Side Stories

Three workers went into the shaft below the new granary foundation two nights ago. They have not come back. Dren, the oldest person in Aldenmoor, comes to you instead of the settlement leadership, with one instruction: don't seal it.

Tawnholt has been burning for three nights. Not wildfire. One building at a time, in an order that means something to someone. The Harbormaster's courier kept it short: dragon sighted, village burning, pay is good.

An archivist named Osric Vane had his collection burned two nights ago. Forty years of Varn family records. He keeps saying it was just old paper. Professionals do not burn just old paper.

A cataloging team sent into the Wasteland to survey salvageable war material stopped reporting six days ago. A surveyor named Brynn Calder was supposed to meet them. Nobody can find them either.

Your first bout in the Titans' Arena. The crowd is deafening. The Iron Siblings have never lost.

Aster Keep — a ruined castle fused with dead reactor pylons and corrupted security relics. Enter the grounds, find traces of the missing travellers, and destroy whatever guards the threshold.

A desperate plea from a besieged village. You answer it. Kira has already taken her position at the gate. Opens once you have met Jessie.

The map points to an abandoned industrial warehouse on the eastern edge of the sector. The Iron Syndicate is guarding something Agent K never managed to retrieve.

The facility is marked as decommissioned. The fence line says otherwise. You breach the perimeter and walk into an automated, coordinated and very much active security grid.

Elric the Scribe found a sealed forge-site outside Aldenmoor. He also found the constructs that sealed it. He told you plainly that he cannot fight — but he does think you are brave enough to pass their trial.

Reward: Trainee's Edge, the starter weapon. The Aldenmoor Weaponsmiths' Guild had one rule before they taught anything else: one strike, placed correctly, at the moment that matters.