Vegarlson: Council's Stronghold (Solo)

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Walkthrough
Head all the way down the entryway to the base of the pyramid, either by running or hopping a ride on the snail. The first name is standing right in front of the door, The Great Gravelly One. Kill him.

Ignore the door into the pyramid for now and make your way around the outside. Either way works, you are looking for a mob that roams along the back of the pyramid. His name is Guardian of Gravel so just keep going around the outside until you find him, then kill him and loot the Ethereal Gravel off his body.

Return to the front of the pyramid and open the door and go in. Right in front of you is a pedestal and there are doors in the west (directly in front of you) and north (right) and south (left) walls. Click on the pedestal to start the Test of Gravel and be prepared to watch the pattern. There will be a floating mass of earth that moves from one door to another. Watch which door it moves to and the door it moves from and follow the pattern it makes. Successfully completing the pattern opens a Access to Upper Level portal at. Click it to move to the next level. Before you do, click the pedestal again to collect some Severed Ethereal Gravel, which I again do not know the use of.

After clicking the portal, you will be on the outside of the next level of the pyramid, facing a hallway that leads inside, where Aggregahn is, with some friends. At this point you can kill him or ignore him, as you don't have what you need to progress in the room behind him.

Head around the outside of the pyramid again, this time you are looking for the Guardian of Stones who paths along the back of the building. Kill him and loot his Ethereal Stones. Head back to the front hallway and kill Aggregahn and open the door to an identical room to the room below. Click the pedestal to start the Test of Stone. At each door a soldier of stone will spawn and one in the middle. When you kill one of the 3 soldiers at a door, you will get an emote that says "The (western/northern/southern) soldier of stone crumbles. You note the order of its demise, and the door from which it entered." The certain soldier does not have an emote. After killing all 4, click the doors in the order you killed the soldiers. This summons the Access to Upper Level portal at. Click it to move to the next level. Before you do, click the pedestal again to collect some Severed Ethereal Stones, which I again do not know the use of.

Again you find yourself on the outside of the next level up, facing a hallway leading inside, but with no boss and the door is sealed shut. Head right along the outside of the pyramid. Continue along the side to. Notice the floating rock platforms next to the edge of the building? Jump on them, one by one descending until you reach the bottom. You will end up on an island with non-aggro armadillos. On the peak in the center of the island is the Guardian of Soil. Kill him and loot the Ethereal Soil. Circling the island in the water at the very edge is Escargore, a giant snail. Kill him to activate the Access the 3rd Level portal at. When he is dead, click the portal to return to the 3rd level.

Back up top, head down the hall and open the door into a familiar room. Click the pedestal to begin the Test of Soil. Piles of dirt will appear in front of each of the 3 doors, and also an earthly podwalker. Engage them and pull and kill one of them on top of each of the piles of dirt, which should set glowing green sparkles coming out of the piles. If you fail, more of the podwalkers will spawn until you successfully kill them on all 3 piles. Next, waters of Awuidor spawn, repeat the same process for blue sparkles on each pile. Next is flit of radiance, repeat the process for a third time for gold sparkles, completing the ritual and sprouting some plants. Click the plant to harvest Ethereal Leaves, then click the Access to Upper Level portal that appeared at.

On the next level, there is nothing outside, so head right into the hallway and through the door. Another room, this time with some trees. Click the pedestal to start the Test of Leaves. This spawns a group of 4 mobs in front of each door, kill them to spawn the boss, Lesha Needleleaf in the center of the room. Kill her to open the Access to Upper Level portal at. Use the portal.

This brings you to the roof of the pyramid, where the Council of Four are each floating on a rock. Kill them to finish the zone.

The portal to exit the zone is at.

Bosses

 * 1) The Great Gravelly One is located at . During the fight he emotes "Tremendous heat and wind build up around The Great Gravelly One!", which sounds like possibly a joust situation, but nothing seemed to happen in the Solo.
 * 2) Aggregahn is located at . During the fight he says "I can destroy as easy as I can build!" and there is some glowing around him.  After a moment it emotes "There is nothing between you and Aggregahn! You feel the full force of his Aggregate Blast!"  This didn't seem to do anything, and he is not rooted during this, so you can't get behind him, and if you leave the hallway, he leashes.
 * 3) Escargore is located circling the Solum Island at . It's best to pull him up onto the center of the island, because he has a fear and you don't want to get feared into the water.
 * 4) Lesha Needleleaf is located at . She summons adds during the fight.
 * 5) Council of Four is located on the top of the pyramid at . No matter which one you engage first, all but Council of Gravel on the south side will be immune to damage.  They will attack you one at a time, starting with Gravel, then progressing clockwise through Stone, Soil, and finally Leaves.  All the fights seem pretty straight forward with nothing special, though Stone said "My stones! Witness their upheaval!" followed by a knockback.