Icehowl Ruins

"An unknown evil stirs within these abandoned halls."

- Description^(src)

Icehowl Ruins is a Fractured Peaks dungeon available in Diablo IV. It is located north of Nevesk on the Icehowl Taiga.

Lore[]

A tower,^[1] Icehowl Ruins are located north of Nevesk. In 1336, they were used by the villagers (who'd become enthralled by Lilith) to deposit the body of their village's Cathedral of Light priest.^[2] They carried out numerous sacrifices within the ruins, summoning demons.^[3] The ruins became overrun with demons, and were saturated with demonic magic.^[1]

The ruins were successfully cleared by the Wanderer.^[4]

Gameplay[]

Icehowl Ruins features in the game's prologue, and is compulsory to complete as part of the "Darkness Within" quest.

Areas[]

Abandoned Halls
Hell-touched Corridors
Chamber of Calling

Monsters[]

Fallen One
- Fiery Fallen
- Fallen Shaman
Helion
Skeleton
- Shivering Skeleton
- Tainted Skeleton (Plaguebearer)
X'fal, the Scarred Baron (boss)

References[]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Diablo IV, Prologue, A Hero's Return
↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named DarknessWithin
↑ Diablo IV, Prologue, Missing Pieces
↑ Diablo IV, Prologue, Darkness Within

Fractured Peaks Zones (Diablo IV)

Cellars: Flooded Mine; Forsaken Mine; Haunted Burrow; Hermit's Abode; Iceworn Cellar; Infested Cottage; Oleg's Hideout; Savina Hideout
Dungeons: Alabaster Cathedral; Anica's Claim; Black Asylum; Caldera Gate; Cathedral of Light (The Elysiuma Archives); City of the Ancients; Condemned Mines (campaign only); Cradle; Cultist Refuge; Darkened Holt (campaign only); Dead Man's Dredge; Defiled Catacomb; Derelict Lodge; Forbidden City; Forsaken Quarry; Hallowed Ossuary; Hoarfrost Demise; Horadric Vault (campaign only); Icehowl Ruins; Immortal Emanation; Kor Dragan Barracks; Kylsik Plateau; Light's Watch; Lost Archives; Maulwood; Mercy's Reach; Necropolis of the Firstborn (campaign only); Nostrava Deepwood; Rimescar Cavern; Sanctified Study; Sanguine Chapel; The Darkened Way; The Hallowed Glacier; The Red Cellar; Tormented Ruins; Zenith
Malignant Tunnels: Forest Clearing; Velkhova Church Undercroft
Regions: Desolate Highlands; Dobrev Taiga; Gale Valley; Sarkova Pass; Seat of the Heavens; The Crucible; The Pallid Glade
Strongholds: Nostrava
Towns: Bear Tribe Refuge; Camp Trenchfoot; Kasama (Black Lake, Mourning Shore, Path of the Firstborn); Kyovashad (Cathedral of Light, East Gatehouse, Kyovashad Gatehouse); Margrave; Menestad; Nevesk; Nostrava; Yelesna (Knights' Garrison, The Hog's Head)
Other: Alabaster Peak; Ashen Hollow; Bellowing Ravine; Blacklung Mountain; Boulder Ridge; College of Light; Crags of Ill Wind; Eastern Pass (Windswept Cabin); Eastern Plain; Father's Cross; Fields of Judgment (Altar of Martyrdom, Altar of Purity, Altar of Redemption); Frigid Expanse; Gnarled Timbers; Heretic's Flight; Hoary Gate; Ice-Rimed Crypt; Icehowl Taiga; Krol Forest (Shadow Trail, Virtue's Point); Lonely Drifts; Melnir's Hill; Mistral Woods; Monolith of the Bloodmancer; Oleg's Lookout; Olyam Tundra; Pauper's Descent; Radiance Field Cemetery; Savina Falls; Serac Rapture; Silvered Edgelands; Southweast Foothills; The Anointed Ascent (Shrine of the Penitent); The Brinewood; The Sallow Riverbanks; Tsepilova Lake; Vale of Fools; Western Tunnels; Western Ways; Windfall Hollow; Zeleny Lowlands (Pine Hill, The Murmuring Mill)

[AHero'sReturn-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Diablo IV, Prologue, A Hero's Return

[DarknessWithin-2] Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named DarknessWithin

[3] Diablo IV, Prologue, Missing Pieces

[4] Diablo IV, Prologue, Darkness Within

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