Side questLevel 16
Quest giver Alyrloef
in Western La Noscea
Alyrloef finds Roehanth
's visits to the crypt morbid, since he mourns people he never knew. He jokes about hitting him with the crypt's stone hourglass, then fears he insulted Althyk, god of time. He sends flowers to make peace with the gods.
Camp Skull Valley's fight against the Sahagin: Halfstone fell when Leviathan
rose. It ends with the watch over Sastasha (MSQ #24).
Aleport and Camp Skull Valley (Ch. 7): the coast where the envoy's tour begins, facing the Sahagin and pirate smugglers.
certainly seems insensible to all but his pressing need for your service.'s presence is missed at Tidegate, and Alyrloef bids you hurry to the Founder's Crypt to find him. Speak to Roehanth, but remember that one disturbs a man at his devotions at one's own peril. at the end of his orisons, and the sight of the flowers in your hands disposes him favorably towards you. Place the spring stars on the grave.'s aspect loses much of that brooding look. There is a tale that brings the rough Roegadyn soldier to his knees thus, one you may learn yet by speaking to him., a headstone. Under the stone, a settler named Aerghaemr who breathed his last not on his farm, but holding a trail against the Sahagin as his comrades made their escape. Such is the man that this sergeant and former corsair has chosen as his lodestar.Next in the play order: Scythe Extra Large. Roehanth asks you to slay the last four mantises, since he wants no deaths near Aerghaemr's grave.
The lines worth a second look, in the order you hear them, and what each one means.
Ah, there I go again, blaspheming the Keeper. Not that I much cared for that poncey─and that's probably 'nother bit of abominating. Here, take these flowers. Roehanth
Threatening Roehanth with the lichyard's stone hourglass 'blasphemes the Keeper'. In other words, it insults Althyk, god of time. Althyk's symbol is the hourglass, as in Althyk lavender.
Aerghaemr was one of those, a farmer by trade. He stayed behind to cover the final retreat, asking for as many arrows as could be spared. Then he took off his boots and gave 'em to another, saying it wasn't far where he was going. And here he lies now.
Halfstone's fall, hinted at in Toxic Avenger, is told here. The farmer Aerghaemr gave away his boots and protected the others as they pulled back. The former pirate Roehanth tries to be like him.
The title is a nod to Daniel Keyes's novel 'Flowers for Algernon'. The novel ends with a wish for flowers on Algernon's grave. Here you lay spring stars on Aerghaemr's grave.
Who they are, and what they do in this quest.
Alyrloef serves at Tidegate with Sergeant Roehanth. He is angry that Roehanth is missing just when they may test a new cannon.
Alyrloef finds Roehanth's visits to the crypt morbid, since he mourns people he never knew. He jokes about hitting him with the crypt's stone hourglass, then fears he insulted Althyk, god of time. He sends flowers to make peace with the gods.
Roehanth is a sergeant who is missed at Tidegate. He is at the Founder's Crypt, praying at a grave.
Roehanth welcomes your flowers. At the grave of Aerghaemr, a Halfstone farmer, he tells how Aerghaemr held a trail against the Sahagin so others could flee, even giving away his boots. A former pirate, Roehanth now wants to be more like him.
The game was written in Japanese and rewritten, not just translated, for each language. Here is what the other versions say, next to the English.
| Japanese | エールグヘームルに捧ぐ ‘Dedicated to Aerghaemr’ |
|---|---|
| French | Des fleurs pour Aerghaemr ‘Flowers for Aerghaemr’ |
| German | Wider dem Vergessen ‘Against Forgetting’ |
Where is Roehanth? I told that barnacle the engineers were letting us take the new cannon out for a test. The Twelve know when the mood will next strike those hugger-muggers.
Also dieser Roehanth! Ein feiger Hund ist das!
‘Honestly, that Roehanth! He's a cowardly dog!’
To Alyrloef, Roehanth is a coward who expects to die. The English only calls him 'that barnacle' and morbid.
Where is Roehanth? I told that barnacle the engineers were letting us take the new cannon out for a test. The Twelve know when the mood will next strike those hugger-muggers.
Ein feiger Hund ist das!
‘He's a cowardly dog!’
English complains Roehanth is missing the new cannon test; German calls Roehanth a cowardly dog.
