| 1st level leads to a hole to enter the second lvl 2nd leve leads to a hole for 3rd level 3rd level is the matriarch Lair - it is in the center of the map and has holes that lead back to every level. So there is no need to enter every 1st level hole as once you get to the matriarchs lair you can access everything from there. |
Warning Spoilers to the quests in the Solen hives follow!!
There are four quests in the solen nets:
1. The Naturalist Quest: study all 4 nests and bring him the results. Reward: either a rare aqua seed, magenta seed, or pink seed. Naturalist is located in any library and moonglow Lycenium.
(If you wait to use a thorn and enter the 5th secret nest before going back to him you will recieve a rare fire seed)
2. The Ambitious Queen: Located in Tunnel 1 second Lvl - She asks you to kill 5 competeing queens. There are two locals for the competeing queens - nest 2 , and nest 4.
when completed bring 50 fungus to her.
Reward: bag of translocation and 8-12 power.
3. Matriarch Quest: Feed her a seed to get her to talk to you. She will ask you to kill 7 infiltrators. These can be found in the trails leading to the entrance to wind. Bring back 8 pitchers of water and upto 200 fungus. Put water in her water tubs, then hand her the fungus> You will recieve 2 power for every fungus upto 100. Reward besides the power is some gold and compassion virtue.
4. To help pruify the water you need to bring: the moonfire brew from the hag, obsidian from elwood, and a plague beast core to the water machine located in tunnel 4(sw) ) You recieve some virtue points for this that is all.