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Dropping Eaves: Saving the Past

Quest facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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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.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 80
LocationAzj-Kahet, City of Threads
SideBoth
SharableYes
Added inThe War Within
Quest ID81471

The Blizzard quest API has no row for this quest, so its quest text and rewards are not shown - only what the client game files carry.

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(81471))

Objectives

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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.

Azj-Kahet Objective area 1 mapped point
Azj-Kahet map showing where to go for Dropping Eaves: Saving the PastObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #2255 58.4 83.8

City of Threads Objective area no plotted point

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

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-KahetAlliance and Horde · about 590 yards west
  • Wildcamp Ul'ar, Azj-KahetAlliance and Horde · about 1,200 yards north-west
  • Mmarl, Azj-KahetAlliance and Horde · about 1,500 yards north-east

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.

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Storyline

The Severed Threads

Part 17 of 50.

Previous: Dropping Eaves: Thieving Weave · Next: Information Control: Ansurek's Truth

  1. 15Dropping Eaves: Spoils of War
  2. 16Dropping Eaves: Thieving Weave
  3. 17Dropping Eaves: Saving the Past
  4. 18Information Control: Ansurek's Truth
  5. 19Information Control: The Right Side of History
  6. 20Requisitions: Umbrashrooms
  7. 21Wild Reagents: Maddening Deep
  8. 22Sabotage: Transformatory Vessels
  9. 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

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After this quest

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Other storylines on the City of Threads map

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.