Where is Roehanth? I told that barnacle the engineers were letting us take the new cannon out for a test. The Twelve know when the mood will next strike those hugger-muggers.
まったく……ルーハンドの奴、兵器開発部の試作した新型砲弾の、試射をするって言っておいたのに……。
‘Honestly... that Roehanth — and I told him we would be test-firing the new type of cannon shell that the weapons development section prototyped...’
Japanese: the test is of a new type of shell, not a new cannon.
Probably over at the crypt again. Morbid, I call it. I like a good wallow now 'n' then, but he broods on dead folk he didn't even know. You go fetch Roehanth, I'd be liable to profane the lichyard by beating him about his thick head with that big stone hourglass.
Wir stehen kurz vor einem wichtigen Kampf, aber er treibt sich seit Tagen nur auf dem Friedhof herum. Er will sich wohl bei seinen Ahnen gut stellen, weil er glaubt, sie bald zu treffen!
‘We face a big battle soon, yet for days he's just hung around the graveyard. He must want to get in good with his ancestors, since he thinks he'll meet them soon!’
Probably over at the crypt again. Morbid, I call it. I like a good wallow now 'n' then, but he broods on dead folk he didn't even know. You go fetch Roehanth, I'd be liable to profane the lichyard by beating him about his thick head with that big stone hourglass.
Er will sich wohl bei seinen Ahnen gut stellen, weil er glaubt, sie bald zu treffen!
‘He probably wants to get on good terms with his ancestors because he thinks he'll meet them soon!’
English says he broods on dead strangers; German says he courts his ancestors, expecting to meet them soon.
Probably over at the crypt again. Morbid, I call it. I like a good wallow now 'n' then, but he broods on dead folk he didn't even know. You go fetch Roehanth, I'd be liable to profane the lichyard by beating him about his thick head with that big stone hourglass.
Er hat sich wohl schon aufgegeben!
‘He's probably already given up on himself!’
English threatens to beat him with the stone hourglass; German says Roehanth seems to have given up on himself.
Ah, there I go again, blaspheming the Keeper. Not that I much cared for that poncey─and that's probably 'nother bit of abominating. Here, take these flowers. Roehanth's at the Founder's Crypt. Give him the pretties for the dead, that'll clear my slate with the gods.
Donnez-lui pour honorer la mémoire du défunt.
‘Give him (the flowers) to honor the memory of the deceased.’
Den soll er auf das Grab legen und dann schleunigst zurückkommen und sich zum Dienst melden!
‘He is to lay it on the grave and then hurry back and report for duty!’
この「」を渡して、墓に手向ければ、奴の気分も晴れるだろうよ。
‘If you give him this and he offers it at the grave, his mood should brighten too.’
English says the flowers will clear his own slate with the gods; French says they honor the dead man's memory.
English says the flowers will clear his slate with the gods; German orders Roehanth to hurry back to duty.
English says the flowers will clear the speaker's slate with the gods; Japanese says they will lift Roehanth's mood.
Ah, there I go again, blaspheming the Keeper. Not that I much cared for that poncey─and that's probably 'nother bit of abominating. Here, take these flowers. Roehanth's at the Founder's Crypt. Give him the pretties for the dead, that'll clear my slate with the gods.
Aber ich brauche jeden Mann ...
‘But I need every man ...’
English jokes he is blaspheming the Keeper again; German says he needs every man.
Ah, you bring flowers! Come, no need to be shy, there's plenty of space. Small in life, he who sleeps here is large in death.
Ein angemessenes Symbol, um sich die Vergänglichkeit des Lebens in Erinnerung zu rufen.
‘A fitting symbol to remind oneself of the transience of life.’
English says the man buried here, small in life, is large in death; German says the flowers recall life's transience.
You'd never know now there was a hamlet here, would ye? Halfstone, 'twas called, built on the sweat of near ten score brows─and put to the Sahagin's torch. The settlers fought, aye, and how, with not a trained soldier among them.
Ich rücke bald aus, um gegen die Sahagin zu kämpfen.
‘I'm marching out soon to fight the Sahagin.’
English recalls a hamlet here that has vanished; German says he will soon march out to fight the Sahagin.
You'd never know now there was a hamlet here, would ye? Halfstone, 'twas called, built on the sweat of near ten score brows─and put to the Sahagin's torch. The settlers fought, aye, and how, with not a trained soldier among them.
