LORE QUESTS.

[beleos]

LORE QUESTS

The world of Kenos has many mysteries to explore, and not all of them are directly tied to the ongoing plot of Meridian and Zenith struggling against each other to claim the Oracles. This page is for compiling the token-purchased lore-related quests for the game.

Lore quests are multi-part questlines that focus on uncovering a greater idea of what is going on behind the scenes, peering behind the curtain and uncovering information that might make or break how a character relates to the world, factions and their own goals or dreams. To be clear, these are all separate from Side Quests, demand a higher level of participation and planning, and are posted as areas get added and/or Loremasters get ideas for quests.

( There is a section for players to submit key interests their characters would have, for Loremasters to take into account while crafting future lore quests! )

While uncovering the lore is it own reward, sometimes players may gain other rewards based on their participation in lore quests; not every lore quest you undertake has universally good outcome, but every quest will affect the swing of relationships between the cities and factions. We are considering allowing players to pool their AC tokens in the future, but currently this practice is not allowed.

OOC, you will spend the correct number of tokens in your AC reward, then comment under a side quest to “claim” it by noting all participating characters. Players will receive additional details and information once the claim is made. After the thread/log/etc. for the mission is complete, you’ll return to the comment and turn it in. Loremasters will then tell you the further rewards + outcomes. As a note, you can only have one active lore quest per character at a time. If you're expecting upcoming time constraints, please consider your purchase, as dropping from the quest may cause the party to have to redo it.

Unless noted, the lorequests are bound to a single purchaser ( and their entourage ). Once purchased, the questline is tethered to the purchaser, but participants can change as the questline develops.

UPDATE 01/30/24: If unsure whether a personal goal is something you can simply play out yourself, or if it would qualify as a Lore Quest/AC Reward, the key question we use to assess for this is: will it affect the world of Kenos or multiple other player characters as the result of my character's actions? If the answer is "yes", we would consider that something you need to use tokens for, develop over time via threads/reporting on your Notable Actions, or working together with mods to achieve! If the answer is "no", you have every right to craft your own narrative for your character.

So, without further ado, get to questing!

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[beleos]

And here we go, ny'all!! We've separated the quest into two little sections, just so you know the flavoring of what happened immediately following Yuri's win for reference, as well as the actual important information that finally comes to them after awakening from the Advocate Oracle's long, long slumber.

Immediately following Yuri's win, Coalbrand ( whom was long observing the trio ) approached them to congratulate him on his well-deserved victory over his two opponents. He confirmed that he had Sain-Breq's documents, and that — had Yuri, Byleth and Gavial not come when they did, he was going to be "forced to sell them off at auction". The information that the Scholar had uncovered was, after all, something that pertinent individuals might want to use against Shard-Bearers: either by destroying it, or editing it. And he would have relished in the pacts he could have made in return for it.

As it stands, he vowed he had not edited nor destroyed the documents, and asked that Yuri allow him time to fetch them from his vault and deliver them directly to him. As it would, unfortunately, take him a little bit of time to get to his vault and retrieve the papers. In the meanwhile, Byleth and Gavial both received a solid, red and gold pin in the shape of a gold crown. These, Coalbrand said, would be the proof that the two of them were now temporarily contracted with him. The pin would always be on their person ( in fact, if either tried to throw it away, they'd find it always returning to them. Anyone affiliated with the devil would be able to smell his claim upon them.

As the trio are permitted to leave, they would have seen Aigneuse arriving — a gold pin of her own upon her lapel, which she then would have taken off her person and handed to Coalbrand. Her words, as she looked to Byleth and Gavial, would have referenced that she had "promised to double Coalbrand's gains" and seeing as she'd made good on her word, she was to be released from her own deal with him. After which, she tugged on a Crown-affiliate jacket and rejoined the floor staff to continue her job. :) Sorry, y'all.

And then the Advocate Oracle happened.

A few weeks after the Advocate Oracle, and once everyone has time to settle, Coalbrand comes calling.

— To Yuri, he delivers a bound stack of documents. Sain-Breq's notes which had been said to contain "celestial information that could turn the historical relations between Meridian and Zenith on its head" finally rest in his hands.

— The documents revolve around the Aspects associated with the markings upon generations of Shard-Bearers, as well as their relationship to the constellations in the sky from which they were named. While historically, Aspects have been used in frilly, quasi-esoteric subject such as fortune telling, astrology and horoscope readings, Sain-Breq's research interrogated the Shard-Bearer Aspects as a real, scientific body.

— Ultimately, Sain-Breq's research concludes quite boldly that the Aspects affiliated with Shard-Bearers represent their soul's placement on a great, revolving wheel that begins at their most ignorant and carries them to the point where they are at their most enlightened. Simply put, Sain-Breq confirms with extensive examination and empirical data, that all Aspects are associated with the development of a Shard-Bearer's soul towards a "completed" status, with each Shard-Bearer existing in each generation as a different Aspect.

— ( Notably, this ties into lore found in Link & Aetos's conversation here, as well as the dreams received by Shard-Bearers who kept their Dreamer Shard. )

Coalbrand, upon delivering the documents, is available to Yuri for that private 1:1, should he still want it. As for Gavial and Byleth — you'll be getting contacted in a Discord thread quite soon...