Maw of Souls Guide

30-second TL;DR

Adventure Guide says

While the greatest vrykul warriors are spirited away to the Halls of Valor to glory eternal, shiny and gold, the cursed and the damned find themselves on the shores of the Maw of Souls.
Amidst fog and mist, they await the Naglfar, a fearsome ship formed from sinew and bone, which comes to deliver these poor souls to Helheim, and the clutches of Helya.
The Adventure Guide lists 3 encounters: Ymiron, the Fallen King, Harbaron, Helya.

Encounters

Ymiron, the Fallen King7 abilities · 12 dropsYmiron combats players utilizing dark magic, creating essences of Bane that orbit him that explode upon contact.

Harbaron4 abilities · 12 dropsHarbaron calls upon soul magic to wreak havok on players, fragmenting their soul into pieces or summoning fallen Vrykul minions.

Helya10 abilities · 17 dropsAttaching herself to the Naglfar, Helya launches an all-out assault of the vessel from a distance.

Mounts, toys, achievements, transmog

Only rows the journal loot table or an achievement title can prove for this encounter.

Achievements

Heroic: Maw of Souls · Heroic: Maw of Souls · Maw of Souls · Maw of Souls · Mythic: Helya · Mythic: Maw of Souls · Mythic: Maw of Souls

Entrance and instance

Maw of Souls is a dungeon in the Adventure Guide. See the Maw of Souls database page for the raw journal, map, and loot grid. This guide does not invent coordinates or a walking path.

Player strategy

This page quotes the Adventure Guide. It does not add player strategy such as positioning, assignments, stack or spread calls, or cooldown timings unless that sentence is already in the journal.

Questions

How many bosses are in Maw of Souls?

The Adventure Guide lists 3 encounters.

What loot does Maw of Souls drop?

The journal lists 41 drops across its encounters. Open a boss guide or the database page for the per-encounter tables.

Is this the Maw of Souls database page?

No. This is the encounter guide. The encyclopedia page with the raw journal tree and the full loot grid is linked as Database on this page.

Where does this guide's text come from?

Quoted Adventure Guide sections come from TheWoWDB's retail datamine (client build 12.1.0.69587, ingested 2026-09-01). We do not invent positioning, assignments, or cooldown timings.

Source and build

This page quotes the Adventure Guide. It does not add player strategy such as positioning, assignments, stack or spread calls, or cooldown timings unless that sentence is already in the journal. Quoted sections come from TheWoWDB Adventure Guide datamine (client build 12.1.0.69587, ingested 2026-09-01). Ability names link to first-party spell pages. When a newer retail build is ingested, this page updates with it.