Waha Desher storyline

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Waha Desher storyline is one of the side storylines of Land of Lions DLC.

Waha Desher: Where the Djat No Longer Roost

Since the waters of Waha Desher ran dry after several severe droughts, the island's survival has relied upon regular deliveries of supplies from Taborime. The situation is causing increasing strain on Taborime's resources, and as such, Ketema has asked you to oversee the latest delivery.

• Retrieve the supplies for Waha Desher at Ketema’s Clipper, headed for Waha Desher
• Deliver the supplies to Waha Desher Trading Post

Waha Desher: The Lonely Island

Waha Desher's chieftain has invited you visit the island in the company of young Abel, the overseer of the oasis's stores, as thanks for your delivery of the supplies essential to their survival. This is a rare opportunity to investigate the mysterious droughts which have led to the slow demise of the land.

• Find Abel, the Overseer near the harbour on Waha Desher
• Follow Abel through the lower ksar
• Ask about Eyasu, the Herder, in charge of the awut
• Ask to enter through the door of the Ksar
• Follow Abel through the upper ksar
• Ask Abel, the Overseer about the walls
• Enquire about the house at the top of the ksar
• Follow Abel to the House of Bloodlines
• Ask about Matriarch Yara, the last of the governor’s bloodline
• Ask Abel, the Overseer what „abu” means
• Follow Abel to the cliff

Waha Desher: All That Stretches Before You

Waha Desher's chieftain has invited you visit the island in the company of young Abel, the overseer of the oasis's stores, as thanks for your delivery of the supplies essential to their survival. This is a rare opportunity to investigate the mysterious droughts which have led to the slow demise of the land.

• Select a place to ask Abel about it

Waha Desher: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

You've been sent by Ketema to investigate Waha Desher's drought problems. Abel told you that the oasis is highly saturated with salt, indicating that its water source has likely dried up. You'll have to find the oasis's source, and the reason for its drought.

• Seek the source of the oasis
• Enquire after the inhabitants of Waha Desher
• Find Yara at the Ancient House

Waha Desher: The Sorcerer's Apprentice — Yara's Wisdom

You've been sent by Ketema to investigate Waha Desher's drought problems. Abel told you that the oasis is highly saturated with salt, indicating that its water source has likely dried up. You'll have to find the oasis's source, and the reason for its drought.

• Seek the source of the oasis
• Follow and listen to Yara
• Select the wasi to find the kebeh
• Perhaps Abel can make sense of these words?
• You can ask Yara to repeat her story at any time

Waha Desher: The Sorcerer's Apprentice — What Lies Below

You've been sent by Ketema to investigate Waha Desher's drought problems. Abel told you that the oasis is highly saturated with salt, indicating that its water source has likely dried up. You'll have to find the oasis's source, and the reason for its drought.

• Seek the source of the oasis
• Remove the rubble on top of the cliff
• You can ask Yara to repeat her story at any time

Waha Desher: The Sorcerer's Apprentice — Blood of Kashta

You've been sent by Ketema to investigate Waha Desher's drought problems. Abel told you that the oasis is highly saturated with salt, indicating that its water source has likely dried up. You'll have to find the oasis's source, and the reason for its drought.

• Seek the source of the oasis
• Finish clearing the ruins on Waha Desher

Waha Desher: The Sorcerer's Apprentice — Ancient Shedyet

While investigating the droughts on Waha Desher, a local authority figure by the name of Yara, one of the last descendants of the late rulers of the oasis, has led you to an unexpected find: a hidden shedyet — a water-well — covered by the rubble of an ancient battlefield. It's an important discovery, and one which must be shared with Ketema, as the water may just allow the oasis to thrive once more.

• Select to investigate: Ancient Shedyet

Waha Desher: A Positive Report

While investigating the droughts on Waha Desher, a local authority figure by the name of Yara, one of the last descendants of the late rulers of the oasis, has led you to an unexpected find: a hidden shedyet — a water-well — covered by the rubble of an ancient battlefield. It's an important discovery, and one which must be shared with Ketema, as the water may just allow the oasis to thrive once more.

• Take a picture of the shedyet for Ketema
• Sail to Ketema’s Clipper, headed for Waha Desher to report the good news to Ketema

Waha Desher: They Came With Might, Hammer And Skill

Prompted by your discovery of the ancient well on Waha Desher, the Emperor has ordered a team of workers be sent to the island to clear the debris and restore the water source.

