It appears the Ardent Mages faction quest "Ancient Paths" part 2 is bugged. Upon searching the ruins I get the usual quest pop-up about being ambushed and that I need to defeat the army ... but no army spawns. Tried reloading a savefile, same outcome. Tried going to the other ruin first to see if searching it changes the outcome, but after that one obviously turned out empty and I walked all the way back again, same deal: ambush message and no army.

I've played the Ardent Mages only a handful times but never finished a playthrough (getting distracted by other shinies/games and then when I come back to Endless Legend I don't pick up incomplete games ...) but I do seem to recall that when I got to that part of the faction quest, the combat has always been imminent and I'd really hate to have to abandon this playthrough because I lucked out with regions near my spawn having positively preposterous amounts of anomalies.

Anyhow, if this is indeed a bug, does anyone know about it? I presume that if the quest army that's supposed to ambush me never spawned, it might make the entire faction quest unfinishable, or if it perhaps spawned elsewhere randomly on the map (I have waited a bunch of turns and searched the region but didn't find any army ...), it getting defeated by someone else might equally break the questline entirely.

Alternatively, if this isn#t something to be particularily worried about and just a variant of the quest spawns that I haven't experienced yet, a clarification would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

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A small update to this thread after people over at the Endless Legend subreddit answered to my topic there: the ruin that triggers the quest is located in a region that hosts Magtay villages and I've been told that minor faction is a wee bit problematic due to a troubled implementation in the game. Have been advised to apply the community patch. If the ELCP isn't going to cause compatibility issues and actually fixes the issue (or if not), I will update again.

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ELCP applied, issue solved.