When Tyll'a and Anaelyn entered the portal, they emerged in a coastal city. Tyll'a immediately knew where they were. "I recognize this place. It's my hometown of Limsa Lominsa!" Tyll'a saw a group of children playing, but there was one who seemed left out. Tyll'a knew immediately who the left-out child was: it was him. "As a kit, I was always left out; no one wanted anything to do with me." Another child walked up to the young Tyll'a and started to comfort him. "My sister Ayu was the only other kit that would even talk to me." The two walked out of the city, heading for the countryside. Eventually, they got to a house that was very familiar to Tyll'a. It was the house that he had grown up in, and that his family still owned. As they entered, they saw an older Tyll'a – he looked to be around twenty – as well as an older woman. Both were crying. "But eventually I even lost Ayu. She went to war…and she never came back." Tyll'a started to shed some tears himself as he relived that memory.
Anaelyn started to comfort Tyll'a. "I know what it's like to lose someone you cared about to war, Tyll'a. Many of my draenei friends fell in battle against the Burning Legion."
She and Tyll'a exited the house, and they saw his memory once again, this time fighting an aurochs with nothing but kitchen knives. "I knew I had to leave Limsa, and I survived in the wilds for five years." As Tyll'a explained, something came out of the Tyll'a memory's eyes, and it looked like fire. Instinctively, Tyll'a started to cast a spell, and blew the balls of fire into the ocean, putting them out.
By the time the two returned to where the memory was, it was nighttime, and the memory was asleep. Quietly, Tyll'a said, "Eventually, Ayu's spirit appeared in my dreams, telling me to go to Gridania, a city in the forests of the Black Shroud." Tyll'a and Anaelyn boarded a nearby ship and went across the sea to the Black Shroud. There, they saw a modest-looking house. Outside was a slightly older Tyll'a memory, along with a chocobo.
"This place…the Shroudwolf Den. Some of my happiest memories are of here. Nightstar and I…for the first time in years, we felt like we had a home. And we did…" The Tyll'a memory walked inside the house, and Tyll'a and Anaelyn waited. After some time, the memory returned, mounted the chocobo, and rode away. "That is, until my rage got me kicked out. I had been kicked out, and so had the Miqo'te I had adopted as my son."
With nowhere else to go, Tyll'a and Anaelyn crossed the sea once again, and when they had returned to Limsa Lominsa, they saw a memory of Tyll'a talking to a Miqo'te woman. "This is when I first met the woman I would eventually give an eye to protect. I loved her, and I thought she loved me too. But like I told you, she abandoned me like I was just a piece of trash!"
Once again, Anaelyn comforted Tyll'a. "You're not a piece of trash. You're a very intelligent, albeit stubborn, man, and if she abandoned you, then you deserve better than her."
"And I have better than her…much better. I have you." Anaelyn smiled when she heard Tyll'a say that, and the two started to hug. However, the trial had to continue, and Tyll'a found himself returning to the sea. Instead of traveling east, towards Gridania, they traveled west. "And then, when I was at my lowest point, is when the Dark Moon struck. I'm ashamed to admit it, but I lost myself to my anger."
They eventually arrived at a small island – the Dark Moon Lair – where they saw the Tyll'a memory yet again. He was fighting some other Miqo'te, and he was fighting savagely, cutting off the tail of one of his opponents when she left an opening. After the memory finished his kill, he turned to Tyll'a and Anaelyn, sword drawn. An eyepatch covered the memory's right eye, and a fire burned in his left eye, similar to the fireballs that Tyll'a had put in the sea earlier in the trial. However, this fire was darker than the original, and Tyll'a knew that he'd have to fight this memory of himself.
Drawing his own sword, Tyll'a started to fight the memory. Memory and reality battled, with sword and spell, and the real Tyll'a cried out, "This is not who I am! This is not who I will be!" Eventually, the memory found himself lying on the ground, with Tyll'a's sword at his throat.
The memory spat out the words, "Do it. Kill me, and be forever tormented." But Tyll'a sheathed his sword, and responded.
"No. I'm better than this." Tyll'a and Anaelyn returned to the ship, and found themselves back on the Vindicaar, where Turalyon was waiting for them.