'I've lived a long time here in Bree-land, but in my long life I've never taken the time to learn the land's history. Now, near the end of my days, I found I wanted to know what came before.

'I joined this trip to the Barrow-downs with hopes of finding some keepsakes or to take some rubbings, but it seems the Barrow-downs had a design of its own. I remember tromping over the hills as a lad and seeing that some of the barrows had fallen into a ruin. I remember lots of broken stones, covered in rune-letters, littering the ground, especially near the \qDead Spire.\q I wanted a few of those stones for my own.

'Are you interested in bringing me, say, three of the stone-fragments from near the Dead Spire? Perhaps we can both learn a bit of history.'