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Don't have to camp on the island, just look at your map whenver you think of.
Once a large green skull (referring to rare elite creatures) indicating "Somber Dawn" shows up, you have at most half an hour to find and tame it.
Even better, the skull moves on your map to help tracking this cute thing.
Even better, during this period, respawn time would be about 1 min.
Rare Elite
Somber Dawn
Somber Dawn is a Rare Elite Beast of the Courser family, level 45, hostile to players.
Details
Somber Dawn at a Glance
What does Somber Dawn do?
Rare spawnRare Elite · minimap vignette 1955
Level and Map Tracking
The game data tunes Somber Dawn for level 45, Legion content.
The map marks it with vignette 1,955, which the client hides once hidden tracking quest 47028 is complete. In game, /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(47028)) prints true when that quest is flagged for your character.
In the Client Files
Standing toward playersHostile
Also Monster Beast at level 45 in the current client data
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Model
Files
Background
Art © Blizzard Entertainment. Fan reference, not affiliated.
Hunter Pet: Courser
Somber Dawn belongs to the Courser creature family, which Hunters can tame; its pet specialization is Ferocity. The Courser diet in the client data: Fungus and Fruit. The Courser family’s own pet skill line (Pet - Courser) teaches 2 abilities:
More Courser
Other creatures in the Courser family. See the whole family.
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Appears to be tamable as of 8.1
Damn you Blizzard! Damn you! How could you make him or any other horse/unicorn a target. Somber Dawn is absolutely beautiful. DAMN YOU! :'(
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Game Data
Creature ID121112
Display ID76109
Faction template16
Content tuning336
Vignette1955
Tracking quest47028
3D model sourcemount 2678