Lucia's Diary 22

We depart the Capital, leaving Nala behind as she has a lot to do since her 50 years of inactivity. Mara had a dream and based on the message in the dream, we decide to message Faron, and when we do that, an Archon appears from out of nowhere... turns out that it's sometimes a side effect of using the message spell we used. Well, we decided to "use" its services and sent him to the Council chambers in Skryfe to deliver some of the artifacts we've been collecting.

We also get a response from Faron and she tells us that she's going to Berlin. So we change our course and head for Berlin to meet up with her. After getting some rations, we decide to cut through a forest to get to Berlin, to save a good 4-5 days worth of travel.

On the third night traveling through the forest, we ran into this Hermit and we ended up spending the night telling stories and eating. He ended up traveling with us for a couple of days, we put up one of our concerts for him, and once we were out of the forest, he disappeared on the final morning.

We finally get to Berlin and find Faron talking to a random stranger. As we approach her, she collapses, and right after, so does the guy she was talking to. Both of them die right as we approach them, and the stranger hands over a bloody dagger to Astera and asks her to deliver the artifact to Skryfe (although this is not one of the artifacts we've been searching for), and right after, both Faron and the stranger start disintegrating. The stranger turns out to have been Barbio, Mara's "kid brother". It seemed that he performed a self-sacrifice to destroy her. There possibly won't be another high priestess of Knox.

After Mara takes a few minutes to recover, we follower her to the temple where she does a ritual where she calls on this old creature's "spirit" and we question him about what's happening. We are now left wondering what path to follow as it seems our quest might not be the best thing to do... we went to drink to think about all this.