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A Burden of Souls

A World of Warcraft quest in Hellfire Peninsula. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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There are indeed a few at Gor'gaz, but I found it to be easier to simply pick them off where they stood around the wall. The entire wall, if you follow it from where the above poster suggests you start, has orcs lining it, nicely spaced apart for easy pulls. There were a ton of alliance at Gor'gaz, so that made it a less appealing choice for me.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneHellfire Peninsula
Quest ID10864

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10864))

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineHellfire Peninsula, step 23 of 103
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

I have a device, the Demoniac Scryer, that can analyze fel magic. I would have you use the Scryer, but first... you must appease it. The Scryer, you see, has trapped within it a creature of vast intelligence and its needs are, shall we say, quite eccentric. To appease the Scryer, you must kill orcs. Specifically, they must be Shattered Hand orcs -- the Scryer demands their souls. Return to me when the souls are reaped. You will find the orcs north, and south, and surrounding... Hellfire Citadel.

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Where to go

Pins are the quest’s own POI points from the current retail client, projected onto the in-game zone map. The game marks one blob as the quest’s turn-in; the rest are objective areas. Points that fall outside a map’s window are dropped rather than guessed at.

Hellfire Peninsula Quest turn-in 15 mapped points
Hellfire Peninsula map showing where to go for A Burden of SoulsTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #100 52.3 36.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inHellfire Peninsula 52.3, 36.5/way #100 52.3 36.5
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Hellfire Peninsula 44.9, 42.0/way #100 44.9 42.0
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Hellfire Peninsula 50.0, 49.6/way #100 50.0 49.6

Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.

Nearby on the Hellfire Peninsula map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Hellfire Peninsula, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Hellfire Peninsula:

  • Thrallmar, Hellfire PeninsulaHorde · about 200 yards east
  • Falcon Watch, Hellfire PeninsulaHorde · about 1,500 yards south-west
  • Spinebreaker Ridge, Hellfire PeninsulaHorde · about 1,600 yards south

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 430 yards south-west
  • Objective areaabout 470 yards south

Straight-line distances in yards between the quest’s own map markers (QuestPOI) and the client’s flight-point positions (TaxiNodes); flight paths and terrain are not modelled.

Related
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationThrallmar +250

Reward details

Reputation: Thrallmar +250

The expedition sent through the Dark Portal by Thrall has built a stronghold in Hellfire Peninsula. Thrallmar serves as a base of operations for much of the Horde's activities in Outland.

Reputation group: The Burning Crusade.

Other quests in Hellfire Peninsula that reward Thrallmar reputation: Preparing the Salve (+250), The Assassin (+250), A Strange Weapon (+250), The Warchief's Mandate (+75), The Mag'har (+250), Burning Crusade: Through the Dark Portal (+250).

Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.

Storyline

Hellfire Peninsula

Part 23 of 103.

Previous: Apothecary Antonivich · Next: The Demoniac Scryer

  1. 18Bonechewer Blood
  2. 19Apothecary Zelana
  3. 20Spinebreaker Post
  4. 21Boiling Blood
  5. 22Apothecary Antonivich
  6. 23A Burden of Souls
  7. 24The Demoniac Scryer
  8. 25Report to Nazgrel
  9. 26The Foot of the Citadel
  10. 27The Legion Reborn
  11. 28The Path of Anguish
  12. 29Expedition Point

Showing steps 18 to 29 of 103.

Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.

Where this quest fits

Before this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Apothecary AntonivichHellfire Peninsula · Level 10-30

    <name>, I have prepared a preliminary report of my findings regarding the Bleeding Hollow orcs. My colleague in Thrallmar, Apothecary Antonivich, will be happy to receive them. He too studies the phenomenon of fel orcs... in hopes of preventing such a tragedy from again befalling our orcish allies.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Demoniac ScryerHellfire Peninsula · Level 10-30

    The Demoniac Scryer is now ready. Take it behind Hellfire Citadel, to Hellfire Basin, and summon it upon the ground. It will then begin to attune itself to Hellfire Citadel. After its attunement, speak to the Scryer and transcribe what it tells you. Bring that transcription to me...

The storyline at a glance

Hellfire Peninsula has 103 steps, from Eradicate the Burning Legion to Natural Remedies.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Hellfire Peninsula (103).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Hellfire Peninsula map

Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.