Delves: all about rooms and plans

Mirrored Halls (Glacial Peaks)

One of delves with plenty of treasure rooms and high level plain rooms.

Faction title: Palace of the Mirror Queen
Faction map name: Halls of Reflection
Start room: Mirrored Chamber
Finish room: Mirrored Throne
Faction info: The Mirror Queen lives here with her servants, quietly reflecting upon her own beauty.
Added: 8th November 2019

GoWDB link: http://gowdb.com/kingdoms/3062
Faction weapon (Mirror Orb): http://gowdb.com/weapons/1287
Faction pet (Mirror Mimic): http://gowdb.com/pets/13125

Simple plan with evident passes between rooms. Always 4 treasures, which may vary from “II - II - II - III” to “IV - IV - V - V”.

One of “uniform” factions: more Fey for Glacial Peaks.

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Duergaroth (Karakoth)

Another delve with 4 treasure rooms.

Faction title: Servants of Nyar’Mel
Faction map name: Nyar’Mel’s Depths
Start room: Deep Cavern
Finish room: Deep Throne
Faction info: These once-proud deep dwarves have been conquered and controlled by the Daemon, Nyar’Mel.
Added: 5th February 2021

GoWDB link: http://gowdb.com/kingdoms/3046
Faction weapon (Memories of Stone): http://gowdb.com/weapons/1365
Faction pet (Mephisquideles): http://gowdb.com/pets/13154

Like in Mirrored Halls, treasure rooms vary from “II - II - II - III” to “IV - IV - V - V”.

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Tinker Town (Adana)

A delve with 3 firm treasure rooms.

Faction title: Where Tinker Dwarves Dwell
Faction map name: Steamwhistle’s Workshop
Start room: Factory Entrance
Finish room: The Master Forge
Faction info: Tink Steamwhistle, the most revered ancestor of the Tinker Dwarves, has built a huge mechanical city here (and gone mad).
Added: 28th August 2020

GoWDB link: http://gowdb.com/kingdoms/3045
Faction weapon (Tinker’s Buzzblade): http://gowdb.com/weapons/1370
Faction pet (Pet-o-bot): http://gowdb.com/pets/13145

Like in City of Thieves, treasure rooms vary from “II - II - II” to “IV - V - V”.

One of “uniform” factions: more Mech for Adana.

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Depths of Sin (Sin of Maraj)

Faction title: The Root of All Evil
Faction map name: The Infernal Portal
Start room: Deep Gates
Finish room: Seal of Sin
Faction info: Deep below the underworld portal the Demon Tartarus builds machines of war.
Added: 1st May 2020

GoWDB link: http://gowdb.com/kingdoms/3072
Faction weapon (The Eighth Sin): http://gowdb.com/weapons/1313
Faction pet (Semi Deminaga): http://gowdb.com/pets/13136

Usually, many delves have treasure rooms well protected behind other rooms. City of Thieves was just an exception from this rule.

One of “uniform” factions: more Daemons for Sin of Maraj.

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Fang Moor (Khetar)

Faction title: The Setauri Wetlands
Faction map name: Temple of Set
Start room: Settite Hall
Finish room: Settite Shrine
Faction info: The Setauri are an ancient race, survivors of the fall of Khet.
Added: 1st February 2019

GoWDB link: http://gowdb.com/kingdoms/3050
Faction weapon (Bloodthirsty Axe): http://gowdb.com/weapons/1250
Faction pet (Rattlebone): http://gowdb.com/pets/13107

A delve with long pass, but not bad treasures in the end. In a very rare situation both rooms V may be treasures, but I never saw such a thing (on the other hand, I don’t do this delve often).

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Illithia (Dhrak-Zum)

Faction title: Servants of the Hive Mind
Faction map name: Illithian Temple
Start room: Illithian Cortex
Finish room: Mind Palace
Faction info: A surprisingly advanced race of creatures, all controlled by the malicious Hive Mind.
Added: 24th July 2020

GoWDB link: http://gowdb.com/kingdoms/3071
Faction weapon (Forbidden Tome): http://gowdb.com/weapons/1352
Faction pet (Hamsterthalamus): http://gowdb.com/pets/13141

A delve with a user-friendly plan, so to say. If you make this delve many times, you see that any room may be treasure, but I saw maximum 3 treasure rooms at once here. Maybe it can be 4 or even 5, but it’s very rare events. I suspect that each treasure room lowers chances for other occasional treasures to become actual treasures.

