The Crimsonscale Letter:Raven's Dust
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After you complete the good or the evil path to Raven Dust, go back to Hermit Antonian and click on him. He will ask you if you want more directions to the nexus indexes. Answer "Yes" and he will say that you have found all Arakas stones. He will also say, that you must find Aquinos, a friend of his located in the town of Silversky. You will also be rewarded with 250000 exp points. Continue the dialogue, saying "Scholar", "One" and he will mention the Nameless Bard.
Use the Runed Stone Tablet (or travel any other way you want) and head for Silversky. Note: Runed Stone Tablet will teleport you near Greyleaf (that's east from taras pond). Go to Silversky temple and talk to Scholar Aquinos. Say "Visit", "Location", "Where" and he will tell you where the Nameless Bard resides. The directions are: Nameless Bard lives deep inside a cave far to the west. Take the road out of town heading northwest, then at the second fork, the one where the road continues on north and branches off to the northwest, take the northwest route. Follow that road until it ends, then keep going west until you reach the mountain range. The entrance to the cave can be found in that vicinity.
Follow the road to Grott and at the first crossroad after you pass Grott's spawn location, head west. Pass the spawn location of Eye Patched Quardros and continue west. You will end up in a mountain range. There you will find the cave entrance. Find the Nameless Bard (he has the skin of an Attrocity) and speak to him. Say "Punisssh", "Abysssss", "Remnantsssss" and he will say: In a tree you will find wisdom, in a fountain, knowledge. Where wisdom and knowledge converge, the answers you seek will emerge.
Go down the southeast passage below the bard and find the tree. Click on the tree and get the Branch of Wisdom. Then go up the northwest passage and find a fountain. Click on the fountain and you will use the branch of Knowledge to stir the Waters of Knowledge. The waters swirl before your very eyes to form a single word: ETHEREAL. You will be rewarded with 300000 exp points. Return back to Nameless Bard and talk to him. He will say that what you have found is the word of power that opens the great gates of tremendous evil. They rest near the northernmost place in this land. To reach it, you will need to travel through darkness. Rest assured that if the Waters of Knowledge did not provide all the answers you seek, the one who dwells past those gates surely shall. He will also mention that this is your curse. Say "Curse" and he will say that he was chosen and cursed too and that one day we will be avenged.
Head to the Broken One cave, also known as the Skeleton cave. Enter the cave, head west and follow the cave wall until your reach an exit (it's the old exit to Forest of No Return). Exit and head northwest into the cemetery, until you meet an NPC called "A gate keeper". Click on him and he will say that the mausoleum beyond leads to the sanctuary of the ancient God of Corruption, Gluriurl. He will also say that only those who speak the word of power are allowed to pass. Say "Word of Power", "Ethereal" and he will warn you that the mausoleum is a dangerous place. Say "Yes" and you will enter the mausoleum.
Inside the Mausoleum you must kill the 4 Vicars and get their crystal keys. Head northeast until you reach a big room. Then head southeast and kill Vicar Kervian. Get the purple crystal key and head northwest. At the first big room continue northwest until you reach another big room. Then head northeast and go as northeast as you can. At the end of the road follow the path to northwest. Find Vicar Ramiel and kill him. You will receive the green crystal key. Head northwest and follow the path that turns southwest. Head southwest and count the roads you will meet turning southeast. Follow the 4th road going southeast you come across. There you will find Vicar Vharnes. Kill him and you will receive the blue crystal key. Head back northwest and turn northeast. At the first crossroad head northwest and then head southeast. Continue southeast until you meet a road going northwest. Head northwest and you will find a portal. Go northeast from the portal and you will find Vicar Ashgoth. Kill him and you will receive a red crystal key. Then head back to the portal and then step inside it. Follow the red carpet and you will meet Crimsonscale, the great Dragon. Talk to him, say "Letter", "Beginning", "Chosen", "Justice died", "Justice", "Winds", "Battle of emanations", "Olin Haad", "Fascinated", "Changed sides", "Council of the Eight" and you will learn about Olin Haad 's evil plans and about the Council of Eight. CrimsonScale will also ask for your help. Answer, "Help" then say "Prevent", "Great Library" and he will give you the location of the Great Library. Say "Something" and he will give you an Armlet of Flames and a Gem of Flames and a Vial of Dragon Blood.
