I have solved the secret quest related to Dalia. I may be the first player to have done so. Or perhaps it is still incomplete.
So this quest is well hidden and I shall outline where to look. Each step will be hidden by a separate spoiler so that you can figure it out at your own discretion. Also, it’s only doable in ultimate. All that is below is ultimate only.
Step 1 Hint
Read Dalia’s entry Carefully, you can find it at thornsbury farm just west of Homestead. It’s in a house. You will need to find the first place mentioned in it, the first item, talk to Dalia, then find the second place mentioned in it.
Step 1 Walkthrough
Go to the Tomb of Korvaak on ultimate difficulty. Make sure you turned in Dalia’s diary to her on ultimate first ! Otherwise this won’t work. Hidden near one of the snow areas is an urn that contains her legendary sword. While it’s in your inventory or equipped, go to talk to Dalia. Also keep it in your inventory because I haven’t tested the rest without it.
Step 2 Hint
Find the Weeping Oak
Step 2 Walkthrough
Blood Grove, I believe it’s the tree bodies are hanging from. Walk around and you should find a little diary on the floor, but you can’t pick it up. It will automatically place a quest item in your inventory from Dravis. It’s in the far west south side of the blood grove. You will get a text prompt and a quest note from dravis when you find it.
Step 2 Hint
Anguish? Rocks left unturned?
Step 2 Walkthrough
There is a secret area in the southwestern most area of the final level of the Steps of Torment, aka Anguish. Walk around inside the secret room, there is a small thing on the floor that has blue smoke coming out of it, if you go close enough to it you should get a text prompt and the next Dravis note in your inventory.
Step 3 Hint
Look in every Chthonic Rift
Step 3 Walkthrough
In the Forsaken Wastes, from the Plains of Strife rift in the north eastern area there is an area in the north east of the map that is white. It is a broken down house. You can find there a blook on the floor with blue special effects coming out of it. Walk over it and you have the third note.
Step 4 Hint
City of the dead
Step 4 Hint, more specific
Necropolis literally means city of the dead
Step 4 Walkthrough
Head North from the gates of the Necropolis and hug the eastern wall. You will find a bunch of aether ground blocked by an aether crystal. I suggest having dmg absorb, specifically an aether cluster to get through. Head south east through the aether floor to find… a spirit, a circle, and a corpse
Step 5 Hint
You need salt with an aether glow, not a component
Step 5 Walkthrough
You need the salt bag that new characters start with. If you have one, great. If not, make a new character, rush the reanimator in burial hill, and transfer the necklace over.
Step 6 Hint
If you think the shrine and final entry is all that’s left, you are naive
Step 6 Walkthrough
Click the torch on the wall
MAJOR SPOILER! I HIGHLY SUGGEST YOU DON’T READ THIS PART
Step 7 - what you will find in the secret
You will enter a secret area called the edge of reality, which contains every type of monster in an area for each type. It looks to be strewn together from outdated versions of old areas, and some other stuff I don’t recognize. Like edited versions of current areas. Then you will find…
Seriously if you read this part, you will ruin the secret for yourself.
Secret Bourbon level and fight. He is purple named at the end and will multiply. You will fight a total of 3 normal clones, 3 frozen clones, 3 fiery clones, 3 corrupted clones, 3 electrified clones, 3 tainted clones, 3 deathly clones, and 1 cough final form… He drops a special item that I posted proof of below
Proof I completed the secret
I have ascended! (And yes my iron is edited, I was tired of farming iron for crafting.)
Oh and a note. I’ve been informed by Dikkiedik that he will be posting a much better guide in a week. With screenshots and everything. Devs forbid playtesters from posting or giving any help to people on the matter for a week. Devs shoulda let me be a playtester if they didn’t want me figuring it out in 2 hours >.> and ruining it!