As an avid gamer and expert on all things Hogwarts Legacy, I‘ve helped heroes traverse the hallowed halls of Hogwarts, unravel mysteries, and conquer sinister foes. But few quests have captured my imagination like "The Helm of Urtkot".
This complex, atmospheric quest sends you delving into a forbidden crypt, solving ancient magical locks, and battling terrifying undead guardians – all to recover a legendary goblin relic tied to their greatest king.
As a level 23 challenge taking around 25-35 minutes, it tests your puzzle-solving wits and combat abilities earned across prior adventures. Equip your best gear, masterful spells, and cunning strategems before you descend into the dark on this monumental mission.
Here I reveal everything heroes need to triumph over the mythic dangers within the Witch‘s Tomb and uncover the profound goblin history behind the mystical Helm of Urtkot itself.
Unmasking the Helm‘s Secrets
- Minimum Level: 12 (Recommended: 18+)
- Length: 25-35 minutes
- Spells Required: Depulso, Lumos, Confringo, Glacius, Accio, basic attacks
- Enemies Faced: Inferi, Ashwinders, Trolls, elite goblins
- Rewards: Goblin favor, XP, rare crafting materials
Your journey begins, as many things do in Hogwarts Legacy, with gossip and intrigue. Inside the famed Three Broomsticks pub, the wizard adventurer Sirona Ryan mentions a mysterious goblin urgently seeking help with a secret matter.
Thus the first seed is sown that soon drags you into a lost crypt on a quest for truth tied to legendary goblin kings.
A Desperate Plea for Help
Tracking down Sirona‘s goblin contact, a shifty figure named Lodgok, you find him holed up in The Hog‘s Head Inn looking anxious. According to Lodgok, precious goblin relics have recently gone missing from an ancient tomb outside Hogsmeade.
Worse still, Lodgok fears the thefts may be part of a plot against goblin leadership as certain powerful artifacts contain markers affirming their kings‘ legitimacy. He begs you to investigate the ransacked crypt for clues and recover any heritage items still within.
Dubbed "The Witch‘s Tomb" by locals, the site was long ago looted by wizards eliminating evidence of goblin settlements in the Forbidden Forest. They left only broken shards and cast-off oddities behind…or so the consensus went until now.
Could relics have survived beneath notice? What parties might want them for political or profit motives if uncovered today? The quest holds many shadows and secrets yet to penetrate its depths may answer why this tomb still matters.
| Name | The Helm of Urtkot |
|---|---|
| Length | 25-35 minutes |
| Minimum Level | 12 |
| Rewards | Goblin favor, XP, rare crafting materials |
I advise checking gear and stocking provisions before following Lodgok towards the mysterious vault. Ancient curses and fell creatures often lurk in forgotten barrows like the one you‘ll soon unseal…
Piercing the Veil
Marching northwest of Hogsmeade, Lodgok leads you to a hillside opening ringed in standing stones and skulls on spikes – a dire warning if ever there was one!
Lodgok halts, motioning you onward alone through the intricately carved doorway. Goblins evidently aren‘t welcomed in territories claimed by wizard-kind. Thus you must plunge into the darkness of this ill-omened barrow solo.
- Location: Hillside northwest of Hogsmeade
- Minimum Level: 12
- Length: 25-35 minutes
- Rewards: Goblin favor, XP, rare crafting items
The moment I pass through the doorway, I ready my wand, senses alert. Crypts like this often have magical and physical guardians against robbers.
Sure enough, I soon encounter the first hurdle – a sealed stone door engraved with three moths symbols, two already illuminated as if by real moths. Scouring the room, I spot a living moth fluttering in shadow and use Lumos to direct it towards the third carving. The door trembles open allowing me to progress deeper.
Many vaults in Hogwarts Legacy have puzzles based around guiding certain enchanted animals. It pays to be attentive to small details when exploring ancient sites!
Slumber Disturbed
Pressing onward, I pass through another moth-marked portal before the narrow tunnel opens into a larger ceremonial chamber. Along the walls, candles suddenly flare revealing three armored corpses seemingly awakened by my trespass.
These dread creatures are Inferi – unliving puppets of dark magic compelled to destroy any who disturb this place. And as I watch they begin to twitch, fumbling for weapons…
- Enemies: Inferi guards x3
- Inferi Tips: Use fire damage, destroy corpses quickly
Wasting no time, I blast the shambling corpses with jets of bluebell flame, igniting their age-dry sinews. The unliving abominations stagger towards me even as they burn, so I switch to bombarding them with Reducto blasts finally breaking them into smoldering chunks.
This tomb surely has additional spectral sentinels lurking in the gnarled ossuary passage up ahead. I proceed cautiously, wand ready to incinerate any other ‘sleeping‘ horrors…
Sure enough, more moth-marked barriers and Inferi obstruct my descent into subsequent twisting crypt tunnels. But I systematically burn my way through these restless corpse servants, solving enough carved insect portal puzzles to press ever deeper.
Until finally, having scorched or crushed eight waves of Inferi undead, I emerge through a last stone hatchway into a large central vault – perhaps the tomb‘s original burial hall from its goblin builders based on the crumbling monuments.
Unfortunately, instead of hidden relics or glittering prizes all I see is the gigantic shed skin of some serpentine creature hanging empty across the dais like limp party streamers.
Clearly, I was beaten to the prize by unknown rivals! Was this giant molt left by a beast guardian now dead or perhaps something far worse? The only option is to find Lodgok outside and let him interpret events.
A Sinister Plot Revealed
"An Ashwinder!" the goblin gasps as I describe the huge empty snakeskin within. Lodgok shares lore on those winged serpents who sometimes steal magical treasures to incubate eggs in or merely dangerous pests drawn by the tomb’s latent power.
