Above the Silver Falls / Castle Vaults – Drakensang: The Dark Eye Location

This guide is an overview of a certain area from Chapter 6 in Drakensang: The Dark Eye. In it, you’ll find a map, legend, and overview of the points of interest.


overview 6 abovethesilverfalls

1 – Humbold
2 – Orc Camp
3 – Spider Nest
4 – Cave
5 – Orcs and Ogre
6 – Orc Patrol
7 – Fake Wall
8 – Fake Wall
9 – Ironbound Wooden Door
10 – Not-So-Fake Wall
11 – Ironbound Wooden Door
12 – Locked Gates
13 – Levers
14 – Guard Room
15 – Lever Alcove
16 – Orc Captain
17 – Skeleton
18 – Locked Gate
19 – Robbers
20 – Torch Brackets
21 – Ironbound Wooden Door
22 – Treasure Chest
23 – Statue Puzzle / Dragon’s Eye

Exits:

  • A – Entrance to the Castle Vaults. You’ll receive 100 experience points for entering the vaults.
  • B – Stairs between levels 1 and 2 of the vaults.
  • C – Stairs between levels 2 and 3 of the vaults.
  • D – Stairs between the upper and lower levels of the smithy.
  • E – Stairs between levels 3 and 4 of the vaults.
  • F – Exit from the Castle Vaults (to the Castle Inner Ward). When you exit the vaults, you won’t be able to return.
  • W – World exit.

Overview

This chapter will task you with completing another trial for the Oracle of the Dragon Quest. You’ll need to travel to Grimtooth Castle and acquire the Dragon’s Eye. You’ll find Grimtooth Castle in a region named Above the Silver Falls, located south of Ferdok. However, when you get there, you’ll find the area under attack by orcs and ogres, and so you’ll need to sneak into the castle via the Castle Vaults (Exit A).

The main quest for the chapter is The Dragon’s Eye, but you’ll also find a few side quests in Ferdok and along the path leading to the castle.


1 – Humbold

At this spot a soldier named Humbold (who you might remember from Avestrue) will come running up to you. He’ll tell you that he’s being chased by “an entire horde of orcs,” and he’ll trigger two quests — “The Messenger,” which will require you to save Humbold by defeating the orcs, and “Captured,” which will require you to free Humbold’s friend Gondwin, who was taken prisoner by the orcs to the north (#2).

Several orcs and an ogre will then attack you. The ogre is big and tough but slow, so try to kill the orcs quickly so you can concentrate on the ogre alone. You’ll receive 10 experience points when you kill the ogre, and you’ll receive 50 experience points for completing the battle. Humbold won’t stick around to thank you.


2 – Orc Camp

This is the camp where Gondwin is being held. You’ll face an ogre, an orc captain and more in the camp, but if you can defeat them, then you’ll earn 100 experience points, and you’ll free Gondwin. Gondwin will then tell you that he knows a secret way into the castle (Exit A), and he’ll lead you there.

Note: Before rushing off to follow Gondwin, go ahead and loot the camp first. Gondwin will wait for you a short ways ahead.


3 – Spider Nest

You’ll get attacked by eight small emerald spiders here. Nothing will happen if you destroy the spider eggs (here and elsewhere).


4 – Cave

When you stand in this cave (#4), you’ll eavesdrop on a pair of orcs. They’ll discuss the Dragon’s Eye, but they won’t know anything more about it than you do, other than that Bloodfang, the orc leader, is looking for it. The orcs will show up on your mini-map, but you won’t be able to attack them. That’s because they’re actually standing above you in the smithy (#4a).

You’ll also find four skeletons in the cave, but they won’t contain anything of value.


5 – Orcs and Ogre

You’ll encounter two orc warriors and an ogre here (#5). The orcs will taunt the ogre so much that the ogre will start pounding on the ground with his club, and he’ll cause the unstable walls to the east (#5a) to collapse, blocking your retreat from the Castle Vaults. You’ll have to kill the orcs and ogre to progress to Level 2.


