Enchanted Winterborn Runestag

Sold by Cortinarius, the Marasmius quartermaster, for 5,000 Reservoir Anima once the character is Revered with Marasmius. He stands beside the giant mushroom Marasmius inside The Ring, the hub of the Night Fae transport network, which only a Night Fae character who has built the network can enter; the reputation comes from Marasmius's daily quests there.

Time there about 3 min a visit

Guide Wowhead: Night Fae Circles and Marasmius Faction - Night Fae Covenant Ardenweald Transportation Network

• The Transport Network built at the sanctum (tier 1, Nurtured Roots: 1,000 Reservoir Anima, 1 Redeemed Soul, 1 hour of research), then the six quests that open The Ring, from Aithlyn in the Heart of the Forest: Silence in the Stalks, Mushroom For Improvement, Ring Repairs, Fighting For Fungus, My Way or the Hyphae, Through the Veil · about 1.5 h
• Revered with Marasmius: 21,000 reputation, earned only from his daily quests in The Ring, one for each tier of the Transport Network: 350 a day with tier 1 alone (60 days), 850 with tier 2 (25 days), 1,500 with all three (14 days, 16 with the research). The hours and days here are for all three tiers · about 1.5 h over 2 weeks
• For the 16-day pace, the Transport Network raised to tier 3: tier 2 (Fun with Fungi) costs 5,000 Reservoir Anima and 8 Redeemed Souls, needs covenant Renown 11 and 12 hours of research; tier 3 (Blossoming Network) 10,000 Reservoir Anima and 22 Redeemed Souls, Renown 19 and 24 hours · about 5 h over 2 days
• 5,000 Reservoir Anima for the mount (Shadowlands world quests, raids, world bosses, rares of Zereth Mortis) · about 1.7 h

In all: about 9.7 h of play, spread over 2 weeks, starting from nothing.

/way is for the TomTom addon. Travel times are estimates: flying at 55 yards a second in a straight line and 30 seconds for a portal. A star marks a portal that needs a quest or other unlock done first.

The journal files it as a drop and names only the covenant and the zone; it is bought. Wowhead's sold-by list has Cortinarius (NPC 174766) at 5,000 Reservoir Anima, the wiki's page reads 'Requires Marasmius - Revered', and Wowhead's guide lists it at Revered for 5,000 beside the Vibrant Flutterwing (same vendor, same standing, same price, so both together take 10,000 anima).

Only a Night Fae character can earn it: the guide says the faction 'is only accessible to Night Fae, as both the quest giver and the quartermaster are only present inside The Ring'. Cortinarius's place inside The Ring is not on Wowhead's map, and The Ring is not a zone the game's map tables know, so the place given above is the Fae Circle inside the sanctum, at the guide's coordinates on the Heart of the Forest map (in the north of the sanctum, in a room below the ramps to the flight master). Any Fae Circle out in Ardenweald leads to The Ring as well.

The three dailies (wiki):

• one of the tier 1 set each day (350)
• Into the Unknown, with tier 2 (500)
• Go Beyond!, with tier 3 (650)

Opening tier 2 also gives some standing (Wowhead's guide). Marasmius does not show in the game's reputation pane (the guide: the bar is only in his dialogue window), so this guide may find no standing to compare with the reputation asked. Wowhead's guide dates from 2021. The notes for the Vibrant Flutterwing have more from the faction page's comments (the pace players report, a warning about the kill dailies, moving anima between characters), which were not read again for this one.

Who can ride it: the wiki says the mount is 'normally only usable by Night Fae Covenant members' and that Renown 80 with the Night Fae makes it usable by every character of the Warband; a 2022 Wowhead comment says the same, against an earlier 2022 one that had covenant mounts opened to all. A ground mount (a 2022 Wowhead comment); the item binds when picked up. Added in patch 9.0.2 (wiki).

Confidence in this entry: medium. Looked up in 2026.

Sources

• Wowhead: enchanted winterborn runestag
• Wowhead: night fae covenant transportation network marasmius
• Wiki: Enchanted Winterborn Runestag
• Wiki: Marasmius