'Ah, thank you for the help, ${PLAYER}. I will recover in time from these wounds, but nothing can help my brother, Thorkell. When last I saw him he was trapped in the jaws of a great worm. I can only hope his end was swift.

'The worms will have left naught to bury, but they do not eat dwarf-steel. If you dare venture within their caves and retrieve what remains of my brother's belongings, I shall reward you richly.

'You can find the worm caves to the south-east.'