Wraithing in Anticipation

**Wraithing in Anticipation** is a series of quests that begins during the questline of Glam-more, as you exit the Gloaming after planting Anemone Seeds.

The wraith will only reveal itself after the Fall election is over. You must complete this quest before the Sophia's trial to banish the wraith from Natalia.

## Dialogue

Quest intro:

* Tara: Woah. Did you see that?
* Herbalist Violet: That terrifying streaky ghost-thing? Yeah, hard not to!
* Tara: We better get back to the coven. That – thing – was headed straight for the portal to the stone circle!
* Tara: Whew, that all turned out fi – I take it back. Holy moly, what happened here?
* High Priestess Lina: That wraith came straight out of the stone circle. We were so worried about you two!
* Herbalist Violet: It’s all good, Lina. Nothing happened to us.
* Tara: Is this our fault?
* Farseer Shelby: That spirit got through because it’s been harder and harder to balance the Wellspring. Not your doing, so don’t worry yourself about it.
* Tara: During Summer, Peri mentioned she was concerned about the wraiths…
* High Priestess Lina: As well she should be. They’re dangerous spirits born of the places where the Wellspring’s magic has been sucked dry.
* Adept Amira: Some of those jinn have been trapped inside the Gloaming for centuries. This one got past us because it’s darker than most, and more powerful. We must find and bind that jinni again.
* Tara: Can I help?
* High Priestess Lina: We must wait for it to reveal itself. In the meantime, be careful getting home tonight.

Wait for the wraith to reveal itself.

* Tara: Oh, hi Lina, what’s up?
* Lina: Trouble, I think. Mayor Otto has called an emergency town meeting and there’s a feeling in the air that has me pretty jumpy.
* Tara: So far, I’ve had bad experiences with town hall meetings in general, so… Alright, let’s go!
* Violet: I don’t wanna go in there and listen to Otto. Not after last night.
* Tara: Me, either. But it’ll look suspicious if we don’t go. Come on.
* Mayor Otto: Thank you all for joining me. I know it’s early, but this is an emergency. I received an anonymous tip yesterday that confirms what I suspected: there are witches in Fairhaven.
* Cameron: I knew it! I could sense the Malcontents!
* Mayor Otto: Simmer down, simmer down. What we need now is information. Has anyone seen or heard anything… unnatural?
* Thomas: I don’t like the woods, same as you, but isn’t there a less public way to-
* Natalia: It’s Sophia. Sophia is the witch! I’ve seen her!
* Tara: Oh, no.
* Mayor Otto: Doing – what?
* Natalia: Going out into the woods late at night.
* Sophia: I – I was just looking for Juliet! She didn’t come home by curfew!
* Damon: Ag, Natalia, Sophia’s not a witch. She’d never hurt anyone.
* Cameron: Malcontents have a way of tricking the innocent into defending them.
* Sophia: I can’t believe this… you think… you think I’d really…?
* Mayor Otto: Quiet! We need order now more than ever! I will investigate Natalia’s claims as fully as I can. We’ll hold a trial for Sophia a week from today.
* Violet: You can’t do that!
* Tara: Shhhhh.
* Mayor Otto: I can, and I have to. Something’s been troubling Fairhaven since – since I was a little boy. And we will figure out what it is. See you all next week. And in the meantime, stay safe.
* [Outside Town Hall]
* Damon: Why would Natalia say that? She always seemed nice…
* Tara: It wasn’t Natalia, was it? It was the wraith.
* Violet: The wraith’s messing with someone already?
* Tara: Natalia’s never acted like that before. She’s as sweet as Sophia.
* Damon: Maybe the High Priestess knows how to fix this. We’ll find out tonight, yeah?
* Violet: We better. Because we have to fix this.

Speak to the High Priestess about the accusation.

