Salvaging Questline

Whisper's Words 1
Whisper tells you that she comes from a far away place, and is the last of the Hirotoka Shinobi. You become curious, you want to know who this child with the old voice and this all-too-familiar mask is, but she wants information about Sephotep in return.

You meet Helga at the airship docks just outside the salvaging shop, hoping she can tell you what happened while you were gone. Helga believes that Sephotep is controlling Markos. As a great strategist on the battlefield, everyone from the Knights of Patreayl trusted Sephotep. Nevertheless, she says, they should have known something was off - but because the situation was dire back then, they didn't think too much about it.

In exchange for this information, Whisper tells you about the legendary school of the female Shinobi on the island of Hirotaka, to the south of Taikoto, where she was trained in the ways of strategy and stealth. But she never got to finish her training...

Whisper's Words 2
Before she tells you more about her history, Whisper asks you to look into the essence-absorbing crystals that grow inside of the cave in Lamavora. She believes that they might still be used in the Citadel for something.

Right at the entrance of the cave, you meet one of the miners. She seems to be in a hurry, and doesn't even pause her work as you try to make conversation with her, as she tells you that the cave is overrun by Chaos monsters, preventing her from going deeper into the cave. She explains that she is working under direct orders from Markos, something about powering the Citadel, but doesn't know or even care about the details.

You had to clear out the entire group of Chaos enemies inside the cave before she finally gives you a crystal sample. With a warning to not keep it in your pocket for too long, she goes back to work, and you hurry back to the city before the radiation from the crystal makes you grow some extra limbs.

Giving the sample to Whisper, you ask what the crystals are used for, but she doesn't tell you. Instead, she describes her home, a world in another dimension, far away. You are surprised to hear that even though she looks like a child, she is actually 300 years old. It took her a long time to learn the magick required to cross between dimensions and come here. How she describes her ocean world, dotted with islands with autumn-colored trees all year around, it almost sounds like a daydream to you. She tells you about the five Dragons they worship, and the schools of fighting and magick unlike anything you've ever seen. But as soon as you ask about the magick, she falls silent.