Flickering Soul
Where to find them
Notes
It's Goshnar's Soul wandering in Zarganash. It's the main NPC of the Soul War Quest.
Transcripts
72 linesPlayerhi
Flickering SoulBe greeted, living soul!
Playerliving
Flickering SoulIt has been a while since I roamed the world of the living in a mortal shell.
Playermortal
Flickering SoulI had many names in my live. The one that would be the most recognizable is probably the name Goshnar. Even that was an assumed name that I took, when i left my mundane past behind.
PlayerGoshnar
Flickering SoulI was once known as the necromant king. ...
Flickering SoulFor some it was meant as a curse, others used the name with reverence. To me it was just another stepping stone, in a life that burned with ambition.
Playerambition
Flickering SoulMy ambitions were high and knew no limits. Mastery over life and death was but a milestone that I wanted to accomplish. In the end I aspired probably somewhat like godhood. ...
Flickering SoulThough in hindsight even that wouldn't have been enough. There was a hunger in me that nothing could put to rest.
Playermilestone
Flickering SoulEverything in my life was just a tool to further my goals. The brotherhood of bones was just a tool for me. As was everyone or everything. In the path I had chosen nothing mattered but me and my ambitions.
Playereverything
Flickering SoulNecromancy was a passion at first, another tool while I amassed power and a crutch when my ambitions surpassed that what it could accomplish.
Playeraccomplish
Flickering SoulI was so convinced about my brilliance, my greatness, my destiny. And this hunger for more, it let me not have peace at any point in my life. I was always driven. There was no time to rest. ...
Flickering SoulAnd there was no looking back. I never cared to remember my humble beginnings, what I had sacrificed to get where I was. All that I had left behind and that I had lost forever. ...
Flickering SoulNow I see the bitter irony. I could bring back the dead, but I couldn't create second chances. I couldn't restore the truly important things that I had lost.
Playerdead
Flickering SoulMy demise did not meet me unprepared. As a powerful necromancer I had fettered my soul in the living world and the realms beyond. I had prepared for my return and was confident in my power.
Playerconfident
Flickering SoulMy soul wandered the plains of Zarganash, waiting for my wards to power up. Waiting for my soul to be slowly pulled back and manifest in the world of the living once again. What I had not taken into consideration was peace.
Playerpeace
Flickering SoulZarganash was not a place without it's dangers but for a soul as powerful as mine, there was little threat at all. For the first time in my existence I had to stop running forward. I had to wait for things to fit into their places. ...
Flickering SoulAnd me, who had seen things that horrible, they would have obliterated a lesser man's mind, finally took the time to look back. And what I saw was frightening in its own right. ...
Flickering SoulA great tiredness overcame me. With the flames of my ambitions calming down for the first time since I could remember, all my aspirations and plans seemed to petty and futile. ...
Flickering SoulEverything I had worked for and my plans for the things to come seemed pointless and the things I had lost and never allowed myself to experience weighted heavily on my soul.
Playersoul
Flickering SoulI talked to other souls, lost in Zarganash and most of them seemed like mirrors to myself. Their faults, their shortcomings, the things that were important to them and the things they had lost. ...
Flickering SoulIt was all like miniature copies of my own grand plans and losses. It made me think. And the great tiredness weighted even more heavy on me. A weariness of the world, of the hunger that drove me.
Playerweariness
Flickering SoulThen I met a wise soul. A teacher that did not lecture. I never was impressed by anything but my own accomplishments but the inner balance and peace of this soul, it did impress me. A lot. ...
Flickering SoulI, who fancied myself to have been the epitome of knowledge, learned things that were entirely new to me. But this knowledge wasn't about power. It was about me.
Playerknowledge
Flickering SoulI recognized the extent of my folly and failure. I decided not to return to the world of the living.
Playerreturn
Flickering SoulI decided to stay here, even pass on into the great beyond at some point. Yet I still feel the pull of my fetters. I can faintly hear those who think they are my followers, calling to me. ...
Flickering SoulAnd I feel others, many others who carve for my powers and try to bring me back for their own gain.
Playerfetters
Flickering SoulOver my time in Zarganash I split away the parts of me that my worldly fetters where bound to. Yet I had to recognize that they are still a part of me and I'm bound to them. ...
Flickering SoulThe fetters and the efforts to call me back, are empowering them. I feel them growing in strength and gaining awareness on their own. ...
Flickering SoulThey are beginning to feed not only on the fetters and incarnations but also on me. As I grow weaker they grow more powerful over time.
Playerpowerful
Flickering SoulThe only way I can get rid of them is to disperse them, to 'kill' them so to say. But they are tainted parts of myself and even going near them might endanger my sanity and stability. So all I can do is to ask you to do this daunting task.
Playertask
Flickering SoulI'm aware I have no right to ask and I have little to offer as a payment, but I ask you nonetheless. Will you face my fettered vices and destroy them for me?
Playeryes
Flickering SoulThank you for accepting this burden.
Playerburden
Flickering SoulYou will have to reach each of the negative parts of my personality, I split away. They are hidden deep in the depths of Zarganash and will have corrupted and twisted their surroundings into dangerous nightmares. ...
Flickering SoulEven worse you'll likely encounter minions of those who want to claim my soul as their prize, for their own, depraved reasons. You will have to destroy my shards to set me free.
Playershards
Flickering SoulYou haven't killed Malice yet. You haven't killed Hatred yet. You haven't killed Spite yet. You haven't killed Cruelty yet. You haven't killed Greed yet.
Playerhate
Flickering SoulI hated the world for its flaws and the reluctance of people to comply to my will. I was convinced I was destined for greatness and to change everything. Ordinary beings were far beneath me and my consideration. ...
Flickering SoulAll this opposition, all the wars were a nuisance on my way to greatness. I would have sacrificed the whole world ton reach my goals.
PlayerFermuba
Flickering SoulMy daughter was as ambitious as me, yet she lacked my intellect and my raw talent. She still was great and talented yet I sadly let her feel my disdain. One of the many errors that my way of hubris made me do.
PlayerFerumbras
Flickering SoulEven in the lands of the dead this one caused a stir. The dead were whispering his name. It made me feel jealous and angry at first, but at some point, after much self reflection, I could recognize my own faults in the stories about him. ...
Flickering SoulIt was almost like looking into a mirror for the first time. However he lived way later than me and I never met his soul here so I can't tell more about him.
Playergrandson
Flickering SoulI'm not aware of the fate of my linage. Neither I'm able to relate to the mortal world in that way. Each of us is an individual, not bound by ties of blood or herritage.
Playerpale worm
Flickering SoulHis avatar might be destroyed for now and it'd grip on Zarganash considerably weakened. Yet he burrowed to deep into the essence of this realm to be annihilated this easy.
Playernecromant king
Flickering SoulThey called me the necromant king, in an act of reverence, but to me it was always more of a slander. To limit my greatness to this insignificant aspect was an insult to my ego. But I let it slip for the greater good. ...
Flickering SoulI felt it was beneath me to correct them and I went along.
Playerminions/followers
Flickering SoulI despised my followers for their petty agendas and for their limited vision of my own goals and personality.