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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

32. Lava Rift

Overhead map of the area with the Lava Rift

The ‘hermit’ at 2 is a defiler who has been summoning fire elementals from the rift that has opened at 3. He’ll pretend that he wants help. You can kill the ranger at 3 and let the defiler access the rift, for which he will reward you with an Iron Necklace (casts Fireball), but killing him will result in the same reward and more. We’d kill him after talking to the ranger anyway, so might as well do it now.

If you can’t kill him in one round, he’ll summon fire elementals. Had we spoken to the ranger and returned, he would have summoned a fire elemental beforehand, too. We miss out on that little bit of XP, but it’s better than having to walk across the whole map many times. Each party member gets 4,000xp for killing him, and the Iron Necklace from his dead body. The official cluebook says it has 12 charges.

Whether you choose to clear out all the elementals or not, eventually fight your way to 3 (remember to have +2 or better weapons equipped on the aggressor). The ranger is guarding the rift against the defiler. Approach him, but be mindful about getting too close. Trying to walk away from him can trigger his dialogue again and again, making it difficult to actually get away (more so if the hermit is still alive). For killing the hermit, he rewards us with a bracelet of Energy Containment and the party gets another 4,000xp.

Had we not killed the hermit already, we could have waited at the rift for him to summon more elementals for some extra XP.

That’s all there is. Leave at 4 to access the Gem Fields.

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