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How to get the Blood of Lathander mace in BG3
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If (and when) you choose to take Baldurs Gate 3’s Mountain Pass, you’ll come to the Rosymorn Monastery and the Githyanki Creche below it. As you climb the outside, you’ll find a room with a stained glass floor that is clearly a puzzle of some kind — but you won’t start getting clues about it until you travel to the lower floors and pick up the “Find the Blood of Lathander” quest. It turns out, the monastery houses a hidden holy relic, the powerful Blood of Lathander mace.
Our Baldur’s Gate 3 Blood of Lathander guide will walk you through both halves of the puzzle to retrieve the powerful holy relic hidden below the Githyanki Creche in the Rosymorn Monastery.
Find the Dawnmaster’s Crest
Your first stop on your way to the Blood of Lathlander will likely come before you pick up the quest. Near the top of Rosymorn Monastery, you’ll find a room with a large (and slightly broken) stained glass window on the floor surrounded by four plaques and altars.
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If you interact with the stained glass window, you’ll see four previous Dawnmasters of the Rosymorn Monastery and — more importantly — their weapons. If you check the altars, you’ll see that they’re named after the Dawnmasters. One of them — Dawnmaster Welkinglory’s to the northwest — has a glowing Ceremonial Longsword on it. Leave it there for now.
Your job is to head out and find two more ceremonial weapons (we’ll get to the third in a minute) — the Ceremonial Battleaxe and the Ceremonial Warhammer. Luckily, they’re relatively close by.
Find the Ceremonial Battleaxe
Head southeast out of the stained glass floored room and jump across the gap in the monastery’s roof. There’s a broken cabinet against a broken window there — smash through it and then climb inside.
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Defeat the Guardian of Faith in the room, and you’ll be able to retrieve the Ceremonial Battleaxe from the floor.
Find the Ceremonial Warhammer
Exit the stained glass room heading south and smash through the first wooden barricade along the west wall. Climb the knotted roots there to the roof, and then head east to find a pair of giant eagles. (You may have met an angry blue jay on your way to the monastery who told you about them.)
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It’s possible to talk your way past the eagles with a Speak with Animals spell or potion, but you’re probably going to end up fighting (and killing) them. Once they’re dealt with, grab the Ceremonial Warhammer from the nest.
Place the ceremonial weapons
Head back to the stained glass room. Your next task is to place the weapons on the appropriate altars. You can check the stained glass to see each Dawnmaster’s weapon, and then check the plaques for their names, or:
- Dawnmaster Seed carries the Ceremonial Warhammer. Their altar is to the northeast.
- Dawnmaster Vaseid carries the Ceremonial Greataxe — you can see everyone else’s so this is just process of elimination. Their altar is to the southwest.
You can stand on the altars and then drop the weapons from your inventory. Or you can open your inventory and right-click on the weapons. Choose throw and then aim it at the appropriate altar.
For the final altar — Dawnmaster Stockhold’s to the southeast — place literally any weapon. There’s even a few rusted weapons around the rooftops and those work here too.
When the weapons are all placed, a secret panel will open in the north wall. Open the pouch it reveals for the Dawnmaster’s Crest. You won’t need it for a little bit, though.
Optional: Find the Old Maintenance Records
Exit the Guardian of Faith’s room heading west — through the DC 15 locked door — and then take two lefts through the door to the south.
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There’s a book on the ground to the right with a clue for later — a note talking about greasing the machine.
Optional: Find the Blood of Lathlander Plaque
From the Old Maintenance Records, continue down the stairs. Smash through the wooden barricade to the west, and go through the door to the right. A little west of there, you’ll find the entrance to the Githyanki Creche.
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Before you walk in, check the plaque on the huge statue of Lathander to the north. This will officially give you the “Find the Blood of Lathander” quest.
Reach the Inquisitor’s Chambers
There’s a lot going on in the Githyanki Creche (and most of it doesn’t go well). For our purposes, though, you’re heading to the Captain’s Quarters in the northeast. Once you turn on the Githyanki Barrier Disruptor, you’ll be able to enter the Inquisitor’s Chamber.
The conversations inside go about as well as every other conversation you have, but after a fight, an argument with a god, and a quick jaunt to the Astral Sea, you’ll be able to explore.
Turn the Lathlander statues in the Inquisitor’s Chamber
Inside the Inquisitor’s Chamber, head to the west to find a pair statues. You can turn them, but the one on the left is stuck.
