This orange NPC has a quest marked as 2-5. As a Level 6 Ponds resident, he gave me the quest, and the item, but no journal update occurred.
Last reset, this NPC was blue and the level range for the quest was 2-4. This most recent reset, he was orange and the level range was 2-5. I wanted to report this in case it's indicative of a glitch rather than balance changes.