Ishmashell at the Beach near Cyseal in Divinity: Original Sin

Ishmashell is an NPC Shell in Divinity: Original Sin

Location[edit]

Cyseal Beach
Cyseal Beach

Starts Quest[edit]

A Shell on the Beach
A Shell on the Beach

Quotes[edit]

Ishmashell: Woe is me! Dry air my sorry lot!

Ishmashell: Hear a shell's lament! Yield me unto the water!

Ishmashell: Woe is me! Dry air my sorry lot!

Ishmashell: O mighty ocean, how I pine for thee!

Ishmashell: The Sea! The Sea! I have returned! Where every wave feels like a mermaid's kiss!

Ishmashell: May the bounty of the deep be yours along with my eternal gratitude!

Dialog[edit]

  • He returns: creature of the earth! Would that this creature of the sea could return as well...
    • 1. Who are you, sir shell?
    • Call me Ishmashell, son of the sea, an outcast upon these wretched shores! An exiled shell, doomed to live under a canopy of arid sky, not his native, tender water.
      • 1. It seems strange that you can talk...
      • Of course I can talk! Don't be silly. There's more tongue to me than heart. Indeed the surprise should be mine, for I still remember the days when your kind swung from branches and plucked the vermin out of their neighbours' fur.
        • 1. You don't seem to remember the past very fondly.
        • Time is an indulgent mistress to one who spends happy hours as she passes, but when your existence is one of misery, she becomes a lethargic harpy. All this I have seen. Alive. Alone. Alas.
    • 1. You say that you are doomed?
    • My fate is a cruel one, I assure you! How many snot noses have held me up against their dirty little ears, only to claim they can 'hear the ocean'!
    • Of course they hear her, the brats! We are on the very edge of the great aquatic mother whose embrace I so desperately long for ...
      • 1. So it's the sea's embrace you long for?
      • Yes, yes! I, king of pearls ache to repose anew on his coral throne! Hurl me toward the water; swing me as far as your arm's strength gives lease and treasure long sunk I will grant thee!
        • 1. I should decide what to do with you...
        • What do you say, kind knight? Will you return the king of pearls to the sea so he may yield you long lost treasure?
          • 1. Kindness is its own reward, and then there's the promise of treasure to boot. Let's throw him into the sea.
            • 1. Someone's sinking to the bottom of the sea here today and if it's not him, it's you! (Intimidate)
            • 2. Don't be so greedy! Indulge me and let me return poor Ishmashell to his throne! (Charm)
            • 3. How very short-sighted! A pearl is worth a few coins to be sure, but who knows what riches lie hidden beneath the waves? (Reason)
            • 4. All right, we'll do it your way!
          • 2. King of pearls you say? Sounds lucrative! Let's sell him to a local merchant.
          • Don't be so selfish! For the sea he longs, so to the sea we should return him!
          • 1. Either you agree to take him with us, or it's YOU I'll throw into the deep! (Intimidate)
          • 2. But he called himself the king of pearls! Worth, I'm sure, a king's ransom... (Charm)
            • Blackguard most vile! You would rob me of freedom and pearl? May the sea fill thy lungs with salt!
          • 3. Who says he'll make good on his promise? This pearl is a sure thing; his words however are not. (Reason)
          • 4. All right, we'll do it your way!

Description[edit]

(if picked up)

A talking shell you picked up from the Beach. It's been quiet ever since you snagged it.

Trivia[edit]

  • Ishmashell could be a reference to the Moby-Dick Character, Ishmael, and a play on the word "Shell"