Quest Log

Digging Through the Past (Horde)

Digging Through the Past is a Horde-only quest for level 50. It rewards 1,700 experience and money.

Description

Let's see, Examiner Alerinda has a book on ancient runes and carvings. I think Koatini has a few scrolls he brought with him from Ulduar.

OH! And Chronicler Shoopa found a codex de last time he ventured out. I remember seeing de runes on it and dey look a lot like de ones in dis book.

Maybe you can convince dem to lend us dose books for a bit, and I think I can create a translation for you.

Rewards

Money5

Experience1,700 XP

Stuck on this quest?

Named in the quest text: Examiner Alerinda.

Known issues

Top Comments

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FuxieDKMar 14, 2019+12via Wowhead

Ancient Journal Transcription spawns on the bench, next to her.
However, if you are on the Zandalari Allied Race quest chain, it won't spawn. Finish the chain and it will appear.

jasper1228May 18, 2019+8via Wowhead

Examiner Alerinda is in the Great Seal in the Vault of Kings. Talk to her and you will receive Primordial Races: Runes and Writings.
Koatini is in the Grand Bazaar sells the Scrolls for 20G.
Talk to Chronicler Shoopa (weekly event quest giver) and he will give you The Dungard Codex.
Go back to Chronicler Grazzul he will say a few lines and translate the books. The Ancient Journal Transcription spawns on the bench next to him.

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Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

FuxieDKMar 14, 2019+12via Wowhead

Ancient Journal Transcription spawns on the bench, next to her.
However, if you are on the Zandalari Allied Race quest chain, it won't spawn. Finish the chain and it will appear.

jasper1228May 18, 2019+8via Wowhead

Examiner Alerinda is in the Great Seal in the Vault of Kings. Talk to her and you will receive Primordial Races: Runes and Writings.
Koatini is in the Grand Bazaar sells the Scrolls for 20G.
Talk to Chronicler Shoopa (weekly event quest giver) and he will give you The Dungard Codex.
Go back to Chronicler Grazzul he will say a few lines and translate the books. The Ancient Journal Transcription spawns on the bench next to him.

WarrokNov 16, 2020+3via Wowhead

In case you skipped the dialogue but want to read it up, it's available in the guide which is linked in the alliance version of this quest: https://www.wowhead.com/news=290293/jewelcrafting-profession-questline-for-tools-of-the-trade-patch-8-1-5

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Rewards in detail

Type	Reward	Amount
Experience	XP	1,700
Money	Gold	5g 85s

Where it comes from

Turn-in map	Dazar'alor

World Map

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.

Dazar'alor Quest turn-in

Nearby on the Dazar'alor map

The Missing Chapter same spot
A Promising Beginning same spot
Polished Up same spot
Setting Things Right same spot
Vengeful Venture about 80 yards
The Ub3r-Spanner about 80 yards
It's Scrap Work... about 80 yards
The True Leader of Zandalar about 80 yards
Speaker of the Horde about 90 yards
The King's Death about 90 yards

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

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Dazar'alor:

The Great SealHorde · about 140 yards south-east
The Sliver, ZuldazarHorde · about 390 yards north-east
Temple of the Prophet, ZuldazarHorde · about 640 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

Objective areaabout 110 yards south-east
Objective areaabout 1,000 yards south
Objective areaabout 990 yards south

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

Where this quest fits

Other quests with this name

This one: Horde only · Level 50.

Digging Through the PastAlliance only · Level 50

Other storylines on the Dazar'alor map

Allies of the Horde: Zandalari17 steps, starts with A Royal Occasion
Unrest in Zuldazar81 steps, starts with Battle for Azeroth: Mission Statement
The Battle for Stromgarde6 steps, starts with To the Front
Mission from the Warchief7 steps, starts with The War Campaign
Crucible of Storms22 steps, starts with The Azsharan Medallion
Tools of the Trade: The Ub3r-Spanner8 steps, starts with It's Scrap Work...

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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name Digging Through the Past. They differ in the faction shown here.

Quest	Faction	ID
Digging Through the Past (this page)	Horde	49586
Digging Through the Past	Alliance	49571

Community notes from Wowhead · 7 comments

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Digging for Prayer Beads

Digging for Scraps

Digging Through Bones

Digging Through the Past

Digging Up Treasure

Digsite Status

Dimensius the All-Devouring

Diminishing Returns

Database

Downloads

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