Evil Path

--Subquest: Taroceth Route

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Find Taroceth and hail him.
*Edit: New Text / Quest info as of 11/12/06*
Taroceth the Decaying tells you,'Ah, another has come to Taroceth seeking the ways of the plague. I too have come to these lands to study the corruption in them. The plagues in the creatures of these lands are a powerful ally to the Cult of Entropy - one we must not allow to go unharnessed. Do you undestand, then? We must learn to use the corruption to our advantage.
You say,'Yes! I too wish to corrupt the pure.'
Taroceth the Decaying tells you,'Good, then I welcome you to gather and learn of the corruption. Before we can learn, however, we must take a moment to address a growing issue - The efforts of the fools of Newport and Surefall to hunt down and kill all corrupted animals to keep the corruption from spreading. Recently a group of rangers from Surefall arrived and began hunting the animals, taking their blood for their own studies. I want them dealt with. Bring me the heads of four of those fools that you will find in this region. Go!'

Taroceth wants 4 Ranger's Heads from a surefall tracker that are found wandering the badlands. Taroceth will mumble something about enemies on the horizon, soon after this the goodie priestess and two helpers spawn almost right on top of Taroceth. Dispose of them without letting him die!

• Note: if he dies just wait for him to respawn and hail him again - you do not need to collect more Ranger's Heads.
  

Taroceth will send you off to learn about the corruption, this is the same as the good path.

You may need to kill the cat people around PAW in Southern Badlands to get your faction up high enough to get near these people (or invis song might work):

Elder leader of the Kargyxx (Mazik Windweaver) Top platform of the bird city on the southern side of Southern Badlands.

Priestess of the Gnolls (A gnoll priestess) Western edge of Lake Starfall zone towards the mid-south at (232, 2180)

Leader of dijected Centaur Tribe (Helleron of the Plains) at Centaur Hills NorthWest of the lake by Surefall Glade on the hillside.

After talking with all three and learning of the corruption return to Taroceth.
EDIT: The part with the spectres of corruption has apparently been removed from the evil path of the quest

You then gain some experience and positive faction boost with the Cult of Entropy, and are given the message "You have learned of the corruption of the Badlands."

So ends this part of the Evil Path.

Now you can return to Loremaster Tresaria.

• Note: Choosing the evil path will make you KOS to Surefall Glade faction.