After the fight, Iris appears before you in her bedchamber. You can tell her you’ve met her before, as well as requesting the rose Olgierd gave her. Feel free to mention her husband’s powerful enemy, and choose answers as you wish. When the conversation moves to the wintery balcony outside, you can find out more about the rose, why Olgierd needs it so badly, and make the following decision:
Ask her to give you the rose (“This needs to end. I’m taking the rose.”). This forces Iris’ spirit from this world, and sets her two animal familiars free. They make mention of a “Man of Glass,” and to seek salvation in “glass that cannot be broken”. This is a clue to a riddle in the next quest. You are given the rose as Iris departs, and you appear back in the real world.
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Items: The Violet Rose |
Refuse to request the rose (“Not my place to decide Iris’ fate.”). While this doesn’t win you any friends with Iris’ animal familiars who are stuck with her for eternity, nor does it win Iris’ gratitude, you don’t leave empty-handed. Iris sends you back into the real world with an addition to her painting; you cut out the image of her carrying the rose.
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Items: Painting section of Iris and the Rose |
You are back on the manor grounds, and the quest concludes. Whether you have the rose or a painting of the rose changes a future interaction with Olgierd in the next quest.