quest complete! I bumped into a mage and T rex at the bridge into the village. I had my archer. The mage cast fields to keep him on the bridge and we took him out quite nicely, armor ignore helped. My luck, as usual, was awful. Of all the prizes you can get the one that is least interesting to me is the deed to a title - so that's what I got. Titles don't interest me in the slightest, better luck on live shards I hope.
I did 3 parts with my bard, 2 parts with my archer, the bard marked all 5 items to hand in for the quest. Good to know the quest items are transferable, not much chance I could have rescued the cubs with my archer, and my bard couldn't have even scratched the ape and T rex.