Lost in the Woods
This page provides an overview of how to complete the Lost in the Woods Optional Quest.
Unlock Conditions
This quest is only available as part of 
The Rising Tide DLC Expansion. Check out the Expansion Overview section for more information on how to unlock the expansion content.
This quest is unlocked after the team completes the events at the Aire of Hours and returns to Haven village.
Quest Giver and Location
The quest giver is a young child shouting from behind one of the houses in Have. His name is Ayrik.
Quest Details
Use the 
Riversmeet Obelisk to warp to Father’s Fell, and this time, it’ll take you right to your first quest destination. Speak to the “Seasoned Hunter” over by the edge of the tree line. An Archelon will ambush you mid-conversation.
This larger turtle has a bit more HP than the previous “Lesser Archelon” that you’ve defeated, but it’s no more difficult than the earlier enemies.
Defeat it, and then proceed down towards the next quest marker destination down by the river and “inspect the corpse.”
As you move towards the center of the “Sunken Ruins,” you’ll encounter your first “Notorious Mark” within Mysidia: Thalaos. As far as Hunts go, Thalaos isn’t too difficult. Check out the Hunt page for additional tips for defeating it:
Thalaos
Notorious Mark / Hunt
“A corporeal manifestation of the Dominant Waljas’s fear and anguish, this waterbound elemental—or egi—carved a trail of slaughter through Mysidia’s primeval wood before arriving at the foot of Languor Falls. According to the people of Haven, it was here that the baby’s mother was said to have taken her life upon learning her son’s fate.”
Defeating Thalaos will automatically complete the quest.
Rewards
Orichalcum- 9,600
Experience Points
(You will have also received an 
Aqueous Membrane as a spoil for defeating Thalaos)
Next Steps
There are three other quests to complete when you get back to Haven, which are listed below:
Last Licks
Optional Quest
“Shula asks Clive to accompany her on a hunting expedition. Their quarry is a reptilian horror called a guivre, whose tongue is said to have potent medicinal properties—precisely what Waljas’s wetnurse requires to restore her spirits.”
Beyond the Grave
Optional Quest
“Dalina, trusted attendant to the Tributary of Haven, has many duties. Attending to the witch’s grave is one among them, but has proven impossible of late thanks to a pack of bloodthirsty beasts having taken up residence on the road to Witchdrop.”
Lost in the Woods
Optional Quest
“On a forbidden foray into the forest, Ayrik met with a fearsome beast capable of felling trees and upending the earth with blasts of water. There’s only one way of telling whether this fiend really exists, or is merely the product of the boy’s overactive imagination…”
Reign of Pain
Optional Quest
“Village healer Fanet believes that Talor’s curse may have been woven by a tonberry king, to whom the suffering soul is yet bound by beastman magick. She begs Clive to seek the creature out and end its reign once and for all.”
Alternatively, you can use the link below to return to the walkthrough:
The Rising Tide
DLC
This quest begins from a missive called 
(Unmarked).
“Often is it that letters requesting aid find their way to Clive’s reading desk. Rarer, though, are occasions when said letters are anonymous. Even rarer still, however, are occasions when the aid in question is to rescue an Eikon thought lost for several centuries. This so happens to be one of those rarest of occasions.”