Fey Avatar

The **Fey Avatar** is the **First Boss** of the Mystic Grove and may be fought at **Floor 15** once the player reaches **Character Level 6**.
Defeating the Fey Avatar is required to access the Hollow Reef unlock the full functionalities of the Low Harbor, the player's ship and naval combat, and complete **All Hands on Deck**

The first major boss of the game and your first real test of your abilities, the Fey Avatar will be a difficult battle for the inexperienced but can be felled with a proper approach and good strategy.

**Combat Proficiency**

The Fey Avatar demonstrates just how intolerant the Southern Isles are to your meddling presence, boasting a hefty 50 HP along with two points in both defensive stats. If you remember the Prince of Thieves from **Grim Quest**, you will quickly find the Fey Avatar to be a far more devious opponent.

Coming equipped with an offensive and a restorative ability, the Fey Avatar hardly needs assistance to take you down. **Aether Shock** allows the avatar to deal significant magic damage, on top of applying a one-time debuff across *four* of your stats. This goes in tandem with its secondary ability: **Flourish**, which allows the avatar to heal himself on top of amplifying the damage of Aether Shock. Unlike the former; which applies its effect once, flourish can buff his ability damage multiple times, with each cast only making it hit harder and harder.

Defeating the Fey Avatar requires some critical thinking, as you will need to account for the incoming debuffs, the raw magical damage as well as his self-healing ability. Disintegrate Essence can buy you some time to deal with his minions or deliver some damage with impunity, but you will likely want to carry Aetherial Rain or Aether Bolt to reduce its spell resistance so that your spells actually inflict good damage. Characters specialised into physical damage will need to carry a method of reducing the avatar's armor value so that they can make progress on his health. Insect Swarm is a quick and easy way to combine an armor debuff with a rather long mute, which can very easily tie into a Cull with an Axe, a Pommel Strike with a Sword, a Stunning Blow with a Club, or a Venomous Stab with a Knife, though poison is unlikely to be very effective against the avatar on account of **Flourish**.

Unfortunately for you, the Avatar is not alone, coming alongside an Enchanter and a Magus. The Enchanter's **Enchant Armor** buff will make the Fey Avatar a far more resilient opponent than what is preferable, enough to potentially override the debuff of Insect Swarm. As such, it should be taken out as fast as possible. This will likely result in you enduring a critical chance debuff from the Magus, but it is a worthy sacrifice to take if only to maximize the damage you can deal against the boss - your critical chance would probably be no more than ten percent at this point.

Once isolated, it all boils down to numbers. Maximize your firepower against the Fey Avatar with every asset at your disposal, stall your time with mutes and stuns and you will come out on top.

  **Damage:** 8-11
  **Critical:** 13%

Effect on Player
* **Inflicts magical damage**
* **-3% EVA/CRIT**
Effect on Self
* **Restores 12-14 HP**

**On-Defeat Journal Entry**

You return to Farhaven hauling a decent amount of the precious material, just enough to reinforce a small ship and make it resistant to the freak weather of the Isles. You have little trouble finding a skilled shipwright in one of the narrow alleys leading to Low Harbor. The man is flabbergasted at the very sight of ironbark, and, after showing him the letter of conduct wearing the official imperial seal, he is more than happy to do the necessary adjustments to one of the small vessels in his aresnal. With an eagerness of a child who's just been giftes with a new toy, he promises the ship will be sea-worthy in no more than a day.

Exhausted from the ordeal, you return to your lodgings in the local taven, the Salty Rat, and check in early for the night. Tomorrow you will set out for the next stop on your journey, a sinister place with an equally sinister name - the Hollow Reef, one step closer to your freedom, or one step closer to your doom?