Twenty Miles Beneath the Sea Quest/Spoiler

Requirements

 * Helmet of the Deep or similar
 * 1 Seacrest Pearl

Definitions

 * Nacre means "mother-of-pearl", the material from the outer layer of a pearl.

Method
Go to Mr Brandon north-west of Rathleton to start this quest. He can be found here. To get there you must leave Rathleton to the west. You will encounter Devourers, Blood Beasts, Rot Elementals and Glooth Blobs. You may also encounter Quara Scouts.

Talk to Mr Brandon and ask to assist him and accept the mission with yes. Your mission is to find Brandon's Wedding Ring in the Seacrest Grounds. Enter the Magic Forcefield south of Mr Brandon and swim to the north side of the water. Enter the Maelstrom to appear in the Seacrest Grounds.
 * Note: CipSoft has stated that entering the Seacrest Grounds will require a Helmet of the Deep or other diving helmet. However, on the Test Server this is not true. It is suggested that you bring a diving helmet anyway. Walking underwater without a diving helmet will incur the normal drowning damage.
 * Note: to leave from the start, go up the ramp to the east and enter the southern Magic Forcefield. This will bring you back to Mr Brandon.
 * Note: even though Mr Brandon says he enables you to enter, you do not need to speak to him to enter the Seacrest Grounds, which may be a bug. You do need to talk to him to start the quest, however.

Location of Piles of Bones
Ask the Guardian of the Deep Seas how you can assist him and in exchange obtain the wedding ring.

The Guardian wants you to release the tormented spirits of his crew. Walk up the stairs to the right and take the southern stairs down again. In this area you will find Abyssal Calamary, Sharks, Blood Crabs and Quaras. Throughout the southern area you will find 5 Piles of Bones. Use these piles to obtain Drowned Seaman's Skulls.

See the map for precise locations for the 5 Piles of Bones.

Use all 5 of these skulls on any of the (non-broken) Nacre Altars which you will find in many places further to the south. You can obtain more than one skull at one point in time and you may even use all 5 on the same Nacre Altar.


 * The skull crumbles into fine sand and is gone. This soul has been laid to rest.

When you've released the 5 tormented spirits, make your way back to the Guardian of the Deep Seas. If you're far to the south you can find a Magic Forcefield on a small hill, here.

The Guardian of the Deep Seas will give you the Cursed Gold as promised. With this, go to the far south and find the Hoard of Cursed Gold, here. Use the Cursed Gold on the Hoard of Cursed Gold to be transported behind the treasure. Open the Treasure Chest to obtain Brandon's Wedding Ring. Step in the teleporter to appear back at the four teleporters. Take the southern teleporter to return to Mr Brandon and give him his wedding ring. He will take the ring and grant you access to the Western Seacrest Grounds (western portal). In this portal you will find Sea Serpents and Seacrest Serpents.

Sub-Mission 2: Drowned Altars
Ask Mr Brandon for a new mission. He will ask you to find three nacre altar slabs which he stole while he was alive. Dive back down the Maelstrom again and ask the Guardian of the Deep Seas about this mission. He tells you to search for the first slab before he will help you find the other two.

First Slab
Enter the western Magic Forcefield. In this part you will face Blood Crabs, Abyssal Calamary, Sea Serpents and Seacrest Serpents. You are looking for a shipwreck with a chest and barrels, here. Route: Use the Chest and you will get a Nacre Slab. Go back to Guardian of the Deep Seas with the slab and report your mission.
 * From the start, walk a few steps north and levitate down facing east, here
 * Walk north and go down some stairs here
 * Walk east and go through a Hot Geyser here
 * Walk north and go down some stairs here
 * Walk north and go up the stairs here
 * Walk north-east and go down the stairs here

Second Slab

 * Warning: it's not recommended to try this in conjunction with the first slab due to a bug. The NPC will take both and then when you ask again about your mission the NPC will assume you lost it and send you to find the second slab again.

He will take the slab and hint you to the next one, located in the Secret Shrine, here. Route: You are in a big maelstrom, take different Maelstroms until you reach the middle of the maelstrom and use the Treasure Chest (Blue) to get your Nacre Slab (Yellow). Go back to the Guardian of the Deep Seas and say mission.
 * Take the western teleporter again and levitate down a little to the north, like for the first slab
 * Walk south-east and go down the stairs here
 * Walk east, south and west through a bigger room and go up the stairs here
 * Walk west and go down the Water Channel here
 * Walk north-west and go through a teleporter here

Third Slab
Go up and talk to Mr Brandon. Say mission and Yeo. Walk back to Rathleton and find Yeo here. Talk to him and say fishing, interesting, use. He wants a Seacrest Pearl. Hopefully you already looted one in a previous mission or you brought one. When you have obtained one talk to Yeo again and say nacre slab, yes. Bring your Nacre Slab (Red) back to the Guardian of the Deep Seas.

Say mission and he will give you back your first two slabs. Take your three slabs down one floor and use them on the Broken Nacre Altars (here), which will "repair" them for a minute. Go back to the guardian and say mission, to finish this mission.

Sub-Mission 3: The Sunken City
Say quest to the Guardian of the Deep Seas. First you will need to get your Sea Ear Go to Mr Brandon and say mission. Then swim into the Maelstrom which normally brings you down, now it will bring you to another area with a lot of trash, Maelstroms and Large Seashells. Most contain rubbish, nothing or spawn a Crab. One contains a Sea Ear. Find your way back to the Maelstrom which brings you to the surface and talk to Mr Brandon saying mission.

The silent Statues' Song

Now you need to listen to Strange Statues by using them with your Sea Ear until music notes appear next to them. There are about ~6 statues and the order in which you listen to them is kind of random (?), so you need to run a bit back and forth until you have the full song lyrics:
 * ... Where time's body is a wandering shadow trapped in stone, the tail of fire ends with my slumber beneath the sea.

When you are done, talk to the guardian again by saying mission. He will send you to the Eternity Altar, the most southern altar. Go there and use your Sea Ear with an Ancient Sundial. You will receive a Time Compass. Take it (quickly) to the guardian, there is a teleporter very close to the altar, here. Talk to the guardian and say compass.

You are done, now you have access to all three areas of the Seacrest Grounds:
 * Seacrest Grounds/Western Part
 * Seacrest Grounds/Sunken City
 * Seacrest Grounds/Birthing Grounds

The Fire-Feathered Sea Serpent
When 1000 Seacrest Serpents have been killed across the server, a world change initiates. Renegade Quaras have stolen or destroyed sacred orbs that hold the hunger of the Fire-Feathered Sea Serpent. The orb of Earth Everpresent is the only orb that has survived the Quaras' attacks. During this world change, Sea Serpents and Seacrest Serpents within the Seacrest Grounds have been replaced by Renegade Quaras.

The four orbs are:
 * The Orb of Earth Everpresent, the Mother of Worlds
 * The Orb of Darkness Eternal, the Ender of Time
 * The Orb of Life Everchanging, the Child of Blood and Laughter
 * The Orb of Light Undying, the Father of Creation

The Orb of Darkness
From the Guardian of the Deep Seas, levitate down and walk north-east. Enter the portal and walk south. Use a Mind Stone on the Stone Snake Shrine to obtain The Orb of Darkness Eternal. It weighs 3.50 oz. Lights and sounds seem to shift inside of it each time you look away.
 * From the dark side of the sun that blackens the worlds, the dark orb has come to you.
 * You see the orb of Darkness Eternal.

You will now receive the achievement Mind The Step!.

Sub-Mission 1: Souls Lost At Sea

 * first talk with Guardian of the Deep Seas


 * second talk