Dungeon Survey Plate 10 · Lesser Faydark, Faydwer

Castle Mistmoore

Mayong's stronghold — the population changes at dawn and dusk

/who name: mistmoore
Mob levels: 20–45Mayong ~53
ZEM: 97129% — was 90
Respawn: ≤22:00+ dawn / dusk repop
Succor: −295, 123
Adjacent: Lesser Faydarkonly exit

Floor plan

Where the walkable floor ends, computed from the zone’s own geometry in the game files, with the 21 named mobs whose positions are on record plotted on it. This zone has 3 levels and they overlap when flattened, so the control above isolates one at a time.

Height

A line marks the edge of the floor — a wall or a drop. Doors, locks and one-way drops are not marked, and a gap is as likely to be a ledge as a doorway. 21 of these 21 positions land on the drawn floor, which is worth stating because the coordinates and the geometry come from different sources and both have to be right for that to happen. This drawing is derived from the game’s mesh and is not a copy of any published map.

01Why you come here

The population changes at dawn and dusk. Twice a day in game time, at 06:00 and 20:00, the undead give way to dark elves and back. What you can camp depends on the clock.
Chestplate of the Dark Flame. AC 19 and STR +9, the heaviest armour in this set, alongside the Crested Spaulders and Mistmoore Shield.
Trains are the defining hazard. Most start deep in the castle, collect everything on the way out, and funnel through one corridor between the tower and the lake.
A wide band, 20 to 45. The front is survivable long before the castle is.

02Know where you are

Two halves and an upper floor. The outer grounds sit west — graveyard, tomb, pit, canyon, jail, courtyard, fountain and tower. The castle sits east.

What you see	Where you are
An ancient druid ring at a tunnel mouth	The entrance, southern edge of Lesser Faydark
A coffin in a tomb, someone behind it	Room 2 — Ssynthi, and the one-way secret entrance to the jail
A white circle drawn on the floor opposite the stairs	The Tower — Garton Viswin spawns inside that circle, always
A chair in a throne room, a herald either side	Room 20 — Princess Cherista
A fountain with two garden mobs flanking one figure	Room 7 — a cloaked dhampyre
Cells and a stairway	Room 5 — the jail. An avenging caitiff is on the stairs
A cliff and a bridge, castle doors beyond	The Castle Entrance — unmarked on the wiki map, just outside the entry hall
Bodies at the zone line	A train just went through. Wait. See §05
Trains	Deep castle → the funnel
The returning line	Entrance corridor
Repop while seated	Everywhere, 06:00 & 20:00
500-plus nukes	Deep castle
Black Dire	The Canyon
Mynthi Davissi	Ballroom
The invisibility trap	Jail secret door
A glyphed forbidder	Pond approach

03Named roster

Named spawn every cycle. There are no placeholders here. The percentages in the roster below are inherited from classic, where a named shared its spawn point with a placeholder. They are historical and describe nothing about this zone now. The patch note, and what else changed.

Percentages and timers are the wiki's pre-patch figures. Level 2 in the location column is the wiki's own annotation for the castle's upper floor and is the only vertical information the source provides.

