Foreword: Welcome to Steam Dragon #130, this issue shares the secrets behind the volcano mansion in the Eldon's Ring of Law game, this mission is definitely not so simple.
I think the assassination mission assigned by the mansion is not so simple, just because you don't want to join the mansion, you will be hunted by the rebels? It's not that simple.
Let's take a look at who the mansion has given us:
The ancient knights Ishtobon, Twilight General Riley, Bloody Knight Hoslau, Bighorn Telergus, White Wolf Warrior, and outlier mages have some wonderful things in common about the equipment and drops they use in battle:
The first is the ancient knight Ishtobon, who wore and dropped a set of scaled armor, and we can learn from the description of the scale armor that is a costume made of scales reinforced with deformed armor, which is particularly effective against non-physical attacks, and emphasizes that Ishitoban is the only ancient fader that has survived to this day. Imagine what would be particularly effective against non-physical attacks? Maybe it's something like the Pearl Dragon Emblem Talisman, a talisman symbolizing the beliefs of the Ancient Dragon, and is is not special about Ishitopian's own weapon, just a cavalry saber, but the ashes it is equipped with are "gravity", a magical system involving gravity magic, that is, the stone-skinned white king and the dark castaway series of creatures. Note that everything in the game that involves gravity is inseparable from dragons and stars, such as the pattern on the relic sword, which is related to the dragon's capital city, Fam. Yazra is similar and can also perform gravity-related combat skills: Crash Wave.
Then there's "Twilight Is Over" Riley, whose own equipment should be a secret envoy suit (I am not the beginning of the secret envoy, so I may be mistaken), and the crossbow arrows used are the weapons used by the Round Table Assassin Krep, which is nothing special - he may have been an Assassin who defected or left the Round Table, or the Assassin Krep's apprentice, close friend, heir, etc... The only thing that shouldn't have appeared in the Assassin's hand was the dagger he was holding: the Scorpion Tail Needle.
So what is this scorpion tail needle? It is a unique dagger that the player obtains when advancing the Lani Branch, and is enshrined in the "Great Cloister" on the ground floor of Nock Stella, guarded by corrupt relatives and a rotten tree spirit, and is said to be a sacrifice vessel made of relics of external gods.
Even though Riley himself may not have been a corrupt believer—although Krep himself casts corruption on his crossbow arrows, holding an alien artifact like the Scorpion Tail Needle may mean that he is not just a simple assassin, after all, another Scorpion Tail Needle in the world is enshrined in the Great Cloister and guarded in the seal of an Alien God, and it is obviously not a sacrifice that will flow out casually, like the only two five-fingered swords in the game, one abandoned under the Beast Temple. Located at the bottom of the ruins, which would be difficult to reach if there were no spirit horses, one was in the hands of the famous "Beast Priest" and "Black Sword" Malikas.
The possession of such a weapon at least indicates that Riley must have participated in some of the events of great importance involving corruption, and even allowed him to obtain a scorpion tail needle that could be enshrined in the Great Cloister, a sacred place for corrupt families.
Knight Hoslau, I don't see any particularly obvious differences in him for a while, but the Hoslow family uses blood and flowers as symbols, and has the hound steps exclusive to the Hound Knights and The Night Riders, and perhaps there are some secrets related to the Menge.
Speaking of BigHorn, Bighorn's equipment, like Riley's, doesn't show any special plot secrets, but the weapon he holds is the Giant Smasher, a very large weapon that has been used to slaughter giants in the past Giant Wars.
And Baglem even holds the second hunting god sword and wants to become the shadow of the god man! Wihele himself is simply the third Origin Magician (from his equipment in the Village of the Hermitage, the explanatory text seems to suggest that Vihele touched the origin of magic), and we can see that these faded people, without exception (and perhaps Horthlau' exception), are all exposed to certain ancient events that our players encounter in the plot and are mostly regarded as hidden history by the border.
Dragons and gravity, giant wars, Scarlet Corruption, Divine Skin Apostles, Origin Magic, and possibly the Invisible Mother... Perhaps it is all this that makes these heroes stand out from the average faded one, so that they become the hunting targets of the official residence, but what if you think in a different direction? What if the events experienced by these faded people were in themselves the reason why the mansion wanted to hunt them down?
I think that although Larkard has now become a mad serpent, the blasphemous kings who tried to rebel against the Golden Tree in the past should not have committed unconsidering and deliberate murders, and the forces involved in these faded people are almost all hostile to the Golden Tree. It is not surprising that Lakkard and his instructed Tanis chose these faded people, even if they have a deeper connotation.
Finally, to take a step back, although the Knight of Gemmel in the mansion himself thought that the current Lakad was rotten, if he saw one and killed one, wouldn't the mansion be too unmodified? Well, that's all there is to steam a dragon, and I'll keep updating it after that, and players who like it remember to pay attention to it.