Bleeding The Leech

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Bleeding The Leech 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 Erke Bodilsson at the docks to hunt down the Order of the Ancients member known as The Leech.

Dialogue

Eivor met with Erke to discuss the bodies at the docks.

• Eivor: Is this The Leech's work?
• Erke: Ja, new corpses, every day.

People are scaredHow many bodies?Your lead

• Eivor: If you're the only target for your people's fear, then they will turn on you.
• Erke: They're scared. If I am to be redeemed, I owe them The Leech.
• Eivor: How many bodies is that now?
• Erke: A score has been uncovered. Definitely The Leech's work.

• Eivor: How many bodies is that now?
• Erke: A score has been uncovered. Definitely The Leech's work.

• Eivor: How can you be sure?

• Erke: A score has been uncovered. Definitely The Leech's work.
• Eivor: How can you be sure?

Eivor and Erke discuss The Leech and her work

• Erke: Their eyes are scooped out, black empty caverns. Same as Tryggr's guards.
• Eivor: There must be hundreds of people passing by here each day. Anyone see them dumped?
• Erke: It's the riverbank, vinr (friend). Every crooked dealing in this city goes through here.

The Leech is the first targetThe Leech is the second target

• Erke: Heard from Stowe yet? About The Arrow?
• Eivor: The Leech is my focus just now. Does something worry you?
• Erke: Ah, no. Just checking up on the old sparrow-heart.
• Eivor: You two are close. Like brothers.
• Erke: Ja, ja. Close like brothers you could say.

• Eivor: Stowe has seen the same. It's not only the docks.
• Erke: How is that sparrow-heart? I worry for him.
• Eivor: Soft but unsullied. He helped me find Avgos, and that's enough.
• Erke: Avgos. I had a hunch or two about the arse-blister. Should have acted.
• Eivor: Any hunches about The Leech you want to share?

A woman started running and shouting for Erke.

• Gyda: Erke! Tell me it wasn't her!
• Erke: It wasn't your daughter, dear Gyda. Take a breath.
• Gyda: O, thank Freyja! I have such a fear I will find her down here. She works errands for a smith who sends her to these docks, most times at night. I can't stand it.

She works for a smith?When did she go missing?What's her name?

• Eivor: She works for a blacksmith? Do you know where?
• Gyda: Never told me his name nor where he hammers. Tight-lipped about everything, the stubborn girl.

• Eivor: When did she go missing?
• Gyda: A few days back, left after sundown. Never came home, my Regna. Gods, if I could see her again.

• Eivor: What's your daughter's name, Gyda?
• Gyda: She's Regna, named for my grandmother, born with the same eyes. One green, one blue.
• Eivor: A beautiful name.

• Gyda: I haven't seen her in two days, and fear the worst. In Lunden, you must always fear the worst.
• Eivor: What sort of job did she have?
• Gyda: Ran errands and the like. She would make a delivery, trade it for hacksilver, and scurry back to her smithy.
• Eivor: Do you know the name of the man?
• Gyda: Neinn, but I wish I did. I would box his ears and harvest his nuts.
• Eivor: Anything else you remember?
• Gyda: I had a neighbor once tell me she saw Regna lingering for a time under the Lunden Bridge. Worried me sick hearing that.
• Eivor: That's a good place to start. Thank you, Gyda.

Gyda nodded and left.

• Erke: A shady smith, a missing child. It's a lead with some weight.
• Eivor: Lunden bridge after sundown. It's worth a look.
• Erke: Good. I'll hang about here and keep things calm. And Eivor ... don't drop your guard around these docks.
• Eivor: Do I look like one who could?

Eivor left but heard a brief conversation between two Lundeners.

• Anglo-Saxon Woman 1: (humming)
• Anglo-Saxon Man 1: What's that song? I know it from somewhere.
• Anglo-Saxon Woman 1: That's the healer's song, innit? She's always singing it when she comes by.

Eivor may arrive during the day at Lunden Bridge.

• Eivor: Best wait until nightfall.

Eivor found a spot to hide behind and waited till night for someone to show. A man came by, picked some equipment, and left unsuspecting.

• Eivor: Best follow him. See where this leads.

Eivor began tailing the suspect.

• Eivor: Can this clod walk any faster?

The man kept walking more hastily.

• Eivor: Careful now.

The man stopped walking for a while.

• Eivor: Is this the place? Or ... No. Just meandering.

The man ran into the Bodilsburg Garrison.

• Norse Warrior 1: Have a good amble, Alff?
• Norse Man 1: I feel like a man renewed. You have yourself a good night.

