Hawezar Strongholds - Diablo IV Database

A Stronghold located in the northwest corner of Hawezar.

Objectives:

1. Speak with the Spirit of the Pyre - interact with the burning man on the pyre.
2. Slay the fallen overseer -spawns at the end of the RP voice lines.
3. Retrieve the Villager’s Remains and use them to extinguish Erimans’ flames - You do this by right clicking on the Fiery Focus near the pyre, which open up pathways to various corners of the Stronghold. You can only activate one at a time. Go into that newly unlocked region by following the fire line from the Focus, kill the enemies, then find the Village’s ashes that typically drop from the elite in that area.
4. Slay Duz’Agur, Eriman’s Bane. This is a Resurrected Malice type boss enemy. Dodge the ground AoEs and fireballs as best you can.

Once the steps are done, click the town bell, and complete the Stronghold. Doing so will unlock the Oblivion dungeon, which awards the Aspect of Shared Misery legendary aspect.

• Just next to the Cinder Wastes in Hawezar.

Hawezar

XP, Gold, +100 Hawezar Renown

A Stronghold dedicated to fallen Crusaders in the battles of the darkness the swamp produces. You can find this directly north of Zarbinzet city.

Objectives:

• Search the Monument - Head to the center of the Monument to the Failed Crusade.
• Purge the monument of undead. - Kill the undead that spawns around the central fire of the area.
• Investigate the Graverobber’s corpse - Click on the corpse next to the fire, which will spawn the ghosts of Crusaders.
• Retrieve the Exhumaned Crusader’s Skull - The Graverobber stole a Crusader’s skull, and now, the ghosts are angry. Listen to the RP before continuing.
• Place the Crusader’s Skull in the Ritual Brazier. - Go back to the central fire and interact with it.
• Cleanse the Crusader’s Skulls in the Ritual braziers. - Go to the East, West, and North tombs, which are small shrines at the edges of the site. These areas will have the bodies of corpses of Graverobbers you need to interact with and loot the Exhumed Crusader Skulls. When you pick a skull up, more ghosts, and the named Crusader the skull belongs to will spawn and fight you. Once you have all four, return them to the brazer and interact with them. More enemies will spawn for every skull your place in the Brazier. If you’re feeling spicy you can mass pull all three skull spawns.
• Slay the Crusader Champions - Once you have defeated all enemies from the Brazier, and the skulls are cleansed, you will get three boss spawns, alongside some other spirit enemies. The bosses have fairly low HP and one checkpoint for flasks each. The bosses take it in turns coming active, so you don’t need to fight all three at once.
• Rekindle the Wanderer’s Shrine to conquer the Crusader’s Monument - Go to the shrine and interact to complete the Stronghold.

You will receive +100 Hawezar Renown upon completion however, this unlocks no new content in this region. The zone does become active with undead creatures from henceforth.

• Directly north from Zarbinzet in the Nymyr Highlands.

Hawezar

XP, Gold, +100 Hawezar Renown.

Deep in the swamps of Hawezar, this village is said to harbor a great mystery.

A stronghold of the Serpent Cultists, who have overtaken a swampy village in the south central region of Hawezar, near the Reach of Adulation.

We recommend taking a Poison Resistance Flask or gear to this place, since almost every enemy deals some form of poison modifier.

Objectives:

1. Explore Vyeresz - To enter the Stronghold, approach the wooden gate barred shut, then enter via a round wooden hut to enter the Stronghold properly. You will then approach a set of stone people, petrified bear a gate that locks the rest of the Stronghold.
2. Find and destroy the Serpent’s Eyes - You need to find the Cult Leaders, which resides in small round wooden huts with a swamp roofing. Once you defeat the Cult Leader, you can head inside these huts, and find Serpent Eye statues, that you can break by interacting wit them. One is in the far east of the Stronghold, and another is in the northwest of the stronghold.
3. Open the Serpent’s Eye Door - Go back to the middle of the camp, and interact with the snake door that blocks the rest of the stronghold off to you.
4. Survive the Cultist Onslaught - When you start opening the door, the petrified people near the door will turn alive, and attack you over the course of the timer. Kill them all to proceed further.
5. Explore Vyeresz Temple Ruins - Now the door is open, head through, and fight all the Nagari enemies and other snake creatures in this are. You will eventually come to an area in the northeast of the temple that completes this objective.
6. Slay Dianthus - Dianthus is a boss enemy at the end of the Stronghold, which is basically one of the Giant Nangari Longfang enemies. Avoid its big slams, poisons and you’ll be fine. Throughout the fight, be mindful of the small snake creatures that spawn to assist the boss. so you will need to kill them otherwise more continue to spawn as the fight progress,making it easy to get overwhelmed if you’re a squishy class or build. It has a knockback attack as well which can send you into some of the pools in the floor.
7. Rekindle the Wanderer’s Shrine. Go back to the start of thee Stronghold and rekindle the shrine to complete the Stronghold.

Completing this area will award players with Shadow Plunge dungeon, which awards the Aspect of Branching Volleys legendary aspect. for the Codex of Power. You also get access to the Vyeresz Waypoint.

• East/Southeast of Zarbinzet, directly north of the Toxic Fens region.

Hawezar

XP, Gold, +100 Hawezar Renown.