Rebuild the Portal #1: The Talking Plant  

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This Quest is Seasonal
Level:65
Maximum Level:95
Monster Mission:No
Repeatable:No
Can Be Shrouded?:No
Quest Type:Task
Quest Goal:
  • Advancement
Quest Items:
Related Creatures:
Related Quests:
Era:Serpents Spine
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Group Size:Solo
Min. # of Players:1
Max. # of Players:1
Appropriate Classes:
  • All
Appropriate Races:
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Entered: Thu Oct 12 02:13:55 2006
Modified: Thu Jul 6 02:48:23 2023
This task begins with Moldren the Wise in The Steppes at location -645, 910, 93 (west-central part of the zone).

You say, 'Hail, Moldren the Wise'

Moldren the Wise says 'Hail and well met ______. You don't appear to be from around this area but you do look capable of [helping me] become a little wiser while offering you a little adventure.'

You say, 'Helping me?'

Moldren the Wise says 'Yes I'm always in search of knowledge. These last few years though have been rough on me. I really am getting old. My taste of adventure has died down some. I've been trying to gain the knowledge that I need to speak with [Wilped].'

You say, 'Wilped?'

Moldren the Wise says 'Wilped is an interesting find my friend. All that we know about him is that he never leaves the ruined portal. He often talks out loud but none of us can understand the language he speaks in. After studying him for awhile I have figured out what I need to do to learn to speak to him but I'm afraid at my age I will not be able to [survive the journey].'

You say, 'Survive the journey?'

Moldren the Wise says 'It's been said that there was a giant Prophet who had the knowledge of speaking with Wilped. He has been dead and buried a long time before I got here though. The locals say that the secret he used was buried with him. That is as much as I know. [Exploring the tomb] of an old dead prophet is not something that I can do at this age.'

You say, 'Exploring the tomb?'

Moldren the Wise says 'If you would like to explore this tomb for me I would make it worth your time. It's been said that he would use a charm to speak with Wilped. Would you be [willing to search] for this charm?'

You say, 'I am willing to search.'

Moldren the Wise says 'Thank you my friend. You can find the tomb in the old giant burial grounds. You must be careful and quick though. People who enter that burial ground seem to disappear and never be seen again.'

You have been assigned the task 'The Talking Plant'.

Moldren has been trying to communicate with a giant plant named Wilped the Withered. He believes that Wilped has a connection to the past but they can't communicate because he needs to recover a charm to speak with the plant.



Explore the ancient giant crypt far to the north 0/1 (The Steppes)

NOTE: If you are in a group with other people on this step, you will all trigger this step at once, but only one Prophet mob will spawn, leaving you with only one drop. You may be able to get around this problem if the person triggering the spawn pulls the mob far enough away from the update location.

Slay the Prophet Spirit 0/1 (The Steppes)

Go to the giant crypt on the west side of the waterfall near Icefall Glacier at /waypoint -544.45, 963.19. A giant named "Prophet Spirit" will spawn. The task will update, telling you to kill the Prophet Spirit. Kill it and loot an ancient charm.

Loot the Ancient Charm 0/1 (The Steppes)

Deliver the Ancient Charm to Moldren the Wise 0/1 (The Steppes)

Bring the charm to Wilped the Withered, and in exchange receive a single-charge item named "A Portal Fragment".

Upon doing the turn-in:

Your task 'The Talking Plant' has been updated.
You gain experience!!
You have been given: Portal Fragment

The task "The Library" follows this one. You can get it by speaking with Moldren the Wise.
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respawn
# Apr 14 2012 at 8:13 AM Rating: Decent
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Note that step 1 "Explore the ancient giant crypt far to the north 0/1" triggers the Prophet to spawn on completion. If you are grouped doing this with multiple people, you will have to re-get the quest if everyone triggers it at the same time. Only one Ancient Charm drops. You might be able to work around this by pulling the prophet far enough out of the cave with the first person that the others in the group don't trigger the 'Explore' step.
respawn
# Feb 14 2013 at 4:55 PM Rating: Decent
I cleared the gnolls in area in front of cave and pulled him to the cave between the gnolls and giants which is far enough not to affect the other group members task updates; smooth.
Minor update
# Mar 02 2010 at 11:41 PM Rating: Decent
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Upon doing the turn-in:

(dialogues needed)

You have been assigned the task The Library.


