
A Carved Path
thumb|Location of the symbols, marked in red. Enter Malice Swordshadow's tent at the Ash Legion Camp in Devourer's Ridge. To the right of her (see image) is a small cabinet with four symbols carved onto it. Memorize them. The exact combination of symbols changes daily. |+ Potential symbols | Smiley face | Tree | Animal | Fire | Claw | Mountain | Tail | Waves | 100px | 100px | 100px | 100px | 100px | 100px | 100px | 100px Now head south into The Wardowns. Scattered about this area are eight trees (see map below) onto which a unique symbol has been carved; your job is to seek out the four whose symbols match the ones you found in Malice's tent and activate each tree in the correct order. You will hear a clicking sound if you selected the correct tree, but will be inflicted with burning if you select the wrong one or activated it out of order, and will have to start over with the first symbol. Upon activating the final tree, a dialogue window will pop up informing you that a secret chute has opened. Enter it to access Recon Cove and complete the achievement. File:A Carved Path tree locations.jpg
Commanders can set 4 different map markers directly on the world map, allowing to mark the 4 locations in order based on the locations shown in the previous map: Personal waypoint, attack order, defend order and rally order. Giving each symbol a distinct name and typing them in chat helps remembering them and their order. For example, the arrow with 3 heads can be called "tree", or "arrow", and the 6 interlocking lines can be called "valley" or "waves". Creating a story out of the symbols can also help you remember them without having to write them down; for example, The happy man found a tree and cut it down with his axe before rolling the logs into the valley. Four of the eight symbols correspond to symbols for the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west) mentioned in A Comprehensive Guide to Charr Trail Signs. It's unknown whether the four remaining ones represent the intercardinal directions (northeast, northwest, southeast and southwest).