Online:Scouting the Mine

Discover why the Reachmen have taken over Northwind Mine. Zone: The Rift Objective: Northwind Mine — Discover the Reach plan at Northwind Mine. Quest Giver: Tovisa Location(s): Northwind Mine Next Quest: Breaking the Coven Reward: Bloodstone Ring High Leveled Gold XP Gain: High

Investigate Northwind Mine

Tovisa wants help at Northwind Mine. The Reachmen have taken over the mine and we need to find out why.

Quick Walkthrough

1. (Optional) Wear the Northwind Disguise given by Tovisa.
2. Investigate the camp.
3. Talk to Tovisa.
4. Infiltrate Alona's Sanctum and take the Northwind Mine Key.
5. Talk to Tovisa.
6. Talk to Prisoner Gnarled-Root.
7. (Optional) Intimidate Gnarled-Root for the Hagraven Ward.
8. Find and talk to Tovisa.

Detailed Walkthrough

Tovisa, a member of the Pact, will come out of hiding to speak to you as you walk around the outskirts of Northwind Mine. She needs help in figuring out why the Reachmen have taken over the mine. She disguises herself as a peasant and lets herself get captured to infiltrate the camp. Meanwhile, she needs you to investigate the camp for information. She gives you a Northwind Disguise to make the task easier. As with other disguises involved in quests, do not wander too close to the Stonetalon Sentries, who are holding torches. If they see you, your cover will be blown and your disguise will be destroyed. If you lose your current disguise, a new one may be looted from dead Stonetalon clansmen.

"We've got trouble here. The Reachmen have taken over the Northwind Mine up ahead."

Why?

"That's what I need to find out. We have to get into their camp. This isn't the same tribe we saw in Shor's Stone. No telling what they're doing.

Lots of corpses coming out of the mine. That can't be good."

What's your plan?

"I'll get myself captured, see what the prisoners know. You look for clues in the camp. Take this uniform. Put it on and you should be able to move around camp unmolested."

Sounds like fun.

The hagraven totem

There are three specific objects that you are supposed to investigate. The nearest one is the Corpse Cart behind Alona's Sanctum. Peer into the cart and examine the bodies.

<This cart is piled high with the bodies of dead miners. All the corpses are missing their eyes.>

Next is a Hagraven Totem at the westernmost portion of the camp. Examine it.

<This totem bears the distinctive markings of Hagraven worship.>

The last item of interest is a book on a table in the forge towards the center of the camp, which talks about how hagravens enjoy eating eyeballs. If a totem associated with hagraven worship is located nearby, hagravens like to eat eyes, and all the corpses in the cart you looked at were missing their eyes, these Reachmen must worship eyeball-eating hagravens. Tovisa and the villagers from Shor's Stone are in danger. Head to the area where the captive miners are being held and report your findings to Tovisa.

Tovisa will ask you to intervene with what the Reachmen are doing by infiltrating the mine. The key to which is inside Alona's Sanctum. She plans on warning Vigrod about the hagravens, and gives you the Sanctum Key.

"This place is a slaughterhouse! What did you find?"

The Reachmen cut out prisoners' eyes and feed them to Hagravens.

"I must tell Vigrod. You infiltrate the mine. Heiress Alona has the only key to the mine door. I tried to steal it but could only get a key to her sanctum, just to the south. Get in there, find out what you can, and grab that mine door key."

I'm on it.

Enter the sanctum directly south of Tovisa's location, where you will be met by Heiress Alona and a Stonetalon Witchman. The heiress appears to be communicating with Stral Blackthroat and someone named Thallik Wormfather. Kill the heiress and the witchman, then take the key from the nearby chest. If you so choose, you can sneak up behind the heiress and take the key from the chest without alerting the Reachmen.

Return to where the prisoners are being kept and speak with Prisoner Gnarled-Root in the now-empty enclosure. She will tell you that all of the prisoners besides her have been taken to be murdered in the mines. If you have unlocked the Intimidating Presence passive from the Fighters Guild skill line, you will be able to intimidate her for a ward that stuns hagravens.

"They're all doomed, and I'm next!"

What happened to the other prisoners?

"Taken below, all of them. Tovisa tried to escape, but they took her too. They'll be mutilated and murdered, like all the others. You must save them."

Why didn't they take you too?

"The cart was full. They said they'd be back for me soon."

All right. I'll go after the others.

"Do not worry about me. Save the ones in the mine."

[Intimidate] If you have anything that can help me in the mine, I need it.

"I have only this ward that I hid from the guards. It's all I have to save me from the Hagravens. Please don't take it from me."

Inside the mine's first large chamber, Tovisa will be found with a piece of cloth covering her eyes. It turns out that she was drugged and the Hagraven took her eyes. This conversation will end the quest and begin the next one.

"Who are you? Don't touch me!"

Tovisa! What have they done to you?

"No, please, get away! Who—it's you. Don't look at me. Don't touch me. The bastards, the Hagravens, they took my eyes! Sucked them out of my skull! I can't … what they did to me!

Make them pay—kill them, rip their eyes out!"

You'll have your revenge, Tovisa!

"I never had a chance. They drugged us. Then the Hagraven came. Its breath on my face! It sucked out my eyes. I'll never see again."

Quest Stages

Scouting the Mine
Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
	Tovisa let herself get captured to infiltrate the camp. I need to look around the camp for information. She gave me a Reachman outfit as a disguise. Objective: Investigate Camp: 0/3 Hidden Objective: Search Cart Hidden Objective: Read Book Hidden Objective: Examine Totem Once I'm disguised as a Reachman, I can more easily look around their camp. Objective Hint: Use Disguise to Infiltrate Camp
	I've discovered that the Reachmen here worship a coven of Hagravens. I should go tell Tovisa. Objective Hint: Corpses Are Missing Eyes Objective Hint: Hagravens Love Fresh Eyes Objective Hint: Hagravens Must Be Nearby Objective: Talk to Tovisa
	Tovisa said to get into the mystics' sanctum, find out what I can, and steal a key to the mine. Objective: Infiltrate Alona's Sanctum Objective Hint: Only Guards and Mystics Enter the Sanctum
	Now to check back with Tovisa and tell her I'm heading into the mine. Objective: Talk to Tovisa
	Tovisa and the others are gone. I need to ask Gnarled-Root what happened. Objective: Talk to Prisoner Gnarled-Root
	Tovisa has been taken into the mine! I have to get inside before something terrible happens to her. Objective: Enter Mine
	I have to find Tovisa and get her out of here. Objective: Find Tovisa
Finishes quest	I have to find Tovisa and get her out of here before something terrible happens! Objective: Find Tovisa

Notes

* Any text displayed in angle brackets (e.g., <Alias=LocationHold>) is dynamically set by the game and will be filled in with the appropriate word(s) when seen in game.

• Not all Journal Entries may appear in your journal; which entries appear and which entries do not depends on the manner in which the quest is done.
• Stages are not always in order of progress. This is usually the case with quests that have multiple possible outcomes or quests where certain tasks may be done in any order. Some stages may therefore repeat objectives seen in other stages.