The Haunted Halls of Eveningstar

''Rumors say treasures still await those brave enough to delve into the depths of the Haunted Halls. A classic D&D module brought to life for CR 28 adventurers; enjoy a special commentary from Forgotten Realms creator Ed Greenwood! This Epic Level 28 quest pack includes one huge adventure and dozens of side objectives.''

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The original Haunted Halls of Eveningstar masterpiece by Ed Greenwood was published in 1992.

Ed Greenwood is also the co-creater of the Forgotten Realms world. {{Quest
 * name= The Haunted Halls of Eveningstar
 * epic= 28
 * duration=medium to very long
 * ecasual = 16,258
 * enormal = 27,842
 * ehard = 28,587
 * eelite = 29,332
 * loc= The Haunted Halls of Eveningstar
 * npc= Alyn Farrago
 * zone= Eveningstar
 * patron= The Harpers
 * favor= 9
 * free= no
 * mappic= Questmap_Haunted_Halls_Of_Eveningstar.png
 * extreme=

Villagers of Eveningstar tell tales of the bandit lord Rivior, whose ghost haunts the stone halls hidden in a gorge by the Starwater River.. and whose treasure may still be hidden there. Speak with Alyn Falconhand in front of the Lonesome Tankard in Eveningstar, to learn more of the storied halls.
 * loadingpic=Questloading HauntedHallsOfEveningstar.jpg
 * overview=

This quest is based on classic the AD&D 2nd edition PnP module of the same name and is narrated by Ed Greenwood. It has three play modes:


 * Standard: The only mode accessible when first entering this dungeon, and the one covered for most of this page.
 * Extended and Commentary: These modes are accessible once you finish the Standard mode at least once on that specific character. They are considered different quests for the effect of XP ransack, {{unverified|but not chest ransack}} but are considered the same quest in terms of favor.
 * Extended Commentary mode: Not recommended by some as the audio clips from the interview will spam and repeat for the duration of the quest making gameplay more challenging.

Extended Content
 * Lamannia thread: Haunted Halls Alpha Preview
 * YouTube DDO official: Interview with Ed Greenwood
 * obj=
 * Explore the Haunted Halls of Eveningstar
 * Find a way into the Throne Room
 * (Optional) Expose the doppelganger on your first try (15% of base XP)
 * (Optional) Slay Telemonia (10% of base XP)
 * (Optional) Find all of Rivior's Journals - 8 total (8% of base XP)
 * (Optional) Find some of the Bandit Lords hidden treasure - 2 total (5% of base XP)
 * (Optional) Find more of Rivio's hidden treasure - 2 more (4 total) (7.55% of base XP)
 * (Optional) There must be more hidden treasure - 2 more (6 total) (9.5% of base XP)
 * (Optional) Don't stop now, loot more of Rivior's hidden treasure - 2 more (8 total) (11% of base XP)
 * (Optional) Rivior thought no one would find all his hidden treasure - prove him wrong - 2 more (10 total) (15% of base XP)
 * (Optional) Plunder every last bit of the Bandit Lord's hidden treasure
 * (Optional) Slay Pimulpekk and his priests (15% of base XP)
 * (Optional) Defeat the statue of Miior
 * (Optional) Defeat the Fallen Gaint
 * (Optional) Defeat the Ancient Mummy
 * (Optional) Steal the egg without waking the Dragon
 * (Optional) Extreme Difficulty: Slay the dragon
 * traps= Trap DC
 * spikes
 * darts (?)
 * collapsing floor
 * pressure plates (lots)
 * 62 or less enough to disarm on normal
 * misc=

This quest is vast, consisting of many areas which you can access them in almost any order. Think of this as another kind of Dr. Rushmore's Mansion. There are a lot of secret doors to find, and some of them have DC's low enough to be discovered with True Seeing, but not all, or the most important ones.

The first gate requires a Strength value of {{xpcolors|normal=20-21|hard=29-30|elite=?}} to open. If your character lacks the strength to open it, you can still access the dungeon by the secret doors on the left and right wall. The hidden door on the wall to the left of the gate sends you behind the gate, and can be found with True Seeing.

Part 1: Throne Room
Your first main objective would be to access the Throne Room and kill a boss there. To do that, you need to locate and place in the sockets two Crests to open the Throne Room gate.
 * One Crest is found in the Doppelganger hallway.
 * Once the objective complete there is also a pair of, which can be picked up by one person and is helpful against the optional boss Miior.
 * You can find the doppelganger by examining the statues. The statue with the doppelganger has a CR rating 3 levels higher then the rest.
 * One Crest is found in the Necromancer corridor.
 * At this location you are presented with three doors, plus there is a hidden door to the right of these (careful not to go too far to the right as the kobolds with the giant crossbow will target you)
 * One of these doors will be a trap with the floor dropping out in front of it; to safely test the doors, jump onto the torch next to the door before opening it.
 * The remaining two doors contain spike traps once you attempt to head towards the lever at the end of each room with a locked gate dropping preventing you from exiting; disable the traps to allow others through or escape.
 * The hidden doorway is the fastest route to the crest room; the crest can be seen on the map once you enter this doorway; clearing out the corridor of zombies using doorblock or rush & killzone techniques works well.
 * Rushing the room with the crest, picking it up once the room is clear of necromancers then DDooring out saves you a lot of time here.
 * The necromancers will keep summoning zombies. Kill all the necromancers to stop the zombies from spawning.


 * Once you have both crests, place them in the sockets of the doorway in the far west corridor, kill the boss and loot the chests.
 * On Standard mode, the quest completes here.
 * On Extended and Commentary mode, you find out the final boss was actually one of the real boss's (Whisper) apprentices, and you must find him deeper in the halls to listen to his quest for you to retrieve a dragon egg for him.

