The Greater of Two Evils

Keep it away! Keep it away from me! Yes, yes, I'll give you the information you seek, just please keep that accursed vial away from me! Yes, we took audience with visiting doctors. They, they were remarkable! On their command I plunged my sword clear through the heart of one of them, and he stood there still living, and breathing, blood still flowing through his veins. Their alchemic explorations have brought them close to immortality. They needed but a few more steps to complete their work. The doctors have realized eternal life. They found the promise in the dark. They needed but to perfect it. I too heard the promise. I needed but to offer up my peasantry for their cause: to incubate the disease they created. Spreading it would reward us with eternal life. I know not their means. I knew but my part. They traveled to and fro east of here returning with the crates.

Deliver the information you've learned on this matter to Private Betz in Lissariel's Shade.