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From The Heart

Main storyline · Insight 26+

Previously listed as “Marlin's Request” · Legend mark: ✦ Undertook the Ritual of the Sun

Marlin's nightmares are no dream. The seal the Aosda set over the Lord of Chaos is failing, and renewing it will cost you a piece of your own spark.

Before you start

  • Requires insight 26

Bring with you

  • 12× Cherries
  • 12× Grapes
  • Great Bat's Wing
  • Raw Honey
  • Beothaich Deum

Walkthrough

  1. Hear Marlin out about his nightmares.
    ⌖ Marlin, in the Loures castle keep
    You receive Marlin's Letter
  2. Take the letter to Blaise.
    ⌖ Blaise, the Loures castle library
    Hand over Marlin's Letter
  3. Tell Marlin that Blaise would not listen.
    ⌖ Marlin, in the Loures castle keep
  4. Ask Devlin for the book she was given for safekeeping.
    ⌖ Devlin, Mileth. She will want her stores replenished first
  5. Bring Devlin the fruit her stores need.
    ⌖ Devlin, Mileth
    Hand over 12× Cherries, 12× GrapesYou receive Tome of the Gods, 2,500 experience
    Cheaper than a restaurant: at the Suomi Farm (cross the bridge from Suomi Village at (88, 1), then the house at (7, 30)) you can pay 2,500 gold to farm grapes and 2,500 gold to farm cherries.
  6. Show Blaise what Devlin lent you.
    ⌖ Blaise, the Loures castle library
    Carry Tome of the Gods
  7. Bring Marlin what the hatchling guards.
    ⌖ The Draco Hatchling guards it, deep within Pravat:
    Carry Holy Stone
  8. Tell Blaise that Marlin says the time has come.
    ⌖ Blaise, the Loures castle library
  9. Bring Blaise the items he requested.
    ⌖ Blaise, the Loures castle library
    Hand over Great Bat's Wing, Raw Honey, Beothaich Deum
    Blaise's portal drops you in the Heart of Darkness. The plinth is through the doorway between the two columns; the Dunans here drop Dark Belts if you want to hunt while you are in.
    Finish any Dark Belt hunting before you touch the plinth: performing the ritual sends you out of the maze.
  10. Choose one:
    • Perform the Ritual of the Sun at the seal.
      ⌖ The plinth in the Heart of Darkness. It asks 150 of your maximum health
      Hand over Holy StoneYou receive −150 maximum health, 10,000 experience
    • Perform the Ritual of the Moon at the seal.
      ⌖ The plinth in the Heart of Darkness. It asks 150 of your maximum mana
      Hand over Holy StoneYou receive −150 maximum mana, 10,000 experience
  11. Tell Marlin the seal is renewed.
    ⌖ Marlin, in the Loures castle keep
    You receive ✦ Undertook the Ritual of the Sun
  12. Tell Marlin the seal is renewed.
    ⌖ Marlin, in the Loures castle keep
    You receive ✦ Undertook the Ritual of the Moon

Rewards

  • 125,000 experience
  • Deoch's Fire
Hold on to Deoch's Fire. Devlin asks for it in An Honest Fae, the follow-up quest.

Leads to A Dark Future, The Missing Faerie Queen, An Honest Fae, A Waking Nightmare, Royal Betrayal.

Steps, requirements, and rewards come from the game's own quest data, so they match what your quest log shows in-game.