Either way, their presence likely confirms a bigger scheme is underway – perhaps by wizards seeking lost goblin knowledge or an internal coup against the goblin ruler. Someone cunning and resourceful has stolen secrets from this tomb before me!
Lodgok hesitantly admits rumors exist of an Ashwinder nest not terribly far away built atop older goblin ruins. If we travel there swiftly on broomback we may intercept the thieves and regain what was taken before it vanishes!
We set off at once upon our brooms, the gusting wind mirroring urgency in my mind. Who robbed this tomb and what plot unfolds? Was it just a snake seeking a nest-hole that incidentally looted relics or did it act at another power‘s behest?
The answers await within its lair, although likely well-guarded…
Lair of Serpents
It takes mere minutes before a crumbling fortress ruin comes into view on the cliffs ahead wreathed in ominous green smog – the Ashwinder habitat Lodgok described. He halts his broom gesturing for me to continue alone lest negotiations go badly.
- Enemies: Ashwinders, Ashwinder Brutes, Trackers, Assassins
- Ashwinder Tips: Freeze them from range, use shields against breath attacks
I dismount and stealthily approach only to hear angry hissing from above! There‘s no hope for a quiet infiltration it seems. A piercing shriek rings out answered by dozens more – the snake lair‘s entire legion rouses to repel me!
Spell wings spread wide, an Ashwinder Tracker swoops down blasting green venomatic spray. "Glacius!" I yell, meeting its breath with my own blue haze perfectly icing its maw shut. The frozen tracker plunges earthward, shattering apart on the rocks below.
More serpents slither into view including massive brutes and tiny toxic assassins. I exchange fiery magical blows against their combined frontal assault while giving ground.
At last, spending their initial fury, the snakes pause their advance which I seize upon! "Reducto! Depulso!" I bellow, flinging back squads of ashwinders crashing them brokenly into the cliffside turf.
It seems the battle has swung in my favor when an ear-splitting roar echoes from the inner keep!
Unexpected Monster
I brace myself as a twelve-foot forest troll stomps into view wielding a huge studded club. So not only snakes guard this hideaway but aumbries and mercenaries too! Behind the brute, goblin-wrought gates swing open and out slither two more winged serpents – no mere ashwinders these judging by their gleaming ruby scales and brass armored hides – an Ashwinder Battlemage and Ashwinder Fury!
- Enemies:
- Forest Troll (brute melee threat)
- 2x elite Ashwinders (ranged elemental spells)
I throw myself sideways as the troll swings its club, the mighty blow just grazing my robes. Rolling back to my feet, I draw a bead on the lumbering monster. "Glacius Duo!" Twin bolts of ice blast forth encasing the troll‘s legs in frozen shards. Though slowed, still the beast charges flailing its weapon!
The elite ashwinders slither skyward taking wing to rain fire across the courtyard. I conjure Protego Duo to shield against both serpent‘s strafing attacks before charging the troll, unleashing every vicious attack spell I can muster.
It‘s a chaotic close-quarters melee with fiery magical blasts exploding around the dueling pair. The troll lands several crushing hits, but my spells strike true blowing craters in its chest and deforming its face into a gnarled cage of scar tissue.
With a last anguished howl, fists raised towards the heavens, the mighty forest troll teeters then collapses. I surge with renewed vigor towards the remaining flying threats!
Both ashwinders twist through the air evading my counter-barrage. But their deadly balletic dance ends abruptly as together they slam beak-first into an illusion barrier I casted earlier while retreating. The stunned snakes crash down immobilized.
Pressing my advantage before they recover, I blast one ashwinder into green tatters with Reducto then pin the other beneath giant icicle spears conjured overhead.
Silence falls across bloodied courtyard. All enemies defeated, I search inside the central keep at last discovering the missing goblin artifacts – a golden royal helm tucked away inside a heavy log box. This must be the relic stolen from the tomb that first sent me on this quest!
Kingdom‘s Key
I waste no time soaring back on broomback directly towards Lodgok, eager to show the recovered goblin crown. The moment I reveal it, the goblin lets out a cackle of glee!
There was more to this theft as he hinted after all! According to newly translated texts, prophecy long ago deemed only the ruler who wears The Helm of Urtkot will unite the disparate goblin kingdoms. Its sacred golden sheen also signifies divine right.
As such, possession of the relic threatens current governors and makes its owner a target for assassination or rebellion. Lodgok suspects the Ashwinders served a goblin thief-lord named Gringott attempting to overthrow leadership in chaos by keeping the crown hidden.
Fortunately, thanks to my exploits recovering all artifacts intact from the snakes‘ lair, such upheaval can be avoided…for now at least.
Who knows what other goblin relics remain that might shift balances of power? And will Gringott‘s failed ploy be the last attempt to control destiny themselves using artifacts like the legendary Helm of Urtkot?
I came seeking answers and found those along with greater questions. But savoring victory a moment, I‘m proud to have recovered an artifact tied to famous rulers like Ragnuk the First whose legends echoed through history to inspire goblins today!
Perhaps the prophecies and power bound to this Helm of Urtkot will serve its owners rather than consume them as magic often does. For now, I‘m merely satisfied witnessing a tiny sliver of history – and glad some small crisis was averted thanks to my tomb-delving deeds!
So ends my latest subterranean exploit within Hogwarts Legacy. Doubtless more cryptic quests and magical intrigues await down the line. But if future mysteries prove half as engaging as the Helm of Urtkot‘s buried secrets, I‘ll gladly dawn my treasure-hunting leathers once more!
