me so completely that you will not raise your axe to save your jarl?
  • Dag: A fine way of putting it, Wolf-Kissed. But go... find the jarl, bring him back. Only do not get lost along the way, as you seem to more and more these days.
  • Eivor: This is not done, Dag. We will speak when I return.

Eivor left Dag behind as a different raider took his seat on the Sea-Chariot.

After sailing and riding through the southern shires of England, Eivor finally crossed the border into Cent.

  • Eivor: Basim has news of Sigurd. I should find him soon.
Basim disputing with Hortbert on the Christian teachings

Eivor followed the roads to Saint Hadrian's Priory. Upon arrival, Eivor found Basim conversing with priests near some barrels.

  • Brother Hortbert: Did not Augustine make a distinction between faith and understanding? That is my point.
  • Basim: So you hold no stock in faith, only in rational proof? The science of the divine. You're bold to defy your teachings.
  • Brother Hortbert: No... no... that's not what I mean. Let me... let me explain if I might. How to put it...?

Eivor joined the conversation.

  • Brother Hortbert: What I mean to say is, faith is paramount. Yes. For without it, Christ's sacrifice means nothing.
  • Basim: He died to save us, did he not? From the original sin of Adam and Eve? Yet evil persists.
  • Brother Hortbert: Yes, evil persists. Because he gave us free will.
  • Basim: Does a newborn babe slain by a despot have free will?
  • Brother Hortbert: Yes... no, I mean... that is too simplistic.
  • Basim: Or the priest who's heart is torn from his chest by the wolf? Judas, who was predestined to betray the Nazarene?
  • Brother Hortbert: Some argue Judas was used...
Cedric accusing Hortbert of questioning the scriptures

Another priest walked into the conversation.

  • Brother Cedric: Do my ears deceive me, Brother Hortbert? You question the scriptures? Declare Judas an innocent? A preposterous blasphemy!
  • Brother Hortbert: N-no, that is not what I said! Brother Cedric... am I not the most pious of His servants?
  • Brother Cedric: Out! Out!

Brother Cedric pushed Brother Hortbert away as Eivor went to talk with Basim.

  • Eivor: Making new friends?
  • Basim: A person's tongue gives you a taste of their heart, Eivor. And such information is often useful.
  • Eivor: And how do these sallow Christians taste?
  • Basim: It was only a figure of speech, Eivor. And I have tired of it already.
  • Eivor: Is this how it must be between us?
  • Basim: Of course not. I'm grateful that you have come.

  • Eivor: So what of the joy-canker Fulke? In your message you say you tracked her to Cent.
  • Basim: She is here somewhere, and as of last month, Sigurd was with her. But there is no guarantee this will be the case tomorrow.

  • Eivor: we're wasting time, Basim. Fulke took Sigurd for some dark purpose. Let's find them before it blackens.
  • Basim: I agree. The time for talk is long past.

  • Eivor: What happened in Mercia still puzzles me. Fulke saw something in Sigurd. A power, a legacy. What is it she wants?
  • Basim: Her motives are difficult to fathom. But that can come later. Let's find your brother first.
  • Eivor: Agreed. If we do this, you'll earn the right to call me friend ten-thousand fold.

  • Eivor: So, what is your plan?
  • Basim: We are deep in their god's heartland, a heathen and a heretic. To hunt Fulke, we'll need a Christian snare.
  • Eivor: Fulke is hardly a saint herself. These Christians abhor her strange ideas.
  • Basim: True. But unlike us, she can carry herself as one of them. She won't hide from everyone, not with a prisoner in tow.
  • Eivor: So where to begin?
  • Basim: I've made a friend. Abbot Cynebert. Full of pious fire, but with ambition that far outweighs his wit.
  • Eivor: And what does your friend Cynebert know?
  • Basim: Come, I will introduce you. And we'll hear the full tale together.
Eivor following Basim to meet his contact, Cynebert

Both Eivor and Basim started to walk together.

  • Eivor: Have you found some peace in your time alone, Basim?
  • Basim: I am always at peace. And never alone. I move along the people of the world with great joy. I watch them, study them, learn from them at all times. This is our duty, the Hidden Ones' calling.
  • Eivor: You know, for the first time since we've met, you sound more like your apprentice than yourself.
  • Basim: Hm. Surely Hytham sounds like me ... if I have taught him well.
  • Eivor: Your creed and your tenets, you mean?
  • Basim: That's right. And our sense of... how should I sa ... deep responsibility to the betterment of mankind.
  • Eivor: That's quite an ambition. But it doesn't explain what you see in Sigurd. My brother is not so generous.
  • Basim: Ah, but your brother is... someone special. Important. And I want him to see that. I hope to show it to him.

Eivor and Basim walked to talk with the abbot.

  • Cynebert: Is this not a blessed plot? God's own country. And this Eden should be given to his servants to tend.
  • Basim: Abbot Cynebert. This is the Norse I spoke of.
  • Cynebert: Ah, yes, and quite a fearsome one at that.
  • Eivor: Basim says you know the paladin, Fulke.
  • Cynebert: Indeed. The Lady Fulke passed this way not more than a month ago. We talked, we drank. A very pleasant woman.
  • Eivor: And where is she−
  • Basim: Eivor will be your axe, abbot. Whether to fell a tree or hew the limbs from an enemy.
  • Eivor: What have you promised him?
  • Cynebert: O, just a trifle, Eivor. A little problem I believe you can help me with.

