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Prerequisites 

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    * You must have the Investigation skill.
    * You must have 22 platinum and the following faction levels:
          o At least 40,000 faction with Riliss to buy the Grim Blade of Rile.
          o At least 40,000 faction Synod Reet to buy the Krup Belt of Evasion.
          o At least 50,000 faction with Residents of Teren's Grasp to buy Straightedge. 

    * You must have completed A Mysterious Black Tome and the follow up quests to learn Sathirian in order to speak to the Shisik Translator.
    * You must have the ability to speak Draconic. 


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Starting the Quest - A Mysterious Trinket

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Investigate Rylana's dead body at -1702, 25, -774


The first step is to inspect the bracelet placed in your inventory. Upon inspecting, it tells you to search out the NPC who may recognize this bracelet.

1. Speak to Deacon Danerous, at ( -64, -21, 134 )  in East Freeport.

       * After speaking with Deacon Danerous, he sends you to get 10 'sathiran poisons'.

             o You need the recipe from Sebilis, which is a fairly common drop off any NPC in zone, including the solo frogs at entrance.

             o 10 Di'Zok Gall Bladders from Chardok, off of any Sarnak in zone, including the solo mobs at the entrance. The drop at a higher frequency off 80+ heroics deeper in Chardok.

             o You will also need: 10 Deklium Clusters, 20 Rough Kunzite, 30 Mineral Salt Loams, 50 smoldering candles 


2. Travel to the Sathirian Alchemist's Table in Sebilis. This is at the bottom of Sebilis, just left of the door into Venril Sathir's Lair. It's an easy level 4 combine, but takes a long time to complete. Failure *is* possible and *does* consume the bladder. I can be commission made by an Alchemist as well which can speed up the process. The location can not be reached solo but requires a group however once there you can craft all 10 poisons safely

3. Return to Deacon Danerous in East Freeport.

4. This step of the quest is to purchase three items from various faction merchants in Rise of Kunark to turn in to Deacon Danerous. You will need to be able to purchase from Teren's Grasp, Riliss, and the Synod Reet. DO NOT PURCHASE THESE ITEMS UNTIL ON THIS PART OF THE QUEST or your quest will not update. This is true as of April 15 2008.

       * The item from Teren's Grasp is the Straightedge.

       * In Riliss, you will be buying the Grim Blade of Rile (loc -764, 50, -212).

       * From the Synod Reet you need to purchase the Krup Belt of Evasion. 


5. Return to Deacon Danerous in East Freeport.

6. Deacon Danerous will send you to North Qeynos to kill a Freeport Traitor, just to the South East of the Claymore, there is a General store marked on the map. Inside, right behind the baker, is a door to the instance (Baker Vuleen's store room).

       * Kill Quin Darius (80^ - Execute one-hits). 


7. Return to Deacon Danerous.

8. At this point, Deacon Danerous will send you to speak with Preceptor Nyjuss in North Freeport at the inn.

       * Preceptor Nyjuss will send you to kill four NPC's. You *have* to be wearing the robe given at start of this step in order to get updates. 


9. Kill the following people:

      * Yulessina Nybright - In the Peacock Club. 81^ solo mob.

      * Rollus the Sly - In Crows Resting Place - An instace off of Down Below in the Qeynos sewers. 81^^ Heroic. Can be killed with a group as long as group members have the Crow Coin from Swords of Destiny quest. Can be soloed.

      * Rid Jestands - In Lesser Faydark at the Nybright camp. Is a 60^^^, as soon as you aggro, turns into an 85^^^ heroic. Hits VERY hard. Bring a solid group. Can be duoed with a good ranger, snare kiting.

      * Ekner Darkblade - In stealth mode, bring butterfly totems. Spawns in the Festering Hag's room in the Estate of Unrest. Will be stealthed in between stairs and wall. 


10. Once you've killed these four mobs, return to Preceptor Nyjuss.

11. Head to Neriak, City of Hate. The Ebon Mask stronghold is near the far right side of the map. The mob you are looking for is Rhylinil K'Helviurden on the first floor of the tower. When you hail him, a short dialogue will appear. Be ready to fight as soon as dialogue clears. Rhylinil is an 85^^^HEROIC mob. About 15 seconds into this fight, Vykko T'Lach will also turn aggro and attack you. He is an 85^^ heroic. Adds somewhat significant dps. Once Rhylinil dies, you will get update and it will not matter if you die.

12. After finishing the fight/wiping to it and running back, you need to stealth and place the note you received before killing Rhylinil on the u-shaped desk in the foyer of the Ebon Mask. Rhylinil will respawn in 15 minutes after kill.

13. After killing Rhylinil and placing the note, return to North Freeport and speak to Preceptor Nyjuss.

14. Preceptor Nyjuss will then send you to speak with Watcher Lirosi, who is in the tavern in StoneStair Byway. On hailing Lirosi, you will be attacked by an 81^^^ HEROIC version. Upon killing Lirosi, you get a bit more dialogue.

