Haluk wants requested the Freelancer’s help to build a Dawn Shield to silence the Cenotaph. The Freelancer has decided to gather resources and support from allies to help him.
After becoming Matthias’ savior, the Arcanist is ready to provide any assistance he can to the Freelancer. Matthias has discovered an interesting Shaper relic while continuing his studies of the Elysian Manuscript, which may help improve the Freelancer’s javelin.
Hints and Suggestions
- The dialog exchange between the characters will change depending on whether single player or multiplayer mode is played.
- Remember to perform Feats to obtain XP for increasing Pilot Level and receiving Alliance bonus.
- This particular expedition may have a video walkthrough after the Cortex Entry section for documentation.
- Make sure to read the text pop ups that show up with the icon
. This can be easily done using a Sniper Rifle and zooming in near the icon. - Use
Acid, 
Armor Buster, or 
Fire type damage to tackle Dominion Brutes or Turrets. - Use Ice or Lightning or Shield Breaker damages to deplete any shields of enemies.
- Set the Dominion Valkyries on burning status by doing Fire damage to them and disable their flight until the status wears off.
- Avoid staying near defeated elite type Dominion Shocktroopers, because they drop loose death rattle grenades after their health is depleted, which self explode in a matter of seconds to do massive Lightning Blast damage.
- The Frost Hounds are very vulnerable to fire attack.
- It is also recommended to make use of any explosives scattered across the map during combat when in need.
- Starting from a second playthrough, if Crafting Blueprints are unlocked, it is possible to craft combat equipment to improve the health and damage output of the Freelancer's javelins.
Objectives
Triple Threat
Find the Manifold
Launch Expedition
Travel to Shaper Ruin
Explore Shaper Ruin
Search for Clues
Learn to use the Dominion Lock-breaker
Locate Dominion
Defeat Dominion
Search for Dominion Intel
Recover Signets to Access the Dominion Lock-breaker.
Travel to First Dominion Camp
Destroy Turrets
Defeat Dominion
Travel to Second Dominion Camp
Eliminate Dominion
Decrypting
Recover the Manifold from the Inner Chamber
Return to Manifold Chamber
Activate Dominion Device
Defeat Dominion Trio
Pick Up Manifold
Deactivate Barrier
Pick Up Manifold
These are the locations where the Freelancer begins the expedition, has to perform tasks to advance, and conclude the expedition.
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Cortex Entry
The Cortex Entry shows the description and the outcome of the expedition.
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Outcome: The Manifold was retrieved. |
For a Collection of similar Cortex Entries, See: Critical Objective (Journal) |
Video Walkthrough
Video guides are added for convenience and documentation of 
Anthem. These guides show almost all possible incidents that may occur during each playthrough of this particular expedition.
The below video is on rotation. The cycle repeats after 4 days. The type of javelin used, the voice of the Freelancer, and any possible season changes during each rotation. If any Cypher Annotations are found, they are mentioned in the video’s description. Not all such annotations are in one video, but all 4 videos will make up for each other’s shortcomings, if any.
Quest Chain
This expedition is a part of the Triple Threat Storyline. When the storyline is completed, an appropriate challenge is also completed, which will reward the Freelancer. The following are the related quests in order for this storyline:
Trivia (May Contain Spoilers)
- This mission makes use of a Hidden Place called The Well.
- This mission was first made available during Anthem’s VIP demo, and then the public demo, before launch.
- The game files and pre-release naming conventions call this mission as “Manifold.”
- The text popup near the closed door, on the device reads:
- The object seems mostly deactivated, though low power levels can be detected. It might be some kind of lock-cracking tool.
- The second text pop-up on the dead soldier reads:
- Burns at contact points suggest fatal electrical injury. Probably due to tampering with Shaper relics.
- The dead Dominion Soldier corpse is that of a Dominion Shocktrooper.
- The same pattern and colors on the corpse can be seen if light is flashed on it.
- She is confirmed to be female by the Dominion Archive.
- The device used to open the Shaper door is the same one used by The Monitor in Return to the Heart of Rage to open the door to reach the Cenotaph. The device’s design is the same as well. This door was then made to be guarded by two Furies: Keeper and Hoarder.
- The 3 Dominion Valkyries encountered in the Manifold Chamber have a different elemental typing: Ash, Frost, and Storm. What is interesting about this is that the Valkyrie was likely an Elementalist, who was split into three by the Manifold.
