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The Riddle

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A hole in the foundation of the destroyed farmhouse leads down to a dark, dank cave. Perhaps Barthand slipped and fell inside the cave?

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The Riddle
Heroic level: 19
Epic level: None
Duration: long
Heroic XP:  ♣3,151Solo/Casual ♦5,442Normal ♥5,633Hard ♠5,824Elite
Epic XP: N/A
Takes place in: Dank Cave
Bestowed by: Ingval Muth
NPC contact: Ingval Muth
Quest acquired in: Eveningstar
Patron: Purple Dragon Knights
Base favor: 7
Purchase: Menace of the Underdark
Extreme Challenge: No
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Overview

Ingval Muth has asked you to find the War Wizard Barthand, who disappeared suddenly while investigating troubled dreams in the village of Eveningstar.

Barthand was last seen near a hole leading to a Dank Cave in Eveningstar. Go there and do your best to locate him.

Spoiler Warning: Spoiler material below this point!

Objectives

  • Search for the Wizard Barthand
  • Defeat the hags
  • Talk to Barthand
  • Seek the Eye of Frelga
  • Destroy the Eye of Frelga
  • Find the Night Hag, Frelga
  • Defeat the Night Hag, Frelga

Tips and Misc

  • The most common foes are Will-o'-Wisps (which shoot chain lightning and cause Fear) and Vine Horrors (which use Spike Growth). On Heroic Elite difficulty, a full party can be overwhelmed quickly by mobs of these two foes alone. Evasive fighters such as Monks, Rangers and Rogues may survive longer but need time to whittle foes down. Spellcasters with great area-of-effect damage are ideal here.
  • The loop in the southeast can be skipped if you want to avoid a few fights.
  • Forest Hags repeatedly spawn Animated Armor (constructs) until killed. Focus on the hags, as their deaths will also destroy the spawned Armor.
  • After the first shrine, the path to the east (looks like it leads back to Barthand) dead-ends with nothing down there but a bunch of wisps.
  • Further down the path, the next turn east that looks like it should loop to the north also dead-ends with nothing but wisps.
  • The password to open enchanted door is "knuckle-bones". You get the password from War-Wizard Barthand after the fight against the first set of hags.
  • Frelga's Eye cannot be targeted; however, it also doesn't attack. AoE, manual targeting (using the "T" key), or randomly swinging near it will quickly destroy it.
  • Door with the locked lever (Lock DC) protects a chest that spawns a mimic (CR 30 on Elite) and 2 to 4 Will-o'-Wisps; the chest can be looted once all are killed.
  • The door leading east from the third shrine only leads to a few Mudmen (and a bones collectable).
  • Victory requires not only defeating Frelga, but other Night Hags and Vine Horrors surrounding her. Some may fall off the ledge during the fight and require locating.
  • The quest giver and rewards is to the north, near a bonfire on the far side of a house.

Bonus XP

  • Aggression bonus: 34 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣315 ♦544 ♥563 ♠582 )
  • Onslaught bonus: 67 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣473 ♦816 ♥845 ♠874 )
  • Conquest bonus: 100 or more monsters killed +25% Bonus.( ♣788 ♦1,361 ♥1,408 ♠1,456 )
  • Mischief bonus: 20 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣252 ♦435 ♥451 ♠466 )
  • Vandal bonus: 26 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣315 ♦544 ♥563 ♠582 )
  • Ransack bonus: 32 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♣473 ♦816 ♥845 ♠874 )

