The Twilight Forge (story arc)

The Twilight Forge and the Titan awakes are the second raid adventure created for DDO. The pre-raid of the Twighlight Forge must be completed before you can move on to the Titan awakes quest. This is the same as the method used for the Vault of Night Dragon raid of VON5/6.

Required quests
To be able to run the Titan raid, you need to have completed 3 pre-quests to be eligible:


 * Hiding in Plain Site (HIPS)
 * Bring me the Head of Ghola fan
 * Slavers of the Shrieking Mines

Once these quests have been completed, you should have in your possesion a complete Sigil of Dal-Quor. Its this sigil which is used to gain access to the Titan quest. You must bring it with you on the quest to gain entry.

One of the nice things about this raid is that you do not have to repeat the pre-quests to re-run this raid. Upon successful completion, you will have the regular raid quest timer. When this completes, you will be able to repair your sigil of Dal-Quor by speaking to Karn Cold-Trail and Ostler Caulstone on the foothold of the Restless isles. You will then be able to raid again.

A common error is to arrive at the raid without repairing your sigil after a successful previous raid. Please remember to repair when gaining travelling to the quest entrance at Volcano mouth.

The Restless Isles
To gain access to the Restless Isles you must have completed the first Titan pre-quest of Hiding in Plain Site. It is possible to get to the foothold without completing this quest if you can get a friendly mage to teleport you there.

NPCs of Note
You need to speak to Karn to get the Twilight forge quest. Before he will give it to you you will have to buy access to the restless isles (although you can run the other pre-Qs before doing this). He will charge you 10K gp for the privelidge, a good bluff? skill can reduce this to 2K gp. You need to pay this fee once only.
 * Karn Cold Trail

Karn will give you quest objectives of locating a sigil of Dal-Quor. One part of each is an end reward for both Ghola Fan and Shrieking Mines.

Once you have both pieces of the a sigil of Dal-Quor, you can speak to Ostler for him to repair it. You need both parts in your inventory at this point. After it gets repaired you should have a completed sigil of Dal-Quor in your inventory. Also sells material components for spells.
 * Ostler Caulstone

Helpful cleric and bind point.
 * Laina the Excoriated

Hiding in Plain Site
This is a lvl 8 quest and can be found in the Wayward Lobster in the Harbour. You need to speak to Inquisitor Ingaram at the bar. There is a minimum level 7 requirement for this quest before the NPC will award the quest. Once you have spoken to him you then need to speak to Baudry Cartamon, who can also be found in the Wayward Lobster. The quest itself can be found to the east on exiting the inn.

Once completed, you will need to speak to both Baudry and the inquisitor to be eligible for the next quest sections.

Bring me the Head of Ghola fan
Level 10: 6 Normal, 12 Hard and 18 Elite, Free Agents Faction

This quest is given by visiting Mul Tong on his island in the restless isles. For those who have bestowed the quest at least once before, you can short cut to get to the quest giver by speaking to the Runetusk guide at the end of the first passage when you use the elevator from the restless isles. Those who have not run the quest before will have to fight their way to the quest giver.

Slavers of the Shrieking Mines
Level 10 Favour 6 Normal, 12 Hard and 18 Elite, Free Agents Faction

This quest is given by visiting Opu the Elder on his island in the restless isles. For those who bestowed at least once the quest before, you can short cut by speaking to the Wildman guide to be found in the first passage.

Again, if you have not run this quest before, you will have to fight your way to the quest giver.

The Twilight Forge
Level 11 Raid: Favour 10 Normal, 20 Hard and 30 Elite, Free Agents Faction

The pre-raid you must complete to get to the actual Titan raid. This is similar to the VON5/6 scenario.

The raid entrance for this quest can be found by travelling through the underground passages in the restless isles. You need to get to Volcano mouth where an anchient warforged will let you into the quest.

Getting to Volcano mouth can be complicated without the aid of Greater Teleport. If you have access to this, you can get straight to the quest entrance by teleporting from an instance to The Twilight Forge entry on the list (the suggested starting instance is Tempest Spine, because it is the only raid without prerequisites). If not, then you will need to fight your way there. If you take the skull and the golden figurine with you (found in Ghola fan and shrieking mines), you can avoid some large fights on the way.

This quest sets various objectives for completing. There are some tricky puzzles (especially for first timers). You can expect to encounter Ogres, Mindplayers, Wildmen, Wildmen Mystics, Warforged, Golems etc.

Should you succeed to get to the end, you will gain access to the Titan Awakes raid quest.

The Titan Awakes
Level 12 Raid: Favour 6 Normal, 12 Hard and 18 Elite

This quest continues on from the end of the Twilight Forge quest. Good luck in there.