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Admin: name/link the four Driftwarden NPCs; giver column; Shard mention; ascii cleanup

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name/link the four Driftwarden NPCs; giver column; Shard mention; ascii cleanup

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	== The Driftwardens ==		== The Driftwardens ==
	The [[Pathwardens]] have no doctrine for this. What they can do is point you at the four ordinary tradespeople - one to a town - who were first to see their door open and have begun coordinating by courier. They call themselves the '''Driftwardens''', a presumptuous echo of the Pathwardens, and they pay adventurers who keep the doors thinned. They pay in a shared token, the [[Driftwarden's Mark]], spent at the [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] for the [[Driftwarden Set]].		The [[Pathwardens]] have no doctrine for this. What they can do is point you at the four ordinary tradespeople - one to a town - who were first to see their door open and have begun coordinating by courier. They call themselves the '''Driftwardens''', a presumptuous echo of the Pathwardens, and they pay adventurers who keep the doors thinned. They pay in a shared token, the [[Driftwarden's Mark]], spent at the [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] for the [[Driftwarden Set]].

			The four Driftwardens, one to a town, are:
			* '''Holtburg''' - [[Edda Coleward]], a candlemaker.
			* '''Shoushi''' - [[Ando Shiraiwa]], a net-mender.
			* '''Yaraq''' - [[Nadir ibn Hakam]], a water-carrier.
			* '''Sanamar''' - [[Ottavia Renzi]], a dockhand.

	None of them has looked closely enough to notice the stall is better stocked than four tradespeople's savings could explain. It is quietly backed by [[The Meridian\|the Meridian]] - but that is a thread for later.		None of them has looked closely enough to notice the stall is better stocked than four tradespeople's savings could explain. It is quietly backed by [[The Meridian\|the Meridian]] - but that is a thread for later.
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	* '''Holtburg''' and '''Yaraq''' are boss-drop turn-ins; '''Shoushi''' and '''Sanamar''' add a kill task (the kill task pays XP, the Mark comes from the turn-in).		* '''Holtburg''' and '''Yaraq''' are boss-drop turn-ins; '''Shoushi''' and '''Sanamar''' add a kill task (the kill task pays XP, the Mark comes from the turn-in).

	== The four ~~bosses~~ ==		== The four doors ==
	Each door's boss is built around a single encounter idea:		Each door's boss is built around a single encounter idea, and each is given and turned in by that town's Driftwarden:
	{\| class="wikitable"		{\| class="wikitable"
	! Town !! Boss encounter !! The idea		! Town !! Driftwarden !! Boss encounter !! The idea
	\|-		\|-
	\| Holtburg \|\| '''the Summoner''' \|\| Never fights well - it fights ''late'', calling waves as it is wounded.		\| Holtburg \|\| [[Edda Coleward]] \|\| '''[[Grulsk the Doorwright\|the Summoner]]''' \|\| Never fights well - it fights ''late'', calling waves as it is wounded.
	\|-		\|-
	\| Shoushi \|\| '''the Beast-handler''' \|\| Buffs and heals its pack; there is a right kill order, and a trap for the wrong one.		\| Shoushi \|\| [[Ando Shiraiwa]] \|\| '''[[Kaede the Kinbinder\|the Beast-handler]]''' \|\| Buffs and heals its pack; there is a right kill order, and a trap for the wrong one.
	\|-		\|-
	\| Yaraq \|\| '''the Shell''' \|\| A grafted, over-plated form - until the shell dies and the real thing steps out.		\| Yaraq \|\| [[Nadir ibn Hakam]] \|\| '''[[The Gilded Shell\|the Shell]]''' \|\| A grafted, over-plated form - until the shell dies and the real thing steps out.
	\|-		\|-
	\| Sanamar \|\| '''the Drift-Twinned''' \|\| The arc's thesis as a fight: the drift copies things, and this one has learned to do it on purpose.		\| Sanamar \|\| [[Ottavia Renzi]] \|\| '''[[Ghorrun the Twice-Made\|the Drift-Twinned]]''' \|\| The arc's thesis as a fight: the drift copies things, and this one has learned to do it on purpose.
	\|}		\|}

			== Town amenities ==
			A [[Shard of First Light]] stands in each of the four towns beside the door - touch it for a free suite of buffs before you go in. The [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] keeps an identical stall in each town, spending the Marks you earn.

