Corran

A town twenty years late. In Act 3 it is silent glass and the only voice is Aske's. Once Corran wakes, the work is its people: the woken townsfolk, Hollis and Brin at the well, and the Warden seal-watch nobody told to go home.

First Light (side_first_light)

• Giver / where: Aske (unaligned), Corran (corran), the well, Event_well; the glyph shows at Event_well_dawn (new).
• Available from: Act 3, after the glass has shown Aske's story (walkthrough-act-3.md, scene 2.3). startWhen: act3.stage >= 5.
• Story: After the third reflection, Aske says there was a Keeper with the five menders: "They always send one to write it down." The Keeper left something in the glass. At dawn, and only at dawn, a pink spiral shows in the clear glass beside the well: Recall, a reflected glyph. The player has to be at the well when the sun comes up, which means camping in a silent town. When it is traced, Recall's first replay shows the Keeper at the edge of the menders' ring, writing, then turning to cut the spiral into the glass on purpose, so somebody could look later. Before the town wakes the glyph shows in the stilled glass; afterwards it shows in the well water, which stays mirror-still.
• Stages:

{
  "id": "side_first_light",
  "title": "First Light",
  "description": "Aske says the Keepers always send someone to write it down. Whoever it was left something in Corran's glass.",
  "category": "side",
  "giver": "aske",
  "startWhen": { "flag": "act3.stage", "op": ">=", "value": 5 },
  "stages": [
    {
      "id": "dawn",
      "text": "Be at Corran's well when the sun comes up.",
      "completeWhen": { "flag": "side.first_light.stage", "op": ">=", "value": 1 }
    },
    {
      "id": "trace",
      "text": "Trace the spiral in the glass before the dawn light moves off it.",
      "completeWhen": { "flag": "spell.learned.recall", "op": "!=", "value": 0 }
    }
  ]
}

• Rewards: spell recall; aske.trust +1 (for staying up with her). No copper.
• Yarn: Side_Corran_KeeperMark, Side_Corran_DawnWait, Side_Corran_RecallReplay (Dialogue/Side/corran.yarn).

The Woken of Corran (side_woken_<name>)

• Giver / where: each woken townsperson, Corran. One small quest per figure.
• Available from: the end of Act 3, once Corran wakes, for each figure the player looked at in scene 2.2 or talks to after waking. startWhen: act3.stage >= 14 and (corran.looked.<name> != 0 or met.<name> != 0).
• Story: This is the walkthrough's "woken of Corran" hook (walkthrough-act-3.md, section 15; the twelve names are in section 13). Every woken figure has kin outside who aged twenty years, or a job that stopped mid-step. The errands are small, and the point is the person at the end of each one. Every errand is morality-positive and counts as an atonement deed (long_way_up). The walkthrough lists eleven names for twelve figures; the twelfth here is Abel, "a man halfway through a word" from scene 2.2.

• Stages: each figure is its own quest, side_woken_<name>, with stage flag side.woken_<name>.stage. Oren's as the sample:

{
  "id": "side_woken_oren",
  "title": "Oren's Goat",
  "description": "Oren was leading a goat to market when the glass came. The goat kept walking. That was twenty years ago.",
  "category": "side",
  "giver": "oren",
  "startWhen": {
    "all": [
      { "flag": "act3.stage", "op": ">=", "value": 14 },
      {
        "any": [
          { "flag": "corran.looked.oren", "op": "!=", "value": 0 },
          { "flag": "met.oren", "op": "!=", "value": 0 }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "stages": [
    {
      "id": "ask_around",
      "text": "Ask Marra in Sallowbank about a stray nanny goat, twenty years back.",
      "completeWhen": { "flag": "side.woken_oren.stage", "op": ">=", "value": 1 }
    },
    {
      "id": "choose",
      "text": "Give Oren your goat, or bring Oren down to Sallowbank to meet her.",
      "completeWhen": { "flag": "side.woken_oren.stage", "op": ">=", "value": 2 }
    },
    {
      "id": "tell",
      "text": "Go back to Oren.",
      "completeWhen": { "flag": "side.woken_oren.stage", "op": ">=", "value": 3 }
    }
  ]
}

• Rewards: every errand gives morality +5 and rep.facets +5 (walkthrough-act-3.md, section 10), counts as one atonement deed while morality ≤ −10, and gives the gift in the table. Giving Oren the goat sets home.goat = 0 (Marra: "Hens'll be pleased.").
• Yarn: Act3_Woken_<Name> is the walkthrough's opening node for each figure (scene 5.3). The errand nodes are Side_Corran_Woken<Name>_Ask and Side_Corran_Woken<Name>_Done, plus Side_Sallowbank_OrenGoat, Side_Halfway_DellaSister, Side_Lanternfall_KitFather, Side_Lanternfall_HobDebt, Side_Lanternfall_BelGrave, Side_Undermere_CorrFather, Side_Sallowbank_FitchTobin.

