TheWoWDBLEGION 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 :)
Quest
A Dark Summons
A World of Warcraft quest in Orgrimmar. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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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.
If you did like I did and deleted the letter before I could start the quest, just go to Cleft of Shadow and talk to Phinneas there to start the next quest.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(76427))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
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
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.
Nearby on the Orgrimmar map
- Arnak Fireblade about 60 yards
- Old Allies about 70 yards
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, Durotar
- Nozzlepot's Outpost, Northern Barrens
- Valormok, Azshara
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.
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Storyline
Some Wicked Things
Part 9 of 13.
Previous: When Revenge Burns Green · Next: Beginning Impositions
- 1Beginning Impositions
- 2Some Wicked Things This Way Come
- 3Hermetic Insurance
- 4Those Who Hesitate
- 5Curses & Cultists
- 6Fel Suspicions
- 7Last Rites By Accident
- 8When Revenge Burns Green
- 9A Dark Summons
- 10Beginning Impositions
- 11A Lighter Shade of Fel
- 12A Dark Summons
- 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 Green
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 Impositions
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.
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
- Stay of Execution
- Durotar
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.