  • Eivor: Speak your terms plainly, abbot. I will decide if the bargain is worth my time.
  • Cynebert: Ah! Your wolf shows its teeth, Basim.

  • Eivor: If you know where Fulke is, do not rattle my bucket. Tell me now and we'll talk terms later.
  • Cynebert: The hot-tempered one stirs up strife, Basim! Will this rebellion-caked Dane do what I ask?

Eivor stood silently.

  • Basim: This Norse is one who knows the value of silence and secrecy. The perfect choice for our subtle business.

  • Eivor: Let's cut to the point. What favor would you ask in exchange for Fulke?
  • Cynebert: Some weeks ago, our ealdorman in Cent was called to God. A terrible loss. King Aelfred has chosen his replacement, but has not yet announced the name. I must know it... now.
  • Eivor: All of Cent will see soon enough which thegn he has chosen. Why not wait?
  • Cynebert: I want... early access. To woo him, before his exalted position is made public and every fool is at his door.
  • Eivor: Who else knows the chosen man?
  • Cynebert: The king's emissary. Sent with a letter of congratulations to the new ealdorman. Intercept him and bring me the news. When I know the thegn's name, we'll discuss how I might win his favor.

  • Eivor: Why not kill him in secret and petition Aelfred for the seat?
  • Cynebert: As a man of God, I cannot. Besides, he who stands behind the throne can better pull on the puppet's threads.

  • Eivor: Your king will not be happy, his Church meddling in his politics.
  • Basim: Does this not delight you, Eivor? A chance to defy Aelfred?
  • Cynebert: I am God's humble shepherd, sent to protect his lambs. If Cent's new ealdorman is a wolf, I would blunt his claws.

  • Eivor: If we do this, how will you find Fulke? I want some kind of assurance.
  • Cynebert: Do you have ears in every church, abbey, and cathedral in Cent? Because I do. And I will find her.
  • Basim: And we will do the deeds too staining for a Christian soul?

  • Eivor: This emissary. How will I find him?
  • Cynebert: Tonbridge Monastery sent word that the king's men always pass a few nights in their hospitality. Begin there.
  • Eivor: I'll get the ealdorman's name, you find Fulke.
  • Cynebert: All in good time. Now, if we are done, I have business up the south coast. Folcanstan has the best fish in Wessex.
  • Eivor: Then I will find you there when the ealdorman's name is mine.
Eivor and Basim parting ways

Cynebert nodded and left Eivor and Basim.

  • Basim: Cynebert is ambitious, but well-connected. We will not find Fulke without him.
  • Eivor: I suppose we'll see. What will you do?
  • Basim: I am not done playing with these Christians yet. I will see you in Folcanstan.

Eivor and Basim shook hands and departed from each other. On her way out of the priory, she witnessed the two monks from earlier engaged in a brawl.

  • Anglo-Saxon Man 1: Augustine said "Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand"?
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 2: In the four centuries since Augustine wrote, many advances have been made in our understanding of the scripture!
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 1: I... only meant that the scripture alone...
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 2: Enough! I will not hear another word. The scripture alone... this is bordering on blasphemy.
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 1: Blasphemy! No, no brother...
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 2: Never speak again until you have learned to obey God's will and not your own.
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 1: You would force a vow of silence simply because God gave me an enquiring mind?
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 2: Ah! Blasphemy! Blasphemy!

Eivor traveled to the inn south of Tonbridge Monastery.

  • Eivor: If Aelfred's emissary spent a few days here, someone may know where he went.

Eivor spoke to a man.

Eivor spoke to another man, who brushed her off twice.

  • Anglo-Saxon Man 4: I have no time for your twittering.
    We are not friends, be gone.

Eivor overheard some commotion from behind the inn.

  • Anglo-Saxon Man 5: Did she speak to you of the Betrayer's scriptures? I am troubled in my spirit.
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 6: Shhh, it is heresy to even think of it. Forget her words, her blasphemies. Think only on Christ and his redemptive message.
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 5: She spoke freely of a deceit of angels. That we are the defiled race, ones who can never find salvation!
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 6: If you are Hell-bent on believing this, you are already lost to the Lord of Flies.

Eivor spoke to a woman.

  • Anglo-Saxon Woman 1: Stay away from me, stranger.

Eivor spoke to another woman.

  • Anglo-Saxon Woman 2: I'm busy, leave me be.

A third woman also brushed her off. Anglo-Saxon Woman 3:'Get away with you.

Eivor also overheard two women speaking to each other.

  • Anglo-Saxon Woman 4: A bear? Of fur and tears? Why does he cry?
  • Anglo-Saxon Woman 5: My brother saw him in the old stone ring with his own eyes. Rubbed them twice to be sure.
  • Anglo-Saxon Woman 4: Someone should do something.
  • Anglo-Saxon Woman 5: What? Ask him to move on? Or perhaps he can live with us here and the children will ride his matted back?

She also overheard some women talking about the Danes.

