Fractured Peaks Side Quest - Diablo IV Database

• Speak with Priest Matvey in Margrave.

From Kyovashad’s eastern gate, head southeast to find a corpse, near which is a “Pilgrim’s Journal”. Reading the dead pilgrim’s journal will start this quest, which just requires you to travel to Margrave and inform Priest Matvey about the pilgrim’s demise.

A full walkthrough for this quest can be found here

I found the body of a pilgrim on his way to some holy place high in the mountains. He didn’t get very far. Someone in Margrave may want to know of his fate.

Priest Matvey says I am ready. I shall leave Margrave at dawn. The journey will be long, but my faith is endless. Light, grant me safe passage to the monastery, that I may better know your grave within its hallowed halls.

Fractured Peaks

XP and Gold

• Slay the Bishop and take the Red Chalice
• Return the Mechanical Box to the Pedestal: 2
• Travel to the Defiled Undercroft
• Slay all enemies in the Defiled Undercroft
• Travel to the Chamber of Morality
• Defeat the Blood Bishop
• Speak with Sister Vera at the Bear Tribe Refuge

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion

Venture into the Sanguine Chapel and find the Red Chalice

I must find the Red Chalice. This cursed item must be destroyed.

Fractured Peaks

Gold and XP

• Speak with Priest Matvey
• Speak with Meridan
• Speak with Guard Cvetko
• Bring Lacthan to his brother’s last known location.
• Search the Area for Clues
• Help Lacthan find the bandit hideout in Sinner’s Chase
• Search for Perithan
• Search for the Smuggler’s Key
• Open the locked door
• Bring Lacthan to Perithan
• Slay Outlaw Sharpshooter
• Speak with Perithan

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion

• Available from Lacthan in Margave.

A pious man needs help with his unruly brother.

Lacthan, a villager in Margrave, is looking for his brother who was implicated in a bandit attack on some merchants. Before we go to their last known location, we should ask around town to see if Perithan has come back.

No one in Margrave has seen Perithan since he ventured our with the merchants. Lacthan and I should investigate the merchants’ capsite.

Lacthan recognized the dead bandit as someone Perithan knew. He knows where they have their lair and is leading me to it.

Lacthan and I have entered the bandits lair in search of Perithan and answers.

Fractured Peaks

XP and Gold

• Enter The Hallowed Glacier
• Explore the Glacial Tunnels with Chieftain Glous
• Explore the Bloodsoaked Glacier with Chieftain Glous
• Slay Slakoth
• Bring the Bloodstone to the Bloodstone Pedestal
• Find the source of the Ancients Call with Chieftan Glous
• Speak with Kravett, the Bear Tribe Shaman
• Slay Cyhrach
• Speak with Kravett, the Bear Tribe Shaman

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion

The chieftain of the Bear Tribe has declared you his Champion. Now he asks that you accompany him to answer the Ancients Call.

The Glacial Tunnels below the camp await.

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• Enter the Red Cellar
• Approach Magdalena
• Slay Magdalena and take the Woodsman’s Axe
• Speak to Parin

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

• You must first complete The Woodsman of Nevesk Side Quest before this Quest becomes available in the village of Menestad in the Fractured Peaks.

Magdalena massacred several knights with the Woodsman’s Axe in Menestad. I must go after her and separate her from the axe.

Fractured Peaks

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• Enter the Black Asylum

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

• On a Bridge just outside of Kyovashad eastern gate in the Frigid Expanse.

The tormented spirit of a Black Asylum inmate reaches out for company.
I met a grieving father who is haunted by visions of his dead son.
I must enter the Black Asylum and destroy the tormented spirit of Corik Trost.

Fractured Peaks

Gold and XP

• Enter the Ominous Cellar
• Slay the Carvers.
• Check on Kvera Outside.
• Chase Vasek
• Chase Vasek with Sister Octavia
• Place the Holy Chalice
• Protect Sister Octavia

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

Sister Octavia once again needs your assistance with a suspected demonic possession. This is the second quest in the “Malady of the Soul” questline.

You can find a full walkthrough for this quest here.

I have encountered Sister Octavia again, this time attempting to help a wife who fears her husband has been possessed by a demon. She has asked for my help once again to exorcise the demon, if it exists.

Kvera’s husband doesn’t seem to be in the cellar… Where has he gone?

Kvera’s husband Vasek was hiding elsewhere in the house, and escaped the moment we entered the cellar! Even now, he is terrorizing the streets of Kyovashad! We must hurry and stop him before more are hurt!

