Protect an Honored Mage

Protect an Honored Mage is a quest.

Details

Property	Description
Giver	Mages Guild
Membership	Member
Requirements	Guild rank or character level 2+
Summary	Guard an honored mage who lies helpless in a three-hour trance at the guild hall against a wave of assassins.

Objectives

Use the location names in your quest journal. Follow map markers when they are available.

Step	Objective	Optional
1	Guard the sleeping mage in the quest guild hall through the three hours of the trance	No
2	Stop the assassins sent to kill the sleeping mage	No
3	Survive the bounty hunters the Guild sends after you	No

Outcomes

Added gear requires a successful quest payment and a qualifying outcome. Quest mail alone does not count as payment.

Outcome	Gold multiplier	Gear choice
The assassins are dead, and the sleeping mage passed safely into the Aetherius.	100%	Yes
You killed the sleeping mage, and the Guild named you an oath-breaker.	No added payment	No
The sleeping mage disappeared, and you were meant to be guarding him.	No added payment	No

Outcome	Change type	Target	Change
You killed the sleeping mage, and the Guild named you an oath-breaker.	Faction reputation	The Mages Guild	-5

With Questlines enabled, these outcomes control the added rewards. Gold multipliers apply only to gold the quest actually pays. A gear choice offers a weapon, armour and jewellery; keep one. See Quest rewards and loot for rarity, payment and online reward rules.

Possible quest foes

Foe	Group size
Nightblade	3
Mage	1
Assassin	2
Knight	1
Battlemage	1

These are the script’s possible foe groups, including conditional encounters. They are not all guaranteed to appear together; repeated attacks and ordinary dungeon enemies can add more. Follow a foe’s reference for its combat rules before choosing weapons.

See Quest reference for offer requirements across quests.

Online, a failed outcome does not apply its faction-reputation penalties. Legal-standing changes and choices made during the quest are separate.

Scripted item payments

Item	Quantity per payment	Selection
Enchanted item (Item enchantment)	1	Random enchanted item

These are item payments made by the quest’s script. The objective or branch still determines which payment you receive. They are separate from the additional fitted gear choice and from ordinary enemy or chest loot.

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