CHAPTER 30: FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE PRESENT
You have been journeying left and right throughout the Iron Kingdom of old, in the year 529 R.R.. About eight months have passed already. Now is the time to make the drop on Primus/Maximus and prevent him from changing the timeline!
[Note: remember you have roughly eight months before Primus/Maximus arrives and takes possession of Kith's obelisk-tower. If you go there too soon, you'll notice that the only way to enter is to have a keryndhoryan with you to put his/her hand in a hand-shaped depression that serves as an opening mechanism to enter the obelisk (this mechanism is similar to what you encountered way back in TiSL, inside Kith's crypt). Thus, you can't enter Kith's obelisk unless Primus/Maximus has already done so.]
Feature #1: remember not to worry if you are reminded of Primus/Maximus' arrival while you are already well set on one of the side-quests available in Chapters 27-29. From your end of the timeline, you have all the time in the world. Tackle Primus/Maximus at your first opportunity, then simply continue on your other quest(s). You need activate Oberon's orb of return only once you feel you have done everything that you could in the past.
Feature #2: if you have hooked up with Raack Strongbow and Galduur Ironshield, an interesting turn of events will happen once you are about to activate Oberon's orb to return home (that is, once you are done with Primus/Maximus and any quests of the past). Indeed, Galduur will choose to follow you, arguing that history records his disapearance in any case (he will have peeked into Oberon's lexicon in your possession while you were sleeping). If you accept him, he will leave his shield to Raack (as recorded by history and also for you to recover again in TiSL) and return to Oberon with you.
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- return to Kith's obelisk, in the forest of Aurystan. This time around, you will find that its door is wide open. Enter the obelisk (warning: lots of traps are about this structure! Better use sentry and search in order to spot them and inactivate them).
Key
to Kith's Obelisk:
Main floor
x48y88 - exit
x48y83 - a poem by Kith is etched on both walls here. It is a
riddle.
x48,y80 - fire pit/entrance to basement floor
x48y77 - human statue. This is the answer to Kith's riddle.
Approach the statue with search on and press on the plate you
will find there. This will extinguish the fire pit and reveal
stairs going to the basement floor.
Basement floor
x46y54 - stairs to main floor
x36y38 - secret door
x33y38 - secret door
x32y28 - hall of statues (a battle awaits you there!)
x32y40 - secret door
x35y60 - secret door
x36y60 - secret hall of columns (a battle awaits you there!)
x41y63 - magic circle (leads to inner hall)
x40y29; x52y29 - hall of columns (a battle awaits you there!)
x56y32 - secret door
x58y32 - secret door
x66y35 - marble hall (a battle awaits you there!)
x56y47 - secret door
x59y47 - secret door
x63y47 - secret treasure hall (a battle awaits you there!)
x66y47 - treasure (only cursed items)
Inner Hall
x42y36 - magic circle (leads back to secret
column hall)
x42y48 - Primus/Maximus is
there, tending to some complex machine that seems to open a
strange portal. Surprised by your arrival, he decides to change
his plans: instead of bringing over his psi-warriors through the
temporal portal he opened, he will instead return to the present
with his surviving siblings, who are still trapped in the mystic
orbs. He gathers the orbs save one, that of Uther
Maddrix (remember him?). Primus/Maximus
liberates the essence of Uther, charging him of killing you. As
Uther happily advances towards you to oblige, Primus/Maximus
jumps into the portal, along with the other orbs, leaving you to
fight a Mentarch for the first time! If you manage to defeat
Uther, the dissipation of his psionic energies will wreak havoc
with the contraption, closing off the temporal portal opened by
Primus/Maximus and destroying the machine in the process.
- although you were successful in preventing Primus/Maximus from
altering the timeline, the fact that he escaped safe and sound
back to the present, along with more Mentarchs at that, leaves
you with a bitter taste in your mouth. You also can't help but
feel a sense of dread ... Looks like you will have to return to
Oberon as soon as you can to appraise him of the situation.
Onward to Chapter 31!
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