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Quest Name: Evil'ution
Quest installed July 12/07

Level: 20+
Class: All
NPC: Madrias Tam
Location: Highbourne
Reward
By: Shorte, edited by Morynn

Madrias is an odd individual, but has been pretty keen on helping you unlock the potential of a powerful ring; though, it won't be easy. Starting at level 20, he will tell you how to improve and enhance the ring. You just have to wonder what his motivation is for helping you...and the storyteller does too.

Part 1
Level 20-29:

1. Talk to Madrias Tam at the HB docks on the northwest side of the ship. He asks you to seek the Engraged Earth Elementals in the Savanah and from them loot 2 Shimmering Ores.
2. Go out the gate near the coach and follow the mountains a short run East from Highborne (SE)
3. Along the mountains you will find a group of Shambling Earth (look like brownies- con green). Farm them to get Enraged Earth to spawn. Enraged Earths (look like big Earth Elementals) usually drop the required Shimmering Ore. Loot 2 Shimmering Ores and return to Madrias Tam.
4. Madrias Tam now wants you to retrieve a gem from some Gem Biter Beetles. Head back toward the Enraged Earths. Just before you get to them (Highbourne [e]), you will be able to con ‘A Sunbaked Stone’, and on the other the other side of the road is "A loose stone". Talk to either one, and 3 beetles will spawn, kill them and loot an Imperfect Gem (each player only needs 1). Return to Madrias Tam.
5. Madrias Tam asks you to get the gem polished. Take the gem to the gem polisher just on the other side of the boat. Give the gem to it to polish, get the gem back, and take to Madrias Tam.
6. Madrias Tam will now give you a ‘ghost catcher’ and send you to retrieve 4 soul essences. Go to the Necro guild area of HB found just off the opposite end of the dock. Enter the cave, look for ‘A lost soul’ and talk to it. You need to collect 4 and return to Madrias Tam.
7. Madrias Tam now sends you to retrieve 3 vials of blood. Head out the north gate and go west near the shore line. Go north till you reach a hill in HB (NW) near the shore that has Lioness Prides on it. Kill and loot 3 bloods. Return to Madrias Tam

• Madrias Tam gives you some XP (about 3 mil I think) and a level 20 scroll to summon an equipable level 20 ring. There are a lot of parts throughout this quest (as you log it at later levels) that require you to at least have the ring in your inventory. The ring has decent stats for its level.
• Head to The Storyteller in Baga Village NE to obtain 20 faction for completing this quest.

Part 2
Level 30-39:

1. Talk to Madrias Tam again. He asks you to go see "the master of the forge south of a sea that isn't, on the skull's spine". He is referring to Hermit Washburn on the very top of the huge mountain on an island Brokenskull Rock (NW). Its the island with the huge skull shaped head on the easter side. Note: Shiningforce (CLW) says Hermit is located in Brokenskull Rock (SW).
   Note: you must make sure you make the ring from the spell and have it in your inventory or he won't help you.
   
2. The Hermit gives you a pick axe and asks you to bring back 5 ores from the Cemetary to the northwest.
   Note: Shiningforce (CLW) says you only need to turn in 3 ores, not five.
   
3. Go to the cemetery in Burial Mounds (S) - just east along the river from the froglok camps. If you are lower level, be careful because some do see through invis.
4. Con around the area for "?" (just a question mark). If you approach it and talk to it, you will either get a message saying you’ve dug, but found nothing or you will receive an ore. Keep running around the cemetery conning for the ?'s until you have found 5 ores. Then return to the Hermit.
5. The Hermit says he now needs a Hammer and asks you to retrieve a Mallet from Sprit Talkers Woods (C) [note: Shiningforce (CLW) says Urtica is in East, but I think she must be very close to the border of (C) and (E) on top of that hill. There’s a hill with a bunch of trees (Shrublings) and a few centaurs; it glows green at the top. Speak with the Centaru named URTICA DIOICA and simply ask him for the mallet and he will give it to you. I believe if you kill him and loot the mallet, this will advance quest also. Once you have the mallet, return to the Hermit.
6. Note: you must make sure you make the ring from the spell and have it in your inventory or the Hermit won't help you.
   Terrible news! Hermit has broken the ring! Return to Madrias Tam.
• Madrias Tam gives you some XP and you get your lvl 30 ring spell in exchange for your level 20 ring.
• Head to The Storyteller in Baga Village NE to obtain 30 faction for completing this quest.

