The Uninvited Court: Seneschal Veylis
Choose two testimonies, defeat petitioners in the announced order and spend shared evidence charges when they matter.
Explore Tower of Frozen ShadowThe encounter
The library holds three testimonies that contradict the court's claims. Choose any two before entering the dining room. Their shared charges refresh for each attempt.
Veylis recognizes one petitioner at a time. Defeating that petitioner opens a damage window and advances the public order. Attacking the wrong claim creates extra work.
Know your role
Everyone
- Confirm the two testimonies before pulling.
- Read the full name of the recognized petitioner instead of guessing from position.
- Announce lectern use so the raid does not waste its shared charges.
Tanks
- Control petitioners and objections while maintaining Veylis.
- Wrong-order kills can produce up to two objections.
Damage dealers
- Focus the recognized 18,000-health petitioner.
- Use Veylis's 25-second exposures for boss damage.
- All three claims must end correctly before Veylis can die.
Testimony callers
- Each selected testimony has two shared charges per attempt.
- Use the absent guest against the frost pulse, the servant against the advocate cast, and the posthumous signature to open a control window on objections.
Encounter progression
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Library preparation
Choose the evidence
Discover the three labeled testimonies and select two. Choices persist and can be changed between attempts.
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Dining-room combat
One recognized claim
Only the announced petitioner takes full damage. The other two take 20% damage. Veylis takes 40% damage between exposures.
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The recognized petitioner is defeated
A claim is disproved
Veylis takes full damage for 25 seconds, then the next surviving claim is recognized.
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All three claims end correctly
The court is unmasked
Veylis remains exposed for the rest of the fight.
Abilities & mechanics
Open a mechanic for details and any linked spells.
Recognized Claim Defeat the petitioner named by the court.
An unrecognized petitioner killed early returns with its prior claim state and creates a 14,000-health objection, up to two alive.
A mistaken kill gives no loot and does not advance recognition. Veylis cannot fall below 10% until all three claims have ended correctly.
All Voices Are Mine Use the servant testimony or prepare to heal a 700 magic-damage room pulse.
The advocate starts this cast every 35 seconds with a six-second warning. The selected servant testimony can interrupt the otherwise protected cast.
A separate 550 cold-damage pulse can be suppressed with the absent guest testimony. Major pulses remain at least ten seconds apart.
Related spells
TOFS Magic 700
The Signature Written After Death Temporarily make the objection adds controllable.
Invoking this selected testimony makes the current objections susceptible to mez and root for 20 seconds.
All three testimony choices share their charges across the raid. Each chosen testimony has two uses per attempt.
Field notes
Expedition access and route
The Unwritten Hour admits 12 to 36 characters of level 55 or higher and is tuned for 24 to 36 level-60 raiders. Speak to Keeper Avel Rimeglass in Iceclad to arrange the expedition.
The expedition lasts eight hours. A 72-hour replay begins when the first raid boss is defeated. That first victory seals the roster; arrange replacements beforehand. Disconnected members of the sealed roster may return before the expedition expires.
The tower uses expedition mirrors and saved checkpoints. Ordinary tower keys, keyring entries and the summit shortcut do not unlock this version. Complete each floor objective before using the next mirror.
Warnings and recovery
Read Event Messages and use the named encounter actors. Color and visual effects supplement the instructions; no required answer depends on recognizing a color alone. Keep the fight and its support inside the current encounter area.
Evacuation returns eligible party members to the entrance of this same expedition. Gate and spells that transport you out of the tower remain available; reenter through the keeper while your expedition and membership remain valid. Binding, shadow steps, summons and transport within the tower cannot bypass its mirrors.
A wipe restores the active boss and its attempt-only objectives. Previously completed encounters and route objectives remain completed. Cleared bosses cannot be repeated for another reward during the same expedition.
An unsuccessful attempt does not consume another raid offering. A reset recreates temporary charges and actors for the next attempt. Return only to a checkpoint the expedition has already unlocked.
The three testimonies
- The Guest Who Never Arrived suppresses one court frost pulse.
- The Servant Who Heard the Vow interrupts one protected advocate cast.
- The Signature Written After Death opens a 20-second mez and root window on current objections.
- Choose two. Each chosen testimony has two shared uses for that attempt.
Tower inhabitants
Ordinary inhabitants populate the unlocked floors independently of this encounter. Each floor or wing has six stationary inhabitants and two native patrols. Most see normal invisibility, many are genuinely undead, and nearby inhabitants can assist one another.
Killing these ambient mobs does not complete named objectives, open mirrors, remove named protections or award boss equipment or progression items. Follow the named warder/support instructions separately.
Ambient mobs can be rooted, mezzed, stunned or snared. Their saved 30-minute respawns wait near living players and during an engaged named fight on that floor. Native undead-targeted spells and invisibility-versus-undead detection use their actual body types.
Encounter rewards
Equipment reward
Exactly one item is chosen from these four, with a 25% chance for each item. Supporting creatures and encounter objectives do not award additional equipment.
- Undiscovered item
- Undiscovered item
- Undiscovered item
- Undiscovered item