'You have done quite well thus far, $PLAYER$. I am impressed, and I am not often impressed by a mere (your race). I find your kind often lack the sense that my little friends here possess, but you have shown a greater understanding.

'I need you to do something which I shudder to ask. The corrupted Huorns and their shepherds, the bog-lurkers, must be destroyed. The bark you brought me has shown that there is no longer any hope of redemption for these poor creatures. The Huorns and bog-lurkers dwell to the north-west.

'It is a terrible tragedy, but I see no other course that would be more merciful. I am also greatly concerned, for whatever this corruption is, it was not the work of Ivar the Bloodhand.'