Hellbound: Road to Dynasty & Icarus

01What you need to know first

Hellbound on Project Ortos works a bit differently from retail Lineage 2. Read this section before you set foot on the cursed island — it will save you hours of confusion.

Quick glossary

• Hellbound level — the global progression of the island (1 → 12). Affects which content is unlocked. Check it any time with the voiced command .hellbound.
• Standard Certificate — the entry token you need to start farming Dynasty.
• Premium Certificate — a higher-tier token that you trade for actual Dynasty pieces.
• Sealed Dynasty Piece — the raw material; you craft it into wearable Dynasty using the right recipe and key materials.

02Getting to Hellbound

Hellbound is gated behind Quest — Path to Hellbound. You must complete it once per character; afterwards the Warpgate will let you in freely.

Where to go

Teleport to Heine from any gatekeeper. Look for this trio standing together near the town's central plaza:

Requirements

• Character level 78+
• Hellbound island must be unlocked (it is on Project Ortos — Stage 2 and 3)

Quest steps (short version)

1. Talk to Casian → accept the quest.
2. Talk to Galate next to him.
3. Return to Casian → receive Casian's Blue Crystal.
4. Bring the crystal to Galate → quest complete.
5. Use the Warpgate to teleport into Hellbound.

Useful in-game command

03The Caravan Certificate path

Sealed Dynasty Parts on Project Ortos are sold by Hude in a multi-sell that opens only after you hold a Premium Caravan Certificate. The Premium Cert itself is the end of a 3-step certificate chain.

  1. Falk    : 20 Darion's Badge                                       →  Basic Cert
  2. Hude    : Basic   + 30 Mark of Betrayal + 60 Scorpion Stinger     →  Standard Cert
  3. Hude    : Standard + 30 Life Force + 8 Contained Life Force       →  Premium Cert + Map
  4. Hude    : (with Premium Cert in inventory) opens Sealed Dynasty multi-sell
                Pay Hidden Pages + Demon Contract Fragments            →  Sealed Dynasty Pieces

Where the certificate NPCs stand

Magic Bottle — where and how

• Where: Kief in the Native base in Hellbound (event Bottle in his dialog).
• Price: 20 Scorpion Poison Stinger → 1 Magic Bottle — one-time purchase, see below.
• Re-usable: the bottle is not consumed by the skill — buy one and you keep it forever. Bound to the player (no trade / drop / sell), ~1.5 s reuse between catches.
• How it works: the bottle's skill (range ~40 — basically melee distance) only registers on a Chimera or Celtus while its HP is BELOW 10%. Beat the mob down first, then trigger the bottle as the finishing blow — using it on a full-HP target does nothing and just wastes the cooldown.
• Loot delivery: on a successful catch the Force item drops on the ground, reserved for the caster — pick it up like any normal drop. Nothing lands directly in your inventory.

04Farming the certificate inputs

Each step of the certificate chain consumes specific items. Here is exactly what you need and where it drops.

Step 1 — Basic Caravan Certificate

Step 2 — Standard Caravan Certificate

Step 3 — Premium Caravan Certificate

Where to farm Life Forces

Go to the Battered Lands (south-east region of Hellbound) with a Magic Bottle in your hotbar (see Section 03 — one-time purchase from Kief for 20 Stingers, re-usable forever). Beat the target down to under 10% HP first, then bottle as the finishing blow — the Force item drops on the ground, reserved for you.

05Sealed Dynasty Pieces — Hude's multi-sell

Once you carry a Premium Caravan Certificate, Hude's multisell2 option opens up. This is where you actually buy your Sealed Dynasty recepies and parts.

How to get the currency — open Tomes

Ancient Tome of the Demon is a capsule item. Right-click it in your inventory: it consumes itself and rolls one of three outputs:

So Demon Contract Fragments are the rarest output — they are usually the bottleneck. Save up Tomes and burn them in big batches; opening one at a time wastes inventory space.

Where Tomes drop

Ancient Tome of the Demon drops on practically the entire Hellbound mob roster (you do not need to step into the Steel Citadel / Tower of Naia to farm it). Best targets on the main island, sorted by raw kill efficiency:

Many other Hellbound mobs (Subjugated/Charmed Native, Wandering Caravan, Blind Huntsman/Watchman, Sand Devil, Desiccator, Darion's Enforcer/Executioner, Quarry Bowman/Supervisor, Remnant Wraith, Enceinte Defender, etc.) also drop Tomes in smaller stacks (5 fixed at 10–60%) — anything you kill while doing other goals feeds the Sealed Dynasty pipeline.

Sample multi-sell prices (per Sealed Dynasty piece)

Weapons

Heavy armor

Light armor

Robe

Shield & Sigil

Jewelry

Recipes craft at 60% for armor / weapons and 70% for jewelry. The exchange uses Hidden Pages + Demon Contract Fragments — your Premium Caravan Certificate stays in your inventory the whole time and just keeps the menu open.

06Unlocking Stage 12 (community goal)

Stage 12 is the brand new servet stage 2 tier on Project Ortos that goes beyond the retail cap of Hellbound level 11. Once unlocked, it opens up the Beleth raid, and the Anomic Foundry / Icarus chain.

How the kill counter works

Unlock threshold: 400 000 points. Once reached, the server automatically promotes Hellbound to level 12 and announces it globally.

