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Of Keys and Cages (Horde)

Of Keys and Cages is a Horde-only quest for level 10-30 in Howling Fjord. It is step 129 of 162 in the Howling Fjord storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Grizzly Hills at 60.9, 80.8. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

From the little we know, the vrykul are conducting unnatural rites in an 'awakening' ritual to the west in Gjalerbron.

They're using living sacrifices to fuel their rituals.

<name>, you must stop this. It matters not who or what is in those cages, they must be freed. I would guess that the vrykul hold the keys.

The last thing we need is more of those strange vrykul threatening us, or worse, them wakening something even more evil....

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationThe Taunka +250
Top Comments

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I've just been doing this for the 5th time, 4th Horde and one time alliance and while I don't remember it being this way before, when I've had 1 key in my backpack, even though they're not marked as unique I've not had any more drop until the key is used.

I picked up a key and didn't realise, had to log out for a while, when I came back I killed 20-30 mobs with no key drop. As soon as I checked a cage and found I had a key I was able to get new key drops. I also did not get any of the big cage key drops during this time.

Having tested it further in game where I had a key and didn't use it, I continued to not get any more keys drop until I used the cage key, despite the key drop rate being around 28%.

I hope this saves you all some time.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationThe Taunka+250

Reward details

Reputation: The Taunka +250

These hardy people are cousins of the Tauren and have become valuable scouts for the armies of the Horde as they march northward.

Reputation group: Horde Expedition.

Other quests in Howling Fjord that reward The Taunka reputation: Skorn Must Fall! (+10), Gruesome, But Necessary (+250), Burn Skorn, Burn! (+250), Towers of Certain Doom (+250), Stop the Ascension! (+350), The Conqueror of Skorn! (+350).

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapGrizzly HillsTurn-in marker at 60.9, 80.8, 19 mapped points
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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.

Grizzly Hills Quest turn-in 19 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #116 60.9 80.8

Coordinates

  • Turn-inGrizzly Hills 60.9, 80.8/way #116 60.9 80.8
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Grizzly Hills 47.3, 81.7/way #116 47.3 81.7
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Grizzly Hills 47.0, 83.7/way #116 47.0 83.7

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 Grizzly Hills map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Grizzly Hills, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Grizzly Hills:

  • Camp Winterhoof, Howling FjordHorde · about 90 yards east
  • Camp Oneqwah, Grizzly HillsHorde · about 1,200 yards north
  • Apothecary Camp, Howling FjordHorde · about 1,500 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 720 yards west
  • Objective areaabout 740 yards west

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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Howling Fjord

Part 129 of 162.

Previous: Dealing With Gjalerbron · Next: Necro Overlord Mezhen

  1. 124Gruesome, But Necessary
  2. 125Burn Skorn, Burn!
  3. 126Towers of Certain Doom
  4. 127The Conqueror of Skorn!
  5. 128Dealing With Gjalerbron
  6. 129Of Keys and Cages
  7. 130Necro Overlord Mezhen
  8. 131The Walking Dead
  9. 132Sleeping Giants
  10. 133The Slumbering King
  11. 134Gjalerbron Attack Plans
  12. 135The Frost Wyrm and its Master

Showing steps 124 to 135 of 162.

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.

  • Dealing With GjalerbronHowling Fjord · Level 10-30

    My longrunners that have lived to return have informed me that the vrykul have awakened at their main fortress to the west. It is a forbidden place known as Gjalerbron. The longrunners tell me that the vrykul are performing strange rituals. We cannot allow this to continue.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Necro Overlord MezhenHowling Fjord · Level 10-30

    The dead ones are at Gjalerbron and they have necromancers with them? We must eliminate the leader of these necrolords. Do whatever it takes, <name>, but see to it that Necro Overlord Mezhen, and whatever he's attempting to accomplish, is neutralized.

Other quests with this name

This one: Horde only · Howling Fjord · Level 10-30.

The storyline at a glance

Howling Fjord has 162 steps, from Hell Has Frozen Over... to Alpha Worg.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Howling Fjord (147), Grizzly Hills (15).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Grizzly Hills map

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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name Of Keys and Cages. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
Of Keys and Cages (this page)Horde11265
Of Keys and CagesAlliance11231
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