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Synopsis:

The player encounter Nightsong, an angelic Aasimar and daughter of Selune who has been trapped in the Shadowfell for a century, first to serve as fodder for Dark Justiciars to kill (they must kill a Selunite to ascend), and then to provide Ketheric with immortality through a soul cage. The player can meet her either alone or with Balthazar. Nightsong is defiant and full of rage. She is immortal, so her current trials are, for her, an annoyance, an indignity, but she knows she will ultimately have her revenge. She regards the player with haughty defiance until she is convinced the player is on her side. If she's freed, she'll have 2 big cinematics of becoming free and cleansed by Selune.

How to trigger:

Approach Nightsong at -712; -142; -1427 when Balthazar is dead

24.
Nightsong
: A valiant performance. I admit, my heart lit like a full moon when you struck down that cadaver.SHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongFate_LeftNS = False, SHA_Nightsong_HasMet, SHA_NightsongPrison_State_PlayerBetrayedNecroGLO_Ketheric_Knows_ImmortalitySource, SHA_Nightsong_HasMet, GLO_Ketheric_Knows_AboutImmortality
- 94.
  Nightsong
  : But why betray your kinsman? Why turn your ire on he who sent you here? Go on, Sharran - speak.^devnote
  - 102. [Alias] SHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongsFate_Event_SpearAcknowledged = False, SHA_NightsongPrison_State_HasSpear
    
    Alias to Node 29
    
    42. Player: Balthazar didn't send me here - I came of my own accord.SHA_Necromancer_Event_SaidNoToHelpWithNightsong
    
    62.
    Nightsong
    : And your purpose?
    
    80. Player: I have questions for you, first.
    
    43.
    Nightsong
    : And I have naught but time.
    
    156. Player: Who are you?
    
    59.
    Nightsong
    : I am Dame Aylin. Out of this hellish realm I carry my sword by the blessing of my mother, Selûne.
    
    178. Player: How long have you been trapped here?
    
    114.
    Nightsong
    : A hundred years. More, perhaps. Concocted by Ketheric, enacted by Balthazar, my misery has been my centuries' long companion.
    
    56. [Jump] Jump to Node 176 (1)
    
    108. Player: I must decide what to do with you.
    
    113.
    Nightsong
    : HAH! By all means, Sharran. Decide.^devnote
    
    171. [Jump] Jump to Node 91 (2)
    
    28. [Jump] Jump to Node 22 (2)
    
    32. Player: I thought the 'Nightsong' was some relic. When I realised you were a person, I couldn't justify helping Balthazar.1b089469-44dc-7de7-52d2-0ca7dba60a86_NSOptimism
    
    22.
    Nightsong
    : A Sharran with a heart? No... perhaps you are no Sharran at all.
    
    137. [Jump] Jump to Node 67 (1)
    
    82. [Jump] Jump to Node 143 (1)
    
    127. [Jump] Jump to Node 148 (1)
    
    54. [Jump] Jump to Node 185 (1)
    
    130. [Jump] Jump to Node 75 (1)
    
    61. Player: Why do you call me Sharran?
    
    120.
    Nightsong
    : Do I name you false?
    
    157. [Jump] Jump to Node 22 (2)
    
    87. [Jump] Jump to Node 148 (1)
    
    72. [Jump] Jump to Node 80 (1)
    
    155. Player: My kin are strong of arm and heart. The necromancer was neither.BARBARIAN
    
    52.
    Nightsong
    : A maxim simple and noble - too noble for a Sharran. Perhaps I named you false.
    
    160. [Jump] Jump to Node 22 (2)
    
    181. Player: I am familiar with the Lady of Loss - but I serve a more competent deity. I'm no Sharran., CLERIC_EVILCLERIC_SHAR = False, CLERIC
    
    181. Player: I serve a more... partisan god than the Dark Lady. I am no Sharran., CLERIC_NEUTRALCLERIC_SHAR = False, CLERIC
    
    181. Player: I spit on the Dark Lady's name. I serve the Moonmaiden. , CLERIC_SELUNECLERIC_SHAR = False, CLERIC
    
    181. Player: I serve a god who walks the light. I am no Sharran., CLERIC_GOODCLERIC_SHAR = False, CLERIC
    
    Link to Node 147
    
    83.
    Nightsong
    : This cursed place is far from our Lady's favour - why would you walk here?CLERIC_SELUNE
    
    16. [Jump] Jump to Node 22 (2)
    
    131. Player: I get a bit obsessive about murder at times, but I'm no cultist! That's just rude.REALLY_DARK_URGE
    
    147.
    Nightsong
    : A servant of the Dark Lady would never disavow her. Perhaps I named you false.
    
    88. [Jump] Jump to Node 22 (2)
    
