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Lan shook his head sightly. 'He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.'

Robert Jordan, New Spring

Fortress of Lord Carnage by Caellach

Directions to Fortress of Lord Carnage
===== Introduction =====

The Fortress of Lord Carnage
Zone#: 95
Author: Arioch
Danger: 7

The Fortress of Lord Carnage can be found deep within the Mountains of Mist, and is an ancient keep that houses dark priests and undead warriors that once served Lord Carnage. A pair of stone gargoyles guard the large fortress, threatening to slay anyone who dares approach the entrance to the structure. An evil Overlord, perhaps the avatar of Carnage himself, is the ultimate ruler of this evil castle.

Mob List
All mobs are evil aligned.

Undead Sentry
Don't worry about these guys they are filler mobs.
Danger level -0

Undead Knights
Lightly buffer filler mobs
Danger level-1

Tower Watchmen
About the same as the Undead Knights, loads a suit of scarlet eq
Danger level-1

Colossus
These guys load the keys to the main tower and can hit REALLY hard but have very low APR.
Sentinels so don't worry about them hunting. Load pelt as well
Danger level-5

Dark Priest
Not very buff but may cast debuff not nothing major and don't load anything of use.
Danger level-2

Iron Golem
Not very scary but can hit hard and has lot of hp.
Danger level-3

Overlord
Casts fireball and Blind so be careful if you don't have much pfire :P.
Loads key to Carnage
Danger level- 4

the eidolon of Carnage
The boss of this zone. Twice as buff as all other mobs in the zone and casts Desecrate along with
Other debuffs.
Ciphers Skull
Danger Level- 8

===== Walkthrough =====

Assuming you have a mount the speed walk directions are very good.
First go Up and enter the Entrance to the Fortress.
This zone is very simple in its lay out it's a box with a tower in the middle.
First things First go to all four corners of the keep and go up to kill the Colossus'.
They aren't very scary but they do hit hard at low APR. They also pelt,

Once all the keys are looted you have they option to go in the main tower or the watch Tower in the eastern middle of the keep. A tower guard loads all that scarlet gear that you thought was cool when you were a newb :P.

Go into the middle tower via the north or south door.
You can kill the Dark Priest but they don't load anything of interest.
Find the path up and unlock the door and venture up
The iron golem there hits moderately hard but mostly just has a lot of hp.
Venture up further and kill the Overlord and his pets. Loot he key

Overlord casts fireball and blind which could become a problem.
Go back down to where he golem once stood and then proceed north and unlock the door
Follow the path down and you will meet the eidolon of Carnage.
Carnage cast a menagerie of debuffs including desecrate, attack him at your own risk
He also hunts so put tread on if you need to flee and regen. The reward for killing it is it may load a skull cipher.

Good Luck
By:Caellach