The Misty Mounds
Category: medium
Prerequisites: complete The Gravekeeper's Summons
Chain rewards
18 quests · 
92,000 gp · 
56 gems · 7 item rewards
XP: 110,000 
Woodcutting · 45,000 
Fishing · 41,000 
Firemaking · 16,000 
Thieving · 14,000 
Mining · 14,000 
Prayer · 4,500 
Smithing
1. 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
2. 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 ×40
Rewards
Silver Bar ×30- 6,500 Mining XP
- 3,000 gp
3. 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.
4. 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 ×50
Rewards
- 2,500 Prayer XP
- 3,500 gp
5. 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
6. 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
- Pickpocket
Farmer ×110 (Thieving)
Rewards
- 8,000 Thieving XP
- 4,000 gp
7. 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.
8. 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 ×50
Rewards
- 3,000 Prayer XP
- 4,500 gp
- 24 gems
9. 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
- Pickpocket
Lumberjack ×120 (Thieving)
Rewards
- 8,000 Thieving XP
- 5,000 gp
10. 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.
11. 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 ×30
Rewards
- 4,500 Smithing XP
- 5,500 gp
12. 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 ×60
Rewards
- 4,000 Prayer XP
- 5,500 gp
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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 ×60
Rewards
- Bones ×60
- Silver Bar ×20
- 7,500 Mining XP
- 6,500 gp
16. 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 ×80
Rewards
- 4,500 Prayer XP
- 6,500 gp
17. 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.
18. 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