Gossith: Strange Signs (Part 2)
From Istaria Lexica
| Quest type: | Adventure |
| From NPC(s): | Scout Gossith |
| Required adventure school: | Any (level: 60) |
| Locations: | Ezzar's Folly |
| Previous quest(s): | Gossith: Strange Signs (Part 1) |
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| Item(s) required to start, progress or finish the quest: |
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| none. |
Note: For this quest, Scout Gossith is near Ezzar's Folly, at 20151/25993(map)
Scouts sent to the crater known as Ezzar's Folly have returned with word of strange activity. Gossith wants you to check it out.
Quest text[edit]
Gossith believes the crater must be investigated and if the Withered Aegis are there, removed. This one also wonders if <player> knows the tale of Ezzar's Folly?
- No, I don't know the story.
Once, long long ago, this area was a broad plateau covered with thick grass on which cattle and Arbotus grazed. It was long before the Withered Aegis came and blighted the region, of course.
- <continue>
There was a man, Ezzar, who was a Priest of Nazderon, one of the High Magadi. Ezzar built a large house and farm on this very spot and, using many slaves, supplied food to the city of Mellohndar.
- <continue>
What Nazderon did not know was that Ezzar had the talent for magic and, having watched the master for many years, learned some of the ways of the primal magics of Dragonkind.
- <continue>
So, when the Dragons came to destroy Mellohndar, Ezzar watched from a great distance but that one knew that the farm would be next. Ezzar descended into the basement, a secret basement filled with many magical implements, and began to cast spells using the primal magics.
- <continue>
Ezzar, however, was not as skilled as Nazderon, nor had Ezzar bothered to learn the theories behind the magics that would help control its wild tendencies. Power built until Ezzar could no longer control it and it burst free, igniting other implements in the basement including some Lesser Artifacts that had been acquired from the Dryad.
- What happened next?
That, Gossith's friend, is what happened next. A great explosion rocked the plateau and destroyed the house, Ezzar, and many of the inhabitants. The dragons never came, or so the story goes, for their magic did their work for them. The area has been known as Ezzar's Folly for centuries and serves, perhaps, as a warning to leave that which is of the Dragons alone if you are not a Dragon.
- Could there be remnants of the magic or even Artifacts still there?
Speak with Scout Gossith
Gossith hadn't considered that! What a good thing <player> came along... Please, <Adventurer School>, investigate the crater for Gossith.
Investigate Ezzar's Folly for Scout Gossith
Game Feedback: There appears to be a dig of some sort within the crater. Someone is trying to excavate something! You should stop them.
Stop the Withered Aegis from digging in the crater further
Game Feedback: You have defeated the archaeologists of the Withered Aegis. You don't know what they were looking for, but you should inform Scout Gossith about this event.
Return to Scout Gossith at the Lost Patrol Camp
<player> has returned safely. This is good news. What was found within the crater?
- Agents of the Ebon Guard were digging in the crater, maybe trying to find some artifact fragments buried by the explosion.
Digging. Yes, that is likely what was happening. Gossith will inform the Sergeant and perhaps soldiers can be dispatched to guard Ezzar's Folly. Artifacts falling into the hands of the Ebon Guard would be a very bad thing. Wouldn't <player> agree?
Steps[edit]
- Speak with Scout Gossith
- Investigate Ezzar's Folly for Scout Gossith
- Triggers at 20170/26031(map)
- Stop the Withered Aegis from digging in the crater further
- If you can't find any Ebon Archaeologists, kill the Risen Laborers.
- Return to Scout Gossith at the Lost Patrol Camp
Target mobs[edit]
Target mobs
Rewards[edit]
- Adventure Experience: 34550
- Money: 30s
- Reward: Weapon and Claw Tech Kit: Ezzar's Folly
