Decipher the Tome is a Horde-only quest for level 10-30 in Hellfire Peninsula. It is step 60 of 103 in the Hellfire Peninsula storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Hellfire Peninsula at 61.7, 81.8. It rewards 1 reputation reward and 525 experience.
Description
This tome appears to be some sort of history written in a secret Alliance cipher. Althen, the historian in Spinebreaker Post, has studied the Unyielding for some time; he may be able to crack the Alliance code and decipher the book.
If, like me, you are trying to complete your collections, you won't pick up this tome until you've started or completed the quest Make Them Listen. Since Make Them Listen didn't reward anything I needed I thought I could skip it.
I did not get this item while doing the associated quest in the area. I had to come back and kill about 20-30 more knights before it dropped. I'm working on Loremaster and with 80 required quests, this chain is important. I was stuck at 70 out of 84.
The expedition sent through the Dark Portal by Thrall has built a stronghold in Hellfire Peninsula. Thrallmar serves as a base of operations for much of the Horde's activities in Outland.
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.
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.
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Hellfire Peninsula, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Hellfire Peninsula:
Spinebreaker Ridge, Hellfire PeninsulaHorde · about 20 yards north-west
Thrallmar, Hellfire PeninsulaHorde · about 1,600 yards north
Shadowmoon Village, Shadowmoon ValleyHorde · about 1,700 yards south
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
Objective areaabout 300 yards west
Objective areaabout 370 yards west
Objective areaabout 360 yards 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.
I was sent here to make contact with the Unyielding spirits. These once proud Alliance soldiers were defeated long ago, and now their cursed spirits haunt the ruins to the west. If they would only join us we would gain a powerful ally.
Perhaps we have taken the wrong approach to the Unyielding? The tome tells me the Expedition Armory was destroyed by orcs and death knights long ago. The Unyielding remain here as vengeful spirits trapped in an eternal battle against the fel orc clans. They think only of revenge.
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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