Ardoris Sewers

The lore says smugglers are using the Ardoris Sewers to smuggle goods from Ardoris to Soltown, right? Well Soltown's Sewer network is certainly extensive, but it does not appear to be connected to Ardoris' Sewer.

Infact, the Ardoris Sewer appears to be a completely closed loop, with only one entrance/exit. Sounds like an easy place for guards to clear out, I can't imagine why smugglers would have any luck with an operation down there.

I'd like if there were at least multiple entrances to the Ardoris sewer system from within Ardoris, along with a layout that better reflects the street map of the city above. (with small tunnels that lead up to various buildings/gutters along the roads.

I can't help but thinking while down there, that it would be cool if behind a secret wall, (located just under the market square) were a bandit den working on digging up directly into the bank vault. Now that would be a cool thing to run into and try to stop. Come on, bank robbers in action? That would be awesome.

Also, perhaps one of those swamp alligators could make its way into some of the bigger sewer systems.. and in the deep areas that seem to have access to underworld passages.. carnivorous human cave dwellers? And even deeper or more remotely, rogue alchemist necromancers harvesting bandits and undead to create homunculi and headless and other mutant abberations?

 

Have you managed to locate any destroyable walls or hidden doors? I have yet to explore the sewer, but I have found such things in other sewer systems.

 

I can verify that all three towns are connected by the sewers: Ardoris, Solania, and Soltown.

 

they also connect to spectral mines

 

Ah man, now I really have to search harder! Thanks for confirming this jiirc. I think I've found all the connections other than to Ardoris. is the connection to Owl's Head still there? (I assume that was just a bugged name)

 

All underworld locations in Hidden Vale are connected (so far).
All underworld locations in Novia are connected (so far).
Its great fun.

 

Well, after being told there is a connection in Ardoris sewer, and going back and forth through it another 20 100 times, clicked on every foot of wall, I leveled up again, but still don't see it. What am I looking for exactly? Don't see any buttons or levers or cracks in the wall or hatches under the water...

You know, it would make sense that the bandits in there were guarding the secret passage, and eventually, I'd be able to catch one of them carrying a box through it.

 

2 of the hidden transition points are breakable walls, one is an illusion where you can simply walk through the wall

 

Okay, there hasn't been any clue that magic was involved with this sewer in anyway. Hopefully if that's how this works, that will change with quests in the future. Thanks Themo.

 

found it. at least it was in the right section of the sewer. thanks for your help. they really need to set up the roaming bandit to enter/exit that spot frequently so we're not stuck headbutting the walls all day.

And I wonder what lore will be created to explain 'no-clip' walls. Personally, I hope this is just temporary until they finish creating the new secret door for curved walls asset.

Ah, i see the stone border now.. so it's not completely invisible. I guess once we know what we're looking for it isn't so bad after all. ;-) It's kind of nice having a secret door that doesn't light up your cursor, but still needs a lore explanation.

 

it would be cool if that reveal hidden spell highlighted it

 

See, you come up with the greatest ideas. reveal hidden would be perfect

 

I love the sigil mosaics on the floors in there!

 

That's some pretty serious sewers then. Funny to think they'd connect their cities together like that if all the city states of Novia were so distrustful of each other.

 

Chris, thanks for the insight on these sewers! I do like how the unsavory types are holed up closer to Soltown, it makes sense that the closer it gets to the big city, the riskier it would be for them to establish themselves. Maybe someday there'll be random guard raids trying to clear them out. (or player-led guard raids vs. player-led brigand attacks for two conflicting quest chains). The shared-spaces aspect is quite intriguing.

I must admit, at some point I began assuming the rounded walls would be too difficult to create secret wall assets for, so I was getting in the habit of skipping over the rounded bits when searching.

 

I love the illusionary walls. It's gives us yet another thing to look for. Had a blast exploring the sewers the other day while I was putting together the hat video. Well done Chris!

 

The illusionary wall was quite ultimaesque. Nice touch and hope there are many more to come