TheWoWDBAfter spending some time searching around for a small sparkling scroll I could pick up and put in my pocket I finally realised it was actually a huge (non-sparkly) banner thingy hanging on the right hand wall at the top of the cave, so big it looks more like a tapestry than a "scroll".
Quest
An Ancient Legend
A World of Warcraft quest in The Jade Forest. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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The first thing to remember is that the entirety of the quest objectives are inside of the cave.
The cave entrance is /way 66.15 82.17 on the ground facing the east direction
After using the gears on the first fountain after entering the cave then face the south direction and proceed up further into the cave to get the rest of the fountains and the scroll.
Located in the back of Den of Sorrow.
Kill the shade and then loot the Song of the Vale scroll that is located on the cave wall.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-35
ZoneThe Jade Forest
Quest ID29900
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(29900))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineThe Jade Forest, The White Pawn & Pearlfin Village, step 15 of 19
Rewards13g 74s, 4,800 XP
Description
My father has dedicated his life to studying the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. The Vale is a mythical place, sealed after the Pandaren revolution twelve thousand years ago. We know so little about it! My father followed a trail of clues to the cave down the hill, seeking a very old poem known as the Song of the Vale, but he is in no condition to retrieve it. It is guarded by some sort of ancestor spirit. If you are heading that way anyway, would you mind bringing it back to him?
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #371 66.0 79.3
Coordinates
- Turn-inThe Jade Forest 66.0, 79.3
/way #371 66.0 79.3 - Objective areaThe Jade Forest 66.8, 80.0
/way #371 66.8 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 The Jade Forest map
- Journey to the East about 1,230 yards
- The Monkey King's Challenge about 1,260 yards
- How to Dive with Your Dragon about 1,390 yards
- Mists of Pandaria: Onward to Adventure in Pandaria about 1,420 yards
- Defiance about 1,580 yards
- Rally the Survivors about 1,580 yards
- Orchard-Supplied Hardware about 1,600 yards
- Spitfire about 1,600 yards
- The Rider's Journey about 1,700 yards
- It's A... about 1,700 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on The Jade Forest, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Jade Forest:
- Pearlfin Village, Jade Forest
- Jade Temple Grounds, Jade Forest
- Paw'Don Village, Jade Forest
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
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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Money13 gold74 silver
Experience4,800 XP
Other quests on the Jade Forest map
Storyline
The Jade Forest, The White Pawn & Pearlfin Village
Part 15 of 19.
Previous: Rest in Peace · Next: Anduin's Decision
- 8A Visit with Lorewalker Cho
- 9Potency
- 10Body
- 11Hue
- 12Finding Your Center
- 13Sacred Waters
- 14Rest in Peace
- 15An Ancient Legend
- 16Anduin's Decision
- 17Bigger Fish to Fry
- 18Let Them Burn
- 19Carp Diem
Showing steps 8 to 19 of 19.
Also part of: The Jade Forest (part 48 of 88).
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.
- Rest in Peace
The spirits... the cavedwellers... they howl in agony... Trapped... in this world... cannot move... to the next. I... will go mad... listening... to their cries... Please...go...put them to rest.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Anduin's Decision
You have done all you can for the Prince's friends. You completed your mission and found the White Pawn - Prince Anduin. Admiral Taylor and the other SI:7 agents will be eager to have the boy safe in their custody. It is time to return home.
The storyline at a glance
The Jade Forest, The White Pawn & Pearlfin Village has 19 steps, from SI:7 Report: Lost in the Woods to Carp Diem.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Jade Forest (19).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on The Jade Forest map
- The Jade Forest, Dawn's Blossom & Tian Monastery & Nectarbreeze Village
- The Jade Forest, Greenstone Quarry & Terrace of Ten Thunders & The Jade Serpent
- The Jade Forest, Strange Bedfellows & Grookin Hill
- The Jade Forest, Paw'don Village
- Mists of Pandaria
- Order of the Cloud Serpent
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.