Queen of the Sands
Optional
Act 9
Reward: Book of Skill, 1 Passive Skill Points, Soul of Shakari
You have found a strange sandstorm in the Vastiri Desert blocking the way to the Oasis. Talk to Sin in Highgate about clearing it.
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1Talk to Sin about the sandstorm
You have found a strange sandstorm in the Vastiri Desert blocking the way to the Oasis. Talk to Sin in Highgate about clearing it.
  • Talk to Sin about clearing the sandstorm

  • Area: Highgate
    NPC:
  • Sin Shakari: In the Maraketh desert, an Oasis lies to the east, its waters shielded from prying eyes by a preternatural storm. The sand will rip the very flesh from your bones, should you be so foolish as to enter into its dark shroud. Yet, enter you must.

    The goddess Shakari hides within that golden blizzard, festering with revenge as she resurrects and rebuilds her ancient army - an army that once threatened to shake the very balance of these lands.

    Should she be allowed to revitalise her troops, the whole of Maraketh will finally fall under the cruelty of her selfish reign. The storm is impenetrable for now, even to the likes of me, but there must be a way in.

    These Highgate locals, they have an affinity for the desert and harsh weather. One of them may know of a way to disperse the storm.
  • Niko, Master of the Depths Introduction: Well, this nice little outpost here's been, shall we say, marred. Don't get me wrong, I love a splash of colour, I just don't love that colour splashing on me and my friends here. Why do I get the feeling you were involved...?
  • Niko, Master of the Depths Introduction: Blood everywhere around here... Startin' to remind me of my time in that little room back in Oriath. All that digging really made a mess of me hands. The mitts ain't just for protecting me against the sulphite you know.
  • Niko, Master of the Depths Introduction: How can there be this much blood, exile? Where's it coming from? Where's it going? Know what I think? I think it's going back into the mountain. One big loop, exile. One bloody big loop, and someone's down there pumpin it.
  • Niko, Master of the Depths Introduction: This is a bad omen, exile. A real baaaad sign. What if all the water's turning to blood, eh? They say the Cataclysm did all sorts of strange things. This seems pretty strange to me! Been having a lot of dreams where I drink all that blood up. My body swells up like a big grape. Can't hold it in. BANG! I'm gone. What do you think that means, eh? Maybe I'm the only one who can stop it... Maybe I'm the reason it's here in the first place.
  • Niko, Master of the Depths Introduction: Quite liked it here, you know, right up until the bloody mountainside started bloody... well... bleedin'. Thought for sure I was hallucinating, 'til the others started screaming and scrambling. Always nice to get a little reassurance about your sanity, eh?
  • 2Talk to Petarus and Vanja
    Sin has asked you to destroy his corrupted daughter, the goddess Shakari. First you must find a way to clear the sandstorms blocking access to the Oasis where she resides. Ask Petarus and Vanja for advice.
  • Talk to Petarus and Vanja

  • Area: Highgate
    NPC:
  • Irasha Shakari: When I received my first flower of blood, I was given to the ritual of womanhood. All young Maraketh women have to dance with the scorpion, to prove themselves worthy of carrying the {dekhara's} spear.

    It is no easy task, to catch a black Maraketh Scorpion. Their tails are swift, their stingers sharp, their poison lethal. I made my way through the trial unscathed, but my sister... We shared a womb, came into this world together. She left it, thrashing and foaming at the mouth.

    Since that day, I have slept with one eye open, for fear of the scorpion's sting. And now Shakari, the mother of all black bugs rises from the sands!

    Find that scuttling bitch and kill her for me... and for every child, every little girl who has suffered and died by the barb of her countless poisoned tails.
  • Petarus and Vanja Bottled Storm: Petarus: Well, it took some time, but thanks to our Maraketh neighbors...

    Vanja: ...and their ancient traditions...

    Petarus: ...We managed a strain of thaumaturgy, to remove the storm from Garukhan's blade.

    Vanja: We even bottled it for safekeeping.

    Petarus: We'd rather not trust anyone with this sort of power, but perhaps you can use it to clear away that sandstorm in the desert?

    Vanja: Find out what sort of nasties are hiding out there in the desert and put a stop to them!
  • Sin Queen of the Sands: It is not something I deign to speak of often, but this goddess, this creature, she was once the flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood. I rose into the clouds and fell into the arms of their queen, the beautiful Garukhan.

    Now if you think that mortal marriages are difficult to navigate, try an immortal one. We parted ways, yet not before my young Queen of the Sands was born into this world of filth and horror.

    Now you see how I must suffer for the sake of humanity, to lay mine own daughter upon the sacrificial altar.
  • 3
    Sin has asked you to destroy his corrupted daughter, the goddess Shakari. First you must find a way to clear the sandstorms blocking access to the Oasis where she resides. Complete the Storm Blade quest to find a way to access the Oasis.
  • Complete the Storm Blade quest

  • Area: Highgate
    4
    Sin has asked you to destroy his corrupted daughter, the goddess Shakari. First you must find a way to clear the sandstorms blocking access to the Oasis where she resides. Ask Petarus and Vanja for advice.
  • Talk to Petarus and Vanja

  • Area: Highgate
    NPC:
  • Petarus and Vanja The Maraketh Calendar: Petarus: Have you ever heard much of the Maraketh legends?

    Vanja: A truly unique cosmology of strange creatures, pagan gods and powerful treasures.

    Petarus: One such story talks of a magical stone dial...

    Vanja: A Maraketh Calendar, said to detail important events in the future of our world.

    Petarus: General Adus, a war hero of the Empire, reported in his diaries of discovering a dial meeting that description at a dig site somewhere in the Foothills.

