The Hall of Revealed Mysteries

The Hall of Revealed Mysteries
Details
Game	Pillars of Eternity
Type	Library
Locations
Part of	Copperlane
Exits to	Copperlane
People
Inhabitants	Fexa Grimda Priest of Wael Scrivener
Quests
The Parable of Wael The Theorems of Pandgram
Technical
Map	🗺️ The Hall of Revealed Mysteries
Location ID	AR_0111_Copperlane_Great_Library
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The Hall of Revealed Mysteries is a location in Copperlane, Defiance Bay.

Background

The Hall of Revealed Mysteries is a building with dual purposes: It is both the largest and most expansive library in the Dyrwood, and a temple dedicated to Wael, the god of mysteries. It is through the collection of knowledge and its dissemination that the priests of Wael unravel and preserve the mysteries of the world. It holds books on a diverse range of subjects, including Glanfathan mathematics and geometry, Old Vailian history, travels of Erol Levi, and more.

The Hall is the site of the Elder Archives, a place where the most powerful and most controversial texts in Dyrwood are stored, under close watch from the priest of Wael.

Points of interest

• The main hall of the Hall is filled with book shelves allowing you to catch up on reading. Fexa mans the front desk, with High Archivist Grimda in the back.
• The room to the northwest contains the Elder Archives that are not accessible to the general population without the archivist's consent. The door itself is locked (Difficulty 5, or by using the Key to the Elder Archive) and well guarded, though you can safely enter the room as long as you're in scouting mode, regardless of if you're visible to the nearby NPC. There you can find the book wanted by Nedyn.

Characters

• Fexa: The receptionist and administrator.
• Grimda: The High Archivist of the temple. She will ask for help retrieving a scroll.

Backer NPCs

• Jani Haukka

Companion reactions

Some companions have a special comment upon entering the library:

• Aloth: "I'd wager there are more than a few banned books in here."
• Kana Rua: "I could while away hours in here. If we had the time, of course. ...Do we?"
• Hiravias: "Books hold so many answers, yet you cannot merely ask them a question aloud. You must pore through the pages and hunt for knowledge yourself. I like to think of libraries as way shrines to Wael."
• Durance: "All these pages serve no better use than fuel for the fire."

Related quests

Side quests

• The Theorems of Pandgram

Tasks

• The Parable of Wael

Loot

Note: For a complete list of random loot found in The Hall of Revealed Mysteries, see here.

Main hall:

Bookcase:

• 10 Years of Dawn
• Aedyre Customs

Bookcase:

• Book of the Hunt
• The Aedyr Empire, Part 1: Origin

Bookcase:

• The Aedyr Empire, Part 2: Expanding Borders
• The Midwife's Memoirs

Bookcase:

• Excerpts from the Sermon of Struggle
• The Iroccian Calendar

Bookcase:

• Selected Correspondences of Giftbringer Iden
• True Stories from the Living Lands

Bookcase:

• The Many Faces of Berath
• The Saint's War, Part 2: Invasion

Bookcase:

• The Enigmatic God of Cold
• The White that Wends

Southwestern room:

Bookcase:

• Final Journal of Jonas
• Missives of the Hand Occult

Bookcase:

• Daily Affirmations of Focus and Efficiency
• The Saint's War, Part 1: Overthrow

Elder Archives:

Bookcase:

• Animancy in the Modern Age
• The Queen That Was - And Still Is

Table:

• Scroll of Valor
• Scroll of Defense

Bookcase:

• The Life and Discoveries of Pandgram

Chest (Trapped, Malignant Cloud Trap, Difficulty 8):

• Theorems of Pandgram

Behind the scenes

• This area contains developer commentary

“

Originally the Hall of Revealed Mysteries was going to be off-limits to the player unless they had the special token that gave them access. This added an extra level of complication to the halls since there were other quests that required the player to get inside, so we ultimately decided to drop the whole token thing and only keep a certain area of the hall locked away.

”

~ Denise McMurry, Level Designer

Developer commentary by Denise McMurry

Map

• Map - The Hall of Revealed Mysteries