Gareth's Tomb

Gareth's Tomb is a quest where you find and talk to King Gareth, the ghost of the last king of Dormaus Valley.

## "Someone Singing?"

*"This memory isn't like the others. Those are gleaming and vibrant with power. This is just quiet, and dark. You feel safe."*

To start this quest, the player must have the "Memory of a Song" Attribute, which can be acquired in the Memory Maze by the event "Someone Singing?". This will be the player's first encounter with the king, though they will not be aware it's him yet.

## Dungeon Delving

*"You have been to these mazeline warrens of stone before, or at least your body has. Someone helped you while you were accursed - are they down here, somewhere?"*

Once you have escaped the Memory Maze, the player can return to the catacombs and begin the "Delve Deeper into the Catacombs" event. Doing it for the first time will cause the player to meet with Mayor Maine who suggests the player to stop exploring the catacombs for their own good in a not so sincere manner, and pushing the "Memory of a Song" attribute to 2. After that, the player can play the "Delve Deeper Still" Event, this event has a chance of failure but can be attempted until succeeded. Succeeding in this event will finally progress the "Memory of a Song" Attribute to 3 and cause the player to get lost and lose consciousness in the Catacombs, being rescued once again by the ghost of King Gareth, who now has a proper chance of introducing himself to the player. It will also transform the player into a Royal Boar, changing their species to match, this being a side-effect of Gareth's healing.

After this event, King Gareth's ruins can be accessed any time by climbing down the catacombs and delving deeper into them once again.

## Flower Gathering

King Gareth's quest is progressed by giving different flowers for him to add to his collection, with each one prompting him to give you a lesson about how to be a proper ruler, while reminiscing of his past life. These flowers must be given in a certain order. The three flowers required to progress this are a Witch Lotus, which can be acquired by exploring the dark caves as the lowest reward for it; a Makarnan Fire Aloe can be acquired as a gift from the Slave Lion after befriending him in the "Return of the Slave Lion" Event; and the Rose of Muscard, acquired as a reward at the good ending of Titan's questline.

Giving the Witch Lotus prompts the first event "A Flower for the Lost", in which Gareth will teach the player of the ways of diplomacy as a ruler in a dance with them, and tell them how he met his wife. Finishing this event subtracts one Witch Lotus from your posession and progress you Connection attribute with Gareth to 1 and allows you to access the ruins directly from the Map of Dormaus.

Giving the Makarnan Fire Aloe prompts the second event "A Flower for the Brave", where Gareth will teach the player in methods of strength during a spar with them, and tell of his childhood before ascending to the throne, his father, a childhood friend of his from an opposing kingdom at the time and what the father eventually did once he found out about this friendship. This progresses your Connection attribute with Gareth to 2 And allows you to ask Gareth about his Kingdom on the Event "Ask Gareth about his kingdom".

## The King's Secret

Before the last flower can be given, the Player must raise their connection attribute with Gareth to 3, which is done by inquiring Gareth about his past on the event "Ask Gareth about his kingdom", where Gareth will tell his story from how he unified the kingdoms, up until his eventual downfall, caused along with the disaster that struck Dormaus, while hiding something from the player, something they can keep up on if they continue questioning him. If pressed, Gareth will reveal of an old power he has used to unify Dormaus, though he will keep his answer at that, requesting the Player to continue this topic at another time, Finally progressing the connection attribute with Gareth to 3.

## The Last Flower

Once the connection attribute reaches 3, the player can give the Rose of Muscard to Gareth in the event "A Flower for the Future". This event reveals to Gareth that his daughter had survived the disaster that struck Dormaus, and that he still has a living descendant in Titan. Gareth reveals that the old power he had used to unify Dormaus came from the remains of a Dragon God that his miners had found in the caves at the time. Touching those remains let Gareth contact this God and, once his wish to unify the kingdom was revealed, the God entered him and granted him the power he needed for his goals, a power to impose his rule over all his subjects, with them incapable of rebelling, only his wife capable of seeing through that. As their daughter grew, his wife felt that Gareth was becoming less of the man that she knew and more of the image of a lord that his kingdom had of him, once he answered to her that between his family and the kingdom, he'd chose the kingdom, even if it wasn't what he trully wanted, he began scouring for answers of what was happening to him, he found out that this situation he was in had happened to other great Rulers. He assumes that once he accepted that power, a part of him was abandoned and replaced by that power, granting him memories that weren't his. Eventually the his wife and daughter left the castle. He had tried to end his own life after the event, renouncing his title of Unifying lord, but didn't die at that moment, only letting out a monstrous being that caused the great disaster in Dormaus, and only dying after that.

## "Wake Up, Worldwalker"

at the end of the event "A Flower for the Future", the player experiences a strange dream of the genesis of the world, with each dragon that had helped in shaping it, through the eyes of one of these dragons, and revealing the beginning of what could have happened with those dragons. Finishing the event grants you a special Attribute: "Mystery: the Sin"

## A Pledge of Valor

After finishing the questline, the Player may ask for the truth about the power he had used to unify the kingdom. With the Player's consent, Gareth can show a remnant of his power to them causing the player to see Gareth as an almighty ruler and compelling them to follow their every order, they can either resist, remembering who the king really is, or relent to the power. If pressed further, the player can say they enjoyed the experience and ask for Gareth to fully push their influence onto them. Letting them do so will result in Gareth mind crushing the player into their royal knight. The end of this event gives you the "Valor" Memory to the Player.