The only text upon turning the Ancient Charm in is as follows:

Your task 'The Talking Plant' has been updated.
You gain experience!!
You have been given: Portal Fragment

Correction to the presently noted text as well.

'You have been assigned the task The Library.' does not come automatically from completing The Talking Plant. You have to speak with Moldren the Wise and go through some dialogue to get The Library.


Edited, Mar 2nd 2010 10:43pm by Ragord
Task Stages
# Jan 31 2009 at 3:58 PM Rating: Decent
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Explore the ancient giant crypt far to the north 0/1 The Steppes
Slay the Prophet Spirit 0/1 The Steppes
Loot the Ancient Charm 0/1 The Steppes
Deliver the Ancient Charm to Moldren the Wise 0/1 The Steppes

After completing each step, you get the message, "Your task 'The Talking Plant' has been updated.

If you have previously completed this quest, then after completing the last step, you only get two yellow text messages: "You gain experience!!" and "You have been given: Portal Fragment".

Edited, Jan 31st 2009 7:08pm by KiruCaro
Easy kill
# Aug 10 2007 at 1:21 AM Rating: Decent
I'm a 68 necro and i just killed the gnolls outside the cave to give me some room. He didn't see thru my invis by the way. I snared him then kited him outside the cave, very easy kill.
Where is the prophet spirit???
# May 04 2007 at 1:22 PM Rating: Default
Where the heck is the Prophet Spirit anyway I see posts pertaining to other parts of the quest that do not even belong here and there are THREE cave entrances but still no posts on where this guy is.

Edited, May 4th 2007 6:42pm by cyril
Where is the prophet spirit???
# May 04 2007 at 1:35 PM Rating: Decent
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Quote:
Go to the giant crypt on the west side of the waterfall near Icefall Glacier. A giant named Prophet Spirit will spawn. The task will update, telling you to kill the Prophet Spirit (fight info?). Kill it and loot an ancient charm.


he does not spawn inside of the tunnels, he spawns in the middle section/fork there.



Edited, May 4th 2007 2:36pm by DukeLatan
Where is the prophet spirit???
# May 04 2007 at 2:41 PM Rating: Default
Latan, once again you come through with the answer, lol. I read that and I was thinking of the cave near the giant area but when I went there it was just a tunnel to the other side with an npc inside of it. But then I read somewhere about it being just west of Icefall so I went back and found a cave that wasn't even on the map and I spawned him.

I was mislead since I didn't see any giants inside. But there are no adds to worry about, just invis to the entrance and he will spawn with nothing around him to add on you.
Prophet Spirit
# Feb 03 2007 at 8:11 AM Rating: Decent
Prophet Spirit is dark blue to 75 monk. No adds just him to dance with. Not hard at all. Just did him
Pummelcrush
# Nov 16 2006 at 7:32 PM Rating: Decent
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Red to 75 Raid Mob spawned on West side of portal

Spawned after portal was completed using the fragments from this quest. Stayed up for approx 15 minutes before the Portal of War collapsed to 0%

Spawns with 20+ adds lvl 71+ that encircle him

noticed a 6kdd hit me range over 75... single or AE? not sure
Summary to date
# Nov 15 2006 at 3:21 PM Rating: Good
The information from DukeLatan remains the best in this post. Just to continue to bring all the data together...
1) Hail Moldren, complete first quest, hand item to Moldren, receive a charged portal fragment.
2) Hail Wilpred, answer "Moldren" (this answer is NOT flagged in his text) and receive the second quest... Library. Complete this quest, and return books and recieve a second charged portal fragment.
3) Hail Wilpred, answer "Moldren" and receive the third quest.. collecting Portal Stones from Icefall and Portal Fragments from Golems in Direwind. Kill the Portal Guardian back in Steppes, and hail as indicated. Recieve the neck item and a third charged portal fragment.

