In a world of magic like inTainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon, strange occurrences are common, even without the Wyrdness and its innate dangers getting involved. One wrong move, and you might end up cursed, growing horns in strange places, dead, or in Pup’s case, trapped in magical stone.

Deep in the depths of the Crystal Cave, you’ll find poor Pup, a Dál Riata man who’s been unfortunately trapped in the cave for days, stuck inside a wall of magical stones that whisper to him. No one else is coming down to the mine – you’re the only one who can find a way to free him from his prison.

Map of Cuanacht with an orange star edited onto where the Crystal Cave is located in Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon.

How To Free Pup From The Whispering Stones

The Pebble In The Pit is asomewhat hidden quest, and can only be started byspeaking to Pup in the Crystal Cave. The entrance to the mine islocated in a cliff wallon theriver southeast of the city of Cuanacht, near where it splits into three directions.

Head inside, and you’ll find amine with a lot of different levelsyou’ll have to go down, since thelift by the entrance is broken. You’llfind several Corpse Eatersnear the beginning, and thenMarrowghasts of both blind and non-blind variantsas you go deeper.

Player character speaking to Kvorr after rescuing Pup and being told about a Talisman in Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon.

You’llstart seeing mineable Whispering Stone nodes along the walls as you reach the bottom. Make sure to mine all of these that you see, as they’re key to the quest, and this will prevent you from needing to backtrack as much and find them later.

On thebottom floor,you’ll find a man namedPup trapped in a massive wall of Whispering Stones, and you canspeak to himto officiallystart The Pebble In The Pit.

Completing this side quest willrequire two tasks. First, you’ll need tomine every Whispering Stone nodepossible, and there are12 of themthroughout thebottom three floors of the mine. They looksimilar to Wyrdstone Ore, but with awhite glowinstead, so they’ll stand out.

Next, go to thestone wall adjacent to where Pup isstuck, and you’ll get aprompt to mine the rock, which has alighter coloring than the other stonearound it. Doing so willopen up a small alcovewith asecond rock wallto go through, and you’ll end up in a long tunnel.

As you get towards the chamber at the end, you’ll run intothree Frostbitten Warrior enemiesyou’ll need to kill, which areslow but can do some high damageif they get to you, and also drop their weapons as loot.

Oncethey’re deadand theWhispering Stones are gone, the quest will update, and you cango back to where Pup is.

Pup will have disappeared, though, and you canleave the mine now via the liftin one of therooms adjacent to the bottom floor’s central chamberfor a quick exit.

As soon as you leave, you’ll get into aconversation with Pup at the entrance, where he’ll eventually tell you tospeak with Kvorr.

Kvorr can be found at acamp in some ruinsjustpast the bridge leading to the southeastern gateto Forlorn Swords, and he’ll be wearing an ornate suit of armor.

You can alsofind a handful of other side quests at Kvorr’s camp, such asThe CrumbleandChange Of Heart, if you’ve started Beor’s quest line.

Speak to him about Pupto complete the quest, netting youaround 2000 EXP as a reward, and starting thenext side quest in the chain, Call Of The Wintermoon, andunlocking the recipe for the Stonewarden Talisman.