Deianeira, a half-elf in the Tainted Forest, told me that she believes the taint covering the Queen's Colony may be related to poison spread by a nest of toxic crawlers. She suggested that clearing out these spiders could help by removing their poison from the Forest. It's worth a try.
Stage 1
I need to clear out the toxic crawlers to keep their poison from spreading throughout the Colony.
Start: | I need to clear the Tainted Forest of these toxic crawlers! |
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Complete: | I've slain the toxic crawlers. |
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I've cleared out many spiders and as a result found an unusual item.Stage 2
There is more to be learned in the Tainted Forest.
Start: | I need to examine the parchment scrap to see if I can decipher anything. |
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Complete: | I've examined the scrap. |
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Start: | While hard to decipher, the writings indicate that there is a problem with the toxic crawlers. I'll try to find another piece of parchment on one of these spiders though it might take me a while to find one with more of this parchment. |
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Complete: | I've found another piece of parchment. |
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Start: | I need to put the parchment pieces together to learn more about the toxic crawlers. |
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Complete: | I've put the parchment together. |
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Start: | According to the parchment, there is something hidden in the rockpile at the eastern end of the Tainted Forest. I'll need to take a closer look. |
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Complete: | I've located the rest of the parchment. |
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Start: | Now I need to gather the parchment pieces from the spider's nest. Hopefully, they are from the parchment I'm trying to put together! |
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Complete: | I've gathered the pieces of parchment from the spider's nest. |
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Start: | I need to put together all the pieces of the parchment. |
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Complete: | I've pieced the parchment together. |
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Start: | The parchment refers to Direspike. I must slay Direspike, the spider that must be at the root of this problem. |
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Complete: | I've slain Direspike and in the process destroyed the tainted totem. |
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Start: | I should tell Deianeira that the toxic crawlers are not the source of the taint. |
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Complete: | I've spoken with Deianeira. |
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I've destroyed Direspike but the taint remains. While killing toxic crawlers to test Deianeira's theory on poison, I found a piece of parchment hinting that someone had influenced the toxic crawlers by hiding some kind of totem in their main nest. After I removed Direspike from the lair, the totem shattered on its own. The poison theory seems shattered as well.