Vaults and you: which to choose and how to beat

Overview

I found that existing guides, although invaluably useful, do not contain enough info to make this quite grindy game faster. One game session can take up to several Hours to finish, which sucks. To speed things up, you can either use console (which is fine, no one will judge you for that) or just know exactly where to go, what to get and whom to send.This guide offers searchability and color-coded icons so you could make calculated decisions faster.All data taken from CS wiki[cultistsimulator.gamepedia.com] and Frangiclave by Lyrositor[frangiclave.net].

Vaults 101

Vaults are the dungeons of Cultist Simulator. You are meant to send someone in to take everything of value out of it for you. This is how it works:

1. You need the Explore verb with the card with Vault aspect put in it. This will show 4 (sometimes 5) more slots to fill: 2 for your Followers and two for Funds. (You’ll have 1 more slot in the repeatable Vaults, except the first. This slot is relevant only for Dancer DLC.) You have to send at least 1 Follower and 1 Funds to start an expedition. One obstacle (every vault is basically a set of obstacles) requires 1 Funds, and will need 1 more if your followers fail to overcome it (granted that didn’t finish your expedition for good).
2. After the start of expedition, you’ll be able to send more Funds or Followers from time to time. This way you can overcome more obstacles and/or stop decaying of your summons or hirelings.
3. Every Vault has its own set of obstacles. This guide will list these obstacles and ways to beat them.
4. Every obstacle is defeated by followers sent, if their aspects are matching. Any obstacle have at least 2 aspects that defeat them, so you’ll always have a room for manoeuvre.
   However, there is no way to beat an obstacle with 100% probability:
   • If your expedition team’s relevant aspect is between 1 and 4, than your chance is 30%,
   • If you have from 5 to 9, than you have a 70% chance, and
   • 10 or more of the aspect needed grands you a whopping 90% success rate.
5. Penalty for failing the obstacle depends on the obstacle type. There are 4:
   • Seals: you just have to try again in 30 seconds.
   • Guardians: 70% chance of injury. Summons will be killed outright, followers will be sent back home and require medical help via Talk verb (costs 1 Funds).
   • Perils: 70% chance of injury. Works same as Guardians.
   • Curses: you’ll get an action box that represent a dormant curse. You’ll have to have a hard to obtain and maintain 10 or 15 Heart influence. If you fail to provide it at the moment just before the curse attacks, it will take something away. Curses targets are listed in the guide’s body. Despite all these adversities, obstacle will be removed.
6. If an expedition fails due to lack of funds or followers, you get all cards you’ve put in the Explore Verb back, including the Vault card, and also 1 Dread and 1 Mystique. You can try again after that.
7. After everything is killed and everyone is stepped over, you’ll have your loot! And also 1 Notoriety, but mostly loot.

The problem is, clearing out every vault will give you all sorts and shapes of unnecessary crap. If you’re not in the mood for exploration of absolutely everything while dodging, well, absolutely everything else the game throws at you, you’re better have a plan, and I’ll give you the foundation for it.

Vaults 102

So, how do I get vaults in the first place, and how do I get the one I want?

Generally, you need to Explore with any Secret Histories Lore card. As any Lore, Secret Histories have even levels from 2 to 14, which covers 7 different areas with Vaults, and also 1 that is actually a ship so you can get it randomly at any exploring attempt. You can safely assume that the farther the Vault, the harder it is, and the (generally) better the loot.

You can obtain Secret Histories lore like you do with other lore, while reading books, but due to its expendable nature you’ll have to use the Dream verb and visit Mansus.

Secret Histories Lore is unique in sence that you cannot convert it in any form or shape, but still can upgrade or downgrade it with Study verb. To upgrade you’ll have to beat several challenges:

• on all lore levels: Knowledge challenge (Erudition or Library HQ),
• levels 6+: Intuition challenge (Glimmering or Sanctuary HQ),
• levels 10+: Illumination challenge (Fascination, Library HQ or Rarefied Mind skill).

You can get Rarefied Mind skill by upgrading your Scholarship skill with Forge, Knock, or Lantern lore, so plan ahead if you’re going to upgrade low- and middle-level Secret Histories lore to get to further Vaults.