Tamsin's Teacher (side_tamsins_teacher)

• Giver / where: Tamsin Vale (Evane, Wardens), on the road or by letter; Mender Ansel Wray (new) is at Corran's seal-watch on the south road, Event_seal_watch (new).
• Available from: Act 3, after the Sallow ledger (walkthrough-act-3.md, scene 3.4), while Tamsin travels with the player; or any time after Act 3, by letter. startWhen: (act3.stage >= 9 and companion.tamsin == 1) or act3.done != 0.
• Story: This is the walkthrough's "Tamsin's teacher" hook. One of the five menders named in the ledger for the Sallow mending is Ansel Wray, who taught Tamsin her first glyph. He has kept Corran's seal-watch ever since, because he couldn't face Twinhold, and he doesn't know what his mending did. Tamsin wants to know whether he knew. If she isn't with the player, she writes: "Find Ansel. Tell me what he says." The choice is the player's: tell Ansel that the mending he cast tore the Sallow warp open and brought the glints to Sallowbank, or let him keep his watch without knowing. Told, he takes off his bands and walks to the Sallow warp to help Tobin keep it.
• Fights: corran_seal_watch (bestiary) only if the player starts pulling up seal-stones before talking.
• Stages:

{
  "id": "side_tamsins_teacher",
  "title": "Tamsin's Teacher",
  "description": "One of the five names in the Sallow ledger taught Tamsin her first glyph.",
  "category": "side",
  "giver": "tamsin",
  "startWhen": {
    "any": [
      {
        "all": [
          { "flag": "act3.stage", "op": ">=", "value": 9 },
          { "flag": "companion.tamsin", "op": "==", "value": 1 }
        ]
      },
      { "flag": "act3.done", "op": "!=", "value": 0 }
    ]
  },
  "stages": [
    {
      "id": "name",
      "text": "Ask Tamsin about the name she found in the ledger.",
      "completeWhen": { "flag": "side.tamsins_teacher.stage", "op": ">=", "value": 1 }
    },
    {
      "id": "find",
      "text": "Find Mender Ansel Wray at Corran's seal-watch.",
      "completeWhen": { "flag": "side.tamsins_teacher.stage", "op": ">=", "value": 2 }
    },
    {
      "id": "tell",
      "text": "Tell Ansel what his mending did, or let him keep his watch.",
      "completeWhen": { "flag": "side.tamsins_teacher.stage", "op": ">=", "value": 3 }
    }
  ]
}

• Rewards: no copper. Told: 2 × warden_band (Ansel's own pair), morality +5, tamsin.trust +1, rep.wardens −5; sets ansel.told = 1. Spared: rep.wardens +5; Ansel stays on the watch. Sets met.ansel.
• Yarn: Side_Corran_TamsinLedger, Side_Corran_TamsinLetter, Side_Corran_AnselWatch, Side_Corran_AnselTold, Side_Corran_AnselSpared.

The Ring of Stones (side_seal_stones)

• Giver / where: Hollis (Facets, the Girdle cut), Corran, the well (Event_well).
• Available from: after Act 3. startWhen: act3.done != 0.
• Story: The pale blue seal-stones Ondine's menders set round the well in scene 4.1 are still there, uncracked. Brin won't go near the well while they stand, and Hollis wants them gone. The seal-watch says the stones are Warden property and costly. Lifting them reveals why: each stone sits on a bead of glint quicksilver set into its base, the stuff that fed the warps. The player decides where they go: back to the menders, smashed in the square, or to Gessa, who can set them face down as a cap round the well. If Ansel was told the truth, the watch helps lift them. If not, lifting them while the menders watch means a fight, unless the player is Trusted with the Evane (rep.evane ≥ 25).
• Fights: corran_seal_watch (bestiary), avoidable as above.
• Stages:

