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The Hidden City of the Dwarves
Spoilers. Each step says what you are trying to do, and the solution stays hidden until you click it. To talk to someone, stand right beside them (not diagonally) and press Enter or Space.
Where: Amber, Laendlich, and the Northern Post. Reward: the way into the Dwarven Caves, and the horn. You need: the bridge built, and about 50 gold for a ferry.
The people you need to talk to must be visited in order. Someone who has not heard the earlier part of the story will only make small talk.
Hear that the dwarves can be found
The dwarves live underground and nobody has seen them in centuries. A wise man knows how to find them.
Solution
Townspeople say a wise man in Amber, in the south of the continent, knows about the hidden city. Find him and talk to him. He says the caves are hidden by magic and can only be entered by blowing a magic horn, and that a dwarf in Laendlich can help.
AFind the dwarf in Laendlich
Laendlich is across the water. A dwarf there knows who has the horn.
Solution
A ferryman on the south coast, west of Amber, will take you across for 50 gold. Walk to his hut on the marked spot and pay him. In town, find the dwarf and talk to him. He tells you to look for Bonebreaker in one of the northern towns. (If you skipped the wise man in Amber, the dwarf only chats.)
Laendlich’s own ferryman takes you back to the mainland for free.
A
AGet the horn from Bonebreaker
Bonebreaker leads a fort in the north. He wants proof that you are worth trusting.
Solution
The fort is the Northern Post, on the northeastern coast, and a dwarf commands it. Talk to Bonebreaker. He tells you to rest at the inn and return. (Nothing forces you to; the raid only starts when you talk to him again. Rest anyway, so you begin at full HP and MP.)
Talk to him again. Choose Gwaaarrrgghhlllgh! and you fight five Goblins in a row with no chance to heal between them. Each is worth 150 experience and 100 gold. If you run away, he says you had to fall back, and you can try again by talking to him once more.
When all five have fallen, he gives you the horn. Then talk to him one more time: he tells you where the caves are, in the southern part of the continent. The caves will not appear until you have had that last conversation.
ABBlow the horn
The caves are hidden until you have the horn.
Solution
The cave mouth is on the south coast, west of Rhoeyce. Go to the marked spot. If you have finished with Bonebreaker, you blow the horn and the entrance appears. If not, the cave vanishes as you get close. Inside, follow the passage to the stairs down into the dwarves’ city; see Dungeons and Caves for the maps.
AThe dwarves’ king has a problem of his own: The Dwarven Crystal.