Chapter 3: Thistletop

The mayor nods at you. "Shalelu has filled us in," she says. "You still don't know why she targeted the town?"

"I can remember her as a sweet girl, I can't imagine how she could have turned so wicked."

"We are a small town, any such item would have to be ordered from Magnimar," the mayor replies to Grim. "I have some contacts. Could have them bring one when they come to collect Lyrie."

As you start pouring over the notes and journals you realize they go far back. Back to when Nualia was a young woman. She writes about resenting all the attention she got due to her Aasimar heritage. One such situation that she complains about was a Varisian man asking for locks of her hair, believing it would increase fertility.

Eventually she was courted by another Varisian called Delek. Knowing her father wouldn’t approve of their relationship (he wanted her to remain pure so she could join a prestigious convent - another fact she seemed to resent), they kept the affair secret. They met many times in hidden places, and she tells of discovering smugglers tunnels under the town in the process of doing so.

A few months later a depressing entry says she's pregnant. She told Delek, who fled Sandpoint.

When her father discovered her condition he forbade her from leaving the church. He lectured her nightly, and made her pray to Desna for forgiveness. Her entries become more and more resentful after this. She start writing about angry dreams where Lamashtu revealed herself to her.

She came to see her angelic heritage as a curse, and the nightmares showed her how to expunge this taint from her body and soul, replacing it with chaos and cruelty.

Seven months pregnant, she miscarried her child later that night, a child whose deformed shape was no doubt Lamashtu's work. Her father was horrified, and in the ensuing argument she killed him. She found a visitor around her size on the way out of town and brought them to the church in the cover of night where she killed her and set fire to the church.

She fled to Magnimar where she fell in with something calling itself the Skinsaw Cult. They helped her track down Delek and she killed him.

Nualia returned to Sandpoint and found herself drawn to the smuggler’s tunnels where she and Delek had conceived her child. Nualia bashed down a suspicious brick wall, and in so doing discovered the Catacombs of Wrath and the quasit Erylium.

For many months, Nualia studied under Erylium’s tutelage. During this time, she received another vision from Lamashtu—a vision of a barghest named Malfeshnekor imprisoned in an underground room. If she could free him, he would not only help her achieve her vengeance against the town of Sandpoint, he would be the key in cleansing her body of her "celestial taint."

She returned to Magnimar to recruit helpers. She found Tsuto first. Then Lyrie and finally a mercenary she was able to seduce into helping, Orik Vancaskerkin.

Aided by the visions of Lamashtu, she was able to unite the goblin tribes and the first step of her plan was to steal Father Tobyn's bones for use in a ritual that could hopefully free Malfeshnekor. Either the ritual failed or she didn't have time to perform it, as you saw no signs of Malfeshnekor in your time in the ruins.