Madame Eva has had a premonition, of her granddaughter Alyssa being in danger.
A spirit trance revealed only a slim clue: the name 'Stalvan'. Madam Eva asks you
to talk to Clerk Daltry about it.
Clerk Daltry is able to find a record with that name, a Mr Stalvan Mistmantle.
The last record places him at the Moonbrook schoolhouse, quite some time ago.
The clerk asks if you would go out to Moonbrook and see what you can find.
The schoolhouse has been unused for a long time, probably since the Defias took over Moonbrook. However, you find a footlocker with a Dusty Unsent Letter.
Returning to Darkshire, Clerk Daltry promises to update his registry.
Daltry discovered another entry for Stalvan, below the Moonbrook one. This one
says that Stalvan moved to the Lion's Pride Inn in Goldshire. He recommends
you check that out, if you are still tracking down the fellow.
The Lion's Pride innkeeper, Innkeeper Farley, remembers the name Stalvan.
It seems that several years back, a messenger stayed in the upstairs room. About
midnight, the fellow runs downstairs in his bedclothes, screaming in fright, and
runs off into the storm, never to return. He left some letters in a chest, and
one was from Stalvan to someone in Stormwind.
You help yourself to the letter, and think to deliver it yourself, hoping to find
another clue to Stalvan's whereabouts.
In the Canal District of Stormwind, just outside the park, you encounter
Caretaker Folsom. He has the unenviable job of sheparding the last of the
Flintridge family's posessions to auction to pay off taxes. Apparently there had
been a massacre on the estate, and the trust was to care for the children.
The caretaker is not at all pleased to see the letter you bring, but since the
estate is going off to auction, he sees no harm in you looking through what's left.
Sure enough, under memorabilia and knicknacks, you find a torn journal page.
Reading the page, you find that Stalvan did indeed get hired as a tutor to a pair
of children, and the he at least accompanied them to a summer home in eastern
Elwynn Forest. And this despite his letter going missing...
You travel to the Eastvale Logging Camp in eastern Elwynn Forest, and
meet Marshal Haggard. When the marshal moved in, so many years ago, there
was a chest of papers that came with the house. Since then, he's gradually gone
mostly blind. But he's pretty sure there's a journal page of some sort that you
might be interested in.
You rummage around in the attic, and discover A Faded Journal Page. Yup, that's
the one, alright. It seems the teacher has a crush on his student. This looks bad.
Marshal Haggard reminisces about his days in the Stormwind Guard, and how he used
to get drinks at the Scarlet Raven Tavern, and how the innkeeper there knew
quite a lot about the local lore.
By now you're feeling a bit silly, of course, for having chased Stalvan
around the countryside when you could have just asked the local innkeeper.
... but you've learned so much from various bits of paper Stalvan left behind,
so it's not really a waste.
Tavernkeep Smitts recognizes the handrighting, alright. He's got some muddy
journal pages which until now he couldn't link to the crazy man in the woods.
He asks you to take them to Commander Althea Ebonlocke and have her decide
what to do with them.
The commander has had an eye on Stalvan for some time now. She asks you to take
the papers to Clerk Daltry and see if they match. If they do, then Stalvan is,
without a doubt, guilty.
Commander Ebonlocke declares that Stalvan Mistmantle is undoubtably guilty of
killing these innocents, and who knows what else. She wants you to execute him,
and to carry his family ring to Madam Eva for proof.
Stalvan is living in an old house north of Darkshire, surrounded by undead. You
beat back the animated bodies and with some difficulty slay Stalvan.
Back in Darkshire, you show Stalvan's ring to Madame Eva, ... who already knows he is dead.
She has ways of knowing things before the common person, after all... Her
foreknowledge aside, she still feels you both brave and cunning.