Silver Cove
Silver Cove is the northwestern coastal region of Enroth, ruled by Baroness Loretta (Lady) Fleise — the Druid Lord on the High Council. It is a late-game hub: a full town with an inn, banks, guilds and a deep training roster, plus three outdoor dungeons (the Monolith, the Warlord's Fortress, and the Silver Helm Stronghold) scattered across its hills and islands. You first arrive on the grand tour in Stage 8 to collect Fleise's council and Druid-promotion quests and to deface the Monolith altar; you return in Stage 10 to run the Warlord's Fortress for the hardest promotion (Champion) and to cash the Monolith reward, and again in Stage 11 to click Obelisk #10 on the north island. The region resets every 24 months. Travel: by foot west to the Frozen Highlands (5 days); by boat to the Misty Islands, Free Haven, and the Eel Infested Waters; by coach to Free Haven.
Rewards
- treasure-tier-5 Sword
- treasure-tier-6 Sword
Keys
- Dragon Tower Keys → a door
Traps
- event 209: Fireball
Connections
- → Silver Helm Stronghold
- → The Monolith
- → Warlord's Fortress
Visit in: Stage 8 · Stage 10 · Stage 11
Quests
Fix the prices of all stables (council quest)
[stage]Giver: Lady Loretta Fleise (Silver Cove castle)
Fleise's High-Council vote. Click "Price Fixing" with the stable owner in each of nine towns — New Sorpigal, Castle Ironfist, Silver Cove, Blackshire, White Cap, Kreigspire, Darkmoor (Mire of the Damned), and both Free Haven stables — then return to Fleise for her vote and gold. The reward scales with speed (roughly 5,000 if you dawdle, up to 25,000 if you hurry), so fold the stable visits into your travel route. Grab the +2-skill-point horseshoe at each stable while you are there.
Visit the Altar of the Sun (Great Druid promotion)
[stage]Giver: Lady Loretta Fleise (Silver Cove castle)
The honorary Great Druid promotion. Go to the Circle of Stones on the island north of Silver Cove on an equinox or solstice (March 20, June 21, September 23, or December 21); Fleise contacts you on the spot. It is only available those four days a year, and the gargoyles tend to jump you, so pick your moment.
Visit the Altar of the Moon (Arch Druid promotion)
[stage]Giver: Lady Loretta Fleise (Silver Cove castle)
The honorary Arch Druid promotion, given in Silver Cove but completed in Free Haven's Temple of the Moon. After clearing that temple's six-altar puzzle, touch the Altar of the Moon at midnight on a full moon (you must already have done the Circle of Stones equinox quest). The actual temple run is handled in Stage 10.
Deface the altar (side quest)
[stage]Giver: Eleanor Vanderbilt (house near the castle)
Enter the Monolith west of town, fight through its eleven rooms, and touch the altar in the final room to deface it. Return to Eleanor Vanderbilt in Silver Cove for 3,000 gold. The Monolith is run on the Stage 8 tour; if you skipped it then, do it on the Stage 10 return.
Kill the Warlord / Discharge Papers (Champion promotion)
[stage]Giver: Lord Osric Temper (Castle Temper, Free Haven) — completed here
The Champion promotion (the hardest class-promotion dungeon) is given by Lord Temper but resolved in Silver Cove: fly west across the bridge and northwest to the gargoyle-ringed Warlord's Fortress, recover the Discharge Papers from a trapped chest deep inside, and take them back to Temper for promotion to Champion. Saved for last among the promotion dungeons.
Dungeons
When: now (Stage 8: deface the altar for Eleanor Vanderbilt's 3,000-gold quest) [cleared in stage]
Due west of town; eleven linear rooms of Druids, then Rock/Earth and Water Beasts/Spirits/Elementals. Touch a tree/rock/monolith/pool in each room to advance. A tree in room 3 hands over 5,000 gold; final room has two chests + the altar to deface; touch the flowers to be dropped back at the entrance.
Rewards
- treasure-tier-6 Shield
- treasure-tier-6 Boots
- Flying Fist
Traps
- Monolith: Mass Curse
Connections
- → Silver Cove
Puzzle solution
Two "Strange rock" features (events 51 & 52) form an alternating-touch sequence tracked by hidden MapVars 9-20. You must touch them back and forth in the correct order; touching the same rock twice never advances the chain.