Checking the progress

Type .hellbound in chat. While the island is at level 11, the message includes the Stage 12 unlock counter:

Hellbound level: 11 trust: 4000123  |  Stage 12 progress: 12345 / 400000

Celtus — the optimal grind target

Celtus is a level-80+ rare elite that gives +10 points per kill. We have expanded the spawns and normalised the respawn timer specifically to make Stage 12 farming viable:

• 3 retail spawns active at the current Hellbound stage — respawn timer normalised to a fixed 2-hour cycle (was 90–150 min random on retail). A 4th retail spawn exists in the data but is stage-locked to HB level 7–8 only, so on a server already past that point it never appears in-game.
• + 6 NEW custom spawns — also fixed 2-hour respawn.
• = 9 Celtus total on the island in practice.

Custom spawn areas (the 6 added on top of retail):

• 2× near the Arcane Scout area
• 2× in the scorpions desert
• 2× near the Remnant Wraith area

07Icarus weapons (Anomic Foundry & Jude)

Once Stage 12 is unlocked, the path to Icarus weapons opens up. The chain is handled by Quest — Jude's Request.

Step 1 — Get to the Anomic Foundry

Talk to Jerian in the Tower of Infinitum. He offers two teleport options — choose Anomic Foundry.

Step 2 — Spawn Lesser / Greater Evil

Inside the Foundry, hunt the regular workforce:

On death, a Lesser or Greater Evil spawns directly on the corpse. Both rolls are independent — the same kill can trigger both.

Step 3 — Drop Evil Weapons

Drops follow your party's loot rules (Random / Round Robin).

Step 4 — Trade Evil Weapons with Jude

Jude — he stands right next to Hude on the desert side of Hellbound (Battered Lands area). So once you have looted your Evil Weapons in the Foundry, walk back to the same spot you visit for the Caravan Certificate exchanges. Jude handles the Icarus trade:

08Tower of Naia (Jerian, Mutated Elpy, Spore)

Tower of Naia is the road to Beleth. Entry is gated by Jerian — there are no auto-spawns or time windows like on retail. The whole zone is driven by Command Channel clicks.

Entry requirements (Tower of Naia option)

• You must be a Command Channel of at least 11 members.
• The Hellbound island must be at Stage 12.

What happens when you click Tower of Naia

CC1 clicks tp_naia
    │
    ├─►  Spawn Mutated Elpy (single-instance — only if not already alive)
    ├─►  25-minute cooldown for the next CC click (chase mechanic)
    ├─►  90-minute deadline to kill Elpy
    └─►  Teleport CC to the standard spawn point in Naia Tower

The 90-minute deadline

• Counts from the fresh Elpy respawn. Subsequent chase clicks do not extend it.
• Cancelled when Elpy is killed (= success).
• Expiry → everyone in Tower of Naia is kicked back to Jerian and Elpy despawns.

The chase mechanic (25-min cooldown)

If a second CC clicks during the 25-min cooldown they are blocked. After 25 minutes, a competing CC can enter — Elpy is still alive, the original deadline is still ticking, the door to the boss room stays open. Both CCs can race for the kill.

Logout / login auto-rejoin

Crashes and short DCs are forgiven. The server remembers your party leader and logout timestamp inside the raid zones (TON, spore room, Beleth zone).

Goal: a crash should not cost you your raid spot, but AFK loaders cannot hold a slot indefinitely.

09The Beleth fight

Once Mutated Elpy is dead and your CC has cleared the spore challenge, you can engage Beleth, the final boss of Hellbound. The fight has been retuned for the smaller Project Ortos community size.

Project Ortos changes vs retail

The retail 15-minute hard cap was tuned for 36-player groups. With our 11-player minimum those phases simply could not finish in time, so we give each phase its own fresh 25-min timer instead. The taunt hint removes the "is this the right one?" coin-flip — once a fake Beleth dips below 75% HP and shouts at you, you commit and finish the kill.

How the fight works (overview)

1. Your CC enters the Steel Citadel teleport. Beleth zone gets locked to your CC for the duration of the fight.
2. After the entry timer (5 min), the first wave of fake Beleths spawns. One of them is the "correct" one — the CC must identify and kill it. 25-min timer on this round.
3. At 75% HP the correct fake shouts "ARGH! You found me, you little brat! Don't think I'll go down easy!" — your cue to commit DPS and finish it.
4. Killing the correct fake → cancels the round's 25-min cap, short break, then the next fake-Beleth wave spawns with a fresh 25-min timer. Repeat for 5 rounds total.
5. After the 5th correct kill, the real Beleth spawns with its own 25-min cap. Drop it → loot the rewards. Done.

Loot — Ring of Beleth

The Ring of Beleth is the signature reward of this raid. It is not a regular drop on Beleth's corpse — instead, the moment Beleth dies a Stone Coffin spawns inside the boss arena. Only the player who landed the killing blow on the real Beleth can talk to the coffin and receive the ring.

Ring of Beleth — stats

• S-grade ring, enchantable
• +12% M.Def
• +105 HP / +38 MP
• +30 resistance to Dark attacks
• +10 resistance to Mental abnormal state / +10 chance to inflict Mental abnormal state
• +0.23 MP recharge power

Wearable in either ring slot, so you can stack two if your CC manages to kill Beleth twice and you keep both rings.

Boss-room door

The boss-room door does not auto-close on Elpy kill — it stays accessible so a chase CC still has a window to enter the spore challenge. This is intentional: on retail the door slamming shut killed off chase mechanics entirely.

10Cheat sheet