Shadow of the Mad King
Achievements
Arguably Foodlike
Rewards: 5
and 10 trick-or-treat bags
Eat more than the recommanded intake of candy corn.
Eat 150 pieces of candy corn to complete the achievement.
Shut the doors
Rewards: 5 and 10 trick-or-treat bags
Complete 30 door events in the Mad King's Labyrinth.
Take part of 30 door events which mainly consist in defeating waves of monsters and bosses.
Routing the Rebel Rabble
Rewards: 10 and 10 trick-or-treat bags
Kill 150 of the Lunatic Court Rebels. Or the non-rebels. Just get in there and we'll sort out the teams later.
Kill a total of 150 Halloween enemies. Mad King's Labyrinth is a good spot for this achievement, as you can complete it easily while farming door events.
Mad Drifter
Rewards: 5 and 10 trick-or-treat bags
Complete a lap of the race event or time trial in Mad King's Raceway in under one minute 30 seconds.
Complete a lap in under 1:30. See our video guide.
Pumpkin Carving
Rewards: 17, 10 trick-or-treat bags and 
: Master carver
Find pumpkins all around Tyria and carve them.
You need to carve a total of 150 pumpkins. You can find them in every Tyria map, especially in cities, but also in every instance of Mad King's Labyrinth.
Courtly service
Rewards: 5 and 10 trick-or-treat bags
Tithe 5 gold commissioning services for the Mad King's Labyrinth.
The Mad King's Steward, in the center of the Labyrinth, can offer services for money.
- 1
: One of the following:
- Add a merchant
- Add a bank access
- Add a mount rental service
- 5: Food for everyone. Grants the same effects as Spicy Pumpkin Cookie.
Giving 5 is enough to complete the achievement.
Ancient Grudge
Rewards: 10 and 10 trick-or-treat bags
Kill 150 of Palawa Joko's minions.
Kill any awakened that can be found in every Path of Fire map. We recommand you the Bonstrand Garrison 
[&BKcKAAA=]. There are a few spots of awakened in Central Tyria if you don't have Path of Fire. Here are some of them:
Mount Maelstrom
Sparkfly Den
Southsun Cove
Mad King's life and death
Mad Memories
Rewards: 1 and 3 trick-or-treat bags
Speak with Magister Tassi in Lion's Arch about researching the Mad King's life and death.
Read the mail and talk to Magister Tassi, at the Grand Piazza in Lion's Arch. She will give you the Candy-Powered Matter Meter MkII.
Mad Mysteries
Rewards: 5 and Mad memoires
Track down firsthand accounts of Mad King Thorn's childhood during Halloween, when the Mad Realm draws near.
Use the Candy-Powered Matter Meter MkII near locations given by the achievement. Ghosts appear directly or are hidden in a Suspicious location. Using the Candy-Powered Matter Meter MkII will reveal NPCs but also various items you can interact with. Suspicious locations can reveal trick-or-treat bags, but also enemies.
The skill #5 icon will give you a hint about the location of your target while the Matter Meter is equiped.
- Strong Readings (Dancing): Strong signals. You can use your skills to scan and reveal a hidden object.
- Mild Readings (Shrug): Not close enough to an object.
Mad Memoires I-III
Mad Memoires I: Boyhood
In which his Royal Madness, yet but a boy, discovers the joys of humor.
- Hint: Under a glass sky the journey begins again, footsteps placed upon footprints, the mad following the mad.
Talk to Serene in the Grand-Piazza[&BCkEAAA=] of Lion's Arch during Halloween, using skill #3.
Mad Memoires II: Friendship
In which a friend joins young Oswald Thorn for the adventure of a lifetime.
- Hint: In shadowed shallows beneath the gardens, the detritus of Lion's Arch lurks.
Talk to Samson, inside the cave underneath Derevol Gardens[&BCIEAAA=] of Lion's Arch during Halloween, using skill #1.