Part 2: Optional Bosses
The doorways at the back of the Throne Room lead to 3 purple named bosses. This would be your second (optional) objective, since their chests can drop named items.
 * Fallen Giant: North door
 * One person should activate him by pulling the Spear out while trash mobs keep spawning; be aware this takes quite some time to pull the spear.
 * Drop the Skeleton to 0, use the Spear again (someone with the item in his inventory simply has to double-click the body) while he is down.
 * The trash mobs are hostile towards the skeleton. Leading them into the skeleton's cleave attack may aggro them on the skeleton.
 * A great tactic is for someone with AOE to kite all the trash around keeping it off of the spear puller, once the giant is up, use a DDoor to get your party out of the room, at this point all remaining trash mobs in the room agro the giant, return to the room and send one person in willing to die, this sets all the trash mobs on the giant. Get your party into the room and wait for him to die then put the spear back in.


 * May drop ,
 * Ancient Mummy: South door
 * Simply bash him down. Trash mobs keep spawning.
 * May drop ,
 * Miior: Secret door behind the throne
 * No trash mob, she does massive Electric damage which increases over time (see section on lightning statues below). One person, preferably tank/aggro holder, should have the Boots of Grounding handy. Note: Boots are ML 28 to wear, and prevent the player from jumping while equipped.
 * May drop ,

Part 3: Final Boss (extended and commentary mode only)
Your third and final objective would be to agree with Whisper's demands (locate the dragon egg and steal it - or fight the mummy) or disagree with them (so that you have to slay him to complete the quest). You can't fight the dragon on Standard mode.


 * Fighting Whisper
 * Whisper is a powerful spellcaster. Evasion, freedom of movement and true seeing helps.
 * Each time Whisper takes a certain amount of damage, he will teleport to a random position in the room.
 * When he is down to low health, he summons 4 copies of himself, which act exactly like the original Whisper. When a copy dies, helmed horrors spawn.
 * Defeating the last copy immediately completes the quest.
 * Awards one chest with a large number of black stones.


 * Fighting the dragon
 * Killing the dragon awards multiple chests with a chance for named items.
 * Returning the dragon egg to Whisper awards one chest with a large number of black stones.

Misc: North east area puzzle

 * Solving this puzzle opens the barred door if you don't have a search skill to locate the secret door allowing you access to the southern crest.
 * Solving this puzzle quickly will shut all gates in the corridor preventing more mobs from attacking.
 * Sneaking in to solve the puzzle will give you an edge in this room.

Misc: Lightning statues
This quest features several statues that release lighning energy when struck.
 * Every time the statue is touched (melee or ranged, including glancing blows), all nearby characters are hit with lightning damage and receive a stacking debuff that deals increasing amounts of lighning damage every 2 seconds for 10 sec (similar to Eladar's Electric Surge). There is no maximum number of stacks. It will keep piling up as long as you can survive.
 * A reflex saving throw reduces the initial lightning damage, but does not prevent the debuff unless the character has evasion.
 * Due to the high number of attacks per second in a full party, players without evasion will die very quickly when standing near a statue that is being attacked.
 * Even players with evasion will sometimes receive the debuff because they fail the saving throw due to rolling a 1. In a full party, this usually happens before the debuff runs out. Consider stepping away from the statue to let the debuff run out if it stacks too high.
 * A summoned Hezrou will attack the statues, and is immune to electricity.


 * chest= Main end chest contains Black Stone ingredient, purple named boss chests can contain named items. End Chests can be picked. DC =


 * npcreward= Standard
 * unique= yes
 * monsters=
 * Ghost Bandits
 * Ghost Warriors
 * Kobold Warriors
 * Kobold Lurkers
 * Kobold Maidens
 * Priests of Kurtulmak
 * Reanimated Adventurers
 * Reanimated Corpses
 * Swarmhorde Spiders
 * Reanimated Skeletons
 * Guardians of the Spear - Four, constantly respawn
 * Starved Prisoners
 * Statues
 * Animated Armors
 * Necromancers

Named Monsters


 * Estrel - Orange-named zombie (Secret door on empty treasure room. Awaken as a zombie if you take too long to kill the necromancers)
 * Alash - Red-named ghost
 * Helmed Horrors - Orange-named constructs with special hate towards casters
 * Rivior's Mimic - Red-named Mimic - Randomly in one of the three chests in the throne room
 * Keytos - Red-named Animated Armor
 * Perl - Red-named ghost
 * Cook - Red-named skeleton with a big frying pan
 * Doppleganger - Red-named boss (No race or type) - Guards one of the crests
 * High Priest Pimulpekk - Red-named Kobold Shaman
 * Chief Crajbek - Red-named Kobold Chieftain
 * Telamonia - Orange-named spider - In the jake
 * Zhentarim Archwizard - Red-named Human Wizard - Final boss on Standard mode
 * Skeletal Honor Guards - Orange-named skeleton knights - protects the Ancient Mummy
 * Ju-Ju Zombies - Orange-named zombies

Special Bosses


 * Miior - Purple-named statue (typed as Human, unlike the other statues)
 * Chest can drop Libram of Silver Magic and Necklace of Mystic Eidolons
 * Ancient Mummy - Purple-named Mummy
 * Chest can drop Magestar and Manual of Stealthy Pilfering
 * Fallen Giant - Purple-named Giant Skeleton (Typed as Giant race, but suffers no damage from Giant bane weapons)
 * Chest can drop Lantern Ring and Purple Dragon Shield
 * Whisper - Purple-named human wizard - Extended and Commentary mode only
 * Chest drops various Black Stones
 * (Dragon) - Purple-named White Dragon - Extended and Commentary mode only
 * Chest can drop any named item

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