The Mapmaker's Debt
Category: hard
Prerequisites: complete Charting Gloomwood
Chain rewards
15 quests · 
105,000 gp · 
45 gems · 4 item rewards
XP: 143,750 
Mining · 100,000 
Cooking · 65,000 
Fishing · 50,000 
Woodcutting · 34,750 
Thieving
1. A Debt Comes Due
Vael closes a ledger guiltily. "A chart of the Reach needs inks I can't make — and I bought them on credit from a smuggler named Carrow. He's calling the debt." Gold-leaf gilds the ink-wells; mine the ore.
2. Witch-Ink
The luminous ink that maps Gloomwood by night is pressed from magic herb. Grow a crop.
Objectives
- Collect
Magic Herb ×40
Rewards
- 8,000 gp
3. Shipping Crates
Carrow won't take ink loose. Cut yew for sturdy shipping crates.
Objectives
- Chop
Yew Logs ×125
Rewards
- 50,000 Woodcutting XP
- 6,500 gp
4. Crimson Dye
The red of border-lines comes from dragon pepper. Harvest a fiery crop.
Objectives
- Collect
Dragon Pepper ×30
Rewards
- 8,000 gp
5. Carrow's Skimming Man
Carrow's runner — Golo, of course — has been shorting the deliveries and pocketing the difference. Recover it.
Objectives
- Pickpocket
Golo The Master Farmer ×150 (Thieving)
Rewards
- 10,500 Thieving XP
- 7,000 gp
6. Silver for the Wells
Fine ink-wells are chased in silver. Mine a load for the smith.
Objectives
- Mine
Silver Ore ×60
Rewards
Silver Bar ×40- 43,750 Mining XP
7. Golden Dye
Royal roads are marked in gold ink, pressed from sunflower. Grow a bright field of them.
Objectives
- Collect
Sunflower ×60
Rewards
- 7,500 gp
8. Paying the Crew
Carrow's crew take half their fee in smoked fish. Land the tuna they're owed.
Objectives
- Catch
Raw Tuna ×125
Rewards
- 65,000 Fishing XP
- 8,000 gp
9. More Witch-Ink
Carrow doubles the order — the Lightheart court wants charts now too. Grow more magic herb.
Objectives
- Collect Magic Herb ×80
Rewards
- 8,000 gp
10. The Logging Fence
Carrow fences stolen crate-timber through a bent lumberjack. Take back what the Lodge overpaid.
Objectives
- Pickpocket
Lumberjack ×150 (Thieving)
Rewards
- 12,000 Thieving XP
- 8,500 gp
11. Smoke the Payment
Cook the tuna into the smoked fillets the crew demand before they'll unload the inks.
Objectives
- Cook Raw Tuna ×125
Rewards
- 100,000 Cooking XP
- 8,500 gp
12. The Last Crimson
One more pressing of dragon-pepper red and the dye order is filled.
Objectives
- Collect Dragon Pepper ×60
Rewards
- 8,000 gp
13. Gilding the Debt
The final ink-wells need gilding. Mine the last of the gold.
14. Carrow Comes Collecting
Carrow arrives in person, all teeth and ledgers, with Golo at his shoulder skimming even now. Settle the runner one last time.
Objectives
- Pickpocket Golo The Master Farmer ×175 (Thieving)
Rewards
- 12,250 Thieving XP
- 9,000 gp
15. The Ledger Closed
The debt is paid in gold, ink, dye and fish, and Carrow leaves almost smiling. "Pleasure trading, Cartographer." He tosses you a rolled scrap as he goes. "Found this in a Lodge crate. Can't read maps myself." It's a clue.
Objectives
- Collect Sunflower ×100
Rewards
- 12,000 gp
- 45 gems
Clue Scroll (Rare) ×1