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An End And A Beginning

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

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Alliance chain is as follows:

Part One
1) Into Hostile Territory - report to Report to Duke August Foehammer at Thorson's Post.
2) Steamtank Surprise - destroy 6 plaguewagons and drop the 7th Legion Elite at the Wintergarde Mausoleum.
3) Scattered To The Wind - pick up 8 Wintergarde Munitions
4) The Chain Gun And You - rescue 8 injured 7th Legion soldiers
5) Plunderbeard Must Be Found - find the gnome Plunderbeard in the Mausoleum.
6) Plunderbeard's Journal - find the missing four pages of Plunderbeard's journal
7) Chasing Icestorm: The 7th Legion Front - report to Legion Commander Tyralion at the 7th Legion Front
8) Chasing Icestorm: Thel'zan's Phylactery - retrieve Thel'zan's Phylactery from the frost wyrm Icestorm
9) Finality - take Thel'zan's Phylactery to Legion Commander Yorik

Part Two
1) And End And A Beginning - defeat Thel'zan the Duskbringer
2) To Forgragon Hold! - speak to Highlord Bolvar Fordragon at Fordragon Hold
3) Audience With The Dragon Queen - speak to Alexstrasza the Life-Binder at Wrymrest Temple
4) Galakrond and the Scourge - Speak with Torastrasza at Wrymrest Temple
5) On Ruby Wings - kill 30 Wastes Scavenger and retrieve the Scythe of Antiok

Part Three
1) Return To Angrathar - speak to Highlord Bolvar Fordragon again. Epic cinematic to follow

Part Four
1) Reborn From The Ashes - talk to King Varian Wrynn in Stormwind City
2) Fate, Up Against Your Will - speak to the Warchief of the Horde, Thrall
3) A Royal Coup return to King Wrynn
4) The Killing Time - report to Broll Bearmantle
5) The Battle For The Undercity

There are a few quests you need to do before the first step in Part One but some of them are just bread crumb quests to let you know where to go. Hope this helps.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneDragonblight
Quest ID12473

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12473))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineDragonblight, step 84 of 149
Rewards4,100 XP

Description

Every good story has a beginning and an ending, {name}. While your story is far from over, I'll be damned if it's not already turning out to be the stuff of legend! No matter what happens to us when this is all over, what you've done at Wintergarde will be a tale told for years to come. Now, ally, when you are ready I will use the phylactery to coax Thel'zan out of hiding. Should we somehow succeed, report the victory to High Commander Halford Wyrmbane at Wintergarde Keep.

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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.

Dragonblight Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Dragonblight map showing where to go for An End And A BeginningTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #115 78.6 48.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inDragonblight 78.6, 48.1/way #115 78.6 48.1
  • Objective areaDragonblight 80.3, 50.6/way #115 80.3 50.6

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 Dragonblight map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Dragonblight:

  • Wintergarde Keep, DragonblightAlliance · about 110 yards south-west
  • Wyrmrest Temple, DragonblightAlliance and Horde · about 1,000 yards west
  • Windrunner's Overlook, Crystalsong ForestAlliance · about 1,300 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 130 yards south-east
  • Objective areaabout 170 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
ReputationValiance Expedition +250

Reward details

Reputation: Valiance Expedition +250

The main armies of the Alliance in Northrend, moving against the Scourge and unified under King Varian Wrynn's command.

Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.

Other quests in Dragonblight that reward Valiance Expedition reputation: A Letter for Home (+250), Strengthen the Ancients (+250), Pest Control (+250), Canyon Chase (+250), The Lost Courier (+25), The Liquid Fire of Elune (+250).

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

Dragonblight

Part 84 of 149.

Previous: Finality · Next: To Fordragon Hold!

  1. 79Plunderbeard Must Be Found!
  2. 80Plunderbeard's Journal
  3. 81Chasing Icestorm: The 7th Legion Front
  4. 82Chasing Icestorm: Thel'zan's Phylactery
  5. 83Finality
  6. 84An End And A Beginning
  7. 85To Fordragon Hold!
  8. 86Audience With The Dragon Queen
  9. 87Marked for Death: High Cultist Zangus
  10. 88The Flesh-Bound Tome
  11. 89Koltira and the Language of Death
  12. 90In Service of Blood

Showing steps 79 to 90 of 149.

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.

  • FinalityDragonblight · Level 15-30

    Thanks to your heroics, Lord Fordragon has given the command to launch a full assault against Thel'zan. 7th Legion have made their way into the summoning chamber of the mausoleum and located what appears to be a gateway to hell. The only piece that's missing now is you.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • To Fordragon Hold!Dragonblight · Level 15-30

    With the Naxxramas war machine stopped dead in its tracks the time has come for you to help our forces at Angrathar, the Wrathgate. Nestled against the mountain in northern Dragonblight is our base of operations, Fordragon Hold. It is there that Lord Fordragon awaits your arrival! Go now, <name>!

The storyline at a glance

Dragonblight has 149 steps, from The Liquid Fire of Elune to Really Big Worm.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Dragonblight (144), Crystalsong Forest (5).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Dragonblight 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.