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Clear your schedules as our 10th Caledonia event is coming up!

Catch Up in Caledonia event will return on Monday, December 4th at 3PM EST / 9PM CET, and run until Monday, December 11th at 3PM EST / 9PM CET!

This event will follow the same leveling format as all previous events with the below level caps in place for all characters, increasing as follows every 24 hours:

• Day 1 (Monday): Level 19 maximum
• Day 2 (Tuesday): Level 29
• Day 3 (Wednesday): Level 39
• Day 4 (Thursday) : Level 49
• Days 5-7 (Fri-Mon): Level 50

See you there!

The Haunted cities, candy and costumes, pumpkin patches in the Frontiers, and the return of the Mournful King instance await you!

Festivities begin today, October 27th and will conclude on Monday, November 6th.

Pumpkin Patch rewards

• Defeat the hallowed ghost, mummy, night bat, walking dead, or gooey slime at the pumpkin patches for a rare chance to get Trick or Treat or Keep-Chest potions!
• These rewards drop without needing to be on any quest!
• Trick or Treat potions can be used on your realm-mates to give them randomized costumes!
• These potions will be usable in RvR for the three days surrounding and including Halloween!

Haunt or Be Haunted

• John Tobin in Cotswold, Foa Muldisson in Mularn, and Nera in Mag Mell have studies to conduct.
• Be rewarded handsomely with gold, realm points, and the Wings of Haunting cosmetic effect! What lengths will you go to get your hands on a free pair of the wings!?

NOTE: This quest can be completed again this year but characters who already have the wings will not get another pair. Additionally, completed [Halloween] Haunt or Be Haunted quests that are not turned in by November 6th will be forcibly removed!

Event Shop

Pumpkin Head pre-set patterns, new spooky Consignment Merchant costumes, and the Wings of Haunting cosmetic spell effect are now for sale for mithril at your realm’s capital city’s Event Shop! Visit the Event Shop soon because it disappears on November 6th!

A Ghostly Harvest quest

• The Ghostly Harvest Quest offers players level 45 and up a dangerous adventure in the frontiers. Speak with John Tobin on the Cotswold Bridge, Foa Muldisson outside the Jordheim North Gates, or Nera by the road in Mag Mell to begin the quest. (Note: Players who completed this quest last year will now be offered it again.)
• Treat sellers have been spotted selling sugary confections inside Meath, Erikstaad, and Caerwent.
• The consignment merchants would like to show you their Halloween spirit! Pick up the merchant and place it back down on your house porch and he will change into a Halloween outfit for you!
• Be aware adventurers! Ghosts haunt the streets of your capital cities and have also been spotted in Mag Mell, Aegirhamn, and Campacorentin Station!
• The horses you once rode have joined the spirit realm. (This affects stable and merchant horses only – not player controlled horses.)
• Something strange has happened to all of the puppies.
• The pumpkins have been carved into jack o’ lanterns!
• A trio of crazy old women have been spotted selling costume potions inside Camelot, Jordheim, and Tir na Nog.
• The costume potions last 15 minutes each and come in a variety of flavors.
• The costume potions work best if you remove your helm and armor.
• You cannot digest another costume potion if you are transformed into any of the monster forms.
• The costume potions’ magics are short-lived and the potions will be useless after the festivities end so don’t horde them.
• Some of the costume potions allow you to take the form of the enemy, so don’t be scared if you see some in your capital city or housing zones, it’s just your realm mates playing dress up!
• The costumes and potions only work while you are in the capital cities or housing zones. You cannot use them outside of these zones and if you leave the zone while in costume, you will lose the effect.
• As always, the days before, during, and after Halloween these potions can be used in RvR (With the exception of pixies and ghosts potions, which are not usable in the frontiers… ever)

A Hallowed Lost Quest

• Level 50 players should visit the ghostly queen, Lenore, in each realm’s capital city to receive the quest ‘A Hallowed Lost’ so long as they haven’t already completed it.
• Visit the pumpkin patches in the frontier to find the buttertoe candy pieces Lenore needs.
• Only the pumpkin patches in Ellan Vannin, Pennine Mountains, Jamtland Mountains, and Breifine drop the five buttertoe candy pieces she needs.
• You’ll want to get this year’s Ghostly Harvest quest to help guide you to the pumpkin patches!
• Defeat the hallowed ghost, mummy, night bat, walking dead, or gooey slime at the pumpkin patches to get the candy pieces.
• Buttertoe candy pieces no longer drop unless the player has the ‘A Hallowed Lost’ quest and hasn’t completed it yet.
• Different patches have different candy pieces available.
• Earn a new friend for your efforts!
• Please note that this quest is only able to be completed once per character, including characters that completed it in previous years.

