Jean

Ingie <img border="0" alt="[grinch]" title="" src="graemlins/grinch.gif" />

Hi Jean Ingie, we posted at the same time, but you were a bit faster.

Hi Ingie and Nickie:

I just got home, and thanks for your replies. I've been through the caves that lead to the Azunite Shrine, and been through the Shrine. I have the mirror and map, but haven't heard anything about a lost vault I just looked at the description of the mirror and it mentions finding the lost vault with it. Hmmm.

I don't have any idea where the vault is, though. Is it in the Shrine somewhere? And the only puzzles I solved in this area is the riddle in the crypt, where the mage keeps killing me, but that's a secondary quest.

I'm missing something somewhere, and it's probably very simple. Heeellpppp!!!!!

Jean

Ah-ha..

This puzzle makes you place the mirror in the statue that it will go..then you turn the different statues to make a continual beam of light that will then activate the lost vault..took a little time to figure out how many turns for each statue, but fiddling with it will get you what you need..

If you need help, I still have my trusty SG and we can give you better directions.

Ingie <img border="0" alt="[grinch]" title="" src="graemlins/grinch.gif" />

Hi Ingie:

Thanks! Where is it, though? Is it still in the Shrine? I made it out of that area and am wandering around the Lost Azunite Valley, is it near there?

You know, I have a strategy guide, too, but my brains have turned to mush, and I can't figure out where to go.

Jean

Jean, I can't tell exactly where you are, and I don't remember much of this from when I played, but the Gamespot guide may help, click here for the specific quest info:

DS2 LOST AZUNITE ARTIFACT

Jean, <img border="0" alt="[santa]" title="" src="graemlins/santa.gif" />

Yep, when you do the mirror puzzle correctly; a doorway to the north of you should open up..that is where you can talk to the ancient one

Great maps there, this game really needs to look into how to make a map..even the SG is not very good at mapping

Ingie <img border="0" alt="[grinch]" title="" src="graemlins/grinch.gif" />

Thanks Schwab and Ingie! That helped, and I'm on my way there. You're right, the maps in the game and SG are really bad, and since I can't read maps well in the first place I'm continually lost!

Jean

ARrrghhhh!!! I have the light puzzle done exactly like the screenshot and nothing's happening! No vault or door opened.

Edited to say: Duh! It always works. I had one statue turned slightly to the left.

Jean

Okay this is what the SG states..

"The completed mirror puzzle opens a new passage.
Descend the sprial staircase..looks like face East and descend down..at the bottom of the staircase there will be the vault to the bottom. Approach the pedestal in the valult's cent and Pick up the Azunite Artifact. Speak with the Elven spirit. The Ancestor of the Azunties appears and provides your next quest. Open the big chest for your reward. You need to find a hidden vault in the Windstone Fortress to power the artifact."

You may be like me, and looking for something more obvious, remember you're in a cavern, so it will be rocky..not a wooden spiral..hope that helps a bit..
I'm lost tonight too.

Ingie <img border="0" alt="[grinch]" title="" src="graemlins/grinch.gif" />

Thanks, Ingie! I got through that patch and am now on my way to the Fortress. I'm done for the night, so I'll leave that discovery for tomorrow.

Jean

I got to Windstone Fortress, cleared it out and did all that stuff there. I decided to take on Sartan, so now I have two melee fighters, a combat mage and a nature mage. I dropped my ranger off at the inn, and I'll get her back later, but right now I need more muscle, I think!

I finally went back and retrieved the family heirloom from the crypt. I didn't actually kill the mage there. I saw the heirloom laying on the floor, and while we were fighting had someone run and pick it up. That way, once we were all killed I still had it! Quest complete, even though in a sneaky way. Maybe at some point I'll go back and get that mage when my levels are much higher.

Jean

Oh you clever girl...love it...


Ingie

Heellppp!!! I'm stuck in Istheru's caverns. I'm doing the quest for the parts of Arinth's staff. I'm supposed to go down into a dungeon to get the focusing stone. I'm definitely in the right place -- I've turned on both water levers and gotten to the treasure room. But, I can't find the button to the lift so I can get to the ghost. Does anyone remember where it is?

Jean

Found it! As usual, as soon as I posted it magically appeared. This one was really hard to find, as it was a stone set in a step.

Jean