A Light in the Dark (Quest)

A Light in the Dark (quest) is a level 40 Exotic Quest from Rise of Iron. By completing the quest, players will receive Thorn, an Exotic Hand Cannon. Players can acquire the Quest by completing Iron Lord Bounties for Shiro-4.

Step 1: Echoes of Darkness
"A sickness is needed, bound in darkness. Bathe your Light in horrors that their stain may linger but not overwhelm. This is the first step upon the hated path"
 * Task: Face The Wretched Eye and defeat Kovik, the Devil Splicers&#39; high priest.

- Dredgen Vale, Rite of Cleansing


 * Objective: Go to Old Russia, Earth.

Step 2: Harvest of the Lesser
"A weapon hungers. A weapon must be fed. Sate its growing appetite that you may truly become death itself."
 * Task: Wipe out Fallen in the Plaguelands to feed the weapon's appetite.

- Dredgen Vale, Rite of Cleansing


 * Objective: Defeat 500 Fallen.
 * Tips: The Iron Tomb Story mission's bosses each count for 10% of quest completion.

Step 3: Feast Upon the Light
"There will be suffering, but know that you do this for a just cause. If the Darkness is to be defeated, it must be understood. The Void will siphon that which the weapon needs. And the weapon will feast."
 * Task: Use Void Damage to defeat Guardians in the Crucible.

- Dredgen Vale, Rite of Cleansing


 * Objective: Obtain 125 Void Kills in Crucible.
 * Tips: No points lost upon death.

Step 4: Cleansed by the Light
"Willful death and destruction leads to the dimming of one's Light. Those who walk this path must cleanse themselves, or succumb to the shadow's influence."
 * Task: Consume Motes of Light to cleanse yourself and the weapon.

- Dredgen Vale, Rite of Cleansing


 * Objective: Consume five Motes of Light.

Step 5: Where It Began
"The sickness is seeded. Claim the ash and bone of the Unwed from their resting place. Bind them to your cannon that the disease may take hold and your jagged thorns be set."
 * Task: Find a Skeleton Key and open the Strike Hoard at the end of The Abomination Heist Strike.

- Dredgen Vale, Rite of Cleansing


 * Objective: Go to Ocean of Storms, Moon.
 * Rewards: Thorn