50. : Help won't come from the history books, or from any old tales I can spin you. This is your story to write.^devnote

• 102.

  Jaheira

  : There: have I fulfilled my role as your wise and wizened elder?^devnote
  

  • 51. Player: Please. You're only one of those things.
    

    • 133.

      Jaheira

      : Don't tell me which. Against all life experience, I will choose to assume the best.^devnote['Jaheira 3']
      End
  • 63. Player: I'm not certain you are older than me., REALLY_DWARF, REALLY_ELF, REALLY_GNOME
    

    • 16.

      Jaheira

      : Oh. Good. Then I am under no obligation to be wise.^devnote
      End
  • 108. Player: You're not that old - are you?
    

    • 22.

      Jaheira

      : I've passed enough years that counting them is a waste of what remains.^devnote
      

      • 134.

        Jaheira

        : Which is to say - yes. I am that old.^devnote
        End
  • 109. Player: You seem reluctant to discuss the past.
    

    • 10.

      Jaheira

      : What need, when it seems so intent on repeating itself?^devnote
      

      • 121.

        Jaheira

        : But stay this apocalypse and I'll let you read my journals. Promise.
        End

12. : I felt the way they think. Saw the world as they do. Foul, unnatural creatures, who find the foulness in us and twist it to their will.^devnote

• 120.

  Jaheira

  : But then - who am I speaking to? You have far more experience than I.
  

  • 72. Player: Who are you speaking to? Maybe I'm the parasite, puppeting this body.
    

    • 21.

      Jaheira

      : Then greetings, saer tadpole. I was wondering where all the questions suddenly sprang from.^devnote['Jaheira 3']
      End
  • 112. Player: It's different this time. The elder brain is a slave itself.
    

    • 136.

      Jaheira

      : Do not be moved to pity. It is a predator, pinned in a trap.^devnote
      

      • 23.

        Jaheira

        : And if it wriggles free, you'll find it still has teeth.
        End
  • 67. Player: My mind is still my own. I plan to keep it that way.
    

    • 36.

      Jaheira

      : I believe you. You remind me of another I knew, marked by forces beyond their control.^devnote['Jaheira 3']
      

      • 1.

        Jaheira

        : The gods can grant power or strip it away - but so long as your will remains, you have the only weapon you need.
        End

135. : We can speak of old battles later - our plate is piled high with catastrophes enough for the present, hm?^devnote

6. : But if you have questions - you've earned whatever answers I can give.

• 130. Player: Was your camp bothered time and time again by a grotesque Butler?Jaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_AskedAboutButler = FalseJaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_AskedAboutButler
  

  • 131.

    Jaheira

    : Bhaal had his minions, certainly. But none that watched over their wards so diligently.
    

    • 87.

      Jaheira

      : I wonder if past experience has taught the great god to fear - that another of his children might turn against him.
      
• 29. Player: Did your friend ever tell you of the dreams Bhaal sent them?Jaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_AskedAboutDreams = FalseJaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_AskedAboutDreams
  

  • 52.

    Jaheira

    : Yes. Your rancid father will try to twist your thoughts, as he did with all his children.
    

    • 116.

      Jaheira

      : The harder you resist, the darker your dreams become. Our camp was often roused by screams in the night, back then.
      

      • 25.

        Jaheira

        : We learned to take them as a marker of pride. Even gods can be resisted.
        
• 129. Player: Did the Bhaalspawn have children? Did they inherit his taint?Jaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_AskedAboutChildren = FalseJaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_AskedAboutChildren
  

  • 84.

    Jaheira

    : A Bhaalspawn can sire children, certainly. We have Sarevok and Orin as proof of that. Whether they should...LOW_MurderTribunal_Knows_Sarevok_OrinGranddaughter
    

    • 85.

      Jaheira

      : There are things in our nature we might unwittingly pass on, yes. But I do not believe them stronger than the things we choose to pass on.
      

      • 74.

        Jaheira

        : If you are asking whether love and joy are beyond you, just because of the taint in your blood...^devnote
        

        • 31.

          Jaheira

          : No. They most certainly are not.^devnote
          
  • 95.

    Jaheira

    : A Bhaalspawn can sire children, certainly. Whether they should...
    

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• 132. Player: I think you've told me enough.Jaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_AskedAboutMadness, Jaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_AskedAboutHappiness, Jaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_AskedAboutDreams, Jaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_AskedAboutChildren, Jaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_ToldWeAreAfraid, Jaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_AskedAboutButlerJaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_TopicExhausted
  

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• 44. Player: Turn to other matters.
  

