The Kessel Pass closes with the first snow, and you are the guide paid to get a merchant's caravan over it before it does. You don't make it. A blizzard drives you all into Saint Aud's, a half-ruined waystation kept by one old monk, and in the night the wolves come.
They kill the mules. They don't come in. And on the ridge above the walls sits a white wolf the size of a horse, watching one wagon and nothing else.
Content notes: wolf attacks, animal death, a death (off the page), a child in danger, cold.
Legacy perk
Hardened
+2 max health
Adventurers earn it by finishing this quest, and carry it into later quests with a custom character.