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Updated Descriptions!
 

Imbuing
Salvaged Black Opal		-	100	Chips of black opal material salvaged from old items. Apply this material to a treasure-generated weapon or caster to imbue the target with Critical Strike. Critical Strike increases the chance that the item critically hits its opponent. The increase in chance depends on the attack skill of the wielder.
Salvaged Fire Opal		-	100	Chips of fire opal material salvaged from old items. Apply this material to a treasure-generated weapon or caster to imbue the target with Crippling Blow. Crippling Blow increases the amount of damage that the item does when it critically hits its opponent. The amount of extra damage depends on the attack skill of the wielder.
Salvaged Sunstone		-	100	Chips of sunstone material salvaged from old items. Apply this material to a treasure-generated weapon or caster to imbue the target with Armor Rending. Armor Rending gives the item the ability to ignore some of its opponent's armor. The amount of armor it ignores depends on the attack skill of the wielder.

And it begins!
In Eastham, four portals open. Created by Asheron, these portals lead to caverns inhabited by golems created to defend the accessways to Gaerlan's grounded citadel. Warriors must divide themselves and defeat these guardians to gain entrance to the portals in the valley of the fallen citadel.

Quest Details: Gaerlan's Citadel

Text: Gaerlan's Research Notes
Text: Decrepit Tome
Text: Disciples of Corrosion
Text: Disciples of Stasis
Text: Disciples of Strife
Text: Disciples of Tempest

Went to Garlean's castle and guess who I found there? Asheron! Here is what he had to say....

Asheron tells you, "This world has suffered too many losses, and I have bore witness to too many of them. No longer. Gaerlan must be stopped."
Asheron tells you, "Our futures have been altered by Gaerlan. The time has come to right what he has made wrong. Martine's sacrifice shall not have been made in vain. We will avenge him and see that his gift to us is not wasted."
Asheron tells you, "Misfortune begs me tell you that Gaerlan is using some magic to bar me from his citadel. Though I have regained much of my strength from my injuries I am using much to keep his citadel here upon the ground."
Asheron tells you, "I have, however, located four Platinum Golems within the citadel. They are slumbering at the moment and need to be awakened. But once they are awake I can communicate with them and learn what they know of this citadel. Then perhaps I can assist you in traversing the several areas in an effort to meet and defeat Gaerlan."
Asheron tells you, "Your efforts over the past cycle of the moons has proven invaluable and he is cornered now. Be wary for this will make him dangerous, but you should also know that he is indeed much weaker. Take this."
Asheron gives you Imbued Pyreal Nugget.
Asheron tells you, "The portals into the citadel's inverted ziggurat lay nearby. I have been able to determine the rudimentary difficulty of the areas within and have restricted the entrances to assist you in your task. Find the appropriate portal and enter the ziggurat, find the golem and give the nugget to it. I will speak to you more once this is accomplished."

Love you and your site!

Woot!
Mykell of FF

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New Creatures!
Thanks to Krazy Koide of SC, Vagrant of FF, Wight of TD, Karack of WE.
 

Creature	Level	Str	End	Coor	Quik	Foc	Self	Hlth	Stam	Mana
Platinum Golem	710	380	340	330	250	250	285	370	491	486
Stasis Wisp	84	120	150	250	300	210	210	225	350	310
Tempest Wisp	179	220	250	250	400	210	210	375	450	310
Door	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Fire Hearth Crystal	999	1	1	1	1	1	1	400000	100001	2
Ice Hearth Crystal	999	1	1	1	1	1	1	300000	100001	2
Acid Hearth Crystal	999	1	1	1	1	1	1	100000	100001	2
? Hearth Crystal	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Towns Are Under Attack!
Insecateur of SC and kashani the butcher of HG report that Qalaba'r is under attack by Glacial Golem Margraves, Unstable Glacial Golems (Insecateur is pictured fighting one below) and Frost Elementals!
 

Glenden Wood also suffers from an onslaught! Fire Elementals and Unstable Magma Golems terrorize the town, and an Exarch Magma Golem spawns. A Coral Golem Viceroy attack Ayan Baqur, and Mayoi is under attack from Diamond Golems, Pyreal Golems and a Diamond Golem Suzerian! (These boss golems are the same types found in the Isparian Arms dungeons.) Thanks to Circeus of HG, Groundbeef of MT, and Riven II of WE!

Sutra of FF reports that Khayyaban fell under attack by 4 Crystal Lord Sovereigns on the 22nd!
 

No More Elementals!
Hey Maggie was lookin at your patch page and you forgot the most important part.... NO MORE ELEMENTALS!!!!! =D

Seltor The Conquerer of HG

I guess everyone's too hyped up over the awesome new Martine apparel to mention the fact that the elementals are all gone!!!!!! I can finally go get my bandit hilt and hollow weapon! yay! Keep up the great work!

