Walkthrough

The first time you encounter Thops, you will do so at the Church of Irith in Liurnia of the Lakes. This church is located at the most southern tip of the lake. Talking to him here (including donating 10 ruins to unlock him as a sorceries vendor) will reveal that he wants to return to the Academy of Raya Lucaria, but in order to do so, he requires an Academy Glintstone Key. However, in order to obtain one, you must donate 10 ruins to him first.

Where to Find the Academy Glintstone Key for Thops

After you have obtained your very own Glintstone Key to the Academy from behind the Glintstone Dragon Smarag, make your way through the Academy until you reach the battle with the Red Wolf of Radagon in the Debate Parlor of the Academy. After you have vanquished him, proceed through the door located to the north and keep going until you reach a sizable inner court. Continue to the left until you come to a large pile of rubble that is covering a staircase.

You will find two Glintstone Sorcerers if you climb the rubble to the north and then continue up the stairs. Make a sharp turn to the left rather than proceeding forward through the covered walkway. Make your way down the stairs below.

Carry on up the stairs, and when you reach the top, turn left (towards the south), and you will see a body slouched over the railing. the side of the courtyard that faces left. Proceed upwards towards the northwest, where there is a pile of rubble rather than stairs. Proceed upwards, then turn left and ascend the stairs that are directly ahead of you. A dead body will be found dangling over the ledge in this area.

After you have climbed onto the rooftops, continue to the south along them, avoiding the Marionette Soldiers, until you come to a building to your right that has a ladder leading up to its roof.

Climb up this ladder to reach a rooftop that is very long and very narrow. Proceed with extreme caution because there is an additional Glintstone Sorcerer and three Avionette Soldiers hiding in ambush ahead of you. After you have vanquished these foes, proceed along the rooftop and then make a sharp turn to the right. Keep an eye on the ground below to find another rooftop to climb.

Keep going north and jumping to the rooftops below until you reach a point where there are no more options going north. You will see another set of descending rooftops if you turn to the left (west), and if you look to your right, you will see another Marionette Soldier standing watch on the roof below you.

After you have killed him, look below you and to your left (northwest) to find a ledge that leads to the next area. Proceed with caution as you descend and continue to follow it around the building until it reveals even more rooftops below you that are being patrolled by several more Marionette Soldiers.

Jump down to the rooftop in the shape of an oval below you, eliminate the foes that you find there, then work your way around the rooftop in either direction to get to the open windows that lead into the rafters of the Debate Parlor.

You can access the room through whichever window you deem most appropriate. Once inside, look down to find a chandelier that is supporting a body and an item. You are going to require the Academy Glintstone Key in order to complete Thops. Grab it after making your way down the platforming carefully, and then make your way back to Thops in the Church of Irith.

You will receive the Erudition gesture as a reward for going back to Thops and giving him the Academy Glintstone Key. This will also allow you to progress through the next and final part of his questline.

Where to Find Thops at Raya Lucaria

You need to go back to Raya Lucaria and find your way to the classroom in the schoolhouse (the easiest way to do this is by warping to that Site of Grace). Leave this room through the door on the west wall, and after a short distance, hang a right around the building’s perimeter to find Thops.

The Thopps’ Bell Bearing and an Academy Glintstone Staff can be stolen from his corpse if you loot it. Thus concludes Thops’ questline.

After gaining access to the Three Sisters in the northwest of Liurnia, you will be granted access to three separate towers. However, in order to remove the magical barrier in front of Seluvis’s tower, you will need to go to Ranni’s Rise and start the Ranni the Witch Questline first.

If you follow these steps, you will be able to talk to Seluvis in his own tower. Seluvis has the ability to teach you sorcery, but he won’t do so until you finish a quest for him (and he won’t talk to you until you tell him the quest is finished). Once the quest is finished, he will teach you sorcery. Your completion of this task will connect Seluvis’s Questline with the Nepheli Loux Questline. He will ask you to take a potion and deliver it to Nepheli Loux.

You will need to convince Nepheli Loux to come back to the Roundtable Hold from where she is currently stationed close to the Village of the Albinaurics. It is important to keep in mind that if you speak to her in any other location besides this one, you will not be able to advance Seluvis’s questline by giving her the potion.