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Lyrasza’s Lair (Shentang)

Faction title: Tower of the Mad Mage
Faction map name: Mad Mage’s Tower
Start room: Lyrasza’s Descent
Finish room: Lyrasza’s Sanctum
Faction info: Deep within the Underworld a mad mage was imprisoned in a broken tower.
Added: 21st February 2020

GoWDB link: http://gowdb.com/kingdoms/3070
Faction weapon (Staff of Insanity): http://gowdb.com/weapons/1296
Faction pet (Sad Panda): http://gowdb.com/pets/13100

Another delve with 7 occasional treasure rooms, and somewhat user-friendly plan too, but not too evident (like Illithia). We see 4 lines of rooms here:

  • 1st line - Start
  • 2nd line - II and III rooms
  • 3rd line - IV and V rooms
  • 4th line - Finish

Any room passed in the 2nd line opens you access to the 3rd line. I didn’t draw 12 arrows to show all variants, I just collected 3 arrows from 2nd line rooms into a fictitious “dot”, and 4 arrows to 3rd line rooms start from this “dot”. That’s how this delve works. You may choose any of 12 paths to make a short run through it.

Again, all 7 rooms may be treasures, but, like in Illithia, I saw maximum 3 of them to be actual treasures at once.

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Silver Necropolis (Silverglade)

Faction title: The High Elven Tombs
Faction map name: The Silver Crypts
Start room: Preparation Room
Finish room: Vanya’s Crypt
Faction info: The haunted tomb of Archmage Vanya Soulmourn was thought lost for thousands of years.
Added: 12th April 2019

GoWDB link: http://gowdb.com/kingdoms/3066
Faction weapon (Life and Death): http://gowdb.com/weapons/1252
Faction pet (Bonicorn): http://gowdb.com/pets/13116

Sometimes you’ll see treasures in northern and southern rooms, but I never saw them both as actual treasures in one delve.

Mark this faction’s weapon: “Life & Death” is very popular with Orbweaver hero class.

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Werewoods (Urskaya)

Faction title: The Forest of Shapeshifters
Faction map name: Lair of the Beastmaster
Start room: Beast Mouth Cavern
Finish room: Beastmaster’s Den
Faction info: These woods are overrun by creatures fiercely loyal to the Beastmaster, who can change shape into any of his subjects.
Added: 17th January 2020

GoWDB link: http://gowdb.com/kingdoms/3068
Faction weapon (Beastly Claw): http://gowdb.com/weapons/1295
Faction pet (Sir Ted): http://gowdb.com/pets/13127

Well-hidden treasure room here.

Beastmaster Torbern is a useful troop from this faction.

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Hall of Guardians (Whitehelm)

Faction title: Protectors of Ancient Wisdom
Faction map name: Guardian Chambers
Start room: Guardian Hall
Finish room: Guardian Tomb
Faction info: It is said that Gaard himself created these halls to protect a sacred tome.
Added: 5th September 2019

GoWDB link: http://gowdb.com/kingdoms/3042
Faction weapon (Guardian Crown): http://gowdb.com/weapons/1223
Faction pet (Tiny Dancer): http://gowdb.com/pets/13060

One of very first delves, no firm treasure rooms and only 1 occasional.

Gargoyle and Silent Sentinel are good troops from this faction. Faction weapon is useful as well.

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Fell Roost (Blighted Lands)

Faction title: The Lair of Corrupted Dragons
Faction map name: Caverns of Nocturnia
Start room: Fell Chamber
Finish room: Fell Queen’s Nest
Faction info: Corrupted by Daemons long ago, the Fell Dragons sought out a home in the Underworld.
Added: 5th June 2020

GoWDB link: http://gowdb.com/kingdoms/3061
Faction weapon (Fell Ward): http://gowdb.com/weapons/1317
Faction pet (Dark Helmut): http://gowdb.com/pets/13137

The only faction with side-viewed delve (all other plans are top-viewed). About occasional treasures: I often saw at least 1 of these 3 rooms as an actual treasure.

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The Deep Hive (Drifting Sands)

Faction title: The Hornet’s Nest
Faction map name: The Hive
Start room: The Honeycomb
Finish room: Queen’s Chamber
Faction info: This is the last surviving hive of the insectfolk of the Drifting Sands, buried long ago in the Underworld.
Added: 27th March 2020

GoWDB link: http://gowdb.com/kingdoms/3060
Faction weapon (Honeydipper): http://gowdb.com/weapons/1310
Faction pet (Miniskito): http://gowdb.com/pets/13053

Again, 3 occasional treasures, and 1 of them may not very rarely be actual one, like in Fell Roost.

Queen Beetrix is a useful troop from this faction.

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The Warrens (Pan’s Vale)

Faction title: The Lapina Burrows
Faction map name: The Great Warren
Start room: The Burrows
Finish room: The Deep Burrows
Faction info: A faction of Krystara’s rabbit-folk live here in the dark burrows of the Underworld.
Added: 28th December 2018

GoWDB link: http://gowdb.com/kingdoms/3052
Faction weapon (Garland Staff): http://gowdb.com/weapons/1239
Faction pet (Hare-o-Plane): http://gowdb.com/pets/13106

It’s the only delve so far where you need to pass through a treasure room while fighting to finish.

Luna and Trickster are good troops from this faction.

