Audience with the Arbiter

Audience with the Arbiter
The Arbiter and Tal-Inara
Start	Tal-Inara [40.8, 65.8]
End	Overseer Kah-Delen [39.8, 66.1]
Level	50 (Requires 48)
Category	Shadowlands Campaign
Experience	3,850
Rewards	11 70
Previous	[50] No Place for the Living
Next	[50] Tether to Home

Audience with the Arbiter
Level: 50 (Requires 48)
Tal-Inara ^{[40.8, 65.8]}
Overseer Kah-Delen ^{[39.8, 66.1]}
XP: 3,850

Rewards:

11 70

Objectives

The Voice of the Arbiter wishes you to join them in the Arbiter's chamber.

• Accompany Tal-Inara to visit the Arbiter ^{[40.8, 65.8]}
• Ask about the Arbiter ^{[50.2, 50.4]}
• Listen to Tal-Inara
• Talk to Tal-Inara to return ^{[50.2, 50.4]}

Description

I am Tal-Inara, Honored Voice of the Arbiter. I speak for she who is ever silent.

The Arbiter watches over Oribos. She blesses us with her wisdom. Every mortal soul that enters the Shadowlands passes before her for judgment.

In the merest fraction of a moment, she sees every glory, every folly, every joy, every regret. With this knowledge, she chooses an ideal afterlife for that soul.

At least, she did. Not long ago, catastrophe struck, and ...

Come. Some things are better seen than explained.

Rewards

You will receive:

• 11 70
• 3,850 XP

Progress

The Purpose guides us always.

Completion

We may find a shared cause in the Purpose. It has sent you to us.

Notes

Speak with Tal-Inara:

The Purpose has sent you to us. I know it.

 I will join you.

Tal-Inara says: I pray the Arbiter will awaken in your presence, mortal.

Tal-Inara teleports themself and the player to the Crucible. There, The Arbiter is present, but apparently asleep. Speak with Tal-Inara to continue:

The Purpose has sent you to us. I know it.

 What is this place?

Tal-Inara says: She is unchanged. Ever silent. Ever still.

Tal-Inara says: When you arrived in Oribos, I saw the Arbiter stir for the first time in many cycles. It gave me hope that she would awaken and resume her blessed Purpose.

Tal-Inara says: Mere words cannot describe the glory that was. Step forward, that I may show you.

A cinematic plays, "Breaking the Arbiter"

For uncounted eons, the Shadowlands was in perfect order.

Infinite afterlives, with Oribos, the Eternal City, as the shining heart.

Every mortal soul came before the Arbiter. And she, ever wise, experienced all that had shaped a soul in life.

With this knowledge, she consigned every soul to the afterlife it justly deserved.

Until...

A red soul appears far above the soul stream, streaking straight through it to crash into the Arbiter. She contorts and shrieks as red lightning streaks over her, until she falls dormant and all souls start flowing straight down to the Maw.

In that dread moment, our perfect order was shattered.

And so it is that every soul, kind and cruel alike, is denied its rightful afterlife, and instead is damned to the inescapable torment of the Maw.

• 

  Oribos

• 

  The Arbiter

• 

  The red soul descends

• 

  The Arbiter breaks

• 

  Souls flowing to the Maw

On the other side of the pre-rendered cinematic:

Tal-Inara says: Now souls rich with anima travel only to the Maw. We have tried everything to stop it, to awaken our blessed Arbiter... to no avail.

Tal-Inara says: Without anima, drought has gripped the Shadowlands. The afterlives have grown isolated. Fear and uncertainty haunt us all.

Tal-Inara says: With countless souls feeding the Jailer, I fear he may grow strong enough to break free from the Maw.

Tal-Inara says: It is said he is filled with hatred for the Arbiter. If he strikes her down, it would bring the end of everything the First Ones made.

Tal-Inara says: Return to the lower levels. The overseers will prepare you for what is to come.

Speak with Tal-Inara again:

The Purpose has sent you to us. I know it.

 I am ready to return.

Progression

1.  [50] Stranger in an Even Stranger Land
2.  [50] No Place for the Living
3.  [50] Audience with the Arbiter
4.  [50] Tether to Home
5.  [50] A Doorway Through the Veil
6.  [50] The Eternal City
7.  [50] Understanding the Shadowlands
8.  [50] The Path to Bastion
9.  [50] Seek the Ascended

Patch changes

• Patch 9.0.2 (2020-11-17): Added.
  

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