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You get it from a book by the feet of Necrolord Amarion.
Quest
Mystery of the Tome
A World of Warcraft quest in Dragonblight. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Quest facts
LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneDragonblight
Quest ID12319
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12319))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineDragonblight, step 72 of 149
Rewards525 XP
Description
What can it be, {name}? That was certainly no ordinary curse that the blasted lich put on you! <Durkon flips through the grisly pages of the tome.> I don't even know if I'm looking at it the right way. We must find out what information is held within this tome! <Durkon hands the book back to you.> The High Commander will know what to do. Take the flesh-bound tome to him and tell him exactly what happened here.
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 78.6 48.1
Coordinates
- Turn-inDragonblight 78.6, 48.1
/way #115 78.6 48.1 - Objective areaDragonblight 79.1, 53.2
/way #115 79.1 53.2
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
- Honor the Flame about 250 yards
- Saving Nine about 500 yards
- Killing Time about 500 yards
- Cut from the Same Cloth about 500 yards
- Onslaught Envoy about 980 yards
- Apostate Liberation about 1,000 yards
- Draconic Secrets about 1,060 yards
- Scarlet Redemption about 1,070 yards
- The Day That Chromie Dies about 1,070 yards
- Rewind about 1,070 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
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Dragonblight:
- Wintergarde Keep, Dragonblight
- Wyrmrest Temple, Dragonblight
- Windrunner's Overlook, Crystalsong Forest
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
ReputationValiance Expedition +10
Reward details
Reputation: Valiance Expedition +10
The main armies of the Alliance in Northrend, moving against the Scourge and unified under King Varian Wrynn's command.
Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.
Other quests in Dragonblight that reward Valiance Expedition reputation: A Letter for Home (+250), Strengthen the Ancients (+250), Pest Control (+250), Canyon Chase (+250), The Lost Courier (+25), The Liquid Fire of Elune (+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
Dragonblight
Part 72 of 149.
Previous: Secrets of the Scourge · Next: Understanding the Language of Death
- 67Leave Nothing to Chance
- 68Understanding the Scourge War Machine
- 69Rescue from Town Square
- 70Find Durkon!
- 71Secrets of the Scourge
- 72Mystery of the Tome
- 73Understanding the Language of Death
- 74A Righteous Sermon
- 75Into Hostile Territory
- 76Steamtank Surprise
- 77Scattered To The Wind
- 78The Chain Gun And You
Showing steps 67 to 78 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.
- Secrets of the Scourge
Scrawled across the flesh-bound chapters of this tome are strange symbols and shapes that seem to have been scraped into the pages with a blade. You have no idea what is written, but you are certain that whatever it is, it must be important.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Understanding the Language of Death
Take the book and follow the path leading up to the barracks. Once inside the barracks take the staircase down to the prison. At the prison you will find Inquisitor Hallard and our mayor, Godfrey. I believe Godfrey might be the missing piece of this puzzle and Hallard the man to put it all together.
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.