  • Anglo-Saxon Woman 6: They sent my husband to work at the Beamasfield, the lumber mill. They mean to fortify us against the Danes.
  • Anglo-Saxon Woman 7: My sister said they're all tall and strong. Muscles rippling, hair braided and woven with spice.
  • Anglo-Saxon Woman 6: And what will you do if one carries you off?
  • Anglo-Saxon Woman 7: Dream of the pretty, straw-haired bairns (children)I'll have.

Eivor spoke to a drunk man near the barrels.

  • Eivor: Are you sober enough to answer me?
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 7: You have fine hair. It shimmers like... woven silk.
  • Eivor: I don't have time for flattery. I seek Aelfred's emissary.
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 7: The only man of Aelfred's I know is Orvyn the legless.
  • Eivor: And he is...?
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 7: Hm. Haven't seen him in years. Probably dead drunk, or just dead in a ditch. Why do you think they called him legless?
  • Eivor: Because he has no legs?
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 7: Baw! It's a figure of speech, Lord in Heaven.

Eivor overheard another conversation about Cynebert's ambitions.

  • Anglo-Saxon Man 8: God teaches obedience and humility, and yet our abbot would defy Aelfred?
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 9: How so? He is simply being a good shepherd, keeping Cent and her rich lands in the hands of the Church.
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 8: But the Danes? Do they not nestle at our borders? Like ash-scaled serpents?
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 9: Danes in Cent? I don't believe it. Aelfred overspeaks their danger so he may take from us as he pleases.

Eivor also heard chatter about the previous ealdorman.

  • Anglo-Saxon Man 10: I heard he was captured by Danes, and they ate his heart.
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 11: Ealdorman Deogol got blind drunk and likely staggered off the white cliffs.
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 10: So who will take his place? Thegn Fairfax? Landry? Tedmund?
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 11: None are worth the shit on a sheep's arse. I would not case my vote for one of them.
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 10: A defiant stance for one who cannot cast a vote.

She overheard some soldiers.

  • Anglo-Saxon Soldier 1: He's gotten so paranoid now, he won't even leave the keep tower. Captain's calling him Mouse-Balls.
  • Anglo-Saxon Soldier 2: What's made him so frightened?
  • Anglo-Saxon Soldier 1: He said the Danes are coming. Coming for him. He saw it in a dream. Let's hope Mouse-Balls doesn't end up our next ealdorman.
Eivor questioning the man at the desk

Eivor found and talked to a man writing at a desk.

  • Eivor: I'm looking for someone.
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 12: Speak your piece, I have work to do.
  • Eivor: Seen anyone here on the king's authority?
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 12: I've been wondering that myself! Did someone bring news of the ealdorman? Lord Landry's make a good one.

Out of all the Anglo-Saxon men and women gathered at the inn, only three were of any value to her investigation.

Eivor went inside the stables and found a soldier by himself.

  • Anglo-Saxon Soldier 3: You trying to catch flies, or would you ask something of me?
  • Eivor: I'm looking for a man. He passed through here on the king's business.
  • Anglo-Saxon Soldier 3: Bugger off, eh? Or I'll call the guards. I'm sick of people. You need to heal your own ills.

  • Eivor: Maybe some coin will loose your lips?
  • Anglo-Saxon Soldier 3: A wise move, mud-wit. It so happens I did see Aelfred's man. He's long gone though. Maybe Gowan the Bard knows where?
  • Eivor: Where will I find him?
  • Anglo-Saxon Soldier 3: He was pissed as a newt. Last I saw, he was passed out in trees between the harbor and bridge. Now go find someone else to vex.

The soldier's information provided all Eivor needed to know.

  • Eivor: And people are sick of you.
  • Anglo-Saxon Soldier 3: Jesus wept! Guards, guards! A Dane, saints preserve me!
The soldier ran out as Eivor chased him towards some guards.
  • Anglo-Saxon Soldier 3: Help me! This Dane has murder in mind!
The guards attacked Eivor, who bested them, as the soldier ran off. With no information to go on, Eivor had to find others to speak to.

  • Eivor: How about you help me from the goodness of your heart? And then I leave you alone?
  • Anglo-Saxon Soldier 3: A wise move, mud-wit. It so happens I did see Aelfred's man. He's long gone though. Maybe Gowan the Bard knows where?
  • Eivor: Where will I find him?
  • Anglo-Saxon Soldier 3: He was pissed as a newt. Last I saw, he was passed out in trees between the harbor and bridge. Now go find someone else to vex.
The soldier's information provided all Eivor needed to know.

Eivor spoke to a man within the crowd of drinkers gathered behind the alehouse.

  • Anglo-Saxon Man 13: I'm in no mood for wind-belching. So choose your words well?

  • Eivor: I heard the king's men came through here, caused a stir. A man of your wit noticed them I bet?
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 13: I am witty! Finally someone sees. I'm always telling my wife, but will she listen? Will she bollocks.

  • Eivor: You choose your words well. What do you know about Aelfred's emissary?
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 13: 'Course I do! I'm apprentice to a famous flyter, the Silent Monk. Challenge me for it!
  • Eivor: You'll call me word crusher, your wits I will addle.
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 13: Eh... alright, you bested me.

  • Eivor: The king's emissary... I need to know where he went, after he stayed here.
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 13: And I need to know why I've started getting boils under my armpits. Time will tell, eh?