Part 3
L evel 40-49:

1. Summon your newest ring and talk to Madrias Tam. Do NOT answer anything in a snotty manner or you will lose 350 faction with the Shadow Collective. Madrias sends you to Magus Niska in the Nec Guild area of Klick A’non. (turn right after entering Klick proper, go around until you see the lava. Head rightish before you get to the stip of lava through an illusionary wall.)
2. In speaking with magus Niska, BE CAREFUL how you reply or you'll muck up this part of the quest and have to go back to see Madrias Tam to relog it (don't think thats a pain in the butt? Try being evil...)
   Magus asks you to retrieve 4 books for him. The Books are called (something like)
   * Compendium of Energy
   * Znib’s Journal
   * Harog’s Formulae and
   * Magi Libellus
   Basically one from each of the races that he mentions: Humans, Gnomes, Erudites, and Dark Elves. To find the books, you need to locate old bookshelves. Above the bookshelves, you will con things like "a dusty tome", "an ancient text", "an old scroll", or "a leatherbound book". Talk to the books to discover if they are what you need. These books can be found at:
1. Freeport: Caster's guild and Warrior's guild
   Darvor Manor: Inside the house
   Klick A'non: Caster, Alchemist, and Nec guilds. By Magus, by the lvl 17 questgiver
   Highbourne: Library, bottom and top floors
   Neriak: where "A Neriak Book" is located (just behind the banker), By king/queen gate, Cleric's guild, all around the Do'Vexis House & House J'Narus areas.
   Qeynos: Caster guild, building by Paladin guild, Bayle Manor
   
2. Note: The items are lore, so you can trade them, and also you will get a message stating you have already have 1 if you try to loot a book you already have. You can find other stackabe loot like 'Spelcastin' fir dumiez', ‘Fairytale Book’, ‘Gruk’s Stuff’, and ‘Spellcasting fir Dumies’ but is junk loot to my knowledge.

3. There are four book quests in all. Daemaas (dev) says:
   At this time, there's 3 out of 4 books in all cities, you'll always have to seek another location to then be able to progress. If needed, I'll make the books despawn and respawn to hopefully re-shuffle them, but that'll only cheese-off the players that get there and then have them despawn before they can be interacted with.
   
   Note from Shorte on Hodstock: I wanted to comment about the part in ‘c.’ above. IDC what Daemaas says, I’ve never seen 3 books in a city (though that may be true for only Freeport). I always knock out this quest in about 10 minutes or less with the same plan:
   1- After talking to Magus and logging the quest go to the MAG and ALC guilds in Klick to loot books.
   a. Klick has the Znibs Journal and the Magi Libellus. So if you loot a book, then the next time you try to loot, it says you already have it, delete the one you got and reloot. Rinse and repeat till you have both Znib and Magi. Twice I ran this I got both books in 2 loots. Usually takes about 5 loots and the books respawn no slower than 30 seconds.
   2- Go to the HB Library.
   a. HB has the Compendium of Energy and Harog’s Formulea. The Basement is a good place to loot books, but if a book doesn’t spawn fer a few seconds, you may have to go upstairs and check throughout the library. If you try to loot a book and it says you already have it, it’s either the Harog or the Compendium of energy. Delete whichever is in your inventory and reloot. Rinse and repeat till you have both the Compendium of Energy and Harogs Formulae.
   Note from Morynn: I'm evil, so had to avoid HB - I've looted the other two books in Neriak and FP.

3. Return these books to Magus. He will send you back to Madrias Tam to receive your XP and your Level 40 ring spell. Head to The Storyteller in Baga Village NE to obtain 40 faction for completing this quest.

Part 4
Level 50-59:

1. Madrias Tam Sends you to Shepherd Brook in Mordahim (E) who is just east of the ramp.
2. She sends you to kill an Undead in the cemetary in Rivervale near the SW shore of the lake by a tower (small, no more than a few headstones). Kill the Undead (bone swarm) [CONs wht@60-doesn't hit hard but a lot of hps] and return to the shepherd. [drops four shards]
3. Next she sends you to kill an "Unsettled Bones" (bone swarm) in Surefall Glade (N) above the shooting range on a hill with a big stone marker (not the one with the druid standing on it). Unsettled Bones cons red and has quite a few hps (drops four shards). Return to Shephard.
4. You are then sent to kill ‘the last of the great three’ (unsettled bones) in Collinridge Cemetary (E). From Neriak, follow the river north, the river takes a bend and your mob will spawn on the left hand side (south side) in the middle of the blue mist (a large plinth rock is standing in the middle). Kill, loot the Soul Shard of Val'Anath (drops 4) and return to Shephard.
5. Return to Madrias Tam to receive XP and your new ring spell. Head to The Storyteller in Baga Village NE to obtain 50 faction for completing this quest.