	== Rewards ==		== Rewards ==
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	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[Driftwarden Set]] · [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] · [[Driftwarden's Mark]]		* [[Driftwarden Set]] - [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] - [[Driftwarden's Mark]] - [[Shard of First Light]]
	* [[The World is Woven]] · [[The Meridian]] - the story the arc is the ground floor of.		* [[The World is Woven]] - [[The Meridian]] - the story the arc is the ground floor of.
	* [[Bestiary]] - the drift-touched creatures behind the doors.		* [[Bestiary]] - the drift-touched creatures behind the doors.
	* [[Quests]] - the per-town door quests.		* [[Quests]] - the per-town door quests.

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2026-07-20T01:14:00Z

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	The [[Pathwardens]] have no doctrine for this. What they can do is point you at the four ordinary tradespeople — one to a town — who were first to see their door open and have begun coordinating by courier. They call themselves the '''Driftwardens''', a presumptuous echo of the Pathwardens, and they pay adventurers who keep the doors thinned. They pay in a shared token, the [[Driftwarden's Mark]], spent at the [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] for the [[Driftwarden Set]].		The [[Pathwardens]] have no doctrine for this. What they can do is point you at the four ordinary tradespeople — one to a town — who were first to see their door open and have begun coordinating by courier. They call themselves the '''Driftwardens''', a presumptuous echo of the Pathwardens, and they pay adventurers who keep the doors thinned. They pay in a shared token, the [[Driftwarden's Mark]], spent at the [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] for the [[Driftwarden Set]].

	None of them has looked closely enough to notice the stall is better stocked than four tradespeople's savings could explain. It is quietly backed by [[~~Skill Trainers~~\|the Meridian]] — but that is a thread for later.		None of them has looked closely enough to notice the stall is better stocked than four tradespeople's savings could explain. It is quietly backed by [[The Meridian\|the Meridian]] — but that is a thread for later.

	== How the arc plays ==		== How the arc plays ==

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	{{DISPLAYTITLE:The Unbidden Doors}}		{{DISPLAYTITLE:The Unbidden Doors}}
	'''The Unbidden Doors''' is DreamWeave's '''level ~~10â€“15~~ starter arc''' ~~â€”~~ a player's first brush with [[The World is Woven#The drift\|the drift]], the fraying of the portal lattice that runs under the whole world (see [[The World is Woven]]). It stands alone and explains nothing; it foreshadows.		'''The Unbidden Doors''' is DreamWeave's '''level 10–15 starter arc''' — a player's first brush with [[The World is Woven#The drift\|the drift]], the fraying of the portal lattice that runs under the whole world (see [[The World is Woven]]). It stands alone and explains nothing; it foreshadows.

	== The story ==		== The story ==
	Portals have been drifting off-target for a long time, and now the lattice has begun to do something worse: it '''buds new doors''' where it is densest ~~â€”~~ in the four great towns. In '''Holtburg, Shoushi, Yaraq, and Sanamar''', a door has opened that '''nobody made'''. Each leads into a place that looks like somewhere in Dereth and is quietly, wrongly, not it ~~â€”~~ the same stone, the same rooms, and the wrong things living in them.		Portals have been drifting off-target for a long time, and now the lattice has begun to do something worse: it '''buds new doors''' where it is densest — in the four great towns. In '''Holtburg, Shoushi, Yaraq, and Sanamar''', a door has opened that '''nobody made'''. Each leads into a place that looks like somewhere in Dereth and is quietly, wrongly, not it — the same stone, the same rooms, and the wrong things living in them.

