Ritual Sacrifice

The Windlasher gnolls settled into the Twilight Canyons and signed a pact to assist the invading devils.

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Ritual Sacrifice
Heroic level:	16
Epic level:	None
Duration:	Very Long
Heroic XP:	♣4,284Solo/Casual ♦7,433Normal ♥7,726Hard ♠8,020Elite
Epic XP:	N/A
Takes place in:	Twilight Canyon
Bestowed by:	Walk-up
NPC contact:	Lahnden Nacien
Quest acquired in:	The Vale of Twilight
Patron:	The Twelve
Base favor:	8
Free to Play:	No
Extreme Challenge:	No

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Overview

Venture in to the Twilight Valleys, new home of the Windlasher Gnolls, and seek out any missing members of the Twelve.

• This is a walk-up quest and the reward NPC (Lahnden Nacien) is located in Meridia.

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Objectives

• Locate the Twilight Valleys
• Defeat Killerog
• Search for any members of The Twelve
• Open the deeper passages
• Locate the Second Valley
• Open the deepest passages
• Defeat the Devil assault
• Defeat the Orthon, Crean
• Speak to Paetus
• Find the upper levels
• Defeat the Windlasher Mystics
• Find the Infernal Pact
• Meet Paetus at the Mystic's gateway
• Slay the mystics to open the way
• (Failure) Keep Paetus Alive
• Defeat Ramak Orenah

What to Expect

• Trap rooms (fixed)
• Overlapping floors
• Protect an NPC (mandatory)
• Quest failure (if Paetus dies)
• Spawning/respawning monsters

Tips and Misc

• The shrine in the southern (first) valley is on the upper floor. You won't be able to reach it the first time you enter the valley.
• The shrine in the northeast (second) valley is below the ground floor. To reach it, jump down into the water.
• Useful buffs:
  • Acid
  • Cold
  • Electric
  • Fire
  • Death Ward
• Paetus is a spellcaster with little in the way of defenses that generates about as much aggro as Coyle Lovell, patron saint of escort mission haters. Before entering the last door for the end-fight, you'll need to buff and babysit him with your healer at all times. Keeping your party's kill team eliminating foes well ahead of him will also limit his ability to kill himself.
• When opening the door where Paetus reappears for the end-fight, have your party enter immediately. Don't linger too close to the door as air elementals appear and may blow you off the floor to land on the first floor, where it will be a long, long run back to the end.
• On subsequent stone and ingredient farming runs, quest failure from letting Paetus die doesn't matter, you can continue to the final fight and get the chest as the quest doesn't automatically recall you on failure.

Bonus XP

• Aggression bonus: 161 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣428 ♦743 ♥773 ♠802 )
• Onslaught bonus: 210 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣643 ♦1,115 ♥1,159 ♠1,203 )
• Conquest bonus: 257 or more monsters killed +25% Bonus.( ♣1,071 ♦1,858 ♥1,932 ♠2,005 )

Loot

• Chests: 2
  • 1 after defeating the Devil assault
  • 1 end chest. Ingredients: Lammanian Lily Petals, Bitterscrub Fungus, Shavarath Stone of Might

• NPC rewards: standard

Monsters

Name(picture)	CR	Type	Race
Ancient Air Elemental (view)	♦14Normal ♥16Hard ♠19Elite	Elemental	Air Elemental
Ancient Element of Air (view)	♠21Elite	Elemental	Air Elemental
Bearded Devil (view)	♦15Normal ♠20Elite	Evil Outsider	Devil
Bezekira (view)	CRs missing!	Evil Outsider	Devil
Crean (view)	♦19Normal ♥23Hard ♠28Elite	Evil Outsider	Devil
Dense Stone Earth Elemental (view)	♠23Elite	Elemental	Earth Elemental
Elder Air Elemental (view)	♦11Normal ♥13Hard ●♦22Epic Normal ●♠45Epic Elite	Elemental	Air Elemental
Fiend-Blood Bat (view)	♦11Normal ♠16Elite	Magical Beast	Bat
Fiend-Blood Spider (view)	♦18Normal	Magical Beast	Fiendish Spider
Fiend-Blood Troglodyte Theurge (view)	♦16Normal ♠23Elite	Reptilian	Troglodyte
Fiend-Blood Troglodyte Warmaster (view)	♦16Normal ♠23Elite	Reptilian	Troglodyte
Greater Dust Mephit (view)	♦6Normal ♥8Hard ♠11Elite ●♥27Epic Hard	Air Outsider	Mephit
Killerog (NoPic)	♦19Normal ♥23Hard ♠29Elite	Gnoll	Gnoll
Orthon (view)	♦15Normal ♥12Hard ♠20/29Elite	Evil Outsider	Devil
Pure Air Mephit (view)	CRs missing!	Air Outsider	Mephit
Ramak Orenah (view)	♦19Normal ♥23Hard ♠28Elite	Native Outsider	Tiefling
Striped Twilight Hyena (view)	♠19Elite	Animal	Hyena
Windlasher Austere (view)	♦16Normal ♠23Elite	Gnoll	Gnoll
Windlasher Conjurer (view)	♦16Normal ♠23Elite	Gnoll	Gnoll
Windlasher Evincer (view)	♦12Normal ♠17Elite	Gnoll	Gnoll
Windlasher Harbinger (view)	♦16Normal ♠23Elite	Gnoll	Gnoll
Windlasher Mystic (view)	♠25Elite	Gnoll	Gnoll
Windlasher Recluse (view)	♦12Normal ♠17Elite	Gnoll	Gnoll
Windlasher Savage (view)	♦14Normal ♠19Elite	Gnoll	Gnoll
Windlasher Typhoon (view)	♦14Normal ♠23Elite	Gnoll	Gnoll
Windlasher Veteran (view)	♦12Normal ♠17Elite	Gnoll	Gnoll