Crystal Desert – Desert Highlands – Palace of Aban
Legendary Ellutherius Wintergust: Our fight reminds me of how the guards would spar out front. Sometimes I’d jump in to keep them on their toes. – Legendary Ellutherius Wintergust: Famous artists traveled miles to feature their work here. The giant urns took months, if I remember. – Legendary Ellutherius Wintergust: Do they still call it the Palace of Aban? “Palace” always seemed like such an overstatement. – Legendary Ellutherius Wintergust: The waterfalls mean it’s never too quiet here. Far more soothing than the prattle of gossiping courtiers. – Legendary Ellutherius Wintergust: Part of me hates this place, even after I’ve brought in all this lovely snow. It’s my pride, I expect. – Legendary Ellutherius Wintergust: I suppose it wasn’t the prince’s fault I got stuck here. I was a gift, you know. A royal gift. What an insult. – Legendary Ellutherius Wintergust: How long has it been since the prince had his small court in the palace? His throne isn’t even here anymore. – Legendary Ellutherius Wintergust: I taught the prince to use a sword. His skills were famous. And he always gave me credit.
Crystal Desert – Desert Highlands – Palace of Aban Legendary Ellutherius Wintergust: Oh, I resented being forced to protect the prince and his court. I never thought I’d miss it.
Legendary Ellutherius Wintergust: Thinking back on it, the prince treated me as a courtier rather than a guard or a servant. He was a good man. Legendary Ellutherius Wintergust: Ice imps? How did they get in here? This–Never mind. I forgot where I was for a moment.
Maguuma Jungle – The Grove – Garden of Dusk Citizen #1: The belladonna plant, on the other hand, wishes us nothing but ill. Citizen #2: It’s jealousy. She’s beautiful and deadly to her enemies, but not as much as we are.
Citizen #1: Sometimes beautiful and deadly have their uses.
Shiverpeak Mountains – Thunderhead Peaks – The Grotto Gorrik: Inventories… I’m good at inventories. Numbers. Logic. Cheering up soldiers… Agh–Commander, you can do that, right? –
Gorrik: Don’t mind me. I’ll just stand here. Doing all the work. –
Gorrik: Running a barracks can’t be that different from symbolic problems in abstract dynamics. Gorrik: I mean… I know it’s different. But how different could it be? –
Gorrik: This would be so much easier if they just. Stopped. Getting. Injured! –
Gorrik: There are too many things to do and not enough hours to do them in! The math just doesn’t work! Can you assist me? –
Gorrik: Numbers. Numbers are controllable. Quantities of oil. Battalions of soldiers. Minutes left until…until…
Gorrik: It’s so frustrating to calculate probabilities for improbable, uncontrollable, ancient forces! Nyeh! Let me try again…
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