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is there actually anything to do here? cause i havent found any quest so far and i feel like ive searched the place. should i just waist everyone? is there a blood stone to be found somewhere? cause wow this place seems kinda empty as far as quests go.

edit: also i found out i may have skipped this place and have come back to it.

edit again: found two draconic statues that dont seem to do anything as well. so would definitely like to know what those are for. and yeah if there is a bloodstone anywhere here. and if there are any quests to be done.

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I can't remember doing anything there. Come to think of it, the same goes for hunter's edge. I'm pretty sure you could just kill everyone in both places and not have it change anything.

I just killed everyone in Sacred Stone and freed all the prisoners. No new or updated quests. Seems to only be there as a reference point for the Cathedral to the north.

You would think that would trigger a quest or something but nope.

I think it' pretty strange as well that there is nothing to do in Sacred Stone...

so those draconic statues in the prison do nothing ether? least that anyone can tell. that sucks.

felt like that could have really been something cool. possibly activate them each with a bloodstone in your inventory. give you a reason to use 2 bloodstones on something. ive only needed to use one to cure rot after i got the tenebrium skill so havent exactly needed anymore since for myself. and only seen 2 instances where you use them on other people. so that would take 2 more and i know that there are at least 4 useable bloodstones. tho i think there are more. iunno.

Hunter's Edge at least has quests to it, there really doesn't seem to be anything at all to do in Sacred Stone. Just a couple of vendors. I guess you can free the prisoners but that's about it, it's pretty strange.

note: no matter how you slice it, if you try to free the prisoners, or do anything that gets the guards hostile in the sacred stone prison, you get a one point global reputation hit.

there is no way around this that I can see. not opening the gate to the draconis statues, not just trying to free the prisoners directly, nothing. as soon as the guards go hostile towards YOU, you get the global hit.

edit:

ok, you can at least limit the hit to one of your hirelings instead of your mains if you detach them from your party, and have them trigger the event.

...and one more way, a bit more difficult:

featherfall or teleport Bruthor out of his prison cell.

KEEP HIM ALIVE, while you and he kill all the other guards. If Bruthor dies, the fight ends. if you can kill all the guards before bruthor dies, you won't take any rep hits.

it's too bad bruthor turns on you though, and you have to kill him as well.

Good to know.
It's a very annoying bug indeed. Here's what I did to avoid the reputation hit entirely:
- I gave all five guards a tenebrium bar, which will make them rot.
- I placed my characters in a way that all five guards are visible. (They don't continue to rot if you're not nearby.)
- I watched some tv until they were near-dead. (They won't die from rot, they'll be left with 1 hitpoint.)
- I had one of my characters pick them off one by one, making sure the kill isn't seen by any of the other guards.

Because you can instantly kill the guards this way, they don't have time to ring the alarm bells and you don't suffer a reputation hit.

nice.

btw, I don't know if the rushers bothered... but the geomancer there is one of the best merchants in the game, if you can pass the THREE successive speech checks necessary to keep her non hostile.

she will have at least one, sometimes 2 new legendary items in her shop every levelup. also a good source for rare staffs and robes.

so, there's something for you to do in sacred stone.

a very good reason not to wipe the place out, as well.