Who’s Tanith?

Steps

1. Let the opening scene finish. The stranger who appraises you on the beach walks off at the end of it, and the last thing he says is the name. Every recording that cuts away early loses it.
2. Walk into Magdal’s Rest and let the woman who stops you speak first. She is not a quest marker and she does not wait to be clicked; two recordings have her start talking before the player has done anything.
3. Listen to the whole of her opening rather than skipping to the dialogue wheel. The connection between her and the man on the beach is in her first four sentences and nowhere else.
4. Say yes when she offers to direct you to townspeople. That is the speech that names the merchant, the seer, the alchemist in the southern swamp and the magic teacher, and it is the game’s own answer to several other questions on this site.
5. Work through her follow-up options. She is the game’s lore desk: two separate channels sit through the same list of topics and get the same answers on the world’s gods, the Black Star, the realms, the city she comes from, and what Magdal’s Rest was before it was a village.
6. Ask her whether she was called here too. That option is what produces her own account of why she is on the island, and it is the only place any recording gets it.
7. If you cannot find her later, one ten-hour session finds her sitting on a roof. That is one recording on one build and it is not a location this page will state as fact.

The line, and how many recordings of it there are

The opening scene is a conversation on a beach with a man who is about to leave. It ends the same way in every recording read here: “Enough delay. I’ve kept the saint waiting long enough. Tell Tanith I’m sorry.”

Seven separate channels recorded it — four of them are cited on this page and three more sit in the same transcript pool — and six of the seven caption tracks produce the same name. One produces a shorter version of it. That is the strongest agreement any name has in this repository, and it is still machine captioning; see the section below on what this page will and will not claim about it.

The line lands with no explanation and no journal entry. One player stops the game there and says “Okay. Who’s Tanith?” That question is the title of this page because it is the question the game deliberately provokes and then answers about sixty seconds later.

Who the man on the beach is

He is Maris, and the person who tells you so is Tanith herself. Two channels recording on different days transcribe her opening sentence for sentence: “He’s finally gone and done it. I knew it was inevitable. I just didn’t think it was so soon. Maris, what will become of you? You there? What did he say? He must be headed for the tower.”

She never says he is dead and neither does this page. What she says is that he is headed for the tower, and then: “Life must move on. Maris would have wanted that.” The two halves of that sit uneasily together and the game leaves them there.

Later, if you ask whether she was called to the island too, she gives the rest of it: “I was dragged here unwittingly by a former lover. He heard the call. I just hear the waves. Maris too heard the call eventually. He, like the other, fell victim to its song. I cannot survive another heartbreak like this again.” Two channels record that answer in the same words.

Note what she does not say. She names two men — a former lover who brought her here, and Maris — and she distinguishes them (“he, like the other”). Nothing in any recording read here says Maris is the former lover, and this page does not join them.

The stranger’s appraisal changes with your character

Everything either side of it is fixed, but there is one moment in the opening scene that is not. After “Another offering for the saint. Let’s take a look at it”, the stranger says something about you specifically, and four recordings produce three different speeches.

Two channels get the same one: either a servant or zealot “from the queen’s domain, or a scholar lost on expedition. How utterly unremarkable you must have been.” A third gets none of that and instead “Still alive but barely. Nothing on him either … I don’t suppose you even have a name?” A fourth — whose player says on camera that he made a cat, and who is playing a spellcaster — gets “Your precious magics couldn’t save you this time … your feeble bones will break under the weight of what’s to come.”

The reasonable reading is that the line reads your character back to you and that the fourth variant reads both a race and a class. This page states the variation, which is directly observable across four caption tracks, and does not state the rule behind it, which is not. If a first playthrough felt more pointed than a friend’s, this is why.

What she gives you

Two things, in one conversation. The first is the introduction speech, which this site already relies on elsewhere: the merchant in the town square, the seer on the hill above him, the alchemist selling supplies in the southern swamp and, last, the apprentice who can teach the magical arts. Then she stops — “The rest of them you’ll meet on your own. Many live mundane lives while others are either some flavor of insane. You be the judge.”

The second is a quest. One player checks his journal immediately after the conversation and reads it aloud: the quest is called Introductions and the objective is suggestions on who to meet in Magdal’s Rest. He then works through the town for the next forty minutes and, near the end, notes that the last person he has not spoken to is the magic teacher — and that he could not find an option to tell someone Tanith sent him.

That last detail is worth a reader’s attention and is deliberately reported as a failure rather than a mechanic. It suggests a “Tanith sent me” line exists somewhere in the game’s dialogue, because a player went looking for one. It does not establish that it does, and no recording here shows one being used.

She is also the lore desk

Three channels sit through her follow-up topics and the answers match. She is from the city of Batrice — “Brice, of course. Couldn’t you tell from my accent?” — which is why she is the one who knows any of this.

On the world’s religion: “Believed in one true god who died millennia ago. He made our world and our people, then went silent. Only a few millennia ago, the three they called gods made themselves known and impacted the ground in righteous fireballs, with each claiming to be the one god.” And then the part her city is defined by: they are “powerful beings in their own right, but not divine.”

On the Black Star: “Centuries ago, long after the other three … another god crashed into the northern realm”, and “twisted abominations escaped from the crater and laid waste to the kingdoms, erasing its culture and brainwashing the people. Only the harsh terrain of the mountains prevented further conquest.” Refugees fled south and “many failed to assimilate, instead creating communities on the outskirts of their new lands.”

