Bakhyt/Interactions

This is a list of interactions with Bakhyt.

Introduction

"Isanmesez!"

Pardon, what did you say?

"Ah, I beg your pardon, sir. Isanmesez means do you still live? It is a sort of greeting, like how do you do.

I am Bakhyt. For fifteen years I was an aide to the Khan's executioner in Bakhchisaray. The work was busy, but I did not mind it... Until the new Khan installed a new Vizier, that is.

The old vizier was retired. I cried as I strangled him with a silk thread. The new vizier was a miser, quite like your everyday Istanbul shroff! He decided that the executioner needs no assistant, so I was put out of the palace the very same day. Now I make my bread as I can. Working as an assistant in the butcher's row at the markets, chopping up the carcass at the slaughterhouse. I even went as low as accepting a job killing a pig at a Cossack homestead -- for ten thaler! Shaitan damn that beast, cursed by the Allah..."

Well, I do need fine swordmen in my party...

Allah is merciful, for he has sent a kind master to me. By the way, it would be nice to have a good lunch. Without pork, of course!

Timely food is the best way to secure loyalty, yes. And I try to keep away from all these women... Ungodly creatures are they!

Do your job and worry not about your meals.

My axe shall serve you well, aye. Of course, if you give me 300 thaler to pay for a new handle. I have worked for a full month at the local slaughterhouse, and the axe has been worn out.

Here, count it twice.

Women-hater, executioner, and a glutton as well... I fear our ways must part.

Sorry, but I have no need for an executioner. Ask someone else.

Go, go out of here, you heaten. I don't know your gibberish tongue.

Reencounter

An executioner in retirement has many foes. I can hardly explain to the relatives of the deceased that it was merely my job. And with such a name as mine, try finding a new job, ha ha! But if you need a man who has mastered well both the axe and the noose, then I am at your service.

Retirement

Sorry, (player)-aga, but there is a situation... In a town nearby, a hangman retired of old age. Oh, if only you knew how I miss my job. At night I dream of the axe, the noose and the strangling silk wire. So I think I will head there and try to get the job I was meant for...

Rehire

I did not expect to see you here, (player)-aga. It turns out that only locals can work here as hangmen. So I wander about in search for odd jobs. Would you accept me back into your ranks?

Story: Azaq-kale

Here, where the Don enters the sea of Azov, is my homeland.

This is Azaq-kale, ancient Tana, which the Cossacks call Azov. My grandfather told me that our ancestors came from the Greeks who held the town. Even in these ancient days, they proudly bore the title of executioners!

Oh, how many men came here -- the Scythians, the Greeks, the Russians, the Pecheneg. And now this fortress remains the key to the Tauris.

Like Quotes

Mamai

Whatever they say, Tatars and Cossacks are brothers indeed! Last night, me and Mamai were returning from the inn with arms round each other, singing songs. He sang the Cossack songs, while I sung the Tatar ones. A fine night it was! -- The villagers ran out in their nightclothes to listen to us.

You mean to say Allah forbids drinking wine? That is so, but Mamai has well mastered the ways of religion. He explained that nothing in the Koran forbids the drinking vodka...

Dislike Quotes

Fatima

And one more thing, (player)-aga! Your guard, Fatima, took a dislike to me from the first day. I always expecting some dirty trick from her.

Certainly, my last job hardly earns me respect among my fellow countrymen, but she might cut me down like a sheep at any moment!

Varvara

Listen, (player)-aga! Varvara-hanum is a dreadful women, I swear by Allah. She killed her husband, and now I feel she put her evil eyes on me.

What did I say, anyway? It was meant as a compliment. I merely remarked that in my harem she would be the third or even the second wife! What is wrong with these Russian women!?