Taiwen: Reanimating Death
From Istaria Lexica
| Quest type: | Adventure |
| From NPC(s): | Taiwen |
| Required adventure school: | Any (level: 50) |
| Locations: | Ruins of Tazoon |
| Previous quest(s): | Zanlei: The Junkyard War |
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| Item(s) required to start, progress or finish the quest: |
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| Hex Bag, High Priest's Hex Bag |
Taiwen will give you what Zuyazu needs if you can sabotage the priesthood's efforts.
Quest text[edit]
...Who goes there?...
Odd... I feel like I know you. And I can speak to you. Oh! You have a tradestone! How? I thought they had all been lost.
Shau gave it to me. I'm helping Zuyazu right now.
...Oh! That's excellent news! My masters here keep telling me Shau died a long time ago... It's good to hear he is alive somewhere yet. As for Zuyazu... I visit him once in awhile. I can't do it for too long or the priests will lock me up for speaking with him. What's he looking for?
Something magical for a weapon.. Or weapons.
I might have something. Well.. not me in particular has the "something".
You see - half the priesthood here... they're trying to make amends with Varrantoth. The other half do whatever the withered dead wants. That's what the bones inside the bloodwall are for.
Those bones... that monster isn't something from this age.
You are correct - it is not. It's said in the Mythic era that the goddess of death tricked the goddess of creation into accepting death into the world. And so they were born. Varrantoth and his brother fought them long and hard. Galderos fought for the hunt, Varrantoth fought to try to impress the beautiful Alyssa, who constantly scorned his love for her.
It took years of fighting for a god to kill one of these beasts that Nyrevin named Death.
And its remains are half assembled behind the wall.
As you can guess - this isn't a good thing. I don't think the priests or the withered ones truly understand what they are doing. It was said the beasts named Death were indiscriminate... and that isn't likely to change. We will be killed, the withered dead will be killed, and then everything else in the world will be killed.
Life would end, because the gods are long gone from this world into the next. There is nobody to save us this time.
How do we stop them?
The outside military so far has been doing well at making sure the priests can't get more of the bones by laying siege to the city, but once in awhile a new bone is pilfered and smuggled in by the withered. We can't stop them from bringing bones in, because they arrive at random.
We can stop the spell through theft and mayhem, however.
What do you propose?
Priests of any skill take years to train, so killing any of them makes it tough on the order. I'd say go crack some heads, for one. Each priest should have a hex bag full of ingredients for rituals. Each individual has a different mix of items, so I think knocking over ten of them and grabbing their stash might get what Zuyazu needs.
Also - kill the high priest. He's got a special ruby in his bag he was saving for a rainy day. Going to just say this one time... don't touch it.
(Hope this works to stall or stop the process of getting that thing up...)
Looks like you got everything. Bring it back to Taiwen.
That should stall them a while. I can only act incompetent for so long before they start wondering if I do things on purpose. Going through these, looks like we nabbed some rare stuff. Can't just up and go back home for these things, so they'll have to wait a long time for the dead to bring more. Months. Years, perhaps.
Let me put a few choice items in the high priest's bag here with his cursed ruby... and done. Don't open this. Take it to Zuyazu.
(Thanks.)
This tiny bag gives you an incredibly potent and uneasy feeling. You should quickly deliver it to Zuyazu.
You have received 1 Volatile Hex Bag.
Steps[edit]
- Listen to Taiwen
- Kill ten (10) Varan Priests
- Kill one (1) Varan High Priest
- Loot ten (10) Hex Bags
- Loot High Priest's Hex Bag
- Return to Taiwen
Target mobs[edit]
Rewards[edit]
- Adventure Experience: 40800
- Money: 37s 500c
- Reward: Volatile Hex Bag