    23. Player: Some would call his experiments heretical - I simply thought them cruel. Unnecessary.WIZARD
    
    74. [Jump] Jump to Node 22 (1)
    
    60. [Jump] Jump to Node 173 (1)
    
    41. Player: Leave.
    
    1.
    Nightsong
    : Wait.
    
    167. [Jump] Jump to Node 104 (1)
69.
Nightsong
: An intriguing fray. You lay low the Dark Lady's messenger - your ally, your friend. Perhaps you wish to slay the 'Nightsong' yourself, Sharran.^devnoteSHA_Shadowheart_State_PlayerDeniedNightsongKillGLO_Ketheric_Knows_ImmortalitySource, SHA_Nightsong_HasMet, GLO_Ketheric_Knows_AboutImmortality
- 169. [Jump] Jump to Node 29 (2)
93.
Nightsong
: Free me, and I will forgive your transgressions - generous, don't you think?^devnoteSHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongsFate_HasMetKilledNightsong = False, SHA_Nightsong_HasMet
93.
Nightsong
: I'm ready to fly this place. Are you?^devnoteSHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongsFate_HasMetKilledNightsong = False, SHA_Nightsong_HasMet
93.
Nightsong
: I have all the time in the world. How about you?^devnoteSHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongsFate_HasMetKilledNightsong = False, SHA_Nightsong_HasMet
- 30. [Alias] SHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongsFate_Event_SpearAcknowledged = False, SHA_NightsongPrison_State_HasSpear
  - Alias to Node 29
  - 79. [Jump] Jump to Node 148 (1)
  - 78. [Jump] Jump to Node 185 (1)
  - 95. Player: Perhaps I can still kill you - I found a spear that seems intended for that very purpose.SHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongsFate_Event_SpearAcknowledged = False, SHA_NightsongPrison_State_HasSpearSHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongsFate_Event_SpearAcknowledged
    
    100. [Alias]
    
    Alias to Node 183
    
    182. [Alias]
    
    Alias to Node 63
  - 118. Player: Free her from her bonds.
    
    121. [Jump] Jump to Node 140 (2)
  - 125. [Jump] Jump to Node 173 (1)
  - 64. Player: Leave her.SHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongFate_LeftNS
    
    119.
    Nightsong
    : Run your coop all you like, chicken. You cannot fly without my wings.
    End
134.
Nightsong
: Come for more blood, you dog?^devnoteSHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongsFate_HasMetKilledNightsong, SHA_Nightsong_HasMet
- 154. [Jump] Jump to Node 93 (2)
150.
Nightsong
: Was it everything you hoped for? Was it sweet, Sharran, to murder a paladin of Selûne - her daughter - her sword?^devnoteSHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongsFate_HasMetKilledNightsong = False, GLO_NightsongPrison_State_KilledNightsong, SHA_Nightsong_HasMetSHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongsFate_HasMetKilledNightsong
- 105.
  Nightsong
  : Congratulations - your mistress Shar will write your name on her hand.^devnote
  - 86.
    Nightsong
    : And I? I will come for you. When the time is right. When your sons are grown and your beard is long and wiry; when you cannot hold your nightly water and your nose grows as long as your weary, weary days..., MALE^devnote
  - 86.
    Nightsong
    : And I? I will come for you. When the time is right. When your daughters are grown and your chin sprouts whiskers dark - when your teeth are yellow as corn and your sleep grows short and your days are long and weary, so weary..., FEMALE^devnote
  - 86.
    Nightsong
    : And I? I will come for you. When the time is right. When your children are grown and your eyes are weak; when your nose grows as long as your weary, weary days...^devnote
    
    31.
    Nightsong
    : That is when this immortal will visit you, Sharran. That is when I will show you what it is to be afraid.^devnote
    
    58. [Alias] SHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongsFate_Event_SpearAcknowledged = False, SHA_NightsongPrison_State_HasSpear
    
    Alias to Node 29
    
    152. Player: Why do you call me Sharran?
    
    179.
    Nightsong
    : Do not play games with me, Sharran. You have come to earn your title; to become what your queen has promised. One of her chosen murderers.
    
