Beneath Battleon

The Tunnels Below Town

Strange noises under Battleon lead Yara to a passage into miles of tunnels. She means to become the strongest of the Paladins, but first she needs help facing the Bone Terror and retrieving a ring her father gave her. Once you earn her trust, Yara explains she came looking for a sword with unusual magic. You find it, and she lets you keep it.

The Crystal Caverns

Deeper underground, Yara finds an enchanted chest whose contents depend on whether it’s opened with the Key of Life, Dreams, Thought or the Void. Warlic works out how to activate a portal in the same cavern, and you open it by solving its rune puzzle. Yara slips through while you’re still at the portal. On the other side, she has you catch a giant crystalline jellyfish so she can study how it lives. A whirlpool leads from these caverns to an icy lake, and a different passage descends toward lava.

Nymue Under the Ice

Yara has heard that Nymue, an ancient water spirit who guards the Ice Calibreaker, is trapped beneath the lake. She hopes that freeing her will help restore light to the caverns. You break through columns of ice, defeat the Glacial Horror and shatter the ice above Nymue. With the Ice Calibreaker recovered, Yara asks you to wait for her call before going deeper.

The Dragons Beneath Battleon

Earthquakes shake Battleon as fire dragons circle overhead. You follow the other passage from the crystal caverns and find a nest of magma dragon eggs. It’s the hatching that’s shaking the town. You start asking one of the hatchlings about moving the nest when its mother arrives to defend her young.

You knock the mother out, and her frightened hatchling calls for her while you and Yara prepare a remedy. When she wakes, you apologize and explain what happened to Battleon. Seeing that you spared her and her young, the mother agrees to take them down the lava river. It leads beneath Xan’s volcano, where a colony of magma dragons is waiting for an eruption they call the Awakening. The shaking stops, and Yulgar oversees the repairs in town.

The caverns also strand Metallika, who came looking for inspiration for her music. A fizzy drink is supposed to lift her out, but she burps and has to try again.

The Draconic Oracle

Tai’Shar, a High Draconic Oracle, offers you a seven-sided chest only you can open. He can see possible futures but can’t see what’s inside the chest. If you haven’t yet faced Drakath in the Chaos finale, he points you to Mount DoomSkull to discover who you are. After the finale, he greets you as the Dragon of Time and calls you kin. He offers to share his visions if you help him repair his mirror and prepare a divination spell.

Sources

Yara’s Battleunder quests, The icy cavern release, Return to Battleunder, Tai’Shar’s dialogue