Tavakai
Yes. You are all {guests} here on these waters. Waters that have belonged to us since the Beginning of Time. Our {Way} is our identity. It is beyond life and death. The Way gave us the strength to endure all the horrors of Wraeclast. Corruption. Disease. Slavers… Ugh. Never again.
Ranger
I grew up surrounded by that lesson. Survival of the fittest.
Huntress
My tribe survived by living in harmony… but now I’m on me own, with only me own strength.
Monk
We are promised a better world. But for now, it appears violence is the only answer.
Witch
Beyond life and death? Haha! Hmm… I suppose belief is a kind of strength.
Sorceress
The Maraketh have endured many of the same woes. All that truly matters is strength. What else ensures survival?
Warrior
I understand. As a child, my back was branded by foul hands. Some of my earliest memories are of pain. I vowed never to be weak again.
Mercenary
I can respect that. No one should kneel to the weak.
Druid
Folk are naught without a code to live by. I respect it.
Tavakai
Then my words are not wasted on you. Now… it is your choice, and you choose to be strong!
Tavakai
It can take many forms, yes…
Tavakai
Nothing does! The Maraketh know this!
Tavakai
We are promised nothing. We must make the world better for ourselves… with our own hands.
Tavakai
It is not enough to just survive! Why merely settle for that?
Tavakai
Return to them! You belong to your tribe, as they do to you. The strength of the individual is nothing against the tide of many…
Tavakai
Yes… I’d sooner join the Mother of Death’s embrace!
Tavakai
Respect is a beginning. But the code must be lived, every day - or it is nothing.
Tavakai
Strength is the key! And yet here we are… Slowly but surely, outsiders forsake us. The Vaal, the Eternal Empire, and now… the Kalguurans. I thought their leader, Dannig, was true of heart… until he allowed the harvest of our sacred whale! And it was all downhill from there… Twenty years ago, we allowed only four Kalguurans to stay here… and now look at this place. Ugh.