	The horror is not that the doors are dangerous. It is that nobody built them. ''A portal is a thing a person makes. These grew.''		The horror is not that the doors are dangerous. It is that nobody built them. ''A portal is a thing a person makes. These grew.''

	== The Driftwardens ==		== The Driftwardens ==
	The [[Pathwardens]] have no doctrine for this. What they can do is point you at the four ordinary tradespeople ~~â€”~~ one to a town ~~â€”~~ who were first to see their door open and have begun coordinating by courier. They call themselves the '''Driftwardens''', a presumptuous echo of the Pathwardens, and they pay adventurers who keep the doors thinned. They pay in a shared token, the [[Driftwarden's Mark]], spent at the [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] for the [[Driftwarden Set]].		The [[Pathwardens]] have no doctrine for this. What they can do is point you at the four ordinary tradespeople — one to a town — who were first to see their door open and have begun coordinating by courier. They call themselves the '''Driftwardens''', a presumptuous echo of the Pathwardens, and they pay adventurers who keep the doors thinned. They pay in a shared token, the [[Driftwarden's Mark]], spent at the [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] for the [[Driftwarden Set]].

	None of them has looked closely enough to notice the stall is better stocked than four tradespeople's savings could explain. It is quietly backed by [[Skill Trainers\|the Meridian]] ~~â€”~~ but that is a thread for later.		None of them has looked closely enough to notice the stall is better stocked than four tradespeople's savings could explain. It is quietly backed by [[Skill Trainers\|the Meridian]] — but that is a thread for later.

	== How the arc plays ==		== How the arc plays ==
	* '''Four towns, four doors, four distinct bosses.''' Each town's door opens on its own warped somewhere, with its own encounter ~~â€”~~ never a re-skin of the others.		* '''Four towns, four doors, four distinct bosses.''' Each town's door opens on its own warped somewhere, with its own encounter — never a re-skin of the others.
	* '''Repeatable every 20 hours.''' Each town pays '''one [[Driftwarden's Mark]]''' per run, so a player working all four earns about 4 Marks a day.		* '''Repeatable every 20 hours.''' Each town pays '''one [[Driftwarden's Mark]]''' per run, so a player working all four earns about 4 Marks a day.
	* The [[Driftwarden Set]] costs '''~12 Marks''' in total ~~â€”~~ roughly three days of play, long enough to matter and short enough to finish inside the level band.		* The [[Driftwarden Set]] costs '''~12 Marks''' in total — roughly three days of play, long enough to matter and short enough to finish inside the level band.
	* '''Holtburg''' and '''Yaraq''' are boss-drop turn-ins; '''Shoushi''' and '''Sanamar''' add a kill task (the kill task pays XP, the Mark comes from the turn-in).		* '''Holtburg''' and '''Yaraq''' are boss-drop turn-ins; '''Shoushi''' and '''Sanamar''' add a kill task (the kill task pays XP, the Mark comes from the turn-in).

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	! Town !! Boss encounter !! The idea		! Town !! Boss encounter !! The idea
	\|-		\|-
	\| Holtburg \|\| '''the Summoner''' \|\| Never fights well ~~â€”~~ it fights ''late'', calling waves as it is wounded.		\| Holtburg \|\| '''the Summoner''' \|\| Never fights well — it fights ''late'', calling waves as it is wounded.
	\|-		\|-
	\| Shoushi \|\| '''the Beast-handler''' \|\| Buffs and heals its pack; there is a right kill order, and a trap for the wrong one.		\| Shoushi \|\| '''the Beast-handler''' \|\| Buffs and heals its pack; there is a right kill order, and a trap for the wrong one.
	\|-		\|-
	\| Yaraq \|\| '''the Shell''' \|\| A grafted, over-plated form ~~â€”~~ until the shell dies and the real thing steps out.		\| Yaraq \|\| '''the Shell''' \|\| A grafted, over-plated form — until the shell dies and the real thing steps out.
	\|-		\|-
	\| Sanamar \|\| '''the Drift-Twinned''' \|\| The arc's thesis as a fight: the drift copies things, and this one has learned to do it on purpose.		\| Sanamar \|\| '''the Drift-Twinned''' \|\| The arc's thesis as a fight: the drift copies things, and this one has learned to do it on purpose.
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	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[Driftwarden Set]] Â· [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] Â· [[Driftwarden's Mark]]		* [[Driftwarden Set]] · [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] · [[Driftwarden's Mark]]
	* [[The World is Woven]] Â· [[The Meridian]] ~~â€”~~ the story the arc is the ground floor of.		* [[The World is Woven]] · [[The Meridian]] — the story the arc is the ground floor of.
	* [[Bestiary]] ~~â€”~~ the drift-touched creatures behind the doors.		* [[Bestiary]] — the drift-touched creatures behind the doors.
	* [[Quests]] ~~â€”~~ the per-town door quests.		* [[Quests]] — the per-town door quests.