Named	Loc (Y, X)	Lvl	Race / class	Spawn & notes
Mayong Mistmoore	unrecorded	~53	? / ?	Coffin Room, room 15. The first vampire, cursed by unknown means. Drops the Fanged Skull Stiletto — 12 / 22 with backstab 12, the best weapon in the zone by a wide margin. The wiki has no level or coordinate confirmed.unconfirmed
Dark Huntress	random	50	HUMAN NEC	Highly aggressive and resistant to spells. A rare NPC that spawns at random locations, buffs itself, and hunts. No loot recorded.roams
Black Dire	90, −166, −222	45	WOLF ELEMENTAL SHD	Triggered — spawns at the end of the canyon when an advisor is killed. Hits in the 200s, can quad, and harm touches. Shaman epic. Drops the Black Dire Pelt.quads + HT
An undead knight	−36, 365, −263	40	SKELETON ?	100%. One of several mobs of this name across the game; this is the Mistmoore one. Loot unrecorded.
Xicotl	−191, 92 · Level 2	40	TROLL SHD	~20% on a 22-minute respawn; placeholder is a Mistmoore guard. Drops the Glowing Sword Hilt for Zimel's Blades / SoulFire.
Lasna Cheroon	−173, 90 · Level 2	36	ELF VAMPIRE NEC	100% but flagged a rare spawn — the Bath. Diamondine Earring is the common drop, Platinum Skull Ring the uncommon.
Garton Viswin	−205, 352	35–37	ELF VAMPIRE SHD	34%. Always inside the white circle on the tower floor, opposite the stairs. Random placeholder. Carries the Chestplate of the Dark Flame and the Glowing Iron Pike.
An advisor	−117, 86 · Level 2	35	DARK ELF WIZ	100%, every four hours — confirmed. Near the library. His death spawns Black Dire. Drops the Advisor Robe.
Maid Issis	−340, −90	35	DARK ELF NEC	100%. Placeholder is a deathly usher. Spawns as either a robed dark elf or a vampire.
Butler Syncall	−318, −110 · Level 2	35	DARK ELF SHD	100%. Placeholder is a deathly harbinger. Same two-form behaviour as the maid.
Princess Cherista	−131, 23 · Level 2	35	ELF VAMPIRE NEC	33%. On the chair in the Throne Room; placeholder is a Dark Ritualist, and a Deathly Herald spawns on each side of her. Does not always drop.
Mynthi Davissi	−152, −13	32	QEYNOS CITIZEN ENC	50%, the Ballroom. She is an enchanter and she will charm you. The wiki advises endure or resist magic before engaging.charms
A cloaked dhampyre	−5, 76	33	ELF VAMPIRE SHD	~15% at the fountain, flanked by two ordinary garden mobs. Hooded Black Cloak and Blood of the Dhampyre.
A hemo enologist	−67, 171	33	DARK ELF WAR	100%, the Courtyard. Drops the Blood Spirit.
A dark ass't librarian	−86, −106 · Level 2	33	DARK ELF WAR	33%. Guest Room, opposite side from the Library. Illegible Scroll, "Vok Na Zov VI".
A dark librarian	−67, 96	31	DARK ELF WAR	Spawns into the Library. Illegible Scroll, "Vok Na Zov V".
A dark elf noble	−117, −105	31	DARK ELF WIZ	33%. Static spawn with no placeholder, inside the Gypsy Ambassador room by the door, beside a negotiator.
An avenging caitiff	−148, 292	30	DARK ELF WAR	10% on the stairs to the jail, with a separate 23-minute spawn timer. Placeholders are a deathly usher and a will pillager. Crested Spaulders (common) and Crested Helm (rare).
A deathly usher	various	30–32	DARK ELF WAR	8%. Casts the Darkness and Ignite Blood lines. Does not harm touch despite the company it keeps. Black Silk Gloves, small bronze, Rune of Ivy.
An imp familiar	−16, 435	29–35	IMP WAR	50% but flagged a rare spawn in the Graveyard. Bloodstone Eyepatch and Sacrificial Dagger.
A Fallen Noble	23, 105	28	DARK ELF CLR	Rare spawn at the fountain. Noble's Robes and Vial of Noble's Blood, both uncommon.
Enynti	80, −112	27	DARK ELF WAR	The Canyon. Drops the Rune of Fortune (Top).
A glyphed ghoul	−10, 587	27	DARK ELF WAR	100%. Spawns anywhere a familiar does — the pool, the Gorge, and the gates outside the Graveyard. Carries the Crested Mistmoore Shield.
Ssynthi	−60, 373	24–25	INVISIBLE MAN WIZ	50%. A renegade shadowman who found solace in the teachings of Solusek Ro and is not normally aggressive. Quest giver for Solusek's Flower. Drops the Robe of the Keeper.

04Loot table

The wiki lists 40 items dropping here — a smaller table than The Hole or The Warrens, but a higher proportion of it is worth having. Weapon lines read damage / delay. There is no armour set in this zone; instead there are individually strong pieces spread across the servants, the tower and the outer grounds.

