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An Ancient Secret

An Ancient Secret is a quest for level 10-45 in Highmountain. It is step 5 of 7 in the Secrets of Highmountain storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Highmountain at 44.7, 72.6. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 6,150 experience and money.

Description

Before Mayla may be pronounced High Chieftain, there is one more vision she must see. I wish to show you as well.

It is an ancient secret, handed down along the Highmountain bloodline. I ask for your discretion in keeping it that way.

Rewards

Money20 gold22 silver
Experience6,150 XP
ReputationHighmountain Tribe +150
Top Comments

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CallMeNoa+36via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

In the Legion alpha, the plot twist was that Ebonhorn was actually Wrathion and he gathered some eggs that predated Deathwing's corruption to raise new black dragons. But when alpha became beta, it was changed to Huln saving Ebyssian and Ebyssian being Ebonhorn, since Wrathion being a trusted adviser to the tauren didn't make sense because he couldn't have been with them for very long.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP6,150
MoneyGold20g 22s
ReputationHighmountain Tribe+150

Reward details

Reputation: Highmountain Tribe +150

The Highmountain Tribe has dwindled in numbers over the years, and with the drogbar threat looming, seek new allies to save their homeland.

Reputation group: Legion.

Other quests in Highmountain that reward Highmountain Tribe reputation: Get to High Ground (+250), Rocs vs Eagles (+150), The Skyhorn Tribe (+10), Battle of Snowblind Mesa (+150), Secrets of Highmountain (+150), Grasp of the Underking (+150).

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapPath of Huln
Turn-in mapHighmountainTurn-in marker at 44.7, 72.6, 1 mapped point
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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.

Path of Huln Quest turn-in
Highmountain Quest turn-in 1 mapped point
Highmountain map showing where to go for An Ancient SecretTurn-in

In-game waypoint: /way #650 44.7 72.6

Coordinates

  • Turn-inHighmountain 44.7, 72.6/way #650 44.7 72.6

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Path of Huln:

  • Obsidian Overlook, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 470 yards south
  • Eastern HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 620 yards north-east
  • Ironhorn Enclave, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 670 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 30 yards south-west
  • Objective areaabout 350 yards west (on the Highmountain map)
  • Objective areaabout 100 yards west

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

Secrets of Highmountain

Part 5 of 7.

Previous: Titanic Showdown · Next: The Backdoor

  1. 1Secrets of Highmountain
  2. 2The Path of Huln
  3. 3In Defiance of Deathwing
  4. 4Titanic Showdown
  5. 5An Ancient Secret
  6. 6The Backdoor
  7. 7The High Chieftain

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.

  • Titanic ShowdownHighmountain · Level 10-45

    The tale of Huln did not end with him acquiring the Hammer of Khaz'goroth. No. For that part, we must venture deeper into this cavern. A final brazier awaits us ahead. Come, let us see what happened next.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The BackdoorHighmountain · Level 10-45

    This will take Mayla some time to adjust to. That being said, we should return to Thunder Totem. Just south of here is a tunnel that should take us through the old drogbar slave enclave and then to an opening beyond.

The storyline at a glance

Secrets of Highmountain has 7 steps, from Secrets of Highmountain to The High Chieftain.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Highmountain (6), Suramar (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Highmountain 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.

Related
An Ancient Foe
An Ancient Legend
An Ancient Reborn
An Ancient Recipe
An Ancient Threat
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