Online:Heiruna the Merciless

This article is about the Nord. For the houseguest, see Heiruna. For the doll, see Heiruna Doll.

Heiruna the Merciless (lore page)
Location	Dragonhome
Race	Nord	Gender	Female
Health	39,959
Reaction	Friendly

Heiruna the Merciless

Heiruna the Merciless is a Nord mage who can be met in the flesh after she is freed from being trapped in a doll. She sees herself as a "stunningly beautiful enforcer of justice" whose methods are sometimes seen as unsavory. Before she was cursed, Heiruna came to Dragonhome to deal with the emerging dragon cult hiding there.

Related Quests

• Spellbound: Free a trapped mage from an existence as a cursed doll.

Quest-Related Events

Once you have placed the recovered personal items on the altar in Dragonhome, there will be a flash of magic and the newly bodied Heiruna will announce herself:

Heiruna the Merciless: "Ah ha! At last!"

You can then speak with Heiruna to see how she is. She will be evasive when you ask how she managed to do that.

"You did it!
Oh, it feels so good to be back in my body! Flesh and blood! A beating heart! It would truly have been a shame to keep all of this beauty locked away in a silly doll for eternity. I owe you a great debt."

What just happened?

"I wouldn't think too hard about it, if I were you. This kind of magic is often more palatable when not dissected. The long and short of it is that it worked, and you've restored me to my true self!"

So the spell is broken for good?

"Yes, darling, thanks to you. My rather enviable body is restored and those sorry excuse for cultists no longer have a hold of me.
Please, take this. It's not every hero that stops to help a talking doll. You've more than earned a reward."

Once you have received a reward you can ask her questions which she may answer.

"I didn't realize how much I missed the cold. The wind biting my cheeks is like a kiss from an old lover. Or a new lover! It's invigorating.
You have my eternal gratitude, for what it's worth."

What will you do now?

"First, I'm going to make the bastards who did this to me pay.
Then I think I'll take a long, hot bath, stuff myself on sweets and mead, and then perhaps find someone to warm my bed."

What was it like being a doll?

"Humiliating. Reduced to a child's plaything! I never thought I'd sink so low.
Oh, and dreadfully boring, too. All I could do was stare at the wall and think about how much I hated it! And there were so many itches I could not scratch."

Do you think the Dragon Cult is a threat?

"Certainly not after what you've done to them here. They'd be licking their wounds for months if I didn't intend to make sure none of the remaining survive.
The time of the Dragon Cult is long over. They should be thanking us for reminding them."

Will you tell me who you really are now?

"Oh, fine.
Think of me as a powerful, stunningly beautiful enforcer of justice. I see evil in the world and I eradicate it as I see fit. My methods could be viewed as unsavory by some, but perhaps the same could be said of you."

Houseguest Dialogue

Oh, the ignominy of being an agent of justice trapped inside a small floating doll! Now Heiruna intends to plot vengeance—in your retreat. After adding Heiruna to your home, you can set her on a path, plus you and your visitors can speak with her.

Heiruna is a houseguest. She was available in the Crown Store for 020002,000  from October 12 to 26, 2023. While she is in your home she can be spoken to.

Heiruna as a houseguest

"Now don't run away. There's a perfectly reasonable explanation for this. It's rather humiliating, but my soul is trapped inside this ludicrous toy."

"Laugh if you want, but wait until this happens to you."

"No, I will not say "Mama.""

"The heart of a true Nord beats beneath this snuggly plush."

"Vengeance, crieth the cute talking doll!
Yes, I have issues."

"Just wait. Those who did this to me will never see what is coming."

"What? Never met a floating, talking doll before?"

"This curse has left me to spend eternity as a repulsively adorable plaything. Can you imagine a worse fate?"

"I am not cuddly-wuddly, despite appearances to the contrary."

"Once I was a merciless agent of justice. Now I'm a merciless child's toy!"

"This form is all right, but I sometimes imagine what it would be like if they had stuck me in a different plaything. A toy trebuchet, for example. Oh, the destruction I could cause with some choice projectiles!"

"This place is nice. You know what would make it nicer? If I wasn't trapped in the body of this doll!"

"My greatest fear is a dog mistaking me for a chew toy."

"Before I learned to levitate, I was forced to rely on witless fools to get me where I needed to go. Independent movement is not an ability to take for granted."

"My greatest fear is a dog mistaking me for a chew toy."

"In my experience, the smaller you are, the meaner you are. And in case you haven't noticed, I'm quite small."

"I wasn't always a doll, you know. Take my advice and avoid Dragon cults or you could end up like me."

"I hate all fools, but witless fools are the worst."

"Squeeze me and you go to the top of my revenge list."

"I once had a lover who thought she was a real doll.
How little she knew."

"What is the search for knowledge without an inadvertent transformation? Things like this happen more often than you think."

"I'm just here because I need a quiet place to plot revenge.
I mean, reflect on my life choices. Ja, that is it."

"Give me a sharp knife, a mirror, and a goblet with which to catch the blood of my enemies and I can work wonders!"

"Once I was a scholar…and so much more. Now? Now I am simply an effigy of joy and wonder."

"One good thing about my current state is that I am adorable."

"Listen to the words of wisdom from the mouth of an adorable doll.
Kindness is to those who deserve it. Punishment to all the rest."

"You know what I miss? A properly made Bloody Mara.
Come to think of it, I miss eating and drinking in general."

"In my line of work, getting encased inside a doll is an occupational hazard, darling."

"If someone can't take me seriously, I have no interest in trying to converse with them,"

"If you know what is good for you, do not poke my tummy."

If you completed Spellbound:

"Good to see you. I am stuck in this obnoxiously cute form again, but at least I can move around this time. I'll figure out how to change back. Eventually. But for now, I am content."

"Apparently just killing a bunch of Dragon cultists did not permanently remove the curse as I had hoped. I need to do a bit more research.
In the meantime, I am comfortable here. It's certainly better than a few caves I've had to hide in."

"I know you. Yes, I was a doll. Then I wasn't. Now I am a doll again.
Let's not talk about it, shall we?"

Notes

• Her journal can be found in Dragonhome.