frame|Loremaster Borannin
frame|Betti Frostweaver
There are (on Project 1999) seven Coldain prayer shawls, and each is an upgrade of the previous, with being the final reward:
The Coldain prayer shawl quests are a series of progressively more difficult tradeskill quests to repeatedly upgrade a cloth shawl. All quests except the final can be completed solo.
The table below displays the tradeskill trivial levels for each level of the quest. The quests can be completed with lower skill levels, but the risk of combine failures increases.
Below is a checklist of all skill levels and non-trivial items that you must acquire for this quest. Items given by NPCS as part of the quest, items which can be purchased from vendors, or items that can be crafted using items purchased from vendors (eg. Mixing Bowl or Pie Tin) are not listed.
NOTE: These requirements assume successes on all combines, but keep in mind that even with max skill there is always at least a 5% failure rate, so you may wind up needing multiple copies of some items if you are unlucky.
Tradeskilling
Shawl 1
Shawl 2
Shawl 3 and some Shawl 7
Shawl 4 and some Shawl 7
Shawl 5
Shawl 6 (The most difficult shawl to make so it is wise to get enough of the items below to attempt at least 2 times)
Shawl 7
At/Around level 35 Group in:
Great Divide to get XP and drops:
At/Around level 45 Group in:
Great Divide to get XP and drops:
Eastern Wastes to get XP and drops:
Crystal Caverns to get XP and drops:
At/Around level 48+ Group in:
Velketor's Labyrinth to get XP and drops:
At/Around level 49+ Group in:
Cobalt Scar to get XP and drops:
At/Around level 55+ Group in:
Siren's Grotto to get XP and drops:
At/Around level 55+ Group in:
Kael Drakkal to get XP and drops:
Find Loremaster Borannin in Thurgadin.
Give four Kromrif to Loremaster Borannin.
Receive .
Return to Loremaster Borannin in Thurgadin.
Receive Preservationists Box. Combine 10 Kromrif Head in Preservationists Box to create Preserved Kromrif Heads.
Preserved Kromrif Heads are TEMPORARY and will be LOST after camping.
Give Preserved Kromrif Heads and to Loremaster Borannin.
Receive .
Some quest items are edible. Player characters will be forced to REDO THE QUEST if they accidentally eat them. Keep a stack of food above the items to prevent this.
Visit Loremaster Borannin in Thurgadin.
Receive . Visit Mordin Frostcleaver at Mordin's Meats in Thurgadin.
Give to Mordin Frostcleaver.
Receive .
Used Napkin
Craft .
Craft .
Give and to Guard Leif. Receive . (Verified MQ'able 07/09/2024)
Guard Leif says, 'Well I'll be derned. An outlander that can make a good Bearmeat 'n Bread! Thank ye, Soandso.'
Trita's Napkin
Give to Mordin Frostcleaver. Receive .
Craft .
Craft .
Give and to Trita Coldheart. Receive . (Verified MQ'able 07/09/2024)
Give to Mordin Frostcleaver. Receive .
Brita's Napkin
Visit Mordin Frostcleaver in Thurgadin.
Craft Spicy Ulthork Meat.
Craft Ulthork Meat Pie.
Give and to Lorekeeper Brita in the back of the Thurgadin library. Receive . (Verified MQ'able 07/09/2024)
Give to Mordin Frostcleaver. Receive .
Seal of Thoridain
Visit Mordin Frostcleaver in Thurgadin.
Craft .
Give and to Grand Historian Thoridain. (Verified MQ'able 07/09/2024)
Receive .
Give and to Loremaster Borannin in the Thurgadin chapel. (Verified MQ'able 10/28/2023)
Receive . He also returns .
After finishing the first three quests, ask Loremaster Borannin 'What is brewing?'