You can get Library HQ by moving your HQ to Mordland’s Shop via the Explore Verb after you buy all Miss Morland’s stock. It’s the only way to get Library HQ at the moment, so it can not be listed in this guide’s body.

With that being said, using Lore card to find a Vault will grant you a random Vault from area deck according to the lore level. For example, Exploring with An Occult Scrap will give you a
random Vault from In the Capital area. You can repeat this until you get all unique Vaults once.

After you get all the unique Vaults from one area, Exploring with the same level lore card will grant you the repeatable Vault from this area. You can have any number of repeatable vault cards.

You can also Talk about Secret Histories lore with particular Patron, Sulochana Amavasya. This will grant you a repeatable Vault of lore level’s respective area, but it works only for lore levels 4, 6 and 8.

[Lore level 2] An Occult Scrap — In the Capital

Obstacles:
Treacherous Ground] —
Books:
Apollo and Marsyas — 2 Heart Lore
Lord Franklin Bancroft: Diaries, 1750-1790 — 6 Lantern Lore, in Latin
Tools:
Marruvine Idol — 4 Heart Tool
Ingredients:
Vital Pigment — 4 Grail Ingredient, Grail Pigment
Other:
An Abandoned Warehouse — possible Pit and Secret HQ.

Obstacles:
Monks —
Books:
The Rose of Waznei — 4 Lantern Lore, 4 Edge Lore, in Greek
Chione at Abydos — 4 Winter Lore
De Bellis Murorum — 4 Edge Lore, in Latin
The Rose of Nuriel — 4 Grail Lore, 4 Knock Lore, in Greek
Kühner and Gerth — Scholar: Greek
Other:
Unattended Church — possible Sanctuary HQ

Obstacles:
A Hidden Door —
Tools:
Cracked Noonstone — 1 Lantern Ingredient, can be repaired to Noonstone, 4 Lantern Tool, by a Forge follower (costs 1 Funds)
Elagabaline Manacle — 8 Winter Tool
Ingredients:
Refulgin — 4 lantern Ingredient, Lantern Pigment
Other:
Empty Mithraeum — possible Sanctuary and Secret HQ

Obstacles:
Dry Soul Curse — , targets Reason, produces Dread
Books:
The Rose of Hypatia — 4 Heart Lore, 4 Moth Lore, in Greek
The Locksmith’s Dream: Trespasses — 4 Moth Lore, Glimmering
Tools:
Stained Gloves — 4 Grail Tool
Ingredients:
Rose-Pearl Dust —4 Heart Ingredient, Heart pigment
Other:
Empty Hospital — possible Pit and Secret HQ.

Obstacles:
Watchers —
Books:
The Wainscot Histories — 4 Secret Histories Lore
The Journal of Alessandro LaCroce — Scholar: ♥♥♥♥♥♥
The Treatise on Underplaces — 4 Knock Lore
Travelling at Night(Vol. 3) — 2 Forge Lore, Erudition
The Locksmith’s Dream: Stolen Reflections — 6 Moth Lore, 6 lantern Lore, Fascination

Obstacles:
Treacherous Ground —
Watchers —

• Any of the books, tools and ingredients from other Vaults In the Capital
• Any pigment. Grail, Heart and Lantern pigments are also included in the first entry, which means higher chances.
  Search tags: Lantern Pigment, Heart Pigment, Knock Pigment, Grail Pigment, Forge Pigment, Edge Pigment, Moth Pigment, Winter Pigment, 4 Lantern Ingredient, 4 Heart Ingredient, 4 Knock Ingredient, 4 Grail Ingredient, 4 Forge Ingredient, 4 Edge Ingredient, 4 Moth Ingredient, 4 Winter Ingredient.