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76. Player: You've never known a Bhaalspawn to go mad, have you?Jaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_AskedAboutMadness = FalseJaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_AskedAboutMadness

• 0.

  Jaheira

  : Not... mad, no. Take Sarevok, for example. For as much carnage as he caused, there was always a cold calculation to it.
  

  • 27.

    Jaheira

    : He craved power, and his bloodline was just another path to achieve it. I saw that same bloodline turned to better ends than Bhaal ever intended for it.
    

    • 9.

      Jaheira

      : It was Bhaalspawn who threatened the Coast, and Bhaalspawn who saved it. It is possible to go on to live a life outside your father's shadow.
      

97. Player: Did your friend live happily, once Bhaal was dealt with?Jaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_AskedAboutHappiness = FalseJaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_AskedAboutHappiness

• 107.

  Jaheira

  : Ha! Bhaal was but the beginning. Be warned - a godspawn draws trouble like iron to lodestone.
  

  • 119.

    Jaheira

    : There will be crusaders who wish to rid the world of your taint, or jealous minds who believe themselves more deserving of the power in your blood.
    

    • 127.

      Jaheira

      : I'm sure Gale has heard the cautionary tale of the mad mage Jon Irenicus.8bbae11e-9e79-ef99-e49b-1217192221ed
      

      • 110.

        Gale

        : Naturally. Irenicus, or 'The Exile', sought to extract divinity from Bhaalspawn blood. Needless to say, he failed in quite catastrophic fashion - hence the cautionary part of the tale.8bbae11e-9e79-ef99-e49b-1217192221ed
        

        • 5.

          Jaheira

          : But happiness is not beyond a Bhaalspawn. It simply comes at a higher cost - constant vigilance.
          

65. Player: Bhaal frightens me.Jaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_ToldWeAreAfraid = False, NIGHT_DarkUrge_BloodWeddingFollowup, GLO_Orin_State_PermaDefeated = False, REALLY_DARK_URGEJaheira_InParty_BhaalQuestions_ToldWeAreAfraid

• 47.

  Jaheira

  : Then you are wise.
  

  • 125.

    Jaheira

    : I will not mince words: if what you told me is true, you are already further under Bhaal's power than my old friend ever was.
    

    • 98.

      Jaheira

      : But so long as you fear that power, there is hope. Fear means you are not fully mad - not yet.
      

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101. : Mm? No, not really.^devnoteJaheira_InParty_HarperQuestions_SomeoneYouLoved

• 64.

  Jaheira

  : [TagAnswer] Jaheira_InParty_HarperQuestions_GreaterGood, Jaheira_InParty_HarperQuestions_SomeoneYouLoved, a9fa8c69-bed1-4797-ebb4-997abe44fbbc_JaheiraToldAboutJoiningHarpersJaheira_InParty_SpokeofHarperHistoryInGeneral
  

55. : Hah! No, no thank you - let the wiser members of my order wrinkle their brows over that particular phrase.^devnote

• 38.

  Jaheira

  : In all my years fighting for the Harpers, I am still never certain what 'the greater good' means. I've learned to be content with: 'well, that was not so bad as it might have been'.Jaheira_InParty_HarperQuestions_GreaterGood
  

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28. : I will not bore you with a long tale. The short: I was born to a high family in Tethyr. I remember little, except that when my family fell, they fell far. And fast.^devnote

• 18.

  Jaheira

  : I learned young what fear and hunger make desperate people do. I learned to do some of it myself, even, until a roving circle of hedge-druids found me.^devnote
  

  • 15.

    Jaheira

    : They raised me in the wild. But when it became clear I was perhaps not suited to a life of idle reflection, I was sent to the Harpers. To do.^devnote
    

    • 75.

      Jaheira

      : They showed me how to fight with sword as well as spell, and gave me ample causes to wield them for. If I was not always the truest believer in every cause, well...
      

      • 59.

        Jaheira

        : I fell in love with someone who was. And that is almost the same thing.^devnoteJaheira_InParty_HarperQuestions_HarperHistory, a9fa8c69-bed1-4797-ebb4-997abe44fbbc_JaheiraToldAboutJoiningHarpers
        

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126. : Oh, you might say that. I left their service and swore never to return. Multiple times, if I recall.^devnote

• 33.

  Jaheira

  : It is easy to get tired of the intrigue. The high causes shrouded in secrecy. I thought I might find another way to be of use to the world.
  

  • 68.

    Jaheira

    : And for a time, I did. But my comrades would use a rather irritating phrase: 'A Harper never leaves the chorus - she simply goes to spread the song.'^devnote
    

    • 99.

