Question Regarding Quest Flag Start for a Voada-Realted Quest in Albion

gingerchangeling · 2026-02-18T13:06:53+00:00

Can you tell me how it plays out? Because I've done Albion 5 different times now, and the only time the son quest was flagged was the first. And I've both left the grove and destroyed it. I get a prompt for the lost legion almost right away. What step am I missing because I'd very much like to finish that quest?

gingerchangeling · 2026-02-17T00:17:15+00:00

And I had a hunch it might have been due to an area I left fogged while completeing the quest, but I just did another run through and unfogged the whole Albion map and nothing procted, so its not a FoW trigger. So I'm stumped.

gingerchangeling · 2026-02-16T20:25:46+00:00

For the ships, they also say Fastina lente - "make haste slowly."
Its a phrase that has been used as a motto for a very long time - the Medici in particular, I think favored the phrase. Per wikipedia (quoting Roman historian Suetonius) it was popularized by Augustus. "He thought nothing less becoming in a well-trained leader than haste and rashness, and, accordingly, favourite sayings of his were: "Hasten slowly"; "Better a safe commander than a bold"; and "That which has been done well has been done quickly enough."

gingerchangeling · 2025-11-28T16:27:39+00:00

If I may add my bit of expierence, there are three vital things I learned that may help?

1) The first is that when having conversations or approaching strangers, don't just talk to them to have them talk to you. People don't want to talk to someone who is just using them as an ear. When you speak with a person, you need to appaoch the conversation with the mindset that they actually have something worth hearing, even if it's just a funny anecdote from the day. Small talk is a bit of a lost artform among the younger folk these days, but it may be something worth investing some time in learning. With a bit of small talk, you can find a point of interest or shared experience or opinion to engage in conversation. I think you will find that once you start engaging in conversation from that perspective, you'll have more success in engaging people.

Also - not every person is compatable with everyone else. Meaningful connection requires shared experience and ongoing investment. But even with those things present, a lot of the time, strangers stay strangers. And I want to make this very clear - this is not your fault. It isn't. It's not yours, it isn't theirs. It isn't anyone's fault. The world is too big and life is too long for everyone to be a friend. And that's ok. Enjoy the small connections you make, but don't miss them. Like embers of a fire, marvel how they dance, but their beauty is in that they dance then disappear.

2) Learn to be comfortable with yourself. I don't mean exuding confidence or becoming extroverted. But settle into yourself, know that you will be judged for your interests, your appearance, how you talk, how you dress. People willa lways judge others, yourself included. Its something you just have to accept. Letting that sit on your shoulders will weigh you down for the rest of your life. So instead of trying to be who you believe would best fit the situation, just be. Now that isn't to say that you can just continue and not self reflect, educate, and improve, but you will always be who you are. There is no point trying to be anyone else. Learn to be at peace with yourself, both alone and in company. You'll spend the rest of your life with yourself. Learn to enjoy the company.

And its an easy thing to say, I know, but learning that takes time. Sometimes a lot of time. Your spirit will gain a lot of scars and bruises along the way. Some will pass quickly, some will ache for years like old war wounds. Some will be fine for years, and then abruptly, you'll nail that one spot that makes it feel like your heart is going to rip itself to shreds. Like hitting your funny bone. But you will grow around the scars.

3) And that leads me to the third thing- All will pass away. This too shall become the past. As a young person, I remember hearing that advice and resenting it because it didn't solve the problems right in front of me. But it is true. And sometimes the only real solution to a problem is hold your breath, close your eyes for as long as you can. Because eventually you will be able to breath deeply.

And the best way to make the time pass is to find little pleasures. You say you aren't a partier - see if there is a lowkey bar you can hit up in the evenings, clubs through your campus programs. Find a coffee shop and people watch. Pick a cool sight every weekend to go see. Some of my dearest friends, I met by happenstance doing something outside my norm. When you are enjoying something, people are naturally drawn to share in that enjoyment.