You can find Nepheli at the bottom of the stairs near Master Hewg. She will be extremely upset, to the point where she will not respond to you. Instead, you should head upstairs and have a conversation with Gideon if you want to advance with this quest. After that, you have the choice between handing it over to him (so that he can get rid of it) or giving it to Nepheli instead. If you choose for him to get rid of it, he will tell you to still tell Seluvis that you gave the potion to Nepheli even if you choose for him to get rid of it.

You should go back to Seluvis and let him know that you gave the potion to Nepheli. Regardless of whether you decide to hand it over to her or tell him a lie, he will make progress on his quest regardless of which option you pick. After you have finished talking to him here, you will be able to purchase sorceries from him.

Seluvis’s Hidden Chamber

There are several different quests for other NPCs that can be accessed through Seluvis’s Questline. His quest not only combines elements of the Nepheli Loux Questline and the Ranni the Witch Questline, but it also provides a connection to the Sorceress Sellen Questline.

Within the ruins close to Ranni’s Rise is a room that has been carefully concealed, and within that room is Seluvis’s terrible secret. Finding the actual ruins can be challenging; however, the location of the ruins can be found marked on the map that can be found below. To discover an illusory floor that leads down into a subterranean chamber, roll on the ground close to the invisible noble sorcerer that is located here.

You will find a number of people who seem to be frozen, and it is possible that they are dead, here. You’ll find a message written on the ground against the far wall, indicating that the people in this area are Selvius’s puppets. Another illusory wall can be found immediately to the left of this one. If you hit this one, you’ll be taken to a room that looks exactly like the one the Sorceress Sellen inhabited in the Waypoint Ruins. She appears to be motionless. You need to return to Seluvis and speak to him once more. Tell him that you have seen the chamber.

Because he believes you gave the potion to Nepheli, he will say that the two of you are working together and will offer you the choice between two unique summonable ashes: the Finger Maiden Therolina Puppet and the Jarwright Puppet. Dolores, the Sleeping Arrow Puppet, will become a selectable option if you have actually administered the potion to Nepheli. This will open up a third choice for you to make.

Seluvis’ Plot

No matter which path you choose, you will be able to acquire the remaining options by exchanging Starlight Shards for payment.

After you have purchased another sorcery from Seluvis, you will have the option to ask him about his plot in the dialogue menu that appears. He explains that he intends to turn Ranni into a puppet by using a demigod as a puppeteer, and that in the process, he will betray Ranni. Because he needs your assistance, he will ask you to find him some Amber Starlight, a potent item that can be combined with other ingredients to produce a concoction that can influence even the gods.

It is recommended that you travel to the Altus Plateau, which can be found to the northeast of the Altus Highway Junction Site of Grace. Find the narrow passage that leads under the larger plateau, and then continue along it until you reach the hidden shrine that contains the statue of a mother and her child. Amber Starlight, which can be given to Seluvis, can be found in this location. You need to go back to him and give him this essential item in order for him to be able to make his Amber Draught. At this stage, he will bestow upon you a Magic Scorpion Charm as a token of his appreciation. After that, he will ask you to be the one to hand Ranni the Amber Draught instead of him.

The Death of Seluvis

Ranni will vanish from her tower after you have given her the Fingerslayer Blade from Nokron, Eternal City. This will cause a portal to be opened leading to Nokstella, Eternal City in the Renna’s Rise tower, which you can access once you have given Ranni the blade. However, before she leaves, she makes it clear that she is aware of the plot that Seluvis is working on and that she has plans to do something about it.

In the event that you go back to Seluvis after Ranni has left, you will find that he has passed away; however, if you choose to investigate him, you will learn that he is still functioning as a vendor of puppets. It is important to keep in mind that even if you have prevented yourself from acquiring Nepheli’s or Dolore’s Puppet Spirit Ashes, you will still be able to do so from the body of the NPC Pidia, which can be found inside Caria Manor.

Where to Find Rya

The best place to look for Rya is to the north of the Laskyar Ruins, right next to the telescope icon on the map. She will be positioned so that she is facing the statue from its right side. If you talk to her, she will explain that someone stole her necklace and ask you to find the perpetrator so that she can get it back.

In order to accomplish this, keep travelling in a northwesterly direction from the telescope icon until you reach Boilprawn Shack. After having a conversation with the Blackguard by the pot, you will be given the choice to either leave or to request that he give you the necklace.

