Are you a mage? if so, A ton of rouge mages heard about this quest that payed really well, so they all go there and this cloaked dude is like, Yo guys, go find these books and shit in this massive library in this fortress a week away, I'll pay you really good if you do it and if you are all alive when you get there, and then these bandits were like ARG we are gonna rob ya, then all the mages beat them up, then the dude went, good thats settled then, here is some money in advanced, go find that library, then some NPC Paladin's came and got turned to crystal by the cloaked dude and then everyone is now setting off for the quest.....so yeah....you should probably wait for the actual smart people to get on, so ignore this XD