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A Return to Resting

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

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Fengir the Disgraced: "Your offering has come too late, little one. Can you feel the mist closing in upon you? The Kvaldir return..."
Rodin the Reckless: "From the mist and fog the Kvaldir approach. Flee while you still breathe the air of the living..."
Isuldof Iceheart: "Look to the seas, as your doom comes with the swell of tides"
Windan of the Kvaldir: "My brothers have awoken. Your efforts are wasted..."

Just have to use Bundle of Vrykul Artifacts where the dead bodies of the 4 are. (Under the ghost-guy)

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneHowling Fjord
Quest ID11568

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11568))

What to do

StorylineHowling Fjord, step 82 of 162
Rewards4,100 XP

Description

<Orfus hands you a satchel.> Within this satchel are the artifacts that you recovered. Locate the burial mounds of Shield Hill, far to the southeast, where the items were originally stolen from and return the artifacts. It is my hope that this gesture will quell the spirits that now haunt our hunting grounds. Be strong, {name}...

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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.

Howling Fjord Quest turn-in 5 mapped points
Howling Fjord map showing where to go for A Return to RestingTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #117 40.3 60.2

Coordinates

  • Turn-inHowling Fjord 40.3, 60.2/way #117 40.3 60.2
  • Objective areaHowling Fjord 57.6, 77.8/way #117 57.6 77.8
  • Objective areaHowling Fjord 59.3, 76.9/way #117 59.3 76.9
  • Objective areaHowling Fjord 59.7, 79.4/way #117 59.7 79.4
  • Objective areaHowling Fjord 61.9, 80.0/way #117 61.9 80.0

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 Howling Fjord map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Howling Fjord:

  • New Agamand, Howling FjordHorde · about 770 yards east
  • Westguard Keep, Howling FjordAlliance · about 850 yards north-west
  • Kamagua, Howling FjordAlliance and Horde · about 950 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 1,300 yards south-east
  • Objective areaabout 1,300 yards south-east
  • Objective areaabout 1,400 yards south-east

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
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationThe Kalu'ak +250

Reward details

Reputation: The Kalu'ak +250

The tuskarr are a tough but peaceful people who derive their livelihood from fishing and whaling. Their settlements have recently come under fierce attack and welcome any allies who would come to their aid.

Reputation group: Wrath of the Lich King.

Other quests in Howling Fjord that reward The Kalu'ak reputation: Feeding the Survivors (+250), Arming Kamagua (+250), Avenge Iskaal (+350), The Way to His Heart... (+250), The Dead Rise! (+250), Elder Atuik and Kamagua (+75).

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

Howling Fjord

Part 82 of 162.

Previous: A Carver and a Croaker · Next: "Crowleg" Dan

  1. 77Sorlof's Booty
  2. 78Dead Man's Debt
  3. 79Zeh'gehn Sez
  4. 80The Shield of the Aesirites
  5. 81A Carver and a Croaker
  6. 82A Return to Resting
  7. 83"Crowleg" Dan
  8. 84Return to Atuik
  9. 85Meet Number Two
  10. 86The Jig is Up
  11. 87Mission: Eternal Flame
  12. 88Mission: Package Retrieval

Showing steps 77 to 88 of 162.

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.

  • A Carver and a CroakerHowling Fjord · Level 10-30

    Some of the pirates around here... we have our own special way of talking. Zeh'gehn has... many different special ways of talking... all mixed together. From what I can tell he wants a frog and a knife. "Silvermoon" Harry might have a knife on the cheap.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • "Crowleg" DanHowling Fjord · Level 10-30

    Croaker's spoken, matey. "Crowleg" Dan's on da ship yonder. Best go trace that blaggard, mon. Show'im dis set's not fe be crossed. Gaan back fe Terry when ye keelhaul 'is behind.

The storyline at a glance

Howling Fjord has 162 steps, from Hell Has Frozen Over... to Alpha Worg.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Howling Fjord (147), Grizzly Hills (15).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Howling Fjord 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.