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~~<a~~ There is plenty of speculations regarding Serpentine Tower. It is confirmed by Tibia.com to be a Quest (see below)- not resolved till today's date. Worth visit <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tibiamysteries.com/quests/serpentine-tower-arguably-the-most-famous-tibian-mystery/#:~:text=It%20may%20be%20one%20of,fire%20elemental%20are%20locked%20away.">Tibia.Mysteries.com</a>, also see video on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4GsktarEhA">Youtube.com</a>.<a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tibia.com/news/?subtopic=newsarchive&id=1612&fbegind=8&fbeginm=10&fbeginy=2006&fendd=7&fendm=11&fendy=2015&flist=11111111">Official Tibia News</a> from 07/03/2011:<img alt="image" src="https://static.tibia.com/images/global/letters/letter_martel_A.gif">nd so I took a deep breath and descended to the floor below. I found myself in a gloomy cellar-vault shrouded in a subtle golden gleam. Here it was, the mysterious chamber deep inside the Serpentine Tower. Three creatures confined to three small cells, just like adventurers before me had reported: a vampire, a fire elemental, a behemoth - their backs turned on me as if they tried to hide something... The Serpentine Tower located at the southern shores of Ankrahmun certainly belongs to the most mysterious places in Tibia. Generations of brave adventurers have tried to lift its secrets. Some of them used brute force, others spent weeks and months to find the one brilliant idea on how to release the vampire and the behemoth from their cells, or to get hold of those strange items in the green djinn chamber one floor below: a portable hole, a carrot of doom, boots of waterwalking... what are those items, and are they obtainable? A lot of theories have evolved during the past years, all of them containing a spark of hope to finally solve the famous Serpentine Tower quest. Some theories revolve around the four empty coal basins next to the green djinn, others claim that several players have to stand on certain floor tiles which are scattered throughout Tibia at the same time, and others again are based on translations of the books that are stored in the tower's library. Many of these theories have kept players busy for years already. The following theories, ideas and approaches to beat Serpentine Tower have been fully conceived by members of the Tibia community. Note that CipSoft assumes no liability for any damage that results to your character from following the suggestions mentioned... ;) The dead and the living Welcome to Ankrahmun, city of the undead, home of the mysterious Serpentine Tower which accomodates the Academy of Magic Arts, and maybe also a fabulous quest that is still unsolved. Tothdral, also known as "The Seeker Beyond the Grave", is the undead guardian of the tower's library. He is both an astrologer and a skilled sorcerer trainer willing to teach you some decent spells if you prefer. Tothdral believes in the power of ascension to pure godhood which will only be granted to those who are worthy. As we all know, the death/life dualism plays an important role in and around Ankrahmun. Could it be the key to solve the Serpentine Tower mystery? Death is perfectly symbolised by bones and skulls, darkness and emptiness, while the sun, the colour green, water and, not to forget, player characters represent life. In the Ancient Tombs quest, you gain access to the pharaohs' tombs - places of death deep below Ankrahmun - by using scarab coins on coal basins. As <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tibia.com/community/?subtopic=characters&name=Mend%20Sorcerer">Mend Sorcerer</a> from the world of Guardia remarks, the Serpentine Tower might be related to Arkhothep who is the ruler of Ankrahmun and the master of the dead, so "maybe skulls could be useful in the Serpentine Tower as they are symbols of death", Mend Sorcerer says. "Ankrahmun sees death as an evolution and not exactly as the end of life", an anonymous player mentions. "Therefore higher undeads might hold the key to solve the quest, like the banshee queen, vampires and most probably elder bonelords." But