The Reliquary Road
Category: medium
Prerequisites: complete Vigil of Ash
Chain rewards
18 quests · 
122,500 gp · 
68 gems · 5 item rewards
XP: 55,000 
Woodcutting · 51,000 
Thieving · 50,000 
Fishing · 18,000 
Prayer · 8,000 
Mining · 7,500 
Smithing · 7,000 
Crafting · 7,000 
Fletching
1. The Reliquary Must Move
The cult buying ash and grave-coin has a name now — the Hollowed Hand — and what it wants sits in the order's chapel: the reliquary of the barrow-saints. Maren won't wait to be robbed. The relics go north to the mountain vault, and you're the escort. First: scout the road by lightening the pockets of everyone watching it.
Objectives
- Pickpocket
Miner ×130 (Thieving)
Rewards
- 8,500 Thieving XP
- 4,500 gp
2. Clearing the First Mile
The road's first mile runs through bandit country, and the Hollowed Hand has been paying them in advance. Clear the toll-camps before the wagons roll.
3. Crates Worthy of Saints
Relics don't travel in grain sacks. The wrights want bitter mahogany for the reliquary crates — heavy, hallowed, and hard to pry. Fell it.
Objectives
- Chop
Mahogany Logs ×140
Rewards
- 55,000 Woodcutting XP
- 5,000 gp
4. The Hand's Ciphers
The Hollowed Hand's messages travel in the satchels of hired mages who think themselves unpickable. Prove otherwise. Every cipher you lift maps another ambush.
Objectives
- Pickpocket
Mage ×90 (Thieving)
Rewards
- 9,500 Thieving XP
- 5,500 gp
5. Leathers for the Escort
The escort walks nine days through wet country. Green dragonhide turns rain and arrowheads alike. Craft bodies for the wagon-guards.
Objectives
- Craft
Green D-hide Body ×8
Rewards
- 7,000 Crafting XP
- 5,500 gp
6. Wolves at the Ford
The ciphers marked the river ford as 'cleared for the Hand's beasts.' The beasts turn out to be wolves — wrong-eyed, like the ones on the mounds. Hold the ford.
7. Rites at the Waymarks
The road north is older than the order — its waymark stones each cover a traveler who never finished the journey. Maren's instruction: bury an offering at every stone the wagons pass.
Objectives
- Bury
Big Bones ×50
Rewards
- 6,000 Prayer XP
- 6,000 gp
8. The Turncoat Camp
A lumber-camp along the route sold the Hand its wagon-schedules — Tobin recognized the foreman's hand in a cipher. Walk in friendly, walk out with everything in their pockets.
Objectives
- Pickpocket
Lumberjack ×140 (Thieving)
Rewards
- 10,000 Thieving XP
- 6,500 gp
9. Ore for the Ward-Blades
The vault-monks' price for sanctuary is steel they can't mine themselves: mithril, for ward-blades consecrated against the restless. Dig their fee out of the ridge.
Objectives
- Mine
Mithril Ore ×100
Rewards
Silver Bar ×30- 8,000 Mining XP
- 6,500 gp
10. Silvered Steel
'Silver remembers,' Tobin recites again — but this time it's the vault-monks' specification: mithril blades, silver-plated, one per escort. Forge them at the order's anvil.
Objectives
- Smelt
(S) Mithril Sword ×3
Rewards
- 7,500 Smithing XP
- 7,000 gp
11. The Boneyard Pass
The high pass is walled with old battle-dead, and the Hand has been singing them awake. Cut a path through the risen for the wagons — and gather what falls.
12. Faith on the Road
Nine days out, the escort starts leaving the rites to you without being asked — even the vault-monks defer. Give the battle-dead of the pass their long-overdue rest, and the wagons roll through quiet ground.
Objectives
- Bury Big Bones ×40
Rewards
- 5,500 Prayer XP
- 7,500 gp
- 30 gems
13. The Hand's Paymaster
One cipher names the paymaster who funds every ambush on this road — travelling disguised as a prospector. Find him among the miners and empty him to his boots.
Objectives
- Pickpocket Miner ×150 (Thieving)
Rewards
- 11,000 Thieving XP
- 7,500 gp
14. Rations for the Last Leg
The mountain leg is cold and slow, and the escort's rations are down to hardtack and opinions. Land tuna and smoke it for the climb.
Objectives
- Catch
Raw Tuna ×140
Rewards
- 50,000 Fishing XP
- 8,000 gp
15. A Quiver for Every Guard
The vault-monks' scouts report the Hand massing for one last try before the gates. The answer is volume: mithril arrows, fletched by the thousand-count. Get to work.
Objectives
- Craft
Mithril Arrow ×300
Rewards
- 7,000 Fletching XP
- 8,000 gp
16. The Last Ambush
They come at the switchbacks, masked and silent, grave-coin sewn into their coats. The escort holds. Hold with them.
17. The Fallen of the Road
The Hand's dead get the same rite as anyone — Maren is immovable on this. Bury the ambushers' bones at the switchback waymarks, names or no names.
Objectives
- Bury
Bones ×110
Rewards
- 6,500 Prayer XP
- 8,500 gp
18. The Vault Gate
The reliquary crosses the vault threshold as the monks sing the sealing-hymn, and for the first time in weeks Maren's shoulders drop an inch. Outside, one last of the Hand's mages watches from the rocks. Relieve him of everything he's carrying — the cult's plans most of all.
Objectives
- Pickpocket Mage ×110 (Thieving)
Rewards
- 12,000 Thieving XP
- 10,000 gp
- 38 gems