Saga Skins  

We just completed this quest for several of our toons and figured out some more information about how and where the skins drop.
First, hunt mobs in front of the zone-in to Sverag. After hunting for hours in other parts of Devastation, we didnt see a single skin drop until we started killing in front of the zone-in. All the mob types will spawn in that area but they will fight each other which works for you and against you. The following mobs are guaranted to drop the skin as long as they are blue con to lvl 75:
Shilikin - an elite soldier
Berserker - troll basher, vah shir fury
Orc - centurian
Undead - spite captain
Giant - bolvirk hersir
Kobold - elite
Spider - shadow strider
Werewolf - ravager
Evil Eye - overfiend

All of these mob types spawn with multiple other mobs and can be difficult to single pull, so have crowd control ready. The evil eyes are the most difficult to get to spawn, and they die very quickly to other mobs. We had to wait for them to spawn in Severag itself and then fight back to the named spawn site. If you head to the right inside the wall passages and work your way almost all the way back of the zone. The named mobs are always "Tyrant" something and spawns inside one of the buildings at lo N688 P458 with one add inside and two guards outside. A named spawned every time for us and will sometimes spawn immediately upon the death of one back to back. Hope this helps others trying to finish this quest.

mobs summon. bring friends.

How do you get the Saga skin Quest started?

Got half the skins months ago, went back to finish up and the task had disappeared from task window. Looted a skin and task came back but it didn't show the previous skins I had looted.

Do I have to destroy the previous skins and loot them again or will the task update when I turn them in to Maelin?

Note: This is a direct copy from the game. Any punctuation/grammatical errors exist in the texts in game.

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Saga Skin Translation - vol. 1

Compilation of Notes Regarding the Phenomena of Saga Skins - compiled from notes by Maelin of Knowledge Vol. 1


Recently I was approached with some odd new information. One of the Planes of Power, the Plane of Plane of Rage, has been breached by Norrathians. Those that are so-called 'natives' appear to be brought there if they die when enraged or commit murder out of anger. By doing so they dedicate themselves to the goddess Sullon Zek and become a part of the cycle in the Plane of Rage. When they die they join a tremendous wall of the animate dead, each battling toward the edge of this wall so that they might be reborn into The Devastation and again fight with others like them. Their madness-driven goal appears to be to gain access to a fortress that lies at the center of the battlefield.

Such mindless conflict seems fruitless to a scholar, and it probably is. But there is an interesting concern here that has only recently been answered. Can this mass of angry warriors be considered a culture? Do they have an traditions and beliefs that they pass down to the next generation?

Their next generation appears to be other newly killed, angry warriors, so it might be a little complicated to describe their community at all. But they do appear to have a method for passing down traditions and lore. The strange thing is that they appear to be passing it down to themselves. These beings live an eternal existence of battle, death, and rebirth. As such, they tend to forget things from one rebirth to the next. It would seem that they have little that they need to remember, their fighting skills are always retained as is their anger. But some of them have been keeping stories on their bodies, the only other thing that survives with them every time they are reborn.

In each of the samples of this lore that I have seen there appears to be some slight variation on a singular theme. There is a ceremony of rite of passage that they believe is important. Important enough to dye, scar or carve their skins to keep the memory of that rite. There are other stories kept there, but all of those are tengential to this rite, which I shall describe to the best of my ability.

There is a goddess in the tower that lies in the Stronghold of Rage known to us as Sullon Zek. That goddess is calling to each and every being in the Plane of Rage. Apparently she enflames their rage and their destructive desires are focused on getting into the fortress and occupying it. From descriptions provided by adventurers it is obvious that this fortress is the only place of relative security in the Plane of Rage, but it is not security that these beings desire. They seek to be near their goddess and inside that fortress is the tower in which they believe she dwells.

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Saga Skin Translation - vol. 2

Compilation of Notes Regarding the Phenomena of Saga Skins - compiled from notes by Maelin of Knowledge Vol. 2

Once they have achieved control of the Stronghold of Rage they can then begin their rituals in an attempt to earn Her favor. The tribe or army chooses a member to be their Subjucant of Rage. It should be noted that the title 'Subjucant' is an interpretation of several titles created in a dozen languages to represent this one position. It is representative of the feel of the title and is not intended to be a true word. This candidate is chosen with great care, as there can be only one Subjucant at a time. The method for choosing the Subjucant varies greatly depending on the race and cultural history of the group doing the choosing, but in all cases fighting ability and a deep seated anger are always the most favored criteria.

Once chosen, the Subjucant is marked with important symbols; their body cut, burned or inked in painful ways. The symbols are simplistic representations of anger, power, war, and strength. Of the myriad of markings on the skin I have examined, these symbols are always the same. They are the only markings that are the same among all those imbedded on the skins of the variety of species that exist in the Plane of Rage. This indicates that these symbols, and perhaps the ritual in its entirety, were acquired from a single source. Logic presumes that this source was the goddess Sullon Zek or one of her avatars or servants.

Once the painful marking process is complete, the Subjucant of Rage is required to sit at the foot of Sullon Zek's tower and focus his rage. His anger is to allow it to build and grow until it can no longer be controlled. If this rage is sufficient then they believe that the goddess will possess the Subjucant and he or she will become a Vessel of Rage. Once possessed (or claiming to be possessed) by the spirit of rage the Vessel of Rage is to go out and destroy until his rage is spent.

Here, however, there is a difference in the lore and observance of the lore. The older tales imprinted on the eldest of the skins says that the Vessel is to stride out onto the field and destroy his foes until there is no rage left within, until the amount of the spirit of rage he could contain has been exhausted. On the newest of the skins the tale is slightly different, though in a dramatic way. They say that the Vessel is to show his true rage by killing as many of his allies as he can before his rage is expended. Why this change in ritual has happened I can't know, nor can I speculate.

If the Vessel then returns to the foot of the tower for judgment by Sullon Zek. If he is worthy then the door to the tower will allow him to pass. If not then he will often be destroyed by his own tribe. As it is, many of these Vessels probably die in battle while expending their rage. How many of these are allowed to enter the tower is impossible to know. They claim that their reward is to fight alongside Sullon Zek and to learn the ultimate power that rage can provide. I have no information about this and will not speculate about the truth of this bit of lore. Whatever happens inside that tower, if anything, is a mystery to us right now.

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For the most part I consider this to be an accurate transcribing.

Edited, Wed May 17 15:33:52 2006

Might want to make a Note that these book bindings are something you buy and to get one before you go see Grand Librarian Maelin. The way it's stated it looks like Maelin gives it to you after turning in all the pages.

Edited, Thu Apr 27 02:33:02 2006