6 – Orc Patrol

If you’re trying to sneak through the castle, then you’ll need to avoid this patrol. The patrol will follow the route marked by the gold lines on the map.


7 – Fake Wall

Behind this fake wall you’ll find a locked chest containing 7 ducats and more, plus a laboratory and lots of Alchemy ingredients.


8 – Fake Wall

Behind this fake wall you’ll find a locked chest containing 7 ducats and some potions.


9 – Ironbound Wooden Door

The door to this guard room will remain closed unless the orcs on Level 2 discover your presence. We’ve never seen the doors to this guard room and the other guard room (#11) both open. Ideally you’d force this door to open (by first sneaking through the level to meet a quest objective, and then returning) because you’ll find more to loot in this guard room than the other one.


10 – Not-So-Fake Wall

Every time we’ve played the game, this fake wall has already been open, revealing the way into a secret armory. If you loot all of the containers and orcs in the armory, then you’ll find a bunch of good stuff, including a Byakka, a Ravensbeak, a Warunkian Hammer, Gloves of Chain Mail, Chain Mail Leggings, and more.


11 – Ironbound Wooden Door

The door to this guard room will remain closed unless the orcs on Level 3 discover your presence. We’ve never seen the doors to this guard room and the other guard room (#9) both open.


12 – Locked Gates

You’ll need to position the levers in the guard room (#14) correctly to open these gates.


13 – Levers

These levers will open the gate in between them. But sometimes the gate will start out open, and the levers won’t do anything.


14 – Guard Room

If you loot the three locked chests in the guard room, then you’ll find about 200 ducats inside. In the back of the room you should also notice three levers. If you move the two outer levers to “up” and the middle lever to “down” (to match the shields on the wall above them), then you’ll open a pair of locked gates (#12).


15 – Lever Alcove

The levers here will open and close the cells to the east. Move the levers up to open the cells and down to close the cells.


16 – Orc Captain

When the orc captain dies, he’ll drop the Key to Cell Wing, the Key to Torture Chamber, and Instructions for Orcish Composite Bow. You’ll need the Key to Cell Wing to open the gate to the east (#18), but the Key to Torture Chamber doesn’t unlock anything.


17 – Skeleton

You’ll find a Note on the skeleton.


18 – Locked Gate

You’ll need the Key to Cell Wing (#16) to open this gate.


19 – Robbers

You’ll meet a pair of robbers here, but they’ll prefer to stay locked in their cell where they’re safe from the orcs. So far as we can tell, there isn’t any way to open the cell door or do anything with the robbers.


20 – Torch Brackets

You’ll find four torch brackets here that you can click on. To open the gates to the north, you’ll need to extinguish all of the torches, but if you click them in the wrong order, then you’ll get hit by a fireball and have to start over. You won’t have to worry about the northwestern torch (it’ll start out extinguished). For the others, you’ll need to click on them in this order: northeastern bracket, southwestern bracket, and then southeastern bracket.


21 – Ironbound Wooden Door

This door will remain closed until you solve the statue puzzle (#23).


22 – Treasure Chest

Inside the trapped and locked chest here you’ll find a Robe of Astral Power, Okharim’s Ring of Cleverness, and a Magician’s Rapier.


23 – Statue Puzzle / Dragon’s Eye

At this spot you’ll find four statues surrounding a pedestal. If you click on the statues then you’ll rotate them. Your goal is to rotate the statues so that they’re all directing a beam of light onto the pedestal.

To complete the puzzle, just notice that clicking on the eastern statue will rotate all of the statues, clicking on the northern statue will rotate three of the statues, clicking on the western statue will rotate two of the statues, and clicking on the southern statue will rotate only itself. That means you should start with the eastern statue, position it correctly, and then continue on in a counterclockwise fashion, positioning the statues as you go. Each new statue will only rotate itself and the statues you haven’t positioned yet, and so at the end all of the statues will be in the correct position.

When all four statues are pointing a beam of light at the pedestal, the Dragon’s Eye will appear, and a door to the west (#21) will open, allowing you to escape from the vaults (via Exit F). When you pick up the Dragon’s Eye, you’ll receive 300 experience points.

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