Gentle Meadows

The Gentle Meadows are the first area that you can progress to if you choose to smite the Necromancer. The enemies in the Gentle Meadows all have a hidden passive, Docile, which causes them to be unable to kill the Skeleton Knight.

In the Gentle Meadows, the player encounters the first Major NPC that progresses the storyline, Maela, the Songstress. The player approaches Maela, but she gets scared off before they are able to talk to her. ( Even approaching her beautiful melodies is enough to restore the Skeleton Knight to Maximum HP )

Curious about Maela, the Skeleton Knight gives chase, all the while fighting monsters that ambush him.

The Skeleton Knight finally reaches a grove of trees where Maela appears to be hiding. The Skeleton Knight has the option to either begin striking each tree to discern which one is her, or to call out her name. If he calls out her name, she will not answer unless the player has gotten a Dryad to join his party. If the player strikes each of the trees, Maela will run off, and will appear later in the Deep Forest.