Sie haben unser Siedlungsgebiet besetzt und wir werden es uns zurückholen!
‘They have occupied our settlement area and we will take it back!’
English praises settlers who fought without a trained soldier; German vows to take the land back.
You'd never know now there was a hamlet here, would ye? Halfstone, 'twas called, built on the sweat of near ten score brows─and put to the Sahagin's torch. The settlers fought, aye, and how, with not a trained soldier among them.
Ce sont d'honnêtes gens qui l'ont construit à la sueur de leur front, mais les Sahuagins y ont mis le feu.
‘It was honest folk who built it by the sweat of their brow, but the Sahagin set fire to it.’
French drops the figure of nearly two hundred settlers, saying only "honest folk".
You'd never know now there was a hamlet here, would ye? Halfstone, 'twas called, built on the sweat of near ten score brows─and put to the Sahagin's torch. The settlers fought, aye, and how, with not a trained soldier among them.
Les colons se sont battus mais, sans soldat parmi eux, ils n'avaient aucune chance.
‘The settlers fought but, with no soldier among them, they had no chance.’
French stresses the settlers were doomed; English stresses how fiercely they fought.
Aerghaemr was one of those, a farmer by trade. He stayed behind to cover the final retreat, asking for as many arrows as could be spared. Then he took off his boots and gave 'em to another, saying it wasn't far where he was going. And here he lies now.
以降、彼の墓はサハギン族との戦いで没した者の慰霊碑として、ここにこうして奉られている。
‘Since then, his grave has stood here as a memorial to all who died fighting the Sahagin.’
Roehanth visits it so the Maelstrom never forgets them. In English, the grave is just Aerghaemr's.
Aerghaemr was one of those, a farmer by trade. He stayed behind to cover the final retreat, asking for as many arrows as could be spared. Then he took off his boots and gave 'em to another, saying it wasn't far where he was going. And here he lies now.
Aerghaem, der hier liegt, war ein Landwirt, der voller Hoffnung das Siedlungsgebiet bestellte, für unser aller Wohl.
‘Aerghaem, who lies here, was a farmer who tilled the settlement land full of hope, for the good of us all.’
English says he stayed behind to cover the retreat with arrows; German says he farmed the land hopefully for everyone.
Aerghaemr was one of those, a farmer by trade. He stayed behind to cover the final retreat, asking for as many arrows as could be spared. Then he took off his boots and gave 'em to another, saying it wasn't far where he was going. And here he lies now.
Wie viele andere auch fiel er den brutalen Sahagin zum Opfer.
‘Like many others, he fell victim to the brutal Sahagin.’
English tells how he gave away his boots, not going far; German says he fell victim like many others.
Time was, I'd be hard-pressed to imagine doing what he did. Ye don't hold fast to much in a privateer's life. No pirate cap'n's going down with her ship and any cap'n who looks to loyalty more than gold is liable to have his throat slit. But now, I got to be better than that, don't I? I got to be more like Aerghaemr.
Sein Opfer darf nicht vergessen werden!
‘His sacrifice must not be forgotten!’
我々「黒渦団」も、彼らの犠牲をけっして無駄にせず、これからも仇敵、サハギン族との戦いに立ち向かう所存だ。
‘We of the Maelstrom, too, will never let their sacrifice go to waste and intend to keep standing up to our sworn enemy, the Sahagin.’
English recalls his privateer past and its lack of loyalty; German says Aerghaem's sacrifice must not be forgotten.
English recalls his privateer past and its lack of loyalty; Japanese vows the Maelstrom won't waste their sacrifice.
Time was, I'd be hard-pressed to imagine doing what he did. Ye don't hold fast to much in a privateer's life. No pirate cap'n's going down with her ship and any cap'n who looks to loyalty more than gold is liable to have his throat slit. But now, I got to be better than that, don't I? I got to be more like Aerghaemr.
J'ai du mal à imaginer ce qu'il a fait.
‘I find it hard to imagine what he did.’
French loses his privateer past: he simply finds the deed hard to imagine, not "once, as a pirate".
Time was, I'd be hard-pressed to imagine doing what he did. Ye don't hold fast to much in a privateer's life. No pirate cap'n's going down with her ship and any cap'n who looks to loyalty more than gold is liable to have his throat slit. But now, I got to be better than that, don't I? I got to be more like Aerghaemr.
