Shaman Starter Quest (Faelindral)

Part 1 — First Steps

1. You start with a Folded Leafscroll directing you to Varilis Thornvine at the Balanced Branch lodge in Faelindral (across the bridge from Traders Terrace, opposite the Ranger guild).
2. Hand him the scroll. He gives you an Old Mortar and Pestle and asks you to gather 4 Bone Chips and 2 Shattered Skulls from rotting skeletons in the newbie area.
3. Combine the bone chips and skulls in the mortar to create a Mortar of Bone Dust, then return it to Varilis Thornvine.
4. He rewards you with the Novice Hoop of the Listener, a Scroll: Invisibility versus Beasts, and a Pouch of Bone Dust for your next task.

Part 2 — Solving the Problem

5. Varilis Thornvine explains that a wolf pack in the western cliffs has fallen to madness. Head down the fungal lift, past the druid ring, fungal ring, and ruins to the wolf den entrance, and throw the Pouch of Bone Dust there (use the invisibility scroll first if the wolves have gone feral).
6. This summons a mischievous faerie (appears as a small drake). Defeat it and loot a Strange Toadstool.
7. Return the toadstool and your Novice Hoop of the Listener to Varilis Thornvine. He rewards you with the Apprentice Hoop of the Listener.

Part 3 — Spore Druids

8. Hand Varilis Thornvine your Apprentice Hoop so he can listen to your journey so far, then he hands it back along with a Toadstool Box containing the strange toadstool, sending you to the reclusive Circle of Spores beneath Faelindral in the Sporehaven Karsts.
9. Travel through the Spore Caves (use invisibility at night to avoid the sporelings) and find Sporeweaver Underveil. Hand him the Toadstool Box.
10. He returns an Empty Box and asks for help with his research: 5 Green Drakeling Scales and 5 Wasp Worker Wax.
11. Combine the scales and wax into the box to form a Box of Scales and Wax, then return it to Sporeweaver Underveil. He trades it back for the toadstool, handing you a Resealed Toadstool Box along with his findings: the toadstool's moisture carries a hex that causes madness through its spores when inhaled.

Part 4 — Tracing the Source

12. Bring the Resealed Toadstool Box to Varilis Thornvine. He rewards you with a Spirit-Blessed Headdress and asks you to return wearing it, hoop in hand, once you're ready for the next task — this requires knowing how to dispel harmful magic and being at least level 8.
13. Once qualified, hand over your Apprentice Hoop again. Varilis Thornvine suspects the naiads of the Whispering Pools are behind the spreading madness, and sends you to Laenyth Windharp of the Lambent Wanderers (in the Lambent Lantern) to learn about their siren magic.
14. Show Laenyth Windharp your hoop and ask about naiads. She shares theories about how their siren songs might be carried downriver inside bubbles or foam, and hands you Laenyth's Theories.
15. Return the theories to Varilis Thornvine. He hands you an Empty Water Flask and sends you to the crest of the great waterfall where the river spills into the Twilight Sea, as far from the Whispering Pools as possible, to check whether the naiads’ enchantment reaches that far.
16. From the newbie lift, go right, take the right-hand fork, and run southwest until the river drops off the edge of the map (the wolf cave sits on the cliffs across the river). Stand on the bank just north of the rocks with your feet in the water. With the Ancestor’s Eye or Ancestral Wisdom buff active, use /inspect water to sense the faint enchantment, then /take water to fill the flask. Your headdress blocks the song’s attempt to get into your head.

Part 5 — Purging the Enchantment

1. Return the Filled Water Flask to Varilis Thornvine. Alarmed that the naiads’ voices now carry down the whole river, he hands you a Sigil of Purging and asks you to craft a cleansing totem.
2. Gather 4 Fine Wood (Lumberjacking in Keeper’s Bight), 4 Bight Serpent Skin (from Bight Asps in Keeper’s Bight, soloable with your level 8 spells, or sometimes bought cheaply from the tanner Tessa Kentwell in Penshaw), and 2 Selstie Kelp from the riverbed in Evershade Weald.
3. Combine all ten items with the Sigil of Purging at a carpentry table (such as those on Traders Terrace) to make a Fashioned Totem of Purging. No carpentry skill is needed.
4. Hand the totem to Varilis Thornvine. He calls on the forest spirits to empower it and gives you the Empowered Totem of Purging, sending you to the top of the falls above the Whispering Pools. If the totem runs out of power, bring it back and he’ll recharge it.

Part 6 — Delugia Coldsong

1. Ride the Kennel Lift down, head east through the ruins and across two bridges, then turn immediately left to the waterfall. Stand at its edge and right-click the Empowered Totem of Purging.
2. Delugia Coldsong steps out of the falls and attacks (her encounter cons yellow to red at level 8). She can get stuck in the wall; back away to pull her out. Defeating her lowers your standing with Naelira’s Court and the Fossergrim and raises it with the Circle of Spores.
3. Loot the Coldstone Shard and bring it to Varilis Thornvine. He won’t take it alone — hand him the expended totem, the Coldstone Shard, and your Apprentice Hoop of the Listener together.
4. He recognizes you as an accomplished Listener and gives you a Weathered Leaf Token. Take it to Elder Whisperer Eraeldor Lowmist in the building behind him to receive the Robes of the Listener and the Hoop of the Listener.