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Amanithrax (Zaejin)

Faction title: The Mushroom Fields
Faction map name: The Mushroom Forest
Start room: Fungi Garden
Finish room: Shroom Throne
Faction info: A group of sentient fungi live here, herded for food by a strange race of Goblins.
Added: 26th July 2019

GoWDB link: Amanithrax - Kingdoms - Gems of War Database
Faction weapon (Tome of Spores): http://gowdb.com/weapons/1274
Faction pet (Frog Prince): http://gowdb.com/pets/13042

Paths are barely visible here. And you’ll see 3 treasure rooms here very seldom. (Updated on 22nd October '21: one treasure room became a plain Legendary room some time ago.)

King Gobtruffle is a useful troop from here.

One of “uniform” factions, where King Gobtruffle fights very well with fellow goblins from Zaejin. And recent addition of Fundigus strengthens Zaejin-Amanithrax connection.

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You put a lot of work into this. Thanks.

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thank you for this work and i agree: i also saw five treasure rooms in CoT only twice (not once, lol), so this will rarely happen.

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All-Seeing Eye (Darkstone)

Faction title: The Ocularen Temple
Faction map name: Temple of the Eye
Start room: Hall of Many Eyes
Finish room: Ocularen Temple
Faction info: Once sentinels of the Old Gods, this temple is all that remains of the Ocularen.
Added: 5th September 2018

GoWDB link: http://gowdb.com/kingdoms/3039
Faction weapon (Jar of Eyes): http://gowdb.com/weapons/1222
Faction pet (Eye Pod): Eye Pod - Pets - Gems of War Database

The first delve in the game - and the worst for delving. Yes, it has 8 rooms only, and not even one firm treasure room. I hope the devs won’t do anything like it in future.

Mark faction troops and faction weapon though, they are useful. Darkstone has another weapon ( Chalice of Eyes - http://gowdb.com/weapons/1351 ) which summons faction troops.

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Sunken Fleet (Bright Forest)

Faction title: Wreckage of the Maraji Fleet
Faction map name: The Maraji Queen
Start room: Broken Barge
Finish room: Maraji Queen
Faction info: In ages past, the Summer Queen defeated the fleet of Al-Maraj, banishing them to the Underworld.
Added: 17th May 2019

GoWDB link: http://gowdb.com/kingdoms/3069
Faction weapon (Last Harbor): http://gowdb.com/weapons/1272
Faction pet (Minnow): http://gowdb.com/pets/13073

The most interesting faction, not very profitable, but curious by design. There are 3 occasional treasures and 1 firm treasure room, but the funny part is in the center.

“O” are 2 plain Ocean rooms (I took it from TimeKnight’s explorations) in the main path, each of them can be one of the following 5:

  • Smuggler’s Den (II)
  • Dark Wave Pool (III)
  • Coral Cave (IV)
  • Drowned Grotto (V)
  • Murky Deep (V)

Yes, there are also some treasure rooms with Ocean theme, but they do not appear here. So the easiest path will be “II - III” or “III - II”, and the hardest - “V - V”.

And one plain “N” room is “Naga”, it can be one of the following 3:

  • Slither Pit (III)
  • Scaled Court (IV)
  • Viper Nest (IV)

It’s the only faction with themed rooms, and I wonder why the devs didn’t make others. If you examine list of rooms closely, you’ll see many other themes: “Monsters”, “Undead”, 'Fire", “Ice”, “Goblins”, “Dragons”…

Mark also faction troops: “The Maraji Queen” and “Drowned Sailor” are very useful.

(Thanks to @TimeKnight and @CaptainBuckles for exploration of this faction.)

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Wild Court (Divinion Fields)

Faction title: Riders of the Wild Hunt
Faction map name: Feywild Forest
Start room: The Wild Glade
Finish room: Hunter’s Court
Faction info: Every year, the Fey of the Wild Hunt embark on a quest to hunt down any prey they find.
Added: 4th October 2019

GoWDB link: http://gowdb.com/kingdoms/3048
Faction weapon (Wild Hunter): http://gowdb.com/weapons/1286
Faction pet (Minirino): http://gowdb.com/pets/13036

Another faction full of treasures (but with not easy treasure collecting). Like in the City of Thieves, you can see different treasure rooms’ levels - from “II - II - II” to “IV - V - V”. All non-treasure rooms are plain as far as I could explore.

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Crypt Keepers (Sword’s Edge)

Faction title: Tomb of the Forgotten Knights
Faction map name: Ancient Crypt
Start room: Keeper’s Hall
Finish room: Deep Crypt
Faction info: Long ago, a group of Knights saved Sword’s Edge, but their tomb was never found.
Added: 14th September 2018

GoWDB link: http://gowdb.com/kingdoms/3040
Faction weapon (Secrets of the Crypt): http://gowdb.com/weapons/1224
Faction pet (Minito Mori): http://gowdb.com/pets/13103

A simple faction with not very difficult rooms. Mark this faction’s weapon, it’s rather useful. And Grave Seer is a useful troop from this faction.

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