Mad memoires III: Young Love
In which Os woos Lady Lyrica with graceless verve and uncomfortable silences.
- Hint: Search the dead streets and forgotten throughfares of another Lion's Arch.
Talk to Tynna, inside a cave located underwater at east of the Old Lion's Arch[&BBwEAAA=] during Halloween, using skill #3.
Mad Memoires IV-VI
Mad memoires IV: Deadly Adventures
In which Os and his elder brother, Ewie, get into a sticky situation. Only one returns .
- Hint: Say more now and look more where Kryta's descendants are buried.
Talk to Prince Ewan Thorn, inside a crypt in Shaemoor's cemetary 
[&BO8AAAA=] during Halloween, using skill #2.
Mad Memoires V: Betrothed
In which Lord Oswald Thorn, the new heir to the throne, chooses his queen.
- Hint: Go into the hills and set down black roots in stagnant waters.
Talk to Lady Lyrica within Blackroot Cut [&BAgAAAA=] in Kessex Hills during Halloween, using skill #4.
Mad Memoires VI: Coronation
In which his Royal Madness ascends to the Krytan throne and wields his first decree.
- Hint: Find Provernic, where the first king's bones rot in the hills.
Talk to Lord Humphrey Faren inside Provernic Crypt [&BOQAAAA=] during Halloween, using skill #2.
Mad Mementos
Rewards: 10 and Mad memoires: Complete Edition
Track down firsthand accounts of Mad King Thorn's rule during Halloween, when the Mad Realm draws near.
Mad Memoires VII-IX
Mad Memoires VII: Handless
In which King Thorn relieves thieves of their hands.
- Hint: Stories yet untold despite the tower that marks a spooky site. When humans flee their home of old, where they settle cannot be told.
Talk to Cashel behind the Ascalon Settlement vista [&BI8BAAA=] in Gendarran Fields during Halloween, using skill #4. He appears after completing the event Drive back the hands of the accused thieves.
Mad Memoires VIII: Feast and Famine
In which the Mad King cries, "Let them eat candy corn!"
- Hint: This hinterland village was home to a goddess and a martyr.
Talk to Fenn at Martyr's Tomb [&BKIAAAA=] in Harathi Hinterlands during Halloween. Use skill #3 near Dwayna's statue and interact with the Suspicious location, then talk to Fenn.
Mad Memoires IX: Pains of Love
In which Zola's father is afforded special hospitality during her engagement to King Thorn.
- Hint: These old bones are caught in the gullet, where laughing rises from sorrow.
Talk to Seamarshal Bennu on his boat, north of Laughing Gull Island [&BKgBAAA=] during Halloween, using skill #1.
Mad Memoires X-XII
Mad Memoires X: Tax-o'-Lanterns
In which the king makes an example of ungrateful peasants.
- Hint: The landing at Arca struggles to fill its storeroom so it will never starve again.
Talk to Rufus, hidden in a storage room south to Seraph's Landing waypoint [&BKcAAAA=], in Harathi Hinterlands during Halloween, using skill #4.
Mad Memoires XI: Flames of Renewal
In which a rebellious village goes up in flames.
- Hint: Green is the color I want to remember. Not the red of flames or the blackened plateau. The bridge, even it was green.
Meet Portia near the bridge at the east of Arca Lake [&BKcAAAA=] in Harathi Hinterlands during Halloween, using skill #2. You will have to complete the event Extinguish the flames in the village lost to time, then talk to Portia.
Mad Memoires XII: Descension
In which Mad King Thorn is scattered to the four winds and departs for the Underworld.
- Hint: Walk in cadence with King Thorn's shattered subjects. They keep their hatred deep within.
Talk to Wynn inside a Shattered Keep's crypt [&BMUBAAA=] during Halloween, using skill #3.
Mad Memorial
Rewards: 20 , Mad Memoires: Complete Ignition and : emissary of the mad King
Track down firsthand accounts of Mad King Thorn's afterlife during Halloween, when the Mad Realm draws near.
