The Stench of Treachery

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The Stench of Treachery was a virtual representation of one of Eivor Varinsdottir's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.5.

Description

Eivor met with Soma to identify the traitor amongst Birna, Galinn and Lif.

Dialogue

Eivor rturned to Grantebridge, and saw Soma interrogating someone.

• Anglo-Saxon Soldier: You'll get nothing out of me. Nothing!
• Soma: Insects like you would not be crawling out of the muck if Wigmund wasn't hurting. Talk!
• Eivor: Something has happened...

Eivor approached the group.

• Soma: Eivor. The plan worked. One of Wigmund's captains. Caught him sniffing around Duroliponte Remember, you don't need to kill him. Have fun. I'll be planning our next move in the longhouse.

They circled around their captive.

• Birna: Little boy, little boy. Where is your daddy hiding?
• Anglo-Saxon Soldier: Godless heathens. Grantebridge is the province of Lord Wigmund of Walden. The city is rightfully his.
• Galinn: Poor soldier. Doesn't know what heathens do to men of God like him. Hasn't heard the stories it seems.
• Lif: We can educate him. Look at those ham hands! Could make a nice pair of gloves!
• Birna: And his heart! A heart that beats in a lad like this? Feed a family of six for a week!
• Eivor: Let's cut his throat now and water the orchards with his blood.
• Anglo-Saxon Soldier: No! Sweet lord no! No, no! He's on the Isle of Ely! Ealdorman Wigmund! In the monastery. I swear!
• Birna: Hm. Thought that would take 'til the next morn. Let's tie him up and let him rot away.
• Anglo-Saxon Soldier: Fucking Dane half-wits! The Lord will smite you from this land. All of you! May God have mercy on--

Galinn stabs him.

• Galinn: That home-thieving snake might have cast a curse on us. I couldn't risk it.
• Birna: Christians don't curse.
• Eivor: Wigmund's on the Isle of Ely. I'll tell Soma what we've learned.

Eivor met up with Soma in the longhouse.

• Soma: Eivor. What did Wigmund's little man have to tell us?
• Eivor: Wigmund is at the monastery on the Isle of Ely.
• Soma: Hiding among the church mice. I'll need to plan our attack. But I won't face him while the traitor he commands is still under my roof. So what have you learned.

Here is what I know...I'm ready to accuse someone.Leave-I need to ask around.

About Birna...About Lif...About Galinn...Clues found around Grantebridgescire.

You have Birna's love.Birna had been drinking before the attack.Birna was a smuggler.Birna was packed to leave.

• Eivor: Birna is in love with you. Unanswered love is a volcanic emotion.
• Soma: Birna has always been unpredictable. But she's a warrior grown. She does not let her emotions guide her actions.

• Eivor: Birna was drinking in the longhouse when the attack began. Others can attest to that.
• Soma: Hardly the behavior of someone expecting an attack.

• Eivor: Birna used to be a smuggler, hardly an honorable life.
• Soma: There is honor among even the lowliest of men. Danes know that better than most.

• Eivor: Birna was packed for a long journey the night of the attack.
• Soma: You think she wanted to leave us?
• Eivor: I think she was prepared to leave, that's certain.

Lif is jealous of you.Lif was working the night of the attack.Lif doesn't like how you lead.Lif says he lost his yellow paint.I found Lif's yellow paint.

• Eivor: Lif wishes he had stepped up to lead... and to be where you are now.
• Soma: Lif has a celebrated place in my clan. As a shipbuilder, he is without peer, and he knows I know this.

• Eivor: Lif told me he was working in his shipyard the night of the attack.
• Soma: The shipyard is exposed and far from the tunnel entrance. Not the ideal man to lead Saxons into the city.

• Eivor: Lif disagress with how you run Grantebridge.
• Soma: This city thrives under me, as a bustling port for his longships, for instance.

• Eivor: Lif told me his yellow paint had been stolen.
• Soma: Yellow is a troublesome color to make. He was upset when his stores were stolen.

