Stay a While

I didn't realise you had to talk to him whilst sitting lol - I sat there for ages and thought that was the 'stall'. After I spoke to him the quest worked well lol.

The reason I am here, looking over this alien landscape, is because for such a long time... I dreamed about returning here.
This is my home. I never expected we would be gone for so long. After a while, I never expected to return

You can probably remember where you grew up. Can smell your parents cooking, can remember playing with your friends who lived close by.
Now Imagine that you have forgotten hot to get to your childhood home. You can never visit again, can never walk the paths of your childhood.

Ten thousand years.... I can barely believe it's been that long since we left.
You can't imagine how awful that time was, the fear that surrounded us. The Sundering, the Betrayal of the black dragonflight, The Dragon Wars.

The Dragon Wars... you may call it something different, but i was there, and that's what I call it. All the dragonflights versus the black dragonflight.
You would think it would be an easy fight? Four versus one after all, even with the Demon Soul.
The blue flight was nearly destroyed in Neltharion's initial strike, so three to one. Still great odds. Until you realize what it was like.

What do you mean?
You only know Neltharion as Deathwing, and his brood as mad, evil beings. We knew them before they fell.
This wasn't some unknown menace, this wasn't some great evil looming like the Legion was. These were our friends, our loved ones.

That sounds awful!
It was awful, not knowing what's going on. Thinking there was something you could do to snap them out of it.
They were my friends... and they were killing my brothers and sisters.

You had friends in the black dragonflight?
I had many friends in that dragonflight, some as close as clutch mates. Heh, growing up we used to play pranks on the elders.
I remember one time we coated Alexstrasza's tail in honey while she slept and ... ah.... what does it matter.
My best friend was of the black dragonflight, we intermingled a lot, back in those days... Not like now, where most flights keep to themselves.

Tell me more about your friend.
Isn't it funny? I can't remember her name. I can remember her face, I can remember how the light bounced off her beautiful scales, but I can't remember her name.
I can remember the horror when I came home to find her standing over the bodies of my family, practically her family.
I can remember the gut wrenching despair as I plunged my claw into her throat, and i remember the hate in her eyes as the light went out in them... But I can't remember her name.
I've always wondered, if I had been a better friend, could I have prevented it? did she not feel like she could come to me as she felt the corruption starting?
Ebyssian was cleansed, there must have been something I could have done? Butr she didn't come to me, must have felt she couldn't talk to me about it.
If I was a better friend... if I had told her... Oh Titans, if I had told her how I felt... Could it have gone differently?... I loved her... And I can't remember her name?

"Tell me more about your friend" is the final query to complete the quest.

I love the somber heartbreak of this quest. It might honestly be the best quest in the entire game, though I wish it had acting. Veritistrasz gets so much development in just like five minutes.