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Favored Skull (Alliance)

Favored Skull is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-30 in Northern Stranglethorn. It is step 20 of 60 in the Northern Stranglethorn storyline. It rewards 1 reputation reward and 4,100 experience.

Description

Your pet raptor seems to have found a new toy: a skull, from a nearby troll skull pile.

What sets this skull apart from the rest is beyond you, but for some reason, she won't put it down.

Osborn Obnoticus, the gnome you saved from Kurzen's Compound, is an expert in troll history and physiology. Maybe he'll have some idea what makes this one so special.

Rewards

Experience4,100 XP
ReputationStormwind +250
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In order to acquire and turn in this quest, one must:

When all these criteria have been met, approach the quest item object for Deep Roots and acquire Bloodscalp Lore Tablet. At this time you may notice your Lashtail Hatchling run up to a pile of skulls. After doing this, he will have a miniature skull "in" his mouth and Favored Skull will be available from your hatchling. If this is a low level quest, the "!" will not show up unless you have "Low Level Quests" turned on so be sure to click your hatchling to acquire the quest.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
ReputationStormwind+250

Reward details

Reputation: Stormwind +250

One of the last bastions of human power, this Alliance capital is ruled by the young but wise king, Anduin Wrynn.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Northern Stranglethorn that reward Stormwind reputation: Water Elementals (+250), You Can Take the Murloc Out of the Ocean... (+250), The Altar of Naias (+250), Bad Medicine (+250), Control Sample (+250), The Source of the Madness (+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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapNorthern Stranglethorn
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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.

Northern Stranglethorn Quest turn-in

Nearby on the Northern Stranglethorn map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Northern Stranglethorn:

  • Rebel Camp, Stranglethorn ValeAlliance · about 50 yards south-east
  • Raven Hill, DuskwoodAlliance · about 730 yards north-west
  • Darkshire, DuskwoodAlliance · about 1,300 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 910 yards south-west

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

Storyline

Northern Stranglethorn

Part 20 of 60.

Previous: I Think She's Hungry · Next: A Nose for This Sort of Thing

  1. 15Chasing Yenniku's Fate
  2. 16The Mind's Eye
  3. 17Saving Yenniku
  4. 18Just Hatched
  5. 19I Think She's Hungry
  6. 20Favored Skull
  7. 21A Nose for This Sort of Thing
  8. 22A Physical Specimen
  9. 23Bloodlord Mandokir
  10. 24Priestess Thaalia
  11. 25Mind Vision
  12. 26See Raptor

Showing steps 15 to 26 of 60.

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.

  • I Think She's HungryNorthern Stranglethorn · Level 10-30

    It looks like your young raptor is hungry. If you're looking to keep her, why don't you find something for her to eat? The lashtail often attack the basilisks of Stranglethorn, which can be found to the east, beyond Kurzen's Compound.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • A Nose for This Sort of ThingNorthern Stranglethorn · Level 10-30

    <Osborn looks at the skull again.> In life, he was strong, powerful, a lord among trolls. With our help, he can be a lord once more. The Bloodscalp scavengers that wander the ruins to the southwest hoard magical fetishes that can help us. They hide these artifacts under the ground.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Northern Stranglethorn · Level 10-30.

The storyline at a glance

Northern Stranglethorn has 60 steps, from The Fate of Kurzen to Big Game Hunter.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Northern Stranglethorn (60).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Northern Stranglethorn 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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name Favored Skull. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
Favored Skull (this page)Alliance26745
Favored SkullHorde26323
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Favor of the Court
Favor of the First Ones
Favor of the Gronn
Favored Skull
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Fear Takes Root
Fear the Old Blood
Fear to Tread
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