Quest · chapter 1

The Dimming

Havenbrook's own waystone is flickering, and the rats under the west fields have grown strange. Thin them out and end whatever rules the Rat Warrens.

The Sevenfold Ward (main story)Shared by the whole world

At a glance

Everyone’s kills and deliveries count, it’s finished once for the whole world, and everyone who helped gets the full reward.

Warden Maera Thornwick
“So you are the newcomer. Good. I am Maera Thornwick, Warden of this town, and I have run out of people to ask.”
Warden Maera Thornwick
“The stone at our gate has stood lit for three hundred years. Last month it began to flicker... and the rats under the west fields began to gather. They do not act like rats any more.”
Warden Maera Thornwick
“Something down in the Warrens is feeding on our light. Thin the vermin, find what leads them, and end it. Anyone in this town who helps will share the reward.”

Warden Maera Thornwick
“The Warrens are west of town, traveller. The rats will not thin themselves.”

Warden Maera Thornwick
“It is done? Look... look at the stone. Steady as a held breath. I had forgotten what that looked like.”
Warden Maera Thornwick
“A rat that spoke. That called our waystone 'the warm stone'. Then it is as I feared. This is not vermin. Something is teaching them to feed.”
The Chronicle
“The Havenbrook stone burns clear again. One of seven. And far to the south, under a mountain of ash, something turns over in its sleep.”