Graveyard

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The Graveyard is an area in the Southeastern Direlands designed for high-level small group hunting. It was introduced in the Ancient Enemies patch. The graveyard has been updated with new content during the Strange Sightings, Dark Materials, Corrupted Sovereigns, Prodigal Sons, Foolish Ambition, Upping the Ante, Introductions, Dispatch, Shattered Lines, Ancient Powers, and Risks and Rewards events.

Unique Design

The Graveyard was the first place to see a lot of new tech being developed.

The spawns in the graveyard change depending on the time displayed on the map panel. The spawns switch to the easier "day" creatures at Dawnsong and to the harder "night" creatures at Evensong. (See Time for more details.)
The Graveyard was the first place to use the Alternative Currency tech, where NPCs will accept some other item instead of Pyreals for payment. In the case of the Graveyard, this currency is the Ancient Mhoire Coin.
There are a few collection quests which use the NPC item detection tech, where an NPC will search your bags for an item or items and take it directly out, so you do not have to give the items to the NPC yourself - a very helpful feature in the deadly environment of the Graveyard.

Quests

Quest	Restriction	Rewards
Amelia	150+ (?)	30 Million xp, Amelia's Pet Gargoyle, Title, and 1 Ancient Mhoire Coin
DeathTail Quest	None	100 Million xp, Title, and 1 Ancient Mhoire Coin
Disturbance in the Ley Lines	150+	300 Million and Visage of Menilesh
Hunter Quest (Grave Rats)	100+	50 Million xp and Lo Shoen's Rat Bait
Jester's Cards	None	Deck of Eyes and Deck of Hands
Jester's Lost Marbles	160+	130 Million, 2 Titles, Jester's Card, Spectral Weapons, and maybe an Ancient Mhoire Coin
Lady Mhoire	None	3-5 Coins, Title, and a Mana Forge Key
K'nath Core Quest	160+	710 Million xp, Title, Jester's Card, and Braced Mana Forge Key
Lord Mhoire	None	3-5 Ancient Mhoire Coins, Title, and Mana Forge Key
Lord Rytheran's Journal	None	First Time: 248 Million xp, Repeat Runs: 123 Millions xp
Ranger Lord Mhoire	None	3-5 Ancient Mhoire Coins, Title, and a Mana Forge Key
The Jester	160+	Xp, 3 Titles, Dark Scarab, Arcane Pyramid (Spell), and a Jester's Card

Graveyard Society Tasks

Quest	Rank Required
Investigate the Factions	Before Joining a Society
Shambling Archivist Destroyer	Initiate
Undead Jaw Bone Collector Task	Initiate
Wight Blade Sorcerer Kill Task	Initiate
Graveyard Package Delivery	Adept
Tracing The Stone	Adept

NPCs

NPC Name	Location	Type	Details
Amelia	64.8S 43.8W (only at night)	Quest NPC	Talk to her to start the quest
Apep-tek the Tolerant	65.3S, 44.0W (near the recall bunker)	Collector	Gives 15 Million xp for 10 Pyre Shrouds (must be level 100+)
Candrus Steady-Hand	65.8S, 45.3W (outside the Graveyard in the valley to the west)	Quest NPC	Investigate the Factions
Jawaq ibn Janath	64.2S, 44.0W (outside the Graveyard in the valley to the southeast)	Quest NPC	Investigate the Factions
Kousu Temo	65.3S, 42.3W (just outside the northern edge Graveyard)	Quest NPC	Investigate the Factions
Lo Shoen	65.3S, 43.4W (Just outside the Graveyard to the southeast)	Quest NPC	Hunter Quest (Grave Rats) and DeathTail Quest
Hurnmel the Smith	65.4S 44.0W (spawns only at night at the bottom of the recall bunker)	Shopkeeper	Sells a variety of items in exchange for Ancient Mhoire Coins
Jester	64.6S 43.8W (use the northern Summoning Stone to summon him)	Quest NPC	K'nath Core Quest
Jester	65.8S 43.8W (use the southern Summoning Stone to summon him)	Quest NPC	Jester's Lost Marbles
Shade of Parieth	65.6S 43.9W (Spawns only at night at the south end of the Graveyard)	Collector	6 Million xp per 10 Exhumed Bones
Skettek the Wanderer	65.3S, 43.4W (Just outside the Graveyard to the southeast)	Shopkeeper	Vendor with regular supplies (spell comps, fletching supplies, alchemy supplies, etc.)

Graveyard Trophies

Ancient Journal Page Ancient Mhoire Coin Exhumed Bones Jester's Token Ornate Bone Key Pristine Mana Shard Pyre Shroud Pyre Skeleton Jaw

Deck of Hands (Individual cards)

Deck of Eyes (Individual cards)

Lore

It would seem that in the distant past Rytheran under the direction of, Geraine, His Eternal Splendor, destroyed the House Mhoire using the Book of Eibhil. It is unclear why, but in Rytheran's Letter he refers to the House Mhoire as the traitor house. It is presumed that the House of Mhoire left because they objected to becoming undead like Geraine and many of the other Dericost nobles. For millennia the House Mhoire was buried beneath the ground, but recently, as written in his letter, Rytheran left the Mage Academy in search of a mysterious magical book, the Book of Eibhil. He found the book and began to read from it to restore his memories and power. By reading from this book, dark magic rose the Graveyard to the surface once more.

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