A New Guide

Overview
Summary
 * Speak with Curator Ruras.
 * Obtain Fossilised Shellfish (?)
 * Escort Curator Ruras to Lair of the Forgotten
 * See Curator Ruras for your reward.

Obtained from
 * Curator Ruras in Poisoned Outcrops

Reward
 * 2500 Experience Points
 * 200 gold
 * Ancient Artifact

Dialogue
 * "[Player name], you seem like someone who gets around, and since my previous guide is incompetent, perhaps you could help me. I am looking for rare artifacts, perhaps something that would prove this arid place was once a deep sea. I have serious backing from investors in Rin, so I shall make it worth the effort. Will you lend me assistance?."
 * Accept: "Digging in the dirt? Sounds adventurous..."
 * Decline: "Who knows? In 1,000 years even you may be worth something..."

Intermediate Dialogue (Curator Ruras)
 * missing...

Intermediate Dialogue (Curator Ruras)
 * This place stinks worse then a pile of Grawl droppings! It reeks of sulfur and its people haven't an inkling of respect. As soon as I locate just a few more artifacts for my museum, I shall leave this dreadful place and return to Rin."

Reward Dialogue
 * "Thank you for your assistance. It is such a relief to work with someone competent after being surrounded by fools for so long. If you can believe this... some even had the audacity to suggest we all were dead! Ha! Do I look like a ghost to you? Anyway, here is the reward that was promised you."

Walkthrough

 * The fossil is found to the northwest, in a pile of rock in the centre of a large-ish open area.
 * Once Curator Ruras recieves the fossil, he will want a safe journey to the portal to Lair of the Forgotten. He does not join the party as an ally and walks very slowly.

Trivia
It is likely that the quote for the "decline" option in this quest is a reference to an identical quote from the movie Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The refferal to investors in Rin likly means Rin was rebuilt after the Charr assult and Ascalon is repairing.