Maneater Blacktail Quest
Group: Side Quests
Season: Spring
You will be able to start this side quest after completing the quest "There Be Dragons". If you have previously helped Knight, you will start this quest by talking to him - Knight (Spring).
Once again, Yaga met brave Sir Knight with whom she previously worked on getting rid of a certain dragon. The next step of the plan would involve completing a certain contraption by the beast’s cave.
If you helped Rebel before, then of course you will have to talk to him to start this quest - Rebel (Spring).
Once again, Yaga met the ruthless Rebel with whom she previously worked on ridding the land of the mind-corrupting honey. The next step of the plan would involve completing a certain contraption by the will-o’-wisp cave.
Note: To complete this quest you must have crystal arrows. You will unlock the ability to craft them after reaching the autumn lands, during the main quest "The Root of All Confusion".
Related points of interest
Knight (Spring)
World Map
Rebel (Spring)
World Map
Maneater
World Map
Cave Entrance / Passage
World Map
Prior quests
To begin Maneater you must first complete There Be Dragons.
Objectives of Maneater
1. Complete the bomb
Go to the place marked on the map, you will find a "custom-made" deer there.
2. Attach the missing part
Starting this quest, from the mushroom you received a part that you can now attach.
3. Push the deer toward the cave
Use hocus and hit the deer.
It will move towards the cave.
In order for the deer to reach the destination you will have to repeat this action several times. Also be prepared that you will have to get rid of quite a number of strong opponents along the way.
Eventually you will reach the Cave Entrance / Passage.
4. Move away and shoot the bomb from afar
It didn’t seem like the contraption was of much interest to whoever inhabited the cave... Yaga decided that shooting the bomb would be effective either way.
Or at the very least more effective than idly waiting for something to happen.
Standing at a safe distance, shoot at the deer which will explode and reveal the entrance.
5. Investigate the passage
The explosion revealed the cave to be more of a passage, and its supposed residents were nowhere to be found. It only seemed proper to investigate the newfound opening.
Just go to the other side through the passage that was revealed.
6. Investigate the area
Move up the path leading up towards the strange tower.
7. Climb the tower / Investigate the tower
The supposed cave opened up a path to a place long lost. In its center stood a mysterious tower. Yaga felt that the long-awaited answers laid at its very top.
Yet I have to warn you, my dearest reader, that the way up would bring Yaga hardships and challenges beyond the usual. I could have only hoped that she had come armed to the teeth and well prepared.
8. Defeat the mage
And so it became apparent that all of the turmoil was a ruse fabricated by the gnoll mage only to lure Yaga to his tower. Trapped by the wizard’s power, she had to battle the fearsome Drath’Eff Kha.
And quite a battle it would be.
9. Report to Knight
The mage was defeated. But the dreadful recluse spoke of things that seemed of great importance. His mad plans aside, the wizard mentioned an incoming gnoll invasion. That was news far too unsettling to be ignored.
The mushroom needed to know of this as soon as possible.