

Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: Large, cavernous sewers are the second set of levels on Earth.Barring a few individuals like Navun and the Stuck Merchant, the Pan will kill anyone that's not a fellow Pan. But the Pan are extremely xenophobic and their xenophobia is further fanned as a distraction by their Empress, whose fruits of immortality are going bad. Absolute Xenophobe: The Pan of Yaesha are only marginally in danger from the Root, as only Root scouting parties have made incursions on their world so far.Though the reason for the boss battle doesn't really depend on who you gave the Guardians Heart to. Averted with the Swamps of Chorus DLC which adds new dungeons and enemies along with making the Iskal Queen a boss. The Iskal Queen also mentions having plans for the Guardian's Heart, but never reveals to the player what those plans are, and you don't have the option of direct confrontation like you do the Undying King. Despite the Apocalyptic Logs telling you the Iskal are bad news, besides shooting large numbers of their followers, you can't really do anything about the situation on the planet. Aborted Arc: Your expedition to Corsus largely ends with no resolution should you choose to kill the Undying King and take the Labyrinth Key early.

Among them was Peredur, Marwnad's charismatic and vengeful second-in-command.In September 2020, THQ Nordic announced an overhauled version of Chronos named Chronos: Before the Ashes that serves as a Prequel to the game for release in December 2020.įill out the tropes: Remnant From the Ashes: Many of them fled or surrendered, but a large band broke through the Elven line and escaped into the Pass.Ī few eventually made it back to Prifddinas, where they continued to practise their death-cult in secret. The Keepers, outnumbered and cornered, were swiftly defeated. The Deephold was finally completed in Year 5 of the Sixth Age, and the Keepers officially took up residence there.Īfter Marwnad kidnapped her daughter Fynnien at the end of Year 7 of the Sixth Age, hoping to convert her into a Dark Elf, Tylluan Hen, who had lain in wait in the Underground Pass where the Keepers had previously been observed, was able to follow them undetected through the Labyrinth and reveal the location of the entrance to the Deephold to the Elves of Prifddinas.Ī force of Elves, led by Talhaearn of the Cadarn, entered the Underground Pass by stealth, and launched a surprise assault on the Deephold. The sole survivor returned babbling about a giant crystal owl, but Marwnad dismissed this as some kind of hallucination, and Mathonwy said nothing.

Whenever the rare traveler strayed too near to the site, the works would fall silent, the Keepers would don their old Mourner disguises, and in most cases, the traveler would never be seen again although on one occasion, a band of Mourners who went out to waylay a pair of travelers who strayed too near were themselves killed. Over three years, Mathonwy designed and oversaw the construction of an entire hidden city for them, beneath the deepest caverns of the Underground Pass, where no one would stumble across it by accident and he concealed its entrance behind an enchanted labyrinth that could not be solved except by one who already knew the way.ĭuring the construction, many Keepers were required to dwell within the Underground Pass, protected from its monsters and madness by Mathonwy and their best magicians. Marwnad sought the aid of one of the most powerful and reclusive of the old Lord Iorweth's allies, an ancient magician by the name of Mathonwy, to help her build a secret base for her sect and ensure it could not be found but Mathonwy went one better. For the Keepers, from the start it was never enough to practise their faith in secret: their goal was to see Prifddinas returned to Dark Elf control.

One such sect, styling themselves Ceidwaid y Tywyllwch or "the Keepers of the Dark", was formed by a veteran Iorwerth assassin named Marwnad. There were some among them, however, who refused to give up their old death-cult, despite the destruction of the Dark Lord: these "Dark Elves" were never stamped out entirely - they merely learned to keep their religion to themselves. In Year 2 of the Sixth Age, after the death of the old Lord Iorwerth and the destruction of the Dark Lord, most of Clan Iorwerth accepted Iestin Edern as their new leader and were reconciled, more or less, with the other Elf clans in the restored city of Prifddinas.
