Basden

Basden can be found caged at the leftmost end of Mines behind a locked door. In order to reach him you must defeat Cave Troll miniboss.

## Dialogues

*"Thank you for your assistance!*
*I am Proffessor Basden of the Guildean Academy of Science.*
*I suppose you are wondering how I ended up in that cage.*
*I first arrived in Karthas nearly a year ago, searching for remnants of King Trell's caravan.*
*While staying in town, i learned of the cave paintings throughout these caverns.*
*To my astonishment, the paintings were made by an undiscovered tribe that lived here nearly one thousand years ago.*
*I named them the Ladori after these mountains, and began to devote all of my time to learning about them.*
*They're a very interesting people, but their sudden disappearance is what captured my curiosity.*
*My research was going swimmingly until one of those creatures sneaked up on me while I was studying and knocked me out.*
*The next thing I remember is waking up in that cage with a splitting headache.*
*I believe we have a common interest in finding out why people, both ancient and modern, keep disappearing here.*
*The miners were last blasting on the bottom floor, so we should head down there to begin our investigation.*
*Come, now! Together we can open the gate to the lower levels of the Mines!"*

*"Now, just stand there for one moment while I lock the gate in place.*
*That should do it.*
*Now follow me!"*

*"The passageway the miners opened is just ahead.*
*But before you continue on, perhaps a history lesson is in order.*
*The Ladori believed that the spirits of animals influenced every aspect of their lives.*
*However, at some point they began to worship a strange demigod called X'uta Ulak.*
*They believed this Ulak controlled an army of monstrous minions who would herald the Age of Darkness*
*This symbol is what the Ladori used to represent Ulak.*
*It is also the last evidence I have been able to find of the tribe before they vanished without a trace.*
*What could have happened to them?*
*Could this Ulak be connected to the monsters and the disappearances?*
*The answers we seek must lie beyond the passage ahead!*
*I will wait here until you've cleared the way."*

*"Astounding work!*
*Never in all my life have I seen such a skilled fighter.*
*With my brains and your brawn, we may just have a chance of getting to the bottom of this.*
*Now let's hurry - time is of the essence!"*

*"This place is incredible!*
*I have learned more about the Ladori in the last hour than I have in the pasy year.*
*Many artifacts are buried here among the deadm but this one is the most intriguing.*
*These inscriptions say that Ulak ordered the Shaman to move his people underground.*
*Then the tribe turned its attention to the construction of the Temple you see in this carving.*
*It goes on to say that countless generations of Ladori died during the construction of the Temple.*
*Their remains were placed in these Catacombs to await the Age of Darkness, when they would rise again.*
*If they built this Temple, where could it be?*
*And why was it so important?*
*Please, continue on without me and see what else you can find.*
*I will catch up when I finish here."*

*"Absolutely astonishing!*
*How can all of this plant life flourish where there is no sunlight?*
*Unfortunately, there is no time to speculate now.*
*Tally-ho!"*

*"These tablets contain a trove of information recorded by the Ladori!*
*The language has advanced rapidly, but I am doing my best to translate it.*
*It seems all this began when the tribe found a peculiar stone deep in the Mines.*
*This Shadow Gem, as the tribe called it, reflected no light and was said to have a strange aura of energy.*
*The gem gave the Shaman what he had always wanted: the power to visit the Spirit Plane.*
*The Ladori believed that the Spirit Plane was a place between worlds where powerful spirits reside.*
*It was in that place that he first made contact with Ulak.*
*When he returned to his body, the Shaman had powers that made the tribe fear him.*
*He told the tribe of the coming Age of Darkness, when Ulak and his monstrous minions would conquer our world.*
*The Shaman then commanded the tribe to begin preparing this place for the arrival of Ulak and its army.*
*Could the monsters roaming these corridors be the first wave of an invasion?*
*And could the temple the Ladori were building be part of these preparations?*
*you should continue on ahead and see if you can locate the Temple.*
*I'm going to stay here and finish these translations."*