    Vanja: It appears the war hero had a secret penchant for archaeologies...

    Petarus: But the cataclysm wiped the land clean, and buried the dig site in rocks and sand. No one has been able to locate it since, nor the stone dial.

    Vanja: Seems that with everything that's been going on of late, knowing what's due to happen in the future, could be a fairly profitable ability...

    Petarus: We know you would never have use for such a gift...

    Vanja: It would remove all the enjoyment out of adventure for someone like you!

    Petarus: Yet, In times such as these, us small folk could do well with a heads up if something particularly nasty were to occur. Besides, a relic like that should sit in a museum...

    Vanja: ...Or our collection...

    Petarus: ...Not be lost beneath the rubble where it benefits no one.

    Vanja: If you were to track the Calendar down for us, we would pay you handsomely, exile.

    Petarus: Yes, we are traders of antiquities after all.
  • Petarus and Vanja Bottled Storm: Petarus: Well, it took some time, but thanks to our Maraketh neighbors...

    Vanja: ...and their ancient traditions...

    Petarus: ...We managed a strain of thaumaturgy, to remove the storm from Garukhan's blade.

    Vanja: We even bottled it for safekeeping.

    Petarus: We'd rather not trust anyone with this sort of power, but perhaps you can use it to clear away that sandstorm in the desert?

    Vanja: Find out what sort of nasties are hiding out there in the desert and put a stop to them!
  • Petarus and Vanja The Storm Blade: Vanja: You did it! They found it, Petarus, they found it!

    Petarus: By the gods, Garukhan's famed Storm blade...

    Vanja: Do you know what this means, my sweets? Once we find the right collector...

    Petarus: ...we can go anywhere, have anything. We will be like royalty!

    Vanja: But the storm inside is a problem. It's too volatile in its current state.

    Petarus: You're right, we can't trade away a weapon of such apocalyptic nature.

    Vanja: This will require some pondering, my love. In the meantime, thank you, exile. Take your pick of our stock.
  • Sin Shakari: In the Maraketh desert, an Oasis lies to the east, its waters shielded from prying eyes by a preternatural storm. The sand will rip the very flesh from your bones, should you be so foolish as to enter into its dark shroud. Yet, enter you must.

    The goddess Shakari hides within that golden blizzard, festering with revenge as she resurrects and rebuilds her ancient army - an army that once threatened to shake the very balance of these lands.

    Should she be allowed to revitalise her troops, the whole of Maraketh will finally fall under the cruelty of her selfish reign. The storm is impenetrable for now, even to the likes of me, but there must be a way in.

    These Highgate locals, they have an affinity for the desert and harsh weather. One of them may know of a way to disperse the storm.
  • 5Clear the sandstorm blocking the Oasis
    Sin has asked you to destroy his corrupted daughter, the goddess Shakari. Use the Bottled Storm to clear the sandstorm in the Vastiri Desert and enter the Oasis where she resides.
  • Use the Bottled Storm to clear the sandstorm in the Vastiri Desert

  • Area: The Vastiri Desert
    6Enter the Oasis
    Sin has asked you to destroy his corrupted daughter, the goddess Shakari. Now that the sandstorm has cleared, enter the Oasis and kill her.
  • Enter the Oasis

  • Area: The Vastiri Desert
    7Kill Shakari
    Sin has asked you to destroy his corrupted daughter, the goddess Shakari. Search the Oasis for her and kill her.
  • Kill Shakari

  • Area: The Oasis
    8Kill Shakari
    You have found Sin's corrupted daughter, Shakari, in the Oasis. Kill her.
  • Kill Shakari

  • Area: The Oasis
    9Talk to Irasha for your reward
    You have killed Sin's corrupted daughter, Shakari. Talk to Irasha in Highgate for a reward.
  • Talk to Irasha for your reward

  • Area: Highgate
    NPC:
  • Irasha Shakari: You killed Shakari? My sister's death has finally been avenged. Shakari was supposed to be our divine teacher, said to guide us into womanhood. All she ever gave was death.

    I suppose it's fitting that the teacher has learned that mortal lesson for herself. Our whole lives, we have lived for the blessings of our goddesses, yet here they are, in the flesh, proving to us that they are only monsters.

    Please, let me reward you for your efforts.
  • Sin Shakari: A mother's keen heart shall bleed into the dreams of her daughter. Once a beauty who held captive the hearts of men and women alike, Shakari's splendour decayed into lust... for the power possessed by her skyborn mother.

    My daughter once sought out such power within the great sands of this desert. Ever determined, she found it, and it made of her the twisted creature you so mercifully dispatched.

    Driven by agony and shame, she built an army out here in these sweltering lands and would have conquered the very sky had not the Beast soothed her into peaceful oblivion. A babe once more sleeping in her cradle.
  • Sin Shakari: A mother's keen heart shall bleed into the dreams of her daughter. Once a beauty who held captive the hearts of men and women alike, Shakari's splendour decayed into lust... for the power possessed by her skyborn mother.

    My daughter once sought out such power within the great sands of this desert. Ever determined, she found it, and it made of her the twisted creature you so mercifully dispatched.

    Driven by agony and shame, she built an army out here in these sweltering lands and would have conquered the very sky had not the Beast soothed her into peaceful oblivion. A babe once more sleeping in her cradle.
  • 10
    Quest Complete - You have killed Sin's corrupted daughter, Shakari. Irasha has rewarded you with a Book of Skill. Use it to gain {0}.
    11Quest Complete
    Quest Complete - You have killed Sin's corrupted daughter, Shakari. Irasha has rewarded you with {0}.
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