Up to my neck in paperwork, your character. Got more paper cuts than an Ellie librarian, so I go and tell command, and you know what they do? Give me a special assignment. Typical.

I want you to look at it for me. Sounds exciting, and you get to stretch out those legs of yours. Now, here's what's what. Odella and Odium have both been sprouting up all over the black market.

Streets of the stuff, enough to drive a Shugo tradeship into the ground. But the thing is...we heard that the Black Claw lot have actually been producing LESS Odella because their Skurvs have been getting abduc...

When you stood there like a plum listening oh-so-intently to my little story, that's when. Now pay attention!

So...where was I? Oh yeah. Odella volumes up, Black Claw Odella production down. Something ain't right. Turns out the Black Claw Skurvs were being abducted and taken away to a hidden Odella plantation! Right under our bloody noses.

We haven't found the place yet, but have narrowed down the entry point to just one location. All I need now...is someone to do the leg work. Someone like you, your character.

Good stuff! Knew you'd have your nose in once I told you the story. Ignore my impatience; every time I come up from my studies and duties, I feel like a different person....

You need to head over to Impetusium and speak to Gulkalla. He's been trying to coordinate the search for this new plantation, but you know...I hear the stress has made him...distracted.

Anyway, that's between us. Go and see him, he'll be waiting on the upper levels of the reconstruction site. Unless he fell off, like that other one....

No? The search for a missing Odella plantation not quite grand enough for all-seeing, almighty your character?

Well, suit yourself. Just don't come sulking back to me when one of the others uncovers the place and shakes Governor Vidar's hand.

Oh! You must be that...Twigsteps! No wait... he went looking for the Red Mane.... Oh! your character, right? I heard a your class fitting your description would be winging over to me. Thought you'd be taller though.

So, the reconstruction job. We need some quality artisans to help get this place back up and running. I've heard you're pretty handy with a chisel, but this'll be a com...

...pletely...what? Really? Oh. I had you down for a different job. Hang on. Let me think. Right. You need to look for two things.

First, Odium shell fragments. They're what you get after you extract Aether out of Odium crystals, and they've been spotted a couple of times around here. Find a Discarded Odium Piece and a Discarded Odium Pile.

Once you've got them, hunt down a Shugo named Moorilerk. He's been seen sneaking around Impetusium for a while now, and we think he might have something to do with the plantation.

(The dark green crystal feels light in your hand, and when you squeeze the shell you hear it cracking under the strain.)

(It's clearly been depleted. This shell is next to worthless.)

(This crystal has been depleted too. It looks like the entrance to the hidden plantation must be somewhere in or around the Abandoned Relic Site.)

Nyerk!

No no no! How did Daeva find Haramel? Did Gestanerk ask you to come? Yes?

Haramel? N...no...never heard of it, Daeva. And Gesta...Gesta...nyerk! Stop looking at me like that! Make a Shugo's fur fall out with those eyes!

But cannot help you, Daeva! I'm not a smart Shugo! Not smart enough to avoid you...nyerk....

1. Talk to Gulkalla.

2. Find a Discarded Odium Piece.

3. Find a Discarded Odium Pile.

4. Investigate the Abandoned Relic Site.

5. Enter through the Haramel Secret Passage and track down Moorilerk.

Morn told you about the black market being flooded with Odella even as the Black Claw Skurvs were being abducted, and asked you to investigate the matter in Impetusium.

Morn was sure that a recent increase in Odella volume was somehow linked to missing Skurvs.

His investigations led him to believe that there was a hidden plantation in or around Impetusium and asked you to go there to search for its exact location.

Gulkalla told you more, and got you to track down Odium shells before you spotted a Shugo disappearing into a small gap between two walls.

You successfully tracked the Shugo down and found yourself in the plantation called Haramel. You interrogated the Shugo Moorilerk about Haramel but he was reticent and unwilling to help.