Blood and Dust

**Blood and Dust** is a sidequest in the Undercity. It can either be started by entering the Undercity and finding any poster about the Dust Pit.

In this sidequest, the goal is to survive the battles and the rewards are coins and the equipment of the fallen warriors. It can be started by talking to Rasha, who runs the Dust Pit. Although betting on battle outcomes is not possible, you can enter battles at any combat level.

When agreeing to fight, you sign a contract of consent (which is done during dialogue) and then have to pick a monniker. The standard choices are the Destroyer or The Wanderer, but with some progress in the main quest, The Prophet becomes accessible as well. The time during each fight is about 24 hours before the next one becomes available.

## Beginner's match (\*)

The first battle will be a match of each for his own, with four combatants, including you. Even though it's a free match, they will collectively fight against you. But the enemies should on par with bandits of the Suncoast in terms of combat skills. Two will fight with melee weapons and one with a bow.

The reward is 50 coins, 150 experience points and the equipment consists of:

* Fine Steel Shield
* 2 Firm Leather Arm Protector
* 2 Firm Leather Cuirass
* 2 Firm Leather Boots
* Iron Gauntlets
* Leather Shoes
* Oak Bow of Fire Wrath
* Ruined Book
* 50 Sharp Steel Arrow
* Steel Cuirass
* Steel Mace
* Steel Shield
* Steel Warhammer

## Twins (\*\*)

The second battles consists of 2 vs 1 battle against two twin brothers with the same equipment. They fight only in melee with their battleaxes. They are lot tougher than the previous encounter, but at level 10-15, one should be tough enough to obtain a victory.

The reward of defeating them consists of 100 coins, 200 experience and the followig items:

* 2 Iron Boots
* 2 Iron Cuirass
* 2 Iron Gauntlets
* Leather
* 2 Rune Battleaxe

After the battle, you can talk to Rasha and with 30 Rhetoric, she will tell you more about her current situation she has with the Rhalata. She will, however, decline your offer to help, as she is not convinced that you can take on the whole Rhalata.

## Gur Hal'Nan (\*\*/\*\*\*)

The third battle is against the Arazealean warrior, Gur Hal'Nan, the berserker of the Steppes. Equipped with fine steel armor and a Rune Battleaxe, he is able to deal plenty of damage and take some as well. He will also the talent of Arctic Wind at the start of the battle. A combat level of 20 is recommended to have likely chance for a victory.

Defeating him yields 350 experience and pennies, as well as the following items:

* Fine Steel Boots
* Fine Steel Cuirass
* Fine Steel Gauntlets
* Fine Steel Helmet
* Rune Battleaxe

## Raga Shadowclaw (\*\*\*/\*\*\*\*)

The fourth battle is against Raga Shadowclaw, a female alchemist who starts the fight as a light armored dual-axe wielder, and one the weapons has a fire enchantment. Before she dies, she will use a wolf blood potion to turn herself into a werewolf. You can use the transformation time to recover yourself and to do some battle preparations.

Defeating her yields a reward of 450 pennies, 800 experience (defeating her and the quest) after Rasha has finished her advise of becoming a mercenary. The loot is the following:

* 34x Endrelean penny coins
* Fine Leather Boots
* Fine Leather Cuirass
* Fine Leather Gauntlets
* Glittering Shaman Amulet
* Silver Steel Battle Axe
* Silver Steel Battle Axe of Fire Wrath
* Spell Tome: Spectral Chest rank 2.

## The Beast (\*\*\*\*)

After the previous fight, talk to Rasha again about the next fight. She will say that she has a challenging fight for you prepared, but instead of a skilled warrior, rogue or mage, it's an undead creature known as the Beast, which can resurrected after each fight in case it's mortally wounded. Instead of waiting for a day, the fight can arranged in a few hours.

When agreeing to fight, the game will fastforward to the moment the fight is about to start. Before the fight begins properly, a stranger will intervene by slaying the Beast. After this act, he will challenge you to a duel instead. He is a dual-swordwielder, with no special techniques. After dealing some damage, he will stop the fight and teleport you the Corpse Pit of the Undercity.

### The offer

After the teleport, the stranger by the name Tharaêl Narys, a man who is a Voice of the Father of the Rhalata, will explain his purpose. He intervened because he wants to hire someone in his quest to kill the Rhalata leader known as The Father. He will explain that he was sold out by an orphanage to the Rhalata leader, so that he could perform a scientific experiment with an unknown goal. Thareal and some other children were used a test subjects, which he somehow managed to survive.

In order to avenge the loss of lifes and the harm he has suffered and to prevent more harm from happening, he insist on killing the Father. And that's where you come into play. In order to succeed, he needs more than a simple cutthroat and your skill in the Dust Pit has proven that. And through intuition, he believe that you can be the right man or woman for the job. With the dialogue, you can more question about the mission he about to offer you. His plan to kill him on the expedition he is about to embark on. He has excavate a temple in the northern regions of the Frostcliff Mountain and he needs mercenaries and his best warriors. His plan to do somethins that will impress the father, which can make you stand out above all other mercenaries with relation to the Rhalata.

Though he doesn't mention what this plan is, he will ask whether you interested or not. Thareal offers 400 pennies for taking his offer and another 800 when this plan succeeds with the death of the Father. When agreeing, he will tell you that should meet him later near the Wailing Tree in the Undercity. When refusing, the questline ends here. You will receive 1000 experience at the end of this quest.

Whether the mission is accepted or not, your career as an arena fighter at the Dust Pit has come to end, due to being involved with the Rhalâta. Rasha can't risk their wrath in case you die in the Pits.