TheWoWDBFor anyone trying this in Dragonflight or after Anduin doesn't automatically speak to you anymore, instead next to Cyrus there will be a note on the table with the start of the quest and then Anduin will speak to you.
Quest
An Unwelcome Advisor
Quest facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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8.3 quests will be pushed to you automatically if you meet the following criteria:
-Are Level 120
-Have the Heart Forge unlocked - See The Heart Forge
-Log in or zone in to Boralus or Dazar'AlorAlliance Intro for 8.3 Black Empire Campaign:
An Unwelcome Advisor
Return of the Warrior KingHorde Intro for 8.3 Black Empire Campaign:
Return of the Black PrinceBoth factions:
1. Where the Heart Is
2. Network Diagnostics
3. A Titanic Problem
4. The Halls of Origination
5. To Ramkahen
6. The Uldum Accord
7. Surfacing Threats
8. Forging Onward (Unlocks Uldum Assaults)
9. It's Never Easy
10. The Mysterious Sigil
11. Clans of the Mogu
12. Finding the Rajani
13. Time-Lost Warriors
14. Proof of Tenacity
15. The Engine of Nalak'sha
16. Restored Hope
17. Magni's Findings (Unlocks Vale of Eternal Blossoms Assaults)
18. Power Protocol Initiation
19. Re-Origination
20. Investigating the Halls
21. Beginning the Descent (Receive Legendary Cloak)
22. Deeper Into the Darkness
23. Opening the Gateway
24. Descending Into Madness
25. Into the Darkest Depths (Unlocks Lesser and Horrific Visions)
26. Whispers in the Dark
27. Into Dreams
28. Ny'alotha, the Waking City: The Corruptor's End
29. Accessing the Archives (Unlocks Ny'alotha and Titanic Research Archive)Hopefully this info helps!
I couldn't understand why this quest didn't appear after opening the nazjatar portal and why it didn't after dealing with Magni. After a while I found the quest on a table, in Boralus, nearby Cyrus Crestfall. This happened during the early phases of the War Within.
Quest facts
Quest ID58496
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(58496))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
Description
<The envelope contains a message from King Anduin Wrynn.> {name}, Even with the forces of the Horde and Alliance working together, we still have found no trace of N'Zoth's forces. Ever since his release, the Old God has evaded us at every turn. The Light only knows what ill he has in store for Azeroth. Meet me in Stormwind Keep. We must put a plan together to uncover N'Zoth's schemes before it is too late! Light grant you haste, King Anduin Wrynn
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-inIn-game waypoint: /way #84 85.9 31.5
Coordinates
- Turn-inStormwind City 85.9, 31.5
/way #84 85.9 31.5
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 Stormwind City map
- The Missing Blade same spot
- Payment in Kind same spot
- Joining the Alliance same spot
- A Royal Audience same spot
- The Victor's Spoils same spot
- A Found Memento same spot
- A Short-Lived Peace same spot
- An End to the Killing same spot
- Demons Among Us same spot
- Demons Among Them same spot
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Stormwind City, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Stormwind City:
- Stormwind, Elwynn
- Goldshire, Elwynn
- Flamestar Post, Burning Steppes
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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Experience850 XP
Storyline
Return of the Black Prince
Part 1 of 6.
Next: Return of the Black Prince
- 1An Unwelcome Advisor
- 2Return of the Black Prince
- 3Return of the Warrior King
- 4Where the Heart Is
- 5Where the Heart Is
- 6Network Diagnostics
Also part of: Visions of N'zoth (part 1 of 29).
Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.
Where this quest fits
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Return of the Black Prince
<The envelope contains a message from Valeera Sanguinar.> <name>, I have just returned from a meeting with King Wrynn in Stormwind. We have much to discuss. Meet me at the Great Seal with haste. Al diel shala, Valeera
The storyline at a glance
Return of the Black Prince has 6 steps, from An Unwelcome Advisor to Network Diagnostics.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Chamber of Heart (3), Stormwind City (2), Dazar'alor (1).
Other storylines on the Stormwind City map
- The Missing Expedition
- The Dragonscale Expedition
- Dragon Isles City Intro Quests
- The King's Path
- Cataclysm Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
- Allies of the Alliance: Dark Iron Dwarf
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.