The Cycle of Love
Young women are going missing in the valley and according to a group of soldiers, Xanthe is behind it. I can use their bizarre lantern to get inside the boyaress's keep and investigate the matter.
Objectives
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Retrieve the lantern
Xanthe's commander left the lantern needed to enter her keep for me to grab, should I decide to help them after all. I can retrieve it from the hiding spot.
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Deal with Xanthe
Xanthe, Brencis's oldest vrakhiri ally, stands in my way. I need to find a way to deal with her.
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Get to the mansion
The mysterious lantern from the soldiers will allow me to enter Xanthe's keep and find out what she's doing in there.
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Give the lantern to the statue
There's a creepy statue by the entrance to Xanthe's keep. I should put the magical lantern in its extended hand to open the door.
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Figure out the lantern's purpose
I found a bizarre lantern bearing Xanthe's symbol. It's clearly magical – I should figure out what it's meant to do.
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Find Xanthe
I've entered Xanthe's keep – now I should try to find the boyaress herself.
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Find a way to enter the locked room
There is a locked room in Xanthe's keep with weird humming coming from within. According to the mad servant – no one is allowed to enter. Therefore, I must.
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Enter the locked room
I have enough lanterns to open the door to the locked room upstairs. It's time to see what's inside.
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Kill Xanthe
Xanthe has found me. Good. It's time to make her pay for the atrocities.
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Investigate the painted door
The mad servant mentioned a 'painted door' upstairs in the keep that no one is allowed to open. I should go see what she meant.
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Wait for an opportunity
Attacking the boyaress blindly would be foolish. But there might come a time when a smart solution to the Xanthe problem will present itself.
Possible endings
Depending on your choices the quest ends differently – with different rewards. A playthrough only reaches one of the endings.
Ending 1 (spoiler)
Xanthe offered me a deal for sparing her life and I took it.
Ending 2 (spoiler)
I got inside Xanthe's keep and put an end to her atrocities. No more Sangoran girls will die for her sick experiments.
Failed (spoiler)
I didn't have the time to find Xanthe and deal with her. If she stands in my way at some point, I'll cut her down all the same.
Ending 4 (spoiler)
In the end, I simply found Xanthe in the cathedral and killed her right there. She's no longer a problem.
Rewards along the way
Xanthe's Lantern
Quest Items
Xanthe's Lantern
Quest Items
Human Anatomy
Common Writing
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