Fergal

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Fergal the Faceless 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 a woman issuing a flyting challenge on behalf of a mysterious being.

Dialogue

In Grantebridge, Eivor came upon a locked hut with a group of three people standing outside. She spoke to the woman.

• Anglo-Saxon Woman You! Dane! Come closer...
• Eivor: What do you want?
• Anglo-Saxon Woman: You look to be a good fighter... but do you dare to face the greatest battle you will ever know?
• Eivor: Of what do you speak?
• Anglo-Saxon Woman: I speak of a terrible and monstrous incorporeal power whose name is feared across these lands...
  Fergal the Faceless, the most fearsome flyter in all of Grantebridgescire.
• Anglo-Saxon Man 1: Oooh...
• Anglo-Saxon Man 2: Ughhh...
• Eivor: A flyter? Is that all?
• Anglo-Saxon Woman: Fergal the Faceless has silenced doubters before. Will you challenge him?

I will face the Faceless.This sounds absurd.

• Eivor: I will face the Faceless.

• Eivor: You're absurd.
• Anglo-Saxon Woman: You are right to be afraid. You may return to me, should you ever wish to face death by flyting.

Eivor left. She later returned and accepted the challenge.

• Anglo-Saxon Woman: You return. Do you dare, traveler, face the terrible flyting wrath of Fergal the Faceless?
• Eivor: I will face the Faceless.

• Anglo-Saxon Man 1: [gasp]
• Anglo-Saxon Man 2: My God...
• Anglo-Saxon Woman: You are braver than most. Or perhaps more foolish. Come, I will give you a key.
  This key unlocks Fergal's lair, which you see now before you!
• Eivor: That's a house.
• Anglo-Saxon Woman: No! No, it is a den of nightmares! A pit of death from which few have ever escaped unharmed!
• Eivor: By words. Unharmed by words.
• Anglo-Saxon Woman: Go! Go now. And God be with you.

Eivor took the key and unlocked the hut to find it full of skeletons and animal skulls, with a stool set beside a wear in the back wall. She sat on the stool. A man's voice came from seemingly nowhere.

• Fergal the Faceless: A new victim! What fool dares to challenge the might of Fergal the Faceless?
• Eivor: Eivor of the Raven Clan.
• Fergal: Eivor of the Raven Clan. My next meal. Are you prepared to be eviscerated by words?
• Eivor: I think I will survive.
• Fergal: I am Fergal the Faceless, and I am clever and strong! But you're not! You're ugly, and weak, and you're a big smelly coward!!
  You're probably too scared to even face me, now that I think about it!

Eivor smiled.

• Eivor: Sorry, have you started?
• Fergal: Yes, obviously! I said you're probably too scared to face me!

ClumsyWeakFool

• Eivor: But your rhythm is clumsy, you'll never outpace me.

• Eivor: It's the weakest attempt I've yet heard to disgrace me.

• Eivor: See, your rhythm's how a fool would attempt to debase me.

• Fergal: Ah! You think you can win with rhyme, do you? Well... if you like to rhyme, listen this time.
  I'm very brave, my flyting is grave. I'm not a knave, and it's victory that I really crave.
  Your tongue is fat, you're a sprat, you whine like a little brat, and we are in a spat!

FlatRatWeak

• Eivor: All my life I've not heard of a flyting so flat.

• Eivor: Says the flyter who hides in a hole like a rat.

• Eivor: There has never been so weak an insult as that.

• Fergal: O, you've made a terrible mistake. Be ready for my finishing blow!
  I am the best at flyting, I have got powerful skills.
  I'm strong as an ox and clever as a fox, I'm sharp as a dozen... hawks.

Eivor noticed movement behind the wicker of the worn wall beside her and smirked.

• Fergal: Let me show you my skills and then you I shall kill... dead, with my... mm... my skill.

I do not think you will best me.You're not a talented flyter, Fergal.You can stop now, we're done.

• Eivor: While it's quaint you think you can best me, I must say... I don't think you will.

• Fergal: You... well... I... just one moment! I... I need to think. Give me time!
• Eivor: Fergal the Faceless or Fergal the Wordless?
• Fergal: No! You get ready! The killing blow is... it's coming! It's...

There was the sound of movement, and Eivor stood.

• Eivor: Fergal? Hello?

Through the open door of the hut, she saw a man running away, and she shook her head in amusement.

Outcome

Eivor defeated Fergal the Faceless in a flyting match.

Trivia

• It's literally impossible to lose this match, no matter what dialogue options are chosen.

References

• Assassin's Creed: Valhalla