The path will lead the second prince and their squire to a pier where a boat awaits to take them to a mythical, remote island to retrieve the jeweled branch hidden within. The voyage over will be uneventful, but that is only because the island itself will be a handful. Living tree ents roam the island and will attack all intruders. The jeweled branch itself is at the very top of a giant tree ent, the king of them all. They will have to not only defeat the lesser tree ents but also challenge and climb to find the branch. Force is an obvious way to do it, however the king of ents is an intellectual being and may be open to some exchange of riddles.

Of course, they could give up and just have a forgery made... By the boat is an exact copy of the branch, clearly marked as "replica" and an earthy wisp informing them as such so as not to cause confusion.

Note: the jeweled branch will "help" in that it will glitter brightly in any source of light, which will not only help locate it, but will help blind the ents.