Editing Deal with the Devil (section)

==Walkthrough==
===Await the conclusion of Linxia's investigation / Await further developments===
* In the first talk when [[Linxia]] visits your [[Throne Room]] you get to choose:
*# (Lawful Neutral) Activates [[Throne room events#Linxia Terrorizes Your People|Linxia Terrorizes Your People]] persistent event.
*# (Chaotic Neutral) Activates [[Throne room events#Linxia Is Asking Around About Darven|Linxia Is Asking Around About Darven]] persistent event and removes [[Unlockable Key Flags#LinxiaLikesYou|LinxiaLikesYou]] key flag.
* Once you exit the Throne Room you get the first event with hellknights interrogating your citizens.
** Telling them to stop changes [[Throne room events#Linxia Terrorizes Your People|Linxia Terrorizes Your People]] to [[Throne room events#Linxia Is Asking Around About Darven|Linxia Is Asking Around About Darven]] and removes [[Unlockable Key Flags#LinxiaLikesYou|LinxiaLikesYou]] key flag. Also [[Darven]] will spawn in [[Tuskdale]] the next time you visit it.
** (Lawful Evil) choice lets them continue their job.
* There is also a second event on south road with the same choices.
* Unless you told hellknights to leave you will need to wait 60 days until [[Darven]] appears at the entrance of [[Tuskdale]].
* Talk to him, he will try to bribe you with 10000{{coin}}, you can increase that amount to 15000{{coin}} with [[Diplomacy]] DC 26 check {{color|+|+240xp}} or to 20000{{coin}} with [[Diplomacy]] DC 32 check {{color|+|+1440xp}}.
* The final decisions:
*# (Lawful Neutral) or (Chaotic Neutral) to agree to help him.
*# (Neutral) or (Lawful Evil) to refuse.
* Whatever you choose, your next lead is going to [[Secluded Lodge]].

===Talk to Linxia===
* Enter [[Secluded Lodge]] and the talk with [[Linxia]] begins.
* To keep [[Unlockable Key Flags#LinxiaLikesYou|LinxiaLikesYou]] key flag intact:
*# (Lawful Neutral) ''"Darven told me where to look for you."'' then ''"I don't have to explain anything to you."''
*# Any other choice then ''"Darven told me where to look for you."'' then ''"I don't have to explain anything to you."''
* In any case, no matter what you say you will have to fight the hellknights.

===Defeat the hellknights===
* Once [[Linxia]] is brought to low health she teleports away and more hellknights appear on the stairs to the second floor.
** There is an optional group of hellknights on the second floor, including [[Hellknight of the Rack (Cleric 9) (Deterrence)]] which drops [[Deterrence]].
* After the fight talk to [[Darven]], you will get your monetary reward (if you agreed on any).
* Final lines will affect the enemy groups you will have to fight in [[Brineheart]]:
*# Ally with [[Darven]]: ''"I'll take your deal."'' or ''"I don't care to help you. You're on your own."''
*# Ally with [[Linxia]]: ''"Get out of my {barony/kingdom} at once! — And don't let me catch you around here again!"'' or ''[Attack] "Death to the traitor!"''

===Await further developments===
* 30 days later during [[Throne room events#A Mysterious Letter Has Arrived at the Castle|A Mysterious Letter Has Arrived at the Castle]] throne room event you will get a letter from either [[Linxia]] or [[Darven]], depending on your choice in [[Secluded Lodge]].
* You can actually refuse to participate and fail the quest at this point.

===Go to Brineheart===
* Enter [[Brineheart]]
* Defeat the first set of enemies.
* Approach [[Darven]] and [[Linxia]] and conversation begins. You can get only one {{color|+|+2400xp}} reward for [Defeat Darven/Linxia] objective, depending on whom you kill last before they are gone.
* If you sided with [[Darven]]
*# (Neutral Good), (Lawful Neutral), no-alignment choices to attack [[Linxia]]
*# (Chaotic Neutral) to attack [[Darven]]
* If you sided with [[Linxia]]
*# (Neutral Good), (Chaotic Neutral), no-alignment choices to attack [[Linxia]]
*# (Lawful Neutral) to attack [[Darven]]

===Defeat Darven / Defeat Linxia===
* After defeating [[Darven]] you get to pick alignment choice to get second part of dialogue (Lawful Neutral), (Neutral), (Chaotic Neutral), (Neutral Evil):
*# (Lawful Neutral) if [[Unlockable Key Flags#LinxiaLikesYou|LinxiaLikesYou]] was lost. She will go away.
*# (Lawful Evil) if [[Unlockable Key Flags#LinxiaLikesYou|LinxiaLikesYou]] is still active. She will go away and you get [[Kingdom projects#Alliance with Linxia|Alliance with Linxia]] project.
*# (Chaotic Neutral) or (Chaotic Evil) to attack Linxia. You get to talk with [[Darven]] after that.
*# (Neutral) She will go away.
* After killing [[Linxia]], if you supported [[Darven]] before you get 50000{{coin}}
*# (Chaotic Evil) to attack [[Darven]].
*# (Lawful Neutral) [[Darven]] will go away.
*# ''"I'll most certainly be taking you up on that invitation. And for now — farewell."'' to unlock [[Merchant (Brineheart)]] and [[Kingdom projects#Trading with Brineheart|Trading with Brineheart]] project.
* After killing [[Linxia]], if you didn't support [[Darven]] or betrayed him you get 25000{{coin}}
*# (Lawful Good) or (Chaotic Evil) to attack [[Darven]].
*# (Lawful Neutral) or (Neutral) [[Darven]] will go away.