Dour Dwarves  

Leads To: A Dwarf's Duty
Start Zone: Lone-Lands
Start Area: Ost Guruth
Start Mob: Refr Quicksilver
Items Needed:Cash Granted: 5s 50c
Exp Granted: 1543
Quest Level: 25
Min Level: 20
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    Refr Quicksilver
    Ost Guruth
    Thandobel
    Dourhand-banner

Bestowal

'I sometimes think I ought never have left the mountains and the home of my ancestors, but I sought after a life of adventure. After too many years looking, I found myself lost and then found again here amongst the Eglain.

'I have been here a long time now and consider myself one of them, but there are remnants of my own heritage that never stray, friend, and those remnants get stirred in times like these.

'I hear rumour of dwarves working with Orcs to despoil the tombs beneath the ruins of Thandobel to the southwest. I wish to know what kind of dwarf would tolerate Orcs, much less deign to work alongside them. Go to Thandobel and bring me one of their banners.'

Background

Southwest of Ost Guruth lay a ruin, long abandoned by the Eglain. Picked clean and having only the depths of the ruin unexplored, the Eglain left the tombs beneath the ruin be, as is their custom. However, the ruin now teems with life again as dwarves, in league with Orcs, scour the ruin for treasures in the depths.

Objectives

Objective 1
Collect a dwarf-banner from the borders of Thandobel.
The ruins of Thandobel lie to the southwest of Ost Guruth in Nain Enidh.

Refr Quicksilver expressed a desire to learn what kind of dwarves would deign to work alongside Orcs and has asked you to go to the ruins of Thandobel and capture one of their banners.

'I know this blazon. My father told me of a revolt and battle long ago against a host of the Elves in Ered Luin. Skorgrim... a leader of the Dourhands, whom this blazon belongs, led the assault and drove the Dourhands to near destruction.

'Buried beneath the mountains was he, by the quick actions of the Elves' leader, who sacrificed himself to deny Skorgrim victory.

'Dourhands in league with Orcs... grim news indeed, and there is no doubt of what must come next.'


Objective 2
Return the banner to Refr Quicksilver.

Notes

Banners are located at 33.6S, 32.7W & 33.6S, 32.6W on either side of a stone wall at Thandobel. Image and map included at link for object. If you are lucky, you won't even have to come in contact with any Tarkrips.