The Misty Mounds
Category: medium
Prerequisites: complete gravekeepers_summons
Pyres Against the Fog
The mist over the outer mounds isn't weather — it clings, it follows, it listens. Maren's remedy is old and simple: fire. Build maple fog-pyres along the mound-line and burn them through the night.
Objectives:
- BURN: Maple Logs ×60
Rewards:
- ✨ 9,000
Firemaking XP - 3,000 gp
Ward-Silver
'Silver remembers what iron forgets,' Tobin recites — some order proverb he half understands. The ward-posts around the mounds need silver caps, and the seams up the ridge still run bright. Mine it.
Objectives:
- MINE: Silver Ore ×80
Rewards:
- ✨ 6,500
Mining XP - 3,000 gp
The Night Pack
The wolves are back, and this time they came through a ward-post like it wasn't there. Cull the pack before they reach the inner mounds — and gather every bone they scatter.
Objectives:
- KILL: kill dire_wolf ×30
Rewards:
Bones ×40- 3,500 gp
Rest for the Restless
Every bone the pack dragged loose is a voice in the fog, Maren says. Quiet them. Bury the scattered bones with the full rite.
Objectives:
- BURY: bones_normal ×50
Rewards:
- ✨ 2,500
Prayer XP - 3,500 gp
Mahogany for the Ward-Posts
The broken ward-post wasn't rotten — something snapped it. The wrights want mahogany this time, heavy and bitter-grained. Fell a stand and haul it up the mound-line.
Objectives:
- CHOP: Mahogany Logs ×120
Rewards:
- ✨ 45,000
Woodcutting XP - 4,000 gp
Offerings of the Harvest
The mound-folk of old were farmers; their shades settle easiest under harvest-gifts. The valley farms owe the order a harvest-tithe years in arrears — collect it from their stalls, one pocket at a time. Fat pumpkins first, Tobin insists, as if the dead judge produce.
Objectives:
- THIEVE: farmer ×110
Rewards:
- ✨ 8,000
Thieving XP - 4,000 gp
The Long Burning
The fog presses back against the pyre-line, thick as wet wool. Maple isn't enough anymore. Burn yew — it holds an ember til dawn and the mist won't cross it.
Objectives:
- BURN: Yew Logs ×80
Rewards:
- Bones ×45
- ✨ 14,000 Firemaking XP
- 4,500 gp
A Steady Hand at the Rite
Maren watches you work the trowel and nods once — from her, a standing ovation. Then she hands you the order's second bell: the outer mounds are yours tonight. Bury the offerings at every ward-post on the line, and ring each one down properly.
Objectives:
- BURY: bones_normal ×50
Rewards:
- ✨ 3,000 Prayer XP
- 4,500 gp
- 💎 24 gems
The Foreman's Ledger
The lumber-camp foreman has been selling 'surplus' ward-posts to a buyer who pays in old coin — grave coin. Pick the camp clean until his ledger surfaces.
Objectives:
- THIEVE: lumberjack ×120
Rewards:
- ✨ 8,000 Thieving XP
- 5,000 gp
Bones That Walk
A mound stands open from the inside, and its dead are up and wandering the fog. Put them down gently — they were parishioners once — and keep the great bones for reburial.
Objectives:
- KILL: kill skeleton_1 ×35
Rewards:
- Bones ×40
- 5,000 gp
Silver at the Forge
The dead smith's forge is warm again under your hands. Smelt the ridge-silver into bars for the ward-caps — Tobin polishes each one like it's going on an altar. It is.
Objectives:
- SMELT: Silver Bar ×60
Rewards:
- ✨ 4,500
Smithing XP - 5,500 gp
The Wanderers, Home
The walking dead are down; now give them what they actually wanted. Bury the great bones beneath their opened mound and let Maren seal it with the quiet bell.
Objectives:
- BURY: bones_normal ×60
Rewards:
- ✨ 4,000 Prayer XP
- 5,500 gp
Tithe of the Tide
The fisher-villages down-coast still owe the order their funeral-fish tithe. Nobody's collected it in years. Land a run of tuna and call the debt square.
Objectives:
- CATCH: raw_tuna ×120
Rewards:
- ✨ 45,000
Fishing XP - 6,000 gp
The Pyre-Line Doubled
Maren wants the pyre-line doubled before the dark of the moon — that means timber, cords of it. Fell yew until the stacks stand shoulder-high.
Objectives:
- CHOP: Yew Logs ×140
Rewards:
- ✨ 65,000 Woodcutting XP
- 6,000 gp
The Deep Seam
The ward-posts hold — but the inner mounds need silver too, and the bright seam runs deeper than any miner's liked to follow. Follow it anyway.
Objectives:
- MINE: Silver Ore ×120
Rewards:
- Bones ×60
- ✨ 7,500 Mining XP
- 6,500 gp
A Hundred Small Debts
A cart overturned on the mound-road years ago — a pauper's transport, its cargo never claimed. Maren found the manifest. Bury every last one with a name read aloud.
Objectives:
- BURY: bones_normal ×80
Rewards:
- ✨ 4,500 Prayer XP
- 6,500 gp
The Pack's Last Stand
The wolves make one last run at the mounds ahead of the dark moon — bigger, bolder, wrong-eyed. Break the pack for good.
Objectives:
- KILL: kill dire_wolf ×45
Rewards:
- Bones ×50
- 7,000 gp
The Great Fog-Burning
Every pyre on the doubled line lights at once — a mile of fire against the dark of the moon. The fog rolls back off the mounds like a tide going out, and for one clear night the whole barrow-field stands under stars. In the sudden stillness, far below, a bell that is not Maren's answers yours.
Objectives:
- BURN: Yew Logs ×100
Rewards:
- ✨ 18,000 Firemaking XP
- 9,000 gp
- 💎 32 gems