Quest 7
Active Quest: Dragon Shrine
Now, open up the map screen, and travel NE of your current position to ‘Lake Arrius Caverns’, where the next part of your Quest will soon begin. If you’re thinking about ‘Fast Travelling’ there, then you’ll be unable to do so, as you haven’t yet discovered that location, however, you can ‘Fast Travel’ to ‘Black Waterside Stables’ in ‘Cheydinhol’ and ride a horse North to the location, that’s if you’ve got the money to spare!
If not, then simply walk it, either way will save you time, and will also allow for a nice, scenic route along your journey!
Lake Arrius Caverns
To reach the ‘Caverns’, you’ll be required to cross a small river and hike up a long and tedious hill. Once you come to the entrance of the ‘Lake Arrius Caverns’, head inside and light up a torch. Right then, walk forwards down through the ominous cavern until you bump into the ‘Doorkeeper’, a Mythic Dawn associate, at which point, head over in his direction and listen to his instructions. Once he’s finished enlightening you of what’s about to come, he’ll unlock the door enabling you to pass. Before heading through the door, turn back around and walk up to the well-lit, elevated platform to the far South of this section of the cave. Quickly drop everything that’s in your inventory, EVERYTHING – this will all become apparent shortly - and then proceed through the now-opened door.
The only thing that you are unable to drop is your Gold, however, there is a way in which you can get all of your Gold back from Harrow shortly after he’s taken it! You’ll see what I mean in a moment. Continue through the narrow cave for a short distance until you meet up with a man named ‘Harrow’. Harrow will insist that you [Give him all your possessions] if you wish to enter unharmed; see, I told you that it would all become apparent soon! If you want to keep your undercover roll then you’ll be required to hand over everything, however, if you fancy starting WW III then refuse and say “I’m not here to join the order”, at which point, Harrow will transform into the Mythic Dawn Warrior and the fight will begin. Doing it this way will result in you having to kill ALL Mythic Dawn members within the ‘Shrine Antechamber’, as they all immediately become hostile afterwards. The stealth method is best for lower level characters so I’d advise you take this path if you’re not yet advanced enough! Plus, if you took my advice and stashed all your belongings, then they’ll be nothing to hand over! Give up your possessions – Gold in this case - and then quickly head back to your goods. Collect them and follow Harrow into the ‘Shrine Antechamber’.
Shrine Antechamber
Once inside the Shrine Antechamber, enter ‘Sneak Mode’ and ‘Pickpocket’ Harrow; you only have one chance at this before he notices you, so stealth and speed is the key here. Quickly and quietly sneak up on him and retake your Gold! Now, at this point, you’re still undercover…with all your items, weapons and gold – sneaky ay! I think you’re ready now! Follow Harrow down the South tunnel and take the first door on your right; Harrow will wait for you, so don’t worry you wont lose him.
Head down the short tunnel until you come to a two-way junction and quickly take the left one. Follow it round towards the next room and search around the place for items and rare books. Open up the box located in the far corner and collect the ‘Scroll’ from inside. Once you’ve collected everything from here, retrace your steps and regroup with Harrow. Continue following him down the passageway until he enters through the wooden door on your left, leading you into the ‘Dragon Shrine’, at which point, forget about Harrow for the minute, and continue South towards the far end. Picklock the door at the end, walk through and follow the tunnel down towards the next room, which looks like a storage facility! Open up all the crates, boxes and chests and collect everything that may be of use! Once you’re finished stocking up on supplies, retrace your steps back to the Dragon Shrine door and walk through.
Dragon Shrine
Again, follow Harrow down the long flight of stairs and stand with the group situated to the bottom. Listen to Mankar Camoran’s speech, wait for him to teleport and then step up to the platform. You’ll notice a prisoner chained down towards the back of the raised level and one of the members of the Mystic Dawn will order you to kill him! You can do one of three things here; either leave him completely alone and simply go for the book, kill him, or set him free. Baring in mind that your next move is to steal the Book of ‘Mysterium Xarxes’, and in turn forfeit your undercover roll anyway, I’d suggest you save his life, as it’s not going to make things any worse for you! Killing him would be wrong, of course and letting him die is just as bad; so, quickly run over to his position and ‘Free’ him! Next, quickly run over to the Book or ‘Mysterium Xarxes’, which is located on the podium at which Mankar was stood, and steal the book! As you can probably guess by now, everyone with the cavern suspects that you’re not one of them, and now this is where it gets tricky! Immediately after releasing the prisoner and stealing the book, the nearby Dawn members transform into their hardy armour, and all hell breaks lose!
