Isdi's Instructions
This is in regard to the following quest: Implements of Knowledge
Isdi's Instructions
Every weapon draws its strength from the story it bears, and that which I fashion for you will be no different. The tasks I set before you may seem insurmountable, but do not despair! You are wise beyond measure, and I know that you will find that which you seek and return to me; no mysteries are beyond your reach, friend lore-master.
The following notes will provide guidance on the tasks I would have you complete, and the order which I would have you return the items to me.
The Corcur of the Misty Mountains have retained a keep not far from Helegrod, and they have borne nothing but ill will towards the Free Peoples for time out of mind. They carve runes and sigils on the ice that encrusts their staves, charms of some sort, and if you bring some of the staves to me I may learn something of value with which to improve the weapon I make for you.
I do not know Driftclaw's story from the beginning, but pieces of it have reached my ears from some of my kin that crossed his path long ago, and I have filled in the missing years with my own guesses. His name in those days was Ravaged-hide. He was the victim of some corrupting disease, and his fur fell out in great patches, Filled with rage, he made his way step-by-step away from his kin, terrorizing villages and outlying homesteads with his teeth and claws. Bear-kind shunned him, and the thinking peoples hunted him.
He came at last to the Misty Mountains and climbed their rocky slopes. How he must have shivered in the cold of those high places, but at last he was free of the swords and arrows of those who hunted him... they would not follow him into the heights.
I speak now closer to my own knowledge, for I met a hunter named Marshley who has seen him. Perhaps the cold air of the Mountains worked some remedy on his corruption, but he is Ravaged-hide no longer. His coat now is the white customary of those who dwell high in the Mountains. His appetite and ferocity remain unchanged, and he stalks now the lands of the giants.
His teeth rend and tear the flesh of his prey and will be an invaluable addition to the weapon I will make for you.
When you have triumphed over Driftclaw and have bested the Corcur, bring their items to me before you continue.
Even in death, the eyes of the deadly worms of the High Pass in the Misty Mountains and the expanses of Forochel maintain the hatred they bore for us in life. I have heard that such creatures have been seen even among the peaks of Helegrod, the lost dwarf-city in the Misty Mountains, but I do not know if that is true.