	[[Category:Quests]]		[[Category:Quests]]
	[[Category:Unbidden Doors]]		[[Category:Unbidden Doors]]

Admin: Point The Drift links at The World is Woven (lore merge)

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Point The Drift links at The World is Woven (lore merge)

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	{{DISPLAYTITLE:The Unbidden Doors}}		{{DISPLAYTITLE:The Unbidden Doors}}
	'''The Unbidden Doors''' is DreamWeave's '''level ~~10–15~~ starter arc''' — a player's first brush with [[The ~~Drift~~\|the drift]], the fraying of the portal lattice that runs under the whole world (see [[The World is Woven]]). It stands alone and explains nothing; it foreshadows.		'''The Unbidden Doors''' is DreamWeave's '''level 10â€“15 starter arc''' â€” a player's first brush with [[The World is Woven#The drift\|the drift]], the fraying of the portal lattice that runs under the whole world (see [[The World is Woven]]). It stands alone and explains nothing; it foreshadows.

	== The story ==		== The story ==
	Portals have been drifting off-target for a long time, and now the lattice has begun to do something worse: it '''buds new doors''' where it is densest — in the four great towns. In '''Holtburg, Shoushi, Yaraq, and Sanamar''', a door has opened that '''nobody made'''. Each leads into a place that looks like somewhere in Dereth and is quietly, wrongly, not it — the same stone, the same rooms, and the wrong things living in them.		Portals have been drifting off-target for a long time, and now the lattice has begun to do something worse: it '''buds new doors''' where it is densest â€” in the four great towns. In '''Holtburg, Shoushi, Yaraq, and Sanamar''', a door has opened that '''nobody made'''. Each leads into a place that looks like somewhere in Dereth and is quietly, wrongly, not it â€” the same stone, the same rooms, and the wrong things living in them.

	The horror is not that the doors are dangerous. It is that nobody built them. ''A portal is a thing a person makes. These grew.''		The horror is not that the doors are dangerous. It is that nobody built them. ''A portal is a thing a person makes. These grew.''

	== The Driftwardens ==		== The Driftwardens ==
	The [[Pathwardens]] have no doctrine for this. What they can do is point you at the four ordinary tradespeople — one to a town — who were first to see their door open and have begun coordinating by courier. They call themselves the '''Driftwardens''', a presumptuous echo of the Pathwardens, and they pay adventurers who keep the doors thinned. They pay in a shared token, the [[Driftwarden's Mark]], spent at the [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] for the [[Driftwarden Set]].		The [[Pathwardens]] have no doctrine for this. What they can do is point you at the four ordinary tradespeople â€” one to a town â€” who were first to see their door open and have begun coordinating by courier. They call themselves the '''Driftwardens''', a presumptuous echo of the Pathwardens, and they pay adventurers who keep the doors thinned. They pay in a shared token, the [[Driftwarden's Mark]], spent at the [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] for the [[Driftwarden Set]].

