Nicholas the Traveler

Nicholas the Traveler provides Gifts of the Traveler in exchange for various items to those that can find him. His location and requested item changes weekly, which occurs at 15:00 UTC (8:00 AM PDT) on Monday.

Each account is limited to 5 Gifts of the Traveler per week at each location; this resets every week on Monday, at the same time he moves.

Background
Nicholas Sandford is an Ascalonian traveler of the world who always travels with his dolyak friend, Professor Yakkington. He met Yakkington in the Northern Shiverpeaks during a snowstorm and the two managed to survive by huddling together for warmth. Before the Searing, he was in love with Mary Malone who was killed during the devastating event. Due to her death, he didn't travel for years. He is also an aspiring writer and has written a novel entitled "There with Yakkington: A Traveler's Tale."

He has friends throughout the world, such as Imperial Chef Yileng, Gwen, Durmand, and many others. During his travels, he often collects items to aid his friends and is mostly seen helping Durmand or Zinn in some form, or catering to Yakkington's whims. Once he helped Vael by making a disguise out of Quetzal Crests so Vael could spy on the Tengu of Cantha.

Nicholas is also a craftsman, as he makes various tools and even small sculptures out of various items he finds, and is very interested in local folklore.

As a collector

 * For the week beginning (previous appearances are documented on the research page)


 * Reminder: Nicholas often will not appear if you have active quests that affect local spawns.

Other appearances

 * Beyond
 * Hearts of the North
 * Far Shiverpeaks
 * (during The Wedding)

Guild Wars Beyond

 * Olafstead (during The Wedding)
 * "It feels like only yesterday that Gwen was chasing after adventurers outside of Ascalon City. I'm glad that she has finally been able to find a bit of her own happiness, especially after all that she's been through. By the way, I was thinking of giving her some handmade hairpins as a wedding gift. If you could find me 3 Berserker Horns I should be able to fashion a nice set for her.


 * Just kidding! I got a few from one of the Vanguard scouts a little while ago!"

Guides

 * Farming guides for the currently requested item


 * Guild Wiki
 * PvX Wiki
 * Nick Gift Farms (YouTube video, featured in the official community news )


 * Research articles
 * Remaining locations
 * Guild Wiki's past collections


 * User pages that attempt to predict or suggest future requests
 * Kanda's trophy predictions
 * TEF's Item-of-the-Week predictions

Trivia

 * Trivia related to Nicholas' dialogue can be seen on the dialogue page.
 * Nicholas' novel, "There with Yakkington: A Traveler's Tale," is a reference to "There and Back Again: a Hobbit's Tale" by J.R.R. Tolkien.
 * According to John Hargrove:
 * Nicholas the Traveler was known internally as "Project Wumpus", a reference to the early computer game, Hunt the Wumpus..
 * There are 137 possible "haunts" for Nicholas, translating to 2.6 years of travels before he "even considers going to the same place".