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| Patrick's Tower | Cellar |
Patrick is a powerful mage and and was together with Erika and Solberg a member of the first Triad of the Tower of Magi but has now retired to this tower.
| Person | Function | Items, Quests and Notes | Rating |
| Granby | Captain | A rather disgruntled Captain of Patrick's guard. | |
| Marco | Cook | He would love to get his hands on some garlic and some decent oil, but here in Avernum ... | |
| Patrick | Mage | He tells you that his wife is very ill and he is just waiting for her to die, which she certainly will unless someone can find some Greymould Salve for her. Until you have cured her and Erika and Rone tell you to ask him, he gives you no useful information. | Quest |
| Rita | Mage | Tells you about crystal charms and will give you a series of missions. | Quest |
| Hathwisa | Patrick's wife | She is ill and can only be cured with Greymould Salve. | |
| Anji | Mage | Tells you about the first expedition and "Smite" the giant slaying spear. | |
| Kai | Mage | He is working in rather cramped quarters in a library in the NE corner of the tower because the lower chambers, where his work should be done, have all been claimed by Lethem. He will make some potions for you. | |
| Adam | Mage | He has the flu but will tell you a bit about crystals, in particular the one at the base of the statue in Fort Avernum that Nance has already told you about. | |
| Lethem | Arcanist | He has recently been banned to Avernum and finds the Avernites much to docile. He feels that they should utilise the natural magical power of these caves to make a new powerful nation. |
It is always a good idea to talk to everybody. The following notes give hints on hidden rooms, traps and puzzles.
There are some potion ingedients (Healing and Spritual Herbs) lying around outside the walls.
In the main library are two tomes that give you information. One tells a bit about King Micah; the other suggests that the Orb of Thralni was probably lost in the Waterfall Warren.
If you get some Greymould Salve and heal Hathwisa (gives you about 75xp and 1 rep.), Patrick will tell you to look at his desk. There is a button which opens a secret passage behind a bookcase. This leads through a passage with a magical barrier to which tells you, "The Fort Beckons Anew". This is the password for getting past the barrier to the Golden Key which is hidden in a prison cell in the Castle.
After you have spoken to Erika about finding an exit to the surface, he will give you part of the password.
Whether written "Greymould" as in England or "Graymold" as in America there is still some confusion about this substance, but the situation is much clearer than in the original game. The Hints Book tells you to talk to Zathnia in the Tower of Magi, who tells you, that she is standing in for Cortath who has gone off looking for greymould and that Phyllea in Fort Draco probably knows of his whereabouts. There are also some hints (e.g. from Malville in Dharmon or Hodgson in Fort Emerald) about where to find the mould.
One use of Greymould Salve is needed to cure Hathwisa and Greymould is needed for making the Salve and for quests for Ether in Mertis and Kendrew in the Freehold of Kyass. The Salve can be found in the hidden research laboratory in the Slith Fort. The recipe can be found in the hut by the Remote Lake. (You can actually go directly to the hut without asking anyone where Corath or the recipe can be found.) Greymould can be found in Erika's Tower (in her chambers?), outside the Hidden Island Tower and in other places which I have forgotten. There is also a regenerating patch of it where the three rivers run together to the east of the Giant Lands.
When you have found the recipe and some greymould you can teach Kai the recipe (gives you around 50 xp) and get him to make you the salve.
| Potion | Ingredients |
| Healing Elixir | Healing Herbs and Energetic Herbs |
| Curing Elixir | Healing Herbs and Energetic Herbs |
| Armor Elixir | Spiritual Herbs and Energetic Herbs |
| Energy Elixir | Greymould, Spiritual Herbs and Energetic Herbs |
| Protective Potion | Energetic Herbs and Mandrake Root |
| And once you have taught him the recipe | |
| Greymould Salve | Greymould |
When you go down to the cellar you find a subterranean garden where someone is breeding dangerous, carnivorous fungi. As soon as you get to the middle of the garden the pots around the edge of the room shatter as great plants (3 Submission, 5 Burning Fungi) materialise out of them. When you have eradicated them you can proceed east and talk to Lethem. There is not much you can do until you get a mission from Kyass.
When you have persuaded him to join Kyass, he will leave the cellar and you can take the things he left behind, To get past the barriers you need Dispel Barriers L2.
There is no Job Board in this town.
Rita is researching magical knowledge in Patrick's Library. She will ask you to find various magical writings. The only trouble is that Evyss and Thantria are also looking for the same information.
The dragon Pyrog owns some magical tomes full of powerful knowledge. Should you find those papers, you can bring them to Rita.
This job is not exactly easy, Pyrog is a tough nut to crack. If you defeat the dragon and get her notes, you could give them to Rita who rewards you with a Sroll – Powerlash, 200 coins around 40xp and 1 reputation. But do not forget that Evyss and Thantria are also looking for this tome.
There is a mysterious, magical creature named Drath living in a lair north of the Great Cave. It may own some magical tomes full of powerful knowledge. Should you find those papers, you can bring them to Rita.
If you decide to give her the book she will reward you with 500 coins, a Scroll – Return Life, around 40xp and 1 reputation.