# Yes. I have walked hand in hand with death many times.

**Quest Group**: 1897533
**Steps**: 15

## Summary

You possess a rare strength... one that does not turn away from the hands
reaching out from the grave, yet refuses to be dragged down into the dark...
With a heart that listens even to the undead...
...you are worthy to embrace both the living and the dead.
If your path leads you past yet more graves ahead,
will you... take up my mantle?

## Quest Text Steps


### Step 2

- **Reward**: ...The long requiem reaches its final verse...
I offer you my thanks once again...


### Step 3

- **Reward**: It seems you have already walked through a world of ash and dust...
...I can see the very despair that has reforged you...


### Step 4

- **Objective**: Yes. I have walked hand in hand with death many times.

- **Summary**: You possess a rare strength... one that does not turn away from the hands
reaching out from the grave, yet refuses to be dragged down into the dark...
With a heart that listens even to the undead...
...you are worthy to embrace both the living and the dead.
If your path leads you past yet more graves ahead,
will you... take up my mantle?


### Step 5

- **Reward**: Will you bear the sins of those who came before...
and honor this vow to offer a requiem for the fallen?


### Step 6

- **Objective**: I will.

- **Summary**: ...Then, I entrust myself to you.
Take this body of iron.


### Step 7

- **Reward**: ...Thank you, my successor...
I shall watch over you as you carry our vow into the light...


### Step 8

- **Reward**: ...The long requiem reaches its final verse...
I offer you my thanks once again...


### Step 9

- **Reward**: But... though the debt is paid, the sin remains.
The stain upon this name runs far too deep...


### Step 10

- **Objective**: Your descendants are doing their best to make amends.

- **Summary**: ...I see... I have left them with a heavy burden to bear.
The mark branded upon their lineage... it must have haunted them for generations.
If only I had possessed the strength to stop my father back then...
But there is no changing it; we are the children of a sinner.
Breaking the chains does not wash away our guilt...
...We must spend eternity atoning for those who were sacrificed.


### Step 11

- **Reward**: ...And so, I beseech you... for the last time...
May I ask one more favor?


### Step 12

- **Objective**: You have my ear.

- **Summary**: ...It pains me to ask this of you...
But what transpired here today... please, tell no one. Let it remain a secret.


### Step 13

- **Reward**: ...Thank you... and...
I am sorry for making you share this burden with me...


### Step 14

- **Reward**: ...The long requiem reaches its final verse...
I offer you my thanks once again...


### Step 15

- **Reward**: ...Thank you. Because of you... the wailing voices are finally at peace.
I will never forget what you have done... even if my own soul turns to ash...