TheWoWDBThe horse you are directed to is at a camp at 82, 47.
You can pick up this quest without pre-requisites.
Quest
Finding the Phylactery
A World of Warcraft quest in Borean Tundra. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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I didn't see anyone mention this, so I thought I would share this one humorous observation:
Blizzard, ever on the lookout for an inside joke, has given us a quest where a horse leads us to water.
The mount takes you to 85.0, 33.5. It is underneath the water. It spawns 4 mobs easily killed.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneBorean Tundra
Quest ID11956
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11956))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineBorean Tundra, step 149 of 182
Rewards4,100 XP
Description
No time for small talk, {name}. I was sent on what was to be a suicide mission to take this ziggurat. I've accomplished my duty as a soldier, now is the time to get some answers. This lich has knowledge I seek, yet I cannot inflict pain to his physical body to obtain that knowledge. The lich stored his soul in a phylactery, and while it remains hidden, I won't be able to pry the information from him. Return to the camp and take my horse, Dusk, she will lead you to the phylactery. Bring it to me.
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.
Turn-inObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #114 84.8 41.7
Coordinates
- Turn-inBorean Tundra 84.8, 41.7
/way #114 84.8 41.7 - Objective areaBorean Tundra 85.4, 33.4
/way #114 85.4 33.4
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 Borean Tundra map
- Now With More Mechanical Fowl about 1,440 yards
- Hero's Call: Borean Tundra! about 1,840 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,900 yards
- Smarter Than Your Average Trogg about 1,910 yards
- A Tundra Conundrum about 1,940 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 2,260 yards
- King Mrgl-Mrgl about 2,610 yards
- Adopt a Tadpole about 2,610 yards
- Unleashing Judgment about 3,050 yards
- Arcane Unleashed about 3,050 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Borean Tundra, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Borean Tundra:
- Unu'pe, Borean Tundra
- Stars' Rest, Dragonblight
- Valiance Keep, Borean Tundra
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- 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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Experience4,100 XP
ReputationValiance Expedition +250
Other quests on the Borean Tundra map
Reward details
Reputation: Valiance Expedition +250
The main armies of the Alliance in Northrend, moving against the Scourge and unified under King Varian Wrynn's command.
Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.
Other quests in Borean Tundra that reward Valiance Expedition reputation: The Late William Allerton (+150), Lost and Found (+75), In Wine, Truth (+150), A Deserter (+25), Dirty, Stinkin' Snobolds! (+250), Just a Few More Things... (+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.
Storyline
Borean Tundra
Part 149 of 182.
Previous: Thassarian, the Death Knight · Next: Buying Some Time
- 144Surrender... Not!
- 145Keymaster Urmgrgl
- 146Escape from the Winterfin Caverns
- 147Surrounded!
- 148Thassarian, the Death Knight
- 149Finding the Phylactery
- 150Buying Some Time
- 151Words of Power
- 152Last Rites
- 153The Invasion of Gammoth
- 154Gammothra the Tormentor
- 155Trophies of Gammoth
Showing steps 144 to 155 of 182.
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.
- Thassarian, the Death Knight
Well, <name>, you helped us out... so I figure it's only fair that we help you out as well. You're looking for Thassarian? He disappeared this morning. We think he went off north to the Wailing Ziggurat. If we hadn't fought side by side by him we'd even think he was a traitor.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Buying Some Time
Now that we have this phylactery, I shouldn't have any problems getting the information I need. It won't take long for the Scourge in the Temple City to notice something's up, however. I won't be able to fend off a full scale attack here. Or maybe I would... but I'd rather not find out.
The storyline at a glance
Borean Tundra has 182 steps, from Enlistment Day to Across Transborea.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Borean Tundra (178), Sholazar Basin (2), Wintergrasp (1), Dragonblight (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Borean Tundra map
- Winterfin Retreat
- Light's Wrath
- Aluneth, Greatstaff of the Magna
- Gnome Heritage Armor
- The Veiled Ossuary
- The Blue Dragons
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.