Arena:Murkwood

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2 Detailed Walkthrough
3 Maps

Within this dark forest lies a piece of the Staff. You must retrieve it.^edit

Quest Giver: Ria Silmane
Location(s): Black Marsh
Prerequisite Quest: Crypt of Hearts
Next Quest: Dagoth-Ur
Reward: The seventh piece of the Staff of Chaos

Murkwood

[edit] Quick Walkthrough

Get another vision from Ria in your sleep.
Travel to the Conclave of Baal in Black Marsh and speak to its leader.
Retrieve a stone tablet from the Vaults of Gemin.
Give the tablet to the leader in exchange for the exact location of Murkwood.
Go to Murkwood and recover the seventh piece of the Staff of Chaos.
Repel an attack by Jagar Tharn's minions.

[edit] Detailed Walkthrough

[edit] Sleep, yet Again

The main quests should already be repetitive to you. As usual, go to sleep and Ria will visit you. This time, she says:

"Tharn is livid, scattering about the Imperial Palace like a rabid dog. You have caused him no end of worry. I am sure the Wizard's minions are tracking you. I will say no more, lest I tempt Fate. You seek now the seventh piece of the Staff of Chaos. I have found that this piece lies in a place called Murkwood, the dark forest that ever moves. There can only be one of two provinces left that can hold this forest, Black Marsh or Morrowind. I would start my search in one of these..."

[edit] Stormhold, Part 1

Asking around about Murkwood leads you eventually to the Conclave of Baal in Stormhold, Black Marsh. There you are told that one of their junior members cast a spell that destroyed the Vaults of Gemin, where also happened to be a tablet that would reveal the location of Murkwood. When you agree to fetch the tablet, you get the location of the Vaults of Gemin on your map. It is a very short way southwest of Stormhold.

[edit] Vaults of Gemin

This is a bi-level dungeon with large levels. You will find the usual assortment of death-dealers.

On the first level, the way down is more or less in the center of the dungeon. There are about eighty little rooms, though, and while it's not exactly a maze, the rooms don't have any obvious logic to how they connect.

The fastest way down is to head east in the first east-west corridor, then take the first corridor south. Take the second door on the west, take two doors south and one door west, then loop back north around the west wall and go down.

The second level is flooded, probably because of what the tyro did. There are islands of dryness, with bridges between them and rooms on them. The tablet (52,90) is in a room in the south center behind a riddle door (what were the odds?).

[edit] Stormhold, Part 2

Return to the Conclave of Baal with the tablet so you can get the location of Murkwood on your map. (Again, you can be forgiven for wondering why it's so hard to find a stinking great forest.)

[edit] Murkwood

Like the Elden Grove, Murkwood is a hazy place with impenetrable hedgerows. There are some large open spaces, but not as many as in the Grove. Plus of course the monsters are harder to defeat.

The way down from the ground level almost in the exact center of the map. However, it is inside a maze of vegetation that has awful monsters hiding around seemingly every corner. Your best bet to threading the maze is to refer to your map frequently to see if you are near the blue dot that signifies the way down. Also, some of the walls in the center maze are earthen, and it can be of some help to destroy them. Wend your way to the center and go down.

The second level is the smallest dungeon in terms of exploration area. (Thank you!) The Staff piece is down here behind a riddle door, as always. Answer the riddle wrong and you'll have to deal with a mess of iron golems. Answer it right and get the Staff piece (61,80).

[edit] Notes

The bridges in the Vaults are raised areas, so you can sleep on them without attracting random monsters.

Sometimes when you return to the Conclave of Baal, the quest giver doesn't recognize that you have the tablet. When this happens, exit the temple and save your game. Shut Arena down and restart it. Re-enter the temple and he should then see you have it.