• Pick up Ketema’s workers at Ketema’s Clipper, headed for Waha Desher
• Take Ketema’s workers to Waha Desher Trading Post

Waha Desher: The Risk of Flood

While the prospect of restoring the flow of water to Waha Desher raises the people's hopes for the future, the chieftain worries that the old riverbed may not be stable enough to contain the flow, and that floods may devastate the fragile ruins of the oasis. He humbly asks you to visit Taborime and Kidusi Anitoni, to retrieve trees and plants capable of holding the land together.

• Sail to Kidusi Anitoni Trading Post to enquire about issehds
• Deliver the Kidusian trees to Waha Desher Trading Post

Waha Desher: The Trees of Life

No sooner had you delivered the much-anticipated trees to Waha Desher than the inhabitants set to work calculating where to plant them. All that is left now is to actually plant the trees — a task which they are happy to grant you the honour of completing.

• Select the markers to plant the trees

Waha Desher: And The Waters Rose, And All Was Blessed

With the trees planted all around the oasis, work has finally started on preparing for the delving of the canals and pools. One last thing remains: the workers await your signal to brush off the last of the debris covering the shedyet, before connecting it to the new pathways.

• Select the well to order Ketema's workers to clear it

Waha Desher: Preparing the Festival

Water, life-sustaining and abundant, flows once again in Waha Desher! It's a rare opportunity to celebrate, and a chance to bring out the songs and dances of old in honour of this miracle! As with all true traditional celebrations, this one should take place around the Oracle, and the chieftain has tasked you with repairing it so that it can be at its best for the feast.

• Repair the water temple for the upcoming festival!
• Deliver to Waha Desher Trading Post: 12t Mud Bricks

Waha Desher: A Grand Restoration

Refusing to destroy a history that stretches back millennia in the pursuit of an ambition, however noble, you have taken a stand to restore the oasis without razing the outlying buildings. The chieftain suggests you look to the renovation of these crumbling piles, to better restore the beauty that once was Waha Desher.

• Clear the rubble from the Oracle

Waha Desher: The Many or the Few

Ketema rejoices to hear that water has returned to Waha Desher. He now wishes to discuss his further plans for the island.

• Discuss Waha Desher with Ketema

Dialogues

First part of dialogue:
Tell me then: why should I squander any more of the resources I need to expand my empire just these islanders can feast and waste their days away? It is time for such irresponsibility to change. If Enbesa is to thrive and become great all must do their part, even Waha Desher. I will not have them merely survive; they must grow prosperous and contribute to the nation's efforts - or be left behind.

• Keep listening
  • There is land aplenty here, enough to feed the entire empire! These old stones must be torn down and water returned to the drylands. No longer will theirs be a language arcane to all - the time of industrious rejuvenation has come for the oasis.
    • This would destroy Waha Desher's unique identity!
      • That is the point. You think their manners quaint and amusing, but they are foreign and antiquated. There is no place for an alien culture in a united enbesan Empire. In restoring the oasis and farmland we will lift them out of poverty and make true Enbesans out of them.
        • Keep listening
    • Keep listening

Second part of dialogue:
My men will make ready to start as soon as they can. In the meantime I ask you to tear those forsaken piles down. We will need as much ground as we can to carve the deep canals and prepare the farmland.

• I will not be a part of this act of vandalism!
  • Then let them be your burden! I will not further bleed Enbesan stockpiles for ingrates and layabouts! If you so wish to keep this piece of mummified history alive, then let it be your burden to not let them suffocate amid the dust and rags of their dead land!
    • Take your leave
      • Triggers quest:

      Waha Desher: A Time of Duress

• As the Emperor commands.
  • It is no pleasant duty, but such are also the burdens of an Emperor. We must look to the greater good. History will remember the well-builders and unity-weavers, not the dust-and-ruins hoarders. And so we must settle our consciences with the guilt, that all may thank us for the prosperity this sacrifice will bring.
    • Head out
      • Triggers quest:

      Waha Desher: An Age of Iron and Industry

Ketema’s Path

Waha Desher: An Age of Iron and Industry

Though it may pain you to admit it, you cannot help but see the wisdom in the Emperor's words: no matter how charming their way of life or how quaint their mannerisms, the people of Waha Desher must take on their fair share of the burden that is raising a united empire. The land is too fertile now, not to mention too vast, to let it lie fallow. There will be fields aplenty here, and a new culture. The people will adapt and change, for the good of all. It's not a pleasant message you must deliver, but one which you feel confident will ultimately be for the glory of Enbesa.

