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Cities in Dust

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

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Sketchie+101via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I've wrote down what happened at the event. Massive spoilers ahead, of course.

Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: Onward, <name!> We will beat back the Alliance dogs and secure Lordaeron for the Forsaken! For the Horde!
Accompany Lady Sylvanas Windrunner across the Battlefront.
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner yells: Lay down your arms and surrender!
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner yells: I will leave your cities in dust and your lives in ruin!
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: Look at them, <name>. They scurry like rats, veering headlong to their doom. Surely Crowley and Bloodfang can see the futility in this!
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: To the Greymane Wall! We will force their hand.

You are given the Song of Sylvanas buff, which makes you stronger and move faster. High Warlord Cromush and Sylvanas' Val'kyr Agatha, Arthura and Daschla will stick with you while Sylvanas charges ahead towards the Greymane Wall. At the gates...

Lady Sylvanas Windrunner yells: Crowley, your forces have fallen before my mighty army. You have lost!

Lord Darius Crowley and Packleader Ivar Bloodfang approaches the group.

Lord Darius Crowley says: It's not over, Sylvanas. Not yet.
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: You frivolously throw away the lives of your people while your own king sits atop his throne of lies, nary lifting a finger to help.
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: Is Gilneas worth the lives that have been lost? The lives that will be lost? You cannot win.
Lord Darius Crowley says: We will die trying!
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: And your daughter? You could have saved her... You could have offered her your blood, and yet you did not. Why?
Lord Darius Crowley says: LORNA? What... Where is she! What have have you done to her!
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: Nothing, yet...
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: I now present you with a choice - a choice that I was never given.
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: I offer you the life of Lorna for your unconditional surrender.
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: Choose your next words wisely, Crowley. Deny me and she will serve me in undeath - forever.
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner yells: Bring her, Godfrey!

Baron Ashbury, Lord Walden and Lord Godfrey approach the group with Lorna over Godfrey's shoulder.

Lord Darius Crowley says: GODFREY! You deceitful maggot!
Lord Godfrey says: Hello, old friend!
Lord Darius Crowley says: Lorna... I... Release her. I will sound the retreat.
Packleader Ivar Bloodfang says: You can't be serious, Crowley. You miserable bastard!

Packleader Ivar Bloodfang retreats back into Gilneas.

Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: Release her, Godfrey.
Lord Godfrey says: Of course, mistress.

Godfrey releases Lorna, and she runs up to Crowley and sits in front of him.

Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: Now leave here, Crowley, and never return.
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: Lordaeron belongs to the Forsaken.
Lord Darius Crowley says: Forgive me, daughter...

Both Lorna and Crowley retreats back into Gilneas. Baron Ashbury, Lord Walden and Lord Godfrey walks behind Sylvanas.

Lady Sylvanas Windrunner yells: SOLDIERS OF THE HORDE! WE ARE VICTORIOUS! LORDAERON IS W...

Lord Godfrey shoots Sylvanas in the back with a gun and she falls over, dead.

Lady Sylvanas Windrunner dies.

High Warlord Cromush says: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, GODFREY!
Lord Godfrey says: Something that should have been done a long time ago, you filthy animal.
Lord Godfrey says: Gilneas belongs to me, and soon will the rest of Lordaeron!
Lord Godfrey says: NOW JOIN YOUR MISTRESS IN DEATH!

You now have to battle Lord Godfrey, Baron Ashbury and Lord Walden. High Warlord Cromush, Agatha, Arthura and Daschla will assist you. After a while...

Lord Godfrey yells: FALL BACK, BROTHERS! TO SHADOWFANG!
Lord Godfrey yells: This land will quiver and shake in the wake of our destruction!

Lord Godfrey, Baron Ashbury and Lord Walden retreats, presumably to Shadowfang Keep. Agatha, Arthura and Daschla will surround Sylvanas.

High Warlord Cromush says: Fix her... FIX HER!
Agatha says: We are bound to her, sisters...
Arthura says: It will destroy us, sister...
Dascha says: It is our sacred duty. The pact was sealed, the bargain made...
Arthura says: Then let it be done.

The sisters all channel their energies into Sylvanas, bringing her back to life. However, it comes with a price as all sisters dies. Sylvanas slowly gets back up while Cromush kneels in front of her.

Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: I saw... only darkness.
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: And as I drifted towards nothingness, a brilliant light appeared, then another, and another... My dear val'kyr.
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: I know now - beyond a shadow of doubt - that the val'kyr are our future.
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: We will never stop fighting for Lordaeron. Never...
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77279+83via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Make sure you are dismounted when you accept this quest!

And trying to avoid spoilers: as tempting as it is, try not to engage any mobs while escorting Sylvanas. Cromush bugged out the first time I tried this quest.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 5-30
ZoneSilverpine Forest
Quest ID27601

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27601))

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineSilverpine Forest, step 57 of 57
RewardsBelt of Absolute Allegiance, Bracers of the Most Trusted, Belt of Beginnings, 42g, 8,250 XP

Description

Our armies clash across the battlefield. Crowley and his forces are losing ground and they do not yet know the fate of Lorna Crowley. We will meet with Crowley and his compatriots at mid field and I will present them with terms of their surrender. They will either accept or we will kill them all and leave their cities in dust. As my most trusted soldier, you are to stand by my side during the exchange. Tell me when you are prepared to leave.

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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.

Silverpine Forest Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Silverpine Forest map showing where to go for Cities in DustTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #21 45.4 85.6

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSilverpine Forest 45.4, 85.6/way #21 45.4 85.6
  • Objective areaSilverpine Forest 45.5, 85.8/way #21 45.5 85.8
  • Objective areaSilverpine Forest 51.8, 66.1/way #21 51.8 66.1

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 Silverpine Forest map

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

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Silverpine Forest:

  • Forsaken Forward Command, GilneasHorde · about 200 yards south-west
  • The Forsaken Front, Silverpine ForestHorde · about 660 yards north
  • Southpoint Gate, HillsbradHorde · about 1,100 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 610 yards north-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

Choose one of these rewards:

Money42 gold
Experience8,250 XP
ReputationUndercity +1,000

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeMail Waist
Item level12
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor6
Stats+2 Agility or Intellect, +4 Stamina, +3 Critical Strike
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for6 silver63 copper
TypePlate Wrist
Item level12
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor8
Stats+2 Strength or Intellect, +3 Stamina, +3 Critical Strike
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for6 silver65 copper
TypeLeather Waist
Item level12
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor4
Stats+2 Agility or Intellect, +4 Stamina, +3 Critical Strike
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for6 silver62 copper
TypeCloth Feet
Item level12
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor3
Stats+2 Intellect, +4 Stamina, +3 Critical Strike
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for9 silver82 copper

Reputation: Undercity +1,000

Led by Sylvanas Windrunner, the Forsaken have joined a tenuous alliance with the Horde and established this capital in the vast depths under the Ruins of Lordaeron.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Silverpine Forest that reward Undercity reputation: Warchief's Command: Silverpine Forest! (+250), The Warchief Cometh (+150), The Gilneas Liberation Front (+250), Agony Abounds (+250), Guts and Gore (+250), Iterating Upon Success (+350).

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

Silverpine Forest

Part 57 of 57.

Previous: On Her Majesty's Secret Service

  1. 46Only One May Enter
  2. 47Transdimensional Warfare: Chapter I
  3. 48Transdimensional Warfare: Chapter II
  4. 49Transdimensional Warfare: Chapter III
  5. 50Taking the Battlefront
  6. 51Of No Consequence
  7. 52Lessons in Fear
  8. 53Pyrewood's Fall
  9. 547th Legion Battle Plans
  10. 55Sowing Discord
  11. 56On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  12. 57Cities in Dust

Showing steps 46 to 57 of 57.

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.

  • On Her Majesty's Secret ServiceSilverpine Forest · Level 5-30

    Lorna Crowley, daughter of Lord Darius Crowley, is currently at the Gilneas Liberation Front camp, located near the Greymane Wall, to the southeast. Our primary mission is to infiltrate the camp and capture her alive.

Also counted by Silverpine Forest Quests

Its criteria name 6 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

Silverpine Forest has 57 steps, from The Warchief Cometh to Cities in Dust.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Silverpine Forest (46), Ruins of Gilneas (11).

Other storylines on the Silverpine Forest 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.

Achievements

Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.

Silverpine Forest QuestsComplete the Silverpine Forest storylines listed below.20