Queen of Despair
Optional
Act: 7
Reward: Book of Skill, 1 Passive Skill Points, Soul of Gruthkul
Sin has asked you to kill Gruthkul, the Mother of Despair. She can be found in the Dread Thicket.
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1Kill Gruthkul
Sin has asked you to kill Gruthkul, the Mother of Despair. She can be found in the Dread Thicket.
  • Travel to the Dread Thicket Kill Gruthkul

    • Area: The Dread Thicket
    NPC:
  • Eramir Gruthkul: Yes, I know of Gruthkul, the grieving mother. She featured quite prominently in some of the Vaal texts I restored during my time at the museum in Theopolis.

    After the deaths of her children, Queen Gruthkul fled north, eventually finding respite amongst the refugee of her own shattered realm. Yet these loyalists saw their own queen as a weapon, a tool for vengeance. They nurtured her pain, transfiguring sorrow into hatred, hatred into violence. Like a grizzled bear, Gruthkul descended into animalism and ferocity. Yet her caretakers foolishly underestimated the agony their bereaved queen harboured in her heart. Like a bear caught in a trap, Gruthkul wrenched free of her human loyalties and slew her followers to the last woman and child. It was through devastation Gruthkul ascended to divinity.

    Gruthkul's pain has transcended ages and she will vent that pain upon any and all she encounters until her grief is finally laid to rest.
  • Sin The Mother of Despair: I wonder if Gruthkul would still grieve for her children if she knew the truth.

    The Spinner of Shadows had no aspirations until Gruthkul's daughters plotted against her. They saw her power over the people, her miraculous potions, her intoxicating lusts.

    They feared Arakaali, thought she might threaten their legacy. Yet that's the curious thing about spiders. They only leave their web when you force them to.
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    Sin has asked you to kill Gruthkul, the Mother of Despair. She can be found in the Dread Thicket.
  • Kill Gruthkul

    • Area: The Dread Thicket
    3Kill Gruthkul
    Sin has asked you to kill Gruthkul, the Mother of Despair. You have found her in the Dread Thicket, now kill her.
  • Kill Gruthkul

    • Area: The Dread Thicket
    4Talk to Eramir
    You have killed Gruthkul, the Mother of Despair. Talk to Eramir for your reward.
  • Talk to Eramir for your reward

    • Area: The Bridge Encampment
    NPC:
  • Eramir Gruthkul: So the grieving mother sleeps once more. Her story has come to fascinate me, and your conquest of her makes for a satisfying dramatic climax, don't you think? I'm but an old man, living vicariously through your life. As history seems intent on repeating itself, I shall record it in a book, "A Historical Account Of The Goddess Gruthkul And The Legendary Champion Who Defeated Her." Yes, the title needs a bit of work, but it will suffice for now. Here, consider this offering as an advance on the royalties we shall reap post-publication... that is, if there is anyone in Wraeclast who can read.
  • Sin Gruthkul: The tragedy is that our world, our kind, may turn something as pure and honourable as a mother's love into such a vicious weapon of wrath and butchery.

    I only hope that Gruthkul will find her children, happy in her arms, in the realms beyond.
  • Sin Gruthkul: The tragedy is that our world, our kind, may turn something as pure and honourable as a mother's love into such a vicious weapon of wrath and butchery.

    I only hope that Gruthkul will find her children, happy in her arms, in the realms beyond.
    • 5
    Quest Complete - You have killed Gruthkul, the Mother of Despair. Eramir has rewarded you with a Book of Skill. Use it to gain {0}.
    6Quest Complete
    Quest Complete - You have killed Gruthkul, the Mother of Despair. Eramir has rewarded you with {0}.
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    Book of Skill