TheWoWDBIf you're wondering whether to do this quest or not: it does give the 50 bonus reputation but also leads to this quest (Cling to Hope) which you will be able to pick up from your base (The one you just set up with First Arcanist Thalyssra)
Quest
Lingering on the Edge
A World of Warcraft quest in Suramar. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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The coordinates on this wowhead map are just wrong. The correct location is 30.4, 47.8.
Quest is currently broken as character unable to turn in quests related to order resources.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 45
ZoneSuramar
Quest ID40796
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(40796))
What to do
Description
I h-have made... mistakes... <Absolon draws in a rasping breath.> I want to make it right... I want to live! But the madness... the WITHERING.. I am... fading. <Absolon stares at you helplessly.>
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-inIn-game waypoint: /way #680 30.4 47.8
Coordinates
- Turn-inSuramar 30.4, 47.8
/way #680 30.4 47.8
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 Suramar map
- Desecrate this Fire! about 100 yards
- Smith Under Fire about 200 yards
- Nal'ryssa's Technique about 200 yards
- A Shred of Your Humanity about 200 yards
- Darkheart Thicket: Nal'ryssa's Sisters about 200 yards
- Rin'thissa's Eye about 200 yards
- Lyrelle's Right Arm about 200 yards
- Ondri's Still-Beating Heart about 200 yards
- Rin'thissa about 200 yards
- Lyrelle about 200 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Suramar, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Suramar:
- Meredil, Suramar
- Irongrove Retreat, Suramar
- Felblaze Ingress, Azsuna
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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Reward details
Reputation: The Nightfallen +75
These exiled Nightborne elves suffer withdrawals after being cut off from the Nightwell. They oppose their people's alliance with the Legion and fight for some kind of redemption.
Reputation group: Legion.
Other quests in Suramar that reward The Nightfallen reputation: Answering Aggression (+250), Regroup (+250), Crackdown (+250), No Reason to Stay (+250), Trail of Echoes (+250), The Only Way Out is Through (+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
Absolon
Part 1 of 2.
Next: Cling to Hope
- 1Lingering on the Edge
- 2Cling to Hope
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.
- Cling to Hope
Your kindness has inspired me, friend. I thought I would wander forever among the empty husks of the Withered, but Thalyssra invited me in. I have chosen to remain here with my people and together we will take back Suramar. For now I have but one request. Take this letter to my wife.
The storyline at a glance
Absolon has 2 steps, from Lingering on the Edge to Cling to Hope.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Suramar (2).
Other storylines on the Suramar map
- Blood and Wine
- Balance of Power
- An Elven Problem
- Crafting War
- The Waning Crescent
- Eminent Grow-main
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.