Loot

  • Chests: 4
    • 1 for saving Barthand
    • 1 for finding Eye of Frelga
    • 1 optional for killing a mimic behind locked lever
    • 1 end chest
  • Collectables:
    • Bones — by the small pool at the end of passage northwest of the entrance (not on map)Icon tooltip.pngGlowmoss SporesScarlet CryptmossSlime MoldBlister BeetleSweet WhitecapSwaying Mushroom ClusterZygomycota FungusDeadly FeverblanchPale CreeperRuddy FungusSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusSwaying Mushroom Spore PodGlowmoss Clump
    • Adventurer's Pack — in the southern alcove (not on map)Icon tooltip.pngAmber VialVial of Pure WaterVial of ContagionString of Prayer BeadsSmall Wooden IdolIcon of KhyberPage Torn from a Research NotebookKhyber Prayer PamphletTome: Prophecies of KhyberSweet WhitecapDeadly FeverblanchPale CreeperBlessed CandleRuddy FungusChipped Bone TalismanSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusTome: Alchemist's ChapbookAcademic TreatiseTear of VulkoorIvory Scorpion IconSilver BowlRitual AthameCryptic MessageSwaying Mushroom ClusterSwaying Mushroom Spore PodPolished OreVial of Heavy WaterRitual CandleZygomycota FungusStone FetishWarehouse LedgerEncoded CommuniqueMystical FormulaSlime MoldGlowmoss SporesBlister BeetleScarlet CryptmossGlowmoss ClumpOceanic SphereMortar and PestleFractured FemurPrismatic DustSmoldering Ember
    • Adventurer's Pack — in the corner just east of thereIcon tooltip.pngAmber VialVial of Pure WaterVial of ContagionString of Prayer BeadsSmall Wooden IdolIcon of KhyberPage Torn from a Research NotebookKhyber Prayer PamphletTome: Prophecies of KhyberSweet WhitecapDeadly FeverblanchPale CreeperBlessed CandleRuddy FungusChipped Bone TalismanSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusTome: Alchemist's ChapbookAcademic TreatiseTear of VulkoorIvory Scorpion IconSilver BowlRitual AthameCryptic MessageSwaying Mushroom ClusterSwaying Mushroom Spore PodPolished OreVial of Heavy WaterRitual CandleZygomycota FungusStone FetishWarehouse LedgerEncoded CommuniqueMystical FormulaSlime MoldGlowmoss SporesBlister BeetleScarlet CryptmossGlowmoss ClumpOceanic SphereMortar and PestleFractured FemurPrismatic DustSmoldering Ember
    • Adventurer's Pack — just after rescuing BarthandIcon tooltip.pngAmber VialVial of Pure WaterVial of ContagionString of Prayer BeadsSmall Wooden IdolIcon of KhyberPage Torn from a Research NotebookKhyber Prayer PamphletTome: Prophecies of KhyberSweet WhitecapDeadly FeverblanchPale CreeperBlessed CandleRuddy FungusChipped Bone TalismanSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusTome: Alchemist's ChapbookAcademic TreatiseTear of VulkoorIvory Scorpion IconSilver BowlRitual AthameCryptic MessageSwaying Mushroom ClusterSwaying Mushroom Spore PodPolished OreVial of Heavy WaterRitual CandleZygomycota FungusStone FetishWarehouse LedgerEncoded CommuniqueMystical FormulaSlime MoldGlowmoss SporesBlister BeetleScarlet CryptmossGlowmoss ClumpOceanic SphereMortar and PestleFractured FemurPrismatic DustSmoldering Ember
    • Bones — underwater in pool by seconds set of hagsIcon tooltip.pngGlowmoss SporesScarlet CryptmossSlime MoldBlister BeetleSweet WhitecapSwaying Mushroom ClusterZygomycota FungusDeadly FeverblanchPale CreeperRuddy FungusSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusSwaying Mushroom Spore PodGlowmoss Clump
    • Adventurer's Pack — in crevasse near bottom of the room with all the ledgesIcon tooltip.pngAmber VialVial of Pure WaterVial of ContagionString of Prayer BeadsSmall Wooden IdolIcon of KhyberPage Torn from a Research NotebookKhyber Prayer PamphletTome: Prophecies of KhyberSweet WhitecapDeadly FeverblanchPale CreeperBlessed CandleRuddy FungusChipped Bone TalismanSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusTome: Alchemist's ChapbookAcademic TreatiseTear of VulkoorIvory Scorpion IconSilver BowlRitual AthameCryptic MessageSwaying Mushroom ClusterSwaying Mushroom Spore PodPolished OreVial of Heavy WaterRitual CandleZygomycota FungusStone FetishWarehouse LedgerEncoded CommuniqueMystical FormulaSlime MoldGlowmoss SporesBlister BeetleScarlet CryptmossGlowmoss ClumpOceanic SphereMortar and PestleFractured FemurPrismatic DustSmoldering Ember
    • Adventurer's Pack — on one of those ledges (need to jump down to reach it)Icon tooltip.pngAmber VialVial of Pure WaterVial of ContagionString of Prayer BeadsSmall Wooden IdolIcon of KhyberPage Torn from a Research NotebookKhyber Prayer PamphletTome: Prophecies of KhyberSweet WhitecapDeadly FeverblanchPale CreeperBlessed CandleRuddy FungusChipped Bone TalismanSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusTome: Alchemist's ChapbookAcademic TreatiseTear of VulkoorIvory Scorpion IconSilver BowlRitual AthameCryptic MessageSwaying Mushroom ClusterSwaying Mushroom Spore PodPolished OreVial of Heavy WaterRitual CandleZygomycota FungusStone FetishWarehouse LedgerEncoded CommuniqueMystical FormulaSlime MoldGlowmoss SporesBlister BeetleScarlet CryptmossGlowmoss ClumpOceanic SphereMortar and PestleFractured FemurPrismatic DustSmoldering Ember
    • Bones — in the pool near the fight against Grundlehin (not on map)Icon tooltip.pngGlowmoss SporesScarlet CryptmossSlime MoldBlister BeetleSweet WhitecapSwaying Mushroom ClusterZygomycota FungusDeadly FeverblanchPale CreeperRuddy FungusSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusSwaying Mushroom Spore PodGlowmoss Clump
    • Bones — in eastern room with mudmen, just before final battleIcon tooltip.pngGlowmoss SporesScarlet CryptmossSlime MoldBlister BeetleSweet WhitecapSwaying Mushroom ClusterZygomycota FungusDeadly FeverblanchPale CreeperRuddy FungusSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusSwaying Mushroom Spore PodGlowmoss Clump
    • Bones — on ledge with final battleIcon tooltip.pngGlowmoss SporesScarlet CryptmossSlime MoldBlister BeetleSweet WhitecapSwaying Mushroom ClusterZygomycota FungusDeadly FeverblanchPale CreeperRuddy FungusSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusSwaying Mushroom Spore PodGlowmoss Clump
  • NPC rewards: standard

