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"Make Them Listen" - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10220Kill the knights, they will drop them.
Quest
Decipher the Tome
A World of Warcraft quest in Hellfire Peninsula. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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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.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-30
Quest ID10229
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10229))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineHellfire Peninsula, step 60 of 103
Rewards525 XP
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.
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 areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #100 61.7 81.8
Coordinates
- Turn-inHellfire Peninsula 61.7, 81.8
/way #100 61.7 81.8 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Hellfire Peninsula 56.3, 79.0
/way #100 56.3 79.0 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Hellfire Peninsula 54.9, 84.6
/way #100 54.9 84.6 - Objective areaHellfire Peninsula 54.9, 84.5
/way #100 54.9 84.5
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 Hellfire Peninsula map
- Desecrate this Fire! about 810 yards
- Battle Pet Tamers: Outland about 1,130 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,390 yards
- Between Worlds about 1,630 yards
- Warchief's Command: Outland! about 1,720 yards
- Warning the Cenarion Circle about 2,570 yards
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 Peninsula
- Thrallmar, Hellfire Peninsula
- Shadowmoon Village, Shadowmoon Valley
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
- 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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Experience525 XP
ReputationThrallmar +10
Other quests on the Hellfire Peninsula map
Reward details
Reputation: Thrallmar +10
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.
Reputation group: The Burning Crusade.
Other quests in Hellfire Peninsula that reward Thrallmar reputation: Preparing the Salve (+250), The Assassin (+250), A Strange Weapon (+250), The Warchief's Mandate (+75), The Mag'har (+250), Burning Crusade: Through the Dark Portal (+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.
Storyline
Hellfire Peninsula
Part 60 of 103.
Previous: Make Them Listen · Next: The Battle Horn
- 55Grillok "Darkeye"
- 56The Warp Rifts
- 57Void Ridge
- 58From the Abyss
- 59Make Them Listen
- 60Decipher the Tome
- 61The Battle Horn
- 62Bloody Vengeance
- 63Honor the Fallen
- 64Ravager Egg Roundup
- 65Helboar, the Other White Meat
- 66Smooth as Butter
Showing steps 55 to 66 of 103.
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.
- Make Them Listen
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.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Battle Horn
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.
The storyline at a glance
Hellfire Peninsula has 103 steps, from Eradicate the Burning Legion to Natural Remedies.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Hellfire Peninsula (103).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Hellfire Peninsula map
- Zangarmarsh
- Burning Crusade Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
- Battle Pet Tamers
- The Highlord's Return
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.