TheWoWDBWonder why my own Death Knight isn't good enough to try to translate it. He's every bit as ex-scourge and ex-minion of Arthas as Koltira is!
Quest
Koltira and the Language of Death
A World of Warcraft quest in Dragonblight. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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"There are only two things in life that interest me, peon, and neither of them involve translating a Scourge tome for you."Kicking ass and chewing gum?
His runeblade's name, "Byfrost", is similar to "Bifrost", the Norse name for the bridge that joins the realm of the gods (Asgard) to the mortal realm, i.e., the rainbow. This fits with the Nordic theme of much of Northrend.
"Bifrost" is actually pronounced something like BIV-rost not BYE-frost.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneDragonblight
Quest ID12115
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12115))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineDragonblight, step 89 of 149
Rewards525 XP
Description
There is one who recently joined our cause that might be able to decipher this tome. An unbound death knight known as Koltira Deathweaver has temporarily taken residence here at Agmar's Hammer. As he was once a death knight of Arthas and member of the Scourge, he might be able to translate the language of the dead. Take the flesh-bound tome to Koltira and ask him to translate the pages.
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 #115 36.3 46.3
Coordinates
- Turn-inDragonblight 36.3, 46.3
/way #115 36.3 46.3 - Objective areaDragonblight 35.8, 48.4
/way #115 35.8 48.4
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 Dragonblight map
- Warchief's Command: Dragonblight! about 100 yards
- Honor the Flame about 130 yards
- Galakrond's Unrest about 1,180 yards
- Across Transborea about 1,340 yards
- The Touch of an Aspect about 1,350 yards
- Dahlia's Tears about 1,350 yards
- The Day That Chromie Dies about 1,360 yards
- Rewind about 1,360 yards
- Preserve the True Future about 1,360 yards
- The Deaths of Chromie about 1,360 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Dragonblight, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Dragonblight:
- Agmar's Hammer, Dragonblight
- Kor'kron Vanguard, Dragonblight
- Moa'ki, Dragonblight
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
ReputationWarsong Offensive +10
Reward details
Reputation: Warsong Offensive +10
Garrosh Hellscream commands the Horde's main expeditionary forces as they make their way into Northrend to face Arthas and the armies of the Scourge.
Reputation group: Horde Expedition.
Other quests in Dragonblight that reward Warsong Offensive reputation: A Tauren Among Taunka (+10), Into the Fold (+250), The Taunka and the Tauren (+10), Pride of the Horde (+250), Blood Oath of the Horde (+150), Agmar's Hammer (+150).
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
Dragonblight
Part 89 of 149.
Previous: The Flesh-Bound Tome · Next: In Service of Blood
- 84An End And A Beginning
- 85To Fordragon Hold!
- 86Audience With The Dragon Queen
- 87Marked for Death: High Cultist Zangus
- 88The Flesh-Bound Tome
- 89Koltira and the Language of Death
- 90In Service of Blood
- 91In Service of the Unholy
- 92In Service of Frost
- 93The Power to Destroy
- 94The Translated Tome
- 95Containing the Rot
Showing steps 84 to 95 of 149.
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.
- The Flesh-Bound Tome
The tome is bound in flesh and appears to be bleeding. Upon examination you discover page after page filled with strange symbols that appear to be written in blood. Whatever knowledge is held within the pages of this tome could be important.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- In Service of Blood
The blood of innocents was once used to sate the thirst of the blade. Alas, such options are no longer available to me. <Koltira pauses to think.> We must improvise. South of here, upon the high bluffs, is the tuskarr village of Indu'le.
The storyline at a glance
Dragonblight has 149 steps, from The Liquid Fire of Elune to Really Big Worm.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Dragonblight (144), Crystalsong Forest (5).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Dragonblight map
- Lorewalking: Arthas
- The Deaths of Chromie
- Fulfilling the Prophecy II
- Icecrown
- Light's Wrath
- Aluneth, Greatstaff of the Magna
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.