Unbeliever
Learned
The one where you need to get her support? I had problems with that one too.
axedice was kind enough to provide the solution in another thread.
1.I paid Esbenus to attack the outpost and after that he moved to the Arch.
2.You need to give the Spear found in Hellgate to the guy you meet there (forgot his name) and also have the surgical kit from the Library. After you return the spear, you can ask him about the kit. He performs surgery on you and after that you can go to Al Akia and perform the ritual, and you can't do it if you let Meru complete it first. And you need to pass an intelligence and constitution check to survive the ritual.
I paid him to and find him later behind the Arch. I speak with the creature connected with the Arch, too. But when I let him take gold, after outpost atack, I got quest to find aut what happened with his old band which he lose in the Hellgate.
Fuck! I give him spear, I have surgical kit, I told him that I know where Al Akia was, but he insist that he need some sort of medical lab to do the operation.