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After you return from the Restless League hideout you know that Iszara stole the soulgem for some reason, leading you to suspect that the necromancer N'Gasta is somehow involved. Needing to confront him you know you'll need powerful protection of some kind, but what? Perhaps this legendary elven artifact you've been hearing about is the answer...

Quick Walkthrough

1. Buy the Elven book at the book shop.
2. Talk to various people around town to learn about the flask and Joto.
3. Talk to Gerrick to learn that Trithik knows a lot about the flask.
4. Find out from Trithik that his map piece was stolen.
5. Talk to Dreekius to find out that Crendal, the drunk, was bragging about having a map piece.
6. Confront Crendal with this information to learn he has hidden the map.
7. Return to Trithik to tell him what you've found.
8. Talk to Crendal again and trick him into checking his hiding spot. Follow him at a distance.
9. Dig where you see Crendal checking for the map.
10. Talk to the mapmaker and get him to make you a map from the Elven book you bought.
11. Talk to Falacia in the mages guild about Joto and the soulgem. Get turned in a gremlin.
12. Run to the jail and enter via the small tunnel up to the right of the doors.
13. Find Joto inside the jail and get him to change you back to normal.
14. Talk with Joto to receive his map piece. Fight Dram when he appears.
15. Exit the jail via the door up to the North to on top of the city walls.
16. Once you return to town visit the silversmiths house to the left of the store. Kill the two guards there.
17. Visit Kisandra in the silver store and get the key to her warehouse and permission to take the silver boat. The warehouse door is just on the other side of the building with her house.
18. Return to Maiko the mapmaker to pick up your map piece.
19. Use the 5 maps (Joto's, Trithik's, Maiko's, Silver Boat, and Restless Insignia) to piece together where the flask lies (you'll need a shovel).
20. Dig up the flask and your done this part. You'll be Confronting N'Gasta next and you'll need the flask to protect you from his magic.

Detailed Walkthrough

Starting Out

There are a number of small things you must do to start this quest. First, visit the bookstore and buy the book on the Elven flask of Lillandril. You'll learn a few things from J'ffer here too. Several people in town will now have information on the flask. You may also learn about Joto, a mage guild member who seems to be connected with Iszara somehow. You will eventually learn that the map to the flask is in four pieces, which you must find. Note that you actually already have one of the pieces. Look on the back of the Restless League Insignia you got in the Smuggler's Den.

Trithik's Map Piece

Talk to Gerrick in the General store to learn that Trithik knows a lot about the legendary flask. Pay him a visit and you'll find out that his piece was stolen from his boat soe time ago. Talk to Dreekius in the tavern to learn that the drunk Crendal was recently boasting about having a piece of the map. Talk to Crendal and he'll tell you that he stole the piece from Trithik and hid it. Return to Trithik with the news and he'll give you permission to keep the map if you find it. Talk to Crendal again and trick him into checking his hiding location. Follow him at a distance and dig up the map with a shovel where you see him check it.

The Silver Boat

Falicia in the mages guild will tell you that one of the map pieces is supposedly on the bottom of a silver boat. Krisandra, the silversmith, doesn't appear to know anything about it. Visit her house, just to the South of her shop, which is now open. There are two guards in it which you must kill (not that easy considering the extremely small space). Return and talk to Kisandra who will express her thanks by giving you the key to her warehouse, also in the same building to the South (the door facing the sea). Inside you'll find two chests, one with the silver boat you're looking for.

Joto's Map Piece

Visit Falicia in the mages guild and ask about the soul gem. Falicia will have the soulgem topic ONLY after you've been to the Restless League Hideout and have come back. During the course of her conversation, Jagnavier, the present archmage, will appear and turn you into a gremlin so you can't tell anyone else. Waddle on over to the city jail and enter via the small opening up and to the right. Find Joto and get him to change you back. The way this puzzle works is that each conversation option will add a syllable to what you say (up to so many). To start over fresh just quit and restart the conversation with him. The conversation options are as follows:

• Help = laloo
• Please = mee
• Iszara = back
• Joto = cha
• Jail = weee
• Magic = eng

You'll be wanting to say Cha-eng-mee-back to get Joto to cast a spell to change you back. Actually, you can say this to almost anyone who will talk to you. It's very interesting to hear all their reactions! And, I think Bethesda put in a real nice touch here -- once you say that to someone, you will then have that as a single conversation topic to make it easy to say to the next person you talk to. During the conversation with Joto you'll get his map piece and Dram will appear and kill him. Fight Dram and after 5 hits or so he will cast a spell and disappear. Pick up the several health potions lying around and kill the guard. Exit to the top of the city wall via the door to the North and up.

The Old Quarter

There are a ton of guards all around the top of the city wall, sometimes in pairs and triples, which are a pain due to the cramped quarters. You can make it all the way around on top to the city wall with a little difficulty. Note that you can bounce quite high off of those canopies on some of the buildings, which you'll need for a few jumps. Don't forget the several potions and gold lying around up top. None of the doors can be opened it appears, but there is at least one way down into the old quarter from the top. After you bounce onto the rooftop with three guards, you'll bounce again onto a roof with one guard. On this roof there is a small opening down which you can drop into. Drop again from the side to the ground at take only about 10 damage. Note that there is no way to get back up once you're down. Watch out for one of the roofs that collapses when you step on it. The first time I fell into the building and couldn't find a way out. There's no way out of that building if you fall into it. You can get into the Old Quarter when you're back on top of the jail again, too, with a little damage to health. You can either return to the main city but jumping into the water or by climbing down the city wall near the end. From the top you can also exit the old quarter by jumping to a rooftop across the street, and then down.

Maiko's Map Piece

If you talk to Maiko you can get him to make you a map using the Elven book (you have to give him the book in exchange for the map). If you can't seem to get him to make you one, try talking to him with the Elven book as the current item (may or may not be nessecary). Return after a while to pick up the map. You may wish to 'order' the map before you do the above quests and return afterwards. I don't know whether the time is real or triggered by you finding the other map pieces.

The Map Pieces

You now should have 5 various maps relating to the location of the flask. Now comes the hard part, putting them all together. This is the one weak quest of the entire game I feel, unless I'm missing some obvious clue somewhere. The maps are terribly hard to read in the 3DFX version, practically impossible, perhaps they are clearer in the software version or if you turn the texture detail to its highest setting. At any rate, here are the map graphics from the TEXBSI files as clear as they are going to get:

Maiko's Map	The 4 Combined Map Pieces

Hmm...much better, I did not see the 'START-LEKI' bit on my map and all of the others were barely visible (for instance the 31 was just readable about 2" from my monitor and the 12 looked very much like an R...:). Adding up all the various paces, you should count 63 in one, and 16 in another. You might think that up is North but that's a little catch. Looking carefully at Maiko's map you should see that you must rotate the other map pieces 90 degrees counter clockwise, or in other words, 63 paces West, and 16 paces South. As yes, but now where to start? The map says Leki which you may have recognized from a book. You can also tell the general location by the shore direction on Maiko's map. The only place with a shore like that is at the very South of the island, near Saintsport. If you look up from the center pavilion in Saintsport you should see a recognizable figure...this is your starting point. Count your paces off in walking mode and it should lead you to a corner below a steep slope. Dig with your shovel (you did bring one I hope) and you should find a chest containing the flask.

The Flask

Once you have the flask you've completed this part of the quest. You may now return to the Isle of N'Gasta to see if he knows anything about Iszara's disappearance.

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