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The Missing Piece

Start NPC	Alfesar - Rabao (H-7)
Requirements	Selbina/Rabao Reputation 4, Level 10
Items Needed	Ancient tablet fragment Tablet of Ancient Magic Letter from Alfesar
Title Granted	Acquirer of Ancient Arcanum
Repeatable	No
Reward	Scroll of Teleport-Altep

Walkthrough

• Talk to Alfesar in Rabao (H-7). He needs your help in finding an Ancient tablet fragment in the Quicksand Caves.
  • The fragment spawns at one of five randomly chosen locations in the Quicksand Caves.
    • Spawn points on Map 1: (H-6), (H-10), (E-9)
    • Spawn points on Map 2: (D-9), (L-11)

• To get to the ??? at (H-6) (Point 1 on the map), enter the Quicksand Caves from the Eastern Altepa Desert (J-7) (Entrance #1 on the Map). You will zone in Quicksand Caves (L-4) to begin your search.
  • All Anticans aggro to sound! So you may need to apply Sneak or Silent Oil.
  • When you fall down at I-7, be sure you are on the West wall.
  • There will be a beetle at the spawn point (H-6). The beetle doesn't aggro. If the ??? is not there, head out of the caves at D-5. You will exit at Eastern Altepa Desert (H-8) (Entrance #2 on the Map).

• To reach the other four points, again enter the Quicksand Caves from Eastern Altepa Desert (J-7).
  • This time drop down at J-7, on the East wall.
  • You can check point 2 (H-10) and 3 (E-9).
  • If not at either point, drop down at (F-10). As you drop down, be sure you are on the East wall. Take Tunnel A (F-11).
  • Points 4 (D-9) and 5 (L-11) are on Map 2.
• When you find the ???, check it and you will receive the Ancient tablet fragment.
  • If more than one person in your party needs the quest, the ??? will disappear once anyone clicks it and will instantly re-pop in one of the 5 locations (usually a different one, although the same one is possible).
  • You might obtain the Antican Tag from a non-related ??? while searching for the proper ???. This item is used to pop Tribunus VII-I and has nothing to do with this quest.

• Return to Alfesar. He will give you the Tablet of Ancient Magic and the Letter from Alfesar.

• Take both items to Charlaimagnat at the cathedral in Northern San d'Oria (M-7). (He is on the lower level at the bottom of the stairs.) He asks for you to come back another day because he needs to decipher the tablet.

• Zone and come back to Charlaimagnat after at least one Earth minute for your reward.
  • Simply logging out in front of him and logging back in does not work, you have to zone to another zone and come back.
  • A close zone is the Mog House in Northern San d'Oria

Game Description

Client

Alfesar Rabao (H-7) (Near the oasis, Rabao)

Summary

The friar Alfesar has asked you to find the remaining part of a stone tablet that was found in the Quicksand Caves that lie beneath the Altepa Desert.

Source entry: The Missing Piece. Cached on this server on 3 November 2026.