	None of them has looked closely enough to notice the stall is better stocked than four tradespeople's savings could explain. It is quietly backed by [[Skill Trainers\|the Meridian]] — but that is a thread for later.		None of them has looked closely enough to notice the stall is better stocked than four tradespeople's savings could explain. It is quietly backed by [[Skill Trainers\|the Meridian]] â€” but that is a thread for later.

	== How the arc plays ==		== How the arc plays ==
	* '''Four towns, four doors, four distinct bosses.''' Each town's door opens on its own warped somewhere, with its own encounter — never a re-skin of the others.		* '''Four towns, four doors, four distinct bosses.''' Each town's door opens on its own warped somewhere, with its own encounter â€” never a re-skin of the others.
	* '''Repeatable every 20 hours.''' Each town pays '''one [[Driftwarden's Mark]]''' per run, so a player working all four earns about 4 Marks a day.		* '''Repeatable every 20 hours.''' Each town pays '''one [[Driftwarden's Mark]]''' per run, so a player working all four earns about 4 Marks a day.
	* The [[Driftwarden Set]] costs '''~12 Marks''' in total — roughly three days of play, long enough to matter and short enough to finish inside the level band.		* The [[Driftwarden Set]] costs '''~12 Marks''' in total â€” roughly three days of play, long enough to matter and short enough to finish inside the level band.
	* '''Holtburg''' and '''Yaraq''' are boss-drop turn-ins; '''Shoushi''' and '''Sanamar''' add a kill task (the kill task pays XP, the Mark comes from the turn-in).		* '''Holtburg''' and '''Yaraq''' are boss-drop turn-ins; '''Shoushi''' and '''Sanamar''' add a kill task (the kill task pays XP, the Mark comes from the turn-in).

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	! Town !! Boss encounter !! The idea		! Town !! Boss encounter !! The idea
	\|-		\|-
	\| Holtburg \|\| '''the Summoner''' \|\| Never fights well — it fights ''late'', calling waves as it is wounded.		\| Holtburg \|\| '''the Summoner''' \|\| Never fights well â€” it fights ''late'', calling waves as it is wounded.
	\|-		\|-
	\| Shoushi \|\| '''the Beast-handler''' \|\| Buffs and heals its pack; there is a right kill order, and a trap for the wrong one.		\| Shoushi \|\| '''the Beast-handler''' \|\| Buffs and heals its pack; there is a right kill order, and a trap for the wrong one.
	\|-		\|-
	\| Yaraq \|\| '''the Shell''' \|\| A grafted, over-plated form — until the shell dies and the real thing steps out.		\| Yaraq \|\| '''the Shell''' \|\| A grafted, over-plated form â€” until the shell dies and the real thing steps out.
	\|-		\|-
	\| Sanamar \|\| '''the Drift-Twinned''' \|\| The arc's thesis as a fight: the drift copies things, and this one has learned to do it on purpose.		\| Sanamar \|\| '''the Drift-Twinned''' \|\| The arc's thesis as a fight: the drift copies things, and this one has learned to do it on purpose.
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	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[Driftwarden Set]] · [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] · [[Driftwarden's Mark]]		* [[Driftwarden Set]] Â· [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] Â· [[Driftwarden's Mark]]
	* [[The World is Woven]] ~~· [[The Drift]] ·~~ [[The Meridian]] — the story the arc is the ground floor of.		* [[The World is Woven]] Â· [[The Meridian]] â€” the story the arc is the ground floor of.
	* [[Bestiary]] — the drift-touched creatures behind the doors.		* [[Bestiary]] â€” the drift-touched creatures behind the doors.
	* [[Quests]] — the per-town door quests.		* [[Quests]] â€” the per-town door quests.