[Lore level 4] A Furtive Truth — In the Shires

Obstacles:
A Warded Door —
Books:
The Book of the Centipede — 6 Secret Histories lore, In Greek
Tools:
Bone Flute — 4 Winter tool
Meteoric Bullet — 4 Edge tool
Ingredients:
Piebald Pigment — 4 Moth ingredient, Moth pigment
Greydawn Oil — 4 Winter ingredient, Winter pigment
Other:
An Icy Atmosphere — 6 Winter influence (eventually decays to Dread)

Obstacles:
Younger Sister —
Books:
Those Indignities Perpetrated By the Deceitful Fraternity of Obliviates — 6 Winter lore, Rite of the Watchman’s Sorrow, in Latin
The Orchid Transfigurations, Vol 3: Noon — 2 Heart lore, in Latin
Ingredients:
Witch-Kissed Oil — 8 ingredient

Obstacles:
A Warded Door —
Watchers —
Books:
The Concursum Diaries — 8 Lantern lore, in Phrygian
Gildersleeve’s Latin Grammar — Scholar: Latin
The Shaven Lock Tantra — 6 Moth lore, In Sanscrit
Those Who Do Not Sleep — 10 Heart lore, Rite of the Sea’s Feasting, in ♥♥♥♥♥♥
On Matthias and the Amethyst Imago: Loss — 6 Moth lore, Rite of the Map’s Edge, in Aramaic

Obstacles:
Treacherous Ground —
The Fretful Dead —
Books:
The Victory of Crowns — 2 Edge lore
Tools:
Biedde’s Blade — 8 Edge tool
Cracked Wildering Mirror — 2 Lantern ingredient, can be repaired to Wildering Mirror, 8 Lantern Tool (non-unique), by a Forge follower (costs 1 Bronze or better spintria). Has Mirror aspect and can be used to access The Peacock’s Door, but will break once again.

Obstacles:
Treacherous Ground —
Watchers —
Books:
The Flayed Tantra — 8 Heart lore, in Sanskrit
Tools:
Wingèd Doll — 4 Moth tool
Icon of St Agnes — 4 Knock tool
Ingredients:
Vital Pigment — 4 Grail ingredient, Grail pigment

Obstacles:
A Warded Door —
Watchers —
The Fifth Eye Curse — , targets Passion, produces Fascination.

• Any of the books, tools and ingredients from other Vaults In the Shires
• Any pigment. Grail, Moth and Winter pigments are also included in the first entry, which means higher chances.
  Search tags: Lantern Pigment, Heart Pigment, Knock Pigment, Grail Pigment, Forge Pigment, Edge Pigment, Moth Pigment, Winter Pigment, 4 Lantern Ingredient, 4 Heart Ingredient, 4 Knock Ingredient, 4 Grail Ingredient, 4 Forge Ingredient, 4 Edge Ingredient, 4 Moth Ingredient, 4 Winter Ingredient.
• Chance of getting 6 Winter influence (eventually decays to Dread)

[Lore level 6] A Forgotten Chronicle — On the Continent

Obstacles:
A Hidden Door —
Dry Soul Curse — , targets Reason, produces Dread
Books:
The High Mysteries of the Innermost Chamber of our Church Solar — 10 Lantern lore, Fascination, in ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Book of True Blood — 10 Edge lore, Dread, in Latin
The Morphy Codex — 8 Secret histories lore, in Aramaic
Tools:
Cinnabar Amulet — 4 Forge tool
Ingredients:
Greydawn Oil — 4 Winter ingredient, Winter pigment

Obstacles:
Peril-Prowled Forest —
Monks —
Books:
The Thirsting Tantra — 8 Grail lore, Rite of the Sea’s Feasting, in Sanskrit
De Horis (Book 2) — 2 Edge lore, Erudition, in Latin
Against the Sisterhood of the Knot and… — 8 Secret Histories lore, in Greek
THE MAGUS VON BRANDT’S AUTHENTIC AND UNIQUE ACCOUNT OF THE TRUE TONGUE OF THE TRUE HOLY LAND OF THE HIGHMOST — Scholar: Aramaic
The Tantra of Worms — 6 Winter lore, in Sanskrit
Ingredients:
Rose-Pearl Dust —4 Heart Ingredient, Heart pigment

Obstacles:
The Fretful Dead —
Dry Soul Curse — , targets Reason, produces Dread
Books:
The World Does Not Weep — 8 Winter lore, Rite of the Beast’s Division, in Aramaic
The Devoured Tantra — 6 Grail lore, in Sanskrit
On Matthias and the Amethyst Imago: Transformation — 6 Forge lore, in Aramaic
The Deeds of the Scarred Captain — 8 Edge lore, in Greek

