Collecting History

General Quest

Newbold claims this will be his last request of you. Based on what's he read, there are some special relics that may help to defend against wights. He wants you to dig up a number of them.

NOTE: Many, many of the critters in here are Elite (level 18-23 in the 'early' areas), so don't think about coming here without a strong fellowship! Special thanks to Durlo, Tachyon and Kwee, who assisted The Brasse staff with this quest! With them, our group was (for comparison purposes): Two Hunters, one level 24 and the other level 26, Guardian level 23, Champion level 22, Minstrel level 22, and Minstrel level 27.

STEPS:

1) Collect 10 ancient chalices. Newbold says:

"The journal speaks of chalices that were buried in the Great Barrow itself. I wonder if you could go there and gather some for me. I am sure there are many of them deep inside the catacombs of the Great Barrow."

Step one is to get to the Greater Barrows, and you'll be doing that via the Southern Barrow-downs (note the zone-in to the Great Barrows is on the northwest side of the map). Once inside, you'll encounter a maze of passages. I sure could not find my way around here, so I brought along my dorf, who created a map with the chalices handily listed (large version is HERE).



These chalices do NOT respawn, and there are not tons of them around. If you stay in the zone for a long time, you will easily find enough to let two people fulfill their quest, perhaps three, though I sure did not see 60 chalices during my trip there.

2) Bring the ancient chalices to Newbold Leafcutter.

3) After you speak with them and select "Finish Now", you get your coin reward, XP, and either Urn Finder's Staff, Skunkwood's Coat, Leafcutter's Edge, or Golugor.


Special thanks go out to Wren for providing this quest writeup!
Wren has entered 612 LOTRO quests.