We’re finally here, climbing up the Red Tower where we hope to find what allows us to prevent the deadly fog from swallowing the land whole. And from here, there are two paths to go down – the path of salvation, or the path of utter destruction.
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It’s off into the Moor to empower the crystals I’ve collected. And before we can even cross into it, our fearless leader is down, leaving me to go in and charge them by myself. It’s not that bad. Just a little…. Nightmare inducing.
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Just one more chain of puzzle solving before we get what’s needed. And that involves remembering which of the gods want as their offering. Are they gods? I’ve been calling them such the whole ga—OH YOU’RE A BIGGUN!
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At long long LONG last, we are finally given a way to the shrine! I really wish guides would outright say you can’t go this way until X, but spoilers, I guise. Anyways, let’s go the RIGHT way to the shrine, then get that Crystal!
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Our primary source of learning where the Temple would be is dead, slain indirectly by my actions. So instead of head north and try to reach the next leg (all 8 legs of them) on my own. While I remember MOST of the path, It’s still a chore to get through.
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Now that I have the information about the Red Towers, we need to get out of the library before we starve to death. But there is just one more, massive, stony obstacle in the pathway. One that could probably smash us if I hadn’t a really cool axe!
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While we’re down here, fighting off more Draugr than I have ever before, let’s figure out the fate of the Bygones, what they were doing with rune magic, and maybe just how they also might have aimed their sights a little too high.
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Before I get any help in the Library, I need to help around the Heath. After all, what I did in the Forest brought about its ruin. So here’s hoping I can undo some of the damage. I’d want to help where I could anyway without the library as incentive.
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With the Misty Step rune in hand, I can finally check around the land and see if there is anything else I can do. Or at the least, what I can fix that I might have messed up. And of course, a little bit of cave and ruin raiding as well.
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While still in the forest, it’s time to help a friend finish her revenge. Then Bombus’s bees need some aid in not getting eaten by a bear. AND THEN it’s exploration time. I really am wishing I didn’t delete those markers on my map.
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It only took about 25+ hours of game time, the death of a forest, the perversion of a Divinity and the suffering of basically everyone outside of the walls of Nemeton, but I finally get my Runestone. Which means I can go collecting stuff around Drova.
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It’s finally time to confront the Mighty boar. We travel through a little more of the Blackflame, beat down a few more rippers and find it. Time to waken it and capture it! But at what possible cost could this bring? To Drova? To Nemeton? To everything?
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We now have a way to get through the Blackflames, so Molvina charges me and 4 other warriors of Nemeton to head to the forest once more and attempt to make contact with the boar. Surely this is not for secretly nefarious reasons or gonna end in death.

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It’s one more path to the last roots of the Mother to see the vision one more time. And maybe another shrine is in our sight? We’ll see if that’s actually doing anything for me. But that should be everything that needs doing in the Forest Primeval.
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Before I can get some more help from the Refuge, I’m off to hunt a giant spider beast that took the life of one of their friends. After that though Birka’s time in the spotlight begins now, as she gets to have her ritual to obtain her own spark.
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It’s back to shrine hunting, and while one of them is available with poking around, the others are not so easy to get to. So much so, they’re something I need to do much later! Which means the exploring is for nothing and back to the forest.
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At last, after suffering from my own stupidity for the better part of 20+ hours, I realize I was reading the wrong part of the map. Which means that we get another line of quests going places and the best weapons of the g—IS THAT THE MOONLIGHT SWORD??!
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I KNOW I should probably focus on the main story, but these Relics are TAUNTING me! So it’s back out of the forest and back to Ruin Raiding. Feel like there were other video games about this very premise...
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Trying to find the path to this damned Relic has been a pain. First I keep finding more harpies, then Leshen, and NOW I’ve found some damned footprints that lead me a huge ways away from the beaten path. What could they possibly lead to?
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I KNOW I should probably focus on the main story, but these Relics are TAUNTING me! So it’s back out of the forest and back to Ruin Raiding. Feel like there were other video games about this very premise...
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