[ Aether smiles with some grim satisfaction. It's not really so much that he relishes the story's sad ending so much as that he likes to share what he has learned, and there is a certain degree of comfort in knowing exactly what happened next. ]
Eberhart's objective throughout the expedition, as it turns out, has been to kill his brothers and assert himself as the head of his family. Not for the reasons you might expect. [ He doesn't linger on that, though — he moves on. ] It was he who facilitated the cave-ins and killed their servants. He who encouraged them to continue, even as they were losing their lives. He betrayed them all.
There's nothing Luther can do about this now. Ingbert has a Vision, and he thinks that that might save them — but even with the elements at his command, he's outmatched, because Eberhart's spear has the advantage of range.
Ingbert injures Eberhart badly, but Ingbert dies. Eberhart injures Luther badly, but Luther escapes. The manservant lives long enough to write his account of the events that occurred. Even regrets that he won't come back to a woman he knows — a sister? a lover? — named Priscilla. As for Eberhart...
"The records suggest there used to be a prison here. In which case, it actually suits me well," he writes. He says that Priscilla is in on his plan. She's to light a torch for him at a watchtower if the other nobles find out about his plan, and they do. She dies waiting for him. They kill her for her participation in the plot.
Eberhart never returns to Mondstadt. There's no record of whether or not he lived or died. If he saw Priscilla's signal. If he returned, only to be killed by his fellow aristocrats.
[ This is the end of Aether's tale, for now. He pauses, wrapping his hands around Wriothesley's larger palms. ]
So, given this information: What do you think Eberhart's goal was, and do you think he survived?
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Eberhart's objective throughout the expedition, as it turns out, has been to kill his brothers and assert himself as the head of his family. Not for the reasons you might expect. [ He doesn't linger on that, though — he moves on. ] It was he who facilitated the cave-ins and killed their servants. He who encouraged them to continue, even as they were losing their lives. He betrayed them all.
There's nothing Luther can do about this now. Ingbert has a Vision, and he thinks that that might save them — but even with the elements at his command, he's outmatched, because Eberhart's spear has the advantage of range.
Ingbert injures Eberhart badly, but Ingbert dies. Eberhart injures Luther badly, but Luther escapes. The manservant lives long enough to write his account of the events that occurred. Even regrets that he won't come back to a woman he knows — a sister? a lover? — named Priscilla. As for Eberhart...
"The records suggest there used to be a prison here. In which case, it actually suits me well," he writes. He says that Priscilla is in on his plan. She's to light a torch for him at a watchtower if the other nobles find out about his plan, and they do. She dies waiting for him. They kill her for her participation in the plot.
Eberhart never returns to Mondstadt. There's no record of whether or not he lived or died. If he saw Priscilla's signal. If he returned, only to be killed by his fellow aristocrats.
[ This is the end of Aether's tale, for now. He pauses, wrapping his hands around Wriothesley's larger palms. ]
So, given this information: What do you think Eberhart's goal was, and do you think he survived?