Yzan Argenson/Dialogue

The following is a transcript of Yzan Argenson's dialogue.

Castaway
"[PlayerName]! You're alive! You must be freezing. Come, warm up by the fire, before you freeze to death! You look like you’re about to collapse from thirst. There’s a clean spring by the broken bridge you just crossed. Have a drink before you faint! [If the player found the clothes on the beach] You found some rags on the beach? Good. Wear them. They’ll keep you warmer than nothing!  [If the player does not yet have any clothes] You’ll catch a cold if you wander around without any clothes. Here, they’re not much, but wear them.  [Player]: Where are we, Yzan? The last thing I remember was our ship hitting a rock...  We're not far from home. You can see the lighthouse from here, can't you? Eto made it out too, he's making his way home to Cierzo to go get help.  [Player]: Eto made it out alive too? Thank Elatt.  He’s a Kazite, [PlayerName], he was born on a ship. This probably isn’t the first time he’s had to survive a shipwreck. One of my men went to look for survivors out near that arch. He hasn't come back yet... I'm worried he might have run into hyenas. If you're well enough, can you look for him? If you’re still feeling too injured from the shipwreck, go ahead and sleep in one of the bedrolls I laid out, and I’ll keep watch for Eto and rescuers. You look half-starved! Help yourself to the bread in the basket behind me. There's also plenty of Gaberries growing around here if you’re still hungry afterwards."

- Yzan Argenson

Looking to the Future
"[If the player had mugged Yzan earlier] Oh, great. It's you. Come to make my day even more awful? Well, too bad. I’m leaving Cierzo to go join the Heroic Kingdom of Levant. Maybe there people will treat me with some damn respect! [If the player did not mug Yzan earlier] I take it you've heard the news, [PlayerName]? Come to see your old pal off? I've got one little fishing barge to my name, and by Elatt I'm going to use it. I'm leaving for the Heroic Kingdom of Levant, never to darken this stain of a city ever again.  [Player]: Why so far away?  Levant believes that everyone deserves a shot at what they're best at, and doesn't have these backwards Tribal Laws to deal with. It's the rational place for a fresh start.  And honestly, the farther away I am from my dolt of a brother and that tyrant Rissa, the better I'll sleep at night!  [Player]: You have a duty to your tribe! You can't abandon it like this! Make me. This entire notion of Tribal Duty is oppressive at its core. My individual life is important, asking me to willingly sacrifice my wants and needs for the "collective good" is impossible. I refuse to be chained that way! [Player]: Good choice. Go chase your own dreams! That I will. I will chase the Levantine dream and make it my own. I'll take any risk over being trapped here by my brother's idiocy. [Player]: I take it you're not going to forgive your brother, are you? Not in a thousand years. Roland had one job, keep the lighthouse lit. And he couldn’t even manage that! This was preventable, dammit! This is the last time I let his foolishness and clumsiness hurt me. He can go feed a hyena with his own hide for all I care. I’m done with him. Now and forever. [Player]: How do you plan on making it to Levant? The sea can only take you so close. I mean, it's in the middle of a desert! We'll go by ocean as far as we can, then leg it across the Abrassar desert on foot. We'll be rationing water the whole way. If I could afford it, I'd have bought potions to help with the heat... but we'll have to try our luck without them. [Player]: Can I come along? I want out of this place too. I'd take you if I could, but you can't swim, and on a barge that small, you'd be nothing but a liability. I'm sorry, [PlayerName], but that's just not going to happen. If you manage to get to the Kingdom of Levant on your own somehow, though, I'll do my best to look out for you. If you plan to make the journey to Levant completely on foot, be prepared for a long, long journey. You’ll have to leave the Chersonese by going south east, then travel east through the entire Enmerkar Forest, and then finally south* through the Abrassar Desert itself."

- Yzan Argenson

* it is actually east to reach Levant upon entering the Abrassar desert, this is probably a minor mistake.