# Why did I forget you? **Quest Group**: 780778 **Steps**: 20 ## Summary You were such an uncontrollable child. Growing up, you begged me to tell you about your past. As it was too dangerous outside, I traveled the world with you. We learned about your tragic past, as the princess of a fallen kingdom... When we returned to Haemo Island, a stench of blood filled the air. I had to protect you from the people who had hurt Hwisa and tried to kill you. I deceived you when you refused to leave and made you drink from the Fountain of Oblivion. Then, I killed the invaders and became a Baeklang once again. ## Quest Text Steps ### Step 1 - **Reward**: If it weren't for you, I would have become nothing but a mere beast. ### Step 2 - **Objective**: Why did I forget you? - **Summary**: You were such an uncontrollable child. Growing up, you begged me to tell you about your past. As it was too dangerous outside, I traveled the world with you. We learned about your tragic past, as the princess of a fallen kingdom... When we returned to Haemo Island, a stench of blood filled the air. I had to protect you from the people who had hurt Hwisa and tried to kill you. I deceived you when you refused to leave and made you drink from the Fountain of Oblivion. Then, I killed the invaders and became a Baeklang once again. ### Step 3 - **Reward**: No doubt that you have a mysterious power that you don't even know about. Believe in yourself, no matter what difficulties come your way. ### Step 4 - **Objective**: [Tale] Lost Half, Baeklang ### Step 5 - **Reward**: But when your touch reached my mind, I collapsed, as I had been in the throes of chaos from my own wrongdoing. It was from that moment on that my time stopped from melting away, which even Hwisa the Enlightened couldn't do... ### Step 6 - **Objective**: Do you remember how we first met? - **Summary**: Yes, like that I became a Baeklang and was brought to this Island by Hwisa. Even when Hwisa left the island briefly to find a successor, I was still bound in madness. That's when you arrived as a newborn baby. I was in a very dangerous state. I could have easily attacked and killed you. ### Step 7 - **Reward**: After that, my heart was consumed by a darkness beyond control. I couldn't contain my anger, which turned me into a Baeklang... ### Step 8 - **Objective**: How did you become a Baeklang? - **Summary**: I didn't harm people at first. It was just a desperate act of self-defense. There are those who seek to eliminate all legendary beasts from this world. Not just us, but everything that's not human. Have you heard of the Centipede Market? You must be cautious of them. Your Heuklang can also become their target. I was chased to the point of exhaustion incessantly. Then, at one point, I finally attacked the person who tried to kill me for the first time. ### Step 9 - **Reward**: Even when I was dragged to Haemo Island by Hwisa, I couldn't regain my senses. Despite Hwisa's efforts, my condition didn't improve for a long time. ### Step 10 - **Objective**: I... don't have any memories of you. - **Summary**: No, that's not true. Your memories were just distorted by the Fountain of Oblivion. Do you remember the creature you traveled with before Hwisa the Enlightened took you? That creature in your fuzzy memory is actually me. I had gone mad and rampaged as a Baeklang, destroying an entire village, before Hwisa caught me. ### Step 11 - **Reward**: I waited for you, pleading and praying for the gods to restore my senses just one last time. Because I had something... I desperately wanted to say to you before I take my last breath... ### Step 12 - **Reward**: You were the only one who smiled at me when everyone else pointed their blades at me. Thank you for being my savior. ### Step 13 - **Dialogue**: Step... back... It's not safe... to be around me... ### Step 14 - **Reward**: I've lived long. Far too long... Bearing the fear and hatred the humans had for me... ### Step 15 - **Objective**: Listen to Baeklang's story. - **Summary**: My past began with meeting that child. The chains that bound me were broken by that child's touch. My heart became... as bright as that child's smile. However, because of those who targeted that child and me, it was dangerous for us to stay together. I had to make that child drink from the Fountain of Oblivion and forget about me to keep her safe. ### Step 16 - **Reward**: My life was destined for the flames of hell, until that one child stopped me with just one bright smile... ### Step 17 - **Objective**: Why didn't you keep searching for that child until the end? - **Summary**: As a legendary beast, my sins were too great to bear any longer. Soon, I will become a demon or a mere beast. I wished the last thing for me to see would be that child's bright smile. Perhaps my sins are too great, and even the gods won't hear my plea. ### Step 18 - **Reward**: If you happen to meet a child who travels with a Heuklang, please do not speak of me. ### Step 19 - **Objective**: [Tale] Lost Half, Baeklang - **Summary**: If only I could go back and relive those moments with that child, and have more time to talk... ### Step 20 - **Reward**: If you happen to meet a child who travels with a Heuklang, please do not speak of me.