It isn't bad enough that people are missing? Now I've got everyone around here in an uproar over rumors about crazy happenings in some cottage in Mahisha's Nest.

The rumors grow more far-fetched with every passing day.

Player: "What are they saying?"

Everything from Lepharists to talking beasts to mad Empyrean Lords.

I need someone like you--someone trustworthy, brave, and strong to check out The Lone Cottage so we can stop all the crazy rumors from getting any crazier.

Could you go to the house and see what's there, Player?

Player: Accept.

I appreciate having a Daeva around I can count on.

While they're only rumors, I don't need any citizens doing anything crazy. Let me know what you find at The Lone Cottage in Mahisha's Nest.

Player: "Consider it done."

Shhh! Don't let them know I'm here!

I thought this would be a good place to hide.

Player: "Why are you hiding?"

I joined the Lepharists a while ago to help Humans, but things weren't what I expected. At first, we were doing great things, but little things bothered me. Those little things piled up over time. Then one day, I got into an argument with my superior.

I punched him, and now I don't think he'll give up the chase. A Lepharist Revolutionary doesn't get to walk away. You don't know the things they're capable of....

Just pretend I'm not here....

Player: "I'll be going now."

Huh...Human... Talk to me?

Cuh...can't...can't speak well.

Player: "How can you talk at all?"

Huh...Hild...Human...was Human. Cuh...cursed...

Huh...hide in house from...huh...hunters each evening.

Juh...just want to be Human again....

Player: "I can imagine."

Are you...? I sense unusual Aetheric energy around you, but you couldn't be...

And yet...you will be crucial to Pandaemonium.

Player: "What are you doing here?"

Waiting... The thirteenth comes. I have foreseen it.

The thirteenth comes here only once--upon a midnight--without warning.

I await the thirteenth. Every midnight I am here to greet the eventual theophany of the thirteenth Empyrean Lord. You should wait, too.

Player: "Every night?"

So, a Lepharist runaway named Freki is in the house?

Well, at least it's not a Lepharist camp. I'll have to think a bit about what we should do about that.
Truly? A talking Ribbit? I've never heard of any Human being cursed and turned into a Ribbit.

Curses scare people. I don't think we can leave it like this.
So, an old man is ranting that the thirteenth Empyrean Lord will appear there?

Oh...that's not a good thing.