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Capturing Memories

Capturing Memories is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-30 in Stonetalon Mountains. It is step 20 of 48 in the Stonetalon Mountains, Alliance storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Stonetalon Mountains at 58.7, 56.0. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

The great cataclysm has unearthed a forgotten Highborne city within Stonetalon Mountains. You must venture southwest to the Ruins of Eldre'thar. Once you are there, search the area for ancient relics. Return the relics to me so that I may study them, <name>.

Go! Lest we keep the arcanist waiting!

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationDarnassus +250
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Whiterock+6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

CHASING THE BOMB Quest Tree From Whiterock
Give + to 11/25/2010 Ravenhurst aswell.

1)They Took Our Gnomes*
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 | 1)Ze Gnomecorder* 1)The Goblin Braintrust*
 |__|_________________|
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2)Do Yourself a Favor
2)The Only Way Down is in a Body Bag
1)Return to Stardust-->2)Hellscream's Legacy
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2)Field Test: Gnomecorder
2)Burn, Baby, Burn!
2)Bombs Away: Windshear Mine!
 |                     |->2)Don't Look Them in the Eyes
2)Illegible Orc Letter |->2)Windshear Mine Cleanup
2)Minx'll Fix It
2)Orders from High Command
2)Commandeer That Balloon!-->2)Just Ask Alice
 |->1)Gerenzo the Traitor    2)Mr. P's Wild Ride
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2)Free Our Sisters              1)BEWARE OF CRAGJAW!
2)Rumble in the Lumber... Mill
 |  |               |->3)Preparations for the Future
 |  |               |
 | 3)Arcane Legacy 3)Capturing Memories
 |  |              /
 | 2)Fallowmere Beckons
 | 4)Bombs Away: Mirkfallon Post!
 |  |                    |->4)Schemin' That Sabotage
 | 4)Gnome on the Inside |->4)The Lumbering Oaf Problem
 | 4)It's Up There!
 | 4)No Time for Goodbyes!
 | 1)Warn Master Thal'darah
 | 6)Save the Children!
 | 6)Last Ditch Effort
 |  |->5)Back to the Depths!
 |  |->5)Putting Them to Rest
 |  |->5)Seen Better Days        Help for Desolace*
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 | 1)Thal'darah's Vengeance
 |  |                   |->7)Hungry Pups
 | 7)Ascending the Vale |->7)World First: Gnomegen
 | 7)Brood of Seldarria
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3)If the Horde Don't Get You...
1)Tell 'Em Koko Sent You
8)The Deep Reaches
 |_________________________________________
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8)Shuttin Her Down |        8)Leave No Man Behind!
 |                /                       |
 | 8)They Put the Assass in... Never Mind |
 | 8)Is This Thing On?                    |
 |___|____________________________________|
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1)A Special Kind of Job
1)Death by Proxy
1)A Proper Peace Offerin'
9)Sating the Savage Beast
1)Terms of Service-->8)The Unrelenting Horde
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8)Armaments for War
9)Grundig Darkcloud, Chieftain of the Grimtotem
9)Grimtotem Supremacy
9)Downfall
1)Dances with Grimtotem
1)All's Clear

D)Thinning the Horde(Not aviable?)
Hero's Call: Stonetalon Mountains!(WTB info)
They Set Them Up The Bomb!(Ashenvale quest)
Quest zones:
1)Unique zones_____2)Windshear Crag+Windshear Mine_____3)Ruins of Eldre'thar+Webwinder Hollow_____4)The Sludgewerks_____5)Stonetalon Peak_____6)Thal'darah Grove_____7)The Charred Vale_____8)The Deep Reaches+Unearthed Grounds_____9)Camp Aparaje+Grimtotem Post
D)Daily_____G)Gluing Separate Questlines
*Click to see more info about that quest-line.
Stonetalon Mountains(Alliance) is done! Leave your comments/sugestions at my comment in Stonetalon Mountains zone. Thanks everyone who helped me to make it via comments on wowhead and in-game pre-quest tracking. Special thanks to Ravenhurst.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationDarnassus+250

Reward details

Reputation: Darnassus +250

This Alliance capital is populated by Night Elves and is located in the Island of Teldrassil. Ruled by the Priestess of the Moon, Tyrande Whisperwind.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Stonetalon Mountains that reward Darnassus reputation: Do Yourself a Favor (+10), The Only Way Down is in a Body Bag (+250), Return to Stardust (+10), Hellscream's Legacy (+250), Field Test: Gnomecorder (+25), Burn, Baby, Burn! (+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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapStonetalon MountainsTurn-in marker at 58.7, 56.0, 12 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.

Stonetalon Mountains Quest turn-in 12 mapped points
Stonetalon Mountains map showing where to go for Capturing MemoriesTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #65 58.7 56.0

Coordinates

  • Turn-inStonetalon Mountains 58.7, 56.0/way #65 58.7 56.0
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Stonetalon Mountains 48.4, 74.6/way #65 48.4 74.6

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 Stonetalon Mountains map

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

Getting there

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

  • Windshear Hold, Stonetalon MountainsAlliance · about 70 yards north
  • Mirkfallon Post, Stonetalon MountainsAlliance · about 620 yards west
  • Stardust Spire, AshenvaleAlliance · about 1,000 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 950 yards south-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

Stonetalon Mountains, Alliance

Part 20 of 48.

Previous: Arcane Legacy · Next: Fallowmere Beckons

  1. 15Commandeer That Balloon!
  2. 16Free Our Sisters
  3. 17Rumble in the Lumber... Mill
  4. 18If the Horde Don't Get You...
  5. 19Arcane Legacy
  6. 20Capturing Memories
  7. 21Fallowmere Beckons
  8. 22Bombs Away: Mirkfallon Post!
  9. 23Gnome on the Inside
  10. 24It's Up There!
  11. 25No Time for Goodbyes!
  12. 26Warn Master Thal'darah

Showing steps 15 to 26 of 48.

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.

  • Arcane LegacyStonetalon Mountains · Level 10-30

    The rage of the elements has unearthed a hidden Highborne city in the heart of Stonetalon Mountains. Directly southwest of here, through Sishir Canyon, you will find the Ruins of Eldre'thar. Within the ruins lie treasures untouched by mortals for ten thousand years!

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Fallowmere BeckonsStonetalon Mountains · Level 10-30

    You're still here? What are you waiting for, a personal engraved invitation? Lord Fallowmere beckons, fool! Go to him now!

The storyline at a glance

Stonetalon Mountains, Alliance has 48 steps, from They Took Our Gnomes to Dances with Grimtotem.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Stonetalon Mountains (43), Ashenvale (5).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Stonetalon Mountains 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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