* Granted by quest #3184 To begin this tutorial, QUEST UNDERTAKE 3184
You undertake the quest 'Dracolich Tutorial - The Mark of Avarice', #3184. This quest [3184] is called 'Dracolich Tutorial - The Mark of Avarice', for Adventurers levels 240 to 250. This is a TUTORIAL. It provides no rewards, but teaches you about Alyria. Dungeon Avarice knows no master, for it is a confusing, unruly mess of caverns nearly untraversable in its hostility. The cult of Dracco resides there, worshiping a powerful creature of malignant greed, the undead Dracolich. Many tribes and clans occupy the caves and tunnels, far from the prying and judging eyes of civilized society.
The interplay between reclusive giants, demons, dragons and outcasts have resulted in the emergence of a complex social web, where the cultists are indebted to their neighbors to the point that they no longer possess the means of traveling to their own leader. You could learn to traverse the debts, histories and relationships between the various groups- or you could simply pick what you need off of their respective corpses.
Even after all of that, you cannot simply walk into the dracolich's lair.
To earn an audience, you will need to convince the prophet of the caves- and
the only way to convince him of anything is with ritual sacrifice. To claim
the dracolich's hoard, it will take cunning, daring and plenty of violence.
Tutorial quests do not grant rewards.
This quest has no time limit.
Dracolich Tutorial - The Mark of Avarice consists of:
Phase 1: Make your way to the mouth of Dungeon Avarice.
Phase 2: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((Traverse the cave mouth, and make your way down the stairs.))
Phase 3: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((Make your way north, through the lava tubes, until you come to the cliff above an icy stream.))
Phase 4: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((Drop down into the freezing river, and travel east until you can take the second north.))
Phase 5: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((The fire giants' mages have special knowledge of their home, and you need to obtain it to pass through the confusing local terrain.))
Phase 6: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((Once you have obtained the special knowledge, head back west through the icy stream.))
Phase 7: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((When you see a pool of still water to your south, swim east past it.))
Phase 8: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((Once past the pool, emerge on the landing and then climb the chasm walls as far as you're able.))
Phase 9: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((You will come to an unknown section of the chasm- use the fire giant mage's knowledge to travel through it.))
Phase 10: Travel northwest from Unknown, and pass all the way through the painted corridors.
Phase 11: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((A dragon's lair is past the corridors- if you're lucky, it will be asleep.))
Phase 12: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((Take a formation to do what you need to in order to take its hoard.)) a.k.a. Defeat a huge ancient dragon
Phase 13: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((You need the dragon's bloody key made of bone, for the first part of the prophet's ritual.)) a.k.a. Loot the 'a bloody key made of bone'
Phase 14: Once you have the first key, go back to Unknown and travel north into the diseased hall.
Phase 15: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((A creature of filth and disease lurks in the hall- put it out of its misery with your formation.))
Phase 16: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((Liberate a large key made of bone from the pestilent corpse- it is key to the second part of the prophet's ritual.))
Phase 17: Travel back through Unknown, and exit to the northeast.
Phase 18: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((Find the lich lord who jealously protects a small, bloody key and retrieve it from him.))
Phase 19: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((Once you have the key, make your way back to Unknown.))
Phase 20: From Unknown, head southwest, through the torture chambers.
Phase 21: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((Find the altar room, where captured elementals are tortured to death.))
Phase 22: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((You will need the torturer's implements to sway a succubus, so put her out of our misery.))
Phase 23: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((Return to Unknown, and this time proceed south.))
Phase 24: (Hidden until all previous goals are completed) ((I MISSED GETTING THIS PHASE))
Phase 25: The halls are full of monsters, so find the hidden vampire's tomb as quickly as you can.
Phase 26: Using the helm of the dominator to charm the succubus back through Unknown, north and up through the gusty, windy room, climb into the icy stream, and to the Prophet of the Caves at the Gravel Landing..
Phase 27: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((Before the succubus returns to her senses, give all 3 keys the prophet of the caves.))
Phase 28: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((Once you have given the prophet of the caves all three keys, say to him that the succubus has been prepared for the sacrifice.))
Phase 29: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((At the end of the ceremony, the prophet will have a huge bone key ready for you.))
Phase 30: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((Travel east from the prophet, avoiding the tunnel of flames by turning south.))
Phase 31: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((Once past the Dracolich's temple of death, prepare yourself in the illuminated cavern. This will be your final chance to prepare yourself for combat.))
Phase 32: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((When you and your formation are ready, climb southeast and upwards to the Dracolich's lair. The cultists are not allowed in and do not know the way- you will have to SEARCH for it yourself.))
Phase 33: (Hidden until previous goal is completed)
((With the help of your formation, put an end to the avaricious Dracolich.))
Re: Phase 5
You have completed your casting.
An air reagent, a water reagent, and an ethereal reagent flare brightly and vanish!
You summon a strong, icy wind from the polar regions of the world.
A fire giant mage is struck by a shard of ice!
A fire giant mage: FROST > A fire giant mage turns blue and shivers.
A fire giant mage is impacted on the head with your whirlwind causing lethal damage.
A fire giant mage has been slain!
A gust of polar wind blasts through the room, eviscerating a fire giant mage's body with windbound icicles!
Your blood freezes as you hear a fire giant mage's death cry.
You receive 0 archon points.
A fire giant mage collapses lifeless to the ground.
look in corpse
The corpse of a fire giant mage contains:
the knowledge of the fire giants
This item grants you 100% knowledge of Dispel Area for a day...in Dungeon Avarice.