Obstacles:
Younger Sister —
A Hidden Door —
Books:
The Irreproachable Traditions… — 4 Forge lore, in Latin
On the Matter and the Deeds of Serpents — 10 Knock lore, Dread, in Vak
The Journal of Alessandro LaCroce — Scholar: ♥♥♥♥♥♥, in Latin
The Serenity of the Black Wood — 10 Moth aspect, Fascination, in Greek

Obstacles:
Peril-Prowled Forest —
Watchers —
Books:
In The Mountains… — 10 Secret Histories lore, 10 Moth lore, in Vak
Tools:
Whispering Amulet — 2 Moth tool, 2 Grail tool
Dappled Mask — 8 Moth tool
Ingredients:
Leathy — 8 Moth ingredient

[Lore level 6] A Forgotten Chronicle — On the Continent (pt. 2)

Obstacles:
A Warded Door —
The Fifth Eye Curse — , targets Passion, produces Fascination
Books:
The Watchful Tantra — 8 Lantern lore, Rite of the Watchman’s Sorrow, in Sanskrit
THE MAGUS VON BRANDT’S AUTHENTIC AND UNIQUE ACCOUNT OF THE TRUE TONGUE OF THE TRUE HOLY LAND OF THE HIGHMOST — Scholar: Aramaic
The Vinzant Inscriptions — 6 Forge lore, in Phrygian
The Geminiad — 8 Grail lore, 8 Heart lore, 8 Moth lore, The Rite of the Crow’s Quenching, in ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Becomes 2 Knock tool after reading.
Tools:
Paradoxical Curio — 4 Secret Histories tool. You can explore with it to get The Journal of Alessandro LaCroce, that teaches Scholar: ♥♥♥♥♥♥, in Latin.
Other:
Jumble — auctionable (0-2) trash
A Rattling in the Soul — 6 Moth influence (eventually decays to Restlessness, which decays to Dread).

Obstacles:
Peril-Prowled Forest —
A Hidden Door —
Watchers —

• Any of the books, tools and ingredients from other Vaults On the Continent
• Any pigment. Heart and Winter pigments are also included in the first entry, which means higher chances.
  Search tags: Lantern Pigment, Heart Pigment, Knock Pigment, Grail Pigment, Forge Pigment, Edge Pigment, Moth Pigment, Winter Pigment, 4 Lantern Ingredient, 4 Heart Ingredient, 4 Knock Ingredient, 4 Grail Ingredient, 4 Forge Ingredient, 4 Edge Ingredient, 4 Moth Ingredient, 4 Winter Ingredient.
• Any level 8 ingredient. 8 Moth ingredient is also included in the first entry, which means higher chances.
  Search tags: 8 Lantern Ingredient, 8 Heart Ingredient, 8 Knock Ingredient, 8 Grail Ingredient, 8 Forge Ingredient, 8 Edge Ingredient, 8 Moth Ingredient, 8 Winter Ingredient, lethal poison.
• Chance of getting the 6 Moth influence (eventually decays to Restlessness, which decays to Dread).

[Lore level 8] Forbidden Epic — In the Land Beyond the Forest

Obstacles:
The High Passes —
Younger Sister —
Books:
The Account of Kanishk at the Spider’s Door — 6 Edge lore, in Aramaic
The Sky, the Soul — 10 Lantern lore, Fascination, in Aramaic
Ingredients:
Ichor Vitreous — 12 Lantern ingredient
Other:
An Intensity of Radiance — 6 Lantern influence (eventually decays to Fascination)

Obstacles:
Watchers —
The Worms in the World — , targets random mortal, produces Notoriety and Dread
Books:
Sunset Passages — 4 Winter lore, in Latin
A True and Accurate History of the Shadowless Kings — 10 Secret Histories lore, 10 Heart lore, in Aramaic
Gartside’s Sanskrit Reader — Scholar: Sanskrit
The Ivory Book — 8 Winter lore, Sunset Rite, in ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Ingredients:
Writhing Caul — 12 Grail ingredient
Other:
Erudition
Jumble — auctionable (0-2) trash