The clicky item has unlimited charges but requires a reagent. This reagent is a portal fragment that can be purchased from any LDoN Magus including the one in the Guild Lobby. Warning: when you port to the Steppes with this device you will NOT be invis, and will actually have mobs agro on you, so be warned and take care.

There was originally to be a 4th quest for a non-reagent neck piece, confirmed by Devs now cancelled.

You can take your three charged portal fragments, stand on the broken port in the steppes and click them to "heal the portal". Three will NOT heal it fully. If you have a few friends you CAN heal it fully. A number of waves of agro mobs will emerge. This is likely the events that were to be part of the fourth quest. I'm not aware that there is anything actaully gained by killing these mobs or any loot.
finished task
# Nov 11 2006 at 11:23 PM Rating: Decent
I have completed the series;
1st task: talking plant
2nd task: the library
3rd task: go to icefall and kill kobolds until you loot 4 portal rocks and then go to direwind and kill the undead skelly golems in direwind, looting 4 portal fragments.

Task will update and tell you to go to The Steppes and find the destroyed portal (area near the earth elementals) and the named Portal Guardian will spawn. Kill him and Go back to Moldren and turn in the fragments and rocks to receive your clicky port.
This quest is bugged and here's how
# Nov 09 2006 at 12:56 PM Rating: Decent
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This quest can start from Moldren or from Wilped.
Only Moldren's works. If you do Wilped's , you miss some kind of invisible char flag and you can't get the second one from wilped. Easy solution of course is that This quest is not supposed to start from Wilped , only Moldren.

So make sure you start The Talking Plant quest from Moldren the Wise.

quest #1 https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=3714
quest #2 http://www.angelfire.com/myband/TrevorHay/Rebuild_the_Portal_2.htm
quest #3 http://www.angelfire.com/myband/TrevorHay/Rebuild_the_Portal_3.htm

Edited, Nov 16th 2006 at 1:48am PST by DukeLatan
Finish and the fragemt you receive
# Nov 09 2006 at 2:22 AM Rating: Decent
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When I have him the charm from the Spirit...
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Your task 'The Talking Plant' has been updated.

Moldren the Wise has been trying to communicate with a giant plant named Wilped the Withered. He believes that Wilped has a connection to the past but they can't communicate because he needs to recover a charm to speak with the plant.

You gain experience!!
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The "A Portal Fragment" you receive is the greenish one as
opposed to the slim gray one or the brown one that looks like
the Mesa stone from the Guild Hall. (This one is Lucy # 87206)


Edited, Nov 9th 2006 at 11:59am PST by Temperance
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can't get into room
# Nov 07 2006 at 3:52 PM Rating: Default
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I'm on the second part of the quest - the Library. Everytime I go to enter the back rooms of both houses, the walls turn blue and I get stuck at the doorway of the room very far from the bookcases. I've tried it with levi, without levi, shrunk, running start, sneaking up on the room... My only recourse is to /rewind. Anyone else get this problem? I'm pretty sure I'm in the right houses. I'm on Xegony btw.
can't get into room
# Nov 08 2006 at 7:16 PM Rating: Decent
I've had this happen a couple of times in TSS zones. And have tried the same things you have. All I've been able to do is report it.
can't get into room
# Nov 16 2006 at 12:50 AM Rating: Decent
Thanks! I'll remember to use that when I run into this prob from now on. I play on an old laptop so I have everything turned down pretty much as far as it will go. =-)
can't get into room
# Nov 10 2006 at 9:45 AM Rating: Decent
I had the same problem too. I think it is some video setting or hardware problem. I used a different computer and was able to go into the room and pick up the items no problem.