Part 5
Level 60:

1. Speak to Madrias Tan on the docks in Highbourne (SW) who will send you to collect 7 items:
   * 3 Sulfurs
   * 3 Necrotic remains
   * A bone of the dark lord
   

1. Sulfars are to be found in Solusek's Eye. Head to location noted on map below, near where Laknar spawns, and the "?" (npc is a question mark) will spawn when you get there. You need to speak to THREE "?" and you will get your 3 sulfurs. They re-spawn a bit randomly, after about a minute or so. Easiest way, is to get a rez over from Lavastorm to SE from someone with a rezzer in SE.
   
   
   Pic edited by Shorte
   

2. For the Necrotic remains, head to Envar. Search the North and South entrances; there are usually 2 beetles that spawn at each gate. The drop rate of Necrotic remains is rare, maybe 20%, so can take a while to stack 3 (esp if you are in a group and all need).

3. You can obtain A bone of the dark lord from Douglas Aren in Odus (you will need 30k tunar). He can be found in Paineel (W) (the same 'city' where you set the prisoners free for the Paineel quest), at the back of the building to the north, under a tent, with a small treasure chest in front of him.
   Speak to Douglas and answer some questions; talking to him is a pain (lol a "pain" in paineel); just keep saying different things until you get him to sell you the Bone (again, costs 30k). After you pay Douglas for the Bone, don't forget to click on the "Rune Box" on the table in front of him to get the bone before you RH.
   

2. Once you have all seven items, return to Madrias Tam in HB. Madrias will tell you it is time to summon the Dark Lord for the "final test" and send you to Felstar.

3. Go meet Madrias in Castle Felstar; Madrias is on the island in Castle Felstar (west of Seriak) on top of the glowing hill. When you talk to Madrias, the boss (Vakh'hiz) will spawn. He is a huge spirit and will spawn with 2-3 minions. Upon killing it, it will give an AoE flag to all toons in the area and will have 8 drops. He is decently tough and has a lot of hps, most melee damage will be minimal, only specials work; but can be 1 grouped just fine.
Note: If you fail at killing Dark Lord you can return to Madrias in Hb and pay 50k to get another sack to respawn him. You are also given an option to refarm the items (TY Moto).

4. After you kill Vakh’hiz, Madrias ghost will appear. Speak to Madrias' Ghost for your reward and then run to The Storyteller in Baga Village (NE) (South of Moradhim); he is located near the well. The Faction Merchants are west, by the river. You will receive 100 faction points for completing part 5 of this quest.

You can wait until the end of the quest to turn in all your faction at once by heading to The Storyteller in Baga Village NE. You will get 240 faction points in total for completing this quest.

Reward
For Level 60 (lower lvl rings posted below):

The Nexus (Casters-incl ALC)
Level 60, 18000HP 80DUR
20DEX 20INT 20AR 110HPMax 105POWMax NO TRADE LORE

The Soulstone (Healers)
Level 60 18000HP 80DUR
20STA 20WIS 25PoT 100POWMax 60AC NO TRADE LORE

The StoneHeart (Tanks)
Level 60 18000HP 80DUR
20STR 20STA 140HPMax 75AC NO TRADE LORE

The Wildheart (Melees)
Level 60 18000HP 80DUR
25HPMax 130POWMax 30PoT 20Agi 20Dex NO TRADE LORE

Thanks to Snowielager of CLW for the following:

Ring of Spirit (Healers)
Lvl: 20 HP: 4000 Dur: 50 Race: All Class: DRD SHA CL
No Trade No Rent Lore
Wis: 5 Cha: 5 PoT: 6 AC: 14 POW: 24

Ring of Spirit (Healers)
Lvl: 30 HP: 5600 DUR: 50 Race: ALL Class: DRD SHA CL
No Trade No Rent Lore
Wis: 7 Sta: 7 AC: 21 PoT: 9

Ring of Sorcery (Casters)
Lvl 20 HP:4000 DUR:50 Race:HUM ELF DELF GNO ERU OGR Class:MAG NEC ENC WIZ ALC No Trade No Rent LORE
Dex: 5 POW: 25 HP Max: 26 Int: 5

Ring of the Wild (Melees)
Lvl:20 HP:4000 DUR:50 Race:HUM ELF DELF GMO DWF BAR HLF Class:RAN MNK BRD RGE No Trade No Rent LORE
Agi: 5 POW: 31 PoT: 7 HP Max: 6 Dex 5

Ring of Brawn (Tanks)
Lvl:20 HP: 4000 DUR: 50 Race: All Class: WAR PAL SK
No Trade No Rent LORE
Sta: 5 HPMAX: 34 STR:5 AC:18