You say, 'I will accept this mission'
Bring a Vial of Velium Vapors (see below) with you to the Eastern Wastes to keep from having to find Tanik twice. Simply hand him the Vial to receive his note. (Confirmed 7/13/2023)
If you wander around Eastern Wastes near the upper ridge of the Kael entrance (a wide area near -6644,4337 UPDATE: also spawns around -6000, 4350 or the north side of the gorge where I found him on tracking) you will eventually trigger either a group of Kromrif Death Squad or you will see the message "the snow crumbles away revealing an injured coldain." A common way to find the mob is to have a pet on guard and it will point in the direction of the nearest NPC, including invisible ones, such as the dwarf we are looking for. The injured Coldain is Tanik Greskil. Run away from the Death Squad, as they are immune to snare as well as other immobilizing effects. There is no reason to fight them. FYIs: I was KOS in wolf form to Tanik Greskil also if you have a levitate buff you will not trigger either.
You say, 'Hail, Tanik Greskil'
You say, 'I will help'
You say, 'What are velium vapors?'
Once back in Thurgadin, find Frundle Frenkler. Run past the bank staying left, Second building on the left
You say, 'Hail, Frundle Frenklar'
You say, 'What velium vapors?'
You receive a Velium Purifier.
You say, 'What velium vial?'
Drop Locations
Small Piece of Velium and Small Brick of Velium can be looted off A Ry`Gorr Miner in Crystal Caverns or off spiders in Velketor's Labyrinth, or various golems (you can find some on the 5th and 7th floors) in Tower of Frozen Shadow.
Crystalline Silk can be found on spiders in both zones.
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
The vial is trivial at skill 122.
When you get Tanik Greskil to spawn again, just hand him the Vial of Velium Vapors.
You receive Tanik's note.
Then head back to Thurgadin and hand Loremaster Borannin the Tanik's note and your Woven Coldain Prayer Shawl, you receive Fur-Lined Coldain Prayer Shawl. (Verified MQ'able 03/15/2024)
Find Loremaster Borannin in Thurgadin. You say, 'How can I further advance my reputation with the Coldain?'
Rexx Frostweaver may be found in the Thurgadin Exchange, near the bank.
You say, 'Hail Rexx Frostweaver'
You say, 'I am here for the next prayer shawl.'
You receive a Glowing Bile Soaker.
You will need at least 75 Crystalline Silk Thread and 5 Glowing Worm Bile, provided you don't fail at all.
Drop Locations
Crystalline Silk Thread is a common drop from various spiders in Velketor's Labyrinth.
Glowing Worm Bile is a uncommon drop from various shardwurms in the Great Divide.
Step 1
Combine 5 Crystalline Silk Thread in a sewing kit or loom to craft Crystalline Silk Fiber (trivial 51).
Step 2
Combine 3 Crystalline Silk Fiber and a Glowing Worm Bile in the Glowing Bile Soaker to craft a Glowing Crystalline Silk Piece (no-fail).
Step 3
Combine 5 Glowing Crystalline Silk Piece with your in a sewing kit or loom to craft a (trivial 115). If you fail the final combine, you will get your back.
Give the Silk Coldain Prayer Shawl to Rexx Frostweaver. He gives it back.
You say, 'Am I worthy?'
At the end of the previous quest, Rexx Frostweaver told you to speak to his wife Betti Frostweaver regarding the embroidered shawl.
You say, 'Hail, Betti Frostweaver'
You say, 'I am here regarding the embroidered shawl.'
You receive an Embroidered Shawl Pattern.
You say, 'What sacred Coldain thread?'
Step 1
'''Once you have all the components, combine 2 Drakkel Wolf Whisker, 2 Manticore Mane, 2 Siren Hair and 1 Woven Frost Giant Beard in a Sewing Kit to craft a Spool of Sacred Coldain Thread (trivial 162).
Step 2
Combine the Spool of Sacred Coldain Thread with the Embroidered Shawl Pattern and in a sewing kit to craft an (trivial 208). If you fail the final combine you get the back, and can follow the initial dialogue to get another Embroidered Shawl Pattern. Because of this, some people choose to raise tailoring to 162 then repeat the final combine until succeeding, because it is much faster and cheaper than raising tailoring to 200+.
Give Betti the Embroidered Coldain Prayer Shawl. (She will return it.)
You receive the Runed Prayer Shawl Pattern, this is needed in the next shawl quest (Shawl 7).
At the end of the previous quest, Betti Frostweaver told you to show your to Gilthan Brittleblade. Do that (and take care not to give it to the guard that sometimes paths in front of him!) He gives it back.
