• Discovery: Players confronted Librarian Ardent Donnel of the Royal Academy, arrested him, and stole his key. Using it, they uncovered Brutanish’s hidden laboratory beneath the tower.
• Encounter: Players met Brutanish Ditrol himself — now mad and fragmented from exposure to the Song of Creation. He bargained with Oliver, promising forbidden knowledge about the origins of magic if they could disable the Arcane Guardian.
• Side Deal: Maxwell offered a lucrative deal: return the Arcane Guardian's core for 70,000 gold pieces in store credit. Hints suggest Brutanish may have stolen the core from the Lynnfast Highlands, not created it himself.
• Final Battle: Players fought the Arcane Guardian to the death. Oliver personally delivered the finishing blows. Through wit and force, they shattered the guardian's exposed arcane core and disabled the forge mechanisms.
• Loot: Players recovered:
  • The intact Arcane Core (very valuable).
  • Brutanish’s full tower loot (Borderline Useless Magic Items + rare treasures).
  • Several scrolls, books, and minor potions hidden within the wreckage.
• Arcane Forge Puzzle: Players successfully solved the corrupted "Poem of Binding" — changing the phrase from "A Marriage of Soul and Steel" to "A Sundering of Soul and Steel," preventing the forge from creating another Arcane Guardian.

Additional Lore Unlocked:

• Brutanish hinted at ancient golemancy knowledge hidden in the Lynnfast Highlands.
• Oliver found cryptic references in a book titled The Crown of the First Thorn — suggesting a bloodline tied to a long-forgotten "Thorn King," possibly his father.