Dialogue[]
| “ | In the sky you see a vision, written in the poison ash that chokes the sun. The Chaos god Nontraya murders your healing goddess, Chalana Arroy, beheading her with his scythe. <Number> of your people fall down with a palsy, foam the color of the rancid sky streaming from their mouths.
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— Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out | ||
Consequences[]
After this event, you will no longer have access to Healing and Curing blessings, you will only be able to put magic into Healing at Sacred Time if you have a healer on the ring, and even if you do, you will only be able to allocate a single point. In addition, clan mood will drop and a number of your people will fall sick. Sickness may soon become a severe problem, especially if you already have a lot of sick clan members.
A Healing spirit will help alleviate the loss; it is recommended to obtain one as soon as possible. In addition, you may try to explore a Gods War Gate in the hope of finding Chalana's son Arroin. If you succeed in Arroin's quest, you can ask him to teach you how to heal without magic.
Calling on the memory of Chalana Arroy to heal the sick will be followed by a prompt asking you to select how much you want to sacrifice. If successful, it will help alleviate the wave of sickness caused by the goddess's death, curing more than half of your sick clansfolk. If failed, however, your shrine to the goddess will collapse, never to be rebuilt.
Pouring her memory into her shrine, if successful, won't help right now, but means that later emergency rites to the dead goddess carry less risk of the shrine crumbling to nothing. If failed, your shrine will be at risk of collapse every time you draw upon its power in the future.
If you tell your people: “That’s only an illusion, sent by Chaos,” they may not believe you, telling you they saw it with their own eyes and felt it in their flesh. If so, Mood drops further. Alternatively, the people may tell themselves that what they witnessed was a trick and refuse to accept the death of Chalana Arroy. This refusal may have effects on the game going forth, but the interface will continue to act as though she is indeed dead. In that case, Mood improves instead.
Notes[]
This event can be prevented if you complete the Summons of Nontraya ritual before it triggers. The event text is a bit different if you have failed the ritual, or had a partial success.
Advice[]
- "The people will suffer greatly from this. We must wipe away our tears and give them strength." - Chalana Arroy worshipper
- "My reign will be remembered as the time the gods died." - Iverlantho
- "Gods are real, but it is also possible to see beyond them." - Sereden or Serestev
- "Succor the people." - Venef
- "We can’t let the people know how bad this is." - Erenlanth
- "Although Chalana Arroy never called me to worship her, I still feel her loss." - Agimori Adoptee
- "After we grieve, we must finish preparing for the Summons of Nontraya ritual, and avenge the goddess."
- "Ah no! If only we had been able to perform our ritual first!"
- "We can still draw on her memory to call down healing magic. Each time we try and fail the power of her holy place will diminish."
- "We already direct worship to slain gods, Orlanth and Ernalda foremost among them."
- "This is not as bad as it looks. Even if she is dead, Chalana Arroy can now heal Orlanth in the Land of the Dead."
- "Some people will tell themselves anything to feel better, and by “some people” I mean <advisor above>."
- "We will redouble our efforts against Chaos and take our vengeance for this grim day."
- "Let’s use the regalia we spent all that time hunting for to fix this. Oh, wait, I forgot. It’s completely useless!"
- "We must ready ourselves for the onslaught of Nontraya’s Unliving Army."
- "The Wheels contributed to this, by worshiping their own disregarded healing god, instead of Chalana Arroy."
- "Dead gods are nothing new."
- "We should never have abandoned the worship of the Rider healing goddess, Erissa."
- "It’s just an illusion! How can you not all see that?"
- "<Number> of us are sick right now."
- "I think I’m getting sick too."
- "Soon all the gods will be dead. Then we will have to decide whether to die, too, or go on without them."
- "It is a clever trick Eurmal is playing on Nontraya, just as Ty Kora Tek fooled him into thinking he’d slain Ernalda."
- "This was inevitable and nothing we did could have stopped it."
- "Our failure to summon a Nontraya priest has nothing to do with the struggle between the gods."
- "Our victory over a Nontraya priest did weaken the god, but he has regained strength."
- "Another woman murdered by a man."
- "How did Elmal fail to protect her, as was his manly duty?"
- "We will have to rely on spirits now." - Shaman
- "Look at the way those clouds turn in on themselves. Obvious fakery!"
- "This will hurt the whole valley."
- "The people can’t take much more truth."
- "With the goddess of mercy dead, only one way stands open to us: total war."
- "This happened because we were too open to outside influence."
- "Our ancestors weep." - Ancestor worshipper
- "Elmal stands sentinel at Orlanthstead, but Chalana Arroy doubtless left its walls to heal the suffering." - Elmal worshipper
- "Nontraya slew Ernalda, now Chalana Arroy. What goddess will be next?" - Ernalda worshipper
- "Anything is an illusion if you talk cleverly enough. Thankfully I am here to do just that." - Eurmal trickster
- "Humakt despises the General of the Unliving." - Humakt worshipper
- "Will he slay Inilla too?" - Inilla worshipper
- "Although we struck a blow against Nontraya, the gods aren’t bound by time, so perhaps to him it hasn’t yet happened." - Lhankor Mhy worshipper
- "Nontraya fled the underworld when Orlanth arrived there." - Orlanth worshipper
- "We must keep riding, learning, surviving." - Redalda worshipper
- "Will he take Uralda next?" - Uralda worshipper
- "We must find and smash the forces of Nontraya." - Urox worshipper
- "A day of terror and woe!"