Wake the Dead (Event)

A group of gravestones as they appear in Freeport. The shovel may be near any of these locations at various times.

Pick up the shovel, and get digging!

Wake the Dead is a Nights of the Dead event introduced in 2017.

To participate:

1. Find a shovel near a cluster of gravestones during Nights of the Dead and pick it up.
   • Locations for shovels and gravestones include Qeynos, Freeport, New Halas, Kelethin, Gorowyn, Darklight Wood, Maj'Dul, Haven, and on the docks in the Great Divide.
   • Not every group of gravestones has a shovel, but there should be plenty around.
   • Once you have a shovel in inventory, you will not be able to see any further shovel spawns.
2. Equip the shovel will equip in your weapon appearance slot, not in your wardrobe
   • You can keep the shovel after the event.
   • If you place the shovel in your wardrobe, if you want to go gravedigging again, you will need to then loot and equip another shovel (it can be found again once the shovel is no longer in your physical inventory).
3. Find gravestones that are clickable, and click on them to "wake the dead".
4. When you dig up a grave, various outcomes are possible:
   • A mob appears and attacks you.
     • Note: To avoid aggroing wandering guards, use Singular Focus while gravedigging and avoid AOEs.
   • A forlorn apparition appears. Hail it to start the Broken Mirrors quest.
   • You receive a present containing one of several items.
   • A woken spirit appears, and you must hail it. The mob will randomly do one of the following:
     • tell you that it wants to fight and you can choose whether you want to fight or not.
     • says it wants to play Hide-n-seek with you and if you agree, promptly disappears, only to show up again and again later.
     • asks why it was woken and then, you can say that it's Nights of the Dead and the spirit dances or to test it's might to choose to fight the spirit.

Achievement

The Wake the Dead Achievement and title may be earned by digging up 25 graves.

Rewards

There are a variety of rewards available from this event, all of which are granted randomly.

These include:

• A shiny for the collection Grave Memories - added 2018
• A shiny for the collection Facing Your Fears - added 2021
• Arrangement of Snuffed Candles
• Catacomb Brick Building Blocks - added 2019
• Charcoal Baby Dragon Clothwork - heirloom housepet, added 2018
• Bloody Tooth Skeleton Plushie
• Deadly Terra-Widow - familiar
• Fresh Grave Mound
• Golden-wrapped Mummy
• Mummy Head
• Petamorph Wand: Boneghoul
• Phantasm Witchcraft Cloak - added 2021
• Phantasm Witchcraft Ensemble - added 2021
• Phantasm Witchcraft Hat - added 2021
• Prefix Title: Grim Grinning
• Putrescent Slime Cube - heirloom fluff pet
• Sanguine Witchcraft Cloak - added 2020
• Sanguine Witchcraft Ensemble - added 2020
• Sanguine Witchcraft Hat - added 2020
• Suffix Title: the Happy Haunter
• Suffix Title: the Tricky

This article refers to events, personae and activities only present in-game during the annual Nights of the Dead festivities, which come to Norrath each year from (roughly) mid- to late-October through to early- to mid-November.

EQ2i credits this page at EQ2 Traders for some of the information in this article.