    Link to Node 132
    
    164. Player: Forgive me. I should not have harmed you.
    
    158.
    Nightsong
    : HAH! Are you afraid, Sharran? Do you rattle and jump at the realisation that an immortal has your face emblazoned in her mind forevermore?^devnote
    
    Link to Node 132
    
    162. Player: I'm not afraid of you - now or ever.
    
    81.
    Nightsong
    : Good. Foolish prey makes for easy finding.^devnoteSFX
    
    132.
    Nightsong
    : Run along now. Go tell your darling master Ketheric what a good girl you've been., FEMALE^devnote
    
    132.
    Nightsong
    : Run along now. Go tell your darling master Ketheric what a good boy you've been., MALE^devnote
    
    132.
    Nightsong
    : Run along now. Go tell your darling master Ketheric what a good child you've been.^devnote
    
    188. Player: I do not serve Ketheric. I've come to make him vulnerable.
    
    187.
    Nightsong
    : A bloodsporter, then. No Sharran, but a killer without cause. Fie! What sickness plagues Faerûn.
    
    66.
    Nightsong
    : But perhaps... an inoculation, to make the sickness less catching. If you seek to harm Ketheric, our aims are aligned. If you seek to make him vulnerable, your task is done.
    
    117.
    Nightsong
    : Open this cage.
    
    6. [Jump] Jump to Node 49 (2)
    
    166. Player: You say you're immortal. How is that so?
    
    15. [Alias]
    
    Alias to Node 5
    
    55.
    Nightsong
    : Shar herself could not dim her face. And you will never dim mine.
    
    123. [Jump] Jump to Node 68 (1)
    
    133. Player: I am not one of Shar's servants. CLERIC_SHAR = False, CLERIC
    
    3. [Jump] Jump to Node 179 (1)
    
    107. Player: I'm no Sharran. I'm something far worse.REALLY_DARK_URGE
    
    65. [Jump] Jump to Node 179 (1)
    
    38. [Jump] Jump to Node 95 (1)
161.
Nightsong
: I have felt you coming. The first in a century.^devnoteSHA_Nightsong_HasMet = FalseGLO_Ketheric_Knows_ImmortalitySource, SHA_Nightsong_HasMet, GLO_Ketheric_Knows_AboutImmortality
- 177.
  Nightsong
  : You, who have come to drive a dagger through my heart.^devnote
  - 44.
    Nightsong
    : You, who seek to claim the ultimate prize.^devnote
    
    98.
    Nightsong
    : Present your weapon, soldier. Plunge it into the Nightsong. I cannot stop you. But know this:^devnote
    
    13.
    Nightsong
    : I never forget a face.^devnote
    
    29.
    Narrator
    : *The Spear of Night could be meant to sacrifice the Nightsong - but are you the one supposed to wield it?*^devnoteSHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongsFate_Event_SpearAcknowledged = False, SHA_NightsongPrison_State_HasSpear
    
    116. Player: You're the Nightsong. A person. Not a relic.
    
    57.
    Nightsong
    : Shar kept you ignorant, did she? Or was it Ketheric? Perhaps they forgot to tell you they'd make a murderer of you yet.^devnote
    
    2.
    Nightsong
    : Come - now is not the time for a crisis of faith. Go on. Kill me. You won't be the first.^devnote
    
    19. [Jump] Jump to Node 148 (1)
    
    7. [Jump] Jump to Node 115 (1)
    
    136. Player: How many times have you given that speech?
    
    12.
    Nightsong
    : How many of your Dark Justiciar brethren have run my heart through? How many times have I, immortal, risen again, to await the next?
    
    141.
    Nightsong
    : Do what you came to do, Sharran. Then run to your darling master Ketheric and tell him what a good girl you've been., FEMALE^devnote
    
    141.
    Nightsong
    : Do what you came to do, Sharran. Then run to your darling master Ketheric and tell him what a good boy you've been., MALE^devnote
    
    141.
    Nightsong
    : Do what you came to do, Sharran. Then run to your darling master Ketheric and tell him what a good child you've been.^devnote
    
    176. Player: Ketheric trapped you here. Why?
    
    36.
    Nightsong
    : To eat his sins. Shall I take yours too?^devnote
    
    14. Player: I'm here to help you - not harm you.
    
    170.
    Nightsong
    : Those are words I've never heard - not since I've been in this dark dungeon.^devnote
    
    91.
    Nightsong
    : Say more. Please.^devnote
    
    148. Player: I've come to find the source of Ketheric's invulnerability - and end it.
    
    49.
    Nightsong
    : Then your task is done. Lay a hand upon me in camaraderie, and I will be free.
    
    101. Player: Is that all it takes?WIZARD = False
    
    17.
    Nightsong
    : That and nothing more. So certain was Balthazar that I had no friends in this place. Oh, how he taunted and cajoled.
    