Mournful King Event

• The instance dungeon, the Castle of the Mournful King, awaits those willing to brave its powerful ruler’s fury!
• Level 50 players should speak with Lenore to teleport to the instance.
• This instance is meant to be extremely challenging and is therefore entirely optional. 

Rewards include:

• Re-skinned hallowed weapons and armor
• Nevermore’s Broken Bone
• Hallowed Effusion of Comprehension potion
• Otherworldly helms
• Supremacy, celerity, omni-healing, or omni-regen potions
• A Book of Recall
• Hallowed Elixir of Omni-Regen
• Hallowed Draught of Celerity
• Hallowed Empowering Elixir

The Castle of the Mournful King instance uses the Loot Chest system:

• The Mournful King and Nevermore monsters no longer drop rewards directly other than the king’s remains.
• The Mournful King spawns the Mournful King’s Loot Chest in the center of the Hallowed Ruins when defeated.
• This chest will despawn after 20 seconds, so be sure to grab your loot quickly!
• Characters can interact with the chest and receive 1 guaranteed reward per day but can still participate in the instance as many times as desired.
• There is a greater than 50% chance to receive a re-skinned hallowed armor or weapon each day!

Lenore can be found in the following locations within the capital cities:

• Camelot: The Church of Albion
• Jordheim: The Temple of the Aesir
• Tir na Nog: Alainn Cuir’s courtyard

Happy hunting, Happy Halloween, and we’ll see you in the Frontiers!

Phase 3 of our Crossroads Covenant event starts today and takes us back to a time and place from long long ago – Old Frontiers. Slay the demonic threat or cleanse the evil as you revisit Odin’s Gate!

Gwynn is offering a reward for those who completed both Darkness Falls quests. Speak with him to receive a quick turn in quest.

Continue speaking with Gwynn to obtain the quest:

• [Coming Home] Awakened – Demonic Path – Hand your level 10 Tome to Gwynn to awaken its power
• [Enemy Territory] Awakened – Vigilant Path – Hand your level 10 Circlet to Gwynn to awaken its power

To complete the Awakened quests, you may need to speak to your faction npc and power up your Mythirian, even if its already level 10. For players who did not participate in the Darkness Falls part of the event and have no Mythirian, Gwynn will offer you a Mythirian selection (stats can be found here). This Mythirian must be leveled to 10 (through questing), then returned to Gwynn for the updated Phase 3 version.

Phase 3 Mythirian stats can be found here. Mythirians will continue to grow in power as the event draws to a close.

Once ready, Gwynn will teleport you to to a safe place within Odin’s Gate.

Two new quests are available in Phase 3:

Demonic Path

• [Coming Home] House Cleaning – Stop 25 fools from ruining the demonic plans, repeatable
• [Coming Home] Mother’s Rabid Dog – Defeat Legion, repeatable
  • Note: Legion is a group encounter and has a chance to spawn at 1 of 5 random locations. A portal will appear in a specific location shortly before Legion appears.

Vigilant Order

• [Enemy Territory] Eviction – Remove 25 demonic cultists from this plane, repeatable
• [Enemy Territory] An Unexpected Mess – Defeat Legion, repeatable
  • Note: Legion is a group encounter and has a chance to spawn at 1 of 5 random locations. A portal will appear in a specific location shortly before Legion appears.

Navigating Phase 3

• Players can only leave the portal areas of their realm to roam Odin’s Gate through the Obelisk within the keeps. Speak to the Obelisk and click [ready] to port you and your group into the fight within Odin’s Gate. Leaving the portal keep from the front doors will direct you back inside.
• Players can bind in this location and leave at will via the Teleporters.
• Various NPC’s are available in the portal keeps including: Healer, Smith, Hastener, Vault Keeper, Recharger, and Realm Enhancements.
• Camps of mobs are scattered throughout Odin’s Gate with charmable level ranges.
• There is no realm war (/rw) available for this zone, only /map.
• The Glacier Giant guards the Jamtland Mountains zone entrance. Attempting to cross the zone line into Jamtland Mountains will port players a short distance back into Odin’s Gate.
• Odin’s Gate has a 150% RP bonus enabled in the zone.
  • Note: Ellan Vannin’s additional zone bonus has been disabled.

