Compendium

Quests & expeditions

Take work from the Tavern's bounty board, follow the townsfolk's stories and every sellsword's questline (see Sellswords), and send idle crews out from the Expedition Table.

The bounty board

Kind	What counts	Posted by	Example
✵ hunt	Track down a dungeon's named elite.	The Watch	Wanted: …
☠ bounty	Kill a boss or vault guardian.	The Watch	Bounty: … · Vault Breaker
⚔ slay	Kill a number of foes (or one species, or the undead).	The Watch, The Chapel, The Guild	Infestation: … · Cull … · Lay Them to Rest · Hunting Lessons
◆ elites	Kill elite foes.	The Watch, The Guild	Break the Champions · Big Game
♜ defend	Guard a ward-keeper through waves.	The Watch	Hold the Waystone
⚑ clear	Clear a dungeon under a condition: a harder mode, no potions, never downed, or fast.	The Watch, The Chapel, The Guild	Veteran's Contract: … · Walk Out On Your Feet · Against the Clock · Dry Run
✚ rescue	Free a captive and walk them to the stairs.	The Chapel	The Taken
◈ secrets	Find hidden rooms.	The Chapel	Whispers of …
◉ puzzle	Solve a sigil puzzle.	The Chapel	The Cipher
✦ gather	Collect tokens dropped by foes.	The Guild	Relics: …s
▤ chests	Open chests.	The Guild	Treasure Survey
≡ floors	Go down a number of floors.	The Guild	Chart … · Walkies: …
▣ mimic	Find and kill mimics.	The Guild	The Hungry Chest

3 standing offers (+1 per faction at Honoured), and 1 featured contract a day (2 at Guild Honoured) paying ×1.75 gold and a rarity step up.
Hold up to 4 board contracts; story and questline steps don't count. Nothing you accept ever expires.
1 offer rotates after each dungeon run; all of them at midnight. Reroll one for 26 gold at level 1 (140 at level 20), +50% for each reroll that day.
Hard+ contracts: Hard from level 1 pays ×1.5, Epic from level 8 pays ×2, Legendary from level 14 pays ×2.75.
Defend: 3 waves around the ward-keeper; the next comes when the last is down or after 25 s. Speed clears: about 2.8 minutes a floor.
Reputation per quest: 20 + 5 per act of the dungeon (featured ×2); story steps +60, a story's last step +150. What standing unlocks: Town → Reputation.

25 named elites

One per dungeon, posted as hunts by the Watch. They spawn on the second-to-last floor.

Named elites have ×2.4 health, ×1.15 damage and ×3 XP; each one hunted hangs a trophy on the town wall
Named elite	Dungeon	Base	Lore
Snagtooth, the Bramble Poacher	Bramble Hollow	Goblin Grunt	Sets snares for rabbits, travellers and, twice now, himself. The Watch wants the snares gone and Snagtooth with them.
Old Whiskerjaw, Sheriff of the Warrens	Rat-Kicker Tunnels	Warren Wolf	A warren wolf so old its howl creaks. The rats elected it sheriff. It took the job very seriously.
Brother Mould, of the Endless Vigil	The Sunken Crypt	Skeleton Warrior	A crypt-monk who never stopped his vigil after death. He's very polite. He will still kill you.
Gallows Gert, and Duchess	Gallows Hill Catacombs	Goblin Boar-Rider	Rides a boar called Duchess. Everyone agrees Duchess is the dangerous one.
Auditor Skrit, Grukk's Taxman	Grukk's Warcamp	Goblin Hexer	Grukk's tax collector. He hexes anyone who pays late, and everyone pays late. Lately he's been using a very familiar ledger.
The Gardener, Pruner of Visitors	The Bone Gardens	Gravetender	Tends the Bone Gardens with shears and a smile. Prunes whatever wanders in.
Sir Rattleby, Knighted Posthumously	Mausoleum Row	Bone Knight	Knighted after he died, which he feels undercuts the achievement. He's been trying to earn it ever since.
Mother Maggot, of the Weeping Vaults	The Weeping Vaults	Bloated Zombie	She was a very large woman in life. She is a very large problem now.
The Echo, Who Speaks Last	Hall of Whispers	Mirror Shade	Repeats the last thing you said, in your voice, from right behind you.
Marrowmere, the Tithe-Taker	Morvaine's Sanctum	Bone Golem	Built from the bones of everyone who didn't pay Morvaine's toll. He is, technically, the toll.
The Sump Queen, Swallower of Spoons	The Sunken Sewers	Ochre Jelly	A jelly the size of a cottage. Most of Hearthold's missing cutlery is inside her.
The Mire Mother, Keeper of the Clutch	Mire of Lost Souls	Swamp Lurker	Guards a clutch of stolen eggs in the reeds. Wren would very much like a word. With the eggs.
Krag Two-Tusk, Holder of Grudges	Serpent's Hollow	Orc Bloodrager	Lost a tusk to a sellsword called Garrick in a bar fight. Garrick doesn't remember. Krag does.
Granny Bogwort, Tea at Four	The Witch-Light Marsh	Bog Witch	Brews a tea that shows you your future. Your future is being eaten by Granny Bogwort.
Big Gulp, Gutrot's Taster	Gutrot's Wallow	Ogre Brute	Old Gutrot's food taster. Has never met a poison he couldn't finish.
Sergeant Grimsby, Voice of the Gatehouse	The Broken Gatehouse	Masked Orc Soldier	Holds the gatehouse by shouting. It works on orcs. See if it works on you.
The Quartermaster, Keeper of Forms	Barracks of the Damned	Blackguard	Signs out swords, collects souls, loses the paperwork on purpose.
Deacon Ashvane, Who Rings the Other Bell	The Cultists' Chapel	Dark Acolyte	Preaches that the fire is kind. His sermons are very, very warm.
Pyrewick, the Lit Fuse	The Screaming Ramparts	Powder Imp	Carries a lit fuse everywhere he goes. Nobody knows where the other end is.
The Last Squire, Still at His Post	Seraphel's Throne	Soulbound Warden	Still waiting for his commander's order to stand down. It isn't coming. Somebody should tell him. Gently.
Scorchmaw, Good Boy of the Gate	The Cinder Gate	Hell Hound	The Cinder Chief's favourite hound. Fetches souls. Does not drop them.
Frostwick, the Unburnt	Halls of Ash	Frostbitten Corpse	The one corpse in the Halls the fire could never warm. It is absolutely furious about it.
Cantor Brimstone, Hymnwright of the Choir	The Molten Choir	Doom Scribe	Writes the Choir's hymns. Every verse is a curse. The chorus is worse.
The Chainwright, Forger of Shackles	The Brimstone Bastion	Chain Devil	Forges the Bastion's shackles and tests every single one personally.
Ember-Eyed Varra, Mother of a Thousand Imps	Vhoruun's Pyre	Imp Matron	Mother of a thousand imps. Has strong opinions about how you're raising yours.

