Nexus Shadow Armor

Introduced:

Thorns of the Hopeslayer

Related Quests:

Shadow Armor

Information

• During the Darkness Ascendant event menacing Shadow Spires appeared from beneath the surface of Dereth. Tales were told of random travellers being abducted and sent to the spires for interrogation.
• During the Thorns of the Hopeslayer event large Shadow armies started to invade Dereth and portals appeared giving players access to the Shadow Spires.
• Key parts were taken from the corpses of Shadow Captains and Shadow Generals in the newly accessible spires.
• In the final stage of the Shadow invasion portals started to appear on each server giving access to Nexus dungeon.
• Players had to combine the key parts from the different spires to gain access to the dungeon.
• At the end of the Nexus dungeon was a Nexus Crystal which when defeated dropped a Nexus Core Gem which could be handed in to one of the master armorers for a suit of Nexus Shadow Armor.
• Only 1 Nexus Core Gem dropped for each server resulting in the armor being considerably rare and sought after, especially on the Darktide server where it was known to have sold for thousands of US dollars.

Suit Owners

• Darktide - Lop
• Frostfell - Freeze
• Harvestgain - Hell Maker
• Leafcull - Qua Badib
• Morningthaw - Al Neo
• Thistledown - Tayway

Duping of the Nexus Shadow Armor

• In December 2001 the owner of the Darktide suit had duplicated his copy multiple times. This resulted in Turbine deleting all copies of the armor including the original in March 2002.
• You can read the announcement made by Turbine here.

Quest Items

Nexus Core Gem Nexus Orders

Quest Rewards

Nexus Celdon Leggings Nexus Celdon Girth Nexus Celdon Breastplate Nexus Celdon Sleeves Nexus Koujia Leggings Nexus Koujia Breastplate Nexus Koujia Sleeves Nexus Amuli Leggings Nexus Amuli Coat

Lore & Dialog

You give Alean the Steel Forger Nexus Core Gem.
Alean the Steel Forger tells you, "This is the gem from the core of the Nexus Crystal, is it not? A worthy achievement, indeed. I will make you the greatest suit of armor in Dereth."
Alean the Steel Forger gives you Nexus Celdon Breastplate.
Alean the Steel Forger gives you Nexus Celdon Sleeves.
Alean the Steel Forger gives you Nexus Celdon Girth.
Alean the Steel Forger gives you Nexus Celdon Leggings.