Step 1
Head off to Siren's Grotto and kill Sirens until you get a Runed Sea Shell with one charge of Enduring Breath.
Step 1.1
Combine the Runed Sea Shell (Enduring Breath) that has the effect: Enduring Breath and a Small Brick of Velium in a Mortar and Pestle or Mixing Bowl to get an Enchanted Velium Powder (No-Fail Combine).
Step 1.2
Now combine the Enchanted Velium Powder and a Water Flask in a pottery wheel to get an Unfired Rune (Pottery Trivial 162, tradable).
Step 1.3
Combine the Unfired Rune with a High Quality Firing Sheet and Water Flask in a kiln to receive a Blank Rune (Pottery Trivial 15).
Now show the rune (give the rune) to Trademaster Kroven (also in the Thurgadin Exchange).
He returns the blank rune and also gives you a Prayer to Brell.
You say, 'What burin?'
Step 2
Head to Siren's Grotto and get Swordfish Tooth from the swordfish and a Molkor Hide from the molkors (see for tips). You can also get Ulthork Tusks there but they're much easier to get in Eastern Wastes where you can kill the low level ulthorks. The Swordfish Tooth is NO DROP which is the only item actually forcing you to go into Siren's Grotto.
Step 2.1
Combine the Ulthork Tusks, Swordfish Tooth, and Molkor Hide in a fletching kit to get Burin (Fletching Trivial 135).
Step 2.2
Go to the room where the quest started with the Grand Historian, stand on the floor in front of the altar (you might have to do this on top of the stage to get it to work; As a Gnome I had to be on the ground in front of the stage but not up against the stage; As an Iksar I had to stand on the stage AND in front of the lectern (talking to him from any other side of him did not work). The wood elf that did it before me had to be on the stage for him to get it to work.) and say the following prayer until you see a message saying you've been inspired. Type the message exactly, including all punctuation (especially the final period):
You say,
You have been inspired. The sacred pattern of the Coldain rune materializes on the ground before you.
On the floor in front of the Historian is an Etched Rune Pattern.
Step 2.3
This Etched Rune Pattern needs to be combined with the Burin and Blank Rune in a fletching kit. This makes an Etched Rune (Fletching Trivia 168). Note -Upon a successful combine you will get back your Burin. If you fail a later combine, you can re-use the Burin to etch a second rune.
Show your Etched Rune to Grimthor Brewbeard by the brew barrel in Thurgadin. He returns it.
Step 3
You say, 'What cutlass fish oil?'
Receive Fish Oil Extractor, a four-slot container.
You say, 'What liquid velium?'
Step 3.1
Fish in Iceclad until you get 3 Iceclad Cutlassfish and combine them in the Fish Oil Extractor. This results in Cutlassfish Oil.
Step 3.2
Find some Rubbing Alcohol (bought from a mortician in Cabilis). Combine the Rubbing Alcohol and a Small Piece of Velium in a Brew Barrel to get Liquid Velium (Brewing Trivia 135).
Step 3.3
Get some Royal Kromrif blood from Iceshard Manor in Kael Drakkel.
Step 3.4
Combine the Liquid Velium, Cutlassfish Oil and Royal Kromrif blood in a Brew Barrel. This results in a Sacred Velium Ink (Brewing Trivial 168).
Step 3.5
Combine the Sacred Velium Ink and Etched Rune in a fletching kit to get a Velium Etched Rune (Fletching Trivial 168).
Step 4
Go to the jewelry store in Thurgadin, close to the Exchange. Give the Velium Etched Rune to Talem Tucter.
He returns the Velium Etched Rune and also gives you a Rune Casing Pattern.
You say, 'What casing?'
Step 4.1
Combine the Rune Casing Pattern, a Small Piece of Velium and 2 Platinum Bar in a Jeweler's Kit to receive the Rune Casing (Jewelry Trivial 152).
Step 4.2
Now combine the Rune Casing and Velium Etched Rune in a Jeweler's Kit to receive an Encased Velium Etched Rune (Jewelry Trivial 162).
Step 4.3
Take the Encased Velium Etched Rune, Runed Prayer Shawl Pattern that you got from Betti for handing in shawl 6, and your . Combine them in a tailoring kit to receive your 7th Shawl: (Tailoring Trivial 162). If you happen to lose the Runed Prayer Shawl Pattern just give the 6th shawl To Betti Frostweaver again and she'll give you the pattern and your shawl back.
