Pickpocket the Priestess and the Ambassador | Mission 3 - Diplomacy Styx: Shards of Darkness Guide

In this task, you have complete freedom as to the order of execution of the mission goals. Note (which the tutorial will also inform you about), that in this location there are armoured opponents: you cannot kill them with the dagger and you cannot move their bodies. You are left with traps as a way of killing them, and acid as a way of disposing of the bodies.

• The Priestess
• Ambassador Olaf

The Priestess

After the start of the task walk up to the gate in front and listen, the marker is about to show you the location of the ambassador, whom you can rob. You will do this shortly, however, for now go along the rope towards the emblem. Do not jump down, but grab the top edge. Use it to move to the left, to the stairs and circle around the square, then climb over the wall.

Use the rope from the walls around the square to reach the roof of the altar

The last section of the wall is connected with a rope to the altar in the middle. There you will notice that the emblem is being held by a priestess, so you have to pickpocket her (of course only after you finish the conversation). It is worth using a glass bottle to distract her. After this audacious theft return back to the wall (the altar has handles on the outside, which will allow you to climb up to its roof), from where you can safely head out to the next locations.

Ambassador Olaf

The roof of the building with the tower is a safe position to jump onto the stone stairs below you, at the entrance to the baths. The safest approach, if you can pull it off, is to land by grabbing onto the railing (you will not cause any noise). From the top you can also push off the barrel - to kill the knight, or just to cause confusion...

Afterwards, go over to a position above Ambassador Olaf. Again, you have two options: either wait for the right moment, when neither of the two knights looks your way or use a bottle to cause a distraction or extinguish the torch on one of the pillars. After the theft you should hide on the outside of the railing and wait for the opportune moment to flee. If you have watched the cutscenes carefully, you have certainly noticed that Helledryn asked that he would also be executed for being a deserter. You do not have to do this - you will not be additionally rewarded for it.