Short Summary: MC visits Rafayel, who is restoring ancient Lemurian murals filled with enigmatic history, banter, and hints of his mysterious connection to the lost city, revealing fragments of their past and shared destiny.

TIMELINE NOTES: This event was out alongside Forgotten Sea Myth Cards, but it takes place in the current timeline. After Nightly Stroll because MC makes fun of him for it. It seems to be before Branch. They are together and MC makes a lot of questions about Lemuria, which shows it’s after Ebb and Flow.

PROLOGUE

MC goes to his place, he’s busy with something and his house is a mess. He said he would surprise her, and he’s working on two murals in a workbench.

The murals are his and about Lemuria, and he wants to restore it before lending it to a museum.

MC asks why he’s lending it to the museum, and he says they shouldn’t be buried in the deep sea.

MURAL FRAGMENTS DIALOGUES: MURAL 1 - The Lost City

1 fragment restored: Rafayel’s head hurts and MC is quiet because she doesn’t want to disturb him. He asks her to go out to eat.

3 fragments restored: MC asks what kind of place is Lemuria, he says it’s hidden. She asks if he spent his days catching jellyfish as a kid. He lies and says yes but only when he was in a good mood. Otherwise he’d bully fishies, shrimps and crabs. MC believes it but he says it’s not true.

5 fragments restored: MC says seeing him restore everything looks way more complicated than she read about. He explains the details.

7 fragments restored: He tells her about a coming of age ceremony, that it involves wrestling sharks. MC says human’s ceremony is wrestling Wanderers. Rafayel says 5 years ago his best friend lost their leg while being chased by a shark. Now they can only swim with seven legs (says that very dramatically).

9 fragments restored: MC says she read somewhere that Lemuria holds an annual Whose-Pearl-Looks-The-Best competition, who cries the roundest and shiniest pearls wins. Rafayel doesn’t even respond to that. She asks him what his pearls look like. She says she should’be brought a bucket.

11 fragments restored: She asks if he mixed the paints himself, and that Thomas keeps asking her to find out where they come from. Rafayel says it’s mummy bandages, red coral from the deep sea, a giant squid’s tentacles… And so on.

12 - complete mural: MC asks him about the city, if it was Lemuria’s capital. He confirms it, saying it’s Whalefall City, “it’s said that the first Sea God’s mount fell during a great caatastrophe. Its corpse sank to the depths of the ocean. The Lemurians then built an underwater city around its skeleton.” He tells her about the Temple and how a grand ceremony would take place before the God of the Sea could ascend to godhood (The ceremony we see in Forgotten Sea). She looks at the second mural, the image of a marketplace. He tells her about the humans who prayed to the sea god.

MURAL FRAGMENTS DIALOGUES: MURAL 2 - Ceremony Night