Mendius is an NPC in Divinity: Original Sin
Can be found outside the front entrance to the King Crab Inn
Seeks to recruit you to the Fabulous Five guild.
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- You there! A moment of your indulgence if you please. You are the Source Hunter are you not? The hero the whole of Cyseal is abuzz about? The talk of the town? The juiciest grape on the grapevine? Such a pleasure to meet you! A delight!
- No, scratch that! It is so much more than a delight: it is an intervention of Fate! Yes, that's it! Fate has put me on this very spot so I may tell you all about a most intriguing opportunity indeed!
- 1. And you are?
- Mendius, at your service! What is my profession? Well, I'll tell you what it used to be, and that is: a man of medicine. But what does a man of medicine do but mend what has first been broken? I saved lives to be sure, but today... I change them!
- 2. About that opportunity you mentioned...
- Oh, it is not merely an opportunity! It is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to become... better; to become the full extent of the promise that is locked inside of each and every one of us! So first of all, let me ask you this question: do you like adventure?
- 1. Of course I do! How could someone in my profession not?
- 2. I'm here to do my duty, which is hardly the same as adventuring.
- Even so, my friend, matters of a pecuniary nature aside, what is life without variety? Without spice? To be a Source Hunter must get frightfully dreary sometimes, am I right? All those orders! ***Investigate this! Retrieve that! And at the end of the day, what do you have to show for it? Wouldn't you prefer to call your own shots; be your own boss?
- You disagree with one another, but that proves you are firm-willed; that you have the minds of INdependents, not dependants. Admit: life's too short to spend it doing someone else's bidding, am I right? ***Of course I am! And I could help you attain the dream! Enact the change you deserve!
- And that is exactly why I am here! Why Fate has put me right by the door to the King Crab! So that I could meet you, and tell you about the marvel that is the Fabulous Five! The invitation to join is yours: grab it!
- 1. Tell me more about the Fabulous Five.
- Ah, the Fabulous Five! How I enjoy simply saying the words that describe the most illustrious and celebrated adventurers' guild in Rivellon! Our mission: to better the world! Our mantra: to better ourselves as we do so! To realise our dreams and cleanse our souls!
- You'd like nothing more than to enlist, wouldn't you? Of course you do! And you can! Of course, if you still have questions, I shall answer them to the best of my abilities. But if not, how about we get started?
- 1. So what is it that members of the Fabulous Five actually do?
- What a gem of a question! Straight as an arrow; sharp as a switchblade! Most meritorious of you!
- Now then: to join the Fabulous Five is to join a fellowship - to join a fraternity; a sorority; a community! The title of Knight is bestowed upon you the moment you sign our waver and so it all begins. *****I shall be the one to give you your first contracts, and once the job is done, I shall see to it you get your fair share of the reward!
- Of course, should you spread the word, should you propagate the gospel of the Fabulous Five and thereby draw new Knights into our fellowship, you will get a share of the reward from their contracts too. Isn't that wonderful?
- By now the genial glow of the fellowship must have warmed your heart! It has, hasn't it? But did I say fellowship? I mean family! For like a family we support one another; cheer one another; see each other through thick and thin; partake in glory and defeat!
- Work hard, fulfil contracts, enlist new Knights and swiftly shall you rise through the ranks! You will better yourself! You will better Rivellon! You will make the stars shine all the brighter! And you'll get fabulously wealthy in the process... What's not to like?
- 2. I'd like to enlist.
- Of course, of course, of course! All you need to do is sign this waiver, and just like that: snap! You're part of the family! All I need is your lovely li'l autograph What do you say?
- Marvellous! Magnificent! Oh, but what am I saying? Fabulous is the word! You may not realise it yet, but your fortunes; your very life is about to change for the better! So let us not dilly dally! To business! Your first assignment is ready and waiting if you're ready and willing!
- 1. About my assignment...
- It's a pretty straightforward task this one! Now in this town dwells a wizard. Arhu is his name and he's a frightful eccentric. Scientific type, you know the kind: favours reason over faith and all that. Not Fabulous Five material, him! His experimental weapons may keep a couple of skeletons away from the city, but many of his other researches failed; malfunctioned with tragic consequences!
- One of them was a big, lumbering apparatus: a frightful automaton shaped like a giant made of steel. It was supposed to crush the undead by the dozens, piloted as it was by a trained legionnaire.
- But you can guess what happened! Did it become sentient? Was it cursed? Whatever the cause, the thing relieved itself of its pilot and headed north towards a network of caves. Now ask yourself: what if it comes back? It could smash the city walls and claim a hundred lives before being subdued!
- Luckily there are those in this world who belong to the Fabulous Five! The braves who eat such monstrosities for breakfast! Go, my friend! Find this wizard's abomination and claim your just reward from Mayor Cecil in the name of our hallowed guild! Eeeasy money!
- 1. Join a guild; better the world; earn a lot of gold... Yes, count me in!
- 2. This Fabulous Five business sounds too good to be true. I'm going to pass.
- 3. You’re not worried about the undead out and about?
- They call the undead a problem, my friend, but those who know the ways of the Fabulous Five see no problems: they see opportunities! An enterprising spirit can wrench riches from cold dead rocks! Or from cold dead, full stop.
- 4. I'll take my leave.
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Trivia[edit]
- Mendius later disappears as you progress in the quests The Fabulous Five and Arhu's Failed Experiment
- If you chose not to enlist to the Fabulous Five, Mendius will no longer offer you the job even if you talk to him again.
