Amberheart Watchtower

Amberheart Watchtower — The missing watch

Warlic said a rift to the Chaos Realm had opened. Chaorruption spread to the land and creatures nearby, then reached the knights who guarded the watchtower. The Blades of Order had watched for threats from the tower for centuries. Now the entire watch had vanished.

Warlic had studied alongside Vormund Vigil-Keeper, the battlemage who commanded the tower. They had fought each other in their younger days and come to agree that the watches were vital. Warlic knew Vormund would never leave by choice without lighting the beacon. The Hero set out to learn what had happened and summon help.

Amberheart Watchtower — Vormund’s letter

Vormund wrote from the records room. He could hear his men screaming below. Tentacles bound their hands to their weapons, and eyes appeared on their bodies. Their laughter tormented him. He had broken away from a fight with his lieutenant, and the wound in his side was growing hotter.

Vormund remembered claiming he was smarter than Warlic, and Warlic once claiming that Vormund would never beat him. They had both been wrong. Warlic had also promised to come whenever Vormund needed him. He still had not come. Vormund wrote that he was going back downstairs to fight his own men. He asked Warlic to light the beacon and warn Lore that Amberheart had fallen.

Amberheart Watchtower — What the knights left behind

The Hero drove off the corrupted creatures outside and collected pieces of practice gear. Warlic recognized them as belonging to the Blades of Order. The Hero found an encoded page among the boxes and searched the library for Vormund’s decryption manual. Warlic suspected the Chaorrupted knights in the tower were once the men his friend had commanded.

Chaorrupted prisoners had broken loose. The Hero stopped them before they could reach the townspeople. Farther up, they cleared the stairs, recovered a second page and fought the creature guarding it. Warlic needed Corundum Crystals to power the beacon. He also sent the Hero to blind the Sp-Eyes so Drakath could not watch their next move.

Amberheart Watchtower — The Hall of Heroes

The Hero recovered the stolen pieces of the memorial statue. Warlic liked to think the Chaorrupted guardians had taken them in an effort to recover their humanity. He feared some of Alteon’s knights had also been caught while on patrol. The Hero collected their Chaorrupted blood and brought a Blue Orb from the mages’ room to activate the portal.

Amberheart Watchtower — The knight without a name

The Hero defeated the Chaos Knight. They wondered whether it had been Exos, but remembered leaving him on the ledge and suspected Vormund instead. Warlic could not say who the knight had been. A light now glowed in the tower’s beacon as the Hero vowed to remember the Blades. They also promised to find a cure for Chaorruption. Warlic saw the taint fading and thought the land would recover. He wondered whether the people would.

The Hero knew Drakath was watching. Drakath said the Mage, the Guardian and the Shapeshifter had risen because of Chaos, and promised that the Hero would fall to him. The commander’s log offered a place to keep looking for a cure. A sentry had heard the Chaos Knight say the key to curing him lay in Blackhorn Tomb. Vormund asked whoever found the log to go there in his place.