    174.
    Nightsong
    : But if you are a friend - you can be my salvation.
    
    180. Player: Not so fast. What's to stop you from turning on me once you're free?
    
    97.
    Nightsong
    : Ha! A century have I been confined here - and I would spend a century more in devoted gratitude to they who set me free.
    
    53.
    Nightsong
    : Even one who had crossed a terrible threshold just prior; even one who had driven me to death.^devnoteGLO_NightsongPrison_State_KilledNightsong
    
    37. Player: What will happen when I do?
    
    172.
    Nightsong
    : I will be freed from these shackles. Ketheric will be made mortal. And then? Lo! Then, I will run him through until he's dead.
    
    27. Player: How are you the source of Ketheric's invulnerability?
    
    109.
    Nightsong
    : This cage links us, like a parasite's fangs to its host. I am immortal; while I am trapped here, so is he.
    
    139.
    Nightsong
    : Free me, and Ketheric will bleed.
    
    48. [Jump] Jump to Node 140 (1)
    
    8. Player: No - you'll stay where you are.
    
    84.
    Nightsong
    : No. Please.^devnote
    
    104.
    Nightsong
    : A century I have known naught but sorrow; rage. A century have I been Ketheric's captive.
    
    40.
    Nightsong
    : A century have I been subject to endless death - at hands so like your own.GLO_NightsongPrison_State_KilledNightsong
    
    4.
    Nightsong
    : Release me. I beg you.
    
    140. Player: Do as she asks.GLO_Ketheric_Event_ImmortalityRemoved
    
    175.
    Nightsong
    : Yes...^devnoteSHA_NightsongPrison_State_NightsongFateDecided, SHA_NightsongPrison_Event_StartNightsongFreedDialog['Karlach 1', 'Wyll 1', 'Gale 1', 'Lae'zel 1', 'Halsin 1']
    
    92. [Nested Dialog]
    End
    
    70. Player: How much is your freedom worth to you?
    
    138.
    Nightsong
    : A promise - the most sacred I can give. Release me and I will kill Ketheric Thorm.
    
    68. Player: Leave her.SHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongFate_LeftNS
    
    33.
    Nightsong
    : I showed you my heart; now use your head, young warrior. How will you fly this place without my helping hand?
    
    159.
    Nightsong
    : When you have exhausted yourself with foolishness, you will release me. Go on: see.
    End
    
    128. Player: I was really looking forward to using this spear, though., REALLY_DARK_URGESHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongsFate_Event_SpearAcknowledged = False, SHA_NightsongPrison_State_HasSpearSHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongsFate_Event_SpearAcknowledged
    
    128. Player: Maybe it would be safer to just kill you. I found a spear in this place that seems perfect for the task.SHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongsFate_Event_SpearAcknowledged = False, SHA_NightsongPrison_State_HasSpearSHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongsFate_Event_SpearAcknowledged
    
    183.
    Nightsong
    : The Spear of Night. You are not the Nightsinger's chosen champion - her weapon is useless in your hands.
    
    63.
    Nightsong
    : Keep it, if you wish. It is nothing but a bauble now. Just free me.
    
    151. Player: That's all? No abjurations or charms to unweave? All you need is a hand?WIZARD
    
    112. [Jump] Jump to Node 17 (1)
    
    173. Player: Attack.
    
    71. [Alias] PALADINGLO_PaladinOathbreaker_Event_BrokeOath
    
    Alias to Node 20
    
    26.
    Nightsong
    : To think I nearly thought my anguish done. To think I nigh believed you weren't one of Shar's footmen.1b089469-44dc-7de7-52d2-0ca7dba60a86_NSOptimism
    
    10.
    Nightsong
    : Know I will feel every wound, and still I will hurt less than you, who so utterly yourself defile.FactionHostileToPlayerGroupAfterDialog
    End
    
    144. Player: I didn't realise you were a person - not a relic. Let's get you out of here.
    
    168. [Jump] Jump to Node 129 (1)
    
    163.
    Nightsong
    : Didn't you, when you murdered me? Perhaps you were stricken blind by foolish devotion.GLO_NightsongPrison_State_KilledNightsong
    
    149.
    Nightsong
    : Go on, then. Lay a hand upon my shoulder, and I shall be free.
    
    18. [Jump] Jump to Node 129 (2)
    
    185. Player: Ketheric has sent me to retrieve you.
    
    35.
    Nightsong
    : I cannot prevent you. But I can advise you. Be careful to whom you yoke your fate.^devnote
    
    184.
    Nightsong
    : One day, when he is severed from me, Ketheric will die. I will not. And when I am freed, I will remember whose recompense to claim.
    
