Can we get some lore on Hunberct Longhaft please?

[Nialle]

Oh man, oh man, oh man.

Ryihito, you just made my day. I didn't think anyone noticed the Longhaft and his band of trained lever-operators.

Silly Ferne, there are many of us who wander around extensively eavesdropping on the NPCs.

[ZiZ]

Oh man, oh man, oh man.

Ryihito, you just made my day. I didn't think anyone noticed the Longhaft and his band of trained lever-operators.

Hunberct is SO getting himself a ballad to be sung by spoony bards across the realm. I'll let you all know when it's done, and if it doesn't make it's way into the game, I'll make sure it's posted RIGHT HERE.

We noticed, we simply prefer not to speak of his "lever".
I'm more interested in his two main lever handlers though, are they sisters?

[Wolfandre]

I'm more interested in his two main lever handlers though, are they sisters?

Well, at the very least, they are both from the Eh tribe. However, they are both so strikingly similar in appearance, I'd be surprised if they weren't.

[Catapult]

Given the way Miqot'e society works (well, the sunseekers anyway), there is a very good chance those two have the same father, even if they are of different mothers.

Such is the way of the nuhn.

[Magis]

aeiou! aeiou! aeiou! uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...

I was always fond of that quest in the Forgotten Springs where you have to shoo away the people looking at the girls, one of the person's excuse was "Oh I was just looking at this... tree... for science!".

THE EARTH IS FLAT CONFIRMED CONFIRMED sun also confirmed for flat.

Au contraire, Ferne! Have a little faith in your little loremongers.

I have to say I'm also fond of the other unnamed NPCs around Drybone that accuse a pair of fair maidens of infecting him of crotch rot or the one hiding in a nook looking to "dip the wick", if ye keen of course.

(I also just saw Ryihito's signature text, and just want to add: "nine nine nine nine John Madden John Madden". Hopefully I don't just sound absolutely mad saying that and at least someone gets it >.>)

Or the Roegadyn with his "gilded shaft" iirc.

[Mahri]

In fairness, the Ballad of Hunberct Longhaft could consist of nothing but the words "Hunberct" and "Longhaft" and it would still be all the information we need.

[JeniLinsky]

I was out there the other day, and stopped to talk to ol' Hunberct. I found it interesting that not just the two Miqo'te standing immediately in front of him, but all the Brass Blades on the bridge other than Hunberct himself were women.

[TinyRedLeaf]

Hunberct clearly needs his own theme song.

...Can ya dig it?

Who's the cat that won't cop out

When there's danger all about?

(Shaft!)

Right on!

You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother...

(Shut your mouth)

But I'm talkin' about Shaft!

(Then we can dig it)

[TetsukageMisuto]

haha yeah always loved that guy on the bridge xD

[Catapult]

Let's re-key the Leviathan song "Through the Maelstrom", shall we?


"Handling the Lever"
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Hunbercht Longhaft Endless!
Hunbercht Longhaft Send us!
Hunbercht Longhaft Breathless!
Hunbercht Longhaft Deathless!

Hunbercht Longhaft Restless!
Hunbercht Longhaft Test us!
Hunbercht Longhaft Tend us!
Hunbercht Longhaft Mend us!

Drifting in the realm beyond all knowing
Forsaken, shedding tears of glass
Now tumbling from the boundless heavens, taken
White moondrops, burning indigo

Hunbercht Longhaft Endless!
Hunbercht Longhaft Send us!
Hunbercht Longhaft Breathless!
Hunbercht Longhaft Deathless!

Hunbercht Longhaft Restless!
Hunbercht Longhaft Test us!
Hunbercht Longhaft Bend us!
Hunbercht Longhaft Rend us!

Hunbercht Longhaft Vengeance!
Hunbercht Longhaft Penance!
Hunbercht Longhaft Send us!
Hunbercht Longhaft End us!

Silence from the knife that softly severs
Mistaken for an unsung prayer
Now rising from the soundless Deep. Awaken
White fury, blinding indigo

Swell ye seas of old, Hunbercht Longhaft
Surging tides grow bold, Hunbercht
Seething currents whorl, Hunbercht Longhaft
To swallow up the "world", Hunbercht
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Your mind is now <kupo!>