Obstacles:
A Hidden Door —
Watchers —
Treacherous Ground —
Books:
The Encircling Tantra — 6 Knock lore, in Sanskrit
On Matthias and the Amethyst Imago: Pursuit — 6 Grail lore, in Aramaic
The Iron Book — 8 Forge lore, in ♥♥♥♥♥♥
The Silver Book — 8 Knock lore, in ♥♥♥♥♥♥
The Burning Woman — 10 Forge lore, Fascination, in Phrygian
The Known-Unknown Tantra — 6 Lantern lore, in Sanskrit

Obstacles:
A Hidden Door —
The Creeping Breath Curse — , targets Health, produces Decrepitude
Books:
The Furious Tantra — 6 Edge lore, Rite of the Rebel Striving, in Sanskrit
The Twin-Serpent Tantra — 8 Knock lore, Rite of the Mother’s Mercy, in Sanskrit
How the End will Begin — 14 Edge lore, Dread, in Vak
Ingredients:
Bitterblack Salts — 4 Forge ingredient, Forge pigment

Obstacles:
A Hidden Door —
The Fretful Dead —
Books:
The Book of Thrones — 10 Secret Histories lore, 10 Edge, in Phrygian
Twenty-Six Enticements, Seven Torments — 10 Grail lore, Dread, in ♥♥♥♥♥♥
The Gospel of Zacchaeus — 6 Knock lore, Rite of the Mother’s Mercy, in Greek
A Catalogue of Uncharted Pleasures — 10 Grail lore, in Phrygian
Tools:
Wakeful Tympanum — 8 Heart tool
Other:
An Urgency of Appetite — 6 Grail influence

[Lore level 8] Forbidden Epic — In the Land Beyond the Forest (pt. 2)

Obstacles:
The High Passes —
Watchers —
The Fifth Eye Curse — , targets Passion, produces Fascination

• Any of the books, Tools, Ingredients and Influences from other Vaults In the Land Beyond the Forest
• Any pigment. Forge pigment is also included in the first entry, which means higher chances.
  Search tags: Lantern Pigment, Heart Pigment, Knock Pigment, Grail Pigment, Forge Pigment, Edge Pigment, Moth Pigment, Winter Pigment, 4 Lantern Ingredient, 4 Heart Ingredient, 4 Knock Ingredient, 4 Grail Ingredient, 4 Forge Ingredient, 4 Edge Ingredient, 4 Moth Ingredient, 4 Winter Ingredient.
• Any level 8 ingredient.
  Search tags: 8 Lantern Ingredient, 8 Heart Ingredient, 8 Knock Ingredient, 8 Grail Ingredient, 8 Forge Ingredient, 8 Edge Ingredient, 8 Moth Ingredient, 8 Winter Ingredient, lethal poison.
• Chance of getting 6 Lantern influence (eventually decays to Fascination)

[Lore level 10] Unresolved Ambiguity — In the Rending Mountains

Obstacles:
The High Passes —
Watchers —
Younger Sister —
Books:
The Book of Dissolution — 10 Forge lore, Rite of the Crucible Soul, in Deep Mandaic
The August Stone — Scholar: Deep Mandaic, in Aramaic
Tools:
Malleus Imperative — 8 Forge tool
Ingredients:
Skaptodon Fang — 12 Edge ingredient
Bitterblack Salts — 4 Forge ingredient, Forge pigment

Obstacles:
The High Passes —
A Warded Door —
The Fretful Dead —
Books:
A Second Glory — 10 Winter lore, Dread, Rite of the Beast’s Division, in Deep Mandaic
As The Sun His Course — 8 Edge lore, Rite of the Rebel Striving, in Aramaic
The Velshorn Inscriptions — Scholar: Phrygian, in Greek
Ingredients:
Wolf-Snow — 8 Winter ingredient

Obstacles:
The High Passes —
The Fretful Dead —
The Worms in the World — , targets random mortal, produces Notoriety and Dread
Books:
Where Has She Gone? — 12 Secret Histories lore, in Vak
The Uyrus — Scholar: Vak, in Sanskrit
The Dream of the Conspiracy of the Lower Skies — 12 Grail lore, Fascination, in Phrygian
Tools:
Hallowed Polos — 8 Grail tool
Furious Sliver — 12 Edge tool

