Blade of the Goddess

Quick Walkthrough
# Sleep in the bed in the The Red Mare to get the initial cutscene.
# Buy the book   and follow the clues to the Temple of Namira.
# Find your way through the ruin and recover the Blade of Namira.
# Escape and return to Bravil.

Detailed Walkthrough
To start this quest, talk to Sylvia or Alyshia, prostitutes who can be found hanging around the street corners in Bravil. If you have 100 gold, they'll invite you back to The Red Mare; once you get there, sleep in the bed to receive a vision and a journal update.

From here, go to Ma Syd Jun's Goodies and More and buy the book  . Read it to get another journal update. You may notice a whistling skull sitting on the shop counter, but this is not for sale and cannot be taken with you.

The next part of this quest is a little more difficult: in order to find the dungeon, you have to follow "the path of the dragon's breath". This is a series of dragon's tongue flowers planted outside of Bravil. It leads south-west, across the Larsius River; you're looking for a large fort ruin guarded by goblins, outside the border. You'll need the book to open the door - you did keep a copy, right?

Once inside, you can either clear the first level (more goblins) or simply jump down the well. Don't worry - you'll land in a deep pool of water. Climb out and continue on downward until you end up in an Ayleid ruin; you'll meet a man named Sayjid trying to open a large door. You can sit and watch him for awhile if you're bored, but he'll never succeed, because the door can't be opened. Go into the smaller room to the south and look around for a small button. Press it, and you'll start the trials. Hit each button in turn until you've gotten all four, then return to the large room to find a smaller door has opened. Go through this to the next level. Sayjid will follow, but only as far as the large Namira statue,  unless you agree to let him join you, in which case he becomes your companion and continues to follow you.

Go down the stairs to the next level, a large room with spriggan statues. At the top of the stairs, you'll run into a bunch of ghosts and a cut-scene. After it's done, grab the sword and go back down the stairs to the main floor and through either of the metal gates. Go up the spiral stairs (watch out for traps!) until you come to a hallway running north-south. Look for a small statue of Namira in one of the alcoves; it's the only one you'll be able to activate. When you find it, move it and a door will open below. Go back back down to the main room and through the new door into another room with a stone door. This leads to the labyrinth.

The labyrinth is pretty straightforward - lots of twisting passages, traps, shifting walls, and the occasional zombie. The exit is in the south-west corner; you'll come to a blank wall with a lever near it. Pull the lever, which opens the secret door, and follow the passage up to the chamber with a rope-ladder leading outside. Before using the ladder, take the note left beside a whistling skull (again you cannot take the skull with you).

Once you've gotten out, return to Bravil and talk to Ma Syd Jun. He'll tell you that someone in the Black Arrow is looking for you. This will start The Bloodscript.

Journal Entries