- Touch rock A (event 52) first — it seeds the sequence (MapVar9).
- Touch rock B (event 51), then back to A, alternating each time.
- Continue alternating for 12 total touches (A,B,A,B,A,B,A,B,A,B,A,B).
The final touch (event 51 reaching MapVar19) grants the reward: a Shield, Boots, and the Flying Fist (item 375). After that the rocks do nothing.
When: later (Stage 10: hardest promotion dungeon — Discharge Papers → Champion) [cleared in stage]
West across the bridge then NW. Thugs are trivial but the Knights and especially the Cuisinarts/Death Knights are among the hardest melee enemies in the game and can cast magic. A wall left of the dead-end basement door opens a five-door teleport maze for hit-and-run. The Warlord's Key + the Discharge Papers are the objective; two Storage Keys open the double-locked stat-barrel vault (doors 6 and 7).
Rewards
- Warlord's Key
- Storage Key
- treasure-tier-6 Axe
Keys
- Storage Key → door 6
- Storage Key → door 7
- Warlord's Key → door 9
Connections
- → Silver Cove
When: optional (off-track Ankh subquest; not part of the stage walk-order and not covered by a stage page)
On the hill just west of Silver Cove. Distinct from the Misty Islands Silver Helm Outpost. The Ankh is carried by the warlock Gerrard Blacknames in the southernmost room: kill him and search his body for it. The ghost of John Silver (south and first left from the main room) shows you a hidden treasure-room passage only if you have already saved his kidnapped niece (subquest). Enemies: Swordsmen/Expert/Master Swordsmen, Fighters/Soldiers/Veterans, and Sorcerers/Magicians/Warlocks — unlike the outpost, this stronghold has mages.
Trainers
Silver Cove
Abdul's Discount Training offers Skill (Normal) training (levels up to 40). Experts: Repair, Light Magic, Meditation, Spear. Masters: Merchant, Body Magic (Gilbert Hammer), Mind Magic (Thane Roper), Earth Magic (Revee Botania), Learning, and Staff (on the island behind the tavern near the obelisk, N. of Silver Cove).
Trains: repair (expert), light (expert), meditation (expert), spear (expert), merchant (master), body (master), mind (master), earth (master), learning (master), staff (master)
NPCs & Shops
Ruler: Baroness Loretta (Lady) Fleise, the Druid Lord, in the castle — gives the price-fixing council quest and both Druid promotion quests. Eleanor Vanderbilt in a house near the castle gives the "deface the altar" quest. Town Hall has subquest 1 (Jake). Master trainers cluster here: Master Learning (John Tuck), Master Earth Magic (Revee Botania), Master Mind Magic (Thane Roper), Master Body Magic (Gilbert Hammer), Master Merchant (Will Ottoman), and Master Staff (Jasper Rice, on the island behind the tavern near the obelisk).
Guilds: the Self Guild (Mind/Body/Spirit Magic), the Earth Guild (Learning + Earth Magic), the Light Guild (Light Magic, with Expert Light Magic from Tina Sheltan), plus Berserker's Fury (Bow, Chain/Plate Armor, Shield, Repair) and Protection Services (Leather, Identify, Disarm Traps, Diplomacy, Perception). Shops: Inn, General Store, Bank, Armor Store, Weapon Store, Alchemist Store, Training Hall (max level 40), Temple, and a Town Portal point.
Fountains: in-town fountain (+20 Intellect and Personality, temporary) and another (+25 spell points, temporary); at the Docks two permanent fountains (+2 Accuracy and +2 Speed); on the obelisk island a fountain that causes Insanity; and the Monolith's Evil Altar gives Druids and Clerics a permanent +5 Personality. Obelisk #10 sits on the north island near the boat/inn, ringed by gargoyles. Shrine of Personality is here (active in March). The Silver Helm Stronghold (hill just west of town) holds the ghost of John Silver and the warlock Gerrard Blacknames, whom you kill for the Ankh (off-track subquest).
Secrets
Show spoiler — Circle of Stones — when the Altar of the Sun works
The Altar of the Sun on the island north of Silver Cove only triggers Fleise's Great Druid promotion on an equinox or solstice: March 20, June 21, September 23, or December 21. Stand on the circle on one of those days and Fleise contacts you. It is the only four days a year it works, so note the date and return when it lines up (and clear the gargoyles first).
