Gaerlan's Citadel

Gaerlan's Citadel.

Quest Summary Guide - Items - Maps - Images - Lore
Quest Type	Group/Solo
XP Reward	--
XP Cap	--
Item Reward	(see below)
Title Reward	--
Starting Location	Frost: Arwic Fire: Crater Lake Acid: Baishi Lightning: Arwic
Timer	14 Days
Level Restrictions	Frost: 20-39 Fire: 40-59 Acid: 65-79 Lightning: 80+ Gold: 80-99 Platinum: 100+
Level Suggestions	Same as Above
Introduced In	Verdict

Walk Through (80+)

Part 1: Lightning Guardian Lair

1. Enter to the Lightning Guardian Lair at 86.7S, 10.4E.
   • Route: From Arwic, take the Artifice Cottages Portal at 32.9N, 59.4E.
2. Work your way to the bottom of the dungeon, where you'll find a Diamond Golem Suzerain.
3. Kill the Diamond Golem Suzerain and take the portal that spawns at the top of the ramp to be portaled to Citadel Valley.

Part 2: Frost Ziggurat

1. Jump down off the cliff and run Southeast to 57.8N, 48.4E, where you'll find Asheron's Platinum Golem.
2. Speak with Asheron's Platinum Golem and you'll receive an Imbued Pyreal Nugget.
3. From here, run Southwest and enter the Frost Ziggurat portal at 57.1N, 47.8E.
4. Work your way through this dungeon, always going up, until you reach a Platinum Golem (NPC)
5. Hand the Platinum Golem (NPC) your Imbued Pyreal Nugget, and then enter the Proving Grounds Extreme portal located next to him.

Part 3: Proving Grounds Extreme

Inside the proving grounds, you must tackle a series of obsticles.

Riddles

1. Speak with the Tribunal located in the center of the room.
2. Answer the Riddle he gives you by using the statue that matches the answer to your riddle. If correct, you'll receive a blue Seal Fragment and be portaled to the Rolling Balls of Death.

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• Q: I've legs, and a foot, and also a head. But I cannot think nor move on my own. What am I?
  • A: Bed

• Q: I am void, and absence, I am not a color. What am I?
  • A: Black

• Q: The maker want it not, the buyer does not use it, and the user never sees it. What am I?
  • A: Coffin

• Q: No sound, no voice, no breath,no sleep, no thought, no sight, no more. What is it?
  • A: Death

• Q: It begins eternity, ends time and space, it rests at the start of every end and the end of every place. What is it?
  • A: E

• Q: I never grow, but can become very wide, and everything falls into darkness when I hide. What am I?
  • A: Eyes

• Q: I can be an old love, but mostly a lost passion. My life grows as you feed me, but when I drink water I die.
  • A: Flame

• Q: What is it that has one voice but becomes four-footed, two-footed, and three-footed?
  • A: Man

• Q: I am a room without walls, windows or doors. What am I?
  • A: Mushroom

• Q: A poor man has too much of me, a wealthy man needs me not, and if you feast upon me you will die. What am I ?
  • A: Nothing

• Q: What has no beginning or end, yet binds two together?
  • A: Ring

• Q: You will break me if you name me. What am I?
  • A: Silence

• Q: At night they come without being called, but at dawn they are lost without being stolen. What are they?
  • A: Stars

• Q: I pass through the water and never get wet. What am I?
  • A: Sunshine

• Q: It waits for none and gauges all, it is eaten by leisure and work the same, it is abundant but there never seems to be enough. What is it?
  • A: Time

• Q: It never was, is always to be, none have seen it, but many dream of it, it is the hope of all that live that it shall always come. What is it?
  • A: Tomorrow

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Rolling Balls of Death

1. Take a moment to identify the pattern, and when ready, move through the dungeon. Until you get to the last alcove.
   • Note: The only safe spots to stand inside this dungeon are on the 45 degree angles that are the corners of the alcoves.
2. Once you get to the last safe spot before the long hallway, you'll see a door. Use missile weapons to destroy the door and then run into the room on the far side.
3. After the door has been destroyed, carefully make your way to the end of the room and loot an orange Seal Fragment from the Chest on the South wall, and then use the Proving Grounds Extreme portal on the North wall.

Floor Puzzle

The floor puzzle contains a series of tiles that contain a hidden path to the other side. If you step on a wrong tile you'll fall through and be forced to start over.

1. Navigate your way through the Floor Puzzle:
   1. From the left side of the room, walk on to the Fire tile to start.
   2. Move North 3 spaces to the 3rd Frost tile.
   3. Move East 4 spaces to Fire tile.
   4. Move North 1 space to the Frost tile.
   5. Move East 2 spaces to the Acid tile.
   6. Move North 2 spaces to the Frost tile.
   7. Move West 1 space to the Acid tile.
   8. Move North and exit the puzzle.
2. Enter the room to the North and loot a green Seal Fragment from the Chest on the East wall, and then use the Proving Grounds Extreme portal on the Northwest corner.

Reverence of the Ceremony

The key to this riddle is NOT TO TALK in open chat. If you do, you'll have to start over and fight your way through a series of golems.

• Reverence must be shown during a ceremony.

1. Without speaking, run through the linear dungeon and loot a purple Seal Fragment from the chest at the end of the hall, then use the Citadel Valley portal.

Items

• Citadel Portal Gem
• Saulandoi
• Taulandoi
• Lautaloi
• Palauloi
• Falauloi
• Sacraloi
• Dauloirae
• Ring of Intellect
• File:Bracelet of Knowledge icon.png Bracelet of Knowledge
• File:Circlet of Supremacy icon.png Circlet_of_Supremacy
• Daulan Faur
• File:Elemental Master Robe icon.png Elemental Master Robe
• Martine's Robe
• Iasparailaun

Maps

• ACMaps - Frost Ziggurat (80+)

Images

File:Gaerlan's Citadel (Lightning Guardian Lair Entrance).jpg Lightning Guardian Lair

File:Gaerlan's Citadel (At a Distance).jpg Gaerlan's Citadel from a Distance

File:Gaerlan's Citadel (Rolling Balls of Death).jpg Rolling Balls of Death

Lore & Dialog

Asheron's Platinum Golem tells you, "Though lord Asheron does not condone the horror wrought upon him, I have been placed here to assist those that would strike down the undead form of Gaerlan."
Asheron's Platinum Golem tells you, "Where once he meant to control the world and destroy my lord Asheron, now he suffers for eternity, now he has been given over unwillingly to the carrion call of the undead by Nuhmudira."
Asheron's Platinum Golem tells you, "Enter and activate the Platinum golems so they may hold the citadel open for you as you progress. You will need this to awaken my brethren within. When they are awake you shall be asked to past the tests that all must face to pass deeper into the citadel."
Asheron's Platinum Golem gives you Imbued Pyreal Nugget.
Asheron's Platinum Golem tells you, "The portals into the citadel's inverted ziggurat lay nearby. Complete this task and the magic within the pyreal will allow Asheron's voice to enter you. I will speak to you more once this is accomplished."

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You give Platinum Golem Imbued Pyreal Nugget.
Platinum Golem says, "I hear and obey Lord Asheron Realadain."
Asheron's voice fills your mind, "You have done well. Now you must pass a set of trials that the citadel itself will place before you. In a sense it lives, as this was the design of the Empyrean from before my years. You must not fail. Failure can lead to death. I will ensure that portals are created to assist you should you meet with misadventure."