Acts VII to IX

Act VII: Edron and Yalahar (53 to 59). The Edron council opens its archives. Archivist Corvin sends you through the Hero Cave and Cyclopolis, then by boat to Yalahar, where Survivor Tamsin knows the fall of the city. Yalahar's ruin is the warning no city heeded. In the Cemetery Quarter you kill Azerus, a demonic general with the seventh shard in his chest. Ascendancy Trial 3 opens at the end of this act (Ascendancy trials). A survivor speaks of an engine still running under Rathleton.

Act VIII (half-act): Rathleton (59 to 63). A carpet from Edron or Darashia reaches the great city of Rathleton, whose Glooth industry was fed by the Rot. Magistrate Odile Crane gives you the job. You work the Krailos steppe, the Oramond marshes and the spider lair, then enter the underground factory. The boss is the Rot-Engine, a machine built around the eighth shard, which still speaks with the Glooth Engineer's voice, locked in the machine: "Do not touch the valves. Every pipe in this city is mine, and it still obeys me."

Act IX: Farmine (63 to 68). At Zao, the lizards' old war with the Rot is still alive. Warden Hassith briefs you. You fight through the Palace antechambers, Zzaion and Chazorai, then kill Zulazza the Corruptor, the last bearer. With the ninth shard broken, Voruun Hale, the Unburied King, rises out of the rift. He speaks to you, unharmed, and withdraws to his Citadel: "Come to my island when you are ready." The council's envoys give you the Atlas. You do not fight Voruun Hale here (Voruun Hale, the Unburied King).

Sub-quests include The Watch at Vengoth, The Sunken Quarter, Gears and Horns, Floor Inspection, Echoes of Krailos and The Temple of Equilibrium (Sub-quests).

Gear. Tiers 7 and 8: Runed and Eldritch (Bases and tiers).

Previous: Acts IV to VI. After the campaign: The Atlas.