Tomb of Traductus
The Portal
The portal to the Tomb of Traductus is on the northeast of the Necropolis. Open
the door there that leads to a dark chamber. Note: opening this
door will lock the portal to the Vivarium for good.
There's a rusty crate in this room that's different from the rest. (For those
of you who can't find it, it's at the northeast corner of the room.) Step on it,
and it will lower. There's a switch at the bottom: pull it. Now a wall has opened
in the room. There's an elevator behind the wall. Pull the switch there to lower
the elevator. Be careful here, though. Quite a few Brown Serpents are waiting
for you at the bottom.
There's an opening at the north side of the rocky area at the bottom. Go through
the opening and turn left. There are stairs here that take you up on the ledge
where a Brown Serpent was shooting at you earlier on. Go right on the ledge. There's
a switch in the corner. Pull this switch, and the portal to the Tomb of Traductus
opens downstairs. Go back down the stairs and enter the Tomb of Traductus.
Three switches
You start in a dark cavern. Follow the passage and turn right when it forks. (If
you turn left, this leads to the portal that returns you to the Necropolis.) Watch
out for Brown Serpents when the passage opens out into a room. The entrance to
the Tomb is in front.
Go down the long passage. There's a secret passage on the right at the first pair
of stained glass walls, which leads to a dark room with some Dark Bishops and
quartz flasks. At the second pair of stained glass walls, the stained glass on
the left is actually a one-way wall. You can walk through it into another secret
room with some health potions. Usually there's a Dark Bishop or two hiding behind
the one-way wall, shooting at you.
If you walk to the end of the passage, the floor will lower. Usually I run there
and quickly run back before the floor lowers, because there are many Dark Bishops
down there!
After killing the Dark Bishops, jump down to the bottom. This is a triangular
area; there's a door on the north side of the triangle. Enter the door there.
There are three switches behind the door. The middle switch opens the area inside
the triangle, where Traductus is. The other two switches open two other areas
on the east and west sides of the triangle. It's not a good idea to pull all three
switches, because there are Dark Bishops in the other two areas, and they might
interfere when you're fighting Traductus.
The area on the west is a spiral staircase with a Falcon Shield at the top. But
there's a trap there: when you get the Falcon Shield rooms full of Dark Bishops
will open beside the stairs.
The area on the east also has stairs, that lead to a few small rooms. Walking
inside the first room will open a few other rooms. You can find the Icon of the
Defender here, among other things.
Traductus
Once you pull the middle switch, the area inside the triangle opens, and Traductus
appears. Watch out for his Wraithverge! You need Discs of Repulsion to keep those
ghosties away. After you kill Traductus, a pillar lowers, with a Holy Relic on
it, that looks like a mini-Wraithverge. Don't forget to take it with you.
That's about it. The elevator on the south end of the triangle is activated now,
so go back up and step into the portal that takes you back to the Necropolis.
To get out of the Brown Serpents area in the Necropolis, pull the switch opposite
the portal. This lowers the elevator where you came down on. Now you can continue
your quest.
This episode: Necropolis
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