Blazin Wolf of FF

Gaerlan Falls!
Quest Details: Gaerlan's Citadel

[Character Name] with the assistance of their fellow Isparians has defeated Gaerlan. As the madman falls, a hush spreads in the place that was once his citadel.

Nuhmudira says, "Saervu Nuhmudi, Gaerlan."
Mana swirls in the place where Gaerlan was slain.
Nuhmudira says, "Yes, Gaerlan and endless life of servitude. Forever imprisoned within the walls of this citadel. Worse still within a phylactery. You shall rise so that my people may visit upon you the torment you meant for me to endure."

Thanks to Viscid Og of We for pic!
 

Well Maggie, I'm sure you have gotten about a million e-mails about the final attack on Gaerlan, but I thought I'd give my two cents too. Well after we finally dragged 4 people levels 20-39 we buffed them up and sent them in. After about 30 minutes, they killed the frost from of Gearlan. Next it was my turn. I and two others went in and killed his fire form. The char who finished was Hawkeye something, but I think all 3 of us deserve some credit for taking him on by ourselves.

Anyway, then the next 2 forms got killed and we were off and after Gaerlan. We dropped in to say hello and began our attack. I was unable to assess his final form, but his weapon was 25-50 fire with the Human Slayer ability. You later receive this, but only Empyreans may wield it. Before Gearlan cheap-shotted me (of which I was squelched for 5 min. because I called him several nasty names; always an admin around when you don't want one =)). Anyway, before he got me, I got some nice pics of him and this is the best. I hope you enjoy.

Emerging from Red of FF
 

Maggie,

I am not sure how many you got already but I took these during the quest
to kill big G. It was fun I died a lot but in the end we were victorious.
I don't know if anyone told you but on our server Tchao got the credit for
killing G and with it a special Black Robe, the same worn by The Final
Gaeralen.

Maxwell The Fist of FF
 

Above, Rhainnon d'Annwn and friends pose in their new robes! Thanks to Never Winter Knight for pic!
Dark Elf of WE poses in his new robe below!
 

The messages below fill your mind as you explore the Library portion of the quest:

• You sense eyes staring at you from the darkness.

• A chill wind passes over your body. "You live still. We hunger so for life. Will you join us?"

• A snake-man dresses you in a fine silken robe. Nearby a woman cries, at her feet a small child with golden eyes attempts to stifle the tears which brim at his eyes. You smile, and turn from them and are lead toward an altar by the snake-man.

• Bookshelf tells you, "He knows you are here and he will be prepared. He stole his throne. Take it back for the master."

• A light breeze surrounds you momentarily. You see a city of alabaster, sapphire and gold stretching toward the heavens. Skyships the color of the sun traverse the sky. A man wearing a cerulean crown walks toward you and hands you a missive. As you open the document he stretches his hand forward holding a brooch for you.

• Your head fills with the sound of a banshee's wail.

• "Silence in this room, we may no longer have forms, but still we read and live."

• There is the smell of something sweet nearby. The moons are large and high above your head. Four spires the color of sea-foam rise about you, and a chill wind blows. You taste blood, and the heady scent of sage fills your senses. You cough and shower yourself in blood.

• You smile as the companion novel slides from the bookshelf. You now have all you need.

• You are sitting at a table in this very room as a chill shakes you to your soul. You feel breath brush against your neck. You turn but there is no one to be seen. The candles flicker as a breeze fills the room. You gently close your book and call upon fire to form beside you. A minor elemental appears. A small prism within your robes turns to dust.

• A voice says, "He commands the spirits here now, blood given to the Blood."

• A soft voice alights upon your ear, "We watch this age with baited breath. Slowly it slips from the grasp of the race that held this world. Now it is another's."

• You stumble as the staircase shifts beneath your feet. You maintain your balance as they slide to the far wall.

• The trials left you shaken but you were prepared for much worse. You shoulder your weight against your staff and rest a moment, age it seems has the better of you. Your wrinkled skin makes you feel ill, there is still so much to accomplish. You sense the hundreds of eyes within the room and call to them.

• As you step over the threshold into the small room you are immediately drawn to the bookcase before you. It is as though it calls your name. As you approach it hands reach toward you and offer knowledge to you.

• You run your hand over the cover of the tome and pull the other from within your pack. The first was found in Xarabydun, this new tome is its equal, the second in a set of three. One more and your knowledge shall be complete.

• A shrill voice says in your mind, "Is she fallen? How was this temple freed?"

