# Kneel before the Statue of Comfort.

**Quest Group**: 124776
**Steps**: 17

## Summary

Aal's faithful servant.
What causes you to cry out in a place like this?
Nourish yourself with my words,
carry yourself back to the fortress and rest.
Take comfort that your prayer has reached Aal.

## Walkthrough


### Step 1

- **Reward**: ...
(The dark aura emanating from the serpent dissipates.)


### Step 2

- **Dialogue**: This is the Statue of Comfort, said to bear the Blessing of Aal.
A serpent is wrapped around the statue.


### Step 3

- **Objective**: Kneel before the Statue of Comfort.

- **Summary**: Aal's faithful servant.
What causes you to cry out in a place like this?
Nourish yourself with my words,
carry yourself back to the fortress and rest.
Take comfort that your prayer has reached Aal.


### Step 4

- **Objective**: Why do I still retain the power of the dark sands?

- **Summary**: For you could not accept oblivion as your fate,
still unnecessary questions cloud your mind.
Of all Aal's servants, I appeared for you,
and in this apparition I will reveal the truth.
Time unlocks the secrets you seek.
Now that I have revealed this truth,
return and pray, for there you shall
fulfill the rest of your mission.


### Step 5

- **Objective**: Kayal prophesied that when the Blackstar descends, paradise shall find us all.

- **Summary**: Why fear the Blackstar's fall in the foreign lands to the west?
Why fear that the new world has yet to come?
Why do you seek to defeat the false Blackstar of the west?
Do you seek to be bestowed the strength to uncover the truth?
Finding the end to all your anxieties will not bring you respite.
The end is a new beginning,
as seeking the answers to your questions
and being awakened shall change nothing.
Take comfort, and spend the rest of your time
under Aal's blessing.


### Step 6

- **Objective**: Yet why do you, the prophet, have the eyes of a snake?

- **Summary**: ...


### Step 7

- **Reward**: Take comfort and spend the rest of your time
under Aal's blessing.


### Step 8

- **Reward**: Who dares summon me?


### Step 9

- **Objective**: Stand before the Statue of Comfort.

- **Summary**: ......!!
As if lying in wait, dark energy erupts forth.


### Step 10

- **Reward**: You draw out the presence hidden within the energy.


### Step 11

- **Reward**: Had that wretch not lost my skin,
I would have opened the gateway with my own might!


### Step 12

- **Objective**: Excuses, excuses.

- **Summary**: ...Your arrival here means he has defied both warnings.
Useless mortal...
Still playing the leader of the outcast, no doubt.
Chasing that pitiful dream of toppling the royal house.
To think I granted such a fool the chance to wallow in despair through mere lawlessness...
That was my mistake.


### Step 13

- **Reward**: I sought only to serve Her will,
yet now I must withdraw—how bitter a fate.


### Step 14

- **Objective**: What do you mean?

- **Summary**: Had I taken the key from you, all would have moved swifter...
Yet in the end, all things in this world are but fleeting shadows.
What must happen will come to pass, regardless.
Though I have failed, She has drawn ever closer to this world.


### Step 15

- **Reward**: Even if you have become king,
you shall never reach Her realm.


### Step 16

- **Objective**: Hold your forked tongue.

- **Summary**: Her will shall return you to the void.
Back to the primordial state.
In the end, all shall be gathered into a single point—
Such is Her will.
There are still those across the world,
awaiting that day in Her name...


### Step 17

- **Reward**: The serpent's words hang unfinished,
and you can feel the strength of Ibedor fading.