Keyring Mod Solution

This Solution deals with the Keyring Mod.

Accepting the Quest
You start the keyring quest by meeting Zauriel in front of Castle Britannia. Despite his strange behavior, you can trust him... for the moment. After you have agreed to help him to save his daughter Laurianna from a mad mage, he explains that he first needs to mix a special potion, which needs blackrock and a vial of Silver Serpent Venom.

You can find blackrock either in Rudyom's house, or in dungeon Covetous. As for the venom, hope that you haven't yet sold all of it to Kessler. It's easiest to find some at the Britannian Mining Company in Minoc. Once you have both things, give them to Zauriel and he will make the potion for you. He then tells you to find his daughter on an island north of Skara Brae, south of where the Lost River flows into the sea. Zauriel himself will wait at the Skara Brae moongate.

The Gem of Dispelling
To your surprise, the island is empty. Search around (avoid the structure as it is a trap) until your companions comment about this, then go and meet Zauriel at the Skara Brae moongate. After some discussion it's clear the mage did some trickery and that you need a Gem of Dispelling to get anywhere. Zauriel openly tells you that there are two ways to do this:

First Way

You create a gem from scratch. For that, you need the following ingredients:


 * A gem, which you can buy from Sean in Britain.
 * Invisibility dust, which can be found in a cave at 169°S 29°E.
 * Six bee stingers, which have to be collected off dead Giant Bees in the Bee Cave.
 * Two Spider Eggs, which can be collected in the forest SW of the Bee Cave (across the Lost River).

Once you have all these things, Zauriel can make the gem for you.

Second Way

In this way, you see if the inventor of these gems, Joneleth, who had died some years prior, had left any behind in his house on Orney Isle near Buccaneer's Den. So go there and.... ARGH! Joneleth has turned into a Liche! Kill him, then loot the gems off him. Zauriel can determine which ingredients you need to add to make the gem fully functional again (it is random).

Once the missing ingredients are given to Zauriel, the gem is fully functional

The surprising Solution
Now, return to the island and when the gem glows, crush it to expose the mage, his henchmen and the kidnapping victim. The mage Laundo is quite boastful, but he and his goons are wimps, so kill them without mercy once you are done talking to him. After that is done, talk to Laurianna and give her the potion in order to free her, then return her to Zauriel (need space in the party). Right then however, things turn strange, as Zauriel turns himself into a dragon, so you need to kill him.

Only afterwards you learn from his journal (take it), that he needed to sacrifice himself in order to heal Laurianna from her magical surges. For your reward for all this trouble, find Laurianna in Empath Abbey, where she's either in the house of the scholar, or at the healer's. Return the journal to her and she in turn will give you the Keyring, which will make your remaining quest a lot easier.