The Ranger Gondranc sent you to the Earth-kin camp to collect a book of leatherworking lore from Asikko, the Earth-kin's chieftain. However, when you arrived at the Earth-kin camp, Asikko told you the book had been stolen.
'My people's pride binds us. I do not wish to raise arms against my brethren, but I have been forced to do so. I will fight them when the time comes, though it does not please me. I am also bound by honour, and that honour must be satisfied, even in the face of the First Hunter's betrayal.
'I know only names, not faces. The name I know is Gondranc, a man who knows well the crafting of leather and tanned hides. I promised to share with him the secrets of our art in return for the letters he once taught me.
'I wrote a book for the man before the betrayal, but it is lost now to the Rauta-lehmä in the east. I dare not go there yet. Will you go to the camp of the traitors and find this book for me?'
Asikko's book is hidden somewhere in the camp of the traitorous Rauta-lehmä faction in Nan Amlug, east of the camp of the Suuri-lehmä.
Asikko is hesitant to go himself to retrieve the book of lore from the Rauta-lehmä for fear of provoking war too soon. Instead, he has asked you to retrieve the book for him.
Gondranc awaits your return at Esteldín.
You successfully recovered Asikko's book from the camp of the Rauta-lehmä. The Earth-kin chieftain has asked you to deliver it to Gondanc, fulfilling his promise to the Ranger.