Vasek has torn apart the bars sealing the sewers and ducked inside. We must find him and exorcise the demon quickly.

Sister Octavia’s exorcism ritual could not save Vasek. The demon hiding inside him burst forth and in its dying gasp, almost froze us both.

Fractured Peaks

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+20 Fractured Peaks Renown

• Gather spirit anima from the undead.

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

The Sealed Exorcist’s Cache is randomly dropped from one of the undead in the Eastern Plain or Frigid Expanse region of Fractured Peaks and will start this side quest.

I found a cache infused with powerful magic. I must collect spirit anima to lay the dead to rest and open the cache.

Fractured Peaks

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• Enter the Ominous Cellar
• Speak with Sister Octavia
• Speak with Priest Matvey
• Fill the chalice with Bandit Blood
• Return to Priest Matvey
• Place the smoldering wood on the Pyre.
• Return to Kvera’s home.
• Speak with Petr
• Enter the Ominous Cellar
• Rejoin Petr
• Begin the exorcism
• Continue the exorcism
• Finish the exorcism
• Slay Demotath
• Speak with Sister Octavia
• Meet Sister Octavia outside

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

The third and final quest in the Malady of the Soul questline. You can find a full walkthrough of this quest here

Petr, the father of the boy Sister Octavia saved, covertly slipped me a letter from Sister Octavia. It seems the demon from the sewers has taken her as its next victim.

She is being hidden in Kvera’s Cellar. I must go to her quickly.

The blood-filled chalice ignited in a burst of flame, and left a dark stain on the inside of the bowl. It is ready for the exorcism ritual. I must return to Kyovashad quickly.

Petr is placing the chalice, and I must prepare to successfully complete an exorcism ritual I have only witnessed twice. Sister Octavia’s life is in my hands. I cannot fail her.

Petr is placing the chalice, and I must prepare to successfully complete an exorcism ritual I have only witnessed twice. Sister Octavia’s life is in my hands. I cannot fail her.

The exorcism was interrupted by the priest from Margrave, but it still succeeded in forcing the demon out of Sister Octavia. She wants to speak to me outside.

Fractured Peaks

XP and Gold

• Get the Payment of Gemstones from Luskas.
• Return to Meros.

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

Talk to a Meras in Menestad to start this quest, which tasks you with recovering some stolen gemstones from a bandit named Luskas. A full walkthrough for this quest can be found here.

A local merchant will pay handsomely for the return of stolen goods.

The merchant Meros has asked me to recover a payment of valuable gems from a man named Luskas.

I have recovered the payment of gems. I should return them to Meros in Menestad.

Fractured Peaks

Herb Cache

• Bring the Warrior’s Chain to the Bear Tribe Refuge.

I found a Warrior’s Chain after slaying a khazra ambush. I should bring this to the Bear Tribe Refuge and notify them of what happened.

Fractured Peaks

XP and Gold

• Enter the Rimescar Cavern and acquire the Grizzly’s Maul.
• Return the Grizzly’s Maul to Greganoch

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

• Bear Tribe Refuge in the Fractured Peaks

Greganoch of the Bear Tribe has asked that I reclaim the Grizzly’s Maul. The tribe’s champion who wielded the weapon was taken to the Rimescar Cavern.

Fractured Peaks

Gold and XP

• Acquire Archivist’s Journal I
• Acquire Archivist’s Journal II
• Acquire Archivist’s Journal III
• Return to Zalan Coste in Margrave

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

• Make your way to the village of Margrave, located to the south of the Fractured Peaks, to find this Side Quest.

A young monk seeks answers about Knights Penitent.

Zalan Coste believes his mother was stationed in Light’s Watch before it was abandoned.

He has asked me to search the old outpost for any information about the Knights Penitent there.

I found Pale Knight Journals in Light’s Watch. I should travel back to Margrave and speak with Zalan Coste who was interested in anything I found.

Fractured Peaks

XP and Gold

• Enter the Frigid Cellar
• Speak with Sister Octavia
• Speak with Sister Octavia Outside

• 20 Fractured Peaks Reputation

The first quest in a three-quest series, you can start this quest by finding Sister Octavia talking to Petr in Kyovashad.

A full write-up for the quest can be found here

A priest from the Cathedral of Light needs assistance with a dangerous task.

Sister Octavia, a priest from the Cathedral of Light has asked for my help with a ritual to exorcise a demon from a young boy.