      Jaheira

      : Meaning that whatever cause I turned my hand to, there I would find them. Harpers, stuffed with their own virtue - but always there. Always trying to help.^devnote
      

      • 79.

        Jaheira

        : So I returned to the fold. Returned to the city. Eventually, they hung a title around my neck: 'High Harper'. And I still do not know how to play one.^devnote
        

        • 128.

          Jaheira

          : If I wanted to spare Geraldus the same headaches, well... you know now why I needed him to be sure this is the life he wants.WYR_Axe_State_RealHarper_PermaDefeated = False, WYR_Axe_RealHarper_Alive_SpokeUpForGeraldus
          

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        • 45.

          Jaheira

          : If I tried to spare Geraldus the same headaches, well - now you know why. And if he is half the Harper I suspect, it won't make a damned bit of difference.WYR_Axe_State_RealHarper_PermaDefeated = False, WYR_Axe_RealHarper_Alive_SpokeUpForGeraldus = False
          

          • 89.

            Jaheira

            : But you're staring - which means the tadpole has finally eaten your brain, or I have been talking too much. Either way, time to move - no?^devnote
            

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56. : Some call the Harpers heroes. Others, petty meddlers who cannot help but stick their nose into every conflict they stumble across. The truth is in there somewhere.^devnote

• 66.

  Jaheira

  : We try to work towards a common balance. If every other faction finds us equally annoying, that is probably a sign that we are succeeding.^devnote
  

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123. : We paid little mind to the path ahead, let alone to how we might return. Or that we would return at all.

• 57.

  Jaheira

  : Still - the Undercity shifts. We might search down there - or better yet, find a Bhaalist to lead us.
  

73. [RollResult] True

• 40.

  Narrator

  : *The quiet, unassuming shadow to Jaheira's strength, Khalid was another warrior who helped end the Bhaalspawn Crisis. Shortly after, he was murdered by the mad mage Jon Irenicus.*a9fa8c69-bed1-4797-ebb4-997abe44fbbc_PassedKhalidRoll
  

80. [RollResult] False

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58. : Then clean out your ears, and listen again.^devnote['Jaheira -5']

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124. : The druid in me would like to say it was a thing of balance. The younger woman recalls rather more about a fine bottom, and the habit not to speak unless he had something to say.^devnote

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34. : Oh, I'm sure time and an ageing mind have smoothed out a few of his flaws. But he was a good man.^devnote['Jaheira 5']

• 48.

  Jaheira

  : The songs make much of Khalid's meekness. The quiet little Harper who had to keep a tight hold on his courage. But he had it when it counted. And, more than that:
  

  • 32.

    Jaheira

    : He had compassion. When you live a Harper's life, see all that a Harper sees, that is by far the harder thing to hold on to.^devnote
    

    • 49.

      Jaheira

      : But a bard can tell you all the rest. As for all the things they cannot... well. I shall just have to keep those for myself.^devnoteJaheira_InParty_ExhaustedHarperBranch
      End

138. : Most Harpers swagger and flash their feathers to catch your attention. Khalid was of a quieter sort. ^devnotea9fa8c69-bed1-4797-ebb4-997abe44fbbc_JaheiraDescribedKhalid

• 82.

  Jaheira

  : I have never known a warrior who would go so far out of his way to avoid a fight. Which meant the few he chose were usually the right ones.^devnote
  

  • 4.

    Jaheira

    : And when we were married - on an upturned cart in the rainy Dalelands - he stammered so much, I've never been sure if our vows actually counted.^devnote
    

26. : Nothing that wasn't already there, fear not. But I've lived many lifetimes since Khalid died.^devnote

• 53.

  Jaheira

  : You twine your life around the people you love. And when they are gone, you grow around their absence instead. It is just another way they shape you.^devnote
  

  • 39.

    Jaheira

    : Which is my sage way of saying - I am in no danger of forgetting how my husband died. But I choose to remember how he lived.^devnote
    

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20. : But, I suppose you have earned better than glibness from me. It was a gift from my husband. Khalid.^devnoteJaheira_InParty_NamedKhalid

• 90.

  Jaheira

  : He was a Harper. A better one than me, truth be told - any idiot can swing a sword. But to believe in the cause, with the whole of your heart? A much trickier thing.^devnote
  

  • 137.

    Jaheira

    : He died. Alone, in pain, and far too young - murdered by a mage who craved immortality. I'll not grant it by naming him in the same breath as my husband.^devnote
    

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