what does "dead" really mean? Apart from being the opposite of life, could it also refer to being drunk in a way? Like, being so drunk that even a rat could be a deadly threat for you? Elite knight <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tibia.com/community/?subtopic=characters&name=Critter%20Smit">Critter Smit</a> from Calmera seems to have this in mind when thinking about how to solve Serpentine Tower: "Here is the solution that I've been keeping secret for years. No one can do the quest being sober. Releasing the first two creatures is easy. For the third one you have to be drunk ingame, and for the final one you have to be drunk in real life." Good luck, mate. Tibians, it is up to you to decide if that is a useful hint or not. CipSoft does not recommend following this advice! Somebody who did not reveal his name says he tried to beat Serpentine Tower by going there with a black skulled character. That is an interesting approach with regards to the death/life topic that surrounds the whole area. Being black skulled means he or she must have left a pretty decent blood trail before. At the same time, black skulled characters are condemned to death themselves since they are an interesting target for PvP players. So in this regard, black skulls fit perfectly to the death/life dualism, and also to the whole sacrifice topic that is a popular component of many Serpentine Tower myths.  <img alt="image" src="https://static.tibia.com/images/news/serpentine_tower.jpg" style="height:355px; margin-bottom:4px; margin-left:10px; margin-right:10px; margin-top:4px; width:553px">The role of sacrifices What could seem more natural in a mysterious place like the Serpentine Tower than making sacrifices to some gods? So the fact that quite many theories revolve around sacrificial rituals is just consistent. Since Tothdral is an astrologer, and Serpentine Tower itself is all about astrology as an anonymous player assumes, the key might lie in sacrificing items that fit to the setting. "Tothdral studies the stars, and what resembles a star the most in Tibia? A talon. So if we place talons on the coal basins on the roof of the tower, this might be an allusion to stars and finally bring us forward." Different kinds of sacrifices are considered by Tibians but to whom are they made? To the stars, the immortal pharaohs, the Akh'rah Uthun or something else? "Sacrifices are meant for the djinn gods and certainly have to be made by more than one person", <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tibia.com/community/?subtopic=characters&name=Mistic%20Rook">Mistic Rook</a>, elite knight from the world of Mythera believes. The first part of his statement is interesting because when it is all about djinns, there is one thing that could be worth considering as a nameless feedback-giver notes: "Everybody just kills the djinn but possibly the djinn needs to be alive and stand on a certain tile for the quest to proceed." That, by the way, is also death/life dualism in the pure form. <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tibia.com/community/?subtopic=characters&name=Sir%20Linky">Sir Linky</a>, Lunaran paladin and self-appointed quest-solver remarks, he rather prefers to find someone who can teleport him right onto all these spots that are currently unaccessible in the Serpentine Tower. Nice "quest-solving". Anyway, since that is hardly possible he came up with the idea to use the dead corpses of pharaohs as a kind of sacrifice and place them on the coal basins. However, he hasn't tried this out himself, yet. It could possibly be that the Serpentine Tower may not be meant to be treated as a separate place for sacrificial rituals, but that it is connected to other places as well. "I think we have to take into consideration other coal basins, too, those we can find in and around Ankrahmun and maybe even in some other areas", <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tibia.com/community/?subtopic=characters&name=Erwe%20Boleta">Erwe Boleta</a> from Silvera states. What places are known to have a history in sacrifices? And do they have any connections to Ankrahmun, the city of the dead, and the Serpentine Tower?

