Shadows of War II: Chaos Duality and the Inverted Mirror

The search begins

The Chaos Duality map recalls that Xing and Xang disappeared shortly before the Queen of Monsters returned. Its present-day introduction describes the Hero and Drakath as allies in the fight against Malgor the Shadowlord, with Drakath asking for help finding the two advisers who helped him ascend to power. The map is named dualplane and can be entered through /join dualplane.

Initially, Drakath warns that the Realm of Monsters is no place for the player while the Queen is rampaging across Lore. His NPC page then marks a state after completing Defeat Malgor: he says Xing and Xang have been busy, that he taught them well, and that he wants to find them quickly so they can leave the pit and head home. The earlier warning and the post-quest state remain distinct.

The opening scene finds Drakath on his Crownsreach throne. The Hero says they are ostensibly on the same side now and has come to check in; Drakath says the timing is fortuitous and reveals that Xing and Xang have resurfaced, after being missing all this time until last night. The community page describes first entry per login; the native entry condition instead explicitly checks three quest counters and an unset seenIt flag, whose lifetime is not established here.

Drakath says Xiang contacted him through a portal that had long been inert. He had assumed they—then corrects himself to she—were dead, gone, or something; he reports that Xiang said she had been trapped in the Plane of Monsters when the Queen came through. His further account that the Queen told him all Chaos Lords had to die to free her remains Drakath's report, not an independently stated rule.

The Hero proposes that Xiang is two people in one body, and Drakath says his Loremasters surmise the same. He calls it the only logical reason for her survival. This remains a character/Loremaster theory throughout the arc: the later mirror scene confirms that Xiang can be separated into Xing and Xang, but does not establish a survival mechanism or a universal Chaos Lord death rule. Drakath asks the Hero to help open a way to Xiang and says he only wants to get his girls; the Hero agrees on the basis that they are friends now.

Check their Teeth and More Investigation Needed are once-only research tasks. For the first, Drakath asks for ten captured Terrarsites (from Terrarsites, level 28) so he can study creatures taking on the twins' traits. For the second, ten Droognaxes must be slain as he examines the blend of both twins' good and evil and wonders whether merging into Xiang affects their powers or personalities. He concludes they are becoming more unstable, so the search should hurry.

Find Xiang is a once-only task requiring the player to find Xiang and speak with her on Screen 4. Drakath says the twins are growing more unstable and asks the Hero to find the girls and bring them home; completion reaches Xiang's first confrontation with Drakath.

You found her

After Find Xiang, Drakath and the Hero meet Xiang at a forest vault. Xiang says she followed Drakath blindly, granted his desires, and served as his gladiator and champion, while she did the work and he took credit. Drakath denies this, saying they were a team and that he looked for her; Xiang says she made sure he would not find her.

Xiang claims the title Prince of Chaos and says she will succeed where Drakath failed. She denies calling him to the vault, calls him delusional, and asks the Hero to remove him before she becomes violent. This confrontation explicitly denies the summons; the next cinematic reverses that denial, and the final reunion later identifies Xang as the one who brought Drakath there.

Two voices in one body

Destroy her Creatures is a once-only task to defeat ten Terrarsites. Drakath says their creatures will not stop the search and tells the Hero to fight them, joking that the Hero will do the fighting while he pays.

Time to un-decorate is a once-only task for four Batwings and four Horns. Drakath says Xiang made the whole place look like her, claims she stole the idea from him, and wants to take the pieces back.

Interrogation Time is a once-only task requiring eight Droognaxes to be interrogated. Drakath asks what they want from him; on completion he says Xiang has made them give him the silent treatment, asks for one more try, and says he will leave if he is not wanted.

In the separate Drakath NPC state keyed after Interrogation Time, he mocks Xiang's challenge to fight him and says she mentioned a mirror that is inverted and turned in on itself. He thinks that if they find it and he can work out how to use it, they can split Xing and Xang apart again. This NPC state appears here in its own source order; it does not replace the later cinematic trigger.

