A Better Start
 A Better Start | |
|---|---|
| Start | Adazius |
| End | Adazius |
| Level | 60-62 |
| Category | The Waking Shores |
| Experience | 7,250 |
| Reputation | +100 Valdrakken Accord |
| Rewards |
 [Life Pools Watering Can]or  [Life Pool Herb Pouch]25  74 |
| Previous |
 [60-62] Leave Bee Alone & [60-62] Just a Trim |
Objectives
Plant seeds in 6 Fertile Soil patches and allow them to mature.
- Seeds matured (6)
Description
Vaeros is diligent, but whelps have a way of finding trouble. Not mine, of course--but I suppose not every dragon rears their clutch to understand the gravity of their station.
While I am loathe[sic] to encourage outdoor play over study, I will help you safeguard the garden more effectively. Take these seeds and plant them nearby. When mature, the blooms produce a fragrance that insects find disagreeable.
The gardeners can help you--and maybe my bronze brethren, if you mind your manners.
Rewards
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[Life Pools Watering Can] | 
|
[Life Pool Herb Pouch] |
You will also receive:
- 25 74
- 7,250 XP
- +100 reputation with Valdrakken Accord
Progress
Do remember to be courteous to our bronze companions, lest they toss you into a timeline without luxurious stationery and herbal tea.
<Adazius sighs wistfully.>
What a terrible existence that would be.
Completion
I am rather surprised you did not earn more than a scathing reproach from Veladormi. She must be feeling generous today.
I suspect the insect problem is now solved. You are welcome.
Notes
- Upon accept
- Lasztak says: Please come down. Most of the bees are gone now! Look, I have your favorite--candied skitterflies!
- Adazius says: You do realize the whelplings will hide in the trees on purpose once you begin bribing them with sweets, yes?
- Vaeros says: Come now, Adazius. The little ones deserve a treat after the stress they have been through. Maybe yours would enjoy a snack as well?
- Adazius says: Certainly not. They are busy enjoying their books on advanced draconic poetics like proper young dragons.
- Vaeros sighs quietly.
Click on Fertile Soils. The nearby Lifetending Gardeners ask for help:
- Lifetending Gardener says: Excuse us, friend, but could you donate a bit of your power to a good cause?
- Lifewarding Gardener says: Most esteemed dragon, might we borrow you briefly?
- Lifetending Gardener says: If you have time to spare, dear dragon, we could use your aid.
- Lifewarding Gardener says: Our bronze friend, could you lend us a hand with this sapling's growth?
- Lifewarding Gardener says: Your timelessness, would you mind helping speed things along?
And the nearby bronze dragons response and act accordingly:
- Erzadormu says: You're fortunate I always keep some sands of time in my pocket. It has many uses, you know.
- Taeredormu says: What a novel idea! I've been tempted to do this to the whelps once or twice.
- Veladormi says: You have asked me to do this in seventeen timelines so far. This one is by far the worst.
- Yvendormi says: Not that I expect you to appreciate it, but the expertise in temporal calculus required to shift dimensional matrices forward this accurately took several thousand years to acquire.
- Peledormu says: I just returned from a timeline where an orc did this... Promise you aren't starting an army, okay?
- Midormi says: Just this one time, dear. Well, probably more than that.
- The dragon channels magic into the soul, and the plant grows rapidly.
- Upon completion
- Vaeros says: That was kind of you, Adazius. Thank you for helping us keep the gardens safe.
- Adazius says: It was in my own best interest. My daughters beg to return here every time we leave, promising to do their reading if I allow it, and thus it behooves me to ensure they will not be in danger.
- Vaeros says: Ah, so they are the ones bribing you?
- Adazius says: Quiet yourself before I send the adventurer to bring the bees back.
- Lasztak says: No more skitterflies! You are going to ruin your dinner.
- The Bronze Whelpling that was above is now sitting on a stool in front of Lasztak.
If completed as the last quest in the questline, it also awards the "Ruby Lifecalling" criterion of 
[Sojourner of the Waking Shores].
Progression
- [60-62] A Ruby Lifecalling
- Complete all of:
- Dazakros
- [60-62] Hornstrider Havoc
- [60-62] Deluge Dilemma & [60-62] Beaky Reclamation
- Akora
- [60-62] Garden Party
- [60-62] Flowers of our Labor
- [60-62] Huddle at the Hollow
- [60-62] Hornswoggled!
- [60-62] Home Is Where the Frogs Are
- Vaeros
- [60-62] Nursery Direction
- [60-62] Leave Bee Alone & [60-62] Just a Trim
- [60-62] A Better Start
- Dazakros
Patch changes
Patch 10.0.2 (2022-11-15): Added.