Edit: I found out that in your EQ Display settings, you must have your LOD Bias set to high or very high to avoid the problems in that room. gl

Quix

Edited, Nov 13th 2006 at 4:19pm PST by RivendaleMubbo
some missing info
# Nov 04 2006 at 10:04 AM Rating: Decent
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this is a three part quest for necklace of warportal fragments steppes clicky port neck.
part 1 https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=3714
part 2 http://www.angelfire.com/myband/TrevorHay/Rebuild_the_Portal_2.htm
part 3 http://www.angelfire.com/myband/TrevorHay/Rebuild_the_Portal_3.htm

This is the first fragment you recieve, from this quest:
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=87206
Second quest fragment reward:
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=87207
Third:
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=87208

I can confirm that the Necklace of Warportal Fragments is the reward for the third quest, which is called "The Destroyed Portal", checked with preview reward.

Here is a write up for "The Library" quest , which actually starts from Wilped. The phrase to bring up his task selection window (which is the same phrase for quest #3) is "rebuild it". Wilped will not respond to the phraes unless you have done
moldren's quest first.

http://www.angelfire.com/myband/TrevorHay/Rebuild_the_Portal_2.htm


Missing Completion Text for This quest (Talking plant)
Your task 'The Talking Plant' has been updated.

(in yellow text)
Moldren the Wise has been trying to communicate with a giant plant named Wilped the Withered. He believes that Wilped has a connection to the past but they can't communicate because he needs to recover a charm to speak with the plant.

You gain experience!!

You have been given: A Portal Fragment (http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=87206)

Edited, Nov 4th 2006 at 4:28pm PST by DukeLatan

Edited, Nov 4th 2006 at 5:35pm PST by DukeLatan

Edited, Nov 7th 2006 at 5:18pm PST by DukeLatan
how do you get second task?
# Nov 03 2006 at 9:58 PM Rating: Decent
I have completed the first step and returned the charm to Moldren, and he gave me the first portal fragment. but did not give me a second task, or any text to lead into it.. having read here that the next step is The Library, I asked him ' What library?".. and he replies :

"those who knew the prophet have said that he used to spend months inside the library at a time. I would suspect that you would be able to find some writings about how to comunicate with Wilped there. if you [ Accept this task ] you could help uncover answers to a lot of questions about the history of these lands.

i have tried many variations of 'accept this task'.. and he doesnt respond. How do you get the task to go get the books???
how do you get second task?
# Nov 26 2006 at 8:46 PM Rating: Decent
For you guys haveing probs with the graphics glitch getting into room . . . I did this today and had similar prob. After many /rewinds and many retries; I went to my Options window . . . Display tab and turned LoAD bios(bottom of my window cant remeber exact wording) up. It was set on very low or 0 and after that I had no problems except I couldn't see the second book so had to camp. It was there plain as day when I got back in. I play on a newer model laptop but figure this might help anyone with this problem.
how do you get second task?
# Nov 04 2006 at 10:24 AM Rating: Decent
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edit:

apparently if you do the quest through wilped you become bugged , /bug report it and hope they put a fix in. this queset should be done through Moldren Only, but wilped offers a Bugged one as well at the moment.

Edited, Nov 9th 2006 at 1:11pm PST by DukeLatan
Dev Response
# Oct 29 2006 at 7:01 AM Rating: Decent
A dev finally responded on the SOE boards per this quest. In case you missed it - i'll repost it here.

