Mentill
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2 months ago It seems when the quests were first imported into DFU in September 2016 this quest lacked those lines of dialog. I fired up the Steam version of classic and confirmed those lines are present.
I'm guessing either a) this is one of the quests unable to be decompiled by the Template tool, and it was inaccurately reconstructed, or b) the text was modified in a patch to classic Daggerfall, perhaps in a fan-made patch. Someone might have to fire up 1.0 to figure it out, although the original import was implied to be from that version. Either way, it makes me wonder what other undocumented dialog changes there are in DFU.
Nulfaga does eventually tell you the password near the end of the game, which is why this text accessible earlier in the game was likely added/removed.
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According to the unofficial wiki (https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Concern_for_Nulfaga). Speaking to Nulfaga during the quest to get the unicorn horn (S0000003), she tells the player one of the following:
"United thoughts and counsels, equal hope and hazard in the once glorious enterprise joined with me once, now misery hath joined in equal ruin! Eternal, eternal, eternal ruin. I tell the door to my soul to shut up. Oh, my child, why wouldst thou not listen, thy ear, thy glorious mortal face, thy throat, and the arrow. Oh misery."
"Choosing out few words most horrible, let none them read! Verses, verses frame which with and other spells like terrible curses Heaven! Curse Oblivion! My boy! My boy is dead and let Tamriel tremble until he and I findeth peace denied. Shut up the door to his tomb and my home."
"Say, what strange motive, Goddess! could compel an arrow to my beloved Lysandus' bare throat? Did he die there mourned and blessed or are my pretty birdies all turned to graywings? Oh doorway to my heart, shut up lest I sunder thee. I search the afterworld, the underworld, and the world-between and no where do I find the lightness of my son. Oh, madness to thy breast I cling suckling!"
"We are only like dead walls or vaulted graves, that, ruined, yield no echo. Oh, this gloomy world, in what a shadow or deep pit of darkness doth, womanish and fearful, mankind live. How came Lysandus by his death? In a mist, I know not how. Oblivion not come yet? Shut up mine door and keep out its gray skies. I'll move it nearer by a perspective, or make a glass that shall set all the world on fire upon an instant. I cannot sleep; my pillow is stuffed with a litter of porcupines."
However, in Daggerfall Unity there are a few key word missing from each of these, making the puzzle to quickly enter and leave impossible to solve.
"United thoughts and counsels, equal hope and hazard in the once glorious enterprise joined with me once, now misery hath joined in equal ruin! Eternal, eternal, eternal ruin.
I tell the door to my soul to shut up.Oh, my child, why wouldst thou not listen, thy ear, thy glorious mortal face, thy throat, and the arrow. Oh misery.""Choosing out few words most horrible, let none them read! Verses, verses frame which with and other spells like terrible curses Heaven! Curse Oblivion! My boy! My boy is dead and let Tamriel tremble until he and I findeth peace denied.
Shut up the door to his tomb and my home.""Say, what strange motive, Goddess! could compel an arrow to my beloved Lysandus' bare throat? Did he die there mourned and blessed or are my pretty birdies all turned to graywings?
Oh doorway to my heart, shut up lest I sunder thee.I search the afterworld, the underworld, and the world-between and no where do I find the lightness of my son. Oh, madness to thy breast I cling suckling!""We are only like dead walls or vaulted graves, that, ruined, yield no echo. Oh, this gloomy world, in what a shadow or deep pit of darkness doth, womanish and fearful, mankind live. How came Lysandus by his death? In a mist, I know not how. Oblivion not come yet?
Shut up mine door and keep out its gray skies.I'llmoveit nearer by a perspective, or make a glass that shall set all the world on fire upon an instant. I cannot sleep; my pillow is stuffed with a litter of porcupines."Took me a while to figure that out I was missing something. I was trying all my favorite text puzzle solutions I could think of like looking at the first letter of each word or sentence. Just the capital letters. Nulfaga, Lysandus, open, mellon, banana.
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Windows 11 Pro 22h2 Daggerfall Unity Release 1.1.1
Screenshots were taken with mods, but it was reproducible without mods.