A few posts back I mentioned about side quests but didn’t write any as I posted a link to wiki pages detailing many side quests.

I decided to post this particular one as there seems to be a lot of posts out there guessing at this particular side quest.

There are in fact 6 shiny spots in this quest which can be interacted with and two extra boss battles. One is the Earth Dragon which most know about and the other is a Treant which not so many know about or don’t know how to get both bosses.

Here is your guide to the side quest for Caravan Escort:

As usual you have to talk to Marco to start the actual quest. Now you need to get Warrior Adde and Chef Frio to follow you and go to the place where the first Troll King is, kill Troll King and follow the cave until it’s end and look at the shiny on the ground, click X and after your comment Warrior Adde says “whats up with this crack here?Looks like there’s a little rock wedged in there…Umph!” Next comment mentions with the rock removed, clear spring water begins to flow out of the crack…For those of you who use the map this location is M-3

Go back out to the main path and continue along, you will pass (or kill) another Troll King, he is at map location K-3, not necessary to kill him for the side quest, continue through the tunnel part and when you exit, immediately on your right is a dandelion, this is map location K-5, take the dandelion South and follow the path until the first tunnel/cave,examine the shiny on the right map location I-5 it tells you some amber-colored mushrooms are growing here. Chef Frio makes the comment “Hmm…What’s this…?” Then says “Hey, ambercap! This is gourmet stuff! Who knew it grew out here?” Then he says “I’ll just grab a few while i’m here…”

Now turn around and head back, catch dandelion to take you back over the gorge and take the two NPC’s to the end of the trail to finish the first escort, along the way there is a third Troll King to kill if you want at map location K-6, drop off both companions by speaking with Kyle, it will say they arrived safely. With Adde and Frio standing to one side speak with them individually and you will get ‘Clear Spring Water’ from Warrior Adde and some ‘Ambercap’ from Chef Frio.

Now you need to get back to the start to pick up the next two NPC’s, you need to get Captain Marco and Merchant Eddie to follow you this time.

You need to take them both all the way to the end but don’t speak to Kyle just yet, go past Kyle and follow the path until you see another shiny, examine it and it tells you there are some white rocks lying on the ground here. Merchant Eddie comments “Oho, that’s rock salt, isn’t it…Hmm…” then says “Hey, this is great! We got some really top-notch salt here!” Map location I-7. Release companions to finish second escort. Talk to Merchant Eddie to recieve some ‘quality rock salt’. Now talk to Captain Marco who comments “Oh wow, what have you got there, hmm? You don’t see that stuff everyday! Mind if I take a look?” He then takes the ambercap and clear spring water, mixes it and gives you some ‘amber essence’.

Head back to the start and take the remaining two NPC’s and before anyone starts contradicting this please read till the end and i’ll explain why i’ve changed from the official version of this side quest.

Take them to map location K-6 this is the path where the shiny is just before you get to the 3 scorpions near the end. When examining the shiny a jackal will appear, kill him for the Jackal Meat.

Carry on and go into the tunnel/cave just past the 3 scorpions, map location J-6 examine the shiny and use the ‘amber essence’ to attract the Treant.

To get to kill the Earth Dragon you will need to go back to where you crossed the gorge by dandelion and place the Jackal meat at the shiny at the end of the path, map location G-5 then you can finish the quest as usual.

This is the complete quest and I know there is another step mentioned in the official subquest but it is irrelevant as it only gets you a Hexcap which is not used for any part of the quest. This is my own personal walkthrough so you know it’s been tried and tested by me personally. I have killed both Treant and Earth Dragon and done it in the same quest, you don’t have to do them seperately in seperate quests as some have mentioned.

If you are with a group that are farming Troll Kings this wouldn’t really add any extra time on, you will struggle a bit to do this solo as I did because the time limit, it would work better if two people took one NPC each as I lost a lot of time taking two NPC’s to two different spots when it could have been done much quicker with two. Anyway there is the side quest/ subquest for caravan escort.

Tony:)