  • Eivor: Aelfred's emissary. Where?
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 13: Him and the bard ended up in the copse by the bridge doing the Lord knows what. Sounded like they were murdering a cat.
  • Eivor: Singing?
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 13: If you say so.
The man's information was somewhat helpful, but Eivor needed more.

Eivor may have found a man behind a barred door and talked with him.

  • Anglo-Saxon Man 14: Who are you? Loitering and lollygagging?
  • Eivor: I'm looking for someone, an emissary from Aelfred. Have you seen such a man?
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 14: O, la-di-da. Listen to you all high and mighty. Get away with you, yer valley-lily.

  • Eivor: If you would rather feel the edge of my blade, it can be arranged.
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 14: Now that I respect! Forceful, to the point, as refreshing as a summer ale.

  • Eivor: Tell me what you know, or this will go badly.
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 14: For you, maybe. I'll be dead, and you still won't know a thing.

  • Eivor: I'm wasting my time with you.
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 14: Now that's just hurtful. No need to dig the blade in.

  • Eivor: You're a strange fish. Did you see the man or not?
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 14: I did. He was getting pie-eyed with that bard Gowan and causing quite a ruckus. They left together. See? That wasn't hard was it?
  • Eivor: Harder than it should have been.
The man's information was somewhat helpful, but Eivor needed more.

With her investigation around the inn exhausted, Eivor left to find the bard.

  • Eivor: There was a bard drinking with the emissary. I should find him, see if he knows anything.

Eivor went to the bridge above the inn and looked around its premises.

  • Eivor: That ale-swamped scop can't have gone far.
Eivor finding the drunken bard below the bridge

Eivor looked around and heard a voice below the bridge.

  • Drunken Bard: ... So cold... brrrr... Someone stole my trews?

Eivor spoke to the drunk bard.

  • Eivor: You there... you alive?
  • Drunken Bard: Patience is a tired horse, plodity, plod, plod.
  • Eivor: Another tottering teat-sucker who can't hold his drink. Let's clear your head.

Eivor sobered up the bard as she found a note by him.

Musical Musings
These bells! What incredible music they make. It is like the singing of angels. A waste to bury them away in churches! I would love to compose a great work to harness their beauty. The deep knell of the largest would provide the anchor of the piece. The harmonious tolling of the smaller bells would be the choir and the smallest would soar above the tune, a descant of chimes.

Gowan the Bard

  • Drunken Bard: It's cold as a witch's tit in here!

  • Drunken Bard: Ow! Why do you smite me so?

Eivor spoke to the lucid bard.

  • Eivor: God's trews! Fie on you. What infernal wakes me?

  • Eivor: Are you the tale-weaver?
  • Gowan: Gowan the dandelion, for the seeds of my stories flit upon the winds of Wessex! But why, mule, do you kick my noggin?

  • Eivor: I'm the one you sing of, bard. Stern of eye and scant of mercy. Have you not seen the ravens feasting in my wake?
  • Gowan: Enough! Your word-mangles are making my hair ache!

  • Eivor: Who I am is no concern of yours.
  • Gowan: And I do not care. Did you want something, or did you just wake me to torment me?

  • Eivor: You and Aelfred's emissary were drinking in the tavern. Tell me where he went.
  • Gowan: Were we? I was so ale-addled... perhaps a small and silver thing upon my palm might help me recall?

  • Eivor: How about something long and sharp in your gut?
  • Gowan: Alright! No need for that. You paint a vivid picture, Dane. He was headed to the white coast to the southeast. Dover Fortress. He said it is where they train those religious fanatics. Zealots! They pray all night instead of sleeping.

  • Eivor: No one would drown themselves in weeping with one less bard in the world. Tell me what you know.
  • Gowan: You Danes aren't ones for bargaining, are you? He was headed to the white coast to the southeast. Dover Fortress.

  • Eivor: Have some coin. And rent a proper bed for the night.
  • Gowan: Ah, bless you, for stories are my currency friend. How else am I to make my living?
  • Eivor: A more honest profession? Plowing fields, milking cows...
  • Gowan: Manual labor! God's blood! There's a fortress to the southeast where paladins pray by night and fight by day. Dover, on the white cliffs.

  • Eivor: My thanks, and in return, wisdom. Too much beer-bibbing will grow a fool in wit and words.
  • Gowan: My thanks, weaver of the obvious. Now leave me to my unholy punishment.
Eivor interrogates Gowan the Bard

Eivor left the bard and began a long journey across Cent to Dover Fortress.

  • Eivor: The emissary made for Dover Fortress, on the southeast coast.

On her way to the fortress, she overheard two more soldiers opining on the state of Cent.

  • Anglo-Saxon Soldier 4: Cent is in disarray.
  • Anglo-Saxon Soldier 5: How so?
  • Anglo-Saxon Soldier 4: No one to lead us, no hand upon the helm.
  • Anglo-Saxon Soldier 5: Aelfred will choose a new ealdorman.
  • Anglo-Saxon Soldier 4: He already has, and yet we know nothing. And now all trace of the edict is gone.
  • Anglo-Saxon Soldier 5: Someone will step up, take the reins. And it will be as it ever is. They will lead, and we will follow.
  • Anglo-Saxon Soldier 4: You have the curiosity of a day-dead flounder.

