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== Briefing ==
== Briefing ==


Elara Hollowbane wants a flask from the ash brine cistern. Do not taste it.
Elara Hollowbane wants a flask drawn from the ash brine cistern, and under no circumstances should you taste it.


== Steps ==
== Steps ==


Fill a flask at the ash brine cistern lip and bring it back untasted. Thorn Crawlers and Thorn Hunters hold the lip.
Fill a flask at the lip of the ash brine cistern and deliver it back completely untasted. Thorn Crawlers and Thorn Hunters hold the lip.


== Reward ==
== Reward ==
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== Dialogue ==
== Dialogue ==


* Do not taste the cistern.
* Whatever else you do, do not taste the cistern water.
* Sandite forms where grit meets old brine.
* Sandite forms wherever drifting grit meets old brine.
* The Vale keeps water and words.
* The Vale keeps two precious things: its water and its words.
* Fill the flask at the cistern lip. Thorn Crawlers and Thorn Hunters work that lip. Bring the flask. Do not drink it. Elara Hollowbane counts this step from the Scorch Root Vale under The Ash Brine Cistern. Sandite forms where grit meets old brine.
* Fill the flask at the cistern lip, where Thorn Crawlers and Thorn Hunters prowl, and deliver it to me untasted, because nobody drinks from it. I record this step at the Scorch Root Vale.
* Leave the singers where they stand.
* Leave the singers exactly where they stand, undisturbed.


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Revision as of 19:35, 9 October 2026

The Ash Brine Cistern

Field Value
Quest_ID Q0004
Title The Ash Brine Cistern
Biome B001 Ashplain Expanse
Layer Aquatic
Level 6
Giver Elara Hollowbane (NPC0004)
Giver NPC ID NPC0004
Completer Elara Hollowbane (NPC0004)
Completer NPC ID NPC0004
Items needed the cistern flask
Prerequisites Q0003
Giver source Role token lore. Ashplain Expanse has one lore_keeper: Elara Hollowbane NPC0004.
Giver settlement Scorch Root Vale
Faction Ashen League
Side Holy
Difficulty Elite
Fail state Yes
Mystery chain No

Briefing

Elara Hollowbane wants a flask drawn from the ash brine cistern, and under no circumstances should you taste it.

Steps

Fill a flask at the lip of the ash brine cistern and deliver it back completely untasted. Thorn Crawlers and Thorn Hunters hold the lip.

Reward

  • Ashshrub Draught x3
  • 3200 XP
  • 200 Gold
  • 50 Ashen League rep

Dialogue

  • Whatever else you do, do not taste the cistern water.
  • Sandite forms wherever drifting grit meets old brine.
  • The Vale keeps two precious things: its water and its words.
  • Fill the flask at the cistern lip, where Thorn Crawlers and Thorn Hunters prowl, and deliver it to me untasted, because nobody drinks from it. I record this step at the Scorch Root Vale.
  • Leave the singers exactly where they stand, undisturbed.

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