His name is Merchant Valdes.

Thanks a lot Zhuangzi. So much for reading NPC lines -_-.

Just one question, now there is a bug in my game. One of the elavators that leads to the truth arena on the dwarf land has been stucked by a evil beholder. It's just on one side of the elevator and I can neither attack it nor make the elevaor moving. Can anyone tells me if I can correct this bug? If I can't, can anyone tells me what you get for completing the truth arena quest? 'cause I really want to know what I'm missing here. Thanks a lot

Don't know if you can correct it. In my first game there was a magic crystal in an underground area that just could not be clicked on, so I suspect there is a slight problem with the interface. On a side note, I occasionally get enemies on the adventure map run towards me and straight past without attacking. Weird.

About the truth arena, you fight yourself, as in, an exact doppelganger of the stacks you have. You have to have used up your full leadership potential I believe. Anyway, the fight is easy because your hero gives your own troops improved attack/defense etc, plus you have spells/ragebox. I think you get 3 of each rune as reward.

You can fight in the arena again later, although at first I was told that I wasn't strong enough. The second fight is against DOUBLE your stacks. This is probably doable but I couldn't be bothered having to rebuild my stacks again, so I left it. I think I read somewhere that you get 10 of each rune for completing this but I'm not sure.

So in summary you aren't missing a great deal unless you desperately need the runes. ;)

Actually, more is always better than less,right? I hate it when this kind of thing happens. I guess I will just use the cheat code to reward myself 13 runes of each then. BTW, Thank you very much for helping me.:grin:

happened to me once but i restarted the game he wasnt there phew!

obelisk question:
according to amamake's post, the only obelisk that i have left unvisited (number 10 from left to right) is the one "next to the pyramid", which I am sure I have clicked as it is sitting in front of me right now (it is the one surrounded by all 13 obelisk lights right?). I even have the last one in the grey wastes turned on... I really would like to find out which one I have left untouched. Any help would be most appreciated.

i figured it was a better idea to go through every obelisk again and found out that i was missing the east island one (i was kind of weak at the time). so that means that in amamake's post while the locations are true, the numbers are not given according to the obelisks. so if you are missing let's say the second one from the left that doesnt mean it will be number two in the below list. hope that helps.

you get 2 of each rune for the first battle and 3 of each for the 200% battle.

I have the same problem - the tenth obelisk is not illuminated, but I've definitely clicked the obelisk in the middle of the circle.