Avernum 2: Crystal Souls

To get this achievement you must raid the Halls of Chaos and retrieve the Blessed Athame.

This might be a lengthy quest and it is recommended to be round level 25 to handle the enemies found in this area.

First, you need to get to the Halls of Chaos which is located inside the Waterfall Warrens.

Buy a boat in Silvar and sail west then north then west again.

You need to go down a specific route to get to the halls, fortunately, if you miss, you can just sail east and up a waterfall back to the area's entrance.

You need to go down the middle waterfalls and a bit east.

Waterfall Warren Map: http://www.harehunter.info/Avernum2/Maps/WaterfallWarren.html
Once inside, get ready for a fun time. The Area map above also has maps for Halls of Chaos.

The area has two floors: the main floor and a cellar.

The main floor is divided into four sectors. The knife you want is in the NW sector but you can only get there through the cellar.

You will also need two keys and a password to get in there and unlock the chests.

1. First, go west and kill a wandering gazer, grab the fishing pole nearby the pond.
2. Then, go to the NE quarter and grab an abacus from the building, try and find an hourglass too. (Ignore the outside levers for now)
3. Go SE into the garden and fight the shamblers, inside the building, there will be statues with chests, interacting with the chests will put the items you have collected above into the chests and the statues will give you passwords.
4. If you have a gray pass, you can go down to the treasure room and loot it, but the knife isnt there so treat it like a side quest.
5. Now we need the two keys: The NE building has two gates that are closed and have stairs going down, to open those gates, use the levers found outside.
6. One of the keys is past a very hard area that continually spawn shade constructs from crystals, the gimmick here is to touch all crystals twice to crack them all before they can regenerate, try and make your tank distract the shades while your other characters run around cracking the crystals. Adrenaline Rush works awesome as cracking a crystal only costs 1 AP and A.Rush gives you 20AP, so you can move, crack, move, crack, adrenaline rush, move, crack, etc.
7. The second key is behind the other gate in the NE building, in the east section past some slimes in a thrash area.
8. With the passwords and keys in your possession go to the SW area and fight your way towards some stairs and a maze.
9. The gimmick here is that there are certain spots that open walls in other spots. See the map below.
10. Fight some Gazer boss with gazer and altered giants. The stairs all lead to treasure rooms, each having a nice item and one of them has the dagger you want.

If you get lost, you can check out a map here:
http://www.harehunter.info/Avernum2/Maps/pics/HallsChaosL2.png

Achievement get!

To get this achievement you must raid the Halls of Chaos and retrieve the Blessed Athame.

This might be a lengthy quest and it is recommended to be round level 25 to handle the enemies found in this area.

First, you need to get to the Halls of Chaos which is located inside the Waterfall Warrens.

Buy a boat in Silvar and sail west then north then west again.

You need to go down a specific route to get to the halls, fortunately, if you miss, you can just sail east and up a waterfall back to the area's entrance.

You need to go down the middle waterfalls and a bit east.

Once inside, get ready for a fun time. The Area map above also has maps for Halls of Chaos.

The area has two floors: the main floor and a cellar.

The main floor is divided into four sectors. The knife you want is in the NW sector but you can only get there through the cellar.

You will also need two keys and a password to get in there and unlock the chests.

1. First, go west and kill a wandering gazer, grab the fishing pole nearby the pond.
2. Then, go to the NE quarter and grab an abacus from the building, try and find an hourglass too. (Ignore the outside levers for now)
3. Go SE into the garden and fight the shamblers, inside the building, there will be statues with chests, interacting with the chests will put the items you have collected above into the chests and the statues will give you passwords.
4. If you have a gray pass, you can go down to the treasure room and loot it, but the knife isnt there so treat it like a side quest.
5. Now we need the two keys: The NE building has two gates that are closed and have stairs going down, to open those gates, use the levers found outside.
6. One of the keys is past a very hard area that continually spawn shade constructs from crystals, the gimmick here is to touch all crystals twice to crack them all before they can regenerate, try and make your tank distract the shades while your other characters run around cracking the crystals. Adrenaline Rush works awesome as cracking a crystal only costs 1 AP and A.Rush gives you 20AP, so you can move, crack, move, crack, adrenaline rush, move, crack, etc.
7. The second key is behind the other gate in the NE building, in the east section past some slimes in a thrash area.
8. With the passwords and keys in your possession go to the SW area and fight your way towards some stairs and a maze.
9. The gimmick here is that there are certain spots that open walls in other spots. See the map below.
10. Fight some Gazer boss with gazer and altered giants. The stairs all lead to treasure rooms, each having a nice item and one of them has the dagger you want.

Achievement get!