Gates of Kryta (mission)

Mission Objectives
Secure a safe place for your people to settle.
 * Make contact with the local authorities at Lion's Arch.
 * BONUS Find and return the Tome to the Historian.
 * Help Justiciar Hablion clear the swamps of the undead.

Primary
Travel along the path, mostly south, killing undead until you reach the village. After speaking to the Justicar (A on the map), continue through the gate and south along the beaches (be careful there, there are some Lightning Drakes in the sandy beach that can kill your whole party if you engage more than a group at once). Talk to Justiciar Hablion (B on the map). Help Hablion clear the swamps of the undead and kill this boss at location C on the map.

It can be quite hard to clear the swamps, even with the extra soldiers provided, since you tend to get overrun, and even player controlled characters tend to stand in the poison water needlessly! If you get in trouble run back to the soldiers standing above the swamp and they will help kill for you.

Bonus
To get this bonus you have to talk to a pig "Oink" who is found to the left behind the gate at the very beginning of the mission. (1 on the map) Return him to his owner, Cheswick, in the village, who is the son of the Orrian Historian McClain. (2 on the map) When approaching them do not talk to either as this has broken the bonus on at least one occasion. Instead wait for the conversation between them to finish, and the son will suddenly say "thank you for returning Oink" and you will be awarded the bonus from his father.

Collect the tome from the north end of the fjord from a chest in the water (3 on the map), and return it to the historian in the village. Be careful as opening the chest will trigger some quite high level spawns (L17 Smoke Phantoms, 3 at a time). You will also be ambushed thrice more while in the fjord returning the tome to the historian.

Tip: The easiest way to get past the Smoke Phantoms is to have the whole party retreat to the beach after clearing the way to the chest and have one single Warrior with the Sprint skill (a Ranger with Dodge should work too) fetch the text. He can simply outrun the phantoms without being hit more than a couple of times.

Every time I've fought the Smoke Phantoms, we've just made sure that whoever is going to pick up the chest knows to drop it as soon as he picks it up. Then the whole party is ready to fight.

Elite Skill Capture
None

Additional Notes
There is a back way around to the end of this mission, which involves a lot of killing, and screws up the main plot, but not to the extent that it is no longer completable. If you want to do the bonus you'll have to go the correct way around.

Basically you finish without ever passing through the village (follow the route infested with a mass of undead including hellhounds to the left of the village). You then end up clearing the swamp from the north before being asked to clear it (again) from the south.

The players will be in Lion's Arch at the completion of this mission.