* High Priestess Lina: Adept, did you get a chance to examine Natalia?
* Adept Amira: I did. I asked her to stop by the clinic for a cup of tea.
* High Priestess Lina: And?
* Adept Amira: It’s as we all feared. The wraith that escaped the Gloaming last night has possessed Natalia.
* Herbalist Violet: This is all my fault. If we hadn’t gone into the Gloaming-
* Adept Amira: That shouldn’t have destabilized the Wellspring so profoundly. Something strange is going on.
* Tara: How do we get Natalia to take back what she said?
* Farseer Shelby: This happened to a cousin of mine when I was a boy. Banishment is the only way to make a wraith leave for good.
* High Priestess Lina: That’s complicated magic.
* Farseer Shelby: Well. Complicated problems call for complicated magic, don’t they now. We’ll need something Natalia’s made with her hands. Next, somethin’ that carries a memory dear to her.
* Adept Amira: And we will need a sapphire to capture the jinni and fennel seed powder to bind it.
* Tara: Fennel seed powder?
* Adept Amira: If you grow some Fennel you can pound it up in your mortar and pestle.
* Tara: Can’t I just grind up the seeds instead of growing them?
* Adept Amira: Nonsense, we need fresh seeds from fresh fennel.
* High Priestess Lina: Novice, can you gather these four things?
* Tara: I’ll do my best.
* Farseer Shelby: Bring the things that hold a part of Natalia – what she’s made, and what carries a memory – to me once yah’ve got ‘em. I’ll look within ‘em. If they’re powerful enough, I’ll show yah how to make the banishment incantation.
* Adept Amira: Be swift. Sophia only has a week until her trial.

Gather the ingredients for the banishment incantation to free Natalia of the wraith.

* Tara: Farseer? I have something to show you. How about this Iron she made?
* Farseer Shelby: Good, good. Hand it to me and I’ll read it.
* Tara: How do you read something without words?
* Farseer Shelby: You give it a darn close look, of course! Hmmmm. Let’s see… Careful man, careful! What are ya doin’?
* Tara: Who?
* Farseer Shelby: Ach, she would curse ya, wouldn’t she? She’s bitter…
* Tara: Tell me what you’re seeing.
* Farseer Shelby: You can’t see-? Ah, sorry. I saw a man – musta been Natalia’s pa. And a woman. Not Natalia’s ma. Daughter of the local babka.
* Tara: Babka? Isn’t that a pastry?
* Farseer Shelby: It also means spirit whisperer. A witch. Looks like Natalia’s pa fell in love with a babka’s daughter back in Russia. But the girl died, and the babka cursed her pa with bad luck… … a curse that he passed on to his daughter years later.
* Tara: Natalia.
* Farseer Shelby: That’s right. Yah’ve done well, Novice. We can use this for the incantation. Come back when yah’ve got something else to show me.

* Tara: Here, Farseer. Something else that holds a bit of Natalia in it.
* Farseer Shelby: I’ve been lookin’ forward to this. I want to see how Natalia’s story goes.
* Tara: So do I.
* Farseer Shelby: So many miles above the sea…
* Tara: I’ll wait for him to finish.
* Farseer Shelby: There you are, Miss Kuznetsova. And there’s the babka, still alive… I’ve aged better than her, heh…
* Tara: What did Natalia do?
* Farseer Shelby: She flew all the way back to her pa’s village in Russia to ask the babka to lift the curse. Brave of her. The babka gave her an old hammer… *this* hammer. Belonged to Natalia’s grandpa’s pa… and told her that if she used the hammer, her fortunes would be set right.
* Tara: So that’s why she became a blacksmith so suddenly.
* Farseer Shelby: Seems that way.
* Tara: But Natalia still thinks she suffers from misfortune. Did the babka lie?
* Farseer Shelby: Eh. Dunno. No surprise that Natalia’s fed up with witches, though. Ya can get started on this incantation, Novice. Findin’ out which parts of Natalia the wraith latched onto was the hard part.

Craft the banishment incantation at the desk.

* Tara: I have the incantation ready. Can we rid Natalia of the wraith now?
* High Priestess Lina: Good, but we must wait until it is exerting its influence. At that time, it will be weakened enough to banish. It is sure to do so at Sophia’s trial, so we must wait until then.

Now that the incantation is prepared, there’s nothing to do but wait until Sophia’s witch trial to use it.