Fractured Peaks

Gold and XP

• Investigate the road to Menestad for Monk Bozan.
• Speak to Monk Bozan.
• Collect the Tithing Demands
• Deliver the Tithing Demands to Talgun the Merchant Lord.

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

A Cathedral tithe collector seems concerned about a monk she sent to Menestad.
She has asked that I search the roads leading to Menestad for a missing monk named Bozan.

Monk Bozan has asked me to carry the Tithing Demands the rest of the way to Menestad for him. They are stored in a Strongbox near his wrecked wagon.

I have the Tithing Demands. Now to bring them to Merchant Lord Talgun at the Menestad marketplace.

Fractured Peaks

XP and Gold

• Cheer at the training militia
• Use the Cheer Emote near the city soldiers.
• Speak with Guard Boza.

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

• In Kyovashad in the Fractured Peaks region.

Guard Boza has asked me to inspire the militia trainees near the eastern gatehouse in Kyovashad. A quick cheer should lift their spirits.

I should let Boza know I’ve cheered up the militia.

Fractured Peaks

XP and Gold

• Collect Ghoul Heart: 0/15
• Speak with Olesia

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown on completion.

The hearts of ghouls may hold a secret power.

Olesia, an alchemist in Yelesna, has requested that I gather Ghoul Hearts from the ravenous dead around the Creaking Mill and Morskota Lake.

I should return to Yelesna and deliver the Ghoul Hearts to Olesia.

Fractured Peaks

Gold and XP

• Solve the note’s riddle.

Head to the spring and use the “Wait” emote in the area to reveal a chest and complete the quest.

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

I found a strange note with what seems to be a riddle on it:
“Beacon of warmth in winter’s embrace, patience rewarded by nature’s own grace.”

Fractured Peaks

XP and Gold

• Collect Ice Clan Bones: 0/25

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

Talk to Sena in the Bear Tribe Camp and she’ll task you with making a tribute offering of a practical, yet gruesome sort - the bones of their khazra enemies. A full walkthrough for this quest can be found here.

Sena of the Bear Tribe has asked me to slay Ice Clan khazra and return their bones to her as tribute

The Ice Clan are known to stalk the slopes of Fields of Judgement and the tunnels of Hoarfrost Demise.

Fractured Peaks

Gold and XP

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

You can find an unfortunate man named Vilek hugging a pillory near Kyovashad’s northwestern gate. Talk to him and he’ll give you the side quest “Sight to Madness”, tasking you with entering the Cultist Refuge dungeon and recovering his still-functional yet disembodied eyes from a cultist named Theya. While this side quest seems straightforward enough, you’ll have to first clear the Stronghold Nostrava before you can access the Cultist Refuge, and hence complete “Sight to Madness”.

• You can find a full walkthrough for “Sight to Madness” here.
• A walkthrough for Stronghold Nostrava can be found here.
• While not necessary to complete the aforementioned side quest, a walkthrough for the Cultist Refuge can be found here.

*A crazy man named Vilek, imprisoned in Kyovashad, spoke of being able to see out of his plucked eyes and asked that I retrieve them. He claims the town of Nostrava has fallen to cultists and woman named Theya wears them on her necklace. *

Fractured Peaks

Gold and XP

• Find the Kauller the Collector
• Speak with Greganoch
• Mount the Head of Kauller

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion

Kauller the Collector can be found in Sinner’s Pass in Fractured Peaks.

I must slay Kauller the Collector and retrieve its skull for the Bear Tribe.

I have obtained the Skull of Kauller the Collector and must return to the Bear Tribe.

I have been given the honor of mounting the Skull of Kauller the Collector for the Bear Tribe.

Fractured Peaks

Gold and XP

• Light the brazier to start the ritual

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

• Margrave in the Fractured Peaks.

Light a ritual brazier to ward evil away from Margrave.

Priest Matvey has asked me to light an old brazier built by the Knights Penitent to ward off evil.

Fractured Peaks

XP and Gold

• Enter the Hollowed Ossuary
• Slay Lord Avitus

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

A dying knight has a final request.

A dying Cathedral Knight told me of his fallen comrade who rose again with a vampiric curse.
He asked that I brave the Hallowed Ossuary and slay Lord Avitus.

Fractured Peaks

Gold and XP

• Search for the Sealed Door

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

A side-quest that can be located in the Fractured Peak region.

The side quest is found in Kyovashad and is started by talking to the Strange Beggar to the east of the Blacksmith. Select the option “Offer him coin” to get things underway.