    50. Player: I am no Sharran. I've come to free you., CLERIC_SHAR, PALADIN_SHARGLO_NightsongPrison_State_KilledNightsong = False
    
    85. [Jump] Jump to Node 49 (1)
    
    115. Player: What happens if I do as you say - plunge my weapon into your heart?
    
    96.
    Nightsong
    : You will have done what your Dark Lady requires - you will have slain a child of Selûne. You will be a Dark Justiciar. Isn't it so?
    
    110.
    Nightsong
    : And I - hah - I will die. Then live. And when the next of your ilk comes with sword aloft or arrow nocked, I'll die again.
    
    135. Player: Usually there is a lot more struggling and screaming when I'm about to kill someone., REALLY_DARK_URGE
    
    135. Player: It almost seems like you want me to attack you.
    
    146.
    Nightsong
    : Did you expect me to beg? To cry? To plead? For what.
    
    47.
    Nightsong
    : I accept my fate - for now. But the life of a divine is longer than you can fathom, Sharran. And this cold chapter will close, one day.
    
    45. Player: You say you're immortal - how is that so?
    
    5.
    Nightsong
    : I'm sure you've met my mother. You've seen her pale face in the night sky - Selûne, the Moonmaiden.
    
    153.
    Nightsong
    : There is no moon in this black sky, Sharran - no. There is only your mistress - the void of her. The shadow.
    
    51. Player: I am no Sharran., CLERIC_SHAR, PALADIN_SHAR
    
    145.
    Nightsong
    : No? Then correct me. By all means, little warrior, explain yourself.^devnote
    
    67. Player: I'm [GEN_PlayerName_c11eee1e-7815-6143-7233-f2427799fa53]. I need to kill Ketheric Thorm.
    
    165. [Jump] Jump to Node 49 (1)
    
    143. Player: I'm a friend. Let me free you.
    
    129.
    Nightsong
    : Then lay a hand upon my shoulder, and I shall be free.GLO_NightsongPrison_State_KilledNightsong = False
    
    103. [Jump] Jump to Node 180 (1)
    
    189. [Jump] Jump to Node 37 (1)
    
    90. [Jump] Jump to Node 140 (1)
    
    122. Player: Perhaps I shouldn't...
    
    142. [Jump] Jump to Node 84 (1)
    
    73. [Jump] Jump to Node 128 (1)
    
    9. [Jump] Jump to Node 173 (1)
    
    75. Player: I'm someone who can recognise a good opportunity.
    
    21.
    Nightsong
    : Your eyes are keen. Free me. You will enjoy what comes next.
    
    111.
    Nightsong
    : Go on. Lay a hand upon my shoulder, and I shall be free.
    
    77. [Jump] Jump to Node 129 (2)
    
    124. Player: I will kill you for pleasure, not Lady Shar.REALLY_DARK_URGE['Karlach -1', 'Astarion 1', 'Wyll -1', 'Gale -1', 'Minthara 1', 'Halsin -1']
    
    99. [Jump] Jump to Node 186 (2)
    
    76. [Jump] Jump to Node 181 (1)
    
    186. Player: To kill an immortal: what perfect irony. I think I will.REALLY_DARK_URGE['Karlach -1', 'Astarion 1', 'Wyll -1', 'Gale -1', 'Minthara 1', 'Halsin -1']
    
    Link to Node 39
    
    46. Player: Attack.REALLY_DARK_URGE = False['Karlach -1', 'Astarion 1', 'Wyll -1', 'Gale -1', 'Minthara 1', 'Halsin -1']
    
    39. [Jump] Jump to Node 71 (1)
    
    126. [Jump] Jump to Node 128 (1)
    
    106. Player: Kill you? I found a spear that seems intended for that very purpose.SHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongsFate_Event_SpearAcknowledged = False, SHA_NightsongPrison_State_HasSpearSHA_NightsongPrison_NightsongsFate_Event_SpearAcknowledged
    
    0. [Jump] Jump to Node 128 (2)
    
    89. Player: It would be a delight to grant your desired death, my lady.REALLY_DARK_URGE['Karlach -1', 'Astarion 1', 'Wyll -1', 'Gale -1', 'Minthara 1', 'Halsin -1']
    
    Link to Node 20
    
    34. Player: Do as she says: kill her.REALLY_DARK_URGE = False['Karlach -1', 'Astarion 1', 'Wyll -1', 'Gale -1', 'Minthara 1', 'Halsin -1']
    
    20.
    Nightsong
    : [TagAnswer] PALADINGLO_PaladinOathbreaker_Event_BrokeOath
    
    11. [Jump] Jump to Node 10 (1)