On the village you are standing in: it was “one of dozens that dotted this island in the age of kings when demigods roamed this land”, abandoned after the gods appeared in corporeal form. And on the tavern: “Magdal is, or I suppose was, the ancient being whose skull now serves as a tavern. I may have a book around here somewhere if you’d like to know more.”

On what came before: “witch kings and demigods ruled the earth alongside human and beast kingdoms. The world was a patchwork quilt of worship and oaths, united under no central power. After the three gods appeared, they began hunting these lesser demigods and witch kings until most of the known world belonged under their banners.”

None of the proper nouns in those answers are printed here except Batrice and Magdal, both of which this site already carries from elsewhere. The realms she lists, the queen she names and the northern land the Black Star holds are machine-captioned only and are rendered differently on every track.

Why this page prints a name it cannot spell

The rule on this site is that a character’s name is not printed unless a creator has written it down — in a video title, a description, a changelog. Machine captions cannot establish a spelling, and three of the names on this site exist only because a creator typed them. There is no creator-written source for this one.

It is printed anyway, on a threshold stated here so that it is a rule and not an exception. Two independent recordings catch a player reading the name off his own screen — both of them selecting a dialogue option that contains it, in two unrelated sessions hours apart — and seven catch the scripted line that introduces it. That is on-screen game text, read aloud, on more than one machine, plus the strongest cross-channel agreement any name has here.

What that establishes is how the name sounds. It does not establish how the game spells it, and a reader should hold the spelling loosely for a specific reason: speech recognisers resolve unfamiliar sounds towards names already in their dictionaries, and this one is a real name with a long history outside this game. Seven tracks agreeing may say more about the recogniser than about NerveLabs. One track dissents with a shorter form and a third recording renders it shorter still in one place.

The threshold is forward-looking and it does not reopen the names this site has already refused. A name that appears on one track, or on several tracks that disagree with each other, still does not get printed — which is why the alchemist she names in the same breath is still described here rather than named.

Requirements / limits

• Every recording cited here was made between 17 and 20 August 2026 and all of them predate Update 7, which shipped on 21 August 2026 and rebuilt the tower introduction. Nothing here has been checked against the current build.
• The name is machine-captioned. It is printed on the threshold set out above and it establishes the sound, not the spelling. So does Maris.
• That the man on the beach is Maris rests on her calling him that in the same breath as reacting to his departure, on two channels. No recording shows a name plate on him.
• Nothing here says Maris dies. He says he has kept the saint waiting; she says he is headed for the tower and then speaks of him in the past tense. The game does not close the gap and neither does this page.
• Her position on a roof comes from one session on one build and is not published as a location. In the two recordings of the arrival she is on the ground, meeting you as you come in.
• The Introductions quest name and its objective come from one player reading his own journal. No second recording of the journal entry has been read here.
• A pre-release play-test recording in this repository also names her and shows her on camera. It was rejected on 22 August 2026 as a build three weeks older than release, upheld twice since, and upheld again here; it is not counted towards any grade on this page and is not cited.

Common mistakes

• Skipping the arrival conversation. It answers the question the opening scene just planted, names four townspeople and hands you a quest, and it costs about two minutes.
• Assuming the name belongs to something you have not met yet. It belongs to the first person who talks to you in town, which is why the game can afford to drop it without explanation.
• Reading her line as confirmation that Maris is dead. She says he is headed for the tower. What follows is grief, not a death notice.
• Treating the former lover and Maris as the same man. She distinguishes them in the same sentence.
• Expecting the stranger’s appraisal to match a walkthrough. That one speech varies with your character; three different versions of it are on record.
• Taking any route or build advice from this page. It is a page about who somebody is.

Still unverified

• How does the game spell her name?Not verifiedNo creator-written source spells it. Seven caption tracks agree on one form, one gives a shorter form, and a third recording renders it shorter still in one place. The name is printed on the threshold set out on this page and establishes the sound only.
• Is Maris alive?Not verifiedHe walks away saying he has kept the saint waiting long enough. She says he is headed for the tower, then speaks of him in the past tense in the next sentence. No recording read here shows what happens to him.
• Is Maris the former lover who brought her to the island?Not verifiedShe names both in one answer and distinguishes them: “he, like the other, fell victim to its song”. Nothing joins them and this page does not.
• Is there a “Tanith sent me” dialogue option?Not verifiedOne player looks for one on camera and reports that he could not find it with the NPC he tried. That is evidence he expected one to exist, not that it does.
• What decides the stranger’s appraisal line on the beach?Two independent public sourcesThat it varies is established: four recordings produce three different speeches at the same point. What selects between them is not. The variant that mentions magic comes from a player who says on camera that he built a cat and who is playing a spellcaster, which is suggestive of race, class or both.
• Does the Introductions quest complete by speaking to everyone she names?Not verifiedOne player forms that theory on camera and works through the town testing it. The session ends without him confirming it.
• Where is she after the arrival conversation?Single unconfirmed reportOne ten-hour session finds her on a roof and its player says he had assumed the figure up there was someone else. One recording, one build, and no second sighting.
• Is any of this unchanged on the current build?Not verifiedEvery recording here predates Update 7. The changelog does not mention her, but it does state that the tower introduction was rebuilt, and the opening scene sits directly beside it.