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If you have ever visited Town Center, you have probably seen a character named Tierney boasting about his armor. And to be sure, it is definitely something to boast about. He says that you can get that armor yourself, but how? The answer: the quest for the Mage's Inquisition Armor!

Getting Started

To begin this long and difficult quest, you will need an item collector for the area you wish to challenge. You may get one of these collectors from Aerial the Collector Maker at Excelsior Halls, at the old auction house.

Simply speak the name of the dungeon you wish to challenge to her, and Aerial will provide you with the appropriate item collection box. There is a seventh box you can request by saying "Gem Collector". This will become important later.

Peerless Dungeons

This quest requires you to travel to 6 of the 8 dungeons containing the Peerless boss monsters in search of key items. These dungeons include:

Bedlam - Hidden in the city of Umbra.
Labyrinth - Somehow connected to the Grimswind Ruins.
Sanctuary - In the mountains North of Skara Brae.
Palace of Paroxysmus - A slimy pit in the Lost Lands.
Blighted Grove - A poisonous swamp near Shame.
Prism of Light - Under the sands of Nu'jelm.

(The Twisted Weald and Citadel are not involved in this quest, and function closest to their original OSI counterparts)

These dungeons function differently than on other shards. Special items or quests are not required to enter. Means of summoning the peerless may be different, or entirely unneeded. And most importantly, the monsters you encounter may be different and far more deadly than what you may know.

Key Items

In each dungeon, you must collect certain items to be placed into your item collector. These items are held by monsters with blue names. Slay these creatures and search their bodies and you may find the items you seek.

A complete listing of the items and the monster that drop them can be found here. You may also see these items for yourself at a full display in the town of Trinsic, linked by a golden gate to Town Center.

Filling the Collector

Once you have gathered the required items, place them into the item collector for that area. When the final piece is added, you will be taken immediately to a special room, where a Gem Guardian awaits. This guardian will automatically trade your completed collector for the corresponding Gem of that dungeon. You may then leave, your prize in hand.

Warning: The item collector must be in your pack when entering this special room. If you add the final item to the collector while it is on the ground, in your bank box, or somewhere else it shouldn't be, you will be transported but unable to trade for the Gem. All items in the collector are destroyed once the last one is placed, so all effort for that dungeon may be for naught if you do this wrong. THIS IS YOUR HINT. KEEP YOUR COLLECTOR ON YOU WHEN ADDING ITEMS.

Six Gems for a Seventh

Once you have claimed the gems for all 6 peerless dungeons, it is time to use your 7th collector, the Gem Collector. Place the 6 gems within, and you will trade one final time for a Sacred Gem. This is the ultimate goal of this quest.

Use this gem, and you will be allowed to select a piece of the Mage's Inquisition armor as your prize:

Cap of Knowledge
Legacy of the Archmagi
Shaman's Sleeves
Gloves of the Seer
Apprentice's Stockings
Arcanist's Protection

Any single one of these pieces will greatly enhance the user's power. Choose wisely. You will have earned it.

Extra Information

Zodart: Freelance Report - Thread contains a more detailed, slightly dramatized, and (currently) incomplete account of how to travel through the Peerless Dungeons.
Peerless Monsters - Contains information on fighting (some) of the Peerless bosses.