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• Lindon: Darker hair, light skin
• Lorien: Lighter hair, very light skin
• Mirkwood: Light hair, Light skin
• Rivendell: dark hair, light skin
• Edhellon: Dark skin, Dark hair

After creating your character you start in an instanced quest.

1. Talk to Talagan Silvertongue.
2. Right click on the nearby corpse of Haerandir; loot the available weapons.
3. Talk to Talagan Silvertongue again.
4. Follow Talagan south; when he stops, continue onward through the gates.
5. Follow Edhelben east, and then west. Continue west without Edhelben, up the stairs.
6. Here you will meet your first enemy, a level 2 goblin-warrior. Right click on the warrior to auto attack, and use the three available skills in your skill tray. Remember to loot the goblin when it is dead!
7. Continue up the path slaying enemies (4 more goblins) until you meet Dorongar.
8. Talk to Dorongar Whitethorn.
9. Follow Elrond and watch the events that unfold.
10. Talk to Elrond.

Rewards: You exit the instance and enter Erud Luin.

Welcome to the Refuge of Edhelion, or Old Edhelion, located in Erud Luin. To start, talk to Merethen to receive another quest: Elrond's Premonition.

1. Talk to Merethen.
2. Follow the road west and then south from Merethen.
3. Talk to Dorongur Whitethorn.

Rewards: 1 silver, 60 copper, XP.

Dorongur has another new quest for you:

1. Talk to Dorongur Whitethorn.
2. Talk to your nearby trainer. The trainer is dependant on your class: Champions speak to Mathendring, Guardians speak to Anglor, Hunters speak to Glanwen, Loremasters speak to Pennastan, and Minstrels speak to Thalchyl.
3. Before returning to Dorongur, select the "Train Skills" option from your trainer. Train any skills available to you at level 2; note that this includes active and passive skills, and that some available skills might be further down in the display list.
4. Return to Dorongur Whitethorn.

Rewards: 42 copper, XP, 3 Simple Rations, Choice Of:

• Elven Toursers (Light Legs Armor, Elf only, Bind on Acquire, 4 Armor)
• Elven Leggings (Medium Legs Armor, Elf only, Bind on Acquire, 6 Armor)

Dorongur will have another new quest for you, Scouting the Ruins, but check out this area, first. This place has armor and weapons for sale as well as trainers: a handy place to remember. Make sure that you add any new active skills to your bar before heading back out to battle: hit the C key, select the skills tab, and hold down the left mouse button on a skill to drag it to your bar.

Before you head out for Scouting the Ruins you should gather some quests here. Laergil and Orodlin who are talking nearby will give you quests Restoring the Balance and Fear of Collapse. The nearby grocer Gailthin will ask you to seek The Lost Lore of Edhelion. Note that all NPCs with available quests/quest steps are marked on your minimap with ring icons, and will have ring icons hovering above their heads.

1. Talk to Orodlin.
2. Kill Young and Juvenile Cave-Claws (level 2/3) just south of the encampment. You must kill 6 of these.
3. Return to Orodlin, but first, continue south to complete Restoring the Balance!

• Green Cloak (Back Armor, Bind on Acquire, 3 Armor)
• Gold Cloak (Back Armor, Bind on Acquire, 3 Armor)
• Blue Cloak (Back Armor, Bind on Acquire, 3 Armor)

Restoring the Balance

1. Talk to Laergil.
2. Head west to find Highland Cubs and Prowlers (level 1/2). Kill these and loot pelts from their corpses; you need 6 pelts total.
3. Return to Laergil.