A full walkthrough for the quest can be found here.

I learned of an impeding catastrophe from an odd man in Lower Kyovashad.

I should search the Frigid Expanse for this strange sealed door.

Fractured Peaks

Gold and XP

• Search the wilderness for the Woodsman’s Axe
• Retrieve the Woodsman’s Axe
• Return the Woodsman’s Axe to Magdalena

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

The first and eponymous side quest in a three-quest series, in “The Woodsman of Nevesk” you’ll be tasked with finding the Woodsman’s Axe by a woman named Magdalena, in Nevesk.

A full walkthrough for the quest can be found here.

• Make your way to the village of Nevesk in the Fractured Peaks to begin this Side Quest.

Magdalena, a woman in Nevesk, asked for help retrieving the Woodsman’s Axe.

She suggested I search hte nearby woods where he was rumored to have murdered many.

I have found the Woodsman’s Axe for Magdalena in Nevesk. I should return it to her.

Fractured Peaks

XP and Gold

• Give thanks at the shrine

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

I found a pilgrim’s account of giving thanks at a roadside shrine and receiving something in return. Would it work for me?

Fractured Peaks

Gold and XP

• Help Krystyna find her husband in the Gnarled Timbers.
• Confront the mysterious woman
• Slay Yulia the Hellbound.
• Return to Krystyna.
• Claim the Fine Dagger.

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown on completion.

Krystyna has asked for help finding her husband, Feodor. She saw him flee into the woods with another woman.

Krystyna has asked for help finding her husband, Feador. Upon finding him, his mangled body was somehow still alive.

Fractured Peaks

Gold and XP

• Show the Faded Old Painting to Zalan Coste

• +20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

• There is a random chance for the Faded Old Painting to drop from corpses or Chests in the Dobrev Taiga region of the Fractured Peaks.

I found a faded old painting of Margrave. Zalan Coste may be interested in this.

Fractured Peaks

XP and Gold

• Show the Merchant’s Ledger to Zalan Coste

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

• There is a chance for the Merchant’s Ledger to drop from any bandit while in the Dobrev Taiga region of the Fractured Peaks.

I found an old diary detailing the various travels and sales of a merchant. Zoltan Coste in Margrave may want to see this.

Fractured Peaks

XP and Gold

• Bring the Icebound Geode to Kratia
• Buy Acid Flux from Idania in Kyovashad
• Use the Jeweler’s Tools

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

• Once you’ve beaten the campaign, return to Deep Valley in the Fractured Peaks region and harvest ore, there is a chance the Icebound Geode will drop, beginning this Side Quest.

I found an Icebound Geode while harvesting ore. Kratia, the jeweler in Kyovashad, may know what to do with this.

Kratia mentioned that Acid Flux would help open the geode and that Idania should have it.

I have everything I need. Now to use the jeweler’s tools to crack open the geode.

Fractured Peaks

XP and Gold

• Bring the Carved Wooden Knight to Zalan Coste

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

• You must first complete the Better Days and Unwritten End Quests, then return to Yelesna to find this Quest. You must purchase the Quest item from the Armor Vendor.

I found a wooden figure of a knight. Zalan Coste in Margrave may be interested in this.

Fractured Peaks

XP and Gold

• Meet Parin in the Crags of Ill Wind
• Enter the Sanctified Study
• Follow Parin into the Sanctified Study
• Pick up the Woodsman’s Axe
• Place the Woodsman’s Axe in the holy water
• Protect Parin
• Slay the Demon
• Destroy the Woodsman’s Axe
• Speak with Parin

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

• You will automatically begin this Side Quest after completing the Chain of Possession Side Quest in the Fractured Peaks.

A priest named Parin has asked me to meet him at his study where we can sunder the Woodsman’s Axe.

Fractured Peaks

XP and Gold

• Bring the Frostbloom to Veroka

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

• There is a random chance for the Frostbloom to drop from a random plant harvesting point in the Pallid Glade in the Fractured Peaks.

I found an odd flower while harvesting herbs. The Kyovashad Alchemist, Veroka, may want to see it.

Fractured Peaks

XP and Gold

• Harvest death anima from Werewolves

+20 Fractured Peaks Renown upon completion.

• There is a random chance to find the cache on a corpse in the Pallid Glade region of the Fractured Peaks.

I found a cache sealed by powerful magic. To open it, I must slay werewolves in this area and feed their death motes to its hungering lock.

Fractured Peaks

XP and Gold