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Merloc-DEV
I've updated the first Rift of War spell so that it will use vendor bought small portal fragments instead of the portal fragments you loot in TSS. It will go out in the next patch or two.
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At this time it appears as though they are not going to fix it so its totally regeantless. Hopefully they will in the future. This will be a nice item once its patched up to use those frags. Those small portal fragments are sold by magus npc's and are pretty cheap *atm*(might want to buy some stacks just in case -).
Necklace
# Oct 26 2006 at 8:34 PM Rating: Decent
I completed the third stage tonight. Killed The Portal Guardian, handed in the 8 portal pieces and received the necklace. Excited, I headed back to IG and forgot to invis . . . /sigh. I died. No biggie, I'll Vetrez and port back to Steppes with my new necklace! Woot! NOT!!!!! It doesn't work! It says I am missing a component: Portal Fragement; yet, I still have all three from the subquests. Maybe the warportal has to be completely rebuilt. On Inny/Nameless it is at 17% now, but was 10% last week. Maybe each time someone completes the quest the percentage increases. No idea, but I do know I'll still be running thru Mesa for a while . . .
Necklace
# Oct 29 2006 at 6:58 AM Rating: Good
The necklace does work, it does'nt consume the charged portal fragments, it needs to consume the portal fragments that you get from the golems. The same ones you looted for the quest its self. I've used the necklace 3 times now with no problem. Only thig that sucks is you end up inthe middle of the portal not invised and sometimes get attacked. But they are light blue at 75 and can easily get away. After that last patch I lost the next part of the quest...was replaced with something called "Aragol's Seance". Anyone else get this? Does this have anything to do with the quest at all or is it a bug from the patch? Its says to collect "1 Foul Ichor Residue" & "1 Fine Bone Powder".
Has anyone seen where these drop? Just curious what this quest is for sense I did'nt pick it up myself. Sony tagged it on me from the patch =P

Thanks =)
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Necklace
# Nov 09 2006 at 4:47 AM Rating: Decent
Aragol's Seance was a Halloween quest in Crescent Reach.
The Library
# Oct 20 2006 at 9:25 PM Rating: Decent
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1) Explore Valdeholm until you find two homes with bookcases -- this is in the area of n379 n1085 -- near the wolf pen (stay right thru gates, basically) -- be warned those wolves can see invis

2) Loot Ancient Giant Book One -- looking at wolf pen -- building on right right by wolves. Cant see book unless you get close and are able to peer thru wall, so to speak -- can drop LoD Bias to do this

3) Loot Ancient Giant Book Two -- Come out of that building and its 2nd door on left right there. Use the LoD Bias again at the book case

4 & 5) Deliver books back back to Moldren the Wise

Automatically get 3rd task -- "The Destroyed Portal", XP and A Portal Fragment
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The Library
# Nov 04 2006 at 10:54 AM Rating: Decent
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should be noted that this task (the library) starts from wilped , not moldren. I'm standing right where the second book should be and it's bugged; won't show up. the other book (#1) spawns every 4 minutes though. /bug'ed .
The Portal Awakens
# Oct 17 2006 at 6:02 PM Rating: Decent
Anyone want to shed some light on this?

I completed step 3 and received the necklace and the 3 frags for rebuilding the portal. But after reading the SOE boards, i'm not gonna go any further on this one until someone can confirm its really broke or solved?

I just don't want to burn my frags if they don't actually rebuild it is all. Anyone have any additional information on step 4?

