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Ancestor's Memory

Ancestor's Memory is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-40 in Shadowmoon Valley. It is step 7 of 7 in The Dark Side of the Moon storyline, the final step. The quest's turn-in marker is in Shadowmoon Valley at 45.7, 26.3. It rewards 4 reward items, 6,850 experience and money.

Description

I believe that you should know the price of the lives you take.

So before I will help you find Ner'zhul, you must understand why he joined the Iron Horde.

In a cave beneath this village is an artifact that we call the Ancestral Totem. On it is carved the names of every Shadowmoon clan member since its founding.

The opening of the cave lies directly south. I will meet you there.

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money33 gold96 silver
Experience6,850 XP
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP6,850
MoneyGold33g 96s

Reward details

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TypeCloth Legs
Item level40
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor7
Stats+8 Intellect, +13 Stamina, +8 Haste, +9 Critical Strike
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for50 gold28 silver
TypeLeather Legs
Item level40
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor11
Stats+8 Agility or Intellect, +13 Stamina, +8 Critical Strike, +9 Haste
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for48 gold46 silver
TypeMail Legs
Item level40
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor17
Stats+8 Agility or Intellect, +13 Stamina, +8 Critical Strike, +9 Versatility
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for51 gold19 silver
TypePlate Legs
Item level40
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor25
Stats+8 Strength or Intellect, +13 Stamina, +9 Critical Strike, +7 Haste
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for49 gold76 silver

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 mapShadowmoon ValleyTurn-in marker at 45.7, 26.3, 3 mapped points
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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.

Shadowmoon Valley Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Shadowmoon Valley map showing where to go for Ancestor's MemoryTurn-inTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #539 45.7 26.3

Coordinates

  • Turn-inShadowmoon Valley 45.7, 26.3/way #539 45.7 26.3
  • Objective areaShadowmoon Valley 45.9, 24.8/way #539 45.9 24.8

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 Shadowmoon Valley map

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

Getting there

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

  • Exile's Rise, Shadowmoon ValleyAlliance and Horde · about 40 yards north
  • Embaari Village, Shadowmoon ValleyAlliance · about 570 yards south
  • Elodor (Alliance), Shadowmoon ValleyAlliance · about 910 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 70 yards north

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

The Dark Side of the Moon

Part 7 of 7.

Previous: Chasing Shadows

  1. 1Into Twilight
  2. 2Going Undercover
  3. 3Escape From Shaz'gul
  4. 4The Clarity Elixir
  5. 5The Fate of Karabor
  6. 6Chasing Shadows
  7. 7Ancestor's Memory

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.

  • Chasing ShadowsShadowmoon Valley · Level 10-40

    Not all of the Shadowmoon orcs followed Ner'zhul's alliance with the Iron Horde. Among them, there is one orc whom I befriended many years ago. She may be able to tell us more about Ner'zhul's plans for this "Dark Star." She can be found at Exile's Rise to the northeast.

The storyline at a glance

The Dark Side of the Moon has 7 steps, from Into Twilight to Ancestor's Memory.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Shadowmoon Valley (7).

Other storylines on the Shadowmoon Valley 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.

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