Get rid of it! is a once-only task to defeat ten Netherpit Lackeys. Drakath says Xiang is making her lackeys do her dirty work and asks the Hero to clear them out before they continue.

After Get rid of it!, The Split returns to the forest vault. Xiang welcomes Drakath and says she called him, reversing the prior denial; when she asks him to split them apart with a mirror, another voice interrupts, but the script still labels both turns Xiang. Drakath says two people are present in one form and tentatively guesses that the ally is probably Xang while the other sees him as a rival. The final scene identifies Xang as the one who brought him, but this earlier scene still credits both voices to Xiang.

Unlock the mausoleum and retrieve the mirror

“Convince” the Bruiser is a once-only task that asks for a Mausoleum Key from a Netherpit Bruiser. Drakath says Xiang described a mirror turned in on itself, predicts the twins may keep it in the mausoleum, and says the Bruiser may need convincing. Xiang's NPC record notes that she disappears after this task.

They Never Learn is a once-only task requiring ten monsters defeated and one Willing Lackey. Drakath expects a lackey to defect and reveal where the mirror is kept; the listed eligible drops come from Droognax, Netherpit Bruiser, Netherpit Lackey, SpiderWing, or Terrarsite.

Get the Mirror! is a once-only task to find, unlock, and retrieve the Inverted Mirror from an iron coffin, following the willing lackey's information. Its requirement is to complete Pick the Lock (3).

Pick the Lock (3) is the associated minigame, not an additional quest in the eleven-task route. Click and drag the upper and lower lockpicks, then click Try the Lock; the indicator lights change color as the picks approach the unlock position, and the objective is to get both lights green and pick the lock. The map says pulling the lock in front of the coffin starts this minigame. Its gate notes include More Investigation Needed for a screen, the Bruiser task for the mausoleum door and another screen, Get the Mirror! for eastward travel and another screen; the packet does not establish the screen association for every condition.

In a separate Drakath NPC state after Get the Mirror!, he tells Xang he will not let her down, regardless of how much her other half wants to stop him. This state confirms the addressee by name but does not itself depict the mirror's use.

After Get the Mirror!, The Inverted Mirror shows Drakath holding it and saying he can feel its power and believes he can split the sisters. Xiang slides into frame in front of him and is then shown behind him. The scene reports the mirror's power through Drakath and his belief about its use; the actual separation is depicted only in the next cinematic.

The Hero says Xiang's sister wants to be free and accuses Xiang of holding her hostage. Xiang replies that they are stronger together, that she is doing this for both of them, and that her sister will eventually see it. She says she offered the group a chance to leave and threatens to get mean. The community staging describes a red flash; the selected static native states show a paler layered tint and do not independently establish that exact flash. This scene does not show the split yet.

Xang chooses to go home

Get Her! is the eleventh and final once-only task. Drakath asks the Hero to fight Xiang again while he works out how to use the mirror; the task completes after Xiang is defeated.

After Get Her!, Drakath raises the Inverted Mirror. Xiang glows white and is split into Xing and Xang; a nested native balloon records her scream during the white transition. Xang says she brought Drakath there and chooses to go with him. Xing objects; Xang explains that strength, power, and taking over the world stopped being fun and that she wants to go home.

Xing first protests that Xang is leaving and apologizes, promising to make things better. Xang invites her to come with them; the scene describes Drakath nodding, and Xing hesitates before agreeing. The separation therefore leads to negotiated choices: Xang elects to leave, and Xing decides to join after the invitation, rather than either sister automatically obeying Drakath.

In the final staging, the Hero stands to the side while Drakath holds Xang on his right and Xing on his left. Drakath calls the family back together and says they are friends now; the Hero anticipates a headache. The dialogue's family wording belongs to Drakath, and the scene caption refers to his 'babes'; neither is a biological parentage claim.

In a separate Drakath NPC state after Get Her!, he says he wants to go home with his new generals, says they will have fun, and invites the Hero to follow. That line records his intention and invitation, not that the group has already traveled home; the General role belongs to this later NPC state rather than defining the cinematic scene.