Happy hunting!

Phase Two of our Crossroads Covenant event is now live! 

Deep within the heart of the ominous abyss known as Darkness Falls, demonic forces awaken and gather strength, plotting to seize control and plunge the realms into eternal darkness. As the malevolent power rises, the valiant  Vigilant Order assembles, uniting beneath the banner of righteousness in an epic struggle against the demonic forces.

Players must first speak to Gwynn at their realm’s relic towns to claim their Phase One rewards (if all 3 phase 1 quests have been completed), and begin Phase Two by accepting the quest offered:

• Demonic Path – [Into the Breach] Foothold
• Vigilant Path – [Paving the Way] Crusade

Players can also speak to Gwynn to give him their old Demonic or Vigilant cloak to turn in for a house vaultable version.

New Mythirians

Gwynn’s quest will offer you a choice of 1 of 6 new Mythirians. These Mythirians start at level 0 and must be leveled to 10 through completing event quests in Darkness Falls.

For a list of the Phase 2 Mythirians and stats, please click here.

Note: Mythirians grow in power in Phase 3

Phase Two Quest Details

Speak to Gwynn to join the [fight] in Darkness Falls! You do not need to run to Darkness Falls to enter, Gwynn will port you.

Demonic Path

• [Into the Breach] When in Rome – Defeat 30 enemies in Darkness Falls to feed your tome, repeatable
• [Into the Breach] Competition – Defeat 2 Princes or Princess to feed your tome, repeatable

Vigilant Path

• [Paving the Way] Homewrecker – Defeat 30 enemies in Darkness Falls to restore your circlet, repeatable
• [Paving the Way] Extermination – Defeat 2 Princes or Princess to restore your circlet, repeatable

Players must speak to their path’s quest giver to activate each new level earned on their Mythrian. Progress is saved as quests are repeated.

Notes

• Reminder! Buggane and Battlefield pots (all types) will not stack with the event buff. Battlefield pots will coexist but not be active. Buggane pots will overwrite the event buff RP%. A charge will be used up if a player uses a Buggane or Battlefield pot. Mithril RP Bonus pots will stack with the event buffs.
• Should your event buff run out while in Darkness Falls, please speak to the quest givers to refresh it.

Phase Three –  Old Frontiers Hadrian’s Wall

On Monday. October 23rd, Phase Three goes live in the Old Frontiers region of Hadrian’s Wall!

The veil between worlds is thinnest both in places of great spiritual uproar and with proximity to All Hallows Eve. Both the Vigilant order and their Demonic foes have been keeping a close eye on Ellan Vannin as time draws ever closer to the witching hour. Ellan Vannin has always been a place where the veil was thin, too thin some might say. One only needs look to the eternal war of spirits, giants, and ghosts raging under the island to guess that boundaries that might hold strong elsewhere bend and even break in that chaos. Leading experts on both sides agree that the great influx of souls observed last year has only further weakened the barriers. Indeed, in the time since, we’ve seen Demons previously thought to be contained to Darkness Falls manifesting in the Frontiers, strange glowing crystals growing on the island itself, and now rumors fly that objects of power have slipped the veil and can be found scattered across Ellan Vannin. For even if the trip from Otherworld is possible, for objects as strong as the Circlet of Rhiannon or the Tome of Fiends the veil is still too closed for more than fragments to slip through.

Notice from the Vigilant Order

The Vigilant Order is tasking all its most loyal followers to comb every inch of Ellan Vannin and its bordering landmasses to find fragments of the Circlet and recover them before the forces of darkness can repair their damned book. We expect that the presence of even small pieces of the Tome of Fiends along with the previously observed demonic corruption of the area will have had adverse effects on those who work in close proximity to the island. We expect those in positions of power as well as the demonic invaders to be hoarding any shards of the Circlet they come across. It is your job to retrieve those pieces and cleanse them of any lingering corruption!

