Hadden's Earring
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Hayden's Earring
- Recommended Level : 25
- Status Points : 39,750
- Money & Items : Amazing (10+)
- Experience : Very Good (8)
- Repeatable : No
- Starting Zone : Thundering Steppes
- Starting NPC : Kerath McMarrin
- Rewarded Items : Fishbone Earring
- Other Related Item : Hrath's Journal
Monsters Involved
- An Enraged Octopus
- Captain Krieger
- Hrath T'vol
- Maltus Everling
Other Related Zones
- Antonica
- Nektulos Forest
- Nektropos Castle
- Ruins of Varsoon
- Thundering Steppes
Other Related Quests
Description
Kerath McMarrin at the Thundering Steppes docks (-467, -18, -447) asks you to find Hrath's Journal. This is the quest for the Fishbone Earring.
The journal can be foud at the Tower of Vhalen in Antonica (-1300, +38, +45). Obtain it and return to Kerath.
He will then send you to the Nektulos Forest to take a dip in the Torrent River. Swim upstream towards Timber Falls, and just before the river ascends here is the trigger spot (+465, -3, -1282).
The next step is to visit the northern ocean in Commonlands (-864, -149, -984 or -855, -196, -979, it's near a dragon skeleton ribcage).
After this you must swim into the oceans of the Thundering Steppes. This is off the coast to the far west, you must swim way off the map pas the Siren Pyramid and up north to the shipwrecks (near +1647, -44, +128). When you get to the spawn an enraged octopus will spawn. You do not have to kill it, however.
The next step is to kill Lord Everliving in the Nektropos Castle. This requires you to complete the Calling in the Forest quest to gain access. It also requires quite a bit of work to get to him. At the bottom of this page you'll find a spoiler to get to Lord Everliving, which was written by Didious.
After this you must head to the Ruins of Varsoon to kill Hrath V'Tol. He is found in RoV room with Ymeresh Apprentice, which is the Sorcerer's Workshop (+294, +61.57). After doing this you can return to Kerath.
Kerath then sends you to find Captain Krieger in Thundering Steppes. He can be foud at -124.65, -1047.18. He will spawn when you get near and attack you. Kill him and return to Kerrath for your reward.
Spoiler For Reaching Marlthus Everliving - By Didious
To start the quest to get to Lord Everling you enter the zone and enter the courtyard. Careful of the dogs and gargoyles here if you are below level 37ish as they will be agro.
Enter the first double doors on your right and keep your right hand on the wall as you navigate to the chapel. It's easy to recognize as there are servants of Ulgarith or a name like that in there. Kill them all. Eventually Alexa will spawn and start your quest for you, allowing you to open a secret door. Without this step you cannot continue.
Now, ignore all the side-quest click stuff unless you have hours on your hands and head back to the courtyard. Enter the doors opposite the ones you just left and turn left to find the game room (easy to find by the chess board, dart board and pool table) The items will now be clickable. Make sure one of your group members speaks up when they find the note in here as directly outside the room there will now be a candle on the wall that is clickable after they read it.
Once your group member has read the small note you can all click the candle which reveals the hidden door in the wall. Head on in.
You are now in the basement of one of the sister's rooms. Kill Elise's handmaiden (this will spawn Elise up on the balcony), then head up top and out onto the balcony. You'll be fighting on the way if mobs aren't grey. As you get to the top you should see Alexa again and she will talk, starting the 6 sisters lockets quest.
You'll need to kill all the sisters (WARNING, UPON KILLING ANY SISTER YOU ARE NOW LOCKED OUT OF NEK CASTLE FOR 18 Hours).
One sister is out on the balcony (Elise) and the others are spawned by either killing the handmaidens, reading a diary, clicking a bookcase and clicking a bed (each room is different). Just keep rotating to each room until all are dead while clicking items and watching for spawns. At one point dolls will spawn and attack your group, be ready.
After killing all the sisters Alexa will appear and inform you that the magically sealed doors in each bedroom are now open, allowing you into the backrooms. You're now looking for the top of a broken spiral staircase, which can be reached in various ways. (From Deidre's room, leave via the magically sealed door, then turn left and the library will be through a door immediately on the right - exit the library onto a new balcony, then head through the door on the northern end).
Once you're in the spiral staircase room, exit through the northern door then turn right, and off this corridor will be the caretakers' room. Kill them and you will receive an auto-update key. Now head back to the spiral staircase room and take a left instead of a right, off this corridor will be double doors that can now be opened by the person that looted the key.
WARNING Upon reading the open book on the stand in this room the guard captain will spawn. Killing him results in an auto-update sword. Place the sword in the hilt next to the bookcase.
This opens the bookcase with ramp going down.
On to Lord Everling. Make your way down the ramp into the wine room. Don't click the wine racks unless you wan't to fight more mobs, they spawn extras (the reward for clicking is a few bottles of thexian wine that are nothing more than regular drink).
Make your way down the main hall, and you'll see a corridor branching left. This leads to two warehouse rooms with dolls - the room on the left has a crate in the back corner that starts the guise of the deciever heritage quest. Continuing on past that corridor (fighting beetles - you can spawn two named here as well that drop some nice gear) you'll find Alexa again at a dead end.
She'll open access to a secret room back in the main hall near the wineroom. Read the scroll in this room and more secret doors will open.
Don't worry if you made it this far you're very close now, take your time to learn all the secret doors. Through the secret doors you'll find Alexa again. This time you'll have to kill her, then her brother Ollix spawns. Neither drop loot. Explore the secret rooms further until you find a room with two coffins on the ground. Click the candle on the wall once, it will open a secret door right next to you. Click the candle again and it will open another secret door just through the first one -head through that.
This is the long walk to Lord Everling. WARNING - As you are walking down the hall doors will open from both sides on 2-3 occasions. From these doors 6-10 mobs will spawn on you around level 35-36. Non up arrows and they are cake with a full group.
Just move slowly and pull the globs to you before nearing the candles with arched indents in the walls. At the end of the corridor you'll find a room with the Juggernaut. Fight him INSIDE the room and while you are fighting make sure everyone clicks the book on the table inside on the desk and reads it to the end. It gives the quest to kill him...
Next is Everling's room. Inside you will find Malthus Everling. If someone walks in he starts the encounter by talking then calls his minions forth (two level 35-6 mobs) then turns Agro on your himself and AE's like crazy.
Silence him with an enchanter and it's cake. Everling himself is green/blue to me at 39.
Kill him and start the guise quest by visiting the places it says to and killing Billy in each place (have to clear PH sometimes and be ready for at least 6 hours of camping unless you're lucky)
This was written from memory so please add your comments as you run into any issues.
I've been there 7 times now and with a group of 6 people we can go from start to finish in 30-40 minutes when zone is grey, so don't fret a long raid unless you're sub 39.
Source: eq2.ogaming posted by: Vryken (cleaned up by Sturm)
