Online:Proctor Sovor Saryoni

Proctor Sovor Saryoni is a Dark Elf Apostle nearing the end of his life. He seeks to find a way to extend his life, and believes the only way to do so is to find Terari Heladren, an Apostle cast out for her experiments.

 
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Most Complicated Machine
Proctor Sovor Saryoni in contemplation|thumb|right
You can find him in the northern ground level room admiring the machine works that have been unceremoniously draped with drying laundry.
:"Is this how machines feel as their gears wind down?

Speak to him and he'll say:
:''"It's wondrous, isn't it? Elegant, meticulous, timeless. I once took joy in studying the perfection of this realm, but now every revolution of the Great Gear only tightens the vice in my chest. Tell me, are you here to unravel Lord Seht's mysteries?"
:In a manner of speaking.
:"Then may I impose on you, as a fellow seeker? For all my learning, I can think of no escape from my predicament … save one. An experiment performed by one of my order, for which she was cast out from the Clockwork Apostles. I need you to find her."
:You want me to find someone your order exiled?
:"Terari Heladren was … ahead of her time. It was fear that led to her expulsion, not reason. I see that now. Please, find her. Tell her I'll make it right, if she'll save my life. There is no one among the order I can turn to. She is my only hope."
:That much I can do.
:"Terari has been gone a very long time, but her ill-fated experiment created a persistent disorder in the grand schema.   motions are chaotic, but not entirely unpredictable. Following it may provide some clue to her whereabouts."
::What can you tell me about your order?
:::"We were some of Tamriel's best and brightest magi, invited to the Clockwork City by Sotha Sil to attend his experiments and learn from the greatest mind in creation. We have been left to our own devices for a long time. Order was needed. Regulation."
:::I want to know why Terari was cast out.
:::"We believed she was meddling with forces that were solely the domain of the Clockwork God. A backward, emotional response one might expect from followers of a less enlightened deity. Destroying her notes and shunning her ideas was shameful."
::What is it that's ailing you?
:::"Age, seeker. Too many grains from the hour glass have gathered in this humble body. They've worn its workings so thin …. I don't think it will be long before I join the Inert, but I'm not ready. There's still so much to see."
::Can you tell me anything else about what I'm looking for?
:::"Terari's ambitious experiment resulted in a factotum going haywire. It reduced portions of the Brass Fortress to shambles before taking its rampage off into the Reactor District. We record its movements by analyzing the destruction in its wake."''

Return with the soul gem and you'll find that Proctor Sovor Saryoni has come to the laboratory and is lying on an exam table on one side of the room, and a factotum "body" on the other:
:Terari Heladren: "Dust aside, the equipment is in good order. We just need the vessel and we can begin."
:Proctor Sovor Saryoni: "Is that them? Have they returned? The world feels so heavy now."

Speak to him:
:''"Terari said you had gone to retrieve a black soul gem for my procedure. Take it to her if you have it. I don't want to linger another moment in this failing body."''

After speaking to Terari and hearing her plan for putting Sovor's soul into the soul gem, he'll say:
:"What are you waiting for? Every moment we delay tempts death to snatch me away!"

Go to the switch and throw it:
:Terari Heladren: ''"It's begun. Now would be the time to pray."

Sovor begins to pray:
:Proctor Sovor Saryoni: "I have faith in Lord Seht's tenets: observe, learn, apply. Trust in his grand design."''
Proctor Sovor Saryoni, Factotum|thumb|right
Both Sovor and the factotum begin to spark.  After a few seconds, the factotum gets up from the table… with Sovor's voice:
:Sovor Saryoni: ''"Yes … it's sublime, this … order."''

Meanwhile, you hear a different voice from Sovor's dunmer body:
:Bolin: ''"Y'ffre, I can feel! Thank you, I can feel …."
:Terari Heladren: "I—I think it worked! Please, please, let it have worked …."''

If you speak to him, he'll tell you:
:''"I—I can't breathe …  I don't breathe. Instead, I whir and click. It's not so different."
:Thank Terari. She's more responsible for this than I am.
:"All cogs drive the mechanism. Removing any one from the chain, no matter how small, results in failure. I would no longer exist without the both of you. As promised, I will ensure Terari's reinstatement to the order. All cogs drive the mechanism."
:What will you do with your new life?
::"Continue the quest for understanding. It has always been my purpose and I have never been better suited for it. In this form I may labor as tirelessly as Lord Seht himself."
:Do you think the Clockwork Apostles will accept you like this?
::"They will need to be convinced of many things: my authenticity, my condition, Terari's reintroduction. Have faith that their flaws will be corrected."
:You seem to be coping well.
::"I have never been better. I may never be better. I only regret not undergoing this self-improvement sooner.  The order was faulty in denying Terari's genius. I must correct this error."
::Is there anyone who can help you, if you start feeling abnormal?
::"There is one place where my condition would not be considered unusual: The Asylum Sanctorium. The resident alienists there can best evaluate my psyche. A stable transference will be welcome news."''

After the quest, he'll say:
:''"I am one with Lord Seht's grand design. I can feel my purpose in my very core. My mind is free of the clutter of my living needs. I am no longer burdened by the weight of my decaying flesh. I am free. Thank you."

Dialogue
After the quest, he sometimes can be heard having a conversation with   in the Brass Fortress:
: : "You seem lost, Sovor. Are you feeling well?"
:Proctor Sovor Saryoni:  "I do not feel. Not as I once did. Nor am I lost."
: : "We had an appointment. Did you forget?"
:Proctor Sovor Saryoni:  "I am calculating the innumerable and it is beautiful."
: : "Why don't you tell me about it, at length, but let us return to the Asylum Sanctorum first. All right?"
:Proctor Sovor Saryoni: "I wish you could see the world as I do. It would make convincing you so much simpler. But I have time."

Or...
:Proctor Teryon: "You expect me to believe this is Sovor? It's an elaborate ruse, to your credit."
:Proctor Sovor Saryoni: "Skepticism is an appropriate reaction, but do not dismiss Terari as we did so long ago. Her theories are sound."
:Terari Heladren: "I didn't do this to get in the order's good graces. I didn't even do it because he begged me to. This is pointless, Sovor."
:Proctor Teryon: "Stop calling it that. Proctor Saryoni was a troubled man, but I won't have you defaming his name with your heresies."
:Proctor Sovor Saryoni: "It wasn't until death cast its shadow over my flesh that I saw the true beauty of brass. Do not wait too long to open your eyes, Llornil."''