Obstacles:
The High Passes —
A Warded Door —
The Fifth Eye Curse — , targets Passion, produces Fascination
Books:
The Larquebine Codex — 6 Heart lore, in Phrygian
The Book of Masks — 10 Moth lore, in Phrygian
Tools:
Cracked Watchman’s Glass— 3 Lantern ingredient, can be repaired to Watchman’s Glass, 12 Lantern Tool (non-unique), by a Forge follower (costs 1 Silver or better spintria). Has Mirror aspect and can be used to access The Peacock’s Door, but will break once again.
Consecrated Lintel — 8 Knock tool

Obstacles:
The High Passes —
A Hidden Door —
Watchers —
The Creeping Breath Curse — , targets Health, produces Decrepitude

• Any of the books and Tools (but no ingredients) from other Vaults In the Rending Mountains
• Any level 8 ingredient.
  Search tags: 8 Lantern Ingredient, 8 Heart Ingredient, 8 Knock Ingredient, 8 Grail Ingredient, 8 Forge Ingredient, 8 Edge Ingredient, 8 Moth Ingredient, 8 Winter Ingredient, lethal poison.

[Lore level 12] Vagabond’s Map — The Lone and Level Sands

Obstacles:
Desolation —
A Warded Door —
Dry Soul Curse — , targets Reason, produces Dread
Books:
The Voyages of Ferninshun of Oreol — 14 Secret Histories lore, in ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Tools:
Alakapurine Shears — 12 Moth tool
Atlas of Dreams — 8 Secret Histories tool. You can explore with it for a chance to get one these rewards:

• 40%: 10 Heart lore
• 30%: 10 Grail lore
• 30%: 3 Silver spintrias

Ingredients:
Azoth — 12 Knock ingredient
Holiest Hemolymph — 12 Moth ingredient

Obstacles:
Desolation —
Watchers —
The Creeping Breath Curse — , targets Health, produces Decrepitude
Books:
The Songs of the Carapace Cross — 12 Knock lore, Dread, in Deep Mandaic
The Sevenfold Slaying of the Seven-Coiled — 12 Edge lore, Dread, in ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Tools:
Kingskin Bodhrán — 12 Heart tool

Obstacles:
Desolation —
A Hidden Door —
The Fifth Eye Curse — , targets Passion, produces Fascination
Books:
The Manner in which the Alchemist was Spared — 14 Forge lore, Fascination, in Vak
The Focus of Amber — 12 Lantern lore, Fascination, in Deep Mandaic
Medusa’s Lament — 10 Knock lore, Dread, in Greek
Tools:
Wildering Mirror — 12 Lantern tool. Has Mirror aspect and can be used to access The Peacock’s Door, but will break and need a repair (refer to Cracked Wildering Mirror).

Obstacles:
Desolation —
A Warded Door —
The Worms in the World — , targets random mortal, produces Notoriety and Dread
Books:
In Memory of Gods — 10 Winter lore, Dread, in ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Tools:
Consecrated Lintel — 8 Knock tool
Division Bell — 12 Winter tool
Ingredients:
Watch-Worms — 12 Winter ingredient, Lethal poison
Other:
A Bitter Atmosphere — 10 Winter influence (eventually decays to Dread)

Obstacles:
Desolation —
A Hidden Door —
The Fretful Dead —
The Creeping Breath Curse — , targets Health, produces Decrepitude

• Any of the books and Tools (but no ingredients) from other Vaults In the Rending Mountains
• Any level 8 ingredient.
  Search tags: 8 Lantern Ingredient, 8 Heart Ingredient, 8 Knock Ingredient, 8 Grail Ingredient, 8 Forge Ingredient, 8 Edge Ingredient, 8 Moth Ingredient, 8 Winter Ingredient, lethal poison.
• Any level 12 ingredient. Knock, Moth and Winter ingredients are also included in the first entry, which means higher chances.
  Search tags: 12 Lantern Ingredient, 12 Heart Ingredient, 12 Knock Ingredient, 12 Grail Ingredient, 12 Forge Ingredient, 12 Edge Ingredient, 8 Moth Ingredient, 8 Winter Ingredient, lethal poison.
• Chance of getting 10 Winter influence (eventually decays to Dread)

[Lore level 14] Port Noon Anecdote — Among the Evening Isles

Note that as any 14 lore, Port Noon Anecdote can exist only once! So explore it before assembling the new one.