Mad Memoires XIII-XV
Mad Memoires XIII: Apocrypha
In which the Mad King discovers an empty kingdom waiting to be built upon.
- Hint: In the Mad King's city, a noble observes a kindred spirit far from home, a cauldron brewing with grim omens.
Talk to Acreni near Mystic Forge in Lion's Arch, after completing the Arguably Foodlike achievement.
Mad Memoires XIV: Lunacy
In which the right to rule over a realm's existing tenants is demonstrated.
- Hint: Watching over a maze of bloodshed, the ferryman waits to direct the king's guests.
Talk to the Lunatic Boatmaster in the Mad King's Labyrinth, after completing the Routing the Rebel Rabble achievement.
Mad Memoires XV: Fabrication
In which, without a world to conquer, one is created.
- Hint: At the heart of a labyrinth, the Mad King's most faithful servant toils at his tasks.
Talk to Mad King's Steward at the center of the Mad King's Labyrinth, after completing the Courtly Service achievement.
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Mad Memoires XVI: Hallowed Eves
In which a prison's bars are thinning, eroding, slipping, days into weeks.
- Hint: Carving out warnings where the king holds court, a rider makes his yearly rounds.
Talk to Bruce at the Grand-Piazza[&BCkEAAA=] in Lion's Arch, after completing the Pumpkin Carving achievement.
Mas Memoires XVII: Rivalry
In which there is not room enough in all the worlds for two undying kings.
- Hint: A general prepares for an eternal war, waiting at the gates to another world's battles.
Talk to Veteran Brigadier General Kernel near WvW portals in Lion's Arch, after completing the Ancient Grudge achievement.
Mad Memoires XVIII: Binding Agreement
In which the Mad King's followers recruit fresh blood into his court, ever awaiting King Thorn's majestic return to his first kingdom's throne.
- Hint: Above the muck and saltwater, a garden stage is decorated in celebration of a royal return.
Talk to Lunatic Acolyte Broye near a Mad Realm's door at Derevol Gardens[&BCIEAAA=] in Lion's Arch, after completing Lunatic's Fashion.
Eternal rivalry between the Mad King and Palawa Joko
Note: To complete the following achievements, you will need the Living Story episode "Long Live the Lich" on your account, and to complete the story instance "Be My Guest". In order to play this episode, you need Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire along with the episode, unlocked during its release period or via the Black Lion Trading Company.
Rivalry of Kings
Reward: 5
Report to Brigadier General Kernel on the latest developments in the eternal battle between Mad King Thorn and Palawa Joko.
Talk to Veteran Brigadier General Kernel near WvW portals in Lion's Arch. After the conversation, the Mad Maleficence achievement will be unlocked.
Mad Maleficence
Reward: 5
Track down trophies of the eternal feud between Mad King Thorn and Palawa Joko during Halloween, when the Mad Realm draws near.
You have to collect 13 items related to the rivalry between the Mad Kind and Palawa Joko.
- Joko's Crown (replica)
- Awakened Officer's Service Medallion
- Mummy Wrap Field Kit
- Journal of a Youth
- Ancient Awakened Soldier's Ring
- Draft of a Love Letter (Page 2)
- Chariot Reins
- Joko's Book Club Selections
- Book of Palawa Poetry - 1st Draft
- The Scourge of Vabbi's To-Do List
- Aphorisms of Joko, the Eternal Monarch of All
- A Treatise on the Veridical...
- The Diary of Palawa Ignacius Joko
More details in our dedicated guide: Mad Maleficence.
Close the Floodgates of Death
Rewards: 5 and Mini pumpkin jack
Debrief Brigadier General Kernel on your accomplishments.
Talk to Veteran Brigadier General Kernel again to complete the achievement.
Editor: Myalesca & Waldolf
Translation: AzuuRa_Mi_R
Correction: _
Last edited: 12/10/2021
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