Rivers of the Vale

Category: medium

Prerequisites: complete the_first_bond

The Cold Run

Bram leads you to a roaring stretch of white water. "The vale rivers run snowmelt-cold and the sharks here are mean for it. Work the cold run — the otters will show you the best holes if you let them."

Objectives:

• CATCH: raw_shark ×120

Rewards:

• ✨ 82,000 Fishing XP
• 3,500 gp

Riverside Cookfire

"A river party eats on the bank," the Wildwarden says. "Smoke the swordfish over green-wood coals — the beasts get the scraps and the warden gets the rest."

Objectives:

• COOK: raw_swordfish ×100

Rewards:

• ✨ 78,000 Cooking XP
• 3,500 gp

The Deep Pools

"Below the falls the river goes black and slow — manta rays glide the deep pools there. Patient work, that. Bring your steadiest pet."

Objectives:

• CATCH: raw_manta_ray ×100

Rewards:

• ✨ 95,000 Fishing XP
• 4,000 gp

A River-Wise Companion

"Your pet's learning the water as fast as you are," the Wildwarden notes. "Keep raising it — a river-wise beast is worth three fishermen." Bond with your companion to level 12.

Objectives:

• LEVEL:

Rewards:

• 4,500 gp
• 💎 22 gems

Bridge Over the Run

"There's no crossing the cold run without a bridge, and the spring floods took the last one. Yew this time — it doesn't rot in the wet."

Objectives:

• CHOP: Yew Logs ×140

Rewards:

• ✨ 62,000 Woodcutting XP
• 4,000 gp

Upstream Spawning

"The sharks run upstream to spawn this week — thickest they'll ever be. Take your pet and make hay while the river gives."

Objectives:

• CATCH: raw_shark ×140

Rewards:

• ✨ 88,000 Fishing XP
• 4,500 gp

The River-Witch

Bram scowls upriver. "A hedge-mage has set up at the headwaters, muddying the runs with her castings to drive fish into her own traps. Pick her pockets — her charm-bag is half our missing catch."

Objectives:

• THIEVE: mage ×120

Rewards:

• ✨ 8,500 Thieving XP
• 4,500 gp

The Black Pool

"With the witch's mud cleared, the deep pool's run clean again. The big mantas are back. Go take them."

Objectives:

• CATCH: raw_manta_ray ×130

Rewards:

• ✨ 100,000 Fishing XP
• 5,000 gp

The Riverside Feast

"A good run deserves a good feast. Cook the swordfish down on the bank — beasts, wardens, and all."

Objectives:

• COOK: raw_swordfish ×130

Rewards:

• ✨ 84,000 Cooking XP
• 5,000 gp

Master of the Water

"Your companion reads the river better than I do now," the Wildwarden admits. "Push it to level 14 — let it come fully into its strength on the water."

Objectives:

• LEVEL:

Rewards:

• 5,500 gp
• 💎 25 gems

The Great Shark Run

"Once a season the whole river boils with sharks. It's on us now — fish it with everything you've got, pet and all."

Objectives:

• CATCH: raw_shark ×160

Rewards:

• ✨ 92,000 Fishing XP
• 5,500 gp

The Otter Lodges

"The river otters build lodges all along the bank, and the spring floods wrecked half of them. Yew posts to shore them up — the otters are half the reason the fishing's so good."

Objectives:

• CHOP: Yew Logs ×160

Rewards:

• ✨ 66,000 Woodcutting XP
• 5,500 gp

The Witch Returns

The hedge-mage has crept back, bolder this time, charms strung across the whole headwater. "Strip her bag for good," the Wildwarden says coldly, "and she'll find another river to ruin."

Objectives:

• THIEVE: mage ×150

Rewards:

• ✨ 9,500 Thieving XP
• 6,000 gp

Rivers Run Clear

From the new bridge you watch the vale's rivers run clean and silver, otters at their lodges, your pet asleep on the warm stones. The Wildwarden joins you. "You've given the water back to the vale," she says. "Few ever do." One last glide of the deep pools, for the joy of it.

Objectives:

• CATCH: raw_manta_ray ×160

Rewards:

• ✨ 105,000 Fishing XP
• 6,500 gp
• 💎 35 gems