• Sail to Waha Desher Trading Post to convey their new orders
• Point the workers to the ancient building

Waha Desher: Whence Change Comes

Though it may pain you to admit it, you cannot help but see the wisdom in the Emperor's words: no matter how charming their way of life or how quaint their mannerisms, the people of Waha Desher must take on their fair share of the burden that is raising a united empire. The land is too fertile now, not to mention too vast, to let it lie fallow. There will be fields aplenty here, and a new culture. The people will adapt and change, for the good of all. It's not a pleasant message you must deliver, but one which you feel confident will ultimately be for the glory of Enbesa.

• Remove the dead trees from Waha Desher
• Deliver to Waha Desher: 12t Mud Bricks, 15t Wanza Timber
• Wait for Ketema’s men to complete the water network in Waha Desher

Waha Desher: Fields of Gold And Green

The sheer breadth of Waha Desher's newly fertile farmlands is astounding to all, not least the Emperor himself. Such abundance has led him to believe the island would be a perfect place to establish a flourishing ceramics industry.

• Point out the second ruin to Ketema's workers
• Retrieve indigo seeds from Ketema’s Clipper, headed for Waha Desher
• Deliver the indigo seeds to Waha Desher Trading Post

Waha Desher: Fires of Industry

The regular crack and crease of Waha Desher's latest flourishing industry has only just become a regular feature of the island's soundscape, yet the Emperor has already revealed further plans for the oasis: the installation of an industrious textile structure that would could provide for most of Taborime's needs for clothing.

• Select the monuments on Waha Desher to destroy them
• Retrieve flax seeds from Ketema’s Clipper, headed for Waha Desher
• Deliver the flax seeds to Waha Desher Trading Post

Waha Desher: Let the Waters Flow

The pump and steep canals on Waha Desher are finally operational! It now falls to you, as mastermind of the operation, to have the honour of setting the machinery to work, and ushering in the new age of Waha Desher.

• Inaugurate the new water pump!

  Result: Waha Desher has been successfully unified

  Bonus: +15 Water Pumps Capacity

Individual Path

Waha Desher: A Time of Duress

A disastrous outcome! Your attempt at defending Waha Desher's legacy has led Ketema to prohibit any further deliveries to the island's inhabitants, leaving them to fend for themselves. The land remains largely barren, and they will need a new delivery soon, before you can attempt to find a way to make the people of the waha self-sufficient. You must now deliver the grim tidings to the chieftain.

• Sail to Waha Desher Trading Post to announce the end of Ketema's deliveries of supplies

Waha Desher: Knife's Edge

A disastrous outcome! Your attempt at defending Waha Desher's legacy has led Ketema to prohibit any further deliveries to the island's inhabitants, leaving them to fend for themselves. The land remains largely barren, and they will need a new delivery soon, before you can attempt to find a way to make the people of the waha self-sufficient. As you strive to help the island survive, however, the Emperor calls you back to his side: it seems he has further plans for Waha Desher. Suspiciously grim news.

• Establish a plan with the chieftain

Dialogues

Ketema refusing to support us is a terrible thing to hear, but I must thank you, in the name of all inhabitants of Waha Desher, for defending our island's legacy.

• Continue
  • Our supplies are already running dangerously low, a new delivery is crucial. Though the waters are returning to the waha it will take time - weeks, even months, before anything grows again. Time we do not have if we are to survive alone.
    • I will deliver the goods you need.
      • Your generosity does you credit, but we will need more than one delivery - we will need regular supply until the island can provide. We may not be many but the hard labour that is to come will make for hungry work, and there is little room on the island to store goods in quantity.
        • There is salt here aplenty. Perhaps it could be traded for supplies?
          • How astute! With your delivery completed we could set to organise trade - although we would need your help even there, as we have no ships of our own and our warehouses are small. But it would grant us time to clear the rubble from the per-iteru, raising the water high enough to reseed the fields!
            • Agree to the plan
              • Triggers quest:

