Safalaan Hallow

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Safalaan Hallow
Released								4 September 2006 (Update)
Members								Yes
Race								Half Icyene, half human
Quest								Darkness of Hallowvale A Taste of Hope Sins of the Father The Blood Moon Rises
Location								Meiyerditch
Gender								Male
Options								Talk-to
Examine								A tall, charismatic man of unusual appearance.
Advanced data
NPC ID								3775,8216,8217,8218,8219
Link								MOID

Safalaan Hallow is the leader of the Sanguinesti division of the Myreque. He was first mentioned by a member of The Myreque during In Search of the Myreque as the organisation's enigmatic leader working directly under Calsidiu.

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Safalaan was born in Hallowvale during the Third Age some time before the Conquest of Hallowvale as the son of the Icyene Queen Efaritay and her human husband King Ascertes. Safalaan, however, has no memory of his long life, as he was at some point attacked by the vampyre Vanstrom Klause, which affected his memory and caused severe amnesia. Despite having no recollection of his past, throughout life he was aware that he was special and had powers against vampyres. He knew also that the vampyres considered him a threat, though unaware of his Icyene heritage.

Some years before 169 of the Fifth Age, he formed the Myreque together with Veliaf Hurtz as an organisation working against the vampyres of Morytania. He is first met, while sketching Castle Drakan and requests the player to finish it for him. Just as the new Myreque recruit makes the last sketch, the vampyre Vanstrom Klause, whom the recruit spied on earlier, discovers them and attacks. Just when he is about to deliver the final blow, the secretary of Vanescula Drakan, a human named Sarius Guile, saves them and dismisses Vanstrom. She then reveals Vanescula has an interest in Safalaan and passes on information as to where to find a letter which contains information on an abandoned laboratory under Meiyerditch. During the investigation, the letter written by a former slave in the laboratory, Mauritys Guile - Sarius's father, is found in a fireplace in a Meiyerditchian house which reveals the secret location and key of the laboratory. The player is sent to investigate and finds a book called Haemalchemy - Volume I. The letter, along with the book, is passed on to Safalaan and he sends the recruit to his colleague Veliaf Hurtz to finish the quest.

Safalaan is later met by the player, who eavesdropped on a conversation between Vanstrom, Ranis Drakan and Verzik Vitur, the latter of which gifting them an abomination to hunt the Myreque down. Realising the danger they are in, he proposes to escape Meiyerditch, but wishes to learn more about Serafina, the human said to have completed the Theatre of Blood.

When they arrive at Serafina's former house, they find some notes after Safalaan willingly gives up some of his blood. However, when Flaygian Screwte states that the notes were complete nonsense, he realised that he had been tricked by Vanstrom to giving up his blood and orders the members to escape. It is too late however, as the Abomination barges into the hideout, killing Mekritus, Andiess and Flaygian. The Abomination soon confronts Safalaan and the player, the former of which emitting a burst of energy that weakens it and allows the player to finish it off.

Safalaan and the remaining members move to a new hideout, and the adventurer kills Ranis, much to Safalaan's delight.

The mystery behind his heritage is finally revealed to him by Vanescula Drakan herself, in an attempt to gather his and the Myreque's support in her plan to usurp Lowerniel Drakan, revealing that he is Queen Efaritay's half-icyene, half-human son, and also the son of the late King Ascertes. He also had a sister, Larina Hallow, although she was killed. Vanescula also revealed that Vanstrom was formerly Ascertes, who Lowerniel had converted into a vampyre.

Armed with this knowledge, and intent to bring Lowerniel down, Safalaan and the other members arrive to confront Lowerniel, who had suspected Vanescula's treachery. He witnesses Polmafi, Kael, Vertida and Radigad's deaths after they attempt to attack the vampyre dictator, but are incinerated in an instant. Lowerniel then orders Vanstrom to finish up the remaining members. Safalaan attempts to appeal to Vanstrom of his past as Ascertes, but Vanstrom states that he has been uplifted ever since being a vampyre, and that he killed Larina. This enrages Safalaan, who emits a blast of energy that seemingly incinerates Vanstrom. Shocked by the blast, Safalaan is captured by the Vyrewatch Sentinels who converge on their position, as Ivan was forced to abandon him as he was too far away to be teleported.

Having been taken prisoner by Lowerniel, he begins draining Safalaan's blood, as icyene blood is needed in order to open a portal to Vampyrium. The adventurer, Ivan, and Veliaf find Safalaan and Vanescula in the jail beneath Vampyrium's Castle Drakan, where he is suffering from another bout of amnesia. While the adventurer manages to destroy the stockpile of Safalaan's blood kept inside the castle, Lowerniel begins pursuing the Myreque, until they manage to escape to a hideout run by Efaritay and the vampyre Sugadinti Vitur. Before Safalaan can be properly nursed back to health, however, he is captured by Vanescula, who flees to a vampyrification lab beneath Burgh de Rott back in Morytania and mutates Safalaan into a ferocious creature known as a wyrd, with the intent of using him to kill Lowerniel.

Now undergoing a painful transformation, Safalaan manages to knock out Vanescula, Veliaf, and the adventurer, escapes the lab, and begins making his way towards Morytania's Castle Drakan. While the adventurer, Ivan, Efaritay, Sugadinti, and the now allied Nylocas Queen fight Lowerniel on the castle grounds, Safalaan lunges at Lowerniel, ripping his right wing off. The two tumble into another portal to Vampyrium that Lowerniel had set up in front of the castle before Sugadinti seals it, planning on leaving him behind since Lowerniel would have no way of returning to Gielinor. However, Efaritay refuses to leave her son behind; she and the adventurer make another portal in the Icyene Graveyard, where they go through it and manage to find Safalaan, who has been gravely injured by Lowerniel.

After the adventurer kills Lowerniel, Efaritay realises that Safalaan's injuries are too severe, and he will die if she reverses his incomplete vampyrification. She and the adventurer allowed the vampyrification process to finish, leaving him as a wyrd for the foreseeable future. He begs his mother and the adventurer to kill him, but they refuse, with Efaritay deciding to focus her efforts on treating her son's newfound thirst for blood with various potions and rituals. She believes with enough time that Safalaan could one day use the same shapeshifting abilities other vampyres possess, so that he may look human again. He can be found in Vampyrium after the quest, where he reveals that he is coming to terms with his current state and does not forgive Vanescula for her actions, though content that she would fear him for the rest of her life.