If you select “give me the necklace,” he will ask you to demonstrate its value and provide payment before accepting it from you. You can accept or refuse. If you do not agree, then we will have to end this conversation. If you decide to accept his offer, he will ask for one thousand runes in exchange for the necklace.

Once you have returned the necklace to him, you will be able to continue your conversation about Rya. In addition, you will be able to purchase Boiled Prawn from him, which will increase your resistance to physical damage.

Return to Rya

It is your responsibility to return to Rya and hand the necklace to her. In exchange, she will extend an invitation to the Volcano Manor to you. In addition to that, she will instruct you to travel to the Altus Plateau and tell you that you are more than welcome at the Volcano Manor.

If you continue talking to her, she will tell you about the Dectus Lift, which will take you to the Altus Plateau, and she will also tell you about a shortcut through the ruins that connects Liurnia to the Altus Plateau.

After Activating the Grand Lift of Dectus

The Altus Plateau will be accessible to you once you have raised the medallion necessary to operate the Grand Lift of Dectus. As you leave, Rya will be located on the left side of the doorway. This is where she will extend an invitation to visit Volcano Manor. If you take her hand, she will teleport you to the location you specify.

At Volcano Manor

Even if you get to Volcano Manor before you see Rya and give her the necklace back, you’ll end up running into her there anyway. As you progress through the assassinations that are a part of the Tanith Questline, she will vanish after each one that you complete. It would appear that you will be unable to advance Rya’s questline if you do not locate her again before finishing the Tanith Questline. Because of this, it is important that you complete Rya’s quest before completing the assassinations at Volcano Manor.

Speak to Rya After the First Volcano Manor Assassination

You can ask Rya about it, and she will tell you that sometimes she hears strange sounds coming from behind the walls. After this, Rya will relocate, and you can find her in the room that is directly across from the drawing room (the second door on the right). At this point, Rya will have transformed into her true form, that of a serpent.

She will tell you that only she and Tanith know her true form and her real name, which is Zoraya, and that only they can reveal this information to others. Tanith is someone you can talk to, and she will encourage you to treat Rya with kindness if you do so.

After Defeating the Godskin Noble

You will be able to retrieve a Serpent’s Amnion from the Temple of Eiglay after you have vanquished the Godskin Noble there.

It is recommended that you go back to Rya and speak to her again, as she will have returned to her human form here. You will be able to talk to Rya once more after you have successfully carried out the second assassination for Volcano Manor. You will have the choice here of either telling her the truth about Volcano Manor or handing her the Serpent’s Amnion. Both of these options are available to you.

Visit Tanith and have a conversation with her about Rya’s or Zoraya’s predicament. Take some time to relax at the Site of Grace, then revisit Tanith to discuss Rya’s and Zoraya’s absence. She will hand you a “Tonic of Forgetfulness” and ask you to deliver it to Rya in exchange for a favour.

How to Find Rya Once She Leaves the Volcano Manor Room

You will have to travel to the Temple of Eiglay in order to locate Rya after this. Ride the lift all the way to the top floor, and when you get there, step out onto the balcony. As you make your way around the balcony, keep an eye out for a ledge on the right side where you can perform a jumping manoeuvre.

You can ascend to another part of the manor by following this path, which leads up to it. Continue in this direction, but watch out for the abductor virgin who will be coming around the next corner.

You should be able to see an archway in the distance that is located across a lava river (to the right of it, there are snake head statues sticking out).

Follow this path until you reach a spot with a small room off to the right; that’s where Rya is hiding. If you talk to her, she’ll ask you to kill her if you don’t. You have the option of either carrying out this action, of giving her the potion, or of not giving her the potion.

The Outcomes of Rya’s Questline

You will have to travel to the Temple of Eiglay in order to locate Rya after this. Ride the lift all the way to the top floor, and when you get there, step out onto the balcony. As you make your way around the balcony, keep an eye out for a ledge on the right side where you can perform a jumping manoeuvre.

You can ascend to another part of the manor by following this path, which leads up to it. Continue in this direction, but watch out for the abductor virgin who will be coming around the next corner.

You should be able to see an archway in the distance that is located across a lava river (to the right of it, there are snake head statues sticking out).

Follow this path until you reach a spot with a small room off to the right; that’s where Rya is hiding. If you talk to her, she’ll ask you to kill her if you don’t. You have the option of either carrying out this action, of giving her the potion, or of not giving her the potion.