              Waha Desher: White Gold

        • I will take care of deliveries. We must ensure the waha grows anew.
          • Once again you save our lives! As you will have it then. Once you have brought the first supplies we will will set to clearing the rubble from the per-iteru. This should raise the waters high enough to start seeding fields anew.
            • Agree to the plan
              • Triggers quest:

              Waha Desher: Restoring the Waha

Individual Path – Salt Trade Path

Waha Desher: Much-Needed Supplies

There is much to be done that the chieftain would gladly discuss with you, but once concern is greatest of all: ensuring that the Emperor's decision to forsake Waha Desher will not cripple the island's population and their livelihoods. A dismal fate it would be to see these shores forsaken; its lands abandoned to the shifting slither of snakes and the dull hoof-beats of masterless beasts. If this grim prophecy is to be avoided, there is but one solution: you must provide Waha Desher with a new delivery as soon as possible!

• Deliver to Waha Desher (20 minutes):
• 30t Dried Meat
• 24t Hibiscus Tea

• If the quest is failed, the quest Waha Desher: The End That Came To Waha Desher is triggered
• If the quest is completed successfully, the quest Waha Desher: White Gold is triggered

Waha Desher: White Gold

The Chieftain of Waha Desher turns to you, their last ally in this time of duress, in the hope you can help them construct the foundations of a salt trade on the island. Their reserves are thin, but there should be just enough to buy time for the land to grow fertile once more with the new-found water.

• Speak to Abel about organizing the salt trade

Waha Desher: Seherut-Ships of Salt

The Chieftain of Waha Desher turns to you, their last ally in this time of duress, in the hope you can help them construct the foundations of a salt trade on the island. Their reserves are thin, but there should be just enough to buy time for the land to grow fertile once more with the new-found water.

• Extend the warehouse: Deliver to Waha Desher Trading Post: 29t Wanza Timber
• Sell Seherut to Waha Desher: 0/2 Frigates

Waha Desher:Emergency Ahku

Waha Desher is still in need of considerable supplies to ensure their survival, as the population thins and resources wane faster than they can be hoarded. Unless a solution can be found, it is but a matter of time before they must choose to leave for a one-way trip to Taborime - or perish among the dust of the oasis.

• Deliver to Waha Desher (20 minutes):
• 15t Dried Meat
• 12t Hibiscus Tea

• If the quest is failed, the quest Waha Desher: The End That Came To Waha Desher is triggered
• If the quest is completed successfully, the quest Waha Desher: Restoring the Waha is triggered

Individual Path – Deliveries Path

Waha Desher: Much-Needed Supplies

There is much to be done that the chieftain would gladly discuss with you, but once concern is greatest of all: ensuring that the Emperor's decision to forsake Waha Desher will not cripple the island's population and their livelihoods. A dismal fate it would be to see these shores forsaken; its lands abandoned to the shifting slither of snakes and the dull hoof-beats of masterless beasts. If this grim prophecy is to be avoided, there is but one solution: you must provide Waha Desher with a new delivery as soon as possible!

• Deliver to Waha Desher (20 minutes):
• 30t Dried Meat
• 24t Hibiscus Tea

Individual Path - Continuation

If any of the delivery quests has been failed:

Waha Desher: The End That Came To Waha Desher

Despite your best efforts, you have failed to ensure the continued survival of Waha Desher. Famine roams the land, and the inhabitants have sent for you with heavy heart, to ask you to take them to Taborime on a one-way trip.

• Pick up the people of Waha Desher
• Transport the people to Ketema's Clipper for Waha Desher

  Result: Unification of Waha Desher has failed

If all delivery quests have been completed successfully:

Waha Desher:Restoring the Waha

Your efforts to help Waha Desher trade salt for sustenance have, for the moment, been successful. Never one to rest on his laurels, however, the chieftain recommends you turn to Kyria and Eyasu, two of his people, for advice on how to restore the island to prosperity.

• Plant The Crops
  • Contact Kyria
• Missing Cattle
  • Contact Eyasu

Waha Desher: Creatures Known From Nut Or Acorn

The chieftain thinks that Kyria is probably the most knowledgeable about farming in the whole of Waha Desher. She wants to show you how plants grow in the waha. The chieftain mentions that Kyria, an ageing elder, is renowned for her talent in nurturing and growing some of the rare plants that still grow on Waha Desher. He highly recommends you ask her for help in your attempt to restore prosperity to the island.

