Lighter Than It Should Be

Walkthrough

Getting the quest

Get inside Krezk first (see The Gate of Krezk). You hear about the toys in either of two ways, and both start the quest at Rumored:

• Ask the Krezk Watchman at the gate "Heard anything interesting?".
• Ask Kasha Varo at the shrine "Whose graves are these?".

The carved toys on the graves only show up once you've heard the rumour.

Step by step

1. Look at the toys. At The Pool of the White Sun, examine the carved toys on the five little Krezkov stones by the pavilion (Toys). Most of them sit on the eldest's stone, which is a hand taller than the rest and says SORIN. If you like, ask Old Pavel, who carves suns in the south row from 9:00 to 16:00: "The toys on the Krezkov graves. Are they yours?". They aren't, and he says they were cut with a thumbnail, not a knife.
2. Dig up the eldest's grave (optional, but it helps later). At the toys, Athletics DC 13 digs it up. A failure still gets you there, after two hours of digging. The little coffin is nailed shut and full of stones wrapped in a child's blanket. There was never anybody in it.
3. Wait for the visitor. At the toys, choose "(Wait here after midnight and see who brings them.)". Time jumps to 1:00. A huge, bent figure with a goat's legs comes over the north wall with a carved wolf and sings Anna's lullaby in Anna's own voice, then speaks to you as you come near (Seen). Stay still and let him finish, ask who he is, or roll Insight DC 15. Every choice ends the same way: he repeats the line Anna sings every night, "Sorin, come in, it's dark", and you know him. He's Sorin, the Krezkovs' first son, whom Anna carried up to the abbey with a fever twenty years ago (Sorin Known).
4. The abbey comes for him. If The Abbot's story isn't settled yet, lanterns come down the switchback at once and you fight Sorin Pursuers among the graves: 2 Brides Before Vasilka (Flesh Golems), 3 Belview Brutes (Berserkers) and 4 Mongrelfolk at level 7 (5,150 XP); a third bride at level 8; one bride, 2 Brutes and 4 Mongrelfolk below 7. Fire is your friend: it gives the brides Disadvantage on their attacks, and lightning heals them. Winning moves the quest to Pursued. If you've already finished The Abbot's Bride, nobody comes.
5. Bring him home. Talk to Sorin among the stones and say "Come with us, Sorin. We'll take you home.". He follows you to The Krezkovs' House, where Anna Krezkova knows him and Dmitri Krezkov calls him one of the Abbot's things and wants him out of the yard. These bring Dmitri round:
   • "(Tell him what you found in the coffin.)", if you dug up the grave. No roll.
   • "Let Ilya meet his brother.", if Ilya Krezkov has been cured or at least made frail (see The Burgomaster's Son). No roll: Sorin carves Ilya a wolf with his thumbnail and Dmitri's anger goes out of him.
   • Persuasion DC 15 ("He's yours, Dmitri...") or Insight DC 13 (name what Dmitri's afraid of). One try each; a failure only gets a refusal, and the other options stay open.

Choices and endings

Every ending pays the same: Anna gives you the 400 gp they saved for a daughter's dowry, and Dmitri gives you his grandfather's mail, Armor, +1.

• Home (Dmitri turns). Sorin sits in the hall carving wolves with Ilya leaning on him. Godrick +3, Liriel +3, Thistle, Wren, Ratatouille and Kip +2. With Sorin home, Dmitri agrees to Clovin's Audience without a roll, and the watchman's news says Anna is singing again.
• Pool: "Kasha needs a groundskeeper at the pool...". Sorin sweeps the graves for Kasha, and Anna visits every day (Liriel +2, Godrick +1, Thistle +1).
• Mountain: "(Take him back to the stones. This isn't going to happen tonight.)". He leaves a carved sun on the step and goes back up toward the abbey (Liriel -2, Godrick -1).

If you're stuck

• No toys on the graves? You need the rumour first, from the watchman or Kasha.
• Sorin only comes after midnight, and only after you've chosen to wait at the toys. If you leave before he arrives, come back another night and wait again.
• He won't follow you right after you meet him. If the abbey's hunters came, you have to win that fight first. Then talk to him again at the stones.

Rewards

• Armor, +1
• 400 gp

What your companions think

• Godrick Pendlebrook: +3 you brought Sorin Krezkov home; +1 you found Sorin Krezkov a place by the pool; -1 you let Sorin go back to the abbey
• Liriel Dawnsong: +3 you brought Sorin Krezkov home; +2 you found Sorin Krezkov a place by the pool; -2 you let Sorin go back to the abbey
• Thistle: +2 you brought Sorin Krezkov home; +1 you found Sorin Krezkov a place by the pool
• Wren Featherfoot: +2 you brought Sorin Krezkov home
• Ratatouille: +2 you brought Sorin Krezkov home
• Kip Smudgewick: +2 you brought Sorin Krezkov home

Fights

• They come over the north wall in a bunch, lanterns swinging: the Abbot's Brutes, hairy and patched, and…, in The Pool of the White Sun: Flesh Golem, Berserker, Mongrelfolk. Scales with your level.

Journal

Related

• People: Krezk Watchman, Kasha Varo, Old Pavel, Sorin, Anna Krezkova, Dmitri Krezkov, Ilya Krezkov
• Places: Krezk, The Pool of the White Sun, The Krezkovs' House
• More in Krezk: Clovin's Audience, The Burgomaster's Son, The Gate of Krezk, The One-Horned Billy, The Pack's Runt, The Pool of the White Sun, The Waystone