• Eivor: I found an empty barrel of yellow paint beside a longboat launch. Yellow paint was used to mark a boat the night of the attack.
• Soma: An odd time for a fresh coat of paint. But that's his work, is it not?

Galinn is obsessed with his visions.Galinn had no alibi.Galinn risked his own life to fulfill his vision.Galinn's longship was painted yellow.

• Eivor: Galinn puts his visions above everything... to the point of fanaticism.
• Soma: Visions are like clouds. Each person sees a different meaning in the shape, and Galinn sees an important meaning.

• Eivor: Galinn had no alibi. No one can place his location on the night of the attack.
• Soma: He's an odd one, that man. But he is a man, not a toddler. He doesn't need a constant watch.

• Eivor: Galinn told me he was near death when you found him and saved his lif.
• Soma: Yes, people thought him cursed. He was adrift in deep water. But don't we all deserve a guide back to the shallows.

• Eivor: I found Galinn's longboat painted hastily with yellow paint on the day of the attack.
• Soma: Why would he mark his longboat differently from the rest of ours?

A bystander saw someone the night of the attack.I found a letter about a yellow longship.I found a yellow cross marking the tunnel.

• Eivor: A local said they saw someone running from the outskirts of the city to the river, just before the attack.
• Soma: Did they recognize the person?
• Eivor: No, they couldn't be seen in the fog. But whoever it was, they knew something bad was coming.

• Eivor: I found a message meant for Saxon forces. It said not to attack any longship painted yellow.
• Soma: You... you told me you found yellow paint on Galinn's longboat, didn't you?

• Eivor: Your secret tunnel had many footprints nearby, and its mouth was painted with a yellow mark. Whoever betrayed you, they did so by marking the tunnel entrance, then opening the way to let the Saxons in.

• Eivor: That's all the evidence I think we need.
• Soma: You've been thorough... Who is the traitor?

The traitor is Birna.The traitor is Lif.The traitor is Galinn.

• Eivor: Galinn betrayed you.
• Soma: Are you certain? This will be the hardest thing I have ever done. Stay close by me Eivor. I will need you.

• Eivor: I need more time to think.
• Soma: Of course. Feel free to search the shire for more clues. And speak to anyone you wish.

• Eivor: How to you plan to deal with this?
• Soma: As a leader must...

She nods, and beckens the three advisors over.

• Soma: My family, my inner circle. Today we make sure what has happened to us will never happen again. We end Wigmund's life. But not all together. For you cannot survive the winter with a rat in your larder.

(If Galinn was selected.)

She turns to face him.

• Soma: Galinn. You have betrayed me, Galinn.
• Galinn: I haven't! Soma! You're the key to my life. You must lead me to my destiny. Carry me to the summit of victory!
• Soma: Do not warp was is real with the stories you tell yourself. I have seen no signs of your destiny. What I have seen is my people slaughtered, my city befouled, and your delusions feauling the destruction. How dare you think your destiny, your greatness, outweighed all of ours?

She slit his throught.

• Soma: He believed too much in faith. And not enough in us. Take him away. I feel as if I have torn off my own arm.
• Eivor: Wigmund deserves death, but killing him won't make your family whole again.
• Soma: You think I don't know? This is for those who follow! To join me is to take an oath! To break it is to suffer! We make camp on the outskirts of the Isle of Ely. Join us there.

As Soma left, Odin appeared before Eivor.

• Odin: She carries the weight of leadership on one shoulder and the bonds of her people on the other.
• Eivor: Now that she's lost one, she walks lopsided. It will take years of toil to rebuild those bonds wih her people.
• Odin: Yet she is unburdened now. Lighter. She is a leader, not a friend, Eivor. Her mistake was thinking she could be both.

Outcome

Eivor discovered who the traitor is.

Trivia

• The decision made in this memory will affect the conclusion of the next memory An Island of Eels.
  • If Galinn is correctly selected as the traitor, he will be executed by Soma and both Birna and Lif will survive.
  • If either Birna or Lif is selected as the traitor, he or she will be executed by Soma and the other will be wounded by Galinn following the raid.

References

• Assassin's Creed: Valhalla