• Plant The Crops Contact Kyria
• Explore Kyria's Garden
• Enquire about the issehd
• Enquire about the orange trees
• Look closely at the crops

Waha Desher: Seeding Expectations

Having learnt from Kyria how certain plants could, if wisely planted, help life thrive in the waha despite the desiccation, you have now been tasked with finding the seeds of such plants and bringing them to Waha Desher.

• Select Kyria to announce you're ready to restore the oasis
• Pick up the seeds at Ketema’s Clipper, headed for Waha Desher
• Deliver the seeds to Waha Desher Trading Post

Waha Desher: The Fruit of Our Labours

At last, the time has come to execute Kyria's plan for the oasis, and start planting trees and crops to stabilise the land.

• Select the markers to regrow the oasis!
  • Plant the issehds
  • Plant the orange trees
  • Plant the crops

Waha Desher: Dangerous Dutiful Goats

However, Waha Desher's silence and lack of life remains a grim sight to many of its older residents, who remember a time of multitudinous life around the water and in the trees. Eyasu suggests restoring some of the local fauna progressively, perhaps starting with a herd of goats from Kidusi Anitoni - the beasts have thrived unchecked there for centuries.

• Retrieve a goat herd at Kidusi Anitoni Trading Post
• Bring the goats to Waha Desher Trading Post

Waha Desher: Creatures of Sand and Sun

No oasis can truly thrive without herds of animals to care for, but the conditions on Waha Desher will require none but the toughest creatures. Eyasu recommends finding an animal capable of resisting the tremendous heats which regularly sweep over the oasis, and bringing it back to Waha Desher.

• Find a heat-resistant animal, and take it to Waha Desher
• Optional: Consult a zoological tome in Kidusi Anitoni
• Optional: Find and observe herds of animals in the corners of Ketema's island!
• Deliver an oryx to Waha Desher Trading Post

Waha Desher: Wild Animals I Have Known

Eager to thin some of the abundant fauna gallivanting across his land, Ketema has genially agreed to let you keep the animals you caught. He has ordered cages of hardwood be built for them, and left them at his harbour for your convenience.

• Sail to Ketema’s Lighthouse and receive the gift

  Possible rewards: Oryxe, Wildebeest, Impala

Waha Desher: Flighted Heraldry

There is one last task to be taken care of before the oasis can be considered truly thriving. The return of the djat, the sacred bird and symbol of Waha Desher, would be a major step on the route to renewal - and it would go some way to culling the unpleasantly large population of mosquitoes on the island too. Eyasu asks you to track down this mysterious bird, often mentioned in legend, and bring a specimen back to the island.

• Deliver a djat to Waha Desher
• Infotip: the djat is embroidered on the clothing of Waha Desher's inhabitants

Waha Desher:Where the Djat Fly Once More

Against overwhelming odds, you've managed to restore Waha Desher to its original beauty and fertility — an incredible feat worthy of the highest praise! The chieftain encourages you to report the good news to the Emperor.

• Sail to Ketema’s Clipper, headed for Waha Desher to report your success

  Result: Waha Desher has been successfully unified

  Bonus: +15 Water Pumps Capacity

Waha Desher: The Mesyt of Waha Desher

With the waters of the waha flowing once more and life returning to a newly prosperous oasis, the time has come at last for the famed fertility festival know as the Mesyt! As the chief engineer of this miracle of life, you have been invited to be the guest of honour for the celebrations by the people of Waha Desher.

• Sail to Waha Desher Trading Post to participate in the Mesyt
  • Participate in the mesyt!
    • Observe the priests performing the rituals
    • Where is Yara?
    • Observe the traditional dancing

Waha Desher: The Oracle's Blessing

The Mesyt proved to be a unique, memorable experience. Now the time has come to take your leave, and return to loftier pursuits. But before you depart, the chieftain wishes to thank you by entrusting you with an ancient artefact, which has remained hidden within the Oracle for countless centuries.

• Select the artefact
• Sail to Waha Desher Trading Post to retrieve your gift

  Reward: Ancient Tabot of Waha Desher