TheWoWDBIt should be noted that the quest text is read to you in the Lich King's voice... Definitely one of the more epic things Blizz did in the whole of WoW :)
Quest
In Service Of The Lich King
A World of Warcraft quest in Plaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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1-In Service Of The Lich King
2-The Emblazoned Runeblade
3-Runeforging: Preparation For Battle
4-The Endless Hunger
5-The Eye Of Acherus
6-Death Comes From On High
7-The Might Of The Scourge
8-Report To Scourge Commander Thalanor
9-The Scarlet Harvest
10-If Chaos Drives, Let Suffering Hold The Reins
11-Gothik the Harvester
12-The Gift That Keeps On Giving
13-An Attack Of Opportunity
14-Massacre At Light's Point
15-Victory At Death's Breach!
16-The Will Of The Lich King
17-The Crypt of Remembrance
18-Nowhere To Run And Nowhere To Hide
19-How To Win Friends And Influence Enemies
20-Behind Scarlet Lines
21-The Path Of The Righteous Crusader
22-Brothers In Death
23-Bloody Breakout
24-A Cry For Vengeance!
25-A Special Surprise (Race/faction based)
26-A Sort Of Homecoming
27-Ambush At The Overlook
28-A Meeting With Fate
29-The Scarlet Onslaugh Emerges
30-Scarlet Armies Approach
31-An End To All Things...
32-The Lich King's Command
33-The Light of Dawn
34-Taking Back Acherus
35-The Battle For The Ebon Hold
36-Where Kings Walk (alliance)
Warchief's Blessing (horde)I might have missed some but if i did, post them under mine. Dont Downrate!
Ah, the good old speech... I know this thing in my head
Quest facts
Quest ID12593
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12593))
WoW Forever: what our data shows
Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 3.80.2.69874, read from the beta game data we hold
Versus the Classic Era clientNew in the WoW Forever beta client - quest id 12593 is not sighted in our Classic Era baseline (build 1.15.9.69722)
A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4
Requirements
ClassDeath Knight
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
Description
All that I am: anger, cruelty, vengeance - I bestow upon you, my chosen knight. I have granted you immortality so that you may herald in a new, dark age for the Scourge. Gaze now upon the lands below us. The Scarlet Crusade scurries to undo my work, while Light's Hope stands defiantly against us - a blemish upon these Plaguelands. They must all be shown the price of their defiance. You will become my force of retribution. Where you tread, doom will follow. Go now and claim your destiny, death knight.
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 #124 47.7 30.0
Coordinates
- Turn-inPlaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave 47.7, 30.0
/way #124 47.7 30.0 - Objective areaPlaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave 51.4, 35.2
/way #124 51.4 35.2
Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.
Getting there
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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Experience525 XP
Storyline
The Scarlet Enclave
Part 1 of 58.
Next: The Emblazoned Runeblade
- 1In Service Of The Lich King
- 2The Emblazoned Runeblade
- 3Runeforging: Preparation For Battle
- 4The Endless Hunger
- 5The Eye Of Acherus
- 6Death Comes From On High
- 7The Might Of The Scourge
- 8The Power Of Blood, Frost And Unholy
- 9Report To Scourge Commander Thalanor
- 10The Scarlet Harvest
- 11If Chaos Drives, Let Suffering Hold The Reins
- 12Grand Theft Palomino
Showing steps 1 to 12 of 58.
Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.
Where this quest fits
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Emblazoned Runeblade
The single most important piece of equipment to a death knight is the runeblade. It is through the runeblade that a death knight commands the powers of frost, blood and the unholy. The runeblade also acts as a vessel to store the death knight's runic power.
The storyline at a glance
The Scarlet Enclave has 58 steps, from In Service Of The Lich King to Saurfang's Blessing.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Plaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave (54), Eastern Plaguelands (2), Elwynn Forest (1), Orgrimmar (1).
Other storylines on the Eastern Plaguelands map
- Eastern Plaguelands
- Origins
- Path of the Light III
- Class Mount: Paladin
- The Path of Light
- The Ashbringer
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.