Posted Nov 7, 2020 by anonymous

Official Tibia News from 07/03/2011:

nd so I took a deep breath and descended to the floor below. I found myself in a gloomy cellar-vault shrouded in a subtle golden gleam. Here it was, the mysterious chamber deep inside the Serpentine Tower. Three creatures confined to three small cells, just like adventurers before me had reported: a vampire, a fire elemental, a behemoth - their backs turned on me as if they tried to hide something...

The Serpentine Tower located at the southern shores of Ankrahmun certainly belongs to the most mysterious places in Tibia. Generations of brave adventurers have tried to lift its secrets. Some of them used brute force, others spent weeks and months to find the one brilliant idea on how to release the vampire and the behemoth from their cells, or to get hold of those strange items in the green djinn chamber one floor below: a portable hole, a carrot of doom, boots of waterwalking... what are those items, and are they obtainable?

A lot of theories have evolved during the past years, all of them containing a spark of hope to finally solve the famous Serpentine Tower quest. Some theories revolve around the four empty coal basins next to the green djinn, others claim that several players have to stand on certain floor tiles which are scattered throughout Tibia at the same time, and others again are based on translations of the books that are stored in the tower's library. Many of these theories have kept players busy for years already.

The following theories, ideas and approaches to beat Serpentine Tower have been fully conceived by members of the Tibia community. Note that CipSoft assumes no liability for any damage that results to your character from following the suggestions mentioned... ;)

The dead and the living

Welcome to Ankrahmun, city of the undead, home of the mysterious Serpentine Tower which accomodates the Academy of Magic Arts, and maybe also a fabulous quest that is still unsolved. Tothdral, also known as "The Seeker Beyond the Grave", is the undead guardian of the tower's library. He is both an astrologer and a skilled sorcerer trainer willing to teach you some decent spells if you prefer. Tothdral believes in the power of ascension to pure godhood which will only be granted to those who are worthy. As we all know, the death/life dualism plays an important role in and around Ankrahmun. Could it be the key to solve the Serpentine Tower mystery?

Death is perfectly symbolised by bones and skulls, darkness and emptiness, while the sun, the colour green, water and, not to forget, player characters represent life. In the Ancient Tombs quest, you gain access to the pharaohs' tombs - places of death deep below Ankrahmun - by using scarab coins on coal basins. As Mend Sorcerer from the world of Guardia remarks, the Serpentine Tower might be related to Arkhothep who is the ruler of Ankrahmun and the master of the dead, so "maybe skulls could be useful in the Serpentine Tower as they are symbols of death", Mend Sorcerer says.

"Ankrahmun sees death as an evolution and not exactly as the end of life", an anonymous player mentions. "Therefore higher undeads might hold the key to solve the quest, like the banshee queen, vampires and most probably elder bonelords."

But what does "dead" really mean? Apart from being the opposite of life, could it also refer to being drunk in a way? Like, being so drunk that even a rat could be a deadly threat for you? Elite knight Critter Smit from Calmera seems to have this in mind when thinking about how to solve Serpentine Tower: "Here is the solution that I've been keeping secret for years. No one can do the quest being sober. Releasing the first two creatures is easy. For the third one you have to be drunk ingame, and for the final one you have to be drunk in real life." Good luck, mate. Tibians, it is up to you to decide if that is a useful hint or not. CipSoft does not recommend following this advice!

Somebody who did not reveal his name says he tried to beat Serpentine Tower by going there with a black skulled character. That is an interesting approach with regards to the death/life topic that surrounds the whole area. Being black skulled means he or she must have left a pretty decent blood trail before. At the same time, black skulled characters are condemned to death themselves since they are an interesting target for PvP players. So in this regard, black skulls fit perfectly to the death/life dualism, and also to the whole sacrifice topic that is a popular component of many Serpentine Tower myths.

The role of sacrifices

What could seem more natural in a mysterious place like the Serpentine Tower than making sacrifices to some gods? So the fact that quite many theories revolve around sacrificial rituals is just consistent.

Since Tothdral is an astrologer, and Serpentine Tower itself is all about astrology as an anonymous player assumes, the key might lie in sacrificing items that fit to the setting. "Tothdral studies the stars, and what resembles a star the most in Tibia? A talon. So if we place talons on the coal basins on the roof of the tower, this might be an allusion to stars and finally bring us forward."

Different kinds of sacrifices are considered by Tibians but to whom are they made? To the stars, the immortal pharaohs, the Akh'rah Uthun or something else? "Sacrifices are meant for the djinn gods and certainly have to be made by more than one person", Mistic Rook, elite knight from the world of Mythera believes. The first part of his statement is interesting because when it is all about djinns, there is one thing that could be worth considering as a nameless feedback-giver notes: "Everybody just kills the djinn but possibly the djinn needs to be alive and stand on a certain tile for the quest to proceed." That, by the way, is also death/life dualism in the pure form.

Sir Linky, Lunaran paladin and self-appointed quest-solver remarks, he rather prefers to find someone who can teleport him right onto all these spots that are currently unaccessible in the Serpentine Tower. Nice "quest-solving". Anyway, since that is hardly possible he came up with the idea to use the dead corpses of pharaohs as a kind of sacrifice and place them on the coal basins. However, he hasn't tried this out himself, yet.

It could possibly be that the Serpentine Tower may not be meant to be treated as a separate place for sacrificial rituals, but that it is connected to other places as well. "I think we have to take into consideration other coal basins, too, those we can find in and around Ankrahmun and maybe even in some other areas", Erwe Boleta from Silvera states. What places are known to have a history in sacrifices? And do they have any connections to Ankrahmun, the city of the dead, and the Serpentine Tower?

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