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Dark Tales

Dark Tales is a quest for level 40-90. It is step 8 of 18 in the Allies of the Horde: Highmountain storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Highmountain at 38.5, 69.1. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 9,500 experience and money.

Description

Spiritwalker Ebonhorn is stable... for now.

He once told me of the wards he maintains against the Old Gods. He placed them at key locations around this mountain, but kept them hidden from mortal eyes--even my own.

Incapacitated like this, his wards cannot hold back the evil ones. No doubt this is the reason for their attack.

To find the wards, we must enter the echoes of Ebonhorn's past and commune with the spirits we find there.

Meet me in Riverbend, <name>. It is there our search begins.

Rewards

Money28 gold9 silver
Experience9,500 XP
ReputationHighmountain Tribe +75

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP9,500
MoneyGold28g 9s
ReputationHighmountain Tribe+75

Reward details

Reputation: Highmountain Tribe +75

The Highmountain Tribe has dwindled in numbers over the years, and with the drogbar threat looming, seek new allies to save their homeland.

Reputation group: Legion.

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 mapHighmountainTurn-in marker at 38.5, 69.1, 1 mapped point
Objective areaThunder Totem
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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.

Highmountain Quest turn-in 1 mapped point
Highmountain map showing where to go for Dark TalesTurn-in

In-game waypoint: /way #650 38.5 69.1

Thunder Totem Objective area

Coordinates

  • Turn-inHighmountain 38.5, 69.1/way #650 38.5 69.1

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 Highmountain map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Highmountain:

  • Sylvan Falls, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 240 yards north-west
  • Thunder Totem, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 740 yards north-east
  • Nesingwary's Retreat, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 790 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 720 yards north-east (on the Thunder Totem map)

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

Allies of the Horde: Highmountain

Part 8 of 18.

Previous: Whispers of the Darkness · Next: A Feast for Our Kin

  1. 3Servants of the Darkness
  2. 4Curse of the Necrodark
  3. 5Ice and Shadow
  4. 6The Final Ward
  5. 7Whispers of the Darkness
  6. 8Dark Tales
  7. 9A Feast for Our Kin
  8. 10Shadow Over Thunder Bluff
  9. 11Return to Highmountain
  10. 12Shadow of the Sepulcher
  11. 13Huln's Mountain
  12. 14The Darkness

Showing steps 3 to 14 of 18.

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.

  • Whispers of the DarknessLevel 40-90

    Before our arrival, many of our own came to neutralize the threat here. They did not know what they were walking into. Our people are now suffering from the whispers. The Old Gods seek to corrupt them and turn them against their own. Wake them from their stupor.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • A Feast for Our KinLevel 40-90

    Ah, the Highmountain tauren. They have been our allies ever since we felled the Legion. Are you interested in hearing how they joined the Horde? It is quite the tale! It all began with Baine Bloodhoof and Mayla Highmountain.

The storyline at a glance

Allies of the Horde: Highmountain has 18 steps, from Walking in Their Footsteps to Dark Forces.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Highmountain (13), Thunder Bluff (3), Orgrimmar (1), Thunder Totem (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Highmountain 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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