Urgent Warning

Tell Gretchen's scout Snakebite about the White Mantle advance from the west.

Objectives

 * Meet up with Gretchen's Scout.
 * See Elder Gretchen for your reward.

Reward

 * 500 Experience
 * Battle Axe
 * Slashing Dmg: 6-25 (Requires 8 Axe Mastery)
 * Wicked Staff
 * Energy +8
 * Dark Dmg: 9-16 (Requires 8 Blood Magic)
 * Two-handed

Walkthrough
This quest is very straightforward: journey your way towards Snakebite, then head northeast to Aurora Glade, and speak to Elder Gretchen for your reward.

Initial dialogue
Councilor Vaylor
 * "Elder Gretchen, you may have heard, is spearheading our efforts to unlock the gate to Denravi. She and her people need to be alerted to the White Mantle push from the west. I'd like you to head east and attempt to contact one of her scouts. She'll have posted one along the way, I imagine.


 * If you make contact, tell the scout of the impending attack, and get to Aurora Glade so you can speak with Gretchen, herself."

Intermediate dialogue
Snakebite
 * "The White Mantle already swept through here. I was sent to keep an eye out for any more coming through this area. They were too many, and we too few. Talk with Elder Gretchen in Aurora Glade. Perhaps Denravi is not yet lost."

Reward dialogue
Elder Gretchen
 * "At this point we need your weapons and your spells far more than Vaylor's warnings. The White Mantle have come through here and destroyed everything in their path. Where they found abandoned villages, they left behind them only sticks and stones. Where they found Shining Blade, they left behind only corpses. I fear that we're fighting a losing battle. We cannot afford a misstep in the ritual to open the portal to the druid Henge of Denravi.


 * The druids are little more than spirits, now. They have transcended this world and have become part of the jungle, abandoning their villages. Until recently, we've been using the structures they left behind as camps from whence to plan our operations."