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Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark Hints
How can I help this odd little Scrivener creature?
1 of 15: If you've been talking to the locals, you'll know that the Scrivener is a creature whose job is to engrave the names of the Lost into the ice.
2 of 15: Have you talked to it about its current problem?
3 of 15: Apparently there's a soul inside the magically blocked cave near the Scrivener that it needs to engrave the name of somewhere.
4 of 15: The Scrivener navigates using the various pillars with words carved on them that are scattered about the city.
5 of 15: Keep talking to it until it joins your party and gives you images clueing you in to what pillar it wants to visit first. (NOTE: It may not be able to join you if you have two henchmen and a summoned ally. If so, remove someone to make room.)
6 of 15: If you've already been around the whole city area exploring, you can check the area map to see where all the inscribed pillars are.
7 of 15: Try to match the Scrivener's picture clues with one of the words. Each picture clue hints at one syllable of the word.
8 of 15: The first two images are of a tree and a man holding a young boy. From that you're supposed to get the words "tree" and "son."
9 of 15: Put them together to get "treeson," and it'll be fairly clear that the Scrivener wants to go to the "Treason" pillar.
10 of 15: So go to that pillar and then talk to the Scrivener to get it to show you the clues for the next pillar it wants to go to.
11 of 15: You can, of course, skip the picture clue decoding process and just go to each pillar in turn and talk to the Scrivener to see if that's the one he wants.
12 of 15: Read on for the exact answer.
13 of 15: After the "Treason" pillar, he wants to visit "Dimension" and then "Infinity."
14 of 15: At the "Infinity" pillar, he'll turn and inscribe the name of Aribeth de Tylmarande on a nearby ice wall. Sound familiar?
15 of 15: To find out more, visit the spirit in the formerly blocked cave that you first found the Scrivener next to. She's the "Lost Leader" that you may have heard opposed Mephistopheles earlier.