Obstacles:
A Western Sea —
A Warded Door —
The Fretful Dead —
Books:
My Deeds, My Powers, My Achievements… — 12 Forge lore, in ♥♥♥♥♥♥
The Time of Division — 14 Lantern lore, Fascination, Dread, Rite Intercalate, in Deep Mandaic
Tools:
Carcass Spark — 12 Forge tool
Ingredients:
True Blood of St Januarius — 12 Heart ingredient. Can heal Decrepitude via Dream verb, will produce Restlessness (decays to Dread) and Mistique

Obstacles:
A Western Sea —
Soucouyants —
The Fifth Eye Curse — , targets Passion, produces Fascination
Books:
The Origins of Hours — 12 Moth lore, Dread, in Vak
A Manual for Departure — 14 Knock lore, Dread, in Vak
Five Creations — 14 Grail lore, Dread, in Vak
Tools:
Chalice Murmurous — 12 Grail tool

Obstacles:
A Hidden Door —
Monks—
The Fifth Eye Curse — , targets Passion, produces Fascination
Books:
Commandments For the Preservation of All That Exists — 14 Heart lore, in Deep Mandaic
Inaam, Kapigiginlupir, Garkie, Cryppys — 14 Moth lore, Fascination, Dread, in Phrygian
The Scar in the Sky — 14 Winter lore, Dread, Rite Intercalate, in ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Tools:
Watchman’s Glass — 12 Lantern tool. Has Mirror aspect and can be used to access The Peacock’s Door, but will break and need repair (refer to Cracked Watchman’s Glass).

Obstacles:
A Western Sea —
Younger Sister —
The Creeping Breath Curse — , targets Health, produces Decrepitude
Books:
The Book of the White Cat — 12 Heart lore, in Phrygian
The Book of the Extinguished Heart — 12 Winter lore, Dread, Rite Intercalate, in Deep Mandaic
Tools:
Frangiclave — 12 Knock tool. Can be used to access The Peacock’s Door, but this time no strings attached.
Ingredients:
Writhing Caul — 12 Grail ingredient

Obstacles:
A Western Sea —
A Warded Door —
Long —
The Fifth Eye Curse — , targets Passion, produces Fascination

• Any of the books and Tools (but no ingredients) from other Vaults Among the Evening Isles
• Any level 12 ingredient. Heart and Grail ingredients are also included in the first entry, which means higher chances.
  Search tags: 12 Lantern Ingredient, 12 Heart Ingredient, 12 Knock Ingredient, 12 Grail Ingredient, 12 Forge Ingredient, 12 Edge Ingredient, 12 Moth Ingredient, 12 Winter Ingredient, lethal poison.

[Lore level random] Floating — The ‘Hebe Stanton’

The ‘Hebe Stanton’ is unique Vault I mentioned in the beginning. You can draw it while exploring with any Secret Histories lore. Here are the chances of drawing it:

• An Occult Scrap (Secret Histories 2): 2%
• A Furtive Truth (Secret Histories 4): 5%
• A Forgotten Chronicle (Secret Histories 6): 10%
• Forbidden Epic (Secret Histories 8): 25%
• Unresolved Ambiguity (Secret Histories 10): 50%
• Vagabond’s Map (Secret Histories 12): 50%
• Port Noon Anecdote (Secret Histories 14): 50%

Since Hebe is unique and you can only draw it once, I advise you to try and draw it early, before you’ll need to Study your Secret Histories to get to new places. I merged all my lore to get Port Noon Anecdote once and immediately get Hebe, which wasn’t very cost effective and virtually traumatized me for life. I will not grow old.

With that being said, here are the stats:

Obstacles:
Watchers —
A Warded Door —
A Western Sea —
Books:
The Incandescent Tantra — 8 Forge lore, in Sanskrit
The Ceaseless Tantra — 6 Heart lore, in Sanskrit
The Fire-Circle Tantra — 8 Moth lore, in Sanskrit
The Leonine Tantra — 8 Edge lore, in Sanskrit

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