Chase items

Item	Slot / type	Stats	Classes & races	Dropped by
Fanged Skull Stiletto	Primary / Secondary Pierce 12 / 22 backstab 12	—	ALL except CLR PAL DRU MNK SHM all races	Mayong Mistmoore unconfirmed loc
Chestplate of the Dark Flame	Chest · lore	AC 19 · STR +9	WAR PAL SHD all except IKS	Garton Viswin (rare)
Crested Spaulders	Shoulders	AC 11 · STA +6	WAR CLR PAL RNG SHD BRD ROG all races	An avenging caitiff (common)
Crested Mistmoore Shield	Secondary · lore	AC 10 · DEX +6 +10 Disease / Magic / Poison	WAR CLR PAL RNG SHD DRU BRD ROG SHM all races	A glyphed ghoul (rare)
Crested Helm	Head	AC 10 · STR +6 · CHA +3	WAR CLR PAL RNG SHD BRD ROG all except IKS	An avenging caitiff (rare)
Hooded Black Cloak	Back · lore	AC 10 · STR +5 · HP +45	ALL · all races	A cloaked dhampyre (rare)
Glowing Iron Pike	Primary · Pierce 9 / 36 backstab 9	—	WAR RNG SHD BRD ROG all races	Garton Viswin (common)
Advisor Robe	Chest · lore	AC 8 · INT +5 · AGI +2 MANA +20 · SV Magic +5	MNK NEC WIZ MAG ENC HUM ERU HIE DEF GNM IKS	An advisor
Platinum Skull Ring	Finger · focus	HP +30 · MANA +20 · CHA −5 Reanimation Efficiency II	ALL · all races	Lasna Cheroon (uncommon)
Cape of Midnight Mist	Neck · focus	AC 2 · STR +5 · SV Magic +7 Enhancement Haste I	CLR DRU BRD SHM NEC WIZ MAG ENC all races	Butler Syncall (common)
Nightshade Wreath	Head · focus	AC 1 · WIS +5 · INT +5 Reanimation Haste I	CLR DRU BRD SHM NEC WIZ MAG ENC all races	Maid Issis (common)
Diamondine Earring	Ear · focus	AC 2 · STR +3 · HP +12 Affliction Efficiency I	ALL · all races	Lasna Cheroon (common) Princess Cherista (rare)
Gem-Encrusted Scepter	Primary · 1H Blunt 7 / 28	WIS +5	CLR DRU BRD SHM all races	Princess Cherista (uncommon)
Sacrificial Dagger	Primary / Secondary Pierce 5 / 21 · backstab 5	INT +5	ALL except CLR PAL DRU MNK SHM all races	An imp familiar (common)
Bloodstone Eyepatch	Face	AC 4 · WIS +3 · AGI +3	ALL except NEC WIZ MAG ENC all races	An imp familiar (rare)
Noble's Robes	Chest · lore	AC 6 · CHA +5 +6 Fire / Cold · +3 Disease / Magic / Poison	CLR NEC WIZ MAG ENC HUM ERU HIE DEF GNM IKS	A Fallen Noble (uncommon)
Black Silk Gloves	Hands · lore · no drop	AC 4 · DEX +3	WAR PAL RNG SHD MNK BRD ROG all races	Deathly ushers · glyphed aegis · will sappers
Robe of the Keeper	Chest · quest item	AC 8 · INT +2	NEC WIZ MAG ENC HUM ERU HIE DEF GNM IKS	Ssynthi
Bronze Bracers	Wrist	AC 7	WAR CLR PAL SHD BRD all races	A ghoulish ancille

An avenging caitiff is the best single camp in the zone, and the most frustrating. Crested Spaulders at AC 11 with STA +6 as the common drop, and the AC 10 Crested Helm as the rare — but it spawns at 10% on its own 23-minute timer off two placeholders. The Crested Mistmoore Shield is arguably better value: AC 10, DEX +6 and +10 to three resists off a glyphed ghoul, which is a 100% spawn that appears anywhere a familiar does. And the Hooded Black Cloak's HP +45 on a back slot open to every class is the kind of item that stays equipped for twenty levels.