	[[Category:Quests]]		[[Category:Quests]]
	[[Category:Unbidden Doors]]		[[Category:Unbidden Doors]]

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	{{DISPLAYTITLE:The Unbidden Doors}}		{{DISPLAYTITLE:The Unbidden Doors}}
	'''The Unbidden Doors''' is DreamWeave's '''level 10–15 starter arc''' — a player's first brush with [[The Drift\|the drift]], the fraying of the portal lattice that runs under the whole world (see [[~~Lore~~]]). It stands alone and explains nothing; it foreshadows.		'''The Unbidden Doors''' is DreamWeave's '''level 10–15 starter arc''' — a player's first brush with [[The Drift\|the drift]], the fraying of the portal lattice that runs under the whole world (see [[The World is Woven]]). It stands alone and explains nothing; it foreshadows.

	== The story ==		== The story ==
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	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[Driftwarden Set]] · [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] · [[Driftwarden's Mark]]		* [[Driftwarden Set]] · [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] · [[Driftwarden's Mark]]
	* [[~~Lore~~]] · [[The Drift]] · [[The Meridian]] — the story the arc is the ground floor of.		* [[The World is Woven]] · [[The Drift]] · [[The Meridian]] — the story the arc is the ground floor of.
	* [[Bestiary]] — the drift-touched creatures behind the doors.		* [[Bestiary]] — the drift-touched creatures behind the doors.
	* [[Quests]] — the per-town door quests.		* [[Quests]] — the per-town door quests.

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	{{DISPLAYTITLE:The Unbidden Doors}}		{{DISPLAYTITLE:The Unbidden Doors}}
	'''The Unbidden Doors''' is DreamWeave's '''level 10–15 starter arc''' — a player's first brush with the ~~drifting~~ portal lattice that runs under the whole world. It stands alone and explains nothing; it foreshadows.		'''The Unbidden Doors''' is DreamWeave's '''level 10–15 starter arc''' — a player's first brush with [[The Drift\|the drift]], the fraying of the portal lattice that runs under the whole world (see [[Lore]]). It stands alone and explains nothing; it foreshadows.

	== The story ==		== The story ==
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	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[Driftwarden Set]] · [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] · [[Driftwarden's Mark]]		* [[Driftwarden Set]] · [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] · [[Driftwarden's Mark]]
			* [[Lore]] · [[The Drift]] · [[The Meridian]] — the story the arc is the ground floor of.
	* [[Bestiary]] — the drift-touched creatures behind the doors.		* [[Bestiary]] — the drift-touched creatures behind the doors.
	* [[Quests]] — the per-town door quests.		* [[Quests]] — the per-town door quests.

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:The Unbidden Doors}}
'''The Unbidden Doors''' is DreamWeave's '''level 10–15 starter arc''' — a player's first brush with the drifting portal lattice that runs under the whole world. It stands alone and explains nothing; it foreshadows.

== The story ==
Portals have been drifting off-target for a long time, and now the lattice has begun to do something worse: it '''buds new doors''' where it is densest — in the four great towns. In '''Holtburg, Shoushi, Yaraq, and Sanamar''', a door has opened that '''nobody made'''. Each leads into a place that looks like somewhere in Dereth and is quietly, wrongly, not it — the same stone, the same rooms, and the wrong things living in them.

The horror is not that the doors are dangerous. It is that nobody built them. ''A portal is a thing a person makes. These grew.''

== The Driftwardens ==
The [[Pathwardens]] have no doctrine for this. What they can do is point you at the four ordinary tradespeople — one to a town — who were first to see their door open and have begun coordinating by courier. They call themselves the '''Driftwardens''', a presumptuous echo of the Pathwardens, and they pay adventurers who keep the doors thinned. They pay in a shared token, the [[Driftwarden's Mark]], spent at the [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] for the [[Driftwarden Set]].

None of them has looked closely enough to notice the stall is better stocked than four tradespeople's savings could explain. It is quietly backed by [[Skill Trainers|the Meridian]] — but that is a thread for later.

