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 waterfall where the river spills into Keeper's Bight, southwest of the wolf den, to check for magical enchantment in the water.
16. At the river's edge just before the falls, use /inspect water (Sense Magic helps) to confirm the enchantment, then /take water with the flask equipped to fill it.

Part 5 — Purging the Enchantment

17. Return the filled flask to Varilis Thornvine. Alarmed that the naiads' influence reaches so far downriver, he hands you a Sigil of Purging and asks you to craft a cleansing totem: 4 Timber (loggable in Keeper's Bight), 4 Serpent Skins (from serpents in Keeper's Bight), and 2 strands of Selstie Kelp (from the riverbed in Evershade Weald), combined with the sigil at a carpentry table on Traders Terrace.

The reference wiki's account of this quest ends here, without a documented turn-in or further reward for the totem — this final step may not be fully documented yet.