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Of Thistleheads and Eggs...

A World of Warcraft quest in Shadowmoon Valley. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Gadoink4+212via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

You never actually have to guess as to which egg is correct. Just mouse over it. If the tooltip just says "Rotten Arakkoa Egg" and nothing else, it will never drop the egg, and will just give you a debuff. If the tooltip says "Rotten Arakkoa Egg" and below that has a marker of quest progress (Rotten Arakkoa Egg: 0/1), you've got the right one.

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marskid2+93via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

The Cipher of Damnation is an extremely long quest line in Shadowmoon Valley. It is a prerequisite for attunement to The Eye in Tempest Keep and Mount Hyjal in Caverns of time.
"*" Indicates quests with rewards.

Quest Line
1[A] - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10680 - "The Hand of Gul'Dan"
1[H] - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10681 - "The Hand of Gul'Dan"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10458 - "Enraged Spirits of Fire and Earth"
3 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10480 - "Enraged Spirits of Water"
4* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10480 - "Enraged Spirits of Air"
5 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10513 - "Oronok Torn-Heart"
6* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10514 - "I Was A Lot Of Things..." - Most annoying quest ever implemented in World of Warcraft.
7 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10515 - "A Lesson Learned"
8 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10519 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Truth and History"

At this point, the quests diverge into three separate lines (which can be done in any order) for each of Oronok's three sons who will in turn help you obtain the three Fragments of Damnation.

Quest Line I - First Fragment of Damnation
1 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10521 - "Grom'tor, Son of Oronok"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10522 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Grom'tor's Charge"
3* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10523 - "The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered"

Quest Line II - Second Fragment of Damnation
1 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10527 "Ar'tor, Son of Oronok"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10528 - "Demonic Crystal Prisons"
3 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10537 - "Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart"
4 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10540 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Ar'tor's Charge"
5* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10541 - "The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered"

Quest Line III - Third Fragment of Damnation
1 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10546 "Borak, Son of Oronok"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10547 - "Of Thistleheads and Eggs..."
3 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10550 - "The Bundle of Bloodthistle"
4 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10570 - "To Catch A Thistlehead"
5 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10576 - "The Shadowmoon Shuffle"
6 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10577 - "What Illidan Wants, Illidan Gets..."
7 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10578 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Borak's Charge"
8* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10579 "The Cipher of Damnation - The Third Fragment Recovered"

After completing the quests for the three Fragments of Damnation, the lines converge and you need to kill one last boss.
Final* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10588 - "The Cipher of Damnation"

Rewards:

Everyone gets http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31074 - Fire Resist Neck

Choose one of the following:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31036 - Caster Staff
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31038 - Healer Staff
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31062 - Paladin/Shaman 2H Axe
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31071 - Tanking 1H Axe
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31072 - Bow
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31073 - Melee Dagger

After completing the quest, you will get a message in the mail from Khadgar. If you go to Shattrath, he will tell you to talk to A'Dal, who unlocks the the three Trials. These are prerequisites for attunement to The Eye in Tempest Keep and Mount Hyjal in Caverns of time.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 25-30
ZoneShadowmoon Valley
LocationTerokkar Forest, Shadowmoon Valley
Quest ID10547

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10547))

What to do

WhereTerokkar Forest, Shadowmoon Valley
StorylineShadowmoon Valley, