17 implemented quests · levels 1–7
The First Render quest guide
This catalog maps every quest currently defined for The First Render, based directly on the shipped simulation tables. Use prerequisites to understand chains and objective labels to plan a route from Firstlight.
How to use this catalog
Collect quests sharing the same area before leaving the hub, follow prerequisite chains in order, and treat suggested-player labels as encounter guidance rather than matchmaking guarantees. Exact tuning and availability can change with a deployed build.
Strays at the Gate
Given by: Marshal Redbrook · Turn in: Marshal Redbrook · Prerequisite: None
- 8 × Stray Process put down (kill)
Rewards: 250 XP and 75 copper.
The stray processes grow bold — feral things the dream no longer governs, snapping at travelers on the north road. Thin their numbers, the Witness. Put down 8 Stray Processes and Firstlight will breathe easier.
The Orphaned Thread
Given by: Marshal Redbrook · Turn in: Marshal Redbrook · Prerequisite: Strays at the Gate
- 1 × Greyjaw's Fang (collect)
Rewards: 450 XP and 150 copper, plus a class-archetype item choice.
There is one stray no trap has held: Greyjaw the Orphaned, a process so old the dream has forgotten it ever wrote him. He has taken three hounds and a stable boy's arm. He prowls the deep woods north of the stray runs. Bring me his fang.
Bristleback Hides
Given by: Trader Wilkes · Turn in: Trader Wilkes · Prerequisite: None
- 5 × Bristleback Hide (collect)
Rewards: 350 XP and 120 copper.
Bristleback hide makes the finest travel packs, and the meadows west of town are crawling with the routines — bristled beasts that loop their old grazing paths long after the dream stopped watching them. Bring me 5 Bristleback Hides and I will make it worth your time.
Menace in the Lattice
Given by: Apothecary Lin · Turn in: Apothecary Lin · Prerequisite: None
- 6 × Lattice Lurker slain (kill)
- 4 × Lattice Silk Gland (collect)
Rewards: 420 XP and 140 copper.
The lurkers in the eastern lattice spin a silk I need for my poultices — thread drawn straight from the dream's own weave — and they have grown far too numerous besides. Cull 6 Lattice Lurkers and cut 4 silk glands from their bellies.
Trouble at the Buffer
Given by: Fisherman Brandt · Turn in: Fisherman Brandt · Prerequisite: None
- 8 × Mudfin Garbler slain (kill)
Rewards: 520 XP and 180 copper.
Twenty years I have fished the Reflecting Buffer, and never lost a net until those gurgling fish-things crawled out of the shallows, croaking in a tongue no render ever intended. Drive the Mudfin back — slay 8 of them. And watch yourself: where one garbler surfaces, five more answer.
Salvagers in the Seam
Given by: Foreman Odell · Turn in: Foreman Odell · Prerequisite: None
- 10 × Burrowing Salvager put down (kill)
Rewards: 620 XP and 220 copper.
We struck a fine copper vein and then those scavenger constructs came boiling out of the hillside, prying the wire from the very walls. My crew will not set foot in the dig until it is cleared. Put down 10 Burrowing Salvagers.
The Unsleeping Dead
Given by: Acolyte Aldric · Turn in: Acolyte Aldric · Prerequisite: None
- 8 × Deallocated Remnant laid to rest (kill)
Rewards: 700 XP and 260 copper.
The old ruin on the northwest hill was a signal-house once, and its yard a resting place. Something has stirred the deallocated from their deletion — souls the dream released, called back into bone. Grant them rest, the Witness — return 8 Deallocated Remnants to the earth.
Stolen Supplies
Given by: Trader Wilkes · Turn in: Trader Wilkes · Prerequisite: None
- 4 × Stolen Supply Cache (collect)
Rewards: 550 XP and 250 copper.
Those bandits hit my last wagon and made off with four crates of goods — tools, salt, good Firstlight linen. The crates are stacked around their camp in the southeast hills. Steal them back for me, would you?
Whispers Below
Given by: Acolyte Aldric · Turn in: Acolyte Aldric · Prerequisite: The Unsleeping Dead
- 1 × Nullcaller's Sigil (collect)
Rewards: 400 XP and 150 copper.
You have laid the deallocated to rest, but they will not stay resting — something calls them back along a channel I cannot hear. Search the signal-house ruin for any trace of the one doing the calling. If you find a sigil or seal, bring it to me untouched.
The Names of the Dead
Given by: Acolyte Aldric · Turn in: Acolyte Aldric · Prerequisite: Whispers Below
- 3 × Weathered Registry Page (collect)
Rewards: 600 XP and 250 copper.
If the Nullcallers raised our dead, I must know whose graves they robbed. The signal-house sexton kept a burial registry, and the wind has scattered its pages across the yard. Gather 3 of them for me, the Witness — the dead deserve to be called by their names, not by their absence.
Silence the Call
Given by: Acolyte Aldric · Turn in: Acolyte Aldric · Prerequisite: The Names of the Dead
- 12 × Deallocated Remnant silenced (kill)
Rewards: 750 XP and 300 copper.
Every name in that registry is a soul Morthen means to drag back from deletion, and the yard already crawls with those he has called. Return 12 Deallocated Remnants to their graves, the Witness, before the Nullcaller's whisper swells into a chorus of static.
The Binding Rite
Given by: Acolyte Aldric · Turn in: Acolyte Aldric · Prerequisite: Whispers Below
- 4 × Signal-Blessed Tallow (collect)
- 6 × Residual Essence (collect)
Rewards: 700 XP and 500 copper.
The sector beneath the signal-house must be unsealed if we are to stop the Nullcaller — but only a binding rite will let the living pass where the dream has marked deletion. I need 4 lumps of Signal-Blessed Tallow — the burrowing salvagers hoard candles by the crate — and 6 Residual Essences from the unsleeping dead.
Into the Deleted Sector
Given by: Acolyte Aldric · Turn in: Acolyte Aldric · Prerequisite: The Binding Rite
- 1 × Morthen, Herald of the Null slain (kill)
Rewards: 1500 XP and 10000 copper, plus a class-archetype item choice.
Morthen, Herald of the Null, waits at the bottom of the Deleted Sector, ringed by the elite dead he has raised. He is far beyond any one Witness — take four companions, no fewer. End him, and the Render's dead will finally sleep.
The Sexton's Bell
Given by: Acolyte Aldric · Turn in: Acolyte Aldric · Prerequisite: The Binding Rite
- 1 × Sexton Marrow laid to rest (kill)
Rewards: 1000 XP and 600 copper, plus a class-archetype item choice.
The ledger named him and the sector holds him: Sexton Marrow, the signal-house's caretaker, the first man Morthen raised — guarding his master's door in death as faithfully as he kept the bells in life. Take four companions into the Deleted Sector and grant the old sexton the rest he was robbed of, the Witness.
The Nullcaller's Trail
Given by: Acolyte Aldric · Turn in: Acolyte Aldric · Prerequisite: Into the Deleted Sector
- 1 × Morthen's Null Grimoire (collect)
Rewards: 900 XP and 400 copper.
Morthen is unwritten, yet a question gnaws at me: a sect that hid for a century does not spend itself on one village signal-house. He kept a grimoire — his rites, his correspondence. If anything of it survives, it lies in the vestry of the ruined signal-house above the sector. Search the ruin and bring me whatever remains of his writings, the Witness.
Bandits of the Render
Given by: Marshal Redbrook · Turn in: Marshal Redbrook · Prerequisite: Strays at the Gate
- 10 × Unbound Bandit slain (kill)
Rewards: 550 XP and 200 copper, plus a class-archetype item choice.
A pack of cutthroats has made camp in the southwest hills — unbound men who answer to no law the dream still keeps. They have robbed three wagons this week. Drive them out — slay 10 Unbound Bandits.
The Ringleader
Given by: Marshal Redbrook · Turn in: Marshal Redbrook · Prerequisite: Bandits of the Render
- 1 × Gorrak the Unbound slain (kill)
Rewards: 800 XP and 500 copper, plus a class-archetype item choice.
The bandits answer to one man: Gorrak the Unbound. Cut off the head and the body will scatter. He skulks at the heart of their camp. End him, the Witness.
Current-build evidence boundary
Names, prerequisites, objectives, NPC assignments, XP, copper, and level gates are generated from the current source tables. The live client remains authoritative for coordinates, drop behavior, balance, server state, and later patches.