Für stille Helden wie ihn werde ich mutig in den Kampf ziehen!
‘For quiet heroes like him I will go bravely into battle!’
German: a rousing battle vow, with no confession of his disloyal privateer past or wish to be better.
Time was, I'd be hard-pressed to imagine doing what he did. Ye don't hold fast to much in a privateer's life. No pirate cap'n's going down with her ship and any cap'n who looks to loyalty more than gold is liable to have his throat slit. But now, I got to be better than that, don't I? I got to be more like Aerghaemr.
それを忘れないために、墓参りは欠かさないのだよ。
‘So as not to forget that, I never miss a visit to the grave.’
Japanese: he visits so the Maelstrom never forgets the sacrifice; nothing about his privateer past or bettering himself.
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Where is Roehanth? I told that barnacle the engineers were letting us take the new cannon out for a test. The Twelve know when the mood will next strike those hugger-muggers.
Also dieser Roehanth! Ein feiger Hund ist das!
‘Honestly, that Roehanth! He's a cowardly dog!’
To Alyrloef, Roehanth is a coward who expects to die. The English only calls him 'that barnacle' and morbid.
Ein feiger Hund ist das!
‘He's a cowardly dog!’
English complains Roehanth is missing the new cannon test; German calls Roehanth a cowardly dog.
まったく……ルーハンドの奴、兵器開発部の試作した新型砲弾の、試射をするって言っておいたのに……。
‘Honestly... that Roehanth — and I told him we would be test-firing the new type of cannon shell that the weapons development section prototyped...’
Japanese: the test is of a new type of shell, not a new cannon.
Probably over at the crypt again. Morbid, I call it. I like a good wallow now 'n' then, but he broods on dead folk he didn't even know. You go fetch Roehanth, I'd be liable to profane the lichyard by beating him about his thick head with that big stone hourglass.
Wir stehen kurz vor einem wichtigen Kampf, aber er treibt sich seit Tagen nur auf dem Friedhof herum. Er will sich wohl bei seinen Ahnen gut stellen, weil er glaubt, sie bald zu treffen!
‘We face a big battle soon, yet for days he's just hung around the graveyard. He must want to get in good with his ancestors, since he thinks he'll meet them soon!’
Er will sich wohl bei seinen Ahnen gut stellen, weil er glaubt, sie bald zu treffen!
‘He probably wants to get on good terms with his ancestors because he thinks he'll meet them soon!’
English says he broods on dead strangers; German says he courts his ancestors, expecting to meet them soon.
Er hat sich wohl schon aufgegeben!
‘He's probably already given up on himself!’
English threatens to beat him with the stone hourglass; German says Roehanth seems to have given up on himself.
Ah, there I go again, blaspheming the Keeper. Not that I much cared for that poncey─and that's probably 'nother bit of abominating. Here, take these flowers. Roehanth's at the Founder's Crypt. Give him the pretties for the dead, that'll clear my slate with the gods.
Threatening Roehanth with the lichyard's stone hourglass 'blasphemes the Keeper'. In other words, it insults Althyk, god of time. Althyk's symbol is the hourglass, as in Althyk lavender.
Donnez-lui pour honorer la mémoire du défunt.
‘Give him (the flowers) to honor the memory of the deceased.’
GermanDen soll er auf das Grab legen und dann schleunigst zurückkommen und sich zum Dienst melden!
‘He is to lay it on the grave and then hurry back and report for duty!’
Japaneseこの「」を渡して、墓に手向ければ、奴の気分も晴れるだろうよ。
‘If you give him this and he offers it at the grave, his mood should brighten too.’
English says the flowers will clear his own slate with the gods; French says they honor the dead man's memory.
English says the flowers will clear his slate with the gods; German orders Roehanth to hurry back to duty.
English says the flowers will clear the speaker's slate with the gods; Japanese says they will lift Roehanth's mood.
Aber ich brauche jeden Mann ...
‘But I need every man ...’
English jokes he is blaspheming the Keeper again; German says he needs every man.
Rest in the peace of the Twelve, Aerghaemr...
Ah, you bring flowers! Come, no need to be shy, there's plenty of space. Small in life, he who sleeps here is large in death.
Ein angemessenes Symbol, um sich die Vergänglichkeit des Lebens in Erinnerung zu rufen.