- The color matching puzzle plays a different tone of hum for each of the different colored symbols in it.
- The switch used by the Freelancer to turn the Manifold on uses the same design as the one used by Owen in the mission The Fortress of Dawn (Mission).
- The three Matthiases wear their scarfs differently, which hlelps distinguish them.
- Matthias-1 is Matti, Matthias-2 is Sumner, and Matthias-3 is Erryl.
Below is the Script and Walkthrough for Triple Threat (Mission):
Briefing
The Freelancer visits Matthias in Matthias Lab.
- The Freelancer: "What have you been up to?"
- Matthias: "You’ll love it. It’s called… “the Manifold.” Well technically, I call it the Manifold."
- The Freelancer: "And it does what exactly?"
- Matthias: "For years, I’d heard of a Shaper relic that was able to amplify and augment the qualities of other objects. Never encountered one. Never knew anyone that had. But thanks to the Elysian Manuscript, I think I know where one is. Right here. In Bastion."
- The Freelancer: "And you think it’ll amplify and augment the power of my javelin."
- Matthias: "Precisely! Excited yet?"
- The Freelancer: "Ah…"
- Matthias: "Not to worry—once we find the Manifold and get it working, you will be. Guaranteed. Firs we find the Manifold. Then we boost your javelin. You silence the “Heart of Rage” and boom! Everyone lives happily ever after."
- The Freelancer: "It’s a little more complicated than that…"
- Matthias: "Eh. Details. I’ve sent all the particulars of the location to Matthias. I can’t wait."
Find the Manifold for Matthias
The Freelancer prepares for the expedition.
Launch Expedition
The Freelancer launches the expedition and travels outside the walls.
Briefing Gallery
In Expedition
The Freelancer comes outside of Haluk's Strider in The Bowl.
- Faye: "Alerts about Scar activity keep coming in. Be careful."
Find the Manifold for Matthias
The Freelancer flies to the location given by Faye towards Korox Shallows.
Travel to Shaper Ruins
- Matthias: "So, are we there yet?"
- The Freelancer: "What do you think?"
- Matthias: "Sorry. I can’t help it. I could be the first Arcanist in years—years!—to discover one of these. I’ve been jotting down the potential applications of the Manifold and—"
- Faye: "So how about you focus on that? Quietly?"
The Freelancer reaches The Well.
Explore Shaper Ruin
The Well is quite damp. There is a text pop-up that shows up inside the Well near the entrance. The Freelancer flies further towards a Shaper door.
- The Freelancer: "Ugh. Locked. And there’s this device here…"
- Faye: "Doesn’t look like something Shapers made. I don’t read anything from it."
- The Freelancer: "Seems to be inert. I’ll look around and see if I can figure it out."
- Mysterious Voice: "Who are you? Was another team sent? The relic… the relic… it changed me."
- Faye: "Are you hearing that? Who is that?"
Search for Clues
The Freelancer looks around to see if there is anything which can hint at opening the door. They find a burned corpse of a Dominion soldier and interact with it. There is a text pop-up by the corpse.
- The Freelancer: "Dominion. I should’ve guessed."
- Matthias: "I’ve heard they possess a device that can overwhelm Shaper constructs."
- Faye: "The strange box."
- Matthias: "Could we use it?"
- The Freelancer: "You’d have to know how to activate it."
- Faye: "There’s a Dominion camp close by. Perhaps we’ll find a clue there."
Learn to Use the Dominion Lock-breaker
The Freelancer comes out of the Well.
Locate Dominion
The Freelancer flies to the Dominion camp’s location by flying through Silent Path.
- Matthias: "Why are the Dominion here? How could they have known about—oh."
- The Freelancer: "What did you do?"
- Matthias: "I… ah, sent a message to a colleague at the academy. About what I found."
- Faye: "It was intercepted, then."
The Freelancer reaches The Double Cross and finds the Dominion in their camp.
Eliminate Dominion
The Freelancer fights the Dominion enemies and defeats them.
- Faye: "Good work. Let’s figure out what the Dominion know about the ruin and the Manifold"
- The Freelancer: "I’ll look around for clues"
Search for Dominion Intel
The Freelancer finds a device and interacts with it.