Eivor may be caught sight of and thus the man started running and shouting aloud.

• Norse Man 1: Who's there? Fuck off! There's someone after me! Help! They be sticking out of the shadows!
• Norse Warrior 1: Easy there, Alff, another stray dog spook you?

Eivor looked around the garrison and found the blacksmith's workplace.

Eivor questioned Oija about The Leech

If spotted, Eivor was attacked by the guards.

• Eivor: Thor's thunder! Keep it down out there!

Eivor entered the blacksmith's workplace.

• Oija: You got the purse I'm owed? Eh, who the fuck are you?

I'm the one asking questions (Fight)I'm a friend (Level 2 Charisma)I'm a member of the Order (Chance)

• Eivor: I'm the one asking questions, soot-finger. Did you craft a set of surgeon's tools for someone called The Leech?
• Oija: You thick shit! Nor Hel or Vaholl will want you once I'm done.

Eivor and Oija fought as the guards heard the commotion.

• Eivor: I'm a friend, Oija. Your money's with your lad.
• Oija: What have you to do with him?
• Eivor: I'm keeping him safe. Had a fear he was being followed.
• Oija: Ah, I knew he was soft. Not like my other girl. She was hard as hog's breath, that one.
• Eivor: What happened to her?
• Oija: Fell ill a few days back. So I sent her to the Good Sister Frideswid. Healer in town.
• Eivor: Sister Frideswid...
• Oija: Got broken bones, a boil on your bum, or too much birth blood? She'll mend you quick.
• Eivor: She would need a broad set of tools for such work.
• Oija: She would, and she has it. Comes to me for all her wants, and I craft for her what she needs.
• Eivor: Not any more, you don't.

• Eivor: I am with The Order. The Leech bade me give you a message.
• Oija: The Order, eh? I'd need more testament than your word alone.
• Eivor: I have this.
• Oija: If it's silver, I'll accept it as payment.

Eivor showed the blacksmith an Order medallion.

• Eivor: You know this is no ealdorman's coin.
• Oija: Right, so ... so what's The Order miffed about? I'm doing my duty.
• Eivor: I am here about The Leech. The tools you made were unsound.
• Oija: That's not my doing! Sister Frideswid is breaking them faster than I can smith!
• Eivor: Breaking them on the bodies of the poor and unwell? We warned her against such evil.
• Oija: Now, that's not a fair read on her work. She never kills without reason.
• Eivor: That is for us to decide. Where is she now?
• Oija: Where she always is. The old forum in the shade of the Giant's Wall.
• Eivor: Thank you, brother. And keep this to yourself.

Eivor received a list of tool orders when defeating the blacksmith, Oija.

Tool Order:
To be delivered to the Forum
2 Set Pliers
15 Scalpels
1 Surgical Saw
1 Set Abdominal Forceps
2 Sets Surgical Scissors

Eivor discovered that a nun, Sister Frideswid, was The Leech and headed to the Basilica and Forum.

• Eivor: This is where The Leech disects her prey.

Within the residence, Eivor overheard a conversation between a patient and a nurse.

• Norse Man 2: It's only a cough! On the braids of Freyja, I swear I'm fit to go home.
• Anglo-Saxon Woman 2: Easy, dear. You're delirious. Let the Good Sister fix you right up.
• Norse Man 2: I don't want to die in here! I'm bound for better things!
• Anglo-Saxon Woman 2: You're not going to die, my dear. Have patience. We'll patch you up.

Eivor eavesdropped on another conversation.

• Anglo-Saxon Woman 3: She's confined herself to her studies for so many days and nights. Up to some strange alchemy there.
• Anglo-Saxon Woman 4: You do not imply the Devil's work, I pray? The Good Sister speaks to God alone. We should all follow her example in our devotion to Him.
• Anglo-Saxon Man 2: Gotta get out! Let me out!
• Norse Warrior 2: Easy! Come on, let's get back to your cot.

Eivor hurried inside and found The Leech as she overheard a mother and her child.

• Eivor: The Good Sister, Frideswid.
• Anglo-Saxon Child 1: Mummy, my stomach hurts.
• Anglo-Saxon Woman 5: Bear up, love. The Good Sister will see that you feel better.

Eivor saw The Leech move around inside as her guards kept their posts.

• Sister Frideswid: (singing)
• Anglo-Saxon Soldier 1: Is that? No, all clear.
• Norse Warrior 2: You won't catch me going past Frideswid's office. Heard screaming last time.
• Anglo-Saxon Woman 6: God go with you, Sister Frideswid.
• Sister Frideswid: And with you, child.

