Thanks for coming, Player. I'm afraid to leave the observatory!

Our research on the Aetheric Field is crucial. The more we learn, the better our chances of stopping Aether--and eventually all life--from leaking out of Atreia.

Why would anyone want to attack us? Don't they understand that we're trying to save everyone?

Player: "Who threatens you?"

The Lepharist Revolutionaries, of course. They creep close at night, digging holes and measuring the distances among them. Every night, they get a little closer to the Observatory.

The Lepharists think we're unaware of them, but I spend every waking hour in an observatory. My job requires me to be...well, observant.

Player: "What's my task?"

We need to foil their plans, Player. But I'm a sage, not a strategist or a soldier.

The direct approach will at least buy us time and keep the observatory safe. Player, go to the Lepharist campsite down Calderon Hill and kill the Watch Bodyguards.

While you're doing that, I'll try to figure out the meaning behind their...excavations.

Player: "Consider it done."

Oh, Player, you frightened me! I thought you were a Lepharist, come to slay me in cold blood!

Did you get rid of the Watch Bodyguards?

Player: "They can't threaten you anymore."

While you were gone, I sketched out their excavation sites. My fears were right: They're trying to destroy the Observatory.

The holes they're digging are for explosives--probably acquired from the Shugos.

Player: "To blow up the whole hill?"

The Lepharist Revolutionaries are planning something!

They'll kill us for sure, but that's not the worst of it: They're going to destroy our research here.

Get back out there and save us from such a fate!

Player: "On my way!"

No, the explosions wouldn't destroy the hill...not while the power of Aether courses through it. But that would take...oh, no. I see it now...

You dealt with Tiamat's Sword in the Moslan Forest, didn't you? If it really can weaken the power of Aether, then they could neutralize the Aetheric Field here....

If anyone has the sword, it'll be Sentinel Leader Gattban. We have to get it back, Player!

Player: "I'll pry it from his dead hands."

Did you defeat Sentinel Leader Gattban and take Tiamat's Sword?

I prayed the whole time you were gone, Player. Without you, we would have lost our lives, the Observatory, and all our research into the disappearing Aether problem.

Player: "Here's Tiamat's Sword."

What have you been doing? Don't you understand what hangs in the balance?

Unless you take Tiamat's Sword from them, we are at the Lepharists' mercy!

Player: "On my way."

Oh, I'm so relieved! I thought for sure that either the revolutionaries, the explosives, or the collapsing observatory walls would kill us!

But you succeeded, and now we've got to get this sword out of here, for obvious reasons. I'll send it to Altgard Fortress under heavy guard.

Centurion Valurion back at the fortress will want a firsthand account from you, of course.

Player: "Blood for blood, Aurtri."

I've been getting reports from Aurtri about the Lepharists near the Observatory.

I figured Aurtri was merely being panicky, but now I see that the Lepharist Revolutionaries' threat was real indeed. We can't afford to lose that observatory--and we can't have that sword in the wrong hands.

Player: "Blood for blood!"

Blood for blood, Player!

Commander Suthran allows me enough discretion to reward valor like yours.

Take this.