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EverQuest 2 Quest Information

Journal Category	Heritage  (AA)
Introduced	The Shadow Odyssey
Journal Level	85 (Tier 9)
Journal Difficulty	Heroic
Starting Zone	Halls of the Unseen more
How to Start	Talk to Misa Ravensoul after completing Back into the Fray!
part of: Dark Mail Gauntlets Timeline Preceded by: Back into the Fray! Followed by: Taking a little trip...
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Steps

1. Check your in-game mail (which will take 5-10 minutes until you receive the message).
   • NOTE: All the following mobs will become 83-85 ^^^ (Heroic) and attack you after you hail them. You will most likely need a group for all of them.
2. Go to Antonica and hail Cantile Digglefiz ( -1894, -32, -504 ) Copy/waypoint -1894, -32, -504 (This is near Windstalker Village).
   • Only one person in your group needs to hail.
   • Cantile has an elemental detrimental and a knockback, so find someplace safe to pull her. The nearby house and the lake across the path from here have both been used successfully.
3. Next, you must drop off a package at the Keep of the Ardent Needle in Antonica ( -547, -13, -325 ) Copy/waypoint -547, -13, -325 - click a barrel to the right of the entrance (outside).
4. Check your in-game mail again for the next step (it will take another 5-10 minutes until you receive the message). Mailbox in Darklight Wood fair which is on the way or at griffon tower in antonica.
5. Go speak to Kerand D'Gamd ( 695, -56, -154 ) Copy/waypoint 695, -56, -154 in Darklight Wood; he will attack you.
   • Only one person in your group needs to hail.
   • He has a noxious-based stifle and a single-target noxious detrimental (upwards of 5-11k damage at level 90!)
6. Click a barrel in the tunnel heading to Nektulos Forest ( 711, -66, 75 ) Copy/waypoint 711, -66, 75.
7. Check your in-game mail once more, in Timorous Deep - mailbox ( 2659, 124, 1135 ) Copy/waypoint 2658.80, 123.80, 1134.60 (wait 5-10 minutes more until you receive the message).
8. The instructions lead you to Timorous Deep, just past the docks to speak to Norian Deathblow. ( 2492, 26, 1321 ) Copy/waypoint 2492, 26, 1321
   • He casts an uncurable poison effect that inflicts 340% health after 2 minutes, if mob is not killed.
9. Click a barrel on the docks. ( 2392, 10, 1439 ) Copy/waypoint 2392, 10, 1439
10. Check your in-game mail, in Commonlands - Freeport Station mailbox ( -596, -48, -773 ) Copy/waypoint -596.31, -47.89, -772.64
11. These instructions lead you to the Commonlands to speak to Kason Withershadow in the Crossroads area. ( -375, -47, -256 ) Copy/waypoint -375, -47, -256
    • Kason will spawn four adds.
12. Talk to Zadkiel X'aphon behind you. You will be given the Barrel to Butcherblock.
13. Zone into the Halls of the Unseen: The Takeover. This is a heroic instance and will zone your entire group in.
14. Fight through the zone, and kill Evana L'Alval.
15. Take revenge on Misa Ravensoul.
16. Speak to Nyran Dudez in the zone to complete your quest.

Notes

• Cantile, Kerand, Norian, and Kason all have a respawn time of 10 minutes.

Rewards

• Suffix Title: the Voice
• 80,482 status
• One of:
  • Dark Mail Gauntlets (Fighter)
  • Dark Mail Gauntlets (Priest)
  • Dark Mail Gauntlets (Scout)
  • Dark Mail Gauntlets (Mage)

Barrel to Butcherblock (given during the quest) is not removed and serves as an additional reward.