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[Group] The Rod and the Orb is an Elyos quest in AION Classic 5.0. Complete Written in Blood first. It opens The Orb and the Rod. It rewards 5,312,800 experience.

Story

The offer

Nothing important is ever easy, Daeva. Hmmm...I don't understand where the Forgotten Storeroom is.

It says something about a hidden door just before the Hero's Vault, but I have no idea where this Hero's Vault is.

Try to find this Quartz Rod. And while you're there, use the Quartz Rod to activate the Rift Orb, too.

  • Accept.
  • Decline.

You should be able to get the Quartz Rod by killing something called Shadowshift in the Forgotten Storeroom.

Then take the Quartz Rod to the Ritual Chamber in the Temple of Eternity and activate the Rift Orb.

You may come face to face with Stormwing somewhere in the process, so make sure your blades are sharp and your wits are even sharper!

  • "I'll see what I can find."

Journal

Defeat Shadowshift to obtain the Quartz Rod then use it to activate the Rift Orb in the Ritual Chamber.

Along the way

Now that I can actually read the text on this document, it should tell us where Stormwing is sealed.

The temple...the chamber...the Prison of Ice...ahhh, here we go, I found it!

It doesn't exactly say where Stormwing is sealed, but it does describe how to get there.

  • "How?"

Apparently there's a large orb in the Ritual Chamber where Isbariya the Resolute dwelled. You can use this orb to teleport to the Prison of Ice...where Stormwing is sealed.

But, it seems you need some type of special energy source to use the orb.

And this energy source is inside the Quartz Rod and...let's see...you can obtain it from a place called the Forgotten Storeroom.

  • "That's quite elaborate."

What happened at Beshmundir Temple?

Did the Rift Orb take you to the Prison of Ice?

Did you manage to find Stormwing?

  • "Luck was not with me today."

Reward

Really? That's very strange...maybe I read the document wrong.

I wasn't expecting everything to go smoothly on the first try, but I assumed SOMETHING would happen.

But why didn't the Quartz Rod work? That's the golden question. Hmmm, I'll go back to the document and see what I can dig up.

Completion

Pilomenes learned from the restored ancient document that you must defeat Shadowshift to obtain the Quartz Rod then use it to activate the Rift Orb in the Ritual Chamber.

You did as he asked and obtained the Quartz Rod, but for some reason you couldn't activate the Rift Orb.

Objectives

Bring

ItemCount
Quartz Rod1

Requirements

Complete first
Written in Blood
Sharing
Cannot be shared

Rewards

Experience
5,312,800

Choose one

ItemCount
Pilomenes' Ruby Ring1
Pilomenes' Sapphire Ring1

Quest chain

Quest drops

NPCItemChance
ShadowshiftQuartz Rod100.00%Share of this group’s roll that yields the item.
ShadowshiftQuartz Rod100.00%Share of this group’s roll that yields the item.

Across eras

Classic 5.0Classic 2.7Retail 4.8Retail 4.9Retail 5.8Retail 7.8
TypeOutside level range, ElyosLv 55, ElyosLv 53, ElyosLv 53, ElyosLv 53, ElyosOutside level range, Elyos