The Leech got back to her office as she stood over Regna's corpse.

• Sister Frideswid: For the gift of your eyes, I thank you, Regna. One blue, one green. Sign of the One Reborn. So fascinating. So beautiful. Bless you. You have advanced the cause of our kind.

Eivor assassinated Sister Frideswid, ending her terror on Lunden. In the Memory Corridor, Eivor, surrounded by corpses, walked towards Frideswid, who was mutilating a corpse.

• Frideswid: One more, that's all. I'm nearly finished.
• Eivor: That's enough.

Frideswid stood up and faced Eivor. Odin later walked into the conversation.

• Frideswid: Ah. It's you...
• Odin: For all the dead we collect, dear sister, you and I are equals.

As Odin bowed his head towards Frideswid, the nun looked around at all the corpses.

• Frideswid: Quite a charnel house. I lost count of how many. I suppose I've been greedy in my research. But not for lack of care. The Ancient Ones, the arbiters. They built us out of simple pieces. So easy to break. So difficult to mend. There must be an improvement. We should be stronger, faster, smarter. I could have fixed us. I could have made us better.
• Eivor: We are blood and bone and spirit, Frideswid. Perfect as we are.
• Frideswid: You've such beautiful eyes. Finish it ... would you?

Frideswid then handed her book of human anatomy, with her Order medallion, to Eivor. As Eivor took the items, two corpses began to drag Frideswid down. Accepting her fate, Frideswid closed her eyes and then her spirit immediately vanished. Eivor looked closer at the body on the table.

• Eivor: A young girl. Her eyes have been removed. I have a feeling this is the missing Regna.

Eivor also came across a note on her death.

Vivisection Notes:
A young girl of sixteen. Peasant. Regna she was named.

One eye blue, the other green.

Imprint of the ancient ones.

What secrets will I find locked in this prison of meat and bone?

Eivor and Erke talk about Frideswid's medical journal

Eivor left and met to report to Erke.

• Eivor: It is done.
• Erke: Ah, The Leech is bled out. And did you catch a name?
• Eivor: A nun, name of Frideswid.
• Erke: What? The Good Sister? That can't be right. She was a saint. A healer and a... Gods. That brick fits this week's wall of shit.

You knew The Leech?I found RegnaThis is her leechbook

• Eivor: You knew her?
• Erke: She saved me. Mended a broken leg. Thought I'd lose it. But not with Frideswid. You wouldn't know it was ever broken. The sands will run backwards now. Without her, we'll return to balancing humors.
• Eivor: All of that for this. Secrets of the human form. How she saved lives.

• Eivor: Brick of shit sounds about right. She was making dog meat out of Regna when I found her.
• Erke: Fuck.
• Eivor: You knew her?
• Erke: She saved me. Mended a broken leg. Thought I'd lose it. But not with Frideswid. You wouldn't know it was ever broken. The sands will run backwards now. Without her, we'll return to balancing humors.
• Eivor: All of that for this. Secrets of the human form. How she saved lives.

• Eivor: All of that for this. Secrets of the human form. How she saved lives.

• Erke: And how she ended them. It might be the ravings of a madwoman.
• Eivor: Not every problem has a clean solution.
• Erke: True, very true. I've built my name selling the hard fix. I'll live with it.
• Eivor: This was her fix. All her ideas and discoveries written here. Ill-gotten gains.
• Eivor: I have a mind to burn that bloody tome. Is that the right call?

Burn itKeep it

• Eivor: Too many died for this book. It isn't worth its weight in blood.
• Erke: You're right, it would be like plucking straw from shit. Too much bad with the good.
• Eivor: Odin and Freyja weigh the worth of our lives, not some cunt in a wimple.
• Erke: Aye, get rid of it then. And tell no one of this.

Eivor tossed the book into the fire in front of her.

• Eivor: It has cures for everything. From boils to broken bones. It's worth keeping. We fight wars to save those we love, and pay in blood for what we win. This book ... This is your Good Sister's battlefield. Her kingdom.
• Eivor: You may be right. We can't return the dead to life, but their sacrifice can mean something.

• Erke: If you need me, I'll be at Saint Paul's, searching for something on The Compass. Thanks for all this, Broga.

Erke left Eivor at the docks.

Outcome

Eivor hunted down The Leech, revealed to be a nun, Sister Frideswid.

Behind the scenes

After the mission, players have the option of having Eivor keep or destroy Frideswid's medical book. While there are no ultimate consequences for either decision, keeping the book will ensure it stays in Eivor's room in her longhouse.

References

• Assassin's Creed: Valhalla