Monsters

Name ( picture ) CR Type Race
Animated Armor ( view
Animated Armor.jpg
 • edit ) 		 ♠28Elite Construct Animated Object
Chest (monster) ( view
Chest (monster).jpg
 • edit ) 		 ♠28Elite ●♥38Epic Hard Aberration Mimic
Forest Hag ( view
Forest Hag.jpg
 • edit ) 		 ♠29Elite Monstrous Humanoid Hag
Frelga's Eye ( view
Frelga's Eye.jpg
 • edit ) 		Unknown Aberration Evil Eye
Frelga ( view
Frelga.jpg
 • edit ) 		 ♥26Hard ♠32Elite Evil Outsider Hag
Grundlehin ( view
Grundlehin.jpg
 • edit ) 		 ♦21Normal ♥25Hard ♠31Elite Monstrous Humanoid Hag
Mudman ( view
Mudman.jpg
 • edit ) 		 ♦9Normal ♠14Elite ●♦18/21Epic Normal ●♥24Epic Hard Elemental Muckman
Vine Horror ( view
Vine Horror.jpg
 • edit ) 		 ♠29Elite Plant Vine Stalker
Vine Stalker ( view
Vine Stalker.jpg
 • edit ) 		 ♦9Normal Plant Vine Stalker
Will-o'-Wisp ( view
Will-o'-Wisp.jpg
 • edit ) 		 ♠25Elite Aberration Will o' Wisp


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