TheWoWDBAncient 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.
Quest
Digging Through the Past
A World of Warcraft quest in Dazar'alor. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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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.
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
Quest facts
LevelLevel 50
LocationDazar'alor
CategoryJewelcrafting
Quest ID49586
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(49586))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
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.
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.
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 Seal
- The Sliver, Zuldazar
- Temple of the Prophet, Zuldazar
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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Money5 gold85 silver
Experience1,700 XP
Where this quest fits
Other quests with this name
This one: Horde only · Level 50.
Other storylines on the Dazar'alor map
- Allies of the Horde: Zandalari
- Unrest in Zuldazar
- The Battle for Stromgarde
- Mission from the Warchief
- Crucible of Storms
- Tools of the Trade: The Ub3r-Spanner
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.