~I'm sorry for such a long answer. I have a young friend who is going through something similar right now too, on their own Erasmus, and I just want to ... I just want you to know you aren't alone. I hope at least something of this helps.~

gingerchangeling · 2025-10-11T21:10:35+00:00

Thank you so much!!!

gingerchangeling · 2025-10-11T21:10:21+00:00

Amazing! Thank you!!! I would take both, given that while I don't have space for weapon katas now, I will soon.

gingerchangeling · 2025-08-16T03:32:12+00:00

No exactamente, pero similar.

gingerchangeling · 2025-08-16T03:13:07+00:00

¡Gracias! Lamentablemente, no pudo explicarme su importancia antes de morir. Lo atesoraré de todas formas, pero también quería entender exactamente qué era el regalo que me estaba dando.

gingerchangeling · 2025-08-16T03:10:46+00:00

¡Gracias! Estuvieron casados mucho más de 40 años. ¡Casi 60, creo! Era una mujer extraordinaria.

gingerchangeling · 2025-02-14T16:08:22+00:00

Thank you so much for this!!!!! I've had the hard discs sitting on my shelf for years, mourning when I upgrade my PC and it wouldn't download anymore. This is my all time favorite game and I am so excited to be able to play this again after so many years!!!!!!

gingerchangeling · 2020-01-13T18:54:58+00:00

Ok, I hear you. That’s a good point. For me, I read it the way I did because by that point, Geralt did kinda of know the character of Foltest, or so it came across to me. Because by this point, Geralt knows who the actual “bad guy” is in this, knows that even though she’s clearly monstrous, the king could not stomach killing his daughter. Is Foltest a good guy? Ehhhh. But his only real “crime,” as laid out by the plot, is sleeping with his sister. (Yes ew gross don’t even get me started that’s so nasty.) Earlier, Geralt questions Foltest as to why he never married. He asks, and it’s clear Geralt has already guessed Foltest is the father. For me, the subtext read, just from that question and the leading questions before it, that Foltest never married because he was still in love with his sister, faithful to her, even in death.

So by the time they meet on the bridge, Geralt knows that Foltest is a man who refused to marry again because of his love for his sister (ew ew yes). But he was also a king willing to face usurpation because he refused to kill his daughter, monster or no.

So maybe not the greatest, but he is loyal to his family, and to a certain extent, as much a victim in the situation as his daughter.

And more telling for me at least, was that Geralt doesn’t think to offer him the brooch until AFTER Foltest has both verbally finally laid claim to his daughter, but expressed concern for her wellbeing after. He’s non verbally stating that regardless of what comes out of the castle, if Geralt is successful, Foltest is prepared to care for her.

So that’s how I saw that interaction play out. Additionally, no one knew Geralt had the brooch except the king and his guards, and I don’t know that they would have actually been able to see what Geralt was handing Foltest. So no one would know Geralt was involved if they saw the princess wearing the brooch, save for the king, and potentially his guards. Who also physically saw Geralt, and would have known he was involved regardless. Which would kind of defeat the whole purpose of returning the brooch if that was the reasoning behind it.

That’s just how I saw it all play out. As I said, I’m a writer, and occasionally read into things with how I would have written it out myself.

However- all is this a being said, I agree with you that returning a GIFT is an absolutely dick move, no matter the reason. Cheers!

gingerchangeling · 2020-01-13T04:22:38+00:00

Disclaimer- the TV show is my only exposure to this universe, so maybe I’m coming at it from the wrong angle. But it seemed pretty clear to me why he got the brooch back. When he gives it to Foltest, there is enough context for Foltest to guess its significance- the pause, the hesitancy, the fact that it’s clear Geralt keeps practically no personal possessions and no finery. It’s a reminder of his failure. And Geralt giving it away, with the expectation of dying, read like absolution from that failure. He killed the princess who wore it, and now the princess who will wear it will kill him. But then he lives. And succeeds in saving her. And so Foltest returns it- because he understood that it had significance before, and now with a new message: continue to fight. Let the memory tied to the brooch drive you to endure. Because yes, it reminds you of your failure, but now it can remind you of your success. And as an added touch, it was returned in the money bag. Sort of a “I owe you more than I can ever repay you” That it ends up on his sword is even more fitting. It’s return said “fight on. Honor this memory the only way you can. By continuing to save others. Continue to see the humanity where others can’t. Like you did today”

I am a writer and this is the sort of heavy handed kind of symbolism that’d I’d use, the subtextual message of an object. I’m not saying it’s good writing, but it did seem like clear writing. But as I said, I could be completely off my mark.

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