The Exiled Champion of Earth

Scalebeard Raises the Water Titan

Captain Rhubarb brings you to the Dragonlands. Trasix takes you to Zelgarius, King of the Dragons, and explains that Captain Scalebeard has taken the Prime Water Dragon captive and fled to sea. Zelgarius stays to clear the pirates out of his capital while you and Rhubarb pursue their ship.

You fight your way aboard, but Scalebeard has already finished his ritual. He calls Leviathanius, the Water Titan, from the sea and uses the captive Prime’s power to bind it to him. Scalebeard intends to take the Dragonlands and leave the sea to the Titan.

The Siege of Dragon Capital

As the Titan lays siege to the capital, Scalebeard reveals that he served as one of Desoloth’s generals. He blames Zelgarius and his father for sealing his old friend away. Zelgarius remembers his father’s sacrifice as the only way to save his people from Desoloth.

When Leviathanius attacks the capital, Rhubarb throws up a wall of water, surprising you. Zelgarius breaks Scalebeard’s hold on the Titan. It turns on the pirate and returns to the sea, and you mean to tell Nevanna it’s still at large. Rhubarb remembers to ask what the king is paying.

The Treasure at Low Tide

After hearing what you did for Zelgarius, Victoria hires Rhubarb as Robina and asks him to come without his crew. The people of Rheum have given her permission to investigate their oldest ritual. Every year at the lowest tide, they weigh down straw dolls with stones and let the sea cover them, hoping the Sea Witch will return something she took. On the beach you find human skeletons pinned beneath stones, and Victoria realizes people once made the offering themselves.

Rhubarb recognizes the dolls’ clothes from his childhood. Victoria tells him the map was drawn by his ancestor Oxali. It leads to a prison, and the treasure she hoped might protect Greenguard is his sister Beryl, the Exiled Champion of Earth. Before you can decide what to do, the pedestal at the edge of the tide carries you beneath the sea.

Beryl in Alutea

Beryl mistakes Rhubarb for her brother until he introduces himself as Oxali’s descendant and calls her his grand-aunt. She calls herself the villain Neso imprisoned in Alutea after Rheum wiped out almost everyone who lived there. The Alutians had attacked the land first. Rheum’s warriors retaliated by crushing eggs in the nursery. Beryl insists Tremblor had never told them to destroy Alutea, though Rhubarb points out how easily an Avatar’s anger can sound like an order.

Beryl had left the warriors without guidance to visit Oxali while he was gravely ill. After the massacre, she accepted exile to spare Rheum from sending its people into the sea. She had no idea they went on drowning themselves in the hope of bringing her home. She wants to leave with Rhubarb, but Neso’s blessing on the one Alutian that survived also binds her to the city. She begs you to spare it.

The Last Wave

When the last Alutian follows you to the surface, Rhubarb holds a wave in place. Beryl uses the salt in it to restrain the creature without turning it to stone. Her hand begins to melt as Neso’s curse takes hold. Rhubarb stays with the Alutian while you take Beryl ashore, and persuades it to stand down by reminding it that Neso never asked it to spill blood.

Beryl lives long enough to see the waves at peace and to tell Rhubarb that his aunt loves him. She turns to seawater, and Rhubarb plans to carry her armor home to Rheum. Afterward, Neso and Tremblor admit what their anger cost the people who listened to them. Neso says the Plane of Water chose Rhubarb as its Champion, and the two Avatars promise that his family will suffer no more. Neso calls on him again during the crisis at Ashray.

Sources

Dragon Pirate release notes, Rhubarb’s Dragon Pirate and Dragon Capital quests, Alutea release notes, Victoria’s Low Tide quests, Beryl’s Alutea quests