
Branded-on-a-Stick
Listen to Caithe's update. Join Caithe at the Durmand Priory. Meet with Caithe. Listen to Caithe's concerns. Follow up on Glint's legacy. Meet with Ogden. Enter Glint's lair and find Aurene. Comfort Aurene. Join Aurene as her champion. Enter Glint's trials. Work with Aurene to pass Glint's first trial. Begin the first trial. Witness Glint's followers creating a resonance crystal. (Assist Aurene in absorbing volatile magic.) Help Aurene absorb volatile magic. Proceed to the second trial. Work with Aurene to pass Glint's second trial. Begin the second trial. (Charge the crystal with magic from the Branded.) Charge the crystal with magic from Branded foes. Continue to the crystalline forge. Charge the southern crystal. Charge the western crystal. Charge the eastern crystal. Activate the resonance crystal. Retrieve the Dragonsblood spear. Use the Dragonsblood spear against the Branded. Proceed to the third trial. Work with Aurene to pass Glint's final trial. Begin the third trial. Defeat the Branded horde. Reunite with Aurene. Defeat Branded Aurene. Receive Glint's gift. Exit Glint's trials. Update Caithe. Depart to Thunderhead Keep.
When you arrive at the Priory, Ogden Stonehealer already knows your plans to head to Thunderhead Peaks, however firstly a trial awaits you. Ogden shows you the way into a grain of sand. To enter the trial you must stand on a shiny flower on the floor which has the green quest star marker over it, while Aurene stands on the other flower. However if you stand on the flower first and wait for Aurene, nothing happens. To fix this, get off the flower and let Aurene stand on hers first, then you get on second. First trial There are three blue circles you must stand in while Aurene channels. Periodically there are orange wedges and if you stand in them they will push you out of the circle. The first has only two slices opposite each other which appear to cover 1/6th each. The second has three equal distance apart. The third has four with small safe wedges between them. Stability and aegis will prevent the knockback. Exiting the circle will lose some of Aurene's channel progress, and progress will be lost completely if the circle is not soon re-entered. Second trial Kill branded by the crystal to fill the bar. The second room has three crystals where you again kill branded near them to charge it. In order for a kill to count it needs to be close enough to be in the circle surrounding the crystal. If you kill the branded outside a circle a Branded Shard will spawn that you can throw into a crystal's circle to charge it. After picking up the Dragonsblood spear, use the new special action skill to throw the spear at the Branded. Third trial Defeat branded Aurene. Use the dragonblood spear skill whenever it has recharged. Avoid the large orange rectangles. Standing close to branded Aurene will cause circles to appear around it. The branded tornados are also worth avoiding. Avoiding everything (except branded Aurene's purple orb attack, which is not telegraphed, but including the tornados) will reward the Trial by Fire achievement. Kill the regular branded that appear whenever branded Aurene flies off.