• The hair on your neck rises, as a voice sounds in your mind. "Once we were, but our souls linger, given to him, given to him..."

The Harbinger
Well, it was a usual Friday night when I was in Serac, and all of a sudden there was Broadcast message that a portal from Elysa opened in Yanshi.... So I and the whole server went to Yanshi... lag was bad. Anyway, there where different portals: 10-20, 21-30, 31-50, etc. I went in the 80+ side and there was this huge Ursuin Looking thing called the Harbinger. Never got to ID or see what I was doing cause of lag. But we killed it in about 10-15 min. So yes he was hard. --Q'ane of MT
 

Thanks to Wilhelm the Og for pic!

In the ruins of Yanshi, a portal has opened. High Queen Elysa Strathelar awaits those that would enter within the wreckage of the once proud town.

Elysa staggers
Elysa Strathelar says, "I will live. The wound appears more severe than it truly is. We must rally ourselves. Be careful of the tentacles, they belong to the beast, but there is no way to harm them."
Elysa Strathelar says, "They will strike at you and use magics upon you. I think we weakened it... hope we weakened it. But it claimed so many lives. Lives that will not return, it was pure essence raw and unformed and then, all at once, it was there."
Elysa Strathelar says, "We fought, we fought so long, but it returned. Most of my men were slain and where they fell their corpses remain. We must rally as many as we can to fight this beast."
Elysa covers her mouth, as she coughs. She pulls her hands away, they are covered in blood.
Elysa Strathelar says, "We defeated it once! We can defeated [sic] this thing again."

Thanks to Mykell of FF for dungeon names and levels:
Petrifying Touch (10-20)
Consuming Flames (21-45)
Dissolving Grasp (46-60)
Electric Tumult (61-80)
Harbinger's Lair (80+)

Hi maggie,
I'm legolas aldven, a level 16 archer from Morningthaw. Today a new portal opened in Yansi. Inside, there were level-restricted portals. I went into the lightning one that was 10-20 and found the Crystal of Tumult. It didn't attack, but it summoned Statics, and Sand Golems. The attached pic (top left) shows me fighting it. I did eventually kill it, but there was no system-wide message.
 

Thanks to Wilhelm the Og for pic of Crystal of Consumption (top right), Jax Dragosun for Crystal of Decay (bottom left) and to areis of solclaim for the Crystal of Tumult (bottom right).

Thanks also to the konan person of MT for Harbinger stats.
 

Creature	Level	Str	End	Coor	Quik	Foc	Self	Hlth	Stam	Mana
Crystal of Tumult (10-20)	700	1	1	1	1	1	1	20000	1000	1000
Crystal of Consumption	700	1	1	1	1	1	1	30000	1000	1000
Crystal of Tumult	700	1	1	1	1	1	1	40000	10000	10000
Crystal of Decay	700	1	1	1	1	1	1	40000	10000	10000
Harbinger	225	250	250	250	250	250	250	250125	10250	10250
Harbinger	999	600	600	600	600	600	600	1999700	50600	50600

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Thanks toGrayden Cree of TD for pic of the Harbinger. Thanks also to Tzantali of TD

[Player Name] strikes a blow that forces the Harbinger to cease motion. As the being splits apart the essence of storm is ripped free and returns to the ley lines of Dereth and Auberean.

Again the call goes out:
"In the ruins of Yanshi, a portal has opened. High Queen Strathelar asks that any able bodied warriors enter to destroy the beast that threatens to drain the mana, and thereby the magic, from the world."

Hey, Maggie, just got finished helping out with killing the Harbinger on HG, and that weird lightning stone/pseudo-cistern thing. Lightning stone was pretty easy to kill, but the Harbinger himself took quite a beating; I think the fight lasted half an hour, with a number of people whaling on him. The portals to these two were restricted to levels 21-45, I think the other stones had different requirements. On a side note, it seems odd that the Harbinger wasn't harder - I don't think anybody died while fighting him!

Love your site, btw!

State of Rage, of HG

MAGGIE!
I killed the harbringer in a 20-45 level dungeon. I got a global message and everything! (well, except loot, GRR)

The people that stuck around afterwards were... Tusker Golem, Narak the Fletcher, Death', Og Test, X-Terminater, Lav's Tinker Mule, Os', Tamitha ...there were quite a few people there though, so sorry for any I forgot to mention!

Borderline of MT
 

Thanks to Maxwell the Fist of FF for pic above.

Beneath the ruined soil of Yanshi, the heroes of Dereth rejoice, as the brave [Player Name] strikes a fatal and final blow against the Harbringer. As the essence floods back through the world, an imperceptible weight is lifted from the shoulders of the populace. Peace has returned once again across Dereth.