What a surprise... Beritra has a new trick. Apparently, he has the ability to use a long-range mind control. Isn't that great? When you are under the mind domination of Beritra, you lose your sense of judgment and are driven to do his bidding. That's why the Embercrack minions in Drakenspire Depths weren't able to stop the Dragon Lord from reaching Agony's Well.

Upon death, anyone under the domination radiates an ominous darkness. If we can extract this essence from them, I think we might be able to find a way to release his victims

Player, take down the dominated minions in Drakenspire Depths and get the Essence of Darkness. Take it to Vard so we can free the our friends from the Dragon Lord's spell.

Player: Accept

The only way to release someone from Beritra's mind domination is death. Well, the only way we know of, that is.

If we can somehow obtain the Essence of Darkness, we can start researching ways to neutralize it...

Player: "Well, then let's start!"

Is this the Essence of Darkness from the minions in Drakenspire Depths?

This doesn't look very magical, or even significant...

Let me have a closer look.

Player: "Don't get too close."

Hmm... I wonder if this really serves as the key to Beritra's mind domination...

I'll ask the Daeva of Detoxification and a few other experts to analyze it, so we can try to find a solution.

Thank you for your help. This isn't much, but please accept it.