The bard items

Item	Slot	Effect	Dropped by
Gypsy Lute	Primary / Secondary lore · no drop	SV Magic +5 String Resonance 11	A gypsy musician
Lute of the Gypsy Princess	Secondary	String Resonance 11 (as an item stat, not a focus)	Mynthi Davissi (common) A werewolf
Mistmoore Battle Drums	Primary / Secondary	Percussion Resonance 11	Mynthi Davissi (rare)

This is a bard's zone. Three instruments at resonance 11 drop here, two from one named. The Gypsy Lute is no-drop, so it must be earned in person; the Lute of the Gypsy Princess is tradeable and carries its resonance as a plain item stat rather than a focus effect, which matters for how it stacks. Note that a werewolf also drops the Princess lute — so it is obtainable at night from the roaming population as well as from Mynthi in the ballroom.

Consumables, components and quest items

Item	What it does / is for	Dropped by
Vial of Vampire Blood	1 charge — Resistance to Magic as level 50	A glyphed ghoul (common)
Blood of the Dhampyre	1 charge — Extended Regeneration	A cloaked dhampyre (common)
Glowing Sword Hilt	Zimel's Blades / SoulFire · lore · no drop	Xicotl
Hilt of Soulfire	SoulFire chain	Xicotl
Black Dire Pelt	Shaman epic · lore · no drop	Black Dire
Butler Syncalls Fang	Vampire Teeth · lore	Butler Syncall (rare)
Maid Issis Fang	Vampire Teeth · lore	Maid Issis (rare)
Gargoyle Eye	Quest item — the wiki notes these sell for nine to ten platinum each	All four gargoyle types
Mistmoore Granite	Component · no drop	Flouting, jeering, sneering and leering gargoyles
Rune of Fortune	Component (Top) · lore · no drop	Enynti (rare)
Rune of Arrest	Component	A leering gargoyle
Rune of Ivy	Component	A deathly usher
Essence of Moonlight	Quest item	Various
Blood Spirit	Component · no drop	A hemo enologist
Vial of Noble's Blood	Component · no drop	A Fallen Noble (uncommon)
A Dark Cauldron	Component · no drop — roughly 50/50	An ancille cook
Illegible Scroll	Lore — "Vok Na Zov V" and "Vok Na Zov VI"	A dark librarian · a dark ass't librarian
Stone Marker	Component · lore · no drop	A glyphed custodian
Werewolf Talon	Component · lore · no drop	A gypsy musician
Power of Wind	Component · lore · no drop	A gypsy dancer
Patch of Shadow	Component	Ssynthi
Pages of Tasarin's Grimoire	Grimoire chain	A Mistmoore guard
Fine steel weapons · small bronze armour Jade · Flame Agate · Gold Ring	Vendor fodder and caster research. The wiki notes the dark elves drop platinum, runes and words freely	Throughout

Nine quest lines route through this castle. The wiki's related-quest list names the Shaman epic, Zimel's Blades and SoulFire, the Crafted, Lambent and Incandescent armour quests, the Lord of Pain's Khukri from the Crusader's Tests, Solusek's Flower, and Vampire Teeth. Add the cleric Caduceus of Sacrament ground spawn on the jail stairs. Only one quest actually starts here — Solusek's Flower, from Ssynthi, minimum level 1, rewarding the Scepter of Sorrow for necromancers.

05Dangers

Trains are the defining hazard, and the geometry makes them worse. Most trains originate deep in the castle, and on the way out every creature along the route joins. All of them funnel through the middle of the outer area between the tower and the lake on their way to the narrow corridor to the zone edge. The only shelter is behind the lake or behind the tower — or zoning.

The zone shuts down after a large train. Pulling from the line of returning monsters as they walk slowly back to the castle is itself lethal, and they loiter near the entrance for some time before returning. Zone in invisible if you can, because you cannot know what is waiting on the other side.

