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The Fall of Arah is the story of Vizier Khilbron. The mission area can be entered from a copy of Khilbron's Story obtained from Durmand [Historian] in Lion's Arch, Kaineng Center or Kamadan.

Mission information

Requirements

• Must have no weapon equipped.
• Must be sole party member.

Objectives

• Make your way to the Treasure Room.
• Get the Sceptor back from the Looters.
• Venture into the catacombs below Arah.
• Destroy the locks on the forbidden vault.
• Find the correct scroll that Abbadon commands you to read.

Reward

• 500

Discovery Mode

You have to complete the mission one time before this mode is available.

1. Historical Debate - You showed how Khilbron could have raised an army during his journey

• Control 10 Phantoms at once.
• Reward:
  • 2 500
  • You've made a new discovery! See Durmand [Historian] for a reward.

2. Historical Debate - You discovered how much forbidden magic Khilbron could have had access to

• Find the 5 Extra Forbidden spells in the vault.
• Reward:
  • 2 500
  • You've made a new discovery! See Durmand [Historian] for a reward.

3. Historical Debate - You discovered how fanatical Khilbron's devotion to Abbadon was.

• Vanquish all the vaults guardians.
• Reward:
  • 2 500
  • You've made a new discovery! See Durmand [Historian] for a reward.

Walkthrough

During this mission, you have the Vizier Khilbron disguise, 550 Health, 50 Energy, 4 Energy regeneration.

Khilbron's Skills

1. Abbadon's Hunger Mana Cost - 5 Cast Time - 3/4 Recharge - 7 You steal 75 health from target foe. That foe is afflicted by Weakness and Disease for 5 seconds. 2. Lifebane Strike Mana Cost - 10 Cast Time - 2 Recharge - 15 Spell. Deals 50 damage. Steals 50 Health if target foe's Health is above 50%. 3. Life Syphon Mana Cost - 10 Cast Time - 1 Recharge - 5 Hex Spell. For 24 seconds, target foe suffers -3 Health degeneration, and you gain +3 Health regeneration. 4. Rage of Orr ^ (Elite) Mana Cost - 20 Cast Time - 1 Recharge - 25 Target foe is hit for 200 damage. This is armour ignoring. If the target dies due to this skill, it's corpse is exploited and a level 20 Smoke Phantom is summoned bound to you. 5. Hunger of the Lich ^ Mana Cost - 10 Cast Time - 3/4 Recharge - 10 If this attack hits target foe it removes one enchantment. If an enchantment is removed you gain 100 Health and 5 Energy. 6. Life Vortex ^ Mana Cost - 5 Cast Time - 2 Recharge - 10 Steal up to 200 Health from each foe within 30 feet. (The amount from each enemy is random.)

This mission is roughly divided into two acts, with a cutscene separating them.

Act 1

Players will take control of Khilbron in a corridor in the lower levels of the palace in Arah. Khilbron himself will speak giving general directions in reminder to himself. After entering the first room, players will find several looters, which must be defeated to move on. At the end of the room players will enter the treasure room, just to see a master looter grab the Scepter of Orr. The second objective will appear. As the players kill each of the group of Charr surrounding the shaman who holds the scepter, more will spawn. Once the player has wiped out 10 such enemies, the master himself will rush the players, only to have a group of soldiers spawn and kill him.

The players will then need to pickup the scepter, unlocking the Rage of Orr skill. After a short bit of dialogue the soldiers will realize that Khilbron has betrayed Orr, and will attack the player. Once the player has defeated the group, they will need to move back through the palace, making their way for the spymasters' hold, and then from there into the dungeon. During this journey players will have to fight off both roaming bands of looters and soldiers who have realized they're being betrayed.

Once the player reaches the catacombs, the act is over and a short cutscene plays.

Act 2

Players will find themselves in a large room with a big door at the end, and two pedestals standing either side. Various undead will begin to attack the player, who has to destroy both pedestals by hitting them with the Rage of Orr spell (their armor will be ridiculously high, and they'll be immune to lifesteal. Life Siphon will still work.) whilst defending himself from the attacking creatures. Once these pillars have been destroyed, the vault will open, and the attacking creatures will all die.

Players will need to venture into the maze of the vault, to find the scrolls on pedestals between the bookcases that stand in for "walls" in a typical maze. Several places will have miniature statues of the gods that are active. When the player approaches, these statues will spawn a version of their avatar (so for example, an angel for Dwayna) which will attack the player. These statues will deactivate as if the world has lost favor when their guardian is destroyed. The scroll players are looking for will have 5 such statues around it, meaning that players will have to fight off each avatar before accessing it. Once players touch the scroll, the ending cutscene will play.

Discovery: Master of Minions

The first discovery is due to skillful play - players will need to time their use of Rage of Orr properly and use it often.

Discovery: Forbidden Magics

The extra scrolls will be amongst the 20 spread out around the Vault, distinguished easily due to having a statue of a god on both sides - one pair for each of the five gods.

Note: Unlike the discoveries in the first BMP, this discovery has an added gameplay bonus. For each of the extra scrolls read, players will gain a status effect that works (and is removed) once they drop the Sceptor of Orr. They are:

• Yuksora's Salvation (scroll guarded by Dwayna) - Allies within the are have +10 health regeneration for 5 seconds.
• Kyran's Deal (scroll guarded by Lyssa) - Foes within the area have all their skills disabled for 5 seconds.
• Dhumm's Judgement (scroll guarded by Grenth) - Foes within the area above 75% health have it reduced to 50% instantly.
• Shamira's Vengence (scroll guarded by Balthazar) - Foes within the area are dealt 300 armor ignoring damage.
• Rinko's Binding (scroll guarded by Merlundru) - Foes within the area move 90% slower for 5 seconds.

These are all one use. After the scepter has been dropped, they cannot be gained again during one play through.

Discovery: Fanatical Devotion

This discovery is also fairly simple to explain - players must defeat each of the guardians in the Vault.

Cinematics

Cinematic 1

This cinematic has Khilbron wandering through the catacombs, with Smoke phantoms leading him. He rounds a corner and hits a dead end, unsummoning one of the phantoms. He then follows the new one around a bend and comes into a room looking onto the doors of the vault. He mutters something about things starting to get interesting and the cutscene ends.

Cinematic 2

The cutscene shows Khilbron reading the final lines of the document, and being transformed as a bright light swirls around him. The scene changes from the Vizier to several scenes - in order, the Charr standing at the gates of Arah (from behind), soldiers looking down on the scene (again, from behind the soldiers), to Terek standing in the streets as chaos reigns around him, to finally a look out at the sea towards Arah from the Amnoon Oasis, with smoke coming from the general region.

"The city of Orr long stood in mockery of Abbadon's defeat."

"It withstood the wars of beasts and men."

"On that final day, it may have withstood the bestial Charr as well."

"However, Abbadon would have his revenge."

"One man spoke but a few words, and set a prophesy in motion."

"And nearly doomed the entire human race...."

Notes

• This mission is started by opening Khilbron's Story and clicking the "Enter Mission" button in the book.
• You can use the Scepter of Orr to attack in this mission.
• The Rewards for this mission pack are not weapons, but tokens. See the main suggestion for more info.