Aaron's puzzled because you're still sticking around in the mansion. In an attempt to make you flee once and for all, Aaron changes forms and chases you through the dark halls.

Use the shield to protect yourself from Aaron. Go up the stairs behind him - then right, left, and another right into the next section. Run past the couch through the doors ahead. Eventually, you'll come to the mirror where you found the dispel scroll. Turn left at the mirror and head into the lounge. Go right, another right and then left to a butler. Approach the butler for information on Aaron; he hands you the workroom key.

Objective: Find a Way Into Aaron's Studio

Open the door to the left (which uses the workroom key) and then go through the next door outside. Push the rightmost statue off; drop off and go where the statue landed. The fallen statue creates an entrance. Grab the arcane whorl to the left. Go right and explore the left and right door for ammunition (use the scrye spell for light). Go through the door in front and peek through the hole in the wall to spot a chained body - this is Aaron's body.

Push off this statue to open a path that leads to some inventory items.

Return outside, climb the ladder to the left, and go back onto the balcony. Use the ladder on the right to ascend even higher. Use haste and jump to the roof with the open window across from your current location. You're now inside Aaron's studio. Grab the dynamite and the Molotov cocktails here as well as the book called Aaron's Journal. Descend the ladder and confront Aaron.

Aaron completes his painting - a drawing of a giant beast behind you - turn around, activate shield, and defeat the gigantic beast with the Tibetan war cannon or shotgun. After defeating the beast, grab the key that drops from the painting - it's marked "Bethany's gate key." You can also get the mana well in the painting's heart by leaping from the higher balcony.

Descend the ladder and speak with Aaron.

Exit via the door downstairs. Grab the health packs, go right, and then out. Go right and find the iron gate, which leads out of the courtyard. Go left until you reach the large wooden gate. Exit this gate with Bethany's gate key. Go left at the fork to the small cottage.

Once you're inside the cottage, go right, cast scrye, and notice the apparition fiddling with the boards in the corner. Use the dynamite in the room on these boards. Pick up the objects underneath - Aaron's key and Aaron's jaw.

Objective: Reunite Aaron's Jaw With His Body and Search for Clues in Aaron's Room

This vision of Bethany is a clue to acquiring two important inventory items.

Go up the stairs and right out of the room. Go left, and you'll notice the health pack across the crumbling room. Use haste to make the jump. You may have noticed many howlers approaching. Take your time in defeating them by using the Tibetan war cannon or scythe to conserve ammunition. You can get an amplifier from the room on the right by going out onto the balcony and using the open window.

Exit Bethany's cottage and start home. Go forward into the area with the plants for extra ammunition and health packs. Return to the manor and defeat the Mon'to-shonoi along the way. At the manor, go left and then right into the open door to return inside the kitchen and dining area.

Walk into the kitchen, and Aaron greets you again. Grab the health pack to the left. Exit through the left door and take the first door up the stairs. Exit to the right and then go left up the stairs (you're back at the mirror). Go down the hallway to the right until you reach a door on your left. Enter with Aaron's room key.

Grab the health pack and Bethany's room key. Grab the Molotov cocktails from the table. At some point, the doors burst open, and a supernatural wind attempts to pull you out. Resist leaving the room by moving to the left or right of the open doors. Once the disturbance is gone, exit the room.

Objective: Search Bethany's Room for Clues About Aaron

Go left until you enter the next section. Go left to the door marked the "B." Kill the Mon'to-shonoi guard and enter with Bethany's room key. You can use scrye in this room to hear strange drums. Grab Bethany's journal from the table and face some sort of tribal warrior. To defeat him, cast shield and turn around whenever the warrior disappears. Use the scythe to defeat him; make sure you're facing him, though, or he'll attack your rear flank, which is where the shield isn't protecting you.

Go through the open passage left from the exit. Descend the ladder and go forward - then make a right toward the body in chains - it's Aaron's body. Approach, and you automatically place Aaron's jaw back in his body.

Objective: Kill Aaron

Placing Aaron's jaw in Aaron's chained body begins the boss battle.

The battle with Aaron seems complicated, but it's actually rather simple. Attack him with the scythe and cut off a limb. Continue to activate your shield and hack away at any extended limb until your scythe slices one off. At this point, Aaron heads to the center of the room to use his chain attack. When he does, stand behind and just to the left (very minor step to the left) of one of the four hanging chains in the room. Your goal is to get Aaron's chain attack stuck on one of the hanging chains. Once Aaron is stuck, run to his body and decapitate him with the scythe. You have one last task to complete - then you're automatically sent on this quest after a rather unusual cutscene.
 

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