But we couldn’t bring ourselves to do that. By law, he should have been driven back out. He no longer had any place among the tribe. T: “Rost had been made a Death-Seeker, Aloy. Leaving us, the Matriarchs, in a difficult position.”Ī: “Why couldn’t you just welcome him back?” He never expected, nor asked, to be dragged across the border and nursed back to health. Wounded, he stumbled and crawled back to us, hoping to die as close to the Sacred Land as he could. The last he killed nearly got the best of him. Tracked them to disparate places the world over, he said. T: “To the contrary, he killed all twelve. T: “A brave who’d lost a mate and two sons to the very outlanders that Rost pursued.” By law, he should have died where he lay… but one of the hunters broke taboo, and reaching across the border, she dragged him to our side.” He collapsed at the border of he Sacred Land. A barbed arrow, shot from a bow, never to return.”
And then he set out in pursuit, not as an exile, but a weapon of vengeance. He gathered the bodies of the slain, and returned them. T: “Rost went after the outlanders, but his spirit never left. The heart beats, the mind thinks, but the spirit has moved on.” The ritual drags the spirit from one’s body, releasing it to All-Mother’s care. T: “One who dies to go seeking, and in seeking, brings death to others. T: “He called upon the most terrible and secret rite of the Nora tribe. Rost was beside himself with grief, but even so, he would never have broken taboo.” They thought themselves safe from our vengeance.“Ī: “Are you saying that Rost went after them? That he became an exile?” They knew the faithful Nora would not leave the Sacred Land to collect the bodies, let alone pursue them. Rather than release them, the outlanders slit their throats, and left the corpses just across the border, mocking us.” There were six hostages still alive when they reached the border, Alana among them. T: “Rost was one of the braves who tracked the outlanders - keeping his distance. And then, as suddenly as they came, the outlanders made their way back to the border and disappeared.”Ī: “What happened to Rost’s daughter? She was… killed?”
We know they camped beyond Devil’s Thirst for two days. We couldn’t track closely enough to observe them. We outnumbered them, but every time a brave came within bow-shot, the outlanders killed a hostage.” And his daughter was among those taken hostage.”Ī: “Nora braves couldn’t stop twelve outlanders? Or rescue the hostages?” His mate was killed fighting the outlanders. But at the time, many families lived there. T: “You would know it as the Forsaken Village, near the Carja border. At Mother’s Vigil they took hostages, and then pressed on, headed for Devil’s Thirst.” T: “Many years ago, before the Derangement, before the Red Raids, a band of murderous outlanders, twelve in number, struck without warning. Are you sure you want to hear it now?“Ī: “Of course I want to hear it. He never told me - said he took an oath of silence. Word for Word.Īloy: “Teersa… I want to know Rost’s story.
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