Arx Fatalis is an RPG developed by Arkane Studios. It offers a number of interactions with objects and NPCs, realistic action fights, a unique real time spell casting system, character creation, dialogues, puzzles, exploration in an underground atmospheric world with various Cities inhabited by several races, galleries, dungeons and mines all intertwined by an unexpected epic plot.

We will bring you this Arx Fatalis Element of the week in collaboration with publisher Fishtank. In the past weeks we revealed some characters and spells of Arx Fatalis. This time we feature The Human Guard Post.

The Human Guard Post

The guard post of the humans is located close to the tavern called "Yellow Tulip". The player will visit this place early in the game, after he has escaped from the goblin prison and wandered through the goblin caves. 

The outpost serves as some kind of protection against attacks from other races or dangerous creatures, which inhabit the world of Arx. Building this guard post proves to be a wise decision, because when the player reaches the outpost, he discovers that the place was recently attacked by a group of Ylsides without warning. At this place the player will also meet Ortiern, the superior officer from the Kingdom of Arx. Ortiern will ask the player for help, because it seems that the war with the Ylsides is about to happen after this unexpected attack. So you'll have to fullfill one of your first quests in the game. Although it seems a bit strange that Ortiern trusts a stranger more than the folk of the nearby tavern…