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Mountain, they fear that she is trying to avoid marrying Falk. Father, who recently lost a leg, cannot follow her, so Cairon descends the Moloch mountain alone. He finds Calandra, but both are injured in a fight. They bandage each other's wounds, which Father has always strictly forbidden, and their blood mixes. The gifts awaken and both can cast magic from now on. They eventually fight their way to the kidnapper, who turns out to be a canibal and is in the process of eating a kidnapped man. Cairon defeats the cannibal. The player has the choice to kill him or let him go. If he is killed, the remaining prisoners die, as the prison can no longer be opened due to a magic seal. If he is allowed to leave, he will release the captives and disappear.
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the demon. So that Falk doesn't look completely inglorious, he arrests the conjurer. Falk then wants the wedding between him and
Calandra to take place immediately. Cairon confronts Falk in the church and prevents the wedding. Falk's mysterious mother turns out to be Azaril, who wants to awaken Falk's gift by marrying and sleeping with Calandra. Trusting that Falk will kill Cairon soon, Azaril makes a pact with Calandra that if she goes with her, nothing will happen to Cairon and father. Calandra agrees despite Cairon's protests. Azaril and Calandra leave town while Cairon and Father are imprisoned. Cairon breaks out of prison and kills Falk in single combat. Falk's gift then passes to Cairon, making him stronger.
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Calandra. Cairon finds out that instead of being cured of the plague as promised, the sick are thrown into a pit and there, according to Farnfeld residents, they die and find their salvation. However, the bodies fall into a tunnel and come out not far from town, undead. Ghamat forces her to search an ancient race's dig site for an artifact that promises a cure for the plague, but not for those who have already turned undead. Cairon eventually kills Ghamat and his power passes to him. He then has the option of continuing the excavations and not giving up the search for this artefact, or He can tell the residents of Ghamat's deeds.
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Calandra having to marry Falk. Fergolosh, the captain of the city guard, and Parel, leader of a gang of smugglers, can make this possible for him. However, both want Cairon to persuade a brothel in which a necromancer is up to no good to submit to the control of either the City Guard or the Cartel. Cairon finds the necromancer in the brothel and kills him. The owner wants Cairon to decide who to join. Both options have pros and cons for the city.
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related by blood to the summoner must willingly sacrifice themselves for the summoning. After Azaril shows up and captures Father, Cassio begins fighting Cairon. When Cairon mortally wounds Cassio, Azaril leaves Warunk with Father. With the last of her strength, she reveals to him that after Azaril captured father, she is the only blood relative left to sacrifice herself, and that's why she started the fight. Had she won, she hoped Cairon would have had the same will. Cassio dies shortly after.
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Calandra, who are now adults, arrive in the city of Warunk as refugees. What happened to Cairon's mother is not properly explained but she died shortly after escaping with father. A plague is raging in the refugee camp, killing many people. The Warunkers cordon off the city to prevent the plague from spreading. The three are stuck in the refugee camp when Falk, a powerful Rondrian, wants to marry Calandra and give them citizenship.
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process, learned from her but secretly worked against her. Calandra wants to start a new church and get rid of Azaril. Cairon meets Seghal
Monastery, who helps him to free father in the monastery. He and his father finally tell him the complete story of his origins, birth and gifts. When all seven gifts have passed to an Awakened, the "First Paladin" is born, which is said to be in bondage to Azaril, unless one breaks the seven seals,
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killing or sparing her. Calandra's gift is the ability to create portals, with which a demon can also get from the sphere of demons into the sphere in which the inhabitants of Dere are located. Calandra opens a gate to
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the ceremony, one of which was his own son, Cairon, and the second baby was a daughter of Seghal, Calandra. In addition, he took Cairon's mother with him. Azaril was too weakened by the demon's summoning to stop them. Azaril had to create seven seals of protection from
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Only the First Paladin has the power to prevent him from transgressing the spheres. The player now has the option to sacrifice either Calandra or Cairon. One of them transfers its gifts to the other, who then becomes the first paladin, who throws themselves against Zhulgaroth and prevents him from
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Azaril chose seven virgins and two men to beget these children. Father was one of these men, he sired three of them, the other named Seghal sired the remaining four. At the ceremony, all seven were born at the same time and Zhulgaroth bestowed the gifts on them. However, father stole two babies at
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Cairon and Calandra return to the refugee camp. They both have feelings for each other and Calandra asks Cairon to stop the wedding. Falk appears at the refugee camp and Cairon insists in front of him that the wedding be called off. Falk then says that Cairon should let off steam in the city and
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Zhulgaroth tells Cairon of the seven seals that must be broken to end the compulsion to kill. These are in the monastery where he was born. Zhulgaroth takes him to the monastery through a portal. There, Cairon meets Calandra, who became Azaril's apprentice, killed the last two Awakened in the
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