Eivor arrived in the vicinity of Dover Fortress.

  • Eivor: Dover. The emissary is somewhere here. Perhaps I can find the letter without bloodshed? The bard said paladins trained at this fortress. This will not be an easy fight.

Eivor made her way through the fortress and eventually overheard the emissary bemoaning his task.

  • Anglo-Saxon Man 15: I carry the king's word, but there's no hand to put it in.
  • Eivor: If I could steal the letter without killing the emissary, it would keep me out of trouble.
If caught, the emissary cried out.
  • Anglo-Saxon Man 15: Who interferes with the king's business? Guards! Guards!
Eivor had to fight her way through any guards that came to his aid, before ending the emissary himself.
Eivor taking the letter from the emissary

Eivor took the letter from the emissary and read it.

King Aelfred's Orders
I, Aelfred Rex of the West Saxons, appoint Thegn Tedmund as the ealdorman of the territory of Cent.

May he serve me, his God, and his lands well.
  • Eivor: Aelfred's chosen ealdorman is a thegn called Tedmund. The abbot Cynebert will want to know.

Eivor escaped the fortress and headed towards Cynebert.

  • Eivor: I should meet Basim and the abbot in Folcanstan.

Outcome[edit | edit source]

Eivor learned the name of the next ealdorman of Cent for Abbot Cynebert.

Behind the scenes[edit | edit source]

The additional ambient conversations in this memory may trigger at other points than the ones listed, so long as there are sufficient "Anglo-Saxon Man" and "Anglo-Saxon Woman" NPCs in close enough proximity. For example, the conversation between two men that are clearly discussing Fulke may trigger at the church in Saint Hadrian's Priory, and the conversation about Abbot Cynebert's ambitions may trigger between two guards in Dover Fortress.

Although there are at least three interrogations available at the inn, the progress bar will fill and the objective will update to seek the bard after two are completed, and all other conversation options will disappear. The "soldier" at the stables, however, will complete the objective all by himself, provided the player does not use the "Fight" option.

Gallery[edit | edit source]

  • Basim at the priory talking to a monk
    Basim at the priory talking to a monk
  • Eivor meeting Basim at the priory
    Eivor meeting Basim at the priory
  • Eivor questioning a man behind the barred door
    Eivor questioning a man behind the barred door
  • Eivor questioning a man near the inn
    Eivor questioning a man near the inn
  • Eivor arriving at the Dover Fortress
    Eivor arriving at the Dover Fortress
  • Eivor tracking down the emissary
    Eivor tracking down the emissary

References[edit | edit source]