You can then go show Loremaster Borannin your 7th shawl.
This text leads into the 8th shawl quest (which won't exist on p99)
Note: the Runed Shawl you craft is ID 1198; the one you get back from Loremaster Borannin is ID 1199. Both shawls have the same Identify text. You can only show Loremaster Borannin your shawl one time.
Category:Thurgadin
Aaah… The ! I was always interested in it on Live, but never had the stomach to chase it. With a lot of work, I did so here on P99 and have to say it was not as awful as I suspected it would be.
Foreword
It is best to not look at the Coldain Prayer Shawl quest as an ‘overnight’ quest, but one you do piece by piece. Giving yourself a quota on what you need done and pacing yourself can really reduce burn out. Some tradeskills will be easier than others. The purpose of this guide is to add an addendum of tips to the excellent guide already on P99 Wiki.
You will need at least 6000pp to complete this quest. Most of that money will be spent in jewelcrafting, but you can mitigate prices with CHA buffs and ensuring you sell some things back. Some buffs to your INT or WIS can also make your skillpoints rise faster. There are a few instances you can make money back that we’ll discuss in this guide.
Some things you can do right off the bat are to (1. see how many skill points you have with your class guildmaster and (2. get yourself a few Hand Made Backpacks. Extra slots can really help when it comes to tradeskills.
Protip: Hold down Shift when you click on a stack to pick up the entire stack, hold CTRL to grab a single item. This will make your life so much easier. It makes tradeskill leveling so much faster and saves your arm/hand a lot of pain. You can also hold shift when buying/selling from merchants to buy/sell an entire stack of items. Same goes for holding CTRL to buy/sell single items to a merchant.
An overview on where tradeskills need to be for 100% trivial combines…
Baking: 127
Baking is a very easy skill to level up utilizing the guide. By carrying around a spit and components you can sit in a camp doing combines in your spare time. It is a cheap and easy process. Remember, store all food items in lower bags than your regular food/drink! You might accidentally eat them, and some components are annoyingly rare.
Pottery: 162
Pottery can be annoying but is not very costly. You must be both near a merchant for pottery supplies and use the pottery wheel/kiln. Clay blocks also do not stack, so you will be making multiple trips. One of the good things in bringing this skill up to 148 is you do not need to use the kiln and can just keep making clay items and disposing of them through drop or destroy. When you get to 148, you then have to make vials that have components that you can’t get from the pottery merchant. I would not sweat it, as your final pottery combine that requires 162 can be done by another person with 162 in pottery and handed back to you! Consider it a shortcut. I feel Thurgadin Bank is the best place to do this tradeskill since you do not have to wander far.
Tailoring: 208
I struggled with tailoring the most due to components. Getting to 160 is a tough task. You will want to farm or purchase a couple dozen stacks of spider silk. Furthermore, you will be spending a bit of time in Crystal Caverns clearing the lvl 30 spiders again and again to get crystalline spider silk. The good news is spiders there drop lots of medallions, jewelry, and gems. Take them and sell them, as this paid for both Tailoring and Fletching for me. I’d bring my sewing kit, so you can save slots by turning the silk into swatches to make more inventory space. I probably went through 24-30 stacks. Until you get to the later Wu’s Armor sets you can do it in a large sewing kit, but when there are too many components you have to use a loom. I personally preferred the one at Outpost in OT.
When you get to 160, you’re in a bit of trouble. The guide for tailoring insists you do quivers, but the truth is those lion hides are very rare drops and you need countless ones. Wyvern Armor is a better avenue.
Brewing is related closely to this skill, as you will need to make Heady Kiolas. Hundreds of them. I found I would make 10 stacks, do my combines in tailoring, and then make more Heady Kiolas.
Feeling lucky? I brought my tailoring up to 160 and did my 208 combine. I was lucky to get the component on my first shot. Risky combines can eat up components, but you can never lose your shawl piece doing them. I personally feel it is easier chasing down the components for the 208 combine to try it multiple times compared to the hundreds of combines of rarer/more expensive components. I got lucky, but it was a sound strategy.
