Ravenloss

The Key at Twilight’s Edge

The ChaosWeaver Queen promises her children that they’ll survive the coming conflict. In a flashback, she agrees to send her ChaosWeavers as a diversion and warns that the price will be high. At Twilight’s Edge, Riadne holds back the invasion with a forcefield while you look for her friend Tomix, a SoulWeaver who holds the key to the portal.

You follow leads from Swordhaven through Faerie Forest, Darkovia and Doomwood. After the search in Doomwood, Riadne still thinks the ChaosWeavers need Tomix alive. She studies spider magic and admits she doesn’t understand how his SoulWeaving works. The Queen is counting on you to find the key and come after her with both of them.

The search takes you as far as Northland Lights and Sleuthhound Inn before Cleric Joy sends you back to Twilight’s Edge. Riadne’s shield is failing when you find Tomix facing a ChaosWeaver Warrior. After you defeat it and reunite the two, Riadne says her strength has returned and they have the key. You plan to pursue the ChaosWeavers into Ravenloss before sealing the passage for good. The Queen welcomes your pursuit and claims you’ve been there before, though you won’t remember it.

The Codex Arachna

In Ravenloss, you recover scrolls that Riadne translates into the Codex Arachna, whose origin story tells how Tanislav sacrificed his wife and then his village to cure his son Roirr. When the recovered boy asked for his mother, Tanislav fled, and years later Roirr drew on the ghost village's power to become, according to the Codex, the First Weaver.

The Codex attributes the Arachna transformation to Vaal's misuse of the Judgement Wheel, whose wishes were secretly made conditional on worthiness. It describes conflict between human ChaosWeavers and the transformed Arachna, and a Ravenloss ruled by queens. The current Queen remains human although her daughters are Arachna. A damaged prophecy warns of enslavement and names the Mother, Champion and Destroyer.

An Audience with Karina

Some ChaosWeaver soldiers question how many lives their Queen is willing to sacrifice, while others prepare a way out. After you read the Codex, Riadne asks the Queen’s Cleric for an audience. He blames you for the losses they suffered bringing you to Ravenloss and refuses to believe an outsider can help. You defeat him, and Riadne urges you to hear the Queen out.

Queen Karina says she started the war to bring you to Ravenloss without drawing attention to her family. She expected the ChaosBringer to welcome a war that would disrupt your plans. You challenge her over the lives lost on both sides, but she says she was prepared to risk anyone to save her children.

Karina sees Drakath as the greatest threat to her children and offers to help destroy him so her people can live safely and practice their magic. Riadne advises you to trust her. You welcome Karina into the Alliance and ask her to share whatever she learns about Drakath’s plans.