Assassin's Creed: Valhalla memories
Main Quests
Prologue
Battle for the Northern Way
Chapter 1
Honor Bound
Chapter 2
A Seer's Solace - Family Matters - The Prodigal Prince
Chapter 3
Rude Awakening - A Cruel Destiny
Chapter 4
Birthrights
Chapter 5
The Seas of Fate
Ravensthorpe
The Swan-Road Home - Unwelcome - Settling Down - The Alliance Map
The Song of Soma
Chapter 1
The Great Scattered Army
Chapter 2
Orphans of the Fens
Chapter 3
Glory Regained
Chapter 4
Razing Earnningstone - Unholy Father - Storming Ravensburg
Chapter 5
The Stench of Treachery - An Island of Eels - Reporting on Grantebridgescire
The Kingmaker's Saga
Chapter 1
The Sons of Ragnar
Chapter 2
Bartering - Rumors of Ledecestre - The Walls of Templebrough
Chapter 3
Tilting the Balance
Chapter 4
Heavy is the Head - Hunted - Reporting on Ledecestrescire
Ravensthorpe
A Toast to our Success - Uninvited Guests
The Tale of Thegn Oswald
Chapter 1
Kingmaker
Chapter 2
The Measure of a Norseman
Chapter 3
A Triumphant Return
Chapter 4
Raising Iron - A Fury from the Sea
Chapter 5
Wedding Horns - Reporting on East Anglia
Ravensthorpe
Holger
Mane and Tail
The City of War
Chapter 1
Walls and Shadows
Chapter 2
Firing the Arrow - Bleeding The Leech
Chapter 3
Smashing the Compass - Reporting on Lunden
The Book of Dragons
Chapter 1
War Weary
Chapter 2
Ransacking Wenlocan - The Supply Line - Bloody Path to Peace
Chapter 3
King Killer - Reporting on Sciropescire
The Paladin's Stone
Chapter 1
Brewing Rebellion
Chapter 2
Chipping Away - Pilgrimage to St. Albanes - Blood from a Stone
Chapter 3
Fiery Ambush - Ringing Cyne Belle
Chapter 4
The Saga Stone - Reporting on Oxenefordscire
The Instrument of the Ancients
Chapter 1
The Abbot's Gambit
Chapter 2
Puppets and Prisoners - The Man Behind the Man
Chapter 3
A Bloody Welcome - Reporting on Cent
Ravensthorpe
Dag
A Brewing Storm
The City of Greed
Chapter 1
The Welcoming Party
Chapter 2
Burning the Firebrand
Chapter 3
Pricking the Needle
Chapter 4
Closing the Vault - Reporting on Jorvik
The Lay of Hunwald
Chapter 1
A Noble Escort
Chapter 2
Homecoming
Chapter 3
In the Absence of an Ealdorman
Chapter 4
Salve for a Fresh Wound - The Thegn of Lincoln - Where the Stone Falls
Chapter 5
A Sword-Shower in Anecastre - Reporting on Lincolnscire
A Breviary of Broken Hearts
Chapter 1
An Uncommon Proposition
Chapter 2
Old Wounds - Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 3
Taken
Chapter 4
Twists and Turns - Reporting on Essexe
The Siege of Portcestre
Chapter 1
Reaver of the South
Chapter 2
Arrive Unexpected - Let Them Eat Ashes - Scorched Earth - Severing the Lines
Chapter 3
Storming the Walls - Of All That Has Passed... - Reporting on Suthsexe
Ravensthorpe
Reap What Was Sown
Vinland Saga
Chapter 1
In a Strange Land - The Hunting Grounds
Chapter 2
Hunter of Beasts
Chapter 3
Hunter's Repast - Reporting on Vinland
Ravensthorpe
Holger
Blame and Sail
The Sayings of Halfdan
Chapter 1
War in the North
Chapter 2
Honor Has Two Edges
Chapter 3
Road to Hamartia - This Son of Jorvik
Chapter 4
Honor's Hubris
Chapter 5
Of Blood and Bonds - Reporting on Eurvicscire - Lost Glory
A Tale of Wicker-Fire
Chapter 1
The First Night of Samhain
Chapter 2
Clues and Riddles
Chapter 3
The Stolen King
Chapter 4
A Love Betrayed - The Gutted Lamb
Chapter 5
The Burning of the Wicker Man - Reporting on Glowecestrescire
The Tale of Two Jarls
Chapter 1
Old Friends
Chapter 2
On Borrowed Time
Chapter 3
Rowdy Raiders - Adorning the Adorned - Of Blood and Gods
Chapter 4
Under the Skin
Chapter 5
Farewells and Legacies - Reporting on Snotinghamscire
The City of Faith
Chapter 1
More Intel - The Reeve of Wincestre
Chapter 2
Choking the Gallows
Chapter 3
Plucking the Quill
Chapter 4
Impaling the Seax - Reporting on Wincestre
In the Hall of the Slain
Chapter 1
The Road to Valhalla - Where Legends Are Born
Chapter 2
A Brother's Keeper - A Quiet Homecoming
The Prophecies of the King
Chapter 1
Kingdom's End
Chapter 2
Holy Day - Reporting on Hamtunscire
Ravensthorpe
Gunnar
The Forge and the Flame
The Fate of the High One
Chapter 1
View Above All
Chapter 2
Well-Traveled - Defensive Measures - Extended Family
Chapter 3
Forging a Bond (A Feline's Footfall - Taking Root)
Chapter 4
The Big Finish
Chapter 5
Binding Fate - Cheating Fate
The Saga of the Snows
Chapter 1
Mistress of the Iron Wood
Chapter 2
The Lost Cauldron
Chapter 3
A Gift from the Past
Chapter 4
A Feast to Remember
Chapter 5
The Price of Wisdom
Settlement Quests
A New Home - The Lost Drengir of Ragnar Lothbrok
Hytham
To Serve the Light... - Breaking the Order - A Brief History of the Hidden Ones - The Letter - The Poor Fellow-Soldier
Knud
A Little Problem
Octavian
A Rivalry for the Ages
Petra
The Huntress - Have You Seen This Man? - Archery Contest
Randvi
Taken for Granted
Reda
The Thousand Eyes - Viking for Hire
Tarben
The Baker's Plaint - Man of Mystery
Tove
Carrying the Torch
Valka
A Wise Friend - In Dreams... - Going Deeper... - Bound to Fate
