By now, you (and everyone wanting to do this quest) have an Unmarked Armor piece in your inventory that you can use. If you look at the stats of the armor you will notice some words at the bottom. They say: Words glow and fade from the gloves: "Blood...". What does this mean exactly? It's actually telling you that it thrives on blood, and not just any blood, your blood!

So in order to feed it your blood, you need to get hit while wearing the piece of armor. Getting hit by any mob you can get experience from will work. It doesn't matter whether it is a 1dot or a 6dot (and dueling works too!). The more you get hit, the better chance you have to satisfy your piece of armor. You will know that you have satisfied your armor piece when a quest window pops up. When this does, accept it and stop attacking stuff for god's sake!

Now that you have the quest, head over to the outpost of Haven's Edge (you know the one that the Plains of Anguish riftway brings you to). In this outpost you will find an NPC pacing inside of a small wooden fenced area. His name will be Teryn Valso. When you talk to him he will tell you that he can feel you are in possession of an armor piece with great power that appears to have not been used for many years. If you go to the fountain here in Haven's Edge, and speak the words "I am evil incarnate", it will awaken your Unmarked Armor piece.

The Fountain is a run-down ornament (doesn't even have water, sheeeesh) just west of where Teryn is. Go there, and say the words (in /say) to update the quest. Go back to Teryn Valso, where you will receive your next quest.

So you wish to unlock the full power of your Armor Piece do you? You think you are as unholy as the legions of Cartheon? That's an amusing thought. The Divine Brotherhood fights against the Cartheon Empire, yet they are scorned by evil themselves. Killing them might empower your Armor Piece.

Unfortunately your piece of armor is very blood thirsty and requires that you kill 100 of the brotherhood gang in order for it to become empowered. The Brotherhood guys live inside of their fortified area (all the way to the east of the zone. You know, where you killed the Archbishop - Just follow the trail of Cartheon Pawns). There will be many different kinds of brotherhood guys, including Priests, Crusaders, Paladins, and even Bishops. All will be around level 42 - 43, and each one will be 3dot, except for the Crusaders which are 4dot. Inside the fortress will be plenty of Brotherhoods to slay (they even spawn fairly quickly), but if you are having trouble with overcrowding, then you can head north (down the cliff some) of their fortress, where you can find another camp of them (a much smaller camp). No matter which ones you decide to kill, they will each give you one update towards your 100 kills.

NOTE: You do not have to wear your armor piece, to get updates.

Once you have slaughtered your 100, the quest will automatically complete itself. This is when you will have to equip your new armor piece and right click them. This will open up a pop-up window with the new quest. The quest will explain that your armor piece just needs to be roasted in a forge. Unfortunately that forge is located inside of Greystone (a rather large dungeon), and unlucky for you, it is far deep inside of the place.

You will have to slay through many a monster around level 40-43 4dot mobs. The journey will be hard, and the names will be plenty, but eventually you will make it to the forge (Use this picture to help you navigate through Greystone). When you do make it there, make sure you clear a bunch of the mobs that surround the forge, and then you will need to equip your piece of armor, run to the dead center of the forge (inside the flame part) and right click the armor piece. This will update the quest.

Now get out of there! Make your way back to Haven's Edge (Plains of Anguish riftway) to meet up with Teryn Valso. He will have the final quest for you!

Teryn Valso hasn't seen something like this in a long time. Your armor piece has become a true symbol of evil, and you are but one task away from unlocking its true potential. In the ruins of Old Targanor lives a beast named Garzonag. He guards the Cartheon legions from outsiders there and possesses an essence that, if imbued upon your piece of armor, would unlock its most powerful form.

Old Targanor is but one chunk to the west of Plains of Anguish. The safest way I found to get there, would be to approach the chunk from the south, this will allow you to get to the entrance area more easily. The safest way there would be to follow the path that leads into Old Targanor at the entrance, then when you come up to a fork make a right. Follow that path for a little bit, and when it forks again, make a left. In front of you should be 2 small looking towers with a path in the middle. Garzonag will be a very large troll patrolling up and down the path inbetween the 2 towers.

He will be a level 42-46 4dot mob, that will be fairly easy to take down (no harder than any of the other mobs in the chunk). You only have to watch out for his knockback of the tank, but this can easily be countered by casting levitate on the group. So go ahead and easily take him down, but a word of warning. He only drops one Essence of Hatred, which is needed for everyone that wants to complete this part of the quest. If you are with multiple people doing this part, get ready to roll for this piece with them. If you lose, you will have to wait 2 hours for Garzonag to spawn again. He has no Place Holders, all you can do is wait for him to spawn again, or come back later and hope he's up.

NOTE: The Essence of Hate was flagged as trash loot. Therefore if you had turned on the option to automatically distribute your cash loot, it would randomly place the item in a member of your group's inventory (even if they are not on the quest). Since the item is marked "Quest", once it is in their inventory, they cannot trade it.

So once you get your own Essence of Hatred head back to Teryn Valso for the turn- in, and guess what? You are done! You should now have the full version of your armor piece, with a clickable effect that turns you into a skeleton. The skeleton effect lasts for 5 minutes and has a 30 minute recast time (not exactly highly enthusiastic when I saw that!). But, at least for 5 minutes at a time, you can show off your inner evil.

NOTE: the skeleton illusion seems to stay after the 5 minutes run out, let's hope it stays that way in the future!

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