The War Within The Ringing Deeps Storyline Playthrough (Story Spoilers)
With the latest The War Within Alpha build, the questline for the second zone, The Ringing Deeps, is playable. We completed the questline to bring you all the details!
Chapter 1 — By Candlelight
After heading down the Coreway from Dornogal in the Isle of Dorn, we arrive at the first underground zone of Khaz Algar, the Ringing Deeeps. Waiting for us there is Speaker Brinthe, the Earthen responsible for the memory database on the surface, as well as the dwarven entourage of Magni, Moira and Dagran II. Arriving there, we notice her station is in blatant disrepair — But the nerubians are not around. Not knowing if the leader of the Machine Speakers is aware of this, she asks us to help clean up the area, while trying to figure out what's going on with the Awakening Machine — The machine used to recharge Earthen from their stasis.
As we rescue people from Ironhaul Station, we notice a Skardyn. For those not in the known, Skardyn are cursed descendants of Dark Iron Dwarves who survived the siege of Grim Batol during the War of the Three Hammers. These Dwarves were servants of Queen Mogdud, the wife of Sorcerer-Thane Thaurissan… and one of the previous wielders of Xal'atath. Speaker Brinthe recognizes the name «skardyn» and shows concern, but the other Earthen workers do not. We're introduced to the main city of the Ringing Deeps, Gundargaz, and meet with the High Speaker of the Machine Speakers there, who seems very arrogant based on the cutscene script we got.
A tense introduction is made, between the two parties by Speaker Brinthe.
The High Speaker is pompous and self-serving. The party exits Ironhaul Station and moves towards Gundargaz.
We group up at Brinthe's house in Gundargaz and gather some of her allies. She details problems going on in the Ringing Deeps that could relate to the Awakening Machine not working — Kobolds are
