Quests & Achievements

Quests

Quests currently take the form of Diary Pages — journal entries hidden around a zone that unlock a short piece of story and an XP reward once you track them all down.

The Hero’s Ark quest log showing A Stranger’s Journal — diary pages found across Aldenmoor Heartlands, each with its story text, completion state and experience reward. — Pages can be found in any order; the log sorts them into story order regardless of when you picked them up.

How Diary Pages Work

Find a page

A 📜 marker appears on the map at each page's fixed location. Stand on or next to it and read it — this doesn't cost anything and can be done in any order.

Check your Quest Log

Reading a page adds it to your Quest Log immediately, sorted by story order regardless of which order you actually found them in.

Complete it from the Quest Log

Unlike most quest systems, you don't turn a diary page in back at its location — you complete it from the Quest Log screen itself, anywhere, anytime, for a one-time XP reward.

Some pages ask more of you

Many pages carry an extra requirement you have to satisfy after finding them before the Quest Log will let you complete them. Across the diary lines these include: killing a number of monsters (any kind), gathering resource nodes, digging for treasure, crafting items, posting in chat, finding a number of collectibles (story pages dropped by that zone's monsters, or Glimmering Jewel Shards), clearing a specific dungeon, or traveling to the next region. The Quest Log shows a live progress count for whichever requirement a page uses.

Seven diary lines exist today — one in each of the first seven zones. Each is 10 pages, read in Quest Log order rather than the order you stumble across them, and each caps off with an achievement for finishing the set.

Aldenmoor Heartlands: A Stranger's Journal

Ten pages scattered across Aldenmoor Heartlands tell the story of a mage who wakes with no memory of who he is, and studies the zone's monsters — the only other living things around — to try to find out. His path runs from waking up, to raising Heart of The Lands as a controlled place to study them, to finding the crossing west into Thornwood Reaches. Completing all ten is worth 975 XP and unlocks Light Reading.

Page	Title	XP	Requirement
1	First Light, No Name	40	Kill 10 monsters
2	The Only Voices	50	Post in chat
3	A Language I Almost Know	60	Find 5 diary pages
4	Notes on the Slimes	70	Kill 10 monsters
5	The Mountains Remember	85	Gather 10 resources
6	Old Stones	100	Dig for treasure 3×
7	A Working Theory	115	Craft 1 item
8	Digging the First Stone	130	Gather 10 resources
9	What the Dungeon Showed Me	150	Clear Heart of The Lands
10	The Way West	175	Travel to Thornwood Reaches

Thornwood Reaches: The Wellkeeper's Pages

The second set, ten shredded pages found across Thornwood Reaches, follows a darker thread beneath the green — the orcish wellkeepers, the things that do not bleed, and the script written beneath the skin — before pointing on toward Ashen Vale. Completing all ten is worth 3,280 XP and unlocks More Strange Pages.

Page	Title	XP	Requirement
1	Something in the Belly of the Beast	200	Find 5 diary pages
2	A Word Passed Mouth to Mouth	220	Post in chat
3	The Weight of Green	240	Gather 15 resources
4	The Ones That Do Not Bleed	265	Kill 10 monsters
5	A Thing Made, Not Born	295	Craft 1 item
6	Old Mouths in the Earth	330	Dig for treasure 4×
7	An Offering of Stone	370	Gather 15 resources
8	The Morning After	410	Kill 15 monsters
9	The Script Beneath the Skin	450	Clear The Thorned Hollow
10	Whoever Writes the Peons	500	Travel to Ashen Vale

Ashen Vale: A Chapter on War

The third set turns to open conquest — marshaling a host, breaking a vanguard, raising siege towers, and taking a throne — across ten pages in Ashen Vale. Completing all ten is worth 5,005 XP and unlocks A Chapter on War.

Page	Title	XP	Requirement
1	The Banners Rise	300	Post in chat
2	Marshaling the Host	330	Kill 15 monsters
3	Steel and Fire	365	Craft 1 item
4	Provisioning the Siege	405	Gather 20 resources
5	Break Their Vanguard	450	Kill 10 monsters
6	Spoils in the Ash	500	Dig for treasure 5×
7	The Endless Assault	555	Kill 25 monsters
8	Raise the Siege Towers	615	Gather 20 resources
9	The Last Redoubt	685	Clear The Ashen Crucible
10	The Spoils of a Conquered Throne	800	Travel to Mirefen Lowlands

Mirefen Lowlands: The Jewelhunter's Notes

The fourth set follows a hunter of the three Unique Jewels through the bogs — the glow in the reeds, the witches' hoards, and the horror that swallowed a star — before the trail runs north. Completing all ten is worth 6,475 XP and unlocks Shiny Object Syndrome.

Page	Title	XP	Requirement
1	Three Lights in the Dark	400	Post in chat
2	The Glow in the Reeds	440	Kill 15 monsters
3	Shards in the Muck	485	Find 5 Glimmering Jewel Shards
4	Not Every Stone Sings	535	Gather 20 Gems
5	The Witches' Hoard	590	Kill 10 Fen Witches
6	Buried Light	650	Dig for treasure 5×
7	A Setting Worthy	715	Craft 1 item
8	The Horror That Swallowed a Star	790	Kill 5 Swamp Horrors
9	Where the Blessed Walk	870	Clear The Ashen Crucible
10	The Trail Runs North	1,000	Travel to Frostpeak Highlands

Frostpeak Highlands: The Warden's Watch

The fifth set is a frontier warden's log of the things testing the gate — readiness, iron against giants, and the cold beneath the cold. Completing all ten is worth 7,200 XP and unlocks The Gatecrashers.