- Faye: "We found some kind of voice recording."
The voice of a woman can be heard through the recording device.
- Dominion Archive: "Forced entry with a version of the Monitor’s device. One trooper entered vault before door shut itself. Commanded to hold until a sweep is completed. Both signets for the device were returned to campus for safekeeping. We have not heard from the trooper inside the ruin."
- The Freelancer: "Two special Dominion signets, then. That’s what we need."
- Faye: "I’ll send you the location of nearby Dominion camps."
Recover Signets to Access the Dominion Lock-breaker
The Freelancer flies to the shown locations.
Travel to First Dominion Camp
The Freelancer reached the Eddian Grove.
Destroy Turrets
The Freelancer destroys the Gauss Turret.
Defeat Dominion
The Freelancer fights Dominion troops and defeats them.
Decrypting
The Freelancer finds the signet and Faye creates a green cypher projection circle to show the range while she decrypts it.
- The Freelancer: "I think one of the signets is in here."
- Faye: "Hang on. The Dominion have secured it. Stand by while I decrypt this."
Several enemies gate in. The Freelancer must remain within the range during the process and defeat enemies while they are at it. If enemies enter the circle, then the scanning process slows down, and the circle becomes pale in color. If the Freelancer steps outside the range, the circle turns orange, and the progress made dwindles. The Freelancer defeats enemies while staying within the range. When the decryption is completed.
- The Freelancer: "That’s one signet. Now find the other."
- Faye: "Sending you the location of another Dominion camp."
Travel to Second Dominion Camp
The Freelancer flies to the second camp located in The Pistons, through Lover's Springs.
Eliminate Dominion
The Freelancer fights more Dominion and defeats them.
Decrypting
The Freelancer finds the second signet and Faye creates another green cypher projection circle to show the range while she decrypts it.
- The Freelancer: "Is there security on this one too?"
- Faye: "I’m starting the decryption."
Several enemies gate in. The Freelancer must remain within the range during the process and defeat enemies while they are at it. If enemies enter the circle, then the scanning process slows down, and the circle becomes pale in color. If the Freelancer steps outside the range, the circle turns orange, and the progress made dwindles. The Freelancer fights the gated in Dominion troops. After decryption is complete,
- The Freelancer: "Got both the signets. Let’s hope this works."
- Faye: "Only one way to find out. Head back to the ruin and try to open that door."
Recover the Manifold from the Inner Chamber
The Freelancer flies towards the Well.
Return to Manifold Chamber
The Freelancer enters the Shaper ruin.
Activate Dominion Device
The Freelancer activates the device by interacting with it. The Shaper door opens.
- Faye: "Stay alert. There’s probably Dominion in here."
Defeat Dominion Trio
The Freelancer goes inside to find three Dominion Valkyries and fights them. The Valkyries fight using Fire, Ice, and Lightning. The erratically behaving trio is finally defeated by the Freelancer. The trip collapses.
- The Freelancer: "They’re down."
- Faye: "Did they seem a little… off-balance to you? Muddled up?"
- The Freelancer: "Now that you mention it…"
- Faye: "Anyway. I don’t sense any other Dominion nearby. You should be locked safely in the chamber."
- Matthias: "Excellent. You can explore in peace."
Pick Up Manifold
The Freelancer tries to reach the Manifold to pick it up, but it is barriered.
- The Freelancer: "The Manifold’s in here. But there’s some kind of barrier around it."
- Matthias: "It’s linked to the entire Shaper structure, for some purpose. You must break the link before the Manifold can be removed."
Deactivate Barrier
The Freelancer must look for a way to deactivate the barrier around the Manifold. There are three puzzles around the structure which when solved, would unlock the barrier. The puzzles require the Freelancer to match the color of the symbols on the vibrating Shaper artifact to that of the same symbol found somewhere around it. When all 3 puzzles are solved, the barrier around the Manifold deactivates
- The Freelancer: "Barrier’s down."
- Matthias: "Be as careful as you can. The Manifold is fragile."
- The Freelancer: "And dangerous."
- Matthias: "Probably that too."
Pick Up Manifold
The Freelancer collects the Manifold.
- The Freelancer: "Got it. On my way back."
- Matthias: "I can’t believe it. We did it. See you soon."
The Freelancer returns to Fort Tarsis.
