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A Merciful Fate was the ninth and final quest of Season of the Malignant. It activated as soon as the player completed The Cold Hard Truth.

Objectives[]

  1. Meet Cormond at his wagon outside of Velkhova (Varshan's corruption is captured. His life is ended, but will the Malignant die with him? I should find Cormond by his wagon)
  2. Speak with Cormond

Transcript[]

  • Class: What will happen to the Malignant now?
  • Cormond: With Varshan destroyed, the Malignant will start to diminish. But that will take time.
  • Class: You never answered me. Why the lie about Varshan?
  • Cormond: I only wanted to create a mistake. You helped me, yes. But how could I confess to someone like you?
  • Cormond: You forget how people see you...They tell stories of you to frighten children. The church gossips like spinsters about you. Merchants sell things you've only touched.
  • Cormond: You are the Wanderer, and you inspire fear as much as awe. That is what you have become.

Optional Dialogue[]

  • Class: What will you do now?
  • Cormond: I...want to see this through.
  • Cormond: If those lost to the Malignant can find peace because of the cages, I'll continue to make them.
  • Cormond: I think Varshan will rest easier for it.
Season 01
Burning from Within
A Plague of Hatred
Holding Back the Flood(*)
Answers in the Ashes
A Prayer for Salvation
Hope's Guardian
Ruins of the Faith
The Cold Hard Truth
A Merciful Fate
Season 02
Blood Money
The Hunter's Chase
Summons of the Deathless
A Witness in the Dust
Beckoning Thirst
Wolves at the Door
Battle of Fear and Faith
A Serpent Cornered
In Your Blood
Season 03
A Suppurated Wound
The Yshari
The Ennead
Season 04
TBA
Season 05
Of Lambs and Wolves
The Rising Hells(*)
The Past Behind Us
The Seething Mountain
An Old and Angry Wound
Sins of the Willing
The Wages of Hatred
The Eyes of the Enemy
Inside the Black Tomb
To the Edge of the Abyss
The Infernal Hordes
Season 06
Creeping Hatred
Season 07
TBA
Season 08
A Deceitful Incursion
A Shop of Curios
Belial's Unveiling(*)
Buried Hope
Masked Truths
Chasing Lies
The Lord of Lies
Season 09
The Embers Yet Smolder
The Truths That Lie Within(*)
Keepers of the Glen
To Walk Where Spirits Tread
Reopening the Wound
The Unseeable Demands Their Gaze
Damn the Precipice
The Torch, Unforgotten
Wisdom's Choice
The Priestess Horadrim
The Kin of Cain
Season 10
Sands of Chaos
Bartuc's Reign of Chaos
Den of Iniquity
Fell Visions
Blood on Parchment
The Sword of Horazon
Bartuc, Lord of Chaos
Infernal Cage
The quests marked with "(*)" in superscript involve activities that level up seasonal XP till the next quest is unlocked, and may be repeated in the questline of some seasons.