'I've orders from the Captain-General that need following, friend. You look the type of (your race) that knows well how to follow them, so I find myself here asking you to undertake a simple, though possibily dangerous task that needs doing and quickly.

'Throughout the Ettenmoors, we fight a terrible Enemy. Normally a battle would be more than enough to make me smile, but now I have another need.

'The Enemy carries barrels of oil, most likely stolen from our own stores, but this oil is needed now more than ever. Nay, we have little need to use it on torches, but for the iron cauldron I have been commisioned to forge. The oil will be heated and dropped on our foe as they assault the tower. I need you to fight our enemies and retrieve the oil from them.'