Talk:A Thirst for the Eons

• Here are some notes about how the ERGISADE puzzle was solved, just in case it becomes useful later on. The key item Memo found in Rala Waterways contains the following grid:

	k	v	s	h	o	t
A	A	B	C	D	E	F
G	G	H	-	J	K	L
J	M	-	-	P	Q	R
W	S	T	-	-	W	X
R	Y	-	-	-	-	-
We	-	-	-	-	-	-

• Filling in the missing letters of the alphabet in the table gives:

	k	v	s	h	o	t
A	A	B	C	D	E	F
G	G	H	I	J	K	L
J	M	N	O	P	Q	R
W	S	T	U	V	W	X
R	Y	Z	-	-	-	-
We	-	-	-	-	-	-

• Note that the letters in the row and column headers are the first letters of the 12 orders of Adoulin:
  • karieyh
  • vocane
  • shneddick
  • haverton
  • orvail
  • thurandaut
  • Adoulin
  • Gorney
  • Janniston
  • Woltaris
  • Renaye
  • Weatherspoon

• Several key items obtained during this quest have some additional letters at the bottom of their descriptions. Using the letters as a reference to the rows and columns of the table, you obtain a letter for each pair of letters in the key item. During the quest, Palomel gives you information on how old each of these key items is. Ordering the items by date, and then applying the ROT13 cypher to the letters from the table gives the final solution "ERGISADE":

Key Item	Date	Code	Table	ROT13
Dictum on colonization	first half of the 400's	Jt	R	E
Copy of "Wrath of the Land"	~300 years ago, "when colonization was really starting to gain steam". (~584)	AoWv	ET	RG
Giant sheep export record	607	WhAt	VF	IS
Copy of "The Verdancy"	"period when colonization really started to pick up--right before the Great Expedition" (~200 years ago) (~684)	JvJo	NQ	AD
Copy of "Shrouded in Enigma"	recent (~884)	Jt	R	E