How to Complete Age of Excuse Quest in Tainted Grail The Fall of Avalon

In the land of Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon,not all quests are grand battles or treasure hunts. Sometimes the greatest journeys are intimately human, wrapped in insanity and sorrow.

Age of Excuse is one such side quest, hidden along the periphery of King’s Road, where paranoia and superstition merge in the delicate mind of a cursed knight. If you’re looking to snag Soulstone, and some extra XP too (900 to be exact), this brief yet multi-faceted side quest is definitely worth the diversion.

A Knight Under a Bridge

The adventure starts in a location that wouldn’t be out of place in a Shakespearean comedy—beneath a bridge, where you’ll discover Berach, a knight convinced he’s cursed.

His circumstances seem desperate. His horse shot, his equipment abandoned or stolen, and he has just escaped death at the hands of a crashing boulder. Convinced he’s being pursued by bad luck or maybe something worse, Berach is in a race against time.

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So, if you find yourself in conversation with Berach, watch your moves.

He’s volatile and deal with him the right way and a deep conversation with your child could turn into a brawl. Choose to empathize and be curious: express concern, inquire about the curse, and offer to help without condemnation.

In Search of the Druid’s Wisdom

Your next stop is the elusive Druid Drest, who lives at a shrine southwest of the Horns of the South. Reaching him takes some adventure of its own—traveling south down the coastline, then west until you uncover a fog-draped cliffside hideaway, where the man himself awaits.

To say that Drest is an eccentric character is an understatement. His clarity of vision slices through the haze of Berach’s ill luck. As the druid explains, there is no curse—just the knight’s growing madness.

He suggests a way forward: an anti-racist ritual of the making of what he calls the “Disgusting Potion.”It’s easy enough to make the potion if you have at least a little alchemical expertise, and its real magic is in the con—it’s a placebo potent enough to fool Berach into thinking the curse is gone.

Two Paths: Belief or Brutality

When you return to Berach with the potion, you encounter a moral dilemma. You can try and help him find the truth, assuring him that he’s not cursed. Attempt it, and his paranoia reaches a breaking point. He turns on you in a furious fit. If you kill him, the quest fails.Or just provide the potion to him and enact the ritual fake-out. He’s convinced it worked. Fear is replaced by relief, and the quest ends on a high note with some sweet bonuses: 900 XP and a rare Soulstone!

More than simple filler content, Age of Excuse is going to come as a refreshing change of pace.

It is a gentle jab at the power of faith which walks the line between reality and madness. Triggered along with the rest of Avalon by the aftershocks of environmental disaster and trauma, Berach’s fragile mental state is both a symptom of and a response to the greater decay of Avalon — a world where magic, madness, and myth intermingle with abandon.When you complete the quest, you’re not just rewarded with some loot—you’re participating in the telling of a story. One in which intimacy eclipses indignation, and where confrontation is about healing rather than hurting. In the dark, mysterious realm of Tainted Grail, that’s an exceptional delight to be celebrated.