Your final tailoring combine in 162. I did it at 160 and was fine, but I did add a little risk to the combine. At that point components are more painful, so consider doing wyvern armor combine to 162.
Brewing: 168
Brewing is not the hardest of skills, but often requires many components and keeps you trapped beside a brew barrel for quite a while. Thurgadin has all of the components you need to get to 168. You may find yourself doing brewing more for tailoring than bringing up the skill itself!
A quick way to 151 brewing is doing Skull Ale
Jewelcraft: 162
Jewelcraft (JC) moves quickly and can be done in a couple hours. You only combine two components; leaving you with a very smooth series of combines and sells when you run out of space. Get yourself a CHA buff and bank all of your negative CHA items (Hello, fellow Necromancers!) to reduce costs tremendously. Increase your INT/WIS to reduce the number of combines you must do. It is very costly, often taking up to 3000pp! I have seen folks half that with proper buffs. I recommend just hitting the jewelry store in Thurgadin.
Fletching: 168
Fletching can be knocked out in a couple hours. You can carry the kit around with you to make arrows. It can get a little costly toward the end, but I enjoyed giving stacks of arrows to tanks in guild. You might not have the best quality arrows depending on the combines you did, but free is free. This skill cost me somewhere between 300pp-400pp.
Quest Protips
Try and duo with a friend when you can, but the quest can be done solo by a 50-60 person. The great thing about the Coldain Prayer Shawl is whether you are an epic raider or super casual you can both obtain the item if you are willing to put the work into it.
Pace yourself. Do a bit at a time. There is no rush.
When getting Siren Hairs you’re better off doing it in Cobalt Scar. Also, get yourself some Excellent Siren Scales for the Wenglawks Manly Purse quest. Great item.
Many components for the final combines can be purchased. Molkor Hides are very prized items and sell very well due to this quest. Consider them a good farming item if you can handle SG well enough.
It cannot be understated that Siren's Grotto is a very dangerous place. You have at least one component you must get from this zone. Work with a Druid who can charm sea horses and other monsters. I’m a fairly powerful Necromancer, but monsters there summon and have HP that is ridiculous. Druids and Enchanters do well here with charm. A friendly one hunting let me loot the NO DROP component I needed!
Work with other people. This is what makes Classic EQ great! You will bump into others getting components for their own shawls. Help them with buffs, advice, and team up when you can. Save extra components to help other folks running the quest. Guildmates also appreciate spare items you may come across!
As mentionned above, most people go 162 tailoring instead of the 208 trivial and attempt the shawl with a 57,5% success rate.
Tailoring is indeed very expensive and time consuming. The drop rate on the most farmed fur/hides to skill up is around 10% and on most recipes, there are other components that are tedious to come by, taking forever to solo farm. If you go the market route, assuming you can find sellers, the cheapest combines will cost you around 60pp per try. Seeing you need around 10 combines for 1 skill up on average with a 255 main stat, we're talking of an investment of at least 30 000pp just to get from 158 to 208. If you don't have that kind of money, it will take you a couple hundred hours to farm the materials.
On the other hand, I've personally failed the shawl 6 times at 165 tailoring, meaning I had to gather the materials 7 times. The manticore manes and the frost giant beards are easy but the wolf whiskers and the siren hair seem to have a 5-10%ish drop rate. The wolves are easy but the sirens are a very annoying farm for many classes despite their relatively low level. Some are clumped up, most of the fights are underwater, they hit hard and cast haste, damage shield, charm, slow, tash, dispel, dot and nuke. They also ruin your siren's grotto faction so not many able players will be willing to help you.
All this to say yes, the 162 route is cheaper but be warned even though it is probably faster, it still remains a major pain if you're unlucky with combines. I've done half of it during a double loot xmas week and despite being relatively patient, it still was a very frustrating and annoying undertaking, I just don't want to imagine doing it as many times under normal loot rules. I could still solo all the drops though, so if it is difficult or impossible for your class and you need help doing it and doing it 6 times isn't really an option, going over 162 tailoring will help you with that but it is a tough pill to swallow if you didn't have any plans to actually raise tailoring to 200-250.
Good luck.