TheWoWDB@Marathan on southshore just about everyone escaped, considering how fenris island is FULL of survivors, to the point that on this quest and this quest shows just how many of them left, wich is pretty much the whole damn town.
on Silverpine, there were no children, or inocents. That was a war front. The alliance invaded horde lands, and the horde repelled them, simple as that. Mess with the bull and you get the horns.
there were no "inocents or childrens" of the alliance on gilneas simply because at the moment of the horde invasion, Gilneas was NOT a part of the alliance. I should remind you that their jerkass leader said this gem of a quote to Terenas shorly after the second war was over:
Damn the orcs, damn the Alliance, and damn you! The last thing Gilneas needs is sponges from other nations drawing from our resources, Dalaran wizards meddling with our affairs, and someone else's enemies killing our soldiers! Gilneas is its own nation and it always will be. This is the last time I'll ever talk to you, Terenas, so I hope you were listening(Taken from Genn's article on wowpedia)
so this was simply the horde attacking a nation with a considerable military presence, and a rather dangerous enemy of the forsaken (worgens have been a threat to the forsakens for the past 6 years) rather than them attacking a nation of the alliance. The gilneans rejoined the aliance AFTER this invasion.
on New Andorhal there were no children either. The alliance and horde were trying to conquer the zone and they had only military presence there to push the other away. This was simple combat, where soldier fought soldier, that's war and in war there are casualties. Its not the same as attacking a civilian town full of non-combatants.
on ashenvale theres silverwing refuge, wich was the main base of operation of the sentinels, again another military target, as oposed to a civilian outpost.
on the broken front, indeed that was very dishonorable ( I hate that quest) but again those were soldiers, not civilians, and the commanding officer (Sky-reaver Krom) was chewed out by Garrosh and the Warchief, as well as demoted of his command after the northrend campaign.
Stonetalon was also dishonorable but the druids in the grove were neutral (there were tauren druids as well as night elven ones) and even then, the guy responsible was harsly punished (with his life)
wich leads us back to: Taurajo
A civilian town, with children, and lots of non-combatants. Primarily a hunter's camp, full of (duh) hunters that brought food and natural resourses to the rest of the tauren tribes. Attacked cowardly at night, with siege tanks, drunk wildhammer griphon riders (Don't question me on the "Drunk" part, this quest shows that wildhammers love to fight dead-drunk) and ex-convicts, during the night, while the hunters were out, and the only people in the town were civilians who coudn't fight back.
king's honor my ass.
Quest
Honoring the Dead
A World of Warcraft quest in Southern Barrens. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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After leveling more toons than I can count through the Barrens, this quest actually got me a bit teary eyed, especially Omusa's comments.
This is probably the most emotional quest I've done as a player of many Tauren characters. When you use the funeral totem, each spirit relives its last few moments when it was alive. Having played through the barrens roughly six times, I remember all these NPCs.
Omusa (the old Flight Master)
Omusa's Spirit says: No, stay with the others. Escort them north, away from the fighting. I will stay here with the wyverns and cover your escape. Go!
Omusa's Spirit says: ...wait, it is over? I've been run through... Ah. Of course. I understand now. I am expected elsewhere.Yonada (Tailoring Supplier)
Yonada's Spirit says: Alliance - they've surrounded the camp! What are they doing here? Why are they attacking Taurajo? Get the children - run! RUN!Dranh (Leatherworking Trainer)
Dranh's Spirit says: I can feel the embrace now of all living things, the Earthmother's eternal peace. Thank you.Krulmoo (Skinning Trainer)
Krulmoo's Spirit says: I ran to wake up the others when the attack hit. Were they able to escape? I tried to fight off the soldiers with a skinning knife...I've deleted my Alliance characters since.
Quest facts
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Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
Description
With the immediate threat gone, can you help with some grim business? We tauren do not bury our dead, we prepare the body for its return to the elements and place it at our sacred grave sites. Those killed in the Taurajo massacre have had no funeral, and I worry misguided Alliance soldiers will burn the bodies of the dead before the proper rites have been performed. {name}, please take this totem to Taurajo and perform services for Krulmoo, Dranh, Yonada, and Omusa. They ... didn't make it out of there.
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 areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #199 41.5 46.6
Coordinates
- Turn-inSouthern Barrens 41.5, 46.6
/way #199 41.5 46.6 - Objective areaSouthern Barrens 44.3, 50.8
/way #199 44.3 50.8 - Objective areaSouthern Barrens 44.5, 52.1
/way #199 44.5 52.1
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 Southern Barrens map
- Honor the Flame about 1,050 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 1,370 yards
- Cassandra Kaboom about 1,620 yards
- A Growing Problem about 1,690 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Southern Barrens, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Southern Barrens:
- Vendetta Point, Southern Barrens
- Desolation Hold, Southern Barrens
- Hunter's Hill, Southern Barrens
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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Other quests on the Southern Barrens map
Reward details
Reputation: Thunder Bluff +250
Baine Bloodhoof leads his people, the proud Tauren, from this mighty Horde capital.
Reputation group: Horde.
Other quests in Southern Barrens that reward Thunder Bluff reputation: Clear the High Road (+250), Holdout at Hunter's Hill (+10), Raptor Scraps (+250), Signals in the Sky (+250), Keeping the Dogs at Bay (+250), Bad to Worse (+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
Southern Barrens
Part 56 of 89.
Previous: Taking Back Taurajo · Next: Desolation Hold Inspection
- 51A Line in the Dirt
- 52Meet the New Boss
- 53Lion's Pride
- 54Siegebreaker
- 55Taking Back Taurajo
- 56Honoring the Dead
- 57Desolation Hold Inspection
- 58Changing of the Gar'dul
- 59Flightmare
- 60Silithissues
- 61Claim the Battle Scar
- 62Intelligence Warfare
Showing steps 51 to 62 of 89.
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.
- Taking Back Taurajo
Outstanding work at the gates, <name>! The main body of the Alliance force is in general retreat. But I'm not satisfied. They sacked Taurajo, which was little more than a hunters' camp. This 'Alliance' is unmasked at last for what it really is: A renegade band of butchers.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Desolation Hold Inspection
Thanks to you, the immediate threat is over. But my work here in the Barrens is only beginning. Honor's Stand was captured and Taurajo was sacked while Warlord Gar'dul was in charge of the region. The Warchief has sent me here to clean up his mess.
Also counted by Southern Barrens Quests
Its criteria name 25 quests; others include:
- Holdout at Hunter's Hill
- Warriors' Redemption
- Eye for an Eye
- Raptor Scraps
- Put the Fear in Them
- Stalling the Survey
- Keeping the Dogs at Bay
- Speaking Their Language
The storyline at a glance
Southern Barrens has 89 steps, from Running the Gauntlet to Sabotage!.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Southern Barrens (88), Northern Barrens (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Southern Barrens map
- Northern Barrens
- Battle Pet Tamers
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.
Achievements
Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.
- Southern Barrens Quests: its criteria name 25 quests, this one included.