[Xen]

- FIND SIGNS OF WOLF ACTIVITY

If you're here, then there's only one thing to do, find out what is
killing people back at Umar Hills and put a stop to it. Based on the
evidence at hand we believe that there are wolves involved. Werewolves
in all likelihood.

Go right a little, then up to find a Werewolf, Anath, flee into her lair.
Follow her in. (x 600 y 600) Tell her that she has preyed on her last
innocent and she won't know what you are talking about. Seems that
someone called the "Shade Lord" has been doing all the killing, including
killing her entire pack! Agree to help her take down this Shade Lord
menace and she says to meet her far to the right at the Temple Ruins.

- THE TEMPLE RUINS (AR 1401)

You will find her far to the right (x 4420 y 320) at what remains of the
temple. There are many shadows and shadow deviant creatures crawling
about here. She tells you that this was a trap, and to use the mirror.
Then she dies. You can find the mirror she was talking about just to
her left, and it is used by clicking it when close. When that is done
several new shadows appear and attack, but they shouldn't present a
challenge. Go down the stairs and enter the ruins.

There is one door on this passage, open it and go through. Fight through
the Shadows and Skeletons. Search the coffin (x 1850 y 650) to find the
skeletal remains of the last priestess of Amaunator. Naturally this will
be very important later.

Continue up to the next room where you will fight the Shadow Jailor.
Search his remains for the Shadow Jail Key. And conveniently there are
some locked doors right here. Open them to find Mazzy the Halfling
Fighter. Talk to her to learn all you can about the Shade Lord. She
tells you that he has a tame Shadow Dragon with him. She will also join
with you to defeat the Shade Lord if you want. (12,250 exp) Also in her
cell you can find some treasure (nothing great, just a journal piece and
some ammo).

Note: The journal piece is actually part of the Ranger stronghold.
See the STRONGHOLD walkthroughs for more information.

Continue upwards to find the really big statue (x 900 y 200). Talk to
it. There are three tests for you to take here, a morning test, noon
test and evening test. Here are the answers to the tests:

Morning: 2, 3, 1
Noon: 3, 1, 1
Evening: 1, 3, 2

When that is finished it gives you one third of the symbol of Amaunator.
(45,500 experience) We actually don't learn what these rituals are until
a little later, but we're here already.

Head down the passage (x 580 y 540), it turns east to a room with a big
crystal in it. If Mazzy is with you, she'll explain the significance of
the crystal. You need to take it to pass onwards in the temple, but when
you do take it, the shadows will attack you. Take the crystal. (x 760
y 1260)

Go north into the next room. If you are curious about how to learn the
Morn Ritual the actual way, search the column to get a scroll on it. If
not, then continue north and from there back to the main passage.

- COMPLETE THE SYMBOL OF AMAUNATOR

Now go south down the main passage to the Shadow Door, which will be
dispelled when you click on it with the Light Gem in your possession.

Head south just a little until you see the wooden bridge extending from
the right. (x 1400 y 1300) Shadows will appear in your midst when you
cross this bridge. The next room has lava for a floor, so don't spend
too much time lingering around. Search the ground (2 broken columns) to
find some treasure:

Pearly White Ioun Stone (Regenerative)
Arrows of Ice (etc.)

On the northern wall is a symbol of a chinese dragon, which is trapped
and has some minor treasures (x 2240 y 1320). In the next room to the
north are Bone Golems (18,000 exp), Greater Mummies and Skeletal Warriors
(some with bows). You could always lead them across the lava floor to
damage them. (You can hug the wall to avoid damage, they will make a
beeline for you and go across the lava) Search the column here to find
more Amaunator items (Books and scrolls), these aren't that important.

Note: If you are on a high level, do NOT have the "Turn Undead"
ability on here, else you will kill the good ghosts in the next
room. (David Lyons)

From the lava room, go south and enter the next room. When you enter,
a ghost of one of the priests talks to you and asks for the bones of the
priestess that you possess. Give them to them to restore her. For this
you get the second symbol of Amaunator and 17,750 experience. Also you
get the Shadow Dragon wardstone to prevent the Shadow Dragon from
attacking you. We now have 2 of 3 symbols. You can search her coffin
for some minor treasures (including the best Bullets in the game).

Continue south. This leads back to the main passage, but we've now
skipped one of the shadow doors. Sweet. Go right. At the first
northern fork (x 1840 y 2260) are a large group of undead, with more
Bone Golems. Kill them and go north.

This is an interesting chamber. Remember Indiana Jones and the Last
Crusade where they had to walk only on the letters that spelled "Jehovah"
in Latin? Well similar idea, you can only step on the letters in
Amaunator's name. Start at the bottom right at the A and end out at
the top middle at the R. Simply step from one letter in the name to the
next. (if you step on an incorrect letter, you get hit with flame)

A - M - A - U - N - A - T - O - R

There are two doors here that lead to two rooms (that follows). Go in
the right one, open the door, to find a Shadow who wants to bargain with
you. (x 2750 y 1740) You will end out fighting him either way. Then
search the walls of the room for the final piece of the Symbol. Once
you have all three pieces, they fuse into the Symbol (21,250 exp).

- FIND AND DEFEAT THE SHADE LORD

Enter the left room and take the items from the Statues hands (x 2615
y 1620). These include some spells, a sling, but more importantly the
Sun Gem which will allow us to dispel the final Shadow Door. Return to
the main passage. (remembering to step on the correct letters, of course,
which in this case is R O T A N U A M A)

Follow this passage right, through the shadow door, and up to a normal
door, which opens to a stairway. Go down the stairs.

This is the lair of the Shadow Dragon. This is the easiest dragon in
the game to fight, and is definitely the first one you should try to kill
(without using the Fake Talk, anyway). Array out a series of traps in
front of it, cast all your protective spells (Mazzy has some too!) and
fight it. Cast Breach on it quickly as it will get protective spells of
its own up.

Thaxll'ssyllia - 45,000 experience
Shadow Dragon Scales
Crom Faeyr Scroll (one of the 4 parts of Crom Faeyr)
Gems (and gold)

If you have Mazzy's wardstone you do not have to attack the dragon (and
it makes attacking the dragon a LOT easier!). Go left and up the next
stairs to the Shade Lord.

The Shade Lord will taunt you for awhile (especially if you have Mazzy
in your party) and then battle will break out. Take out the Shade Lord
first as he is the only real threat here (seriously). Then you can take
out Patrick and the Statue at your leisure.

When that happens everyone gets 44,250 quest experience points and the
area will be restored to a more sunny clime. If Mazzy is around she
wonders what it all means, and you can make the place a memorial to her
fallen comrades. After that talk to the near dead Merella. When she
is dead, search her for treasure:

Cloak of Stars (creates +5 darts)
Rogue Stone (useful for a certain Door in the Bridge area)
Gem
4000 gold

Also search Patrick's corpse for more treasure:

Halberd +2 Duskblade
Darkmail +3

Return to Umar Hills and talk to the mayor again to get your reward:

The Night's Gift +5 (Leather Armor, +20% stealth)
28,000 experience
100 gold
Reputation +1