Archer Starter Quest (Faelindral)

Part 1 — Level 1

1. You start with a Rolled Leafscroll from Commander Elydris Stormbough directing you to Captain Keyaryn Thornshade at Sentinels Terrace, above Traders Terrace in Faelindral.
2. Hand him the scroll. He gives you a Reconnaissance Satchel and four briefings to deliver to his scouts posted around the zone: Scout Gladebow (temporarily posted to Overlook Terrace, past the druids, due to a spider infestation), Scout Amberward, Scout Faeweald, and Scout Stonebranch (each posted near the base of one of the great lifts).
3. Deliver each briefing and collect their reports in return, then combine all four into the satchel to form a Full Reconnaissance Satchel.
4. Return it to Captain Keyaryn Thornshade. Concerned by growing orc activity in Amberward's report, he rewards you with a Novice Scout Bracer and asks you to help with counter-espionage.
5. Return to Scout Amberward and show him the bracer to prove you're a scout. He hands you a Scout's Satchel and asks you to hunt Fellstone Scouts for their reports.
6. Kill Fellstone Scouts until you collect 6 Unintelligible Writings, then combine them into the satchel to form a Full Scout Satchel, and return it to Scout Amberward.
7. He sends you back to Captain Keyaryn Thornshade with the satchel of writings for translation.

Part 2 — Level 4

8. Captain Keyaryn Thornshade sends you to Researcher Fairgrove at the Heartwood Archives to decipher the orcish writings.
9. Give her the Full Scout Satchel. She circles two symbols she recognizes and hands you a Sheaf of Circled Symbols, asking you to check for a matching mark on a conifer tree near the Wyrdgate.
10. At the tree (past the Archer guild, down the Pixie lift, left past the glowing mushroom ring), use /pull vines to reveal a Handful of Ivy and expose the bark, then /inspect mark to confirm a matching symbol and receive a Sheaf of Confirmed Symbols.
11. Bring the confirmed symbols to Researcher Fairgrove. Alarmed the orcs are researching something near the Wyrdgate itself, she hands you a Research Assistant's Bag and asks for proof the local undead are tied to it: 4 Rune-Etched Bones from old elven skeletons.
12. Combine the bones into the bag to form a Full Research Assistant's Bag and return it to her.
13. She confirms a link between the runes and the orcish reports, and hands you a Hastily Written Note to warn your captain.
14. Bring the note to Captain Keyaryn Thornshade. He rewards you with an Arrowhead Token and sends you to Craftguard Vinebrow in the Sentinels Gaze armory to upgrade your gear.
15. Give the token and your Novice Scout Bracer to Craftguard Vinebrow, who reinforces it into the Weald Scout Bracer.
16. Show the upgraded bracer to Captain Keyaryn Thornshade. He tells you it needs more wear before your next assignment — simply keep using it and check back.

Part 3 — Spiritual Guidance (Level 8+)

1. Hand your Weald Scout Bracer to Captain Keyaryn Thornshade. Below level 8 he hands it back and tells you to keep wearing it in; at level 8+ he explains the Wyrdguard will handle the orcs while you clear the risen Calafreyan dead from the ruins outside Ruinwatch, and gives you a Note for Moon Dances.
2. Bring the note to Moon Dances in the Balanced Branch (the shaman guild). He hands you a Forest Spirit Receptacle and asks for a pure sample of each of the forest’s four elements, collected with /take sample at the right spot. He’ll give hints for each if you ask.
3. Air: from Moon Dances, cross toward Rangers Rest, take the short bridge to its left, and step into the (currently non-functional) Temple Lift to the upper tiers. /look, then /take sample.
4. Earth: go during the day — the myconids in Sporehaven Karst turn hostile from 6 PM to 5 AM. Take the newbie lift down, head north to the river, cross the bridge, turn right and follow the river into the mushroom cave. About halfway in on the left is a mushroom ring with several myconids; /take sample there.
5. Water: follow the river to its end at the waterfall near the newbie lift. Drop into the water between the two boulders just before the falls (carefully) and /take sample.
6. Fire: hug the cliff north from the waterfall to the wasp-filled ruins, take the ramp up behind them and continue south across the bridge near the Keeper’s Bight zone line (watch for level 8–9 orc patrols). Sneak left around a group of three orcs, climb the next ramp hugging the left wall, and find a broken spire ringed by four pillars. Any time after 6 PM, /take sample there to spawn an annoyed faefly (cons yellow at 8); kill it for a Docile Faefly. Avoid 3–6 AM, when a twisted fae patrols through and can one- or two-shot a level 8. Only one faefly spawns per night, so if another Archer just killed it you’ll have to wait.
7. Combine the Samples of Air, Earth, and Water plus the Docile Faefly in the receptacle to make a Full Forest Spirit Receptacle, and give it to Moon Dances. He bonds the spirits to it and hands it back for your captain.

Part 4 — The Mysterious Robed Figure (Level 15+, group recommended)

1. Give the Full Forest Spirit Receptacle to Captain Keyaryn Thornshade. He rewards you with the Blessing of the Forest Spirits and sends you to the Calafreyan ruins outside Ruinwatch for 10 Necrotic Ash, plus any evidence of a robed figure seen there at night. (Scout Amberward can tell you a little more about the figure on your way.)
2. Head south from Scout Amberward across two bridges; on the last bridge before the ruins you can activate the Blessing. The buff gives your auto-attacks a chance to deal holy damage, but only inside the old Calafrey ruins.
3. Kill Calafreyan humanoids (such as a Calafreyan archer) with the buff active to loot Necrotic Ash until you have 10.
4. In the evening, go to the back of the ruins, where you’ll notice a sigil on a stone in a small clearing. /inspect sigil to make a dark-robed figure appear and attack. Bring a group — the encounter’s mobs are estimated around level 13–18.
5. Defeat the robed figure (who blames House Varros as they fall) and loot the Letter of Correspondence and a Dark Hood.
6. Hand the Blessing of the Forest Spirits, 10 Necrotic Ash (one stack is fine), and the Letter of Correspondence to Captain Keyaryn Thornshade to receive the Scout’s Longbow of the Wyrdguard.