Online:Vanisande Maul

Vanisande Maul
Location	Ghost Haven Bay
Race	Breton	Gender	Female
Health	39,959
Reaction	Friendly
Other Information
Condition	Spirit

Vanisande Maul

Vanisande Maul is a Breton ghost who can be found in Ghost Haven Bay during Buried at the Bay. She is an ancestor of Ilyes Maul.

Related Quests

• Buried at the Bay: Retrieve the treasure of Captain Maul for her great great great great grand … something.

Quest-Related Dialogue

She can first be encountered with Ilyes after you find her belongings and head into the caverns to search for more clues. She appears when you come across and old camp:

Ilyes Maul: "A camp? Well, what's left of one. Must be getting close, right?"

<Vanisande Maul's spirit appears.>

Vanisande Maul: "You have what's mine! Leave what little I have or lose your lives!"

Vanisande Maul: "Wait … that crest is mine, but the necklace is not. Who are you?"

Ilyes Maul: "I—I—I … I'm Ilyes Maul. Your great great great great grand … something."

Speak with Vanisande on Ilyes behalf:

"I never expected to speak with the living again, let alone one of my own flesh and blood. How many generations removed, I wonder? How long have I been trapped in this watery grave? Centuries, I'm sure, but there's no sense of time down here."

What happened to you?

"I'm a cursed soul. As are all who linger here. The Commodore of our fleet made a fool's bargain in a moment of desperation and damned us all to an eternity of restless undeath. A pox on his rotten bones."

What did the Commodore do?

"We were cornered by a pursuing enemy. Outnumbered twenty-to-one. Doomed to die by the sword or the gallows. The Commodore performed some vile ritual of the deep druids to turn the tide in our favor. It did, in a way."

How so?

"When our pursuers cut us down, we rose up from the sea again and again. We couldn't be beaten, so we were buried. Bound here by that fool's pact until our bodies rotted and moldered away.
Please, you have to end it. Free us from this."

I'll see what I can do.

After she explains the what happened to her and asks you to break the curse, you can ask her some more questions:

"The Commodore's ship should bear some clues about the magic that binds us. It's somewhere in the cavern but … my memory isn't all there.
There were captains among our fleet who partook in the deep druids' ritual. Their ship logs might reveal more."

Deep druids? / What are the deep druids you mentioned?

"Aye. Bugbears and bogeys often whispered of by sailors around the Systres. Folk said to worship and commune with the unknowable things that call the vast, lightless abyss beneath the waves home. A myth even in my time, but they were real."

And could he? / How do you know they were real?

"They left things behind. Things bought and sold as curios or dabbled with by fools like the Commodore who damned us all to this damp tomb.
Their idols and objects of worship were plentiful around Sea Haven Bay, before we claimed it for ourselves."

So this place was connected to the magic beneath the sea?

"Only they could say for certain, but I'd wager so. One might find an oddity or two washed up on the shores in their lifetime that may have belonged to the deep druids. Sea Haven Bay was festooned with them … before we plundered it."

Can you tell us where your treasure is?

"If it's treasure that brought you here, I have my share to give. But I paid dearly for it, as you see, so I won't part with it so easily.
Break this curse on my soul and you'll get your due."

You will now need to find the captain's logs scattered around the caverns. As you approach and read a book, Vanisande will appear to comment and show you a vision of the past:

After reading Debonaire's Captain Log:

Vanisande Maul: "There's lingering doubt about this book. Regrets are a lost soul's anchor."

<A vision of Commodore Malfairre standing before Captain Fauvette, Captain Tuvacca and Captain Altair.>

Commodore Malfairre: "I said take the idols! Place them how I showed you. Do as I command and we may yet escape this with our lives."

Captain Fauvette: "Y—yes, sir!"

Captain Tuvacca: "I hope you know what you're doing."

After reading the Commodore's Diary:

Vanisande Maul: "I can still hear that mad bastard's words hanging in the air."

<A vision of Commodore Malfairre after he performed the ritual.>

Commodore Malfairre: "We have nothing to fear now. So long as the tome and the idols are safe, the sea will never let death take us for long."

Commodore Malfairre: "Pledge yourselves to the deep and we will rule the seas forever more!"

After reading Dour Lady's Captain Log:

Vanisande Maul: "I can feel the dread clinging to this one."

<A vision of Captain Altair and Captain Tuvacca talking will appear.>

Captain Altair: "The Commodore keeps those old idols as good luck charms, but you have to wonder whose favor he's attracting."

Captain Tuvacca: "Aye, and he claims that crusty old tome keeps the secrets of the seas. Why aren't we all bending knee to druids then?"

From these clues, you learn that you need to destroy the idols before finding the Barnacle-Encrusted-Tome. Once you burn the tome, Vanisande will appear:

Vanisande Maul: "I feel the lashings that hold me here loosening."

Ilyes Maul: "The curse must be breaking!"

You have the option of speaking with her a final time:

"You've finally dredged this poor soul up from the abyss. For that, I'll be forever grateful. You and my heir have earned more fortune than I have to give."

What will happen now that the curse is lifted?

"Arkay only knows, but my weary old soul feels freer already. I just hope to look upon the open sea one last time before he sweeps me away."

And what about the treasure?

"Ilyes knows where I kept what I claimed for my own. If he wavers giving you a fair share, just tell him I'll haunt him until the debt is paid."

After speaking with Ilyes, Vanisande will have some advice for him before she disappears:

Vanisande Maul: "Free … at last. As a sailor should be."

Vanisande Maul: "I'd love to look on the sea one last time. Never tie down your sails, Ilyes. Life's too short."

Ilyes Maul: "I'll live full-sail for the both of us, Captain."

<Vanisande disppears.>