Lost Ark Glacier Island Quest Chain Guide

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In the icy waters northeast of Arthetine lies the remote and near inhospitable Glacier Isle. Arthetine native Mathias tasks Lost Ark players, after having progressed far enough through Vern to earn an ice-resistant Sturmbrecher ship, to explore this presumably uncharted hunk of ice.

Having arrived on Glacier Isle, players soon come in contact with Orazio, a seemingly out-of-place pianist. Orazio is keeping watch over a forlorn-looking polar bear, Samly, who seems to be suffering from starvation.

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Orazio mentions that Samly hasn’t eaten since the loss of its mother. To find out what happened to the mother, players must first find Samly some food, working to befriend a colony of local penguins by applauding them and dancing with them.

The penguins will then offer the player their reserves of Glacier Salmon, but something is amiss — all of the Salmon seem poisoned by toxic waste, and not many appear healthy enough to eat. Discussing the discovery of seaborne waste with Orazio, he claims that the waste had floated north from Arthetine, and that Stern’s governing bodies refused to change their waste disposal practices.

The player then agrees to discuss the matter with Stern’s administrators, sailing back to Arthetine to speak with Bastian, who vows to look further into the issue. This involves the player in a string of Arthetine-based quests — Dastardly Disease, A Nose for News, and The Sickly Sea — that gradually uncovers a conspiracy of bribery and negligence within the city of Stern’s technology branch.

This story isn’t lost on Mathias, the reporter for Stern’s Hoyte News who first tipped the player off to Glacier Isle’s existence. He joins them