Scouring the Sands

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Sinking Sands Timeline [edit] Solo Series Kallon Ebbtide 1.1. Kallon's Vengeance Numair 2.1. Cooking Crocodiles 2.2. Diggers for Dinner 2.3. A Terrible Crime 2.4. Scarabs and Spiders Aliyyah the Embalmer 3.1. Unravelling the Mummies 3.2. Grisly Gathering 3.3. More Mummies? 3.4. Osseous Investigations 3.5. Undead Investigations 3.6. Sul'Dal Studies Xilla Beetlebinder 4.1. Beetle Herding - Act I 4.2. Beetle Herding - Act II 4.3. Beetle Herding - Act III 4.4. Beetle Herding - Act IV 4.5. Beetle Herding - Act V 4.6. Beetle Herding - Act VI 4.7. Beetle Herding - Act VII 4.8. Beetle Herding - Final Act Repeatable Quests 5.1. Mender Mending 5.2. Noxious Roundup 5.3. Sand Thing Special Heroic Series El'Khazi, Purveyor of Fine Carpets 6.1. Threads of the Desert 6.2. Scouring the Sands 6.3. Rocky Correspondence 6.4. The Spirit of Ab'Zheri Fahad Nuhayd 7.1. Stopping the Flow Ghassan the Trader Timeline

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EverQuest 2 Quest Information

Journal Category	Sinking Sands
Journal Level	52 (Tier 6)
Journal Difficulty	Heroic
Starting Zone	The Sinking Sands more
How to Start	Talk to El'Khazi, Purveyor of Fine Carpets
part of: Sinking Sands Timeline Preceded by: Threads of the Desert Followed by: Rocky Correspondence
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What does this information mean?

This is part 2 of 4 in El'Khazi, Purveyor of Fine Carpets quest series in the Sinking Sands Timeline.

Note: Though the quest is not listed as heroic, everything you have to kill to complete this quest is heroic.

[edit] Steps

1. Do the following in any order:
   • Find 10 Threads of Dune Tarantula Silk from a dune tarantulas (each kill updates quest)
   • Find a rare Dye from the shores of the dead tear. Found by harvesting an exotic plant on the island in the middle of the northernmost of the Twin Tears ( -380, -146, -1159 ) /waypoint -380, -146, -1159 (only visible to those who have this quest step open, and may be worth doing this first as the number of plant spawns can be limited, requiring multiple visits)
     

     

     The exotic plant, for the dye
   • Find an Ethereal Fragment of a servant of the God-King from a sentinel of Anuk between the Eye of Anuk and The Bay of Anuk (semi-rare auto-update). Do not despair if you have to kill a lot of them.
   • Fetch a thread from the cap of a banished titan. from an exiled Kromtorr ( -526, -100, -289 ) /waypoint -526, -100, -289] in The Sinking Sands (semi-rare auto-update)
   • Find a Perfectly Shaped Chitinous Needle by killing Dustwhip scorpions in the Sinking Sands ( -250, -97, -607 ) /waypoint -250, -97, -607 (semi-rare auto-update). This step is soloable.
   • Find a Wisp of Air from the highest dune. Go to ( -945, -44, -846 ) /waypoint -945, -44, -846. The spot you're looking for is not visible. Move your mouse over the area until a hand icon appears & harvest your wisp. This step is soloable.
2. Return to El'Khazi, Purveyor of Fine Carpets to receive your reward.

[edit] Rewards

• At least 12g 57s 51c
• 71424 status