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Icantha is a (now undead) scientist in Pillars of Eternity.

She can be found in her house in the north-west corner of the Heritage Hill district of Defiance Bay.

Biography [ ]

A woman bends over a roaring fireplace, feeding a splintered chair leg into it. As you get closer, you notice something unnatural about her - a certain pallor to her skin, a lack of movement beneath her flesh even while her arms execute deft, efficient movements. And then you see the puckered flesh, ragged and bloodless, over her heart.

Icantha is unique in that she has weathered the animantic disaster in Heritage Hill by dying. Harnessing what knowledge and talent she had, she stabbed herself in the heart after taking precautions pioneered by Helig of Thein, surviving as an undead vessel. She maintains a strict regimen to maintain her body's freshness and avoid succumbing to the ravenous appetite of an undead monster. That includes feasting on captive humans she keeps locked away in her house.

Her unique status allowed her to analyze the Heritage Hill disaster with a scientist's eye and determine that an act of animancy on a great scale is responsible for it, on a scale unseen since Engwithan times. She speculates it's the work of Aldhelm, one of many charlatans claiming to be men of science. She hates him on the grounds of him mocking her long career trying to understand the Engwithans and their language. In fact, she's one of the few scholars to actually understand a portion of the language.

Secrets of the Tacan is a side quest and companion quest for Zahua in The White March - Part II.

Triggering the quest might be a little unorthodox, as it can only happen once The White March - Part II starts. You need to talk to Zahua and exhaust all his dialogue options again, especially the ones concerning the fate of the Tacan. Then, you need to either rest, change locations, and/or restart the game (scripts are capricious beasts) and you should be able to ask him again about his vow to liberate his people and then about the way you can help him.

Journal [ ]

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ID	Objectives
0	Secrets of the Tacan
	10000	Zahua has requested that we consume some "special herbs" together in Whitestone Hollow so that we can pursue a spirit lion he believes may represent his dead master Ixepillo.

The secret of becoming an enlightened Nalpazca warrior, the anitlei, died with Ixepillo. If Zahua can recover this knowledge, he may yet be able to free his people from slavery.

The bodies around the pedestal, which would seem to all belong to the spirit, may indicate the retrieval is less simple than it appears.

There is a great tree to the north whose sap gives off a smell that supposedly keeps other animals at bay.

Coated with this sap, the antelope stands a better chance at surviving until its wounds heal.

Gallery [ ]

Come Kitty, here Kitty.

Synopsis [ ]

The secret of becoming an enlightened Nalpazca warrior, the anitlei, died with Ixepillo. If Zahua can recover this knowledge, he may yet be able to free his people from slavery. He wants to travel to the Whitestone Hollow, where he felt his presence. Upon arrival, he will request that the Watcher and he consume some "special herbs" together so that they can pursue a spirit lion he believes may represent his dead master Ixepillo.

Walkthrough [ ]

Activate the quest by exhausting all dialogue options with Zahua and resting, changing locations, or restarting the game to cause him to have something to discuss with you. Then agree to help and travel to the Whitestone Hollow. Upon entry, Zahua will spot a spirit lion and note that it's a sign, as it was his master's symbol.
He will offer drugs to everyone in the party. The responses are. Quite amusing:
- "The Tacan aren't defeated yet." adds +1 to Persistence
- "A source of hope is never a bad thing." has no effect.
- "You may liberate your people yet." adds +2 to Persistence.
- "You let your pride get the better of you." removes -2 from Persistence.
- "Perhaps it's time to let them go." removes -2 from Legacy.
- "We aren't done here yet. There must be something more worth learning here." adds +1 to Legacy.
- "There is more to the Tacan than Ixepillo's teachings." adds +2 to Legacy.
- "It hardly seems to matter. the Tacan no longer exist." removes -2 from Legacy and Persistence.
Watcher: "Durance, you heal this animal."

Durance: "I could heal this beast, Watcher, but not in the way that the monk would want."

Zahua: "I would ask neither kind of healing, as neither has any lesson to offer. Keep to your own trial, Durance, and I will keep to mine."

Durance: "Oh, I wouldn't dream of interfering. I await the sound of broken bonds or a broken back. There is a music to both, if you listen for it."
- Collect the sap on the opposite side of the lake, by the cave. Return to witness the antelope, dead against four wolves. After Zahua reacts, Chieftain Ehuilia will spawn among them. After a short conversation, he will turn into a werewolf and attack. Defeat him and talk to Zahua. The conversation has no effect on Zahua's attitude.
- Finally, the lake will drain and you'll be able to access the central island. Enter the ring to witness Zahua's last meeting with Nahualtia and attempt to incite a revolt among the Tacan - realizing that they were broken by their slavery and their time has ended. How you react to him accepting that the Tacan have died is the final conversation that affects his attitude:
  - "The Tacan lived their time and made their mark on the world. They need nothing more from you." removes -3 from Persistence and adds +3 to Legacy.
  - "What you do from here on out is for your soul alone." removes -3 from Legacy and Persistence.
  - "You are the last of the Tacan. What you do now, you do in their memory." adds +3 to Persistence and removes -3 from Legacy.
  - "The culture of the Tacan and their Nalpazca warriors still exists within you. You can still carry it forward." adds +3 to Persistence and Legacy.
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