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From Tales of Maj'Eyal
Directs you to go to the southern desert to find the Staff of Absorption. This opens the Eruan zone, at the end of which you find a Sun Paladin who tells you the staff was taken by orcs through a farportal - after them you go!
As soon as you exit the farportal in Charred Scar, the quest ends, and The Doom of the World! begins.