The Sunken Citadel

Objectives: Find the Keeper Glyph key. Get back to the surface by returning to your entry point. Note: Searching for Keeper Kafe might be a good start. Keepers on excursions often mark their trails with glyphs.

Follow the cavern path toward the southwest. Snag some loot along the cavern corners. Spot a patrolling guard in the next chamber. You should also overhear something talking about hatchlings. Wait in the shadows and knock out the guards or just bypass them by inching through the darkness. Read a book on top of the stone slab and grab a water arrow from the pool. Exit through the western cave path.

Move along the route until you reach an intersection. Three unexplored paths lie in front of you. Look to the west and spot the giant rat. Wait for him to move within range and knock him out. Approach the table to snag loot and read a book that provides a new objective.

Objective: Steal the Kurshok Crown from the former throne room.

Go south from the table and into the next passage. Read a note on the ground about the theater and another nearby about diamond lights. Enter the theater to the west. You can overhead a couple of guards talking nearby. They're on the platform above you and to the east. Lure them down with noise or take them out from a distance. There's also a rat in the area that might be lured by the noise so be prepared to knock him out as well.

The theater area contains a valuable special loot item. Lure the guards away with a noisemaker before approaching the upper walkway.

Open the chests (pick the locks) for loot and equipment. Ascend the staircase. Find the red crystal on the right side. It's a special loot item: the Large Diamond.

Exit the theater and move through the southern passage. If any guards remain in this area, avoid or knock them out. Read the note on the slab about the battle horn--another special loot item to find.

You've reached a series of interconnected rooms. Most of these contain loot so it's wise to explore each room thoroughly. The path into the next area is also found here. Don't move into there until you have fully explored this area.

Return to the intersection and go east. You may hear combat ahead of you. Let those guys fight it out. Mop up any survivors or just avoid contact by sticking close to the shadows. Avoid or knock out the guards in the circular chamber then exit through the west passage.

More loot here. Go north at the intersection and be careful of the guards. The second loot item is in the room ahead: it's the Battle Horn. Snag it then return to the circular chamber. Go up the stairs in its center. Follow the path back to the interconnected rooms and toward the southern edge to find the misty path into the citadel core.

Advance forward then down the first path on the left. The torches here can be doused with a water arrow if you prefer the cover of shadow. Continue east and grab a health vial from a coffin on the left. Go around the corner to the right and listen to the guards talking inside the next room. Create some shadow by dousing torches and sneak past or wait for them to turn around and knock the guards out with a blackjack.

Exit to the south. A guard patrols to the east as you enter. Wait for him to move away and take him down. There are guards throughout this recessed section ahead. You can enter via the staircase ahead of you or through a window on the right hallway. Gather the loot inside as you avoid the guards. Go up the stairs in the back of the room and find another narrow staircase at the top. Go to the south and beware of another patrolling guard. Knock him out or douse the nearby torches to provide more cover.

Find the corpse of Kafe in the back corner--and with him, the Keeper glyph key.

Search the shelves for loot and reading material. Exit through a passage in the back corner of the room. Here you find the body of Keeper Kafe. A new objective appears.

Objective: Read Kafe's journal for a clue about how he died.

Pick up the glyph key, loot, and read the journal. The final objective remains: steal the crown! Exit this library section and return to the recessed room. Exit via the staircase to the north then turn right immediately to proceed east. Beware of the guard at the top of the stairs. Take him down with an arrow or sneak up behind him and blackjack him.

The throne room is to the left. It's heavily populated and getting the crown undetected is very difficult but possible. Just stay in the shadow and wait for guards to move away. An easier solution is to find a perch above the throne room to eliminate the crown guards from the safety of above.

Proceed south. Grab some arrows from the slab on the right side. Avoid the nearby guard. Go around east then north up the stairs. Spot a guard at the base of the next staircase. Avoid him or knock the guard out. Go up the stairs then around to the east. Enter a room on the right side and find a tapestry on the right wall. It's the third special loot item.

Exit the room then go up a staircase to the north. Ascend and find a perch above the throne room. Use your broadhead arrows to eliminate the guards around the crown. Drop down into the throne room and jump onto the throne. Leap up and grab the crown. This completes all mission objectives. Explore the throne room for locked chests containing loot then retrace your steps back to the citadel core. Now return through the initial section of the citadel. You don't have to be sneaky here unless you want to. You can outrun any enemy that spots you. Move back to the level entrance to complete the mission.