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General Info
1. About this Walkthrough 2. Keyboard Shortcuts
3. Party Consideration
3.1. Classes 3.2. Scrolls in the Game 3.3. Bracelets in the Game 4. Party Creation 5. Saving 6. A Note on XP 7. Grinding
Map of Athas 8. The Arena & Slave Pens
8.1. Leveling Up 8.2. Objective 8.3. Gilal & Dinos 8.4. Haunted House 8.5. Freeing Semyon 8.6. Merzol 8.7. King of the Pens 8.8. Mirlon & Pehtucl 8.9. The Great Escape
9. The Sewers
9.1. Churr and his Ratpack 9.2. Damsel in Distress 9.3. The Temple 9.4. Escape Routes
10. Return to the Slave Pens
10.1. Genocide 10.2. Loot 10.3. Freeing Trustee
11. Dagolar
11.1. The Inner Sanctum 11.2. Clean-up and Loot 11.3. Keldar: Old Dog, Old Tricks 11.4. The Big Reveal 11.5. The Man, The Myth 11.6. Rewards
12. Escape from the Sewers 13. Fields of Draj
13.1. Shops 13.2. Multiplying Items 13.3. Old One Eye 13.4. Fields of Draj Obelisk
14. White Sands
14.1. Laussa & Ssovan
15. Teaquetzl
15.1. Chahl 15.2. Equipment 15.3. The Visionary 15.4. Teaquetzl Obelisk
16. Nazca Lines
16.1. Feeling Salty 16.2. The Psionicist 16.3. A’Poss’s Heart
17. Red Sands Plateau
17.1. Red Sands Plateau Obelisk 17.2. Notaku 17.3. Master of Mastyrials
18. Wagon Train
18.1. First Allies
19. Sand Oasis
19.1. Tyrian Butterfly Wings 19.2. A Dish Served Cold
20. Elven Slavers
20.1. Getting Captured 20.2. Release 20.3. Second Allies 20.4. Retrieval
21. Elvish Caravan
21.1. Merchants 21.2. Elvish Caravan Obelisk 21.3. Ambush? 21.4. Drisana 21.5. Tidzio
22. Messenger Route
22.1. Messenger 22.2. Hototo & Dagger 23. Elven Slavers Redux 23.1. Metiklt
24. Hot Springs
24.1. Copper Mining 24.2. Patrol Duty
25. Gedron 26. Salt Oasis 27. Cedrilte
27.1. Cedrilte Obelisk 27.2. Terror Bloom
28. Undermountain
28.1. The Outcast 28.2. The Entity 28.3. The Queen 28.4. The Pact
29. Lower Castle
29.1. Serpent Boots 29.2. Initial Cleanup 29.3. Dark Flame 29.4. End of the Line
30. Upper Castle
30.1. The Good Druid 30.2. The Bad Master 30.3. The Ugly Tara 30.4. Return to Cedrilte 30.5. Third Allies
31. Temple Ruins
31.1. Tynan 31.2. Tristram 31.3. A’Poss 31.4. The Lovers
32. Lava Rift 33. Gem Fields
33.1. Hard Labor 33.2. Ylakez and Ketzia 33.3. We Axed For It 33.4. Makhlad 33.5. Hesutu
34. Silt Sea South 35. Silt Sea North
35.1. Jasmine 35.2. Wyrmias
36. Ssuran Ruins 37. Wyrm Belly 38. Wyrm Temple 39. Wyrm School
39.1. Draketooth 39.2. Balkazar 39.3. Terror Blade
40. Captured Gladiators
40.1. War Preparations
41. Korbnor
41.1. Cragg’s Body 41.2. Genie in a Bottle 41.3. The Wishes 41.4. Final Preparations
42. War
42.1. First Wave 42.2. Second Wave 42.3. Third Wave 42.4. Dragon’s Bane 42.5. Leader of the People
43. Preparations for Wake of the Ravager
43.1. Item Translation 43.2. My Selections 43.3. Special Notes
44. Cheats
44.1. Using Switches 44.2. Cheat Keys 44.3. Comprehensive Cheats

Dark Sun: Shattered Lands Walkthrough

31. Temple Ruins

31.1. Tynan

Go down the well in Teaquetzl at 11 to reach the temple ruins. Approach the shadow at 2 and it will warn you about a curse. Be brave, then stay a while and listen to the story of Tristram, A’Poss, and himself. Tynan will want you to gather their heart crystals. Agree to help him and Tynan will sense the presence of his own crystal, but bemoan the lack of Tristram’s.

