A Ship Saildom Seen

Steeped in Mystery is a series of quests given by the Farseer that serves as an introduction to Ravenwood Hollow. The quest starts automatically after the Summer Festival. It requires you to locate the dilapidated boat at the lake by your farm, repair the boat using 15x Wood, 5x Iron Ingot and 2x Silver Ingot, and craft the Fealty to the Fair Folk Spell using 1x Black Ink, 1x Paper, and 3x Amethyst.

After the questline is completed, you can use your boat to travel instantaneously between the lake by your farm and Ravenwood Hollow.

## Dialogue

Quest intro:

* High Priestess: Now the sun begins to wane. We celebrate nature’s gifts, and ready ourselves for the harvest.
* Tara: Farseer? You know the fae folk you keep mentioning? I think they teleported me to their magic village in the middle of the Summer Festival!
* Shelby: Could be. I expect they liked your gifts.
* Tara: One of them was short, with pink hair. And another one was covered in fur. A third had – I can’t believe I’m saying this – backwards feet! What was that place?
* Shelby: On some nights, the walls between the worlds become thin.
* Tara: There’s more than one world?
* Shelby: Shhhhh! You won’t be able to journey back there the same way again.
* Tara: Well, how can I get back there?
* Shelby: By boat would be the proper way.
* Tara: But I don’t have a boat.
* Shelby: Course you do. In the lake by your farm. It was Hazel’s, and bonded to her aunt Vivian ‘fore her. Always been there. Ya just didn’t have eyes to see.

Part 1: Look for a boat somewhere near your farm.

* Tara: Huh? When did this get here? Eyes to see… maybe when I visited that strange place… the veil hiding this boat was lifted! Yeesh. Is she even seaworthy? I better fix it up before trying to sail anywhere.

Part 2: Repair the boat on your farm.

* Tara: She cleaned up nice! But now what? I could get in and try floating in the lake in circles, but I think the Farseer will know what I need next.

Part 3: Talk to the Farseer and tell him you’ve repaired the boat.

* Tara: I fixed up the boat, but I still don’t understand. There’s nowhere for it to go.
* Farseer Shelby: You’ll be needing a charm to prove your fealty.
* Tara: … And where would I find it?
* Farseer Shelby: It was your Great Aunt’s boat, ask her! Do I gotta tell ya everything?
* Tara: How can I ask my Great Aunt if she… oh, nevermind.

Part 4: Great-Aunt Vivian knew the fealty incantation for entering Ravenwood Hollow. How can you learn it?

* Tara: Hello again.
* Westley: Oh. I was hoping you’d be out. I, er, found some of your grandmother’s papers inside my workshop. They must had gotten dislodged from the journal she had me fix up.
* Tara: You know, you look sort of like someone-
* Westley: Hah! Yes! All of us look like other people, statistically! Anyway. Scribbled on one sheet is a list of ingredients for some ritual item. Very strange.
* Tara: Yes. Very.
* Westley: I’m off! Lots of books to sell! Lovely chatting!
* [Westley leaves]
* Tara: The title is “Charm: Fealty to the Fair Folk.” This must be it!
* [Receive Fealty to the Fair Folk spell]

Part 5: Craft the fealty incantation.

Part 6: Cast the fealty incantation on the boat.

* Tara: Here goes nothing…
* [Tara casts magic on the boat and boards it. The boat glows and brings her through the waterfall into Ravenwood Hollow.]
* Westley: Tara! You’ve returned. I knew you could do it.
* Tara: And I knew I’d seen you somewhere before! ‘I live in Milkwater’ my foot.
* Aryel: It’s the Wylde boat. And look, the Wyldling!
* Peri: Ah. Tara. Do you have the customary charm?
* Tara: Here it is. So, what does this do, anyway?
* Zephyr: If you break the charm, it reveals your location. A fascinating little gadget!
* Aryel: And if you ever endanger our secrecy here, we will know exactly where to find you.
* Tara: But – where am I, exactly?
* Westley: Where are our manners? Yes, you’re in Ravenwood Hollow, our hidden little home. You already know me as a human, but under the moon, I take a slightly more – wolfish – form.
* Peri: You may call me Peri. I’m a fairy. And I run the apothecary.
* Tara: Hah!
* Peri: What? It’s not even that funny.
* Zephyr: We’ve met, ‘course! But not formally. I’m Zephyr, of the Grimspark goblins.
* Aryel: I’m Aryel! I would like you more if you were scaly or furry or had wings. But you’ll do.
* Tara: Wow. I’ve never seen this place on a map of Fairhaven.
* Westley: Technically, we’re not in Fairhaven. This place exists between a point in the human world – that’s Fairhaven – and a point in the fae world. The Gloaming.
* Tara: Don’t tell me. Another place everyone failed to mention.
* Peri: Come speak with me later. There are things about the fae world you must know.
* Tara: So you **are** the fae!
* Peri: Yes, and we don’t let many into our home. Not even all witches.
* Tara: But you brought me here during the Summer Festival.
* Zephyr: Actually, we haven’t been able to untie that particular knot.
* Westley: What Zephyr means is, none of us brought you here. We still don’t know how it happened.
* Tara: Great. Love that there’s an unsolved mystery centering around me being flung through space-time.
* Aryel: Ooh! Spicy! Just like your grandmother.
* Peri: Now that you’ve been formally received into Ravenwood Hollow, you can come and go as you like. Just remember: never reveal our existence. To anyone.