‘A fitting symbol to remind oneself of the transience of life.’
English says the man buried here, small in life, is large in death; German says the flowers recall life's transience.
You'd never know now there was a hamlet here, would ye? Halfstone, 'twas called, built on the sweat of near ten score brows─and put to the Sahagin's torch. The settlers fought, aye, and how, with not a trained soldier among them.
Ich rücke bald aus, um gegen die Sahagin zu kämpfen.
‘I'm marching out soon to fight the Sahagin.’
English recalls a hamlet here that has vanished; German says he will soon march out to fight the Sahagin.
Sie haben unser Siedlungsgebiet besetzt und wir werden es uns zurückholen!
‘They have occupied our settlement area and we will take it back!’
English praises settlers who fought without a trained soldier; German vows to take the land back.
Ce sont d'honnêtes gens qui l'ont construit à la sueur de leur front, mais les Sahuagins y ont mis le feu.
‘It was honest folk who built it by the sweat of their brow, but the Sahagin set fire to it.’
French drops the figure of nearly two hundred settlers, saying only "honest folk".
Les colons se sont battus mais, sans soldat parmi eux, ils n'avaient aucune chance.
‘The settlers fought but, with no soldier among them, they had no chance.’
French stresses the settlers were doomed; English stresses how fiercely they fought.
Aerghaemr was one of those, a farmer by trade. He stayed behind to cover the final retreat, asking for as many arrows as could be spared. Then he took off his boots and gave 'em to another, saying it wasn't far where he was going. And here he lies now.
Halfstone's fall, hinted at in Toxic Avenger, is told here. The farmer Aerghaemr gave away his boots and protected the others as they pulled back. The former pirate Roehanth tries to be like him.
以降、彼の墓はサハギン族との戦いで没した者の慰霊碑として、ここにこうして奉られている。
‘Since then, his grave has stood here as a memorial to all who died fighting the Sahagin.’
Roehanth visits it so the Maelstrom never forgets them. In English, the grave is just Aerghaemr's.
Aerghaem, der hier liegt, war ein Landwirt, der voller Hoffnung das Siedlungsgebiet bestellte, für unser aller Wohl.
‘Aerghaem, who lies here, was a farmer who tilled the settlement land full of hope, for the good of us all.’
English says he stayed behind to cover the retreat with arrows; German says he farmed the land hopefully for everyone.
Wie viele andere auch fiel er den brutalen Sahagin zum Opfer.
‘Like many others, he fell victim to the brutal Sahagin.’
English tells how he gave away his boots, not going far; German says he fell victim like many others.
Time was, I'd be hard-pressed to imagine doing what he did. Ye don't hold fast to much in a privateer's life. No pirate cap'n's going down with her ship and any cap'n who looks to loyalty more than gold is liable to have his throat slit. But now, I got to be better than that, don't I? I got to be more like Aerghaemr.
Sein Opfer darf nicht vergessen werden!
‘His sacrifice must not be forgotten!’
Japanese我々「黒渦団」も、彼らの犠牲をけっして無駄にせず、これからも仇敵、サハギン族との戦いに立ち向かう所存だ。
‘We of the Maelstrom, too, will never let their sacrifice go to waste and intend to keep standing up to our sworn enemy, the Sahagin.’
English recalls his privateer past and its lack of loyalty; German says Aerghaem's sacrifice must not be forgotten.
English recalls his privateer past and its lack of loyalty; Japanese vows the Maelstrom won't waste their sacrifice.
J'ai du mal à imaginer ce qu'il a fait.
‘I find it hard to imagine what he did.’
French loses his privateer past: he simply finds the deed hard to imagine, not "once, as a pirate".
Für stille Helden wie ihn werde ich mutig in den Kampf ziehen!
‘For quiet heroes like him I will go bravely into battle!’
German: a rousing battle vow, with no confession of his disloyal privateer past or wish to be better.
それを忘れないために、墓参りは欠かさないのだよ。
‘So as not to forget that, I never miss a visit to the grave.’
Japanese: he visits so the Maelstrom never forgets the sacrifice; nothing about his privateer past or bettering himself.
of Camp Skull Valley: she takes over S'nairoh
's chain (Nest We Forget) and returns at the end of Ahldfoet
's (Scythe Extra Large, I Hereby Relieve You).