• Dwarven Gloves (Light Hands Armor, Dwarf only, Bind on Acquire, 2 Armor)
• Dwarven Gauntlets (Medium Hands Armor, Dwarf only, Bind on Acquire, 2 Armor)
• Elven Cloth Gauntlets (Light Hands Armor, Elf only, Bind on Acquire, 2 Armor)
• Elven Leather Gloves (Medium Hands Armor, Elf only, Bind on Acquire, 2 Armor)

Scouting the Ruins

1. Talk to Dorongur Whitethorn.
2. Head west from the camp and find Elladan.
3. Talk to Elladan.

1. Talk to Elladan.
2. Head past Elladan into Silver Deep Mine to find the four dead goblins:
3. The first goblin is a few steps from the entrance.
4. Go along the path to find the second goblin (don't go past the bridge).
5. Before you go across the bridge explore to your left to find the third goblin, by a large rock.
6. Continue up a few steps and you will find the fourth body.
7. Return to Elladan, but first, brave onwards to complete Lost Lore of Edhelion!\

Rewards: 90 copper, XP, choice of:

• Elven Robe (Light Chest Armor, Elf Only, Bind on Acquire, 5 armor)
• Elven Shirt (Medium Chest Armor, Elf Only, Bind on Acquire, 7 armor)

Before you turn around and leave you should continue on the path to complete Lost Lore of Edhelion. 

1. Talk to Gailthin.
2. Head into the Silver Deep Mine.
3. Continue through the mine until you see the petrified troll.
4. Head into the west tunnel.
5. Right click on the rubble.
6. Return to Gailthin.

Rewards:  90 copper, XP, 2 lesser essence of Athelas (small restore morale potion), 2 lesser celebrant slave (small restore power potion) choice of:

• New Club (One-handed Cub weapon, 3-4 common damage, 1.9 DPS, Small chance to stun people)
• New Hammer (One-handed Hammer weapon, 4-6 common damage, 2.7 DPS, Small chance to stun people)

When you exit Silver Deep Mine go talk to Elladan. He will give you the quest The Longbeards. Before you go to the dwarves you should hand in Lost Lore of Edhelion and go to your trainer if you have leveled up! 

The Longbeards

1. Talk to Elladan.
2. Follow the road to the west to reach the Frerin Court, which is in the middle of the map.
3. Talk to Dwalin

Rewards: 42 copper, XP

After talking with Dwalin he will give you the quest Goblin Prowlers. Also several quests become unlocked to you now. Bogi the grocer has the quest Stocking the Larder and Mathi Stouthand has Frostmantle for you. Both quest givers are located in the square so gather those quests and head out to the west. You can complete all three of these quests in the same area. If you have problems with Frostmantle you can easily ask for a group in the looking for fellowship channel. To talk in different channels you type in a slash command. The following is a list of the slash commands. 

• /l                       Looking For Fellowship channel:            Region based find team chat
• /advice            Advice channel:                                     Region based help chat
• /k                      Kinship channel:                                    Talk to your kinship
• /say                  Say channel:                                         Talk to people around you
• /regional         Regional channel:                                  Talk to people in same region
• /ooc                 OOC channel:                                        Out of character chat

Frostmantle

1. Talk to Mathi Stouthand
2. Go directly west from Court City and past the lake. Frostmantle spawns around here.
3. Kill Frostmantle, a level 5 signature enemy with 214 hit points and loot his horn.
4. Return to Mathi Stouthand.

Rewards: 90 copper, XP, choice of:

• New Dagger (Dagger weapon, 5-6 common damage, 3.1 DPS, +1% crit chance for auto attacks)
• Mathi's Axe (One-Handed Axe weapon, 6-8 common damage, 3.1 DPS, hit chance slightly reduced, subtracts 3 from armor value)
• Frostmantle's Bane (One-Handed Sword weapon, 5-7 common damage, 3.1 DPS, hit chance slightly increased)

Stocking the Larder

1. Talk to Bogi.
2. Head west to find Aurochs; kill them and loot 6 Auroch Meat.
3. Return to Bogi.

Rewards: 5 Auroch jerky (Consumable), XP, choice of:

• Dwarven Shoes (Light foot armor, Dwarf only, Bind on Acquire, 3 armor)
• Dwarven Boots (Medium foot armor, Dwarf only, Bind on Acquire, 4 armor)
• Elven Shoes (Light foot armor, Elf only, Bind on Acquire, 3 armor)
• Elven Boots (Medium foot armor, Elf only, Bind on Acquire, 4 armor)

Goblin Prowlers

1. Talk to Dwalin. You are tasked with killing 1 goblin prowler and to search its corpse.
2. Goblin prowlers are located south west of Fenris Court. In the forested area. 
3. The prowelers are easy to kill. Kill one and right click it and loot everything that it drops.
4. Return to Dwalin

1. Talk to Dwalin.
2. Head North West along the road (talk to Erynwen as you go along the road to receive A Deadly Bloom).
3. Head to the top of the mountain and enter Mirkstone Tunnels.
4. In the tunnels go forward and turn right at the first fork you encounter (the left path is boarded up)
5. Keep going forward following the path and turn right at the next fork you encounter
6. Follow the path and talk to Elrohir.
7. Return to Dwalin. Caution: Taking the short way and jumping off the mountain will kill you

Rewards: 90 copper, XP, choice of:

• Cloth Hood (Light head armor, Dwarf only, Bind on Acquire, 2 armor)
• Dwarven Helmet (Medium head armor, Dwarf only, Bind on Acquire, 4 armor)
• Feathered Hat (Light head armor, Elf only, Bind on Acquire, 2 armor)
• Elven Helmet (Medium head armor, Elf only, Bind on Acquire, 4 armor)

Head North west to start Goblins in the Crags and talk to Erynwen, who is along the north west road, to get A Deadly Bloom. 

A Deadly Bloom

1. Talk to Erynwen
2. Head northwest along the road.
3. Plants bloom along the road or by the goblin camps; right click them to destroy them. You must destroy 6.
4. Return to Erynwen

Rewards: 90 copper, XP, Skorgrim Harvester (One-Handed Sword weapon, 4-6 common damage, 2.7 DPS, hit chance increased slightly), choice of:

• Erynwen's Shield (Shield, Bind on Acquire, 13 armor)
• Erynwen's Bow (Bow weapon, 6-9 common damage, 3.1 DPS, +1 to crit chance on auto attacks)
• Erynwen's Staff (Staff weapon, 6-9 common damage, 2.5 DPS)

When you hand in Goblin in the Crags Dwalin has the final, and hardest, quest of this area. Once you start this quest, you can not return to this area, so finish everything else up, first!

Intro: Skorgrim's Tomb

1. Talk to Dwalin twice, and hit Travel Now to start the instance.
2. At the start of the instance talk to Dwalin to start the quest.
3. Follow Dwalin, and watch the story scene unfold.
4. Follow Dwalin through the area, killing enemies along your way.
5. After encountering some fire, Dwalin will instruct you to go get some water
6. Behind you is a Tub of Fetid water, right click on it and wait till the action bar is complete.
7. Walk to Dwalin and wait a few seconds; the fire will go out.
8. Follow Dwalin until he takes another break. Watch him explain things and when he gets moving follow him again.
9. Here you will encounter Gormr Dourhand, a level 4 signature enemy, who is hiding behind a gate. After some talking the gate will open, Dwalin is able to handle these two, though you should attack them as well!
10. Dwalin will sit for a moment; talk to him to proceed.
11. Follow Dwalin.
12. Next up is what will be a tough fight against two signature nameds.  Play to your strengths: if you're a Guardian, tank one will Dwalin handles the other.  If you're a Champion or Hunter, attack the one dwalin is attacking.  If you're a Loremaster or Minstrel, debuff the enemies and heal Dwalin.  If Dwalin gets below half health, I would tank for him.
13. Talk to Elrohir.
14. Speak to Dwalin and finish the quest by hitting "Travel Now"

Rewards:  1 silver 70 copper, XP, Map Home (right click teleport to home), Novice Characteristic (currently no use)