Invisibility is two spells here, and the right one changes twice a day. Ordinary invisibility works on the daytime population; invisibility versus undead works only on the undead. After the 20:00 swap the population you needed to hide from has changed. There is also a trap on the secret door at the jail that strips invisibility outright.

Sitting at a repop tick can aggro an entire room. Sitting gives level-1-equivalent aggro, and at 06:00 and 20:00 everything alive respawns while everything dead repops. Be standing at dawn and dusk.

Mynthi Davissi charms. She is a level 32 enchanter in the ballroom and the wiki recommends endure or resist magic before engaging. Note that the 28 July patch caps charm at 30 seconds — that limit applies to her charm on your group as much as to yours on anything else, which makes her materially less dangerous than classic guides suggest.

Deep castle trains can carry 500-plus damage nukes. The wiki is explicit that monsters capable of dealing 500 or more hit points with a single spell live in the interior. At the zone's 20–45 band that is a one-cast kill on most of the group.

The counterweight: nobody hunting the front need die. That is the wiki's own claim, and the reasoning holds — the zone edge is close, so a group with Spirit of Wolf up that zones at the first sign of trouble should not lose anyone. It requires that nobody tries to be a hero.

06Getting there

Reached through Lesser Faydark, at the western edge of its southern border. An ancient druid ring stands at the entrance to the zone.
Lesser Faydark is largely safe for anyone strong enough to fight in Mistmoore, but three camps are not: the Brownie camp to the north, the Shadowed Men camp to the east, and powerful dark elves in an abandoned camp along the southern edge.
Do not run the southern edge as a shortcut to the tunnel — that is where the dark elves have settled.
Lesser Faydark is the only adjacent zone. There is one way in and one way out, which is why the entry-corridor train problem has no alternative route.
Succor and evacuate drop you at −295, 123, the zone line to Lesser Faydark.

Measured in play TIER M

4 sessions, 08 Aug 2026, 11:08-18:14. Measured from Avenrae’s log. Avenrae BRD WAR BER. Level 26. Mistmoore Castle. Shara playing hybrid support temporarily, DRU BRD NEC (Main trio will be BRD CLR SHM), so I only have those buffs during this session. Zone entered as Castle Mistmoore (D1, Awakened). 1008 kills across 65 kinds of mob; our own swings landed 61.5% of the time (14232 attempts). Drops seen: +1 ×236, +2 ×48, +3 ×2. Faction moved: Mayong Mistmoore, King Tearis Thex, Agents of Mistmoore, League of Antonican Bards, Ring of Scale, Temple of Solusek Ro, Shadowed Men.
Conditions changed at 11:57: Shara lost connection to the game.

What takes control away

882 stunning melee attacks were shrugged off, and 296 stuns landed anyway — every one of them from a spell. That gap is the point: an immunity to stunning melee attacks does nothing about a spell, and the character being measured carried exactly that immunity. Screaming Terror landed 20 times for 298 seconds of being unable to act. It produced no fear behaviour whatsoever — no fleeing, nothing the log calls fear — so despite the name it reads as a stun, and fear protection does not appear to touch it.

Spell	Stuns landed	Cast by
Lightning Bolt	228	a thought spoiler (37), a shadowy scribe (37), a shadowy sage (31), a shadowy scrivener (26), a spiritish ancille (23), a dark elf noble (23)
Chaos Flux	31	a negotiator (15), Mynthi Davissi (15), a ghoulish ancille (1)
Tishan's Clash	20	a shadowy scrivener (4), a thought spoiler (3), a shadowy scribe (3), a dark elf noble (3), a vampire noble (2), a shadowy sage (2)
Holy Might	15	a glyphed forbidder (6), a glyphed custodian (4), a glyphed warder (2), a fallen noble (2), a glyphed guard (1)
Frost Dagger	2	a gypsy musician (2)

Counted from what the log recorded, not from what a spell is assumed to do. Resist rates depend on the character’s own resistances and alternate abilities, so treat these as what happened to one build rather than as a property of the mob. The useful part is the kill order: whatever casts the spell at the top of this table takes your turn away most often.