Head to the Great Library (located east from Raven Dust crypt entrance), go to the 3rd floor and Speak with the Custodian. Say "Barbarians", "Uneducated", "Rite of Passage" and he will give you a riddle to solve in order to prove to him that you are not uneducated. The riddle goes:
"Dos" "vaneslae" "navidal", "Kadrim" "lok" "ungrim" "dok", "Somalina" "oundi" "inesora", "Tharrgra" "nethdrovar". If you can tell me what it means, then not only will I grant you access to the top floor, but I might actually be nice about it. Oh, and here's a hint. You don't stand a chance at solving this little puzzle if you don't visit the library's basement.
Go to Library's basement were the 4 Scholars resides. Speak to them.
To the Scholar that mentions the "language of the Elves" (located at the NW room) say, "Dos vaneslae navidal". He will answer "To look upon one's self".
To the Scholar that mentions the "language of the Dwarves" (located at the SW room) say, "Kadrim lok ungrim dok". He will answer "One must only have eyes".
To the Scholar that mentions the "language of Faeries", (located at the NE room) say, "Somalina Oundi Inesora". He will answer "To recognize one's own ignorance".
To the Scholar that mentions the "language of Dragons" (located at the SE room) say, "Tharrgra nethdrovar". He will answer "One must open these eyes".
Go back to the 3rd floor and speak with Custodian again. Say "Yes", "To look upon one's self", "One must only have eyes", "To recognize one's own ignorance", "One must open these eyes" and you will gain full access to the library. Say "Access", "Yes" and you will be teleported to the 4th floor.
Speak with one of the Librarians. Say "Yes", "Exchange for the essence", "Physical body", "Ogrimar", "Lothar the just", "Abandoned", "Elvenweave", "Heart" and you will realize that Olin Haad is planning to bring Gluriurl back to life. You will be also rewarded with 500000 exp points.
Speak to the other two librarians and hear their stories. The one will talk to you about the Darkstone and the other one about the Harbringer. Then head to Olin Haad's castle.
Talk to Olin Haad, say "Dare" and you will be teleported in a small room with Olin Haad. He will attack you. You can't kill him so let him defeat you. Just before the final blow you will be teleported back to his castle. Say "Invincible", "Herald", "Destroy", "Soothing voice", "Remains" and you will learn all about the resurrection of Gluriurl.
Head to High Priest Gunthar and talk to him. Say "Blessing of Artherk", "Souls", "Stop", "Part", "Harvester", "Illusion", "Recently", "Wrong", "Heart of Artherk", "Efnisien" and you will learn about the Caledbolg and that it is kept safe in a shrine in the southeast part of the desert on Raven's Dust. He also tells you to go find Efnisien.
Go to Efnisien and say to him "Service", "Entrance" and he will tell you that the entrance is through the stairs in the room behind the locked door. But Olin Haad has found an alternate way to enter and he's inside the temple right now. It will serve you no good to enter now, as you won't be able to defeat him without a special weapon of some sort.
You need to find Caledbolg. Go to Raven's Dust desert and go south until you reach a new range of mountains. Search for a crypt entrance. In front of the crypt entrance is a gate keeper called Ramirgo. Talk to him, say "Guardian", "Enter" and he will teleport you inside. Follow the dungeon wall and kill Terror Demon, Chaos Demon and Darkness Demon. Then head to the middle of the dungeon and you will find 3 portals. Enter one of them and you will end up at a small room. Click on Lothar and you will receive the Caledbolg.
Note: There are no directions for the nexus indexes (at least we haven't found any NPC to respond at keywords "Nexus index" or "Runed Stone Tablet). Look at the map and travel to all of them. Once you have placed the runed stone tablet in all nexus indexes return to Hermit Antonian to activate your runed stone tablet.
NPCs involved: Hermit Antonian, Nameless Bard, A gate keeper, Crimsonscale, Custodian, The 4 Scholars, The 3 Librarians, Olin Haad, High Priest Gunthar, Efnisien, Ramirgo, Lothar Mini-Bosses involved: Vicar Asgoth, Vicar Kervian, Vicar Vharmes, Vicar Ramiel, Terror Demon, Chaos Demon, Darkness Demon Quest Reward Synopsis: Armlet of Flames (reqs 0) and Gem of Flames, Vial of Dragon Blood, 1050000 exp points