Yanli
Pending Deliveries
Thousand Eyes contracts
Contract: Assassinate the Target - Contract: A Strange Drawing - Contract: Best Effort - Contract: Booty Hunter - Contract: Burn it down! - Contract: Control Nuisance - Contract: Dangerous Prey - Contract: Defeat the Diubal - Contract: Grave-Robber - Contract: Investigation Offer - Contract: Macabre Discovery - Contract: Make it Boom! - Contract: Marked for Death - Contract: Predator's Attack - Contract: Recovery Investment - Contract: Reda's Judgement - Contract: Reported Missing - Contract: Rescue Favor - Contract: Silence the Poet - Contract: Slay the Monster - Contract: The Deadly Beast - Contract: The Dice Master - Contract: The Drunkard - Contract: The Duke of Burgundy - Contract: The Green-Eyed Thief - Contract: The Hermit of the Thousand Sins - Contract: The Jomsviking Code - Contract: The Man-eating Animal - Contract: The Phantom - Contract: The Renegade Monk - Contract: The Richest Merchant - Contract: The Rogue Informer - Contract: The Stolen Purse - Contract: The Thieves Couple - Contract: Threat Assessment - Contract: Toss a Coin for the Traitor - Contract: Wild Frontier
World Events
Norway
Rygjafylke
A Desperate Bounty - A New England - Comb of Champions - Old Man on the Edge - Raider Recruit - The Dreamwalking Warrior - The Hunt for Honor - The Plight of the Warlock - The Silver-Tongued Traitor
Hordafylke
Battle Born - The Rekindling
England
Cent
Madness of the Stones - Pig of Prophecy - Red in Tooth and Claw - The Lighthouse Twins - The Pardoner's Tale - The Sky Thief - Winifred
East Anglia
A Blood Hymn for Edmund - Edmund's Arrows - Freyja's Friend - Green Children of Anglia - Hide and Hunt - Life-Blood - The Wayward
Essexe
Devil's Hole - Mother - Take Me a Husband - The Banshee - The Boar with the Golden Nose - The Gleewoman - The Prodigy - The Riddler
Eurviscire
Art-Scop - Crushed Dreams - Dellingr Rabbit - Historia de Cordibus Pathetic - Sunken Hope - The Village: Jurthgard
Glowecestrescire
Dearly Bee-Loved - Lady of the Lake - The Body - The Goddess of Birth - The Horn of Ragnar
Grantebridgescire
Degolas the Beautiful - Path to the Wind-Blue - The Cult of Saint Guthlac - The Devout Troll - The Doom Book of Cats - The Infinite Noise of Men - The Lord of Norsexe - The Walloper - The Wound-Wands of Friends - Winchell the Robesfree
Hamtunscire
Saint Faith - Splitting Hares - The Arrow In The Tree - The Devil Has All The Best Tunes - We Are All Monsters
Jorvik
Bridges of Oppression - Deviled Water - Silver Wind Elder - Warmth of Winter
Ledecestrescire
A Skald's Lament - Ledecestrescire Sauce - Of Fist-Dances and Sweaty Oaths - Sisters of the Axe - Skal to Your Wealth - The Last Leaf of Fall - The Old Guard - The Stink-Brew - The Twit Saga, Part I - The White Lady of Tamworth
Lincolnscire
King of Shitsby - Little Victories - Stray Naps - The False Ealdormancy - The Farewell Meow - The Ignominious Bandit - The Twit Saga, Part II
Lunden
The Demon Odor at the Tithe - Falling Stars - Last Flight of the Gyldan Sparrow - War of the Collectors
Oxenefordscire
A Dog's Rescue - Fishing Lesson - Nostalgia - Permission to Weep - The Anchoress - The Last Raid
Sciropescire
Bewitched - King of the Hill - Lamb Chops - Miracle - Otta, Son of Slugga - Paola's Dream - The Puppeteer
Snotinghamscire
A Cordial Invitation - An Althing for the Half-Grown - An Efficient Cremation - Stoneman - The Good Men of Sherwood - The Myth in the Mountains
Suthsexe
A Prayer for Vengeance - Aflanc the Terrible - Alisa in Wunderlandscire - Eivor the Sheepdog - King of the Hay People - Rock of Fertility - Tiny Black Market - Will O' the Wisp
Wincestre
Aelfred's Jewel - Asser - Mildberg the Miracle Legs - Romeo and Aethelflaed
North America
Vinland
A Dead Man's Tale - Breaking Teeth, Not Hearts (Flight of Fancy - Ursine Takeover)
Dreams
Asgard
Food of the Gods - Hel's Well - Milk of Humankind - Njord's Lament - Noble Harts - Valhalla Bound
Jotunheim
Aegir's Daughters - Pit of Slaughter - The Giants of Fimbulwinter - The Puppeteer
DLC
The Way of the Berserker
Chapter 1
The Mysterious Berserker
Chapter 2
The Ritual of the Berserker
Chapter 3
The Vengeance of the Berserker
The Legend of Beowulf
Chapter 1
A Fiend out of Hell
Chapter 2
Prey in the High Hall
Chapter 3
Ever As Fate Must
A Fated Encounter
A Fated Encounter - A Distorted Dream
Chapter 1
Tossing and Turning
Chapter 2
Night and Day
Chapter 3
Counting Sheep
Chapter 4
What Dreams May Come
Chapter 5
One Last Sleepless Night
World Events
Haunting of Neist Point - The Drink of the Picts
Shared History
The Raven and the Cuckoo
The Last Chapter
Last Goodbyes - Fare Thee Well, Young Eagle - Fare Thee Well, Aelfred Rex - Fare Thee Well, Aethelstan - Fare Thee Well, King Fair-Hair - Fare Thee Well, My Ravens
Settlement Extension
Yule Season
Yule Festival - Cow Catcher - The Case of the Missing Ale - Braun's Folly - Twirling Targets - Yule Brawl
