1.6.3 - Pilgrimage of the Eight

A dead girl's empty tomb and a door of eight runes gave your wandering a name and a purpose at last.

You came up out of the catacombs bloodied, the Chosen and his demon dead behind you, Hannah's empty tomb and that vast eight-runed door fresh in your minds. The council gave you little peace. When you named the Chosen's treachery, the Speaker denied all of it, cold and smooth, calling the dead one a cursed defector who shamed his order. But Veylith stepped forward with a memory: the Pilgrimage of the Eight, an old elven rite through eight temples buried beneath the Shallows, shrines that once bound an ancient evil with the power of the gods themselves. And Grukk One-Tusk produced two runes he had found securing the catacombs, faintly glowing with divine power. The legend was real, and more runes were waiting.

So down you went again, this time with purpose. The first temple was Frigg's, all family and fate. A mystral orb let you step into the temple's own glorious past as a living memory, where you met a clever young spider that the elves of this place had once loved and kept. But the present held the Weaver, that same spider grown monstrous, abandoned by the Thrandurassil elves when the Blood Elves tore this place apart and left to survive alone on scraps of prophecy and planar tricks. She blamed the elves who left her, and she was not wrong to. You put her down and took the Rune of Frigg. Beyond, the waters ran pure and blue again, and across a footbridge stood the temple of Njord.

Remember For Next Time

• The Pilgrimage of the Eight: collect the eight divine runes to open the sealed door. It once bound an ancient evil. Veylith named it; the door you found is its lock.
• Three in hand: Grukk's two runes plus the Rune of Frigg. Five temples to go.
• The Weaver's grievance: the elves abandoned her to the Blood Elves. Not every monster down here started as one.
• Njord is next: the way to his temple is open across the water.

Where We Are

On the footbridge to Njord's temple, the Rune of Frigg claimed and the Pilgrimage finally understood.