TheWoWDBThe Cipher of Damnation is an extremely long quest line in Shadowmoon Valley. It is a prerequisite for attunement to The Eye in Tempest Keep and Mount Hyjal in Caverns of time.
"*" Indicates quests with rewards.Quest Line
1[A] - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10680 - "The Hand of Gul'Dan"
1[H] - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10681 - "The Hand of Gul'Dan"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10458 - "Enraged Spirits of Fire and Earth"
3 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10480 - "Enraged Spirits of Water"
4* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10480 - "Enraged Spirits of Air"
5 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10513 - "Oronok Torn-Heart"
6* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10514 - "I Was A Lot Of Things..." - Most annoying quest ever implemented in World of Warcraft.
7 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10515 - "A Lesson Learned"
8 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10519 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Truth and History"At this point, the quests diverge into three separate lines (which can be done in any order) for each of Oronok's three sons who will in turn help you obtain the three Fragments of Damnation.
Quest Line I - First Fragment of Damnation
1 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10521 - "Grom'tor, Son of Oronok"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10522 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Grom'tor's Charge"
3* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10523 - "The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered"Quest Line II - Second Fragment of Damnation
1 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10527 "Ar'tor, Son of Oronok"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10528 - "Demonic Crystal Prisons"
3 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10537 - "Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart"
4 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10540 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Ar'tor's Charge"
5* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10541 - "The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered"Quest Line III - Third Fragment of Damnation
1 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10546 "Borak, Son of Oronok"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10547 - "Of Thistleheads and Eggs..."
3 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10550 - "The Bundle of Bloodthistle"
4 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10570 - "To Catch A Thistlehead"
5 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10576 - "The Shadowmoon Shuffle"
6 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10577 - "What Illidan Wants, Illidan Gets..."
7 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10578 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Borak's Charge"
8* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10579 "The Cipher of Damnation - The Third Fragment Recovered"After completing the quests for the three Fragments of Damnation, the lines converge and you need to kill one last boss.
Final* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10588 - "The Cipher of Damnation"Rewards:
Everyone gets http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31074 - Fire Resist Neck
Choose one of the following:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31036 - Caster Staff
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31038 - Healer Staff
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31062 - Paladin/Shaman 2H Axe
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31071 - Tanking 1H Axe
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31072 - Bow
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31073 - Melee DaggerAfter completing the quest, you will get a message in the mail from Khadgar. If you go to Shattrath, he will tell you to talk to A'Dal, who unlocks the the three Trials. These are prerequisites for attunement to The Eye in Tempest Keep and Mount Hyjal in Caverns of time.
Quest
Borak, Son of Oronok
A World of Warcraft quest in Shadowmoon Valley. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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He is located at 48,57 right in front of bridge.
48, 57 is correct 44,23 for Grom'tor 29, 50 for Ar'tor
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10546))
What to do
Description
While Ar'tor was off hunting and Grom'tor was off fighting, Borak studied. Eventually he took up a vocation as a scholar and left for the wilds of Draenor. He returned home a few years ago a changed orc. His heightened sense of awareness and mental acuity had forged a silent assassin. Now a confident and powerful orc, he has taken to recovering the most guarded piece of the cipher. Find Borak hiding near Eclipse Point, far to the south. He watches from the shadows of the bridge.
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #104 47.6 57.2
Coordinates
- Turn-inShadowmoon Valley 47.6, 57.2
/way #104 47.6 57.2 - Objective areaShadowmoon Valley 53.9, 23.5
/way #104 53.9 23.5
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 Shadowmoon Valley map
- Honor the Flame about 450 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 450 yards
- Hero's Call: Shadowmoon Valley! about 460 yards
- Grand Master Antari about 1,100 yards
- Warchief's Command: Shadowmoon Valley! about 1,310 yards
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
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Shadowmoon Valley:
- Sanctum of the Stars, Shadowmoon Valley
- Wildhammer Stronghold, Shadowmoon Valley
- Altar of Sha'tar, Shadowmoon Valley
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- 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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Storyline
Shadowmoon Valley
Part 93 of 147.
Previous: The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered · Next: Of Thistleheads and Eggs...
- 88Ar'tor, Son of Oronok
- 89Demonic Crystal Prisons
- 90Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart
- 91The Cipher of Damnation - Ar'tor's Charge
- 92The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered
- 93Borak, Son of Oronok
- 94Of Thistleheads and Eggs...
- 95The Bundle of Bloodthistle
- 96To Catch A Thistlehead
- 97The Shadowmoon Shuffle
- 98What Illidan Wants, Illidan Gets...
- 99The Cipher of Damnation - Borak's Charge
Showing steps 88 to 99 of 147.
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.
- The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered
I thank you, hero. For without you, my spirit would forever remain in this cursed place. <Ar'tor hands you a spectral lockbox.> Take it and deliver it to my father at the farm, far to the northeast, above Coilskar Cistern... Inside are Lohn'goron and the second part of the cipher.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Of Thistleheads and Eggs...
I'd have given up had I not noticed... He's a Thistlehead. I couldn't place it at first but the signs are all there... Now if we could get our hands on some bloodthistle, we'd be in business. In my travels, I met a shady Broken in Shattrath named Tobias.
The storyline at a glance
Shadowmoon Valley has 147 steps, from Spleendid! to A Job Unfinished....
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Shadowmoon Valley (129), Terokkar Forest (10), Nagrand (7), Shattrath City (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Shadowmoon Valley map
- Battle Pet Tamers
- Burning Crusade Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
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.