Mystery of the Yetis
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In the Embers of Rage campaign, the quest Mystery of the Yetis can be started either be obtaining a Yeti muscle tissue sample, or by talking to the Old Psi-Machine.
In the Ruins of a lost city in the Embers of Rage campaign, there is an Old Psi-Machine on the bottom floor. If you speak with it, it will task you with retrieving Yeti muscle tissue samples from powerful specimens, and will reward you with knowledge in exchange for them.
This quest is the Embers of Rage counterpart to the Escort quests from the Age of Ascendancy and Infinite Dungeon campaigns. The available rewards are very similar to the rewards available from Escort quests, but there are some significant differences:
- There is no randomness in the set of rewards available. You always get to choose from the entire list, instead of being limited to the choices corresponding to the randomly-chosen type of escort character.
- You get a maximum of 4 rewards, unlike the maximum of 9 escort rewards in the Age of Ascendancy campaign. However, you should reliably be able to kill all 4 yetis, whereas it's hard to reliably save all 9 escorts.
- If you choose a talent category reward, it is learned unlocked instead of locked, so you do not need to spend a category point to unlock it. If you already have a category as a locked category, then you cannot choose that category as a reward to unlock it.
- There are some newly available talent categories (mostly ones that were available to learn from other sources in the Age of Ascendancy campaign), but Stone Alchemy is no longer available as a category (the individual talents are still available). (And Tinkers are not available but you can just buy them in Kruk Pride.)
- The Nature and Psionic talents and categories that could be learned as a reward for betraying magic-using escorts to Zigur (but you could only betray if you knew no spell talents yourself) can now be learned by characters who know spell talents.
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Yeti Muscle Tissue samples
In each game, there are 4 Yeti muscle tissue samples available. Each one is dropped by a particular unique Yeti on death.
| Sample name | Yeti | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Yeti's Muscle Tissue (Patriarch) | Yeti Patriarch | Yetis Cave |
| Yeti's Muscle Tissue (Behemoth) | Captured Yeti Behemoth | Dominion Port |
| Yeti's Muscle Tissue (Astral) | Astral-Infused Yeti | Sunwall Observatory |
| Yeti's Muscle Tissue (Mech) | Half-Mechanized Yeti | G.E.M. |
Rewards
For each tissue sample handed in, you will receive one reward.
You will have the option of giving this reward to a party member that satisfies the following conditions:
- It is not dead, and it is on the current map
- It may be fully controlled by you
- It is not a summoned creature with a time limit
More specifically, Alchemist golems, Worm That Walks, and Mecharachnid pets are allowed to receive these rewards.
There are 3 kinds of rewards: talent categories, talents, and stats.
Talent categories
These talent categories are rewarded unlocked at 1.0 mastery. (This is different to escort rewards, which are rewarded locked.) If you already know a talent category (locked or unlocked), the option for that category will not be available. You cannot choose to unlock a talent category if you already have it as a locked category.
| Physical techniques | Arcane spells | Nature/Psionic talents |
|---|---|---|
| Conditioning | Divination | Dreaming |
| Mobility | Staff Combat | Augmented Mobility |
| Survival | Chants | Feedback |
| Scoundrel | Chronomancy | Antimagic |
| Curses | Call of the Wild | |
| Vile Life | Mindstar Mastery | |
| Harmony |
Compared to the available escort rewards, Mobility, Antimagic, Harmony, and Vile Life are added, but Stone Alchemy is removed. Antimagic is presumably available to compensate for being unable to learn it at Zigur in this campaign, and Harmony and Vile Life are presumably available to compensate for the Heart of the Sandworm Queen and its corrupted counterpart being unavailable in this campaign.
Talents
If you choose one of these talents, the recipient will gain +1 level in the talent.
Compared to the available escort rewards, Device Mastery, Resolve, and Mana Clash are added, and the talents from the Tinker escort (Innovation, Last Engineer Standing, Craftsman's Eye, and Endless Endurance) are not available. Resolve and Mana Clash were presumably added because Antimagic was added to the talent category rewards.
Stats
You can choose to increase any core stat (Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Magic, Willpower, Cunning) by 4.
Compared to escort rewards, the stat increases are smaller (+4 instead of +5). Also, there are no rewards that directly increase Saves.
Quest Progression
When you hand in the first tissue sample, you will unlock the Psyshot class.
Each time you hand in a tissue sample, the Old Psi-Machine will tell you another piece of lore regarding the Weissi. After handing in all 4 tissue samples and receiving all the messages, the quest is complete.
