Skip to content
Advertisement
Quest Log

A Dark Summons (Horde)

A Dark Summons is a Horde-only quest for level 30-70 in Darkmoon Island. It is step 9 of 13 in the Some Wicked Things storyline. It rewards 4,750 experience and money.

Description

Denizens of Azeroth,

Do you thirst for power? Do you wish to change your circumstances, to become... more?

More free.

More respected.

More feared.

Do you wish to become a Warlock?

If your response to any of the above is "yes", then meet with my humble servant Phineas.

In temptation,

Madam Shadow

Rewards

Money14 gold4 silver50 copper
Experience4,750 XP
Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

1
Razorbane+96via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

LEGION REMIX:
You can abandon this quest as you cannot reach the Cleft of Shadow in Ogrimmar.
This item is from the base game, but devs seem to have forgotten to remove it for this mode of the game.
The questline "A Dark Summons" is about the introduction of various other races to the practice of the Warlock arts, like Lightforged Draenei etc. You get to save a Lightforged Draenei from slavery and they come back to you with a letter and a glyph that gives your Soulstone a different visual.
You can pick this quest up at any point after Legion Remix has concluded from Phineas in the Cleft of Shadow and do the questline if you want to.

TL:DR
Abandon quest (not designed for Legion Remix).
Pick up quest after Legion Remix has finished.

Hope that helps :)

2
Shrimmp+38via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

This does drop during MoP Remix, but from everything I can tell, it appears to be an auto-drop for Warlocks that was possibly overlooked by devs and cannot/was not intended to be completed during the event. I'll be sure to edit if I hear otherwise, but for now this seems safe to abandon. Edit 10/27/25: Same applies for Legion Remix.

Read all 15 on Wowhead ↗

Advertisement
Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,750
MoneyGold14g 4s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapOrgrimmar
World Map

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.

Orgrimmar Quest turn-in

Nearby on the Orgrimmar map

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

Getting there

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

  • Orgrimmar, DurotarHorde · about 50 yards east
  • Nozzlepot's Outpost, Northern BarrensHorde · about 1,100 yards south-west
  • Valormok, AzsharaHorde · about 1,200 yards north

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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Some Wicked Things

Part 9 of 13.

Previous: When Revenge Burns Green · Next: Beginning Impositions

  1. 1Beginning Impositions
  2. 2Some Wicked Things This Way Come
  3. 3Hermetic Insurance
  4. 4Those Who Hesitate
  5. 5Curses & Cultists
  6. 6Fel Suspicions
  7. 7Last Rites By Accident
  8. 8When Revenge Burns Green
  9. 9A Dark Summons
  10. 10Beginning Impositions
  11. 11A Lighter Shade of Fel
  12. 12A Dark Summons
  13. 13A Wolf Among Sheep

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.

  • When Revenge Burns GreenBlasted Lands · Level 30-70

    Whatever game this Madam Shadow has been playing, it appears as though we're nearing the end of it. <Oman grunts in pain.> From what we've heard, it sounds like our next destination is somewhere in the Blasted Lands. I must rest, but please <name>... go and see this through.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Beginning ImpositionsDarkmoon Island · Level 30-70

    Darkest greetings, <race>. Ahem, yes. Yes! Darkest greetings indeed. <The lanky man seems to suddenly remember where he is.> On behalf of my patron, I bid you travel to the Darkmoon Faire. The Faire! Who doesn't love it? Yes. Yes! Ahem. She requires your presence, she does!

Other quests with this name

This one: Horde only · Warlock, Adventurer · Darkmoon Island · Level 30-70.

  • A Dark SummonsAlliance only · Warlock, Adventurer · Darkmoon Island · Level 30-70

The storyline at a glance

Some Wicked Things has 13 steps, from Beginning Impositions to A Wolf Among Sheep.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Darkmoon Island (8), Burning Steppes (1), Blasted Lands (1), Orgrimmar (1).

Other storylines on the Orgrimmar 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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name A Dark Summons. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
A Dark Summons (this page)Horde76427
A Dark SummonsAlliance76410
Related
A Dark Influence
A Dark Pact
A Dark Shadow Looms
A Dark Summons
A Dark, Glaring Reality
A Dash of Minerals...
A Date with Dorgok
A Daughter's Embrace
Database

Quest Location and Connections

More Quests in Darkmoon Island

See all 17 quests in Darkmoon Island
Downloads

Background