Blood and Sand
Betrayer of the Horadrim is the sixth Act II quest and takes the player below Caldeum and up out into the Dahlgur Oasis for the first time.
Quest Information
- Initiated by: Zoltun Kulle
- Pre-requisite: Betrayer of the Horadrim
- Required to progress? Yes
- Reward(s): Gold/ Experience
- Lore items: ??
- Related Achievements: ??
- Leads to: The Black Soulstone
- Level Range: <quest level="true">blood-and-sand</quest>
Blood and Sand Walkthrough
Take the waypoint from the Hidden Camp to the Dahlgur Oasis. The exit from the Oasis to the Waterway is at the very top of the map. As you exit the area you'll run into Ssthrass, a superunique Deceiver. He'll raise some Doom Vipers as you fight.
Once you reach the waterway Kulle will appear and say, "I can open this gate for you.". Once in the Ancient Waterway Emperor Hakan II will appear and give you instructions to pull a couple of flow control levers. Head through the doorway to the Western Channel.
Look out for the Hunter's Journal when you get down there which is required for the Eavesdropper achievement. There will also be a satchel down here containing part 1 of The Desert Aqueducts required for the Historian of Caldeum achievement.
This is a uneventful level where you will face perhaps one rare monster. Other than that standard Fallen, Accursed, Vile Swarm and Skeletons, that type of fare.
Locate the exit to the Eastern Flow Control where, again, you'll find a lever you need to pull which in turn opens a stairway back down to the Ancient Waterway which now has an exit to the Waterlogged Passage.
There you will come across a barrel with Covetous Shen imprisoned in it. Do not break him out of the barrel immediately. Let him finish all his chit-chat - he has six different things to say - then break him out. For this you will earn the achievement Big Trouble in Talking Barrel.
You can check under your achievements (Y) Challenges > Act II to double check you have heard all his chit-chat before freeing him.
Once it is broken, he will accompany you to the Hidden Aqueducts, where you meet the unique boss Gavin the Thief. When he dies, pick up the Crucible. Covetous returns to town and you head out to the Ancient Path, with a waypoint, leading to the Desolate Sands. Pick up Kulle's blood from two sections, the Vault of the Assassin and the Cave of the Betrayer level 2. After that, you go to town, talk to Adria, and proceed on the Black Soulstone quest.
Objectives in Brief
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* Checkpoint reached around this stage in the quest. This means you can quit out and Resume your game at a later date and begin at this point - in effect it's a Save Game point.
Associated Achievements
Blood and Sand is in some way involved in the following achievement(s).
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Gallery
Entrance to the Ancient Waterway
Emperor Hakan II greets you
Western Channel attack
Western Flow Control Lever
Eastern Channel rare attack
Eastern Flow Control Lever
Entrance to Waterlogged Passage
Covetous freed in the Waterlogged Barrel
Entrance to Hidden Aqueducts
| Quests & Events of Diablo III [e] Act I Act II Act III & Act IV Act V |
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