TRIAL OF FIRE

“The settlement Terralin is dying.

You must track down the settlement’s leader, Naya, who has ventured out into the glasslands in search of a powerful artefact but has not been heard from for weeks.”

**First Objective:**

“’Follow in Her Footsteps’

Track down Naya, the Voider leader, and return with her or news of her fate.”

**More Info:**

“For years, [Terralin’s] people have lived in relative safety from the harsh conditions and monsters of the surrounding glasslands. The protection offered by the Voiders brings refugees from far and wide.

A few months ago, Naya, the leader of the Voiders, left Terralin in search of a mythical artefact that could help her people by warding off the more powerful beasts of the land. However, she has not been heard from since.

Without Naya and the secrets she holds, new Voiders cannot be awakened and their numbers are reducing rapidly. All that she left behind was a description of her destination, a Living World town many days travel from Terralin. Expeditions have been sent to try to follow in her footsteps, but have not returned.

Yours is the third such expedition to be sent out into the glasslands. You are given supplies for your journey and a map to the town that was Naya’s original destination.”

### *What To Expect: (written by MANIC)*

Trial of Fire is a pseudo-random quest that consists of 2 to 4 main quest objectives. Each main objective involves traveling to a distant location, the directions to which are marked and fighting a pseudo-random boss there. After defeating a main quest boss other than the final boss, the player will be prompted to repeat this process at another location where a more powerful boss awaits. There are three variants of this quest: short, standard, and long which have 2, 3, and 4 main quest objectives (and associated boss battles) respectively. Potential bosses a player could fight are separated into tiers, and the tier of boss a player fights is equal to the number of main quests they have completed plus one. If it is the final boss fight, the bosses tier is two higher than the number of main quests they have completed instead of one. Thus, the tiers of bosses a player fight is as follows:

 Short
 Standard
 Long

The current tier list of bosses that can appear in Trial of Fire are as follows:

* Tier 1
	+ Spikeback
	+ Devil Moth
	+ Illusionist
* Tier 2
	+ Necromancer
	+ Fury Liche
	+ Amalgam
* Tier 3
	+ Green Dragon
	+ Giant Worm
	+ Glass Elemental
* Tier 4
	+ Red Dragon
	+ Lurker
	+ Charred Priest
* Tier 5
	+ Blue Dragon
	+ Planar

Completing any variant of Trial of Fire unlocks the legendary equipment Wardstone Staff for all future quests (it will then appear like any other legendary item in any quest, not just Trial of Fire).

### *Strategies and Tips: (written by MANIC)*

Trial of Fire is the most difficult non-challenge quest to plan for when playing with a random seed. Boss fights can be some of the most difficult encounters in the game and some are much easier (or harder) to defeat based on your party composition and strategy. An example of this would be Giant Worm. If you decide to play a strategy based around accumulating very high defense values, a tier 3 boss fight against Giant Worm will likely be the hardest encounter of the play through as he will remove all of a characters defense when he melee attacks them. On the other hand, while Glass Elemental can inflict the defenceless status, he would still be much easier for a player using such a strategy to handle. This creates an element of luck present in most other roguelikes, but not present in the more structured Lore Quests.

Despite this, planning for bosses is still very possible (and even advisable). A player can see the boss they will need to fight for the next main quest by clicking on the journal when on the overworld map. Players should check the next boss they will need to face at the start of the quest and immediately after each boss fight so as to have as much time to prepare as possible. Trial of Fire may be easier for a player after completing several Lore Quests, as then a player would have seen most if not all of the possible bosses they may run into in Trial of Fire and can prepare for the next boss more effectively.