Unmasking the Enemy

I will dispatch a patrol through the pass as planned, though smaller in number than is our usual want. You will follow close behind, and ensure that the ambushers are the ones caught by surprise. Silencing their entire patrol should buy us both time and opportunity: time to gather our forces in great enough numbers to take the Shadowchasm, and the opportunity for one of our own to begin infiltrating their Shade network. It is a dangerous task I place before you, |n. Until you have learned the true identity of their leader, you will be unable to risk being seen with friendly forces. To do so would be unwise. Should you need to send word, Zephyr will carry your message.

Follow the road northwest into the Shadowchasm and intercept the Dark Elf ambush. Kill the Blackvenom Shades that lay in wait, and kill their leader. If you recover anything from his body, examine it.