Post Expedition
The Freelancer walks out of their javelin in the Forge and goes to meet with Matthias with the Manifold
Bring the Manifold to Matthias
The Freelancer takes the relic to Matthias.
Meet with Matthias
When the Freelancer enters Matthias Lab, the Arcanist is hooking up a machinery in the room’s center.
- The Freelancer: "Matthias!"
Matthias gets down from the machine.
- Matthias: "Hello, hello, hello…"
- The Freelancer: "Here’s the Manifold."
The Freelancer hands the Shaper relic to Matthias, which he gladly accepts and begins its examination.
- Matthias: "Ah, interesting. It’s much smaller than expected, eh?"
- The Freelancer: "Mhm."
- Matthias: "Little jolt’s not gonna hurt it. Probably..."
Matthias climbs the Arcanist contraption he had hooked up earlier and places the Manifold on its top. He connects it to something.
- Matthias: "Okay… (Breathes.) Yes (Exhales.) And… this… and… There. Okay… (Breathing.) You hit that switch?"
Matthias climbs down pointing at the switch as the Freelancer collects it by the machinery. Matthias is excited as the Freelancer clicks the switch. But nothing happens.
- Matthias: "Um, uh… hit it again."
The Freelancer clicks the switch. Nothing happens, again.
- The Freelancer: "Is it just me or is nothing happening?"
Matthias smiles and shows his palm to the Freelancer to indicate them to wait. He goes to the machinery and climbs again to check if everything is connected properly.
- Matthias: "Okay, easy, easy, let me see here. Yep, this is here. Yeah, this here… I mean the connections are right. Ah, I know! Ah, there is this, ah, ah, tried and true technique. Never fails to—"
Matthias lifts the Manifold which is still hooked up to the machine and strikes it down on the table. A surge of Shaper Energy fills up the room.
- The Freelancer: "Matthias?"
Other than the one standing on the Arcanist Machinery, there are two other Matthiases manifest behind him. The one on the machine looks at the others
- Matthias-1: "Well, this… is… new. Incredible!"
Matthias-1 tries to touch the second Matthias’ face.
- Matthias-2: "Shove-off, handsy."
Matthias-2 shuns Matthias-1 who backs away. Matthias-3, still on the machine, examines the situation.
- Matthias-3: "What went awry? We struck the Manifold. “Manifold.” Definition: Amplification or… multiplication. Oh…"
- Matthias-1: "(Exhales.) We’ve been multiplied?"
- Matthias-2: "This is total skorp-drop."
Matthias-1 talks about himself, then about Matthias-2 and finally points at Matthias-3.
- Matthias-1: "Wait, wait, wait—this can’t be multiplication. You’re surly, and I’m not, he’s he…"
- Matthias-2: "Cleaved in three is what’s happened."
Matthias-3 steps down from the machine.
- Matthias-3: "Division. Of course. An inverse function of—"
- The Freelancer: "The Manifold divided you?"
- Matthias-2: "(Disgusted noise.) I don’t like this."
- Mathias-3: "Physical multiplication, psychic division."
- Matthias-1: "A personality split three ways!"
Matthias-2 rages and climbs atop the machine to take a look at the Manifold and brings it down.
- Matthias-3: "No, no, no. This is not what the Manifold was supposed to do. We have to fix this."
- The Freelancer: "The Dominion soldiers in the ruin. There were three… do you think the Manifold affected them too?"
All three Matthiases look at the Freelancer.
- Matthias-3: "Three Dominion soldiers? The same soldier?"
- The Freelancer: "I’m not sure."
- Matthias-1: "We have to go check."
- Matthias-3: "Agreed. Any information will help."
- Matthias: "Wait! What are we supposed to do in the meantime?"
- The Freelancer: "Stay out of trouble."
- Matthias-1: "But Trouble’s my middle name!"
- Matthias-3: "No, it’s Erryl."
- Matthias-2: "Guys, focus. Go."
- Matthias-1: "It’s Erryl—you’re right, buddy."
- Matthias-2 (relieved): "Oh."
Notes and Remarks
- This mission can also be done much later, if Mystery of the Emerald Abyss Storyline is being pursued.
- The dialogs in this expedition will always remain the same as mentioned in this script. However, certain conversations may be skipped if actions are performed quickly, or additional conversations will show up if there is a delay.
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