The Lost Cauldron
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The Lost Cauldron was a virtual representation of one of Eivor Varinsdottir's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan in 2020 through the Portable Animus HR-8.5, in which a vision of one of Odin's memories could be seen.
Description[edit | edit source]
Havi went to search for Ægir's lost cauldron as a gift to Suttungr.
Dialogue[edit | edit source]
Havi went to a tall tree missing much of its bark and many of its branches, covered in the molted skin of an enormous snake.
- Havi: Here is the tree Hyrrokin mentioned, its bark cut deep by Jörmungandr's sharp scales. I should look around for the missing cauldron.
Havi climbed the massive tree to its canopy, finding a perfect viewpoint to gain his bearings of much of the realm. He also found a note from one intrepid climber.
Note Tucked in Branches
- It's very high up here. Mustn't be afraid. I've watched how the masters change shape, seen them turn into beasts. Won't they be amazed when they see what I can do? Won't they celebrate when they see I'm like them?
I've learned the secret phrases. All I have to do is believe. The words will give me wings. I'll fly back to my masters as a bird.
Time to stop writing now. Time to do it.
It is very, very high, though.
Performing a Leap of Faith, Havi returned to the forest floor safely, finding the remains of the climber nearby. Havi continued down the main road and found the smoking wreckage of a cart and a couple human bodies.
He found a pile of red soil and flowery growth, the telltale sign of a slain jötun.
- Havi: They turn to earth when they die. Back to the tilth they came from.
Havi began the investigation in earnest, spotting a wheel that had broken off from the wagon.
- Havi: A ditch was dug so the cart would break a wheel. This was an ambush.
Havi looked at the cart itself, tipped on its side.
- Havi: This cart bears the sign of Ægir.
The trunk of a nearby tree was broken through.
- Havi: Something huge was dragged this way.
Havi put all the clues together and finished his investigation.
- Havi: If it was Ægir's cauldron they dragged through here, it must be large indeed.
Havi followed the trail of turned earth and broken trees.
- Havi: The trail of destruction leads toward that giant root.
At the end of the trail lay a small, makeshift altar with a severed hog's head upon it.
- Havi: They slaughtered that animal for it's innards and used them in their ritual. Likely the thieves employed this magic to hide their loot.
A little further on, Havi found a Skrymir's Mitten.
- Havi: The mitten of the great jötun Skrýmir, dropped here long ago. Maybe the thieves took their burden inside.
Havi entered the mitten, the interior well-padded with red moss and clouded by mist.
- Havi: Soft moss, all around. Hard to imagine this place once fitted a hand.
Inside the mitten, Havi found a cave. He reached a metal gate and saw through it a large wooden cauldron and several jötnar.
- Havi: The missing cauldron. But how did they get it into this cave?
The gate was locked, so Havi looked for another way in. Turning around, he found the entrance to a room had appeared.
- Havi: That was not there before. Hard to know what is real in this realm of illusion.
Inside the room was a jötunn examining a wall of kegs. Havi killed the jötunn and made his way further into the cave. In another room, he found several boxes and tables covered in scrolls. He read one of the papers left out.
Carefully Written Speech
- Know now that this cauldron we have brought before you is our father Hymir's cauldron. The braggart Thor murdered him at sea and stole it from his hall.
Afterwards, he gave it to the traitor Ægir, so that he might throw the Æsir a great feast.
For long ages Ægir has entertained the enemy in our land, making merry while our father lies cold in the ocean. But we have long awaited our moment, and that moment has come at last. Ægir the fool wagered away our father's cauldron, and we, his sons, have seized it!
Drink now, and raise your horns to our father. Drink now in his memory.
Skal!
Havi entered the cavern where the cauldron sat on a second level, past the jötnar.
- Havi: There must be a way to reach it.
- (If Havi was seen)
- The Jotnar spotted Havi and attacked.
- Jotnar: To arms! Ægir sends allies to claim back his cauldron!
- Havi defeated them.
- Havi: This cave is home to these jötnar. They must have fallen far to live in such cheerless squalor. It seems his sons have been hiding here, awaiting their chance to take it back.
Havi climbed a ladder, in the upper level, he found another note.
Thief's Plan
- Seems the chief got word someone was thinking of making off with that cauldron of his. Why else would he have locked it up? When I found out who told him, they'll be wearing a bloody necklace.
Still, it's just one lock. He thinks that thing's too big to move, but I know the trick of it. Just a matter of picking my moment.
Suttungr better be grateful when I bring it to him in Utgard. Grateful, and generous.
Killing or sneaking past the jötnar, Havi crossed a bridge and made his way to the back of the cavern where the cauldron stood.
- Havi: Too big to carry. But things are not always as they seem in Jotunheim.
Havi went around a pillar and the cauldron suddenly appeared the size of a cup.
- Havi: The cauldron has grown smaller. I'm getting the measure of these illusions.
Havi retrieved the shrunken cauldron and slipped it into his pockets.
- Havi: This cauldron should be enough to win Suttungr's favor.
- (If "A Gift from the Past" is incomplete)
- Havi: I could go to Utgard now, but a gift for Gunlodr would improve my chances at getting the Mead.
Havi left the cave and continued on his quest.
Outcome[edit | edit source]
Havi infiltrated the jötnar encampment and recovered the stolen cauldron.
Behind the scenes[edit | edit source]
For some reason, jötnar encampments and restricted areas have an oddly short respawn distance, in that as soon as the player kills one and gets a few dozen in-game meters away from their original position with the camera turned away, they will instantly respawn. This persists in enemy-occupied sections of Asgard as well, but it is especially notable here because Aegir's cauldron and the route to it take the player far enough away from the rest of the chamber that all the enemies defeated—with stealth or open combat—on the way there can instantly respawn and obstruct the way out.