Followers of the Order will be enchanted in the crossroad areas of the frontiers with the use of the following blessings:

• 10% reduction in damage taken
• 10% reduction in damage done
• 10% reduction in healing done
• 100% increased realm point earnings

Phase One Quest Details

• Hunt for the Crown: Liberator – collect 5 Pages from Keep Lords and Demon Invaders within the Crossroads to complete the quest, repeatable
• Hunt for the Crown: Purge the Wicked – kill 25/5 enemies for souls – repeatable 25 player kill quest while grouped, 5 solo
• Hunt for the Crown: Salvage – collect 30 Locuses of Power on Ellan Vannin – repeatable gather quest

Power Grows and Grows

Our book! Our lost book of power is finally within our grasp! As the veil thins, sections of our unholy Tome have appeared around the island of Ellan Vannin, a land now pulsing with dark energy. You, our most devoted follower, must scour every inch of Ellan Vannin and its surrounding lands to unearth fragments of the Tome and retrieve them before the feeble forces of light can mend their wretched Circlet. It is certain that the presence of even the tiniest fragments of the Tome of Fiends has already wreaked havoc upon the feeble hearts of those who dwell nearby. We anticipate that the feeble mortals aligning with the demonic cause are concealing any shards of the Tome they stumble upon. You must get them back!

Our Followers will enjoy true superiority around the northern crossroads of the frontiers. Bask in the greatness we offer:

• 10% increased damage
• 10% increased healing
• 10% increased Damage taken
• 100% increased realm point earnings

Phase One Quest Details

• Hunt for the Time: Gatecrasher – collect 5 Pages from Keep Lords and Demon Invaders within the Crossroads to complete the quest, repeatable
• Hunt for the Tome: Cull the Weak – kill 25/5 enemies for hearts – repeatable 25 player kill quest while grouped, 5 solo
• Hunt for the Tome: Collector – collect 30 Locuses of Power on Ellan Vannin – repeatable gather quest

Players alignment to the Demonic and Vigilant paths have been reset from Crossroads Covenant original event. Players must speak to Gwynn at the relic towns to select their paths and can switch to a new path, or stay on their previous path, but only once, so choose wisely! Speak to the path NPC to join that path.

Notes:

• Buggane and Battlefield pots (all types) will not stack with the event buff. Battlefield pots will coexist but not be active. Buggane pots will overwrite the event buff RP%. A charge will be used up if a player uses a Buggane or Battlefield pot. Mithril RP Bonus pots will stack with the event buffs.
• Cloaks and wings from the first Crossroads Covenant event will be available to players further into the event (so make sure you’re on you’re preferred path!), along with Battlefield potions.
• You do not need to participate in Phase One in order to take part in Phase 2 or 3. However, you will miss out on the Phase One rewards (event cloak & battlefield potion) if you do skip Phase One. All quests must be completed at least once to collect that Phase’s rewards. Each Phase has rewards at the end.
• The Harvest Crystal quest on Ellan Vannin and at the Ruined Keeps has ended.

 
Rewards for Completing Event

There are two rewards for completing the overall event:

• New cosmetic mask
• New Mythirian (details later during the event)
   

Demonic Mask	Vigilant Mask

Phase one of our Crossroads Covenant event returns today Friday, October 6th, 2023! The Crossroads Covenant event will expand to Phase 2 (Darkness Falls) and 3 (Otherworld) as the event progresses.

Friends and Realm mates,

In celebration of our 22nd Year Anniversary, we are pleased to start the celebrations this coming Sunday, October 1st 2023, with bonuses and the return of the Traveling Merchants!

The following bonuses and merchants will be active until November 1st, 2023.

Bonuses

On Ywain:

• 100% bonus to RPs gained from RvR kills
• 100% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic zones and dungeons

On Gaheris:

• 100% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic zones and dungeons
• 100% bonus to normal RP gain in the capital cities

In each Capital City:

• 40% Bonus to Crafting Speed
• 20% Bonus to Crafting Skill Gain

In all Housing Zones:

• 20% Bonus to Crafting Speed
• 10% Bonus to Crafting Skill Gain

Traveling Merchants

The traveling merchants have returned for the 22nd Anniversary festivities!

• A Book of Recall has been added to the Darkness Falls Rarity Merchant.

The Merchants have set up shop in their usual areas, so be sure to pay them a visit and stock up before they take their leave!

In Albion: Just outside of gates of Castle Sauvage in Camelot Hills
In Midgard: Just outside of Svasud Faste in the Vale of Mularn
In Hibernia: Just outside of Druim Ligen in Connacht

Keep your eyes on the Herald here over the month as we celebrate Dark Age of Camelot’s birthday with events and more!