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During The Slumbering Giant event, the Temples of Forgetfulness and Enlightenment received new gems. In addition to the Skill Sell-Back and Skill Specialization, you can now redistribute points of your main attributes. In addition, you'll now receive A Note From Ciandra when you enter either temple.

Combine a Gem of Lowering from the Temple of Forgetfulness with a Gem of Raising from the Temple of Enlightenment to create an Attribute Transfer Gem. Temples are restricted to levels 25+.

You combine the gems into an Attribute Transfer gem.

Use the gem to redistribute your attribute points. There is a separate 2 week timer on each of the gems.

If your stating attribute was 10, it is already as low as it can go. When you try to use a gem, you will receive this message:

Your innate level of [Attribute] is already as low as it can be. You may not reduce it any further.

Likewise, if your starting skill was 100, you will not be able to raise it further. You can click on your burden icon to see the character panel displaying your innate attributes (your starting stats).

Ciandra's Note indicates that certain armor or weapons will keep the gems from working. If you're not at your min/max point already and your gem isn't working, try removing your armor and weapons first and try again.

The Temple of Forgetfulness

The Temple of Forgetfulness (restricted to levels 25+) is found far to the north at 88.8N, 0.0. To reach it, take the Far Horizon Cottages Settlement Portal from Cragstone at 26.2N, 46.3E. You'll exit at 92.9N, 2.4W, a short run from the guardian who guards the entrance.

To gain passage to the temple, you must get past the Guardian. Double click on the stone head and you'll be asked for the herb which corresponds to the spell word given. (For a list of which herb matches which word of power, visit the Magic Research page or use the table below.)

	Boquar = Mugwort
	Cruath = Ginsing
	Equin = Mandrake
	Feazh = Damiana
	Helkas = Wormwood
	Jevak = Myrrh
	Kenrak = Amaranth
	Malar = Hyssop
	Ozhur = Frankincense
	Puish = Saffron
	Quavosh = Dragonsblood
	Roiga = Yarrow
	Shurov = Comfrey
	Tugak = Vervain
	Uthoi = Henbane
	Volae = Eyebright
	Yanoi = Bistort
	Zojak = Hawthorne

If you don't have the proper spell component on you, just keep asking the guardian until it cycles around. If you hand the Guardian the wrong herb, you are not penalized and may try again.

Map: Temple of Forgetfulness

The entry room is safe. From there, you want to either stay to the left or stay to the right. You'll be jumping down a few levels in order to reach the Inner Sanctum portal. The left-most passage and the right-most passage will allow you to reach these portals. The middle passages will lead to exit portals.

You'll be making a series of small jumps and fighting Golems. The first ledge has two Copper Golems waiting below. After jumping and killing the golems, you'll reach another ledge with two Iron Golems below. The final ledge has two Obsidian Golems. They guard the portal to the Inner Sanctum.

The Inner Sanctum is safe. The main room contains pillars with red gems on top. Double click on a gem to add it to your inventory.

The Temple of Enlightenment

The Temple of Enlightenment (restricted to levels 25+) is found far to the south at 84.5S, 0.0. To reach it, take the Land Bridge Villas Portal from Qalaba'r at 74.8S, 17.8E. You'll exit at 87.2S, 3.5E, a short run from the guardian who guards the entrance. Again, double click to find out which herb the guardian requires.

Map: Temple of Enlightenment

The entry room is safe. From there, you want to either stay to the left or stay to the right. You'll be jumping down a few levels in order to reach the Inner Sanctum portal. The left-most passage and the right-most passage will allow you to reach these portals. The middle passages will lead to exit portals.

You'll be making a series of small jumps and fighting Golems. The first ledge has two Copper Golems waiting below. After jumping and killing the golems, you'll reach another ledge with two Iron Golems below. The final ledge has two Obsidian Golems. They guard the portal to the Inner Sanctum.

The Inner Sanctum is safe. The main room contains pillars with red gems on top. Double click on a gem to add it to your inventory.

See also:
Skill Sell Back quest
Skill Specialization quest

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From the AC Community boards

When we initially introduced the post-creation specialization quest in November, we limited the number of credits that any character could invest into specialized skills to a total of 50. Basically, this meant that post-creation specialization did not give you access to any specilized skillsets that you could not normally select at character creation. We instituted this limit because we like to start out conservative -- we wanted to watch the effects of skill sellback on game balance before allowing for more specialized characters. We did, however, discuss the possibility of increaing this limit, or lifting it all together, sometime in the future.

We were working on a small increase to the specialization credit limit for February with the intention of increasing the limit for all characters, but hadn't fully implemented this feature. For this reason, certain skillsets are now possible that involve more than 50 specialized credits. Although this was not intended behavior for January, we will not be taking the servers down to do a special rollback of this bug in January because we don't want to penalize our players with lost progress due to a rollback. Some characters may be able to benefit from this bug slightly in January, but in February everyone will be able to benefit equally from the changed dynamic. So don't panic if you see a new template in the Marketplace -- you'll be able to do that yourself (if you choose to) soon.

Thanks,
John

John Petrick
Associate Program Manager
Asheron's Call

Temple of Forgetfulness
Temple of Enlightenment

Thanks to Sucamarto of LC, Wei Ti-Ka of TD, Gossip of HG, White Feather of WE, Scotty the Handy Man, Aerod of HG