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Dropping Eaves: Saving the Past
Dropping Eaves: Saving the Past is a quest for level 80, added in The War Within. It is step 17 of 50 in The Severed Threads storyline.
Quest Objectives
- High Hollows rumor gleaned
Kaheti Etching
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Here are the TomTom coordinates for the item you have to find after listening to the gossip: /way #2213 36.55 28.15
After you get the step to find the Kaheti Etching, the game does put a marker on the city map that you can click on to enable tracking.
Ru'murh lurks above the High Hollows at 73.4/50.4 to give you this objective.
Quest text:
<The weave-rat gestures insistently towards one of the nearby market stalls. Perhaps it would be wise to listen in; there may be some useful gossip afoot.>Once you pick up the drink at the café in the middle of the open terrace (77.72/53.90), you overhear the following:
Scheming Socialite says: I hear the Royal Preservatory is evaluating their exhibits.
Scheming Socialite says: Oh, yes! Ansurek is doing away with that dry old boring history and filling the entire place with conquests of war. How delectable!
Scheming Socialite says: And what of the old relics?
Scheming Socialite says: Disposed of in the Skeins, I imagine. The cherryfly atop a trash heap.The location of the particular relic needing recovery is marked not with a spider but a bonus objective star, just outside the Preservatory at 36.55/28.17. It is a hexagonal chest next to a pile of cubical boxes and a vase-like object.
| Objective area | Azj-Kahet | 1 mapped point |
|---|---|---|
| Objective area | City of Threads |
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.
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #2255 58.4 83.8
Coordinates
- High Hollows rumor gleanedAzj-Kahet 58.4, 83.8
/way #2255 58.4 83.8
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 Azj-Kahet map
- The Upstart
- Measure Once, Cut Thrice
- Spring Collection
- Azj-Kahet's Next Top Dyemaster
- I Expect You To Dye
- That's All
- Unfulfilled Requests
- The Voice of the People
- Here's the Plan
- To Arathi's End
Other quests whose map markers the client places on Azj-Kahet.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Azj-Kahet:
- The Burrows, Azj-Kahet
- Wildcamp Ul'ar, Azj-Kahet
- Mmarl, Azj-Kahet
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.
Objective targets
Kaheti Etching
KindItem
Item typeQuest
“Ancient runes are melted into the stone via what appears to have been acid.”
Creature, object and item facts from the current retail client; “also asked for by” lists other quests whose objectives name the same target. Prices are the US commodity auction house’s lowest listed price.
First seen in build 12.0.7.68887 (Midnight patch 12.0.7, the oldest build in our datamine).
Storyline
The Severed Threads
Part 17 of 50.
Previous: Dropping Eaves: Thieving Weave · Next: Information Control: Ansurek's Truth
- 15Dropping Eaves: Spoils of War
- 16Dropping Eaves: Thieving Weave
- 17Dropping Eaves: Saving the Past
- 18Information Control: Ansurek's Truth
- 19Information Control: The Right Side of History
- 20Requisitions: Umbrashrooms
- 21Wild Reagents: Maddening Deep
- 22Sabotage: Transformatory Vessels
- 23Testing Formulae: Gelatinous Unguent
Showing steps 12 to 23 of 50.
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.
- Dropping Eaves: Thieving Weave
Objectives: Rumor gleaned
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
Other storylines on the City of Threads map
- News from Below
- Pawns and Puppetry
- To Kill a Queen
- Plans within Plans
- Grieve & Weave
- Pillar-nest of Horrors
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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