Forget about taking these on, as you don’t really have a chance, instead, quickly run back to the steps and take the right set of steps leading you up to the top level. You’re unable to exit via the same route you entered as the gate is now locked, so you’re going to have to find another way out. Once you reach the top level, head down the NW tunnel and through the door towards the end leading you into the ‘Shrine Living Quarters’.
Shrine Living Quarters
Once inside, advance up the passageway ahead, and take out the lone Mythic Dawn Guard, towards the top. Be careful, as he tends to summon Ghosts to his aid! Continue to the right further down the tunnel and deal with the Mystic Dawn Acolyte who attacks. Proceed into the next room and collect all the items from the shelves and crates. Head forwards and make your way through the SW door leading into one of the sleeping quarters. Cast some protection spells and summon spells – if your race and class is permitted to – and take out the two Mythic Dawn’s inside. Once you’ve cleared out the room of all hostile forces, collect the goodies from within the room and make sure that you picklock the chest near the West wall and collect the rare ‘Staff of Paralyzing Burst’ and numerous other useful items from within. Exit the room and take the NW tunnel into the next small room and dispose of the lone Acolyte here. Search all the boxes and chests and then continue down through the SW tunnel. Walk down the slope, through the next passageway past the hanging tabards and take out the two Guards that come running from the room up ahead. Once the path is clear, proceed into the large room in front and take the steps to right up to the next level. Follow the path round to the right and make your way towards the opposite side of this room.
Take the East tunnel and enter ‘sneak Mode’ to lure a few of the Dawn’s out; four hostile Mythic Dawn members will now come running your way, so equip any protection spells and do anything that you can to boost your power, armour, speed, anything to raise your attributes, and then retreat back to the large open area in the previous room. This is now your battle-zone! Take out the four hostile members by any means necessary and then head back down the East path once again. You’ll notice a large group of Acolytes fleeing the scene; now you can either leave them be, or hack them down like the traitors they are, the choice is yours! When you’ve decided on how to deal with the cluster of Acolytes, advance further down the cave to the East and into the next large room. Search all the crates and make sure you collect the goodies from the ‘Small Crate’ positioned against the far East wall. Once you’re done in this area, advance down the South path and stop at the junction. Now then, you can head through the door to your left leading you back into the Shrine Antechamber and make for the exit from here, or so you’d think!? The West door leading you out of the Shrine Antechamber is actually locked, meaning that this way is impassable! The alternate route, or actually, the only route, is to forget about this door and take the right path instead, dealing with the lone Acolyte along the way and continue up the path until you come to another wooden door leading you into ‘Lake Arrius Caverns’. Forget about this door for now, instead carry on past the door and follow the tunnel West towards the far end. Picklock the chest and collect the items from within. Retrace your steps back to the previous door and walk through!
Lake Arrius Caverns
Head into the small room, rest up if needs be, collect the items throughout and picklock the chest! When you’re done collecting items, activate the ‘Turn Handle’ located on the wall just to the left of the East tunnel to shift the large boulder that’s blocking your path at the end of the passageway! Now that the rock has budged, advance down the East path and through the gap in the wall. Look at that, back to the beginning! I think you know where you are now right? Make your way in the NE direction, follow the path up towards the wooden door and exit the caverns, back out into the big wide world!
The Jerall Mountains
Now then, you can simply ‘Fast Travel’ to ‘Cloud Ruler Temple’ and give the good news, or you can head back to the Market District and sell up any unwanted items for that important extra cash! It's your decision. After you’ve done whatever it is you have chosen to do, make your way to ‘Cloud Ruler Temple’ in search for Martin.
Cloud Ruler Temple
When you reach the Temple, enter its grounds and walk up the steps. Half way up Jauffre will approach you and ask about the Amulet. After he’s finished, head into Temple itself and locate Martin in the ‘Great Hall’.
Hand in the book to Martin and take note of what he has to say to complete your current Quest!
Quest 7: ‘Dragon Shrine’ Complete
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