© Quest Name: Sarek or Black Lotus Quest Level: 59+ Class: All Quest NPC: Rudro Balenthorpe Location: Qeynos, by Blacksmith Reward StB Loot Table by Morynn, Caroline

This really isn't so much a quest, as a recipe. The recipe, when completed will port you to Sarek's tower in Geomancer's Citadel (c). In this recipe, Sarek is a random spawn, not a quest spawn like the Arios 59. You must be level 59 to complete this recipe.

See notes below on actually logging the quest, if you choose to (it's not necessary to do so to complete the recipe).

When you port to Sarek with the the talisman this recipe makes, Sarek may or may not be up. Also you don't port to him in the same place you do for the Arios 59, you port to the Tower in the Water. Sarek, in this tower, is much tougher than the Arios Sarek!

Big thanks to Caroline/Evian, of Ferran's Hope, for her revisions on this walkthrough. Her instructions on how to create the lotus talisman are great.

You will need the following to create the lotus talisman:

Steps for creating the lotus talisman:

A. Do not con anything (hit 'triangle' to release your con).
B. Use the elemental smelter. This fuses the two dryad hearts together into one white ball.
C. Use the geode talisman (under magic in inventory). This puts the fused dryad hearts into the geode talisman (they will disappear from your inventory-don't panic).
D. Use the geode talisman once more. This will combine the fused dryad hearts and the archon hearts together into one ball (called Geode Talisman under Misc in your inventory).
E. Use the black lotus. In your inventory (magic) you will now have a Lotus Talisman with one charge!

The talisman is a NTL with one reusable charge. USE your new Lotus Talisman to teleport to where Sarek spawns. Using your Lotus Talisman the first time changes it into a wand of unlimited charges (note: mine just stayed as a white ball, called Lotus Talisman-it says I only have 1 charge, but it is re-useable).

Also, the item disappears from inventory for a couple of seconds while using it so do not use the talisman if you are in a combat situation - if it is "out" of your inventory and you die, you will lose the talisman completely.

Note on porting: So it's a self port, what are you going to do solo Sarek? There are several options.
-get several people to complete this quest and port together (min 15). This is the number one preference
-get only the mages in your guild to complete have them port there and if sarek is up start coh'ing in the reinforcement
-Main Tank/or petter does quest, ports to Sarek. If Sarek is up, the rest of your party coaches and runs from Envar and assembles outside the tower. Run your cothing mage up the side of the hill as high as you can get. Make sure tank has right resists
Then have your mt long range agro saerk with a bow... get immediately cothed to the mage on the hill then RUN to your assembled group to take him down. Or have petter send pet against Sarek, then get coh'd (pets goes with u). This way you can use a lot of peeps to kill him, as well as you only need to make one of these 250,000 T ports.
-Have an Enchanter run to Envar and charm a servant then return to the tower. Get a coh in, pet cohs with you and have the servant tank.

He has 8,000 crit (allegedly non-resistable) and he uses very often, max DR to minimize this as much as possible.

Good luck fighting him if he's up.

This is also called the Black Lotus Quest. You can speak to the NPC in Qeynos to start, but he gives you hints as to what to do and where to go and you were suppose to figure out all this information for yourself. It doesn't matter if you actually log the quest or not as obaining the items for the recipe works just the same.
NPC Rudro Balenthorpe spawns (rare) right outside the blacksmith in Qeynos. Rudro logs a quest in your questlog to see NPC
Dalius, in Qeynos, at the mage guild right next to the guild master.
When you talk to Dalius after getting the quest he tells you the information/hints to make this recipe. He explains about teleportation alteration, dryads, a Geode Talisman of at least 40 carets, and a fortress in Rathe Mountains.