== How the arc plays ==
* '''Four towns, four doors, four distinct bosses.''' Each town's door opens on its own warped somewhere, with its own encounter — never a re-skin of the others.
* '''Repeatable every 20 hours.''' Each town pays '''one [[Driftwarden's Mark]]''' per run, so a player working all four earns about 4 Marks a day.
* The [[Driftwarden Set]] costs '''~12 Marks''' in total — roughly three days of play, long enough to matter and short enough to finish inside the level band.
* '''Holtburg''' and '''Yaraq''' are boss-drop turn-ins; '''Shoushi''' and '''Sanamar''' add a kill task (the kill task pays XP, the Mark comes from the turn-in).

== The four bosses ==
Each door's boss is built around a single encounter idea:
{| class="wikitable"
! Town !! Boss encounter !! The idea
|-
| Holtburg || '''the Summoner''' || Never fights well — it fights ''late'', calling waves as it is wounded.
|-
| Shoushi || '''the Beast-handler''' || Buffs and heals its pack; there is a right kill order, and a trap for the wrong one.
|-
| Yaraq || '''the Shell''' || A grafted, over-plated form — until the shell dies and the real thing steps out.
|-
| Sanamar || '''the Drift-Twinned''' || The arc's thesis as a fight: the drift copies things, and this one has learned to do it on purpose.
|}

== Rewards ==
* The [[Driftwarden's Mark]] currency, and the fifteen-piece [[Driftwarden Set]] it buys.
* Combat XP from the door dungeons and their kill tasks.

== See also ==
* [[Driftwarden Set]] · [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] · [[Driftwarden's Mark]]
* [[Bestiary]] — the drift-touched creatures behind the doors.
* [[Quests]] — the per-town door quests.

[[Category:Quests]]
[[Category:Unbidden Doors]]

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	{{DISPLAYTITLE:The Unbidden Doors}}		{{DISPLAYTITLE:The Unbidden Doors}}
	'''The Unbidden Doors''' is DreamWeave's '''level ~~10–15~~ starter arc''' — a player's first brush with [[The World is Woven#The drift\|the drift]], the fraying of the portal lattice that runs under the whole world (see [[The World is Woven]]). It stands alone and explains nothing; it foreshadows.		'''The Unbidden Doors''' is DreamWeave's '''level 10-15 starter arc''' - a player's first brush with [[The World is Woven#The drift\|the drift]], the fraying of the portal lattice that runs under the whole world (see [[The World is Woven]]). It stands alone and explains nothing; it foreshadows.

	== The story ==		== The story ==
	Portals have been drifting off-target for a long time, and now the lattice has begun to do something worse: it '''buds new doors''' where it is densest — in the four great towns. In '''Holtburg, Shoushi, Yaraq, and Sanamar''', a door has opened that '''nobody made'''. Each leads into a place that looks like somewhere in Dereth and is quietly, wrongly, not it — the same stone, the same rooms, and the wrong things living in them.		Portals have been drifting off-target for a long time, and now the lattice has begun to do something worse: it '''buds new doors''' where it is densest - in the four great towns. In '''Holtburg, Shoushi, Yaraq, and Sanamar''', a door has opened that '''nobody made'''. Each leads into a place that looks like somewhere in Dereth and is quietly, wrongly, not it - the same stone, the same rooms, and the wrong things living in them.

	The horror is not that the doors are dangerous. It is that nobody built them. ''A portal is a thing a person makes. These grew.''		The horror is not that the doors are dangerous. It is that nobody built them. ''A portal is a thing a person makes. These grew.''

	== The Driftwardens ==		== The Driftwardens ==
	The [[Pathwardens]] have no doctrine for this. What they can do is point you at the four ordinary tradespeople — one to a town — who were first to see their door open and have begun coordinating by courier. They call themselves the '''Driftwardens''', a presumptuous echo of the Pathwardens, and they pay adventurers who keep the doors thinned. They pay in a shared token, the [[Driftwarden's Mark]], spent at the [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] for the [[Driftwarden Set]].		The [[Pathwardens]] have no doctrine for this. What they can do is point you at the four ordinary tradespeople - one to a town - who were first to see their door open and have begun coordinating by courier. They call themselves the '''Driftwardens''', a presumptuous echo of the Pathwardens, and they pay adventurers who keep the doors thinned. They pay in a shared token, the [[Driftwarden's Mark]], spent at the [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] for the [[Driftwarden Set]].