Fights broken off

Read these against the conditions. The healer's client was freezing and crashing through this session. The collaborator reports that every death this day but one fell during or just after a crash, so deaths and any escape here may record a technical failure rather than the fight going badly.

11:23:23 — Shara took the group out, with A will ravisher, A will sapper, A will pillager, A leering gargoyle, A flouting gargoyle, A thought spoiler engaged. Last thing cast before the call: A soul seductress cast Shock of Poison.
11:40:38 — Shara took the group out, with A jeering gargoyle, A will sapper, A will pillager, A flouting gargoyle, A leering gargoyle, Princess Cherista engaged. Last thing cast before the call: Princess Cherista cast Screaming Terror.
12:42:06 — Shara took the group out, with A sneering gargoyle, A spiritish ancille, A vampiric ancille engaged. Last thing cast before the call: A spiritish ancille cast Instill.
16:43:21 — Shara took the group out, with A vampiric ancille, A ghoulish ancille, A sneering gargoyle engaged.
17:43:41 — Shara took the group out, with A gypsy musician, A deathly herald, A dark elf noble, A deathly usher, A negotiator, A shadowy scribe engaged. Last thing cast before the call: A negotiator cast Tashani.

An escape is a judgement, not a verdict. It records that this group at this level chose to leave, which is worth knowing and is written down nowhere else — but it is not evidence the fight cannot be won, and the number of mobs engaged is usually the reason rather than the named itself.

Named

Mob	Swings at us	Landed	Damage	Dropped
Enyntino casts logged	264	42%	10.1 avg · 44 max	Rune of Fortune, Ringmail Pants +1, Ringmail Coat +2, Ringmail Sleeves +1, Fine Steel Great Staff +1
Xicotlseen casting: Harm Touch, Engulfing Darkness, Cancelling of Life, Heat Blood	226	53%	33.8 avg · 111 max	Glowing Sword Hilt
Butler Syncallseen casting: Harm Touch, Engulfing Darkness, Fear, Cancelling of Life	219	48%	20.1 avg · 63 max	Cape of Midnight Mist +1, Butler Syncalls Fang, Bronze Bracers +1, Fine Steel Scimitar +2, Cape of Midnight Mist +2
Princess Cheristaseen casting: Screaming Terror, Shadow Vortex, Negation of Life, Shock of Poison, Leatherskin, Engulfing Darkness	161	53%	29.8 avg · 71 max	Amber, Fine Steel Dagger +1, Fine Steel Dagger +2
Mynthi Davissiseen casting: Alacrity, Chaos Flux, Quickness, Tashani, Mesmerization, Lesser Shielding	114	54%	27.3 avg · 71 max	Lute of the Gypsy Princess +1, Mistmoore Battle Drums +2, Fine Steel Spear +3
Ssynthiseen casting: Lightning Bolt, Instill, Shielding	67	46%	17.3 avg · 48 max	Robe of the Keeper +1, Shadowed Book, Eye of Shadow
Maid Ississeen casting: Screaming Terror, Leatherskin, Shadow Vortex, Heat Blood, Major Shielding, Shock of Poison	65	46%	26.7 avg · 68 max	Nightshade Wreath +1, Maid Issis Fang, Pearl, Flame Agate, Mote of Minor Potential, Ivory
Lasna Cheroonseen casting: Leatherskin, Major Shielding, Engulfing Darkness, Screaming Terror, Shock of Poison, Shadow Vortex	32	72%	32.7 avg · 76 max	Ivory, Diamondine Earring +2

Plus 113 ordinary mob types over 31,199 swings, landing 49%. Not itemised.

What this is and is not. These are counts from one session, not rates. A drop listed here was seen at least once and nothing more — no drop rate can be read from it. Damage and landing figures describe this trio, at this level, against these mobs, on this date; a different level or trio changes all of them. Mobs that never attacked us and never cast anything are absent, because a log records what happened rather than what was there. Spell names are as the game printed them.