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Quest
Mysterious Messages
Quest facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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First quest of 104 level inscription questchain.
We have to go to the Stormheim and find [npc=97748] near the Haustvald
/way Stormheim 69.3, 40.6 Nicholo SwiftfuseHere is my main [spell=201703] post.
You can find more info about the profession there.Mysterious Messages quest video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWnVPapSK9U
Full quest chain under the spoiler.
You can see how far you are in the storyline.Spoiler
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This quest and the ones that follow will send you to Haustvald. It will take some time, especially since you'll have to grind [npc=93071] for a while here.
It's convenient that you do this profession quest along with the Stormheim Story quests (4/8 Chapters in).
First you have to do faction intro quests, then Hrydshal, then Thorignir dragons, then you go to Valdisdall and right after Vydhal's quests (the "talking tree"), you'll be arriving at Field of Fallen Kings (*outside* Haustvald), where this NPC is. [npc=97748] is surrounded by Restless Ancestors, needed for Lay Them to Rest, which you hand in at [npc=93446], who then starts the Haustvald quests. Go back and hand in the quests at the gnome as soon as they are completed, and then finish them before going inside the underworld area to complete Haustvald (then go to Dalaran later after you're done with the zone).
Quest facts
Quest ID39944
Check whether you have already completed this quest
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Description
The woman at the archaeology shop just dropped off some tablets to be deciphered. Any fool can see they're written in ancient vrykul, but I lent my codex to one of my students, so I'm unable to decipher them here. His name is Nicholo Swiftfuse, and he is in Stormheim. Let him know that if he fails to decipher them, his apprenticeship shall be terminated. That is all.
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.
Coordinates
- Turn-inStormheim 69.3, 40.6
/way #634 69.3 40.6 - Objective areaDalaran 41.1, 36.8
/way #627 41.1 36.8
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 Stormheim map
- Waking the Shieldmaiden about 150 yards
- The Runes that Bind about 190 yards
- Breaking the Bonespeakers about 190 yards
- Regal Remains about 190 yards
- Lay Them to Rest about 200 yards
- To Silence the Bonespeakers about 220 yards
- Fel Annihilation about 230 yards
- Judgment Day about 320 yards
- The Gjallarhorn about 410 yards
- Stolen Honor about 410 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Stormheim, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Stormheim:
- Valdisdall, Stormheim
- Greywatch, Stormheim
- Stormtorn Foothills, Stormheim
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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Money20 gold22 silver
Experience6,150 XP
Storyline
Legion Inscription
Part 21 of 42.
Previous: Control is Key · Next: Runes Within the Ruins
- 16Defense Symbology
- 17Opposites Repel
- 18Containing the Demon Within
- 19To Know Your Enemy
- 20Control is Key
- 21Mysterious Messages
- 22Runes Within the Ruins
- 23Right Tool for the Job
- 24Not So Complex?
- 25Ancient Vrykul Mastered
- 26The Ink Flows
- 27Once a Scribe Like You
Showing steps 16 to 27 of 42.
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.
- Control is Key
I trust you remember why you removed your eyes? Even though we can see more clearly now, the demons have found ways to mask even their fel energies from us. A demon commander walks amongst the troops below, commanding them from the shadows. His cloak is powered by an energetic crystal.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Runes Within the Ruins
Unfortunately, Pallin's codex isn't complete. There are many symbols here that simply cannot be deciphered with what we've learned. Looks like we'll need to go and collect more tablets down in the area that the vrykul call Haustvald.
The storyline at a glance
Legion Inscription has 42 steps, from Sign This to Demon Ink.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Dalaran (18), Azsuna (15), Stormheim (4), Ironforge (2).
Other storylines on the Stormheim map
- The Trial of Valor
- The Trial of Will
- Wreck of the Skyfire
- The Secret of the Shieldmaidens
- The Trial of Might
- Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Goblins
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.