| Nefarius | I'm tremendously relieved to see that you have arrived here unscathed. | |
| Me | How is it that you arrived here before me? | |
| Nefarius | We traveled through a curious dimension. Who knows what detours you took. | |
| Me | And now? Can I use the portal again? | |
| Nefarius | We came here directly. It obviously works quite well. | |
| Nefarius | Of course, I'll let you know if I have the suspicion that it could be otherwise. | |
| Me | What have you done here up to now? | |
| Nefarius | I am studying the history of the builders and am trying to understand why they closed the portal. | |
| Nefarius | It looks very much as though they wanted to hide the sunken city from the rest of the world. | |
| Nefarius | Terrible things happened here many years ago. They were seized by something awful. | |
| Nefarius | There was a dreadful civil war shortly before the downfall of the city, if their records can be believed. | |
| Nefarius | The streets were in flames, and a flood which devoured everything ultimately sealed the fate of the builders. | |
| Nefarius | The few who survived the inferno closed this part of the island in the hope of locking up the chaos. | |
| Me | What do you think we will find here? | |
| Nefarius | I can only speculate about that. You should talk to Saturas. | |
| Nefarius | He has a certain idea. | |
| Me | Did you say that there was a flood? | |
| Nefarius | Adanos himself appeared to them to end the madness. | |
| Nefarius | He razed the city to the ground. | |
| Me | What made the builders so agitated? | |
| Nefarius | One of their own devoted himself to Evil. He was a great commander named Quahodron. | |
| Nefarius | Returning from a successful battle outside the protecting walls of the city, he brought the Evil with him. | |
| Nefarius | All of his followers fell to the madness a short time later and began to battle with the common folk. | |
| Nefarius | The civil war that followed reduced everything to rubble. | |
| Me | And we fools have reopened the portal. | |
| Nefarius | I'm not happy about that either, believe you me. | |
| Nefarius | But what choice did we have? | |
| Nefarius | If we cannot stop what is happening here, then Khorinis will suffer exactly the same fate that once befell the builders of this ancient city. | |
| Me | The trip through the portal is safe? | |
| Nefarius | I haven't had any reservations so far. | |
| Me | Could you impart your knowledge of magic to me? | |
| Nefarius | I can instruct you in the creation of runes, and Cronos can sell you the formulas for them. | |
| Nefarius | He always has his rune books with him. | |