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If you read the plaques — always read the plaque — you’ll learn that the one on the right (north) is supposed to be blessing the rising sun and the one on the left (south) is saying a fond farewell to the setting sun. Your goal is to rotate them to face the appropriate direction.
- For the freely moving statue on the right, turn it so it’s facing east, back the way you came — toward the main room of the Inquisitor’s Chamber.
- For the one on the right, you need to hit it with Grease first (remember the Old Maintenance Note we found?) either from a bottle or as a spell. Once it’s greased, it’ll spin and you can face it to the west, toward the end of the hallway.
Deactivate the traps in the Secret Chamber
At the bottom of the stairs, you’ll enter a Secret Chamber. Your path forward is blocked, though. This time, you’ll need to deactivate some traps and destroy the energy sources of some barriers.
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The first energy source is hanging just to the left of the first barrier. It’s got 20 hit points, so just keep hitting it until it’s destroyed. The barrier will drop and you can pass.
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In the next room, you’ve got two challenges. First, you have to Disarm the Dawnbreaker trap with a DC 14 Sleight of Hand check. Be careful as you approach because this trap can and will wipe out your entire party.
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Once that’s done, look on the left (south) side of the hall to find a U-shaped path. Use that to go around the barrier. On the other side, disable another Dawnbreaker trap and destroy the energy source to drop the barrier you just went around.
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The final energy source is below you on the right (north) side of the hall.
Claim the Blood of Lathander
When you enter the final room, walk up to the Crest Panel and insert the Dawnmaster’s Crest.
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After a cutscene, you’ll be able to claim the Blood of Lathander mace — a magical mace with some healing properties that also lets you cast Sunbeam (and it’s a flashlight!).
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The World Video Game Hall of Fame inducted its 10th class of honorees Thursday, recognizing Asteroids, Myst, Resident Evil, SimCity and Ultima for their impacts on the video game industry and popular culture.
The inductees debuted across decades, advancing technologies along the way and expanding not only the number of players, but the ages and interests of those at the controls, Hall of Fame authorities said in revealing the winners. The Hall of Fame recognizes electronic games of all types — arcade, console, computer, handheld, and mobile.
The Class of 2024 was selected by experts from among a field of 12 finalists that also included Elite, Guitar Hero, Metroid, Neopets, Tokimeki Memorial, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and You Don’t Know Jack.
The honor for Atari’s Asteroids comes 45 years after its 1979 debut in arcades, where it was Atari’s bestselling coin-operated game. The game’s glowing space-themed graphics and sound effects made their way from more than 70,000 arcade units into millions of living rooms when a home version of Asteroids was made available on the Atari 2600.
“Through endless variants and remakes across dozens of arcade, home, handheld, and mobile platforms, Asteroids made a simple, yet challenging game about blasting rocks into one of the most widely played and influential video games of all time,” said Jeremy Saucier, assistant vice president for interpretation and electronic games at The Strong museum, where the World Video Game Hall of Fame is located.
The next inductee to debut was Ultima, not necessarily a household name but a force in the development of the computer role-playing genre, digital preservation director Andrew Borman said in the news release. Designed by Richard Garriott and released in 1981, Utima: The First Age of Darkness inspired eight sequels and is credited with inspiring later role-playing games like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.
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Apple has apologized and admitted it “missed the mark” with its latest iPad Pro advertisement.
The ad, posted on social media Tuesday by Apple CEO Tim Cook, was met with backlash from internet users who felt that the ad celebrated technology’s destruction of human creativity and art.
In a statement to AdAge, Apple’s vice president of marketing communications, Tor Myhren, apologized.
“Creativity is in our DNA at Apple, and it’s incredibly important to us to design products that empower creatives all over the world. Our goal is to always celebrate the myriad of ways users express themselves and bring their ideas to life through iPad,” Myhren said. “We missed the mark with this video, and we’re sorry.”
Apple confirmed the statement it provided to AdAge but declined to provide further comment.
The ad shows symbols of human creativity, like musical instruments, paint cans, an ’80s arcade video game and a bust of a human head crushed by a giant hydraulic press. As the metal slabs of the hydraulic press lift, Apple’s new iPad Pro is revealed.
“Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create,” Cook wrote in a post on X accompanying the video.
Internet backlash to the ad was instantaneous: “The symbolism of indiscriminately crushing beautiful creative tools is an interesting choice,” wrote one social media user. “This ad effectively convinced me I need less technology in my life,” wrote another.
Other users said the ad was in poor taste amid growing fears that AI could replace workers – even those in creative fields. Actor Hugh Grant wrote on social media that Apple’s ad represented “the destruction of the human experience.”
