Charting Gloomwood
Category: medium
Prerequisites: complete The Cartographer's Summons
Chain rewards
15 quests · 
49,500 gp · 
135 gems · 1 item reward
XP: 234,000 
Woodcutting · 150,000 
Fishing · 144,000 
Cooking · 137,400 
Firemaking · 25,000 
Mining · 12,000 
Thieving
1. The Magic Grove
Deep in Gloomwood stands a grove of silver-barked magic trees. Vael wants them charted — and harvested. Fell a stand.
Objectives
- Chop
Magic Logs ×100
Rewards
- 54,000 Woodcutting XP
2. Mapping the Grove
Now walk the grove's bounds and ink them onto the chart. Survey until the grove is mapped.
Objectives
- Reach
Exploring level 13
Rewards
- 6,000 gp
3. Witchlight Fires
Magic logs burn with a pale light the survey crews use to signal across the dark. Get a good blaze going.
Objectives
- Burn Magic Logs ×100
Rewards
- 60,800 Firemaking XP
- 5,000 gp
4. The Hollow Heart
At Gloomwood's centre the canopy swallows the sky. Vael has never charted it. "You will," she says. Survey the deep wood.
Objectives
- Reach Exploring level 14
Rewards
- 25 gems
5. Cold-Water Provisions
The deep-wood camp needs feeding. The black pools hide sharks — haul a catch back to camp.
Objectives
- Catch
Raw Shark ×100
Rewards
- 150,000 Fishing XP
- 5,000 gp
6. The Master Survey
"Full charting standard now — no gaps, no guesses." Survey until the heart of Gloomwood is complete. This is as deep as the Lodge maps go.
Objectives
- Reach Exploring level 15
Rewards
- 30 gems
7. The Crimson Stand
Beyond the heart grows a stand of redwoods older than the kingdom. Their timber is priceless. Fell what you can carry.
Objectives
- Chop
Redwood Logs ×100
Rewards
- 72,000 Woodcutting XP
8. Loggers Gone Feral
Illegal loggers have been stripping the redwoods. Golo's lumberjacks, working a side deal — relieve them of their takings.
Objectives
- Pickpocket
Lumberjack ×150 (Thieving)
Rewards
- 12,000 Thieving XP
- 6,000 gp
9. Redwood Pyres
Burn the loggers' felled scrap before it rots — and signal the Lodge that the stand is secured.
Objectives
- Burn Redwood Logs ×100
Rewards
- 76,600 Firemaking XP
- 6,000 gp
10. Adamant for the Instruments
The deep-wood surveys broke half the Lodge's gear. Vael needs adamantite for new theodolites. Mine a load.
Objectives
- Mine
Adamantite Ore ×100
Rewards
- 10,000 Mining XP
11. A Hole in the Map
Your charts show a blank where a cave-mouth yawns under the redwoods. "Timberfall Cavern," Vael says. "Clear it before we map it."
Objectives
- Clear
Timberfall Cavern ×3
Rewards
- 7,000 gp
12. Smoke the Deep Catch
The cavern crews are half-starved. Cook the shark stores and run them down.
Objectives
- Cook Raw Shark ×100
Rewards
- 144,000 Cooking XP
- 6,500 gp
13. Deeper Still
The cavern runs further than anyone guessed. Clear the lower galleries so the survey can follow.
Objectives
- Clear Timberfall Cavern ×6
Rewards
- 35 gems
14. Redwood Beams
The Lodge wants a proper field station built at the cavern mouth. Bring the redwood for its beams.
Objectives
- Chop Redwood Logs ×150
Rewards
- 108,000 Woodcutting XP
15. Gloomwood, Charted
Vael spreads your completed map across the Lodge table and the whole forest lies revealed — grove, heart, stand, and cavern. "The first full chart of Gloomwood in a generation. And look — your surveying turned up another clue."
Objectives
- Mine Adamantite Ore ×150
Rewards
- 15,000 Mining XP
- 8,000 gp
- 45 gems
Clue Scroll (Uncommon) ×1