Ostara Season
Ostara Festival - Let's Get Festive - Egg Hunt - The May Queen - Spiritual Defense - Braun's Folly - Twirling Targets - Viking Brawl
Sigrblot Festival
Sigrblot Festival - The War Effort (Feeding the Wolf - Fight or Flyte - Three Big Pigs) - Final Offering - Test Your Metal - War Games
Oskoreia Festival
Oskoreia Festival - Hunting for Honor (Homeward - An Honorable Death - Riding for Glory - Veiled Threats - Targeted Strategy) - A Measure of Respect
River Raids
Yule Season
A River to Raid - The Legend of Saint George - Treasures of River Exe - Treasures of River Severn - The Legacy of Saint George - Treasures of River Dee - The Sword of Saint George
Sigrblot Season
The Legend of Lugh - Treasures of River Berbha - The Spear of Lugh - Treasures of River Erriff - The Ulfberht Sword - Champions of the Faith (England's Protector - Ireland's Defender - Francia's Anointed)
Mastery Challenge
Chapter 1
A Challenge from the Gods - The Cryptic Tutelage of Hildiran
Chapter 2
The All-Seeing Eye
The Forgotten Saga
A Gift from the Otherworld
Favors
The Wholesome Warrior - Dark Dealings - Shifting Loyalties
Wrath of the Druids
Wrath of the Druids
Chapter 1
Irish Trade - Irish Adventure - Blood Bond - Snaring Thorstein - Rathdown Build Up
Chapter 2
Flann over Ireland - A Show of Character - War Efforts - Gathering Strength
Chapter 3
Foothold in Connacht - Potion of Blood - Into the Fog
Chapter 4
The Northern Reach - Courting the Kings - The Mask of Diplomacy - The Wages of War - A Scourging of Snakes
Chapter 5
The Cost of Betrayal
Settling Accounts
Chapter 1
Dublin's Reach (Trade: Giving Your Words - Trade: Dyed in the Wool - Trade: The Ivory Post - Trade: Trouble Brewing - Trade: Illuminating Event - Trade: Sweetening the Pot)
Chapter 2
An Eye for an Eye
The Strength of Danu
Chapter 1
Children of Danu
Chapter 2
Amber Sun
Lost Drengr
Thorgest's Drengir
Trade Post
Trade: Dyed in the Wool - Trade: Giving Your Words - Trade: Illuminating Event - Trade: Sweetening the Pot - Trade: The Ivory Post - Trade: Trouble Brewing
Royal Demands
Kings of Meath
Meath: Death Sentence - Meath: Death to All - Meath: Gemstones - Meath: Hibernian Heist - Meath: Jewel Recovery - Meath: Rough Justice - Meath: Royal Vengeance - Meath: Smite Them Down - Meath: Stamp Them Out - Meath: Taking it Back - Meath: They Must Pay
Kings of Connacht
Connacht: Stamp Them Out
Kings of Ulster
Ulster: Death Sentence - Ulster: Death to All - Ulster: Smite Them Down
Thousand Eyes contracts
Contract: Bandit King - Contract: Hired Help - Contract: The Lost Books
The Siege of Paris
Chapter 1
Strangers Bearing Gifts - To Francia - Warlord of Melun - The Rot in the Slums - Majesty in the Dark
Chapter 2
The Missing Queen - Sister of Sorrow - The Queen's Gambit
Chapter 3
Honor and Enemies - Fire From Heaven - A Hidden Weakness - Royal Fox Hunt - Dark Before Dawn - The Siege of Paris - The Count of Paris
Chapter 4
Skal!
Chapter 5
Fire and Faith - Madness of King Charles - Victory - Homecoming
Hidden Ones
Hidden
Delivery
A Package for Paris
Infamy
Vive la Résistance
Thousand Eyes contracts
Contract: Pagus Pinciacensis - Contract: The Count of Pinciacum - Contract: Fluctuat Nec Mergitur - Contract: The Last Judgment - Contract: Everything has a price - Contract: A Perilous Task - Contract: The Boar's Tusk
World Events
Amienois
Hidden Justice
Melunois
Not God Enough - Stealing from Thieves - Ulfberht Sword
Paris
The Ghost of Saint Germain - The King of Rats
Dawn of Ragnarök
Restless Dreams - Legendary Hoard
Into the Fire
Chapter 1
The Rescue - Gift to the God
Chapter 2
Seeking Shelter - Crystal Cave - Hunter and Gatherer - World's End
Chapter 3
The Masters - Forging Bonds
Chapter 4
Warpath - Pride of the Aesir
Chapter 5
Beyond Fear - The Reckoning
The Relic
Chapter 1
Finding Fritjof
Chapter 2
The Scholar and the Sunstone
Chapter 3
The Vault of the Ancients
Vessel of Souls
Chapter 1
The Warlord's Daughter
Chapter 2
Cold Embers - Blazing a Trail
Chapter 3
Malvigr
Valkyrie's Arena
Heroic Scholar
Tales
Warlord of the Muspels - The Full Might of Muspelheim - Double Burning Trouble - The Princess and the Queen - The Midgard War Party - The Trickster and his Legions - Muspelheim's Legacy - A Tale of Ice and Fire - The Champions of Jotunheim - Muspelheim's Fiery Champions - The Fallen Warriors - The Shapeshifters of Legend - Glacial Bear Encounter - The Midgard Challengers - The Great Swamp Witches
World Events
Eitri
Remnants
Gullnámar
Carpe Diem - Hyrrokin's Gift
Svaladal
A Beast's Burden - A Most Cunning Fish - Love Conquers - The Ballad of Kraka and Skavi
Vangrinn
Not Today, Jotun! - Take My Chest Away - The Seed of Travi
Discovery Tour: Viking Age
Oaths & Honour - Through Faith & Fire - Seaworthy - Into the West - A Barter for Peace - Aelfred's Legacy - New Life, New Lands - Where Fates Align
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