Quest Story
The cavern network beneath the eastern ridge has always been home to bats, but their numbers have swelled into something unnatural. They move in coordinated swarms now, blocking passage to the deeper ruins where valuable relics are rumoured to lie. Miners refuse to work. Merchants refuse to travel. The cavern must be cleared — and the cause of this unnatural bloom discovered.
The cavern falls quiet, littered with the still forms of Cave Bats. The air, thick with the smell of guano and dark stone, carries an unusual stillness. Something deeper in the cavern had been feeding them — you can feel it receding now, withdrawing back into the unknowable dark.