Page	Title	XP	Requirement
1	The Thing at the Gate	450	Post in chat
2	A Warden Must Be Ready	495	Kill 15 monsters
3	Iron Against Giants	545	Craft 1 item
4	Stone for the Walls	600	Gather 20 Ore
5	The First Reckoning	665	Kill 1 monster
6	What They Leave Behind	725	Find 5 Glimmering Jewel Shards
7	They Do Not Wait Their Turn	800	Kill 5 monsters
8	The Cold Beneath the Cold	875	Clear The Frostbound Reliquary
9	A Warden's Arsenal	945	Craft 3 items
10	The Frontier Holds	1,100	—

Sunscorch Wastes: The Ascendant's Ledger

The sixth set is a climber's ledger of self-improvement in the wastes — raw materials, real blades, and the sum of what one carries. Completing all ten is worth 8,115 XP and unlocks The Last Percent.

Page	Title	XP	Requirement
1	The Wall I Cannot Climb	500	Post in chat
2	Raw Materials	550	Gather 20 Ore
3	The First Real Blade	605	Craft 1 item
4	A Craftsman's Volume	665	Craft 5 items
5	Where the Real Loot Lives	740	Clear The Sunscorch Pyre
6	The Stones That Break the Wall	820	Find 5 Glimmering Jewel Shards
7	Blessed Are the Strong	910	Kill 10 monsters
8	Set Every Stone	995	Craft 3 items
9	The Longest Hunt	1,080	Kill 15 monsters
10	The Sum of What I Carry	1,250	—

Gloomdeep Hollow: The Perfectionist's Journal

The seventh set descends into obsession in the dark — feeding the forge, the arithmetic of perfection, and what it takes to climb back out. Completing all ten is worth 8,925 XP and unlocks Excellent, or Nothing.

Page	Title	XP	Requirement
1	The Only Word That Matters	550	Post in chat
2	Feed the Forge	600	Gather 20 Ore
3	The Arithmetic of Perfection	665	Craft 5 items
4	I Have Stopped Counting Days	745	Craft 15 items
5	The Vein Is Not Enough	830	Clear The Gloomdeep Oubliette
6	The Shining Ones	915	Find 5 Glimmering Jewel Shards
7	Hunting the Light	1,000	Kill 10 monsters
8	Everything Ordinary Must Go	1,090	Craft 3 items
9	The Voice That Isn't the Dark	1,180	Kill 15 monsters
10	Good Enough to Climb Out	1,350	—

How Glimmering Jewel Shards drop

One page in each of the four newest lines asks you to find 5 💠 Glimmering Jewel Shards. Shards work like the story pages in the early zones: once you've found that zone's shard page (and haven't completed it), every field-monster kill anywhere in zones 4–7 has a 25% chance to drop one — and drops stop automatically the moment you hold the 5 you need. No shard will ever drop before you've read the page or after you've finished the quest.

Achievements

Twenty-seven achievements exist today: a clear and a fast-clear for each of the ten dungeons, plus one for finishing each of the seven diary lines. Each is one-time per character, and posts a Global chat announcement the moment you earn it. Every normal clear and diary completion pays 100 Diamonds; every fast clear (45+ minutes left on the clock) awards a Potion of Forgotten Self.

Dungeon Mastery

Dungeon	Clear (100💎)	Fast Clear (Potion)
Heart of The Lands	Is Killing These Really Research?	Research? Maybe. Fun? Absolutely.
The Thorned Hollow	The Thorns Bite Back	Thornwood Doesn't Scare Me
The Ashen Crucible	Into the Crucible	Forged in Under an Hour
The Drowned Vault	Beneath the Bog	Held My Breath the Whole Time
The Frostbound Reliquary	Cold Enough for You?	Before the Thaw
The Sunscorch Pyre	Into the Furnace	Didn't Even Break a Sweat
The Gloomdeep Oubliette	Something in the Dark	No Time to Be Afraid
The Stormbreak Abyss	Into the Deep End	Rode the Tide In
The Shadowfell Ossuary	Rattling the Bones	Death Waits for No One
The Dragonspine Crypt	Slayer of the Spine	The Dragon Never Stood a Chance

Diary Lines

Zone	Achievement (100💎)
Aldenmoor Heartlands	Light Reading
Thornwood Reaches	More Strange Pages
Ashen Vale	A Chapter on War
Mirefen Lowlands	Shiny Object Syndrome
Frostpeak Highlands	The Gatecrashers
Sunscorch Wastes	The Last Percent
Gloomdeep Hollow	Excellent, or Nothing

Both dungeon achievements can fire at once

Clearing a dungeon fast satisfies both its achievements in the same kill — you'll get two unlock notices and both rewards together, not one or the other.