Show spoiler — Altar of the Moon — exact timing (Arch Druid)
The Altar of the Moon (inside Free Haven's Temple of the Moon, but given by Fleise) only promotes you when touched at midnight on a full moon, and only after you have already completed the Circle of Stones equinox quest. Touch the altar at the right time to become Arch Druid.
Show spoiler — The Monolith — room-by-room route to the altar
Eleven linear rooms. In each, kill the knot of monsters and touch the indicated object to open the next door: R1 check the trees for gold; R2 kill Druids, hit the rock by the door; R3 touch the tree to open a secret ledge with 5,000 gold, then the rock; R4 kill Druids, touch the trees, hit the rock; R5 (Rock Beasts/Spirits) touch the tree; R6 (Water Beasts/Spirits/Elementals — they follow you out of the water) touch the fountain; R7 empty but a cursing monolith; R8 many Druids + cursing monoliths; R9 Druids + Earth monsters, touch the monoliths; R10 touch the monolith; R11 touch the pool to open the way, take the two chests, then touch the altar to deface it, run down the hall, and touch the flowers to be dropped at the entrance. Return to Eleanor Vanderbilt for 3,000 gold.
Show spoiler — Warlord's Fortress — the hidden maze and the Discharge Papers
Down the winding stairs the locked door at the bottom is a dead end; click the wall to its left to open a five-door teleport maze — use it for hit-and-run (tag an enemy, click a door before it swings back). Work to the northeast door, up past Armored Fighters, and clear the chest rooms; touch the western wall for a secret passage with six more chests. Avoid the suicidal north square room if you only want the papers. Past the double-locked doors, go north and cast Ring of Fire to wake the room, killing through the door: a cabinet holds the Warlord's Key plus a Storage Key, and a trapped chest to the north holds the Discharge Papers. (The Warlord's Key opens the single locked door; the double-locked stat-barrel vault, doors 6 and 7, needs two Storage Keys — grab the second Storage Key from the other cabinet.)
Show spoiler — Silver Helm Stronghold — getting the Ankh and John Silver's treasure room
In the Silver Helm Stronghold (the hill just west of Silver Cove, not the Misty Islands outpost) the Ankh is carried by the warlock Gerrard Blacknames in the southernmost room: kill him and search his body to take it. The ghost of John Silver (south, then first left from the main room at the end of the weird hallway) opens a hidden passage to his treasure room only if you have already saved his kidnapped niece. To turn the Ankh in: show it to John Silver, speak to Lady Fleise, then deliver it to Anthony Stone in the Frozen Highlands.
Show spoiler — GrayFace patch — Warlord's Fortress dupes are fixed
Older guides tell you to duplicate items/artifacts in the Warlord's Fortress. On the GrayFace patch this no longer works: chest-duplication glitches are corrected and artifacts no longer generate in inaccessible chests. The Discharge Papers and the stat-barrel vault are still there — just take them normally.
Combat
✅ Clear
- Monolith Druids / Great Druids / Grand Druids — the deface quest forces these fights; Druid casts Harm, Great Druid casts Deadly Swarm, and Grand Druid (162 HP) drains your spell points and casts Fireball. The stages note a flat 10-30% resist to every element, so hit them with elemental spells (no element is a wall) backed by weapons.
- Stone Gargoyles outside the Monolith — the weakest gargoyle (73 HP, flagged 'Weak'); fair XP once isolated from the pack.
- Warlord's Fortress Thugs — trivial filler, safe to clear as you advance through the keep.
⏭ Skip
- Diamond Gargoyle (207 HP) — per gamefaqs it cannot be hurt by weapons; only spells (or a higher force) work. Not worth it for a fly-by, e.g. around the north-island Obelisk #10.
- Marble Gargoyle (114 HP) — can paralyze; dangerous to brush in the air while collecting quests or the obelisk.
- Warlord's Fortress Cuisinarts (880 HP, ~50% resists to every element) and Death/Doom Knights (280/540 HP) — gamefaqs warns these knights, unlike normal knights, can cast magic, and they have the strongest armor class you have faced; do not take the suicidal north square room head-on. Lure them out one at a time and kill through doors if you only need the Discharge Papers.
- Silver Helm Stronghold Sorcerers/Magicians/Warlocks — caster pack (unlike the mage-free Misty Islands outpost); skip the optional stronghold unless you are chasing the Ankh side quest.