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Thops’s Questline

Thops is a former student of the Academy of Raya Lucaria who freely admits he has almost no talent for sorcery. He happened to be outside when the Academy sealed its gates during the Shattering, and he has been stuck at the Church of Irith ever since, without a key to get back in. He looked up to Sellen in his school days.

His questline is short and a little sad. Bring him a spare key and he finally goes home, and what he leaves behind there is a sorcery that is entirely his own.

Rewards

Walkthrough

  1. Meet Thops. Find him at the Church of Irith in Liurnia of the Lakes. Talk to him and agree to donate 10 runes. That opens his small sorcery shop.
  2. Find the spare key. Inside the Academy of Raya Lucaria, a second Academy Glintstone Key lies up in the rafters above the Church of the Cuckoo. The key you get near Glintstone Dragon Smarag in north-western Liurnia does not count, because you need that one to get into the Academy in the first place.
  3. Give Thops the key. Return to the Church of Irith and hand it over. He thanks you with the Erudition gesture and sets off for the Academy.
  4. Find him at the Academy. Thops is sitting at a desk outside the room with the Schoolhouse Classroom Site of Grace. He has passed away there. Loot his body for Thops’s Barrier, an Academy Glintstone Staff and Thops’s Bell Bearing.
  5. Catch the scarab (optional). Back at the Church of Irith, a scarab now waits that drops Ash of War: Thops’s Barrier.

Missable steps & failure conditions

  • Use the right key. Thops will not take the key from near Glintstone Dragon Smarag. He only accepts the spare one from inside the Academy.
  • Killing Thops at the church gives you his Bell Bearing and an Academy Glintstone Staff, but Thops’s Barrier is only listed as coming from his body in the Academy at the end of the questline.
  • No scrolls. Unlike the other sorcery teachers, Thops cannot be given scrolls, so his shop never grows.

Endings & consequences

  • Thops’s fate. He makes it back to the Academy he loved, but dies there hunched over his desk. The barrier sorcery he leaves behind might one day become the start of a new conspectus.
  • His wares live on. Hand his Bell Bearing to the Twin Maiden Husks at the Roundtable Hold if you want to keep buying what he sold.

Characters involved

NPC

Sorcerer Thops

Bosses involved

Boss

Glintstone Dragon Smarag

Rewards

Weapon

Academy Glintstone Staff

Ash of War

Ash of War: Thops’s Barrier

Spell

Thops’s Barrier

Item

Thops’s Bell Bearing

Places

Location

Academy of Raya Lucaria

Location

Church of Irith

Location

Liurnia of the Lakes

Questline
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Quest giver: Sorcerer Thops
Starts at: Church of Irith (Liurnia of the Lakes)

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