31.2. Tristram

Using Tynan’s heart while standing in the rings at T will teleport you from one to the other, but there isn’t much we can do at the other end yet. Exit at 1, then teleport to the Red Sands Plateau. From there, head south to the Wagon Train. Use a rope to go down into the chasm under the bridge at 6.

Had we already got the grappling hook from Silt Sea North, you could have used that to climb down too.

You will appear at 3 in the temple ruins. Tristram is at 4. She is incoherent and her speech goes around in circles, but keep speaking to her. When you finally get the chance, say that you are here to take her, and that you must inform the escort that Tristram has been found. Ask for proof of the latter, then say you’ll take the crystal. End the conversation and each party member gets 500xp. You will now have Tristram’s Heart (named Tristram-heart in the game). Use it, and Tristram’s spirit will be absorbed into it. Each party member gets an additional 1,000xp.

We now have all three crystals. Leave at 3, teleport back to Teaquetzl, and again go down the well. Tynan will agree to be absorbed into his crystal. Use his heart for yet another 1,000xp each.

31.3. A’Poss

Teleport to Gedron and use the well at 8 to go down it. This will lead you to 5 in the temple ruins. Turn the zombies at Z, but be careful to not include the shadow at 6 in the turn box. Follow the next sequence exactly, or it can bug out. Stand next to the shadow (it’s A’Poss, though the game calls him Aposs), drop his heart crystal, then pick it and add it back to your inventory.

Speak to the shadow and free A’Poss (if you ask questions, the option to free him may disappear). He will reward you with a scroll of Summon Shadow (level 5), but will also go hostile and attack. Good riddance. Leave at 5 when he’s vaporized.

31.4. The Lovers

Teleport to Cedrilte and go down the well at 8. This time you’ll appear at 7. Zeefram, the zombie, is not hostile. He will warn you about going further but will do nothing to stop you. In fact, now that we’ve met Tynan, you can drop his name and Zeefram will even become friendly, but this is not necessary.

Turn the hostile zombies at Z if you wish, then head to Tynan’s room at 9 (there’s a Sword Blank at 8 but it has no known use in the game). Use the diary on the floor to obtain a scroll of Hold Undead (level 3). If you wish, you can read through the rest of the diary for more story. The chest (X) is empty.

A character with low dexterity will cause Tynan’s diary to fall apart and you won’t be able to read it.

Go to the altar at 10 and first place Tristram’s heart on it. Each party member is rewarded with 1,000xp. Place Tynan’s heart on it and the temple will shake, breaking down all the walls that barred your way so far. Tynan’s spirit will give you permission to take whatever you wish, and each party member will get 6,000xp. Not bad for a little teleporting around. But there’s more. The previously inaccessible areas of the temple have some nice rewards waiting for us.

Buff up before going around to plunder, because apart from undead (which can all be turned from a safe distance), you may come across a hard-hitting enemy or two. 11 has just piles of ceramics (don’t miss the tiny piles that are mostly hidden by the southern wall of the room), but the weapon rack at 12 has a +2 Mace. Since it is a heavy weapon, it will replace one of my +1 axes. The chest at 13 has a Storm Ring, which can cast Ice Storm. The official cluebook says it has 50 charges, but I haven’t been able to test that.

There are more ceramics at 14. The bag to its south is empty, but the chest further south might have some minor loot. Another cache of ceramics at 15 clears out the place. Leave by whichever exit you wish (3 is the nearest), and teleport to Cedrilte. Rest up, exit to the east to Nazca Lines, and from there go south at 7 to reach the Lava Rift. We have enough +2 or better weapons now.

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