{
  "id": "side_seal_stones",
  "title": "The Ring of Stones",
  "description": "Ondine's seal-stones still ring Corran's well. Brin won't go near it.",
  "category": "side",
  "giver": "hollis",
  "startWhen": { "flag": "act3.done", "op": "!=", "value": 0 },
  "stages": [
    {
      "id": "ask",
      "text": "Hear Hollis out about the stones round the well.",
      "completeWhen": { "flag": "side.seal_stones.stage", "op": ">=", "value": 1 }
    },
    {
      "id": "lift",
      "text": "Lift the seal-stones: talk the seal-watch round, or do it in front of them.",
      "completeWhen": { "flag": "side.seal_stones.stage", "op": ">=", "value": 2 }
    },
    {
      "id": "decide",
      "text": "Return the stones to the menders, break them, or give them to Gessa for the well.",
      "completeWhen": { "flag": "side.seal_stones.stage", "op": ">=", "value": 3 }
    }
  ]
}

• Rewards: Returned: 200 copper from the seal-watch, rep.wardens +5, rep.facets −5. Broken: 2 × facet_token from the street, rep.facets +5, rep.wardens −5. Capped: 2 × still_water, morality +5. Every route: 6 × glint_quicksilver from the bases. Sets corran.stones (1 returned, 2 broken, 3 capped).
• Yarn: Side_Corran_HollisStones, Side_Corran_StonesLift, Side_Corran_StonesQuicksilver, Side_Corran_StonesChoice.

Brin's Word (side_brins_word)

• Giver / where: Brin (Facets, Girdle cut), Corran, the well (Event_well; Act 4 calls the marker Mark_well).
• Available from: Act 4 and after, every outcome. startWhen: act3.done != 0.
• Story: This is Act 4's "Seli's word" hook, now Brin's word. Brin was halfway through a word when the glass took her, and she doesn't know which word. Hollis was teaching her to draw her own sigil, two unlike shapes like every Facet's, and Brin wears half of it on her collar. Recall cast at the well at dawn shows the moment, and Brin's mouth finishing the word: "wave". She wanted the low-wave half for her sigil, the shard the player picked up in the Shardfield. Without Recall, Hollis remembers it after a night's thought. The choice is the player's: give Brin the low-wave shard (they still know Pavilion Wake, and Brin will let them trace the shard at her door if it is ever sealed), or chalk her a copy to paint from. Brin paints her sigil, hourglass and wave. In the Mended world it is just paint and she knows it. In the Shattered world it glows faintly, like Fenn's chalk. In the Held world it is a sigil, and she's proud of it.
• Stages:

{
  "id": "side_brins_word",
  "title": "Brin's Word",
  "description": "Brin was halfway through a word when the glass took her. Twenty years later she'd like to know which one.",
  "category": "side",
  "giver": "brin",
  "startWhen": { "flag": "act3.done", "op": "!=", "value": 0 },
  "stages": [
    {
      "id": "ask",
      "text": "Hear Brin out at the well.",
      "completeWhen": { "flag": "side.brins_word.stage", "op": ">=", "value": 1 }
    },
    {
      "id": "the_word",
      "text": "Cast Recall at the well at dawn, or ask Hollis what she remembers.",
      "completeWhen": {
        "any": [
          { "flag": "corran.saw_brin_word", "op": "!=", "value": 0 },
          { "flag": "side.brins_word.stage", "op": ">=", "value": 2 }
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "the_shard",
      "text": "Give Brin the low-wave shard, or chalk her a copy.",
      "completeWhen": { "flag": "side.brins_word.stage", "op": ">=", "value": 3 }
    },
    {
      "id": "sigil",
      "text": "Watch Brin paint her sigil.",
      "completeWhen": { "flag": "side.brins_word.stage", "op": ">=", "value": 4 }
    }
  ]
}

• Rewards: amber_cuff from Hollis; morality +5, rep.facets +5. Giving the shard: rep.facets +5 more and item.corran_half_wave = 0. Sets brin.sigil = 1.
• Yarn: Side_Corran_BrinWord, Side_Corran_BrinRecall, Side_Corran_HollisRemembers, Side_Corran_BrinShard, Side_Corran_BrinSigil_Mended, Side_Corran_BrinSigil_Shattered, Side_Corran_BrinSigil_Held.

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