The Head of the Snake

Caudecus Beetlestone's depraved White Mantle faction continues its efforts to bring Kryta to heel. Her Royal Majesty, Queen Jennah of Kryta, requests your presence in Divinity's Reach—help her root out corruption in the Ministry before crisis strikes. — Official website

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Caudecus Beetlestone's depraved White Mantle faction continues its efforts to bring Kryta to heel. Her Royal Majesty, Queen Jennah of Kryta, requests your presence in Divinity's Reach—help her root out corruption in the Ministry before crisis strikes.

— Official website

The Head of the Snake is a release that launched on February 8, 2017, and is the fourth episode in Season 3 of the Living World.

Features

Living World Season 3

Episode 4 – The Head of the Snake

• A Meeting of Ministers
• Eyes on Lake Doric
• Sabotage Fort Evennia
• Breaking the Siege
• Regrouping with the Queen
• Confessor's End

New Achievements

•  The Head of the Snake
•  Daily Lake Doric
•  Bastion of the Penitent

Meta achievements were also added or made available again for all existing Structured PvP maps.

New Raid

• Bastion of the Penitent

New Zone

• Lake Doric

New Mastery

• Spectral Aid

New Rewards

Legendary Weapon

• The HMS Divinity

Items

• Lake Doric Portal Scroll
• Noran's Safe Room Pass
• Jade Fragment Node
• Jade Shard
• Tribute to the Man o' War
• Endless Miniature Tonic
• Sentient Oddity
• Visionary Inscription

Equipment

• Bloodstone Savant's Staff
• Confessor Caudecus's Mask
• Seraph Protector
• White Mantle Elite Guard Mask

Ascended Equipment

• Assaulter's Arbiter Greatbow
• Assaulter's Axe of the Unseen
• Assaulter's Burden
• Assaulter's Demon Gavel
• Assaulter's Demon Virge
• Assaulter's Indomitable Gladius
• Assaulter's Indomitable Pistol
• Assaulter's Spire of Samarog
• Assaulter's Treasured Bough
• Assaulter's Watchkeeper Trophy Bow
• Assaulter's Watchkeeper Trophy Warhorn
• Jade Pendant
• White Mantle Scroll

Minis

• Mini Cairn the Indomitable
• Mini Captive Canach
• Mini Convalescent Logan
• Mini Eye of Janthir
• Mini Ghostly Cat
• Mini Fire Tornado
• Mini Lady Valette Wi
• Mini Mursaat Overseer
• Mini Ragged White Mantle Figurehead
• Mini Samarog
• Mini White Mantle Battle Mage
• Mini White Mantle Figurehead

Food

• Magic-Imbued Peach
• Saffron Mussels
• Lake Doric Mussels

Reward Tracks (sPvP and WvW)

• Lake Doric Reward Track

Stat Combination

• Seraph attribute combination (and the corresponding Thackeray ascended prefix)

Lore Books

• Caudecus's Correspondence (Incomplete)
• E's Correspondence

Content Updates

Fractals of the Mists

• Thaumanova Reactor Fractal has been revamped

New Guild Hall Features

• New Decorations
  • Raid Boss Pieces
    • Cairn the Indomitable Shard
    • Fragment of Saul's Burden
    • Impaled Prisoner
    • Rec Room Floor Tile
  • Raid Boss Trophies
    • Bronze Cairn the Indomitable Trophy
    • Silver Cairn the Indomitable Trophy
    • Gold Cairn the Indomitable Trophy
    • Bronze Deimos Trophy
    • Silver Deimos Trophy
    • Gold Deimos Trophy
    • Bronze Mursaat Overseer Trophy
    • Silver Mursaat Overseer Trophy
    • Gold Mursaat Overseer Trophy
    • Bronze Samarog Trophy
    • Silver Samarog Trophy
    • Gold Samarog Trophy
  • Miscellaneous
    • A Day in Kryta
    • Beetletun Statue Fragments
    • Chandelier
    • Fancy Urn
    • Lynx Statue
    • Mounted Dolyak Head
    • Plush Rug
    • Portrait of Caudecus
    • Portrait of Logan Thackeray
    • Streets of Divinity's Reach
    • The Heart of the Priory

Gem Store

• Devoted weapon skins
• Necrotic Glider

Gallery

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Soundtrack

Season 3 Ep. 4 - The Head of the Snake
Track	Title	Length	Composer	Download
1	Demmi's Theme	0:50	Maclaine Diemer	SoundCloud
2	Encounter with the White Mantle	1:24	Maclaine Diemer	SoundCloud

Trivia

The original release date for The Head of the Snake was February 7, 2017, but was delayed due to a power outage at ArenaNet caused by a snowstorm.

External links

• Official release page
• Watch the Trailer for The Head of the Snake
• The Head of the Snake trailer on YouTube

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Living World Season 3 story releases

Out of the Shadows Rising Flames A Crack in the Ice The Head of the Snake Flashpoint One Path Ends