Editing The Battleground

{{LocationInfobox|type=Dungeon|game="[[Dragon Quest XI]]"}}

'''The Battleground''' is a dungeon in the second act of [[Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age|''Dragon Quest XI'']]. It's a floating island consisting mostly of grayish rock, and old ruins of the [[watchers]] civilization. 

The entrance of the dungeon is covered by an impassable mist unless the Luminary has previously collected the [[Guiding Light]].


== Story ==
The Luminary and his party make landfall on the Battleground in search of a legendary ore to create a new [[Sword of Light]]. They find the Island completely impassable due to a purple mist shrouding the area. Lighting the Pillar in front of the entrance with the [[Guiding Light]] allows them to enter the dungeon. Throughout the dungeon they come across multiple stone tablets with inscriptions, left by the Watchers who lived there long ago. The tablets reveal, that a terrible battle took place there as the watchers fought to protect the ore from the servants of the "dark one". At the end of the dungeon the party enters the "Overlooked Cavern" and finds a lone piece of ore remaining. Erik recognized the ore as [[Orichalcum]] and excitedly suggests to sell it before realizing the greater purpose it has to serve.

== Watcher Inscriptions ==

==== First Tablet: ====
'WATCHERS FLOAT ABOVE WORLD. WATCH. PROTECT. THIS ISLAND IS HOME. HERE FROM BEGINNING.

'NOT JUST HOME TO WATCHERS. HOME TO ORE. SPECIAL ORE. ORE TO BANISH DARKNESS.'

==== Second Tablet: ====
'ISLAND NOT JUST HOME TO WATCHERS. HOME TO ORE. SPECIAL ORE. ORE TO BANISH DARKNESS.

'ORE MAKES SPECIAL WEAPON. WEAPON TO RESTORE HOPE. WEAPON TO SAVE ALL ERDREA.'

==== Third Tablet: ====
'THEY CAME. MONSTERS SERVING DARK ONE. CAME TO STEAL ORE. FIERCE BATTLE.

'WATCHERS FOUGHT MONSTERS. MUCH BLOODSHED. MUCH SACRIFICE.

'PEACEFUL LAND RUINED. NOW KNOWN ONLY AS BATTLEGROUND.'

==== Fourth Tablet: ====
'ERDREA WAS AT PEACE. BUT THEN DISASTER. DARK ONE CAME. HOPE TURNED TO DESPAIR.

'ONLY LUMINARY CAN DEFEAT HIM. AND ONLY WITH SWORD. SWORD OF PRECIOUS ORE.'

== Notable Attributes ==
{{LocationAttr|save}}
{{LocationAttr|other|image=DQXI Camp icon.png|text=This is a location where the party can set up camp for the night.}}

== Treasures ==
{{Stub}}

== Sparkly Spots ==


== Monsters ==
'''Act 2:'''
{{Stub}}
'''Act 3:'''

* [[Metal king slime|Metal King Slime]]
* [[Armful|Malicious Armful]]
* [[Royal reptile|Royal Reptile]]
* [[Knight abhorrent|Knight Abhorrent]]
* [[Electric needler|Electric Needler]]
* [[Dragooner|Malicious Dragooner]]
* [[Überkilling machine|Überkilling Machine]]
* [[Red mist|Red Mist]]
* [[Wight prince|Malicious Wight Prince]]
* [[Dragon zombie|Malicious Dragon Zombie]]
* [[Crystalotl]]


== Notes ==
{{spoiler|start}}
The ore found at the end of the dungeon is actually an Important Item/Key Item and not the "normal" Orichalcum found in Act 3. In the definitive Edition of Dragon Quest XI the item is instead referred to as rarefied orichalcum to differentiate the two.
{{spoiler|end}}

[[Category:Dragon Quest XI locations]]
__FORCETOC__