Apple no longer plans to run the ad on TV, according to AdAge.
The mea culpa was rare for Apple, though the ad has not been deleted from Cook’s X account.
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The iPad Air is now available in two size options, just like the iPad Pro. Yet after a significant update to the iPad Pro that introduces a thinner design and OLED displays, how different are the two product lines and which should you buy?
The introduction of the fourth-generation iPad Air in September 2020 brought the device much closer to the iPad Pro in terms of design, and with the most recent model, the iPad Air gained the same M2 chip and Apple Pencil hover support as the previous iPad Pro, bringing them even closer together. The latest iPad Pro models introduced a large number of significant new changes, such as the M4 chip, OLED displays, and a higher price point, and it means that the high-end iPad models are now further differentiated from the iPad Air than before.
Should you consider purchasing the iPad Air to save money, or do you need the high-end features of the iPad Pro? Our guide answers the question of how to decide which of these two iPads is best for you.
| iPad Air (M2, 2024) | iPad Pro (M4, 2024) |
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| Liquid Retina display LED backlit Multi-Touch display with IPS technology |
Ultra Retina XDR display Tandem OLED |
| ProMotion technology for refresh rates up to 120Hz | |
| SDR brightness: 600 nits max | SDR brightness: 1,000 nits max XDR brightness: 1,000 nits max full screen, 1,600 nits peak (HDR content only) |
| Nano-texture display glass option on 1TB and 2TB models | |
| M2 chip (5nm, N5P) | M4 chip (3nm enhanced, N3E) |
| 8-core CPU | Up to 10-core CPU |
| Hardware-accelerated ray tracing | |
| Hardware-accelerated H.264 and HEVC | Hardware-accelerated 8K H.264, HEVC, ProRes, and ProRes RAW |
| ProRes encode and decode engine AV1 decode |
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| 100GB/s memory bandwidth | 120GB/s memory bandwidth |
| 8GB of memory | 8GB or 16GB of memory |
| Improved thermal design with graphite sheets and copper | |
| Touch ID in top button | TrueDepth camera system for Face ID |
| Portrait mode with advanced bokeh and Depth Control | |
| Portrait Lighting with six effects (Natural, Studio, Contour, Stage, Stage Mono, High-Key Mono) | |
| Animoji and Memoji | |
| LiDAR scanner | |
| Adaptive True Tone flash | |
| Rear ambient light sensor | |
| ProRes video recording up to 4K at 30 fps (1080p at 30 fps for 256GB capacity) | |
| ProRes video recording up to 4K at 60 fps with external recording | |
| Two microphones | Four studio-quality microphones |
| Audio zoom | |
| Stereo recording | |
| Landscape stereo speakers | Four speaker audio |
| Weight: 462 grams or 617 grams | Weight 444 grams or 579 grams |
| Depth: 6.1 mm | Depth: 5.3 mm or 5.1 mm |
| USB‑C connector | USB‑C connector with support for Thunderbolt / USB 4 |
| Supports Magic Keyboard | Supports Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro (M4) |
| 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB storage | 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, or 2TB storage |
| Available in Space Gray, Starlight, Purple, and Blue | Available in Space Black and Silver |
| Price starting at $599 | Price starting at $999 |
Overall, the iPad Air is the better option for the majority of users, simply on the basis of value for money. For most people, the additional $400+ needed to buy the iPad Pro is not justified to get the likes of Face ID, four-speaker audio, and a ProMotion OLED display with refresh rates up to 120Hz.
Some iPad Pro features, such as LiDAR, up to 16GB of memory, and Thunderbolt connectivity are only practically useful to a small niche of users and most will never use some of these high-end capabilities. Many features such as Audio zoom and stereo audio recording may not be meaningfully utilized by many users.
Professionals who have a clear use case for needing larger amounts of RAM and storage, a matte display, Thunderbolt connectivity, and OLED for HDR content will clearly benefit from buying the iPad Pro. That being said, “prosumer”-style customers who simply want the best iPad will enjoy features such as 120Hz ProMotion for smoother scrolling and gaming, deeper blacks and more vivid colors with the OLED display, and the Adaptive True Tone flash for document scanning, even if they are not necessary.
Beyond these individual circumstances, the iPad Air is the best value for money and will be more than ample for most users’ needs. With the iPad Air, users can get a modern all-screen design, the M2 chip, practical features like USB-C and 5G connectivity, and compatibility with the core Apple accessories for a price well below that of the iPad Pro.
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