A Larder Of Blood

With the Garkain slain, you remove its head, tie it to Roach’s saddle, and gallop back to the orphanage with proof of your slaughter. As you enter, you hear a child’s whimpering. Moving to the light, you catch Orianna feasting on the neck of the orphan boy. She releases him, thinking your task would have taken longer. After threatening to kill her, you fully understand this is Orianna’s own “wine cellar,” a larder for her bloodlust. After shooing the boy outside, he stops and pleads with you not to harm Lady Orianna; after all, she took the children off the streets, fed them sweets, and sang to them. Leave her be!

Orianna drinks the children’s blood, but never so much as to kill. Answer as you wish. Due to current circumstances, you let her live, and explain that the recent slaughter here was the work of a Garkain, one probably summoned by Dettlaff. After salivating over the sweet taste of child blood, you manage to get Orianna to focus on describing where the Unseen Elder’s lair is located: west of the city, across the lake, behind a cave near the shoreline. She places a stone in your hand that will open a hidden door.

You leave Madame Orianna with a threat; one day you will return for her. And she will be ready; this will be a “Night to Remember”!