Edited, Oct 22nd 2006 at 9:00am PDT by Dianer
success
# Oct 17 2006 at 3:26 PM Rating: Decent
I can confirm that you get the necklace after the 3rd task which involves collecting 4 portal pieces from golems in direwind and kobolds in iceglacier. Then you are tasked to go to the destroyed portal in Steppes, the one you explore for aug. At which point I was attacked by a portal guardian, D. blue to 75. I don't know if he was there before or what but he sees invis, as do a few of his friends nearby. I was able to solo pull him to safety and kill him solo, does not summon, casts a root and some sort of dot. After killing him, hand in 4 of each portal items to Moldren. One thing to note, the necklace says it consumes a portal fragment that you get as a result of each section. I have not tried the necklace nor have i tried using the portal fragments themselves. I hope that's not true though.
books
# Oct 16 2006 at 7:28 PM Rating: Default
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the second book is easy the get, it looks like a small bag on the book shelf. to get the 1st book stand close the book shelves but at the center spot between them, then hit alt O to get your display options to appear, turn your LOD Bias down until the walls and book case disappear. The bag for the 1st book and box will be left if you do it right, then just max it back up again after you pick up the bag.
Can't Look first book
# Oct 14 2006 at 6:20 AM Rating: Decent
Located Ancient Giant Book 1 inside the book in the house by the wolf pen. I can see the bag for the thing but can't click it. Wolf form on and shrunk. Most annoying.
wolves see invise
# Oct 13 2006 at 2:22 PM Rating: Decent
well, found out the hard way, some of those puppies in that cage see invise, ... and there's a LOT of them...

one glowing soulstone later and ready to go back, but still no luck finding the books /sigh
arrrg
# Oct 12 2006 at 7:55 PM Rating: Decent
have treyed max shrink and wolf form i can see the darn book but cant loot dont have a mount going to try some differant illisions
Moldren /loc & dialogue
# Oct 12 2006 at 10:35 AM Rating: Decent
[Thu Oct 12 14:19:19 2006] Logging to 'eqlog.txt' is now *ON*.
[Thu Oct 12 14:19:23 2006] Your Location is -646.68, 910.28, 93.37
[Thu Oct 12 14:19:29 2006] You say, 'Hail, Moldren the Wise'
[Thu Oct 12 14:19:29 2006] Moldren the Wise says 'Hail and well met Soandso. You don't appear to be from around this area but you do look capable of [helping me] become a little wiser while offering you a little adventure.'
[Thu Oct 12 14:19:37 2006] You say, 'helping me'
[Thu Oct 12 14:19:37 2006] Moldren the Wise says 'Yes I'm always in search of knowledge. These last few years though have been rough on me. I really am getting old. My taste of adventure has died down some. I've been trying to gain the knowledge that I need to speak with [Wilped].'
[Thu Oct 12 14:19:40 2006] You say, 'Wilped'
[Thu Oct 12 14:19:40 2006] Moldren the Wise says 'Wilped is an interesting find my friend. All that we know about him is that he never leaves the ruined portal. He often talks out loud but none of us can understand the language he speaks in. After studying him for awhile I have figured out what I need to do to learn to speak to him but I'm afraid at my age I will not be able to [survive the journey].'
[Thu Oct 12 14:19:47 2006] You say, 'survive the journey'
[Thu Oct 12 14:19:47 2006] Moldren the Wise says 'It's been said that there was a giant Prophet who had the knowledge of speaking with Wilped. He has been dead and buried a long time before I got here though. The locals say that the secret he used was buried with him. That is as much as I know. [Exploring the tomb] of an old dead prophet is not something that I can do at this age.'
[Thu Oct 12 14:19:54 2006] You say, 'exploring the tomb'
[Thu Oct 12 14:19:54 2006] Moldren the Wise says 'If you would like to explore this tomb for me I would make it worth your time. It's been said that he would use a charm to speak with Wilped. Would you be [willing to search] for this charm?'
[Thu Oct 12 14:19:59 2006] You say, 'willing to search'
[Thu Oct 12 14:19:59 2006] You have been assigned the task 'The Talking Plant'.
[Thu Oct 12 14:19:59 2006] Moldren the Wise says 'Thank you my friend. You can find the tomb in the old giant burial grounds. You must be careful and quick though. People who enter that burial ground seem to disappear and never be seen again.'
second task
# Oct 12 2006 at 8:35 AM Rating: Decent
The second task is automatically given when u submit the 2 books back. You have to kill and loot 4 golems in Direwind and 4 gnolls in Icefall. Portal rocks and fragments. The quest will continue after that.
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