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How can I get past Odea Winterthaw's blockade?
1 of 11: Talk to her about it.
2 of 11: You could just go in fighting, but it's a good idea to first send your most diplomatic talker in.
3 of 11: Have this person convince Odea to grant an audience with Illium.
4 of 11: The main benefit of this is that when you finish talking to Illium, Sherincal will show up and kill Odea.
5 of 11: NOTE: If your character is persuasive enough, he can talk Illium into granting you safe passage through Andora. That means that after Sherincal does her dirty deeds, you can just walk through Andora and on to the Ice Wall without combat (unless you go onto the upper ledge, in which case a few Andorans and wolves will attack).
6 of 11: When you regain control, have your character return to the main party.
7 of 11: Go attack the blockade and kill all of the Andorans (if you didn't successfully negotiate safe passage). The first battle will be easier without Odea to deal with.
8 of 11: After you get past the first bunch, move ahead and approach the trapped stone archway that's just east of the wrecked bridge.
9 of 11: If you can't search out and disarm the trap, then have one person with a lot of cold resistance walk through it and trigger it. You can build up cold resistance by using the two magic scrolls Captain Yurst had and by having Oswald Fiddlebender make you some protective clothing out of yeti pelts. (In a pinch, you can use the Thrym Extract from the airship, and then get more from the remorhaz creatures in the Ice Wall area.)
10 of 11: Once past the trapped archway, head east until you find a cave entrance near the east end of the path that you can enter. That'll get you up to where Illium and his elite are.
11 of 11: After you kill everyone, search all the corpses. Illium and Odea both have magical artifact items, and Illium also has some belladonna (which is useful in a quest).
