Rune Mysteries/Quick guide

Quest Start

 * Talk to Ariane in the entrance to Wizards' Tower. Continue  the conversation until the vortex forms inside the tower.

Trouble in the Library

 * Run into the tower, and pick up the Mindspike and attack the vortex with any spell. The vortex will move towards you. Lure the so it has to move through the central energy pillar to get to you.  Keep attacking it until it does so and is absorbed.

The Old Tower

 * Go outside to the bridge and talk to Ariane again. Once she tells you to go to talk to the wizards, go back into the tower.
 * Ascend to the beam twice up to the second floor.
 * Talk to Wizard Traiborn until he tells you he saw things coming out of the library floor. Also talk to Archmage Sedridor and Wizard Ellaron (both also on the second floor).
 * Return to Ariane, and tell her what Sedridor, Ellaron and Traiborn said.

Find The Way In

 * Go back to Ellaron who will hint that you need to look at the books in the library (this step is required)
 * Collect Perien's books from the library on the ground floor (try the most westerly bookshelf first - however, its location may change for different players).
 * Once you've read the books, you can go to the organ, and "play" Water surge (10 Bs, 7 A#s, 1 G# and 1 G), granting you the key.

Descent

 * Go back, talk to Ariane, then go east and enter the door on the seashore. A cutscene plays.
 * Talk to the Rune Guardian, answer it's questions (Answers are only relevant to your title).
 * Enter the door behind the Guardian.
 * Talk to Ariane, then climb behind the statue, push it out to let you cross the gap. Cross the gap, descend and then "decend staircase".
 * Talk to Ariane again.
 * Use magic to lure a vortex into Ariane's circle, and keep it there until the circle disappears, then talk to Ariane again.

Distraction

 * Return to Sedridor, now on the ground floor, to delay his Iceynic Purge. As he isn't willing to let you speak to him, play notes on the lower registers on the organ at every opportuniuty until the cut scenes end.

Finishing Up

 * Return to Ariane.

Quest Complete.