4 townsfolk stories

Multi-step stories told in their giver's voice, with a named reward at the end. Here's how each one starts.

The Ledger Affair

Mayor Brammle · The Guild · 4 steps · opens with The Sunken Crypt

Pipsnizzle has 'borrowed' the town ledger. Every copper Hearthold owns is written in it. Was.

Step 1: Who Took the Ledger?

Search the Rat-Kicker Tunnels for a hidden room: the ledger was 'lent' to a goblin who keeps it behind a wall.

The rest is a surprise. Quillon insists.

The Quiet Bell

Sister Maren · The Chapel · 4 steps · opens with Mausoleum Row

The chapel bell rings at midnight with nobody pulling the rope. Brother Anselm went to find out why.

Step 1: Brother Anselm

Brother Anselm followed the bell's echo into Mausoleum Row. Free him and walk him to the stairs.

The rest is a surprise. Quillon insists.

Tempered in the Deep

Garrick the Smith · The Watch · 4 steps · opens with The Sunken Sewers

Garrick the smith (no relation to the sellsword, everyone asks) wants to forge the best blade of his life.

Step 1: Rune-Steel

Bring Garrick 6 Rune-Steel Shards from the foes of Morvaine's Sanctum.

The rest is a surprise. Quillon insists.

Strays of the Deep

Wren Tallowmere · The Guild · 3 steps · opens with Mire of Lost Souls and pets

Something is stealing eggs from the reeds of the Mire, and Wren wants them back before they hatch somewhere awful.

Step 1: Walkies

Take your pet for a proper walk: 4 floors of your furthest dungeon, together.

The rest is a surprise. Quillon insists.

The Expedition Table

In the Tavern. Crews travel on real time while you're away; nobody dies on the road.

Longer trips bring home more, but a little less per hour, and risk more injuries
Trip	Loot ×	Journal days	Injury risk ×
15 min	×0.3	1	×0.35
1 hour	×1	2	×0.7
4 hours	×3.4	4	×1
8 hours	×6	6	×1.15

Tavern level	Crews on the road	Furthest act
1	1	Act 1
2	1	Act 2
3	2	Act 3
4	2	Act 4
5	3	Act 5

Role	What they bring
Shieldwall	+12% party power: somebody holds the line.
Field Medic	Injury chance halved.
Light Fingers	+25% gold: they know where the good stuff is.
Arcane Eye	+50% essence and crystals.
Beast-Wise	Egg finds twice as likely.

Send up to 3 idle sellswords to a dungeon you've cleared. While you're away, the tavern's regulars scour the hills in your name and bank a share of their spoils (up to 8 hours).
Power: each member counts their effective level ÷ the dungeon's level; two on-level sellswords are a fair fight, three are comfortable. Their worn gear adds or takes up to 5 levels.
Each crew member's injury chance grows the further the crew's power falls short (3% to 45% before the trip's risk); an injury means a rest of 0.5 h, 1 h, 2 h by severity. Nobody dies on an expedition. Injured crew heal twice as fast at Chapel Honoured.
Crew members earn road experience: Green → Seasoned (4) → Veteran (12) → Hardened (25) → Road-Legend (45); each rank is worth +1 level on the road. Three different roles in a full crew: +10% to everything.
Loot: gold, materials and up to 6 items (at least one on trips of an hour or more), up to a 35% chance of a legendary, and pet eggs when pets are unlocked. Every estimate shows the real odds; the result is fixed when they leave.