The Greater of Two Evils

I'll be. Father was right. Grandpa Gottolf must have been something else if invoking his name gets the lot of you here. Well, anyhow the sight of your arrival is the first bit of good news we've had in months. That's right, it's just as my brother, Otto, sent word to your Order, there is a peculiar sickness plaguing this land. I'll tell you more of it, soon as I'm done looking for me mum. She's been missing for a time, and I'm more worried than a wart hog in a soap bath. Lend a hand if you could spare. She wears a bright pendant. If you cross paths, you wouldn't miss her.

Search for Gertrud Kraemer near the Smoldering Farm, at the foot of the mountains in the west of Troll Country. She was last seen scavenging for supplies around a blighted patch of farmland.