By twilight crepuscule on Naberus Eve, when the damned revel in ritual while the bereaved beseech for seance, an autumn draught rattles these wretched bones.
Unseal the haunted crypt of Dagath at your peril, lest her night mares plague the living. Awaken, oh mighty Hollow Rider, to bestride ye ghastly steeds. Ne'er do they dare forget the whirl of splintered spines, the vendetta of her untaken soul, and the vestige of Rakhali' s spectral stampede. Dagath and her loyal steed rode into service in Update Dagath's main and component blueprints are acquired from Dagath's Hollow within the Clan Dojo.
Unlike most Clan Dojo rooms, Dagath does not require Research and can be acquired immediately following the room's construction. Component blueprints require a total of Vainthorns , obtained from the Abyssal Zone , a unique Exterminate mission on Ceres. Each clear awards 6, 7, or 8 Vainthorns 8, 11, or 12 on The Steel Path. There once was a Dax cavalarywoman, the lover of an Orokin couple named Corphel and Irilia.
What was her name? We do not know, for they never used it. They called her by many pet names, though, for an exotic pet she was to them. Little Sweetness. Tender Petal. Wild Rider. Had a mere Dax been known to be engaging in relations with her betters, she would have been executed on the spot. But the couple's power and influence were such that the affair would never be publicly addressed. Still they feared to use her name, for names have power. Many gifts they gave her. Fine armor. Rubedo rings.
And a horse of her own, on the condition that she never, ever named it. Names were for people, not possessions. So long as it remained a mere nameless thing, she would never love it more than them. But the rider could not bear to deny her friend the simple kindness of a name. So she whispered into its ear: you are Rakhali, freshness-after-rain. And just as the couple had feared, she came to love the horse so dearly.
