"Actually, there is something that you lads can do for me much like what you suggest, Sir Shifter. A recent visitor to Winterhaven, Douven Stahl, has disappeared, and not been seen for some time. He is an archaeologist, of sorts, and was looking for an ancient dragon burial site not far from here. Perhaps he is just out digging more, or perhaps he has met with foul play of some sort. I would appreciate it very much if you would look into the matter for me, but, I'm afraid that I cannot offer you much in the way of pay for this service, at least not much gold. I'm sure that the merchants of Winterhaven and myself would be very grateful to you, though....."
(Lord Padraig gives you detailed directions to the place he thinks Douven Stahl was interested in.)
"No, no, no, no! Dear gentlemen, you misunderstand! The dragon is long dead, thank goodness. At least, I hope there's no living dragon there now! I suppose one might have come back to the burial site to pay his respects?"
Elerosse stops and turns back towards the Lord, "Thank you so much for straighting us out on the dragon burial ground. My friends were getting a bit worked up about facing a dragon. We will visit the burial ground and look for the missing archaeologist." Elerosse turns and leaves with the others.