15. After this, you are sent back to Preceptor Nyjuss in North Freeport.

16. Preceptor Nyjuss sends you to recover a tome in Kunark from a member of the Ebon Mask and decipher the two tomes.

      * The book is being held by Morticus Belaern in Teren's Grasp. Morticus is on the ground level, past the ramp up towards bank at ( 2223, 479, -779 ) . He turns into an 85^^^ heroic after dialogue and auto-attacks (It would appear you have to be wearing robe on this step as well).

      * You should receive the Ancient Grimoire, if not, kill him again. 


17. Return to Preceptor Nyjuss.

18. Preceptor Nyjuss sends you to find a sage who can identify the two tomes. The sage you need to find is Old Man Pomeranke in the Thundermist Village in The Thundering Steppes at ( 552, 0, -72 ) . Note that he is NOT trackable.

      * He sends you on a quest which you need to complete before you advance named Borrowed Time. 

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Borrowed Time

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1. Head to Sebilis, as this is the location he described.

2. The dictionary can be found on a skeleton in the big round room with Clay Golems before the Laboratory. As you enter, if you kill the Clay to the right, you should be able to access it.

       * Loc -151, -22, 310. 


3. Once you have the tome, and you've confirmed the quest updated, head back to Old man Promeranke. Make sure you complete his entire dialogue at this point or you will not receive the update. 

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19. After you complete Borrowed Time, talk to Old Man Pomerenke again.

20. You must now find a Shisik Translator, he roams near Dalnir's Wheel, his name is Kuza Sathak. He will ask for 5 Platinum for his services, in order to complete this stage you must speak Sathrian (Black Book collection quest in Fens) and be stealthed whilst speaking to him.

21. You will need to wait a brief while.

      * She will return the tomes and send you to 'find and slay the creature that placed the spell upon the tomes'. This is Drusella Sathir in Charasis: Maiden's Chamber. 


22. Return to Kuza Sathak. Upon returning, she will ask for time to translate - takes about a minute. Then she sends you back to Preceptor Nyjuss in North Freeport.

23. Nyjuss sends you to 'discover the location of the temple mentioned in the tome', being Chelsith. Upon entering Chelsith, you get update and the quest asks you to search for clues.

24. In Chelsith, there are statues where the rare named/placeholders spawn. The five statues must be clicked nearly simultaneously, so basically just have group members spam-click every item.

      * You will need to have killed all the nameds in the zone, specifically, Majora Leviathora. Once you kill Majora the statues will become clickable.

      * WARNING: This step is currently BUGGED. If you don't kill the Protector of the Blade before the instance expires, you'll find you wont be able to get updates. 


25. Once you get the update, a chest will spawn near one of the altars. Clicking the chest spawns Protector of the Blade, an 85^^^ heroic Droag, at zone-in, and he will run up to your location in about 20 seconds and then aggro.

      * This mob has AE knockback and is impossible without pretty good dps, a semi-decent off-tank (well-equipped brigand or better), or a battle-rezzing class. His AE makes the tank 2nd or 3rd on aggro list, and it is difficult to get back to #1 before the person who moved to #1 dies. If you cannot withstand this or your dps is not sufficient to overcome it, you will die one by one. He also has a huge power Drain. 


26. Upon killing the Protector of the Blade, the chest becomes clickable, and updates rewarding you with \aITEM 1849566708 -375510786:[a strange amulet]\/a and updating quest to 'Discover a use for the Amulet' with a hint about Droag and Dragons.

27. Go to Skyfire and click three pedestals (apparently has to be in the correct order).

      * 1st: ( -1893, 201, 1674 ) 

      * 2nd: ( -1844, 235, 756 ) 

      * 3rd: ( -1354, 249, 585 ) 

            o The quest should update to 'Discover what you've just unleashed in Jarsath Wastes'. 


28. Go to the steps of Veeshan's Peak. Guardian of the Blade will spawn and speak some dialogue. At the end of the dialogue, he turns aggro as an 86^^^ heroic.

      * Kill this mob for your Fang of Ichor, and to complete the quest! 


After talking with Preceptor Nyjuss he gives you the quest 'Seek out Controller Kenjedeau' who is in West Freeport, Controller Kenjedeau then rewards you with your weapon and about 5 Plat.


Reward: Fang of Ichor 


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For A Better Tomorrow

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1. Kill Opal Darkbriar (85x2) in Darklight Wood. She travels from the Nektulos Forest zoneline to the Neriak, City of Hate zoneline. She is non-agro, and will only be attackable after an Assassin who needs the update hails her.

       * Return to Controller Kenjedeau in the backroom instance of the Backalley Brewhouse in WFP. 


2. Kill Tairiza the Widow Mistress in The Tomb of Thuuga.

       * Return to Preceptor Nyjuss. 


3. Kill The Leviathan in the The Chamber of Destiny.

       * Return to Preceptor Nyjuss. 


4. Kill Druushk in Veeshan's Peak.

       * Return to Preceptor Nyjuss. 



Reward: Fang of Ichor (Mythical) 