	None of them has looked closely enough to notice the stall is better stocked than four tradespeople's savings could explain. It is quietly backed by [[The Meridian\|the Meridian]] — but that is a thread for later.		None of them has looked closely enough to notice the stall is better stocked than four tradespeople's savings could explain. It is quietly backed by [[The Meridian\|the Meridian]] - but that is a thread for later.

	== How the arc plays ==		== How the arc plays ==
	* '''Four towns, four doors, four distinct bosses.''' Each town's door opens on its own warped somewhere, with its own encounter — never a re-skin of the others.		* '''Four towns, four doors, four distinct bosses.''' Each town's door opens on its own warped somewhere, with its own encounter - never a re-skin of the others.
	* '''Repeatable every 20 hours.''' Each town pays '''one [[Driftwarden's Mark]]''' per run, so a player working all four earns about 4 Marks a day.		* '''Repeatable every 20 hours.''' Each town pays '''one [[Driftwarden's Mark]]''' per run, so a player working all four earns about 4 Marks a day.
	* The [[Driftwarden Set]] costs '''~12 Marks''' in total — roughly three days of play, long enough to matter and short enough to finish inside the level band.		* The [[Driftwarden Set]] costs '''~12 Marks''' in total - roughly three days of play, long enough to matter and short enough to finish inside the level band.
	* '''Holtburg''' and '''Yaraq''' are boss-drop turn-ins; '''Shoushi''' and '''Sanamar''' add a kill task (the kill task pays XP, the Mark comes from the turn-in).		* '''Holtburg''' and '''Yaraq''' are boss-drop turn-ins; '''Shoushi''' and '''Sanamar''' add a kill task (the kill task pays XP, the Mark comes from the turn-in).

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	! Town !! Boss encounter !! The idea		! Town !! Boss encounter !! The idea
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	\| Holtburg \|\| '''the Summoner''' \|\| Never fights well — it fights ''late'', calling waves as it is wounded.		\| Holtburg \|\| '''the Summoner''' \|\| Never fights well - it fights ''late'', calling waves as it is wounded.
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	\| Shoushi \|\| '''the Beast-handler''' \|\| Buffs and heals its pack; there is a right kill order, and a trap for the wrong one.		\| Shoushi \|\| '''the Beast-handler''' \|\| Buffs and heals its pack; there is a right kill order, and a trap for the wrong one.
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	\| Yaraq \|\| '''the Shell''' \|\| A grafted, over-plated form — until the shell dies and the real thing steps out.		\| Yaraq \|\| '''the Shell''' \|\| A grafted, over-plated form - until the shell dies and the real thing steps out.
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	\| Sanamar \|\| '''the Drift-Twinned''' \|\| The arc's thesis as a fight: the drift copies things, and this one has learned to do it on purpose.		\| Sanamar \|\| '''the Drift-Twinned''' \|\| The arc's thesis as a fight: the drift copies things, and this one has learned to do it on purpose.
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	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[Driftwarden Set]] · [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] · [[Driftwarden's Mark]]		* [[Driftwarden Set]] · [[Driftwarden Provisioner]] · [[Driftwarden's Mark]]
	* [[The World is Woven]] · [[The Meridian]] — the story the arc is the ground floor of.		* [[The World is Woven]] · [[The Meridian]] - the story the arc is the ground floor of.
	* [[Bestiary]] — the drift-touched creatures behind the doors.		* [[Bestiary]] - the drift-touched creatures behind the doors.
	* [[Quests]] — the per-town door quests.		* [[Quests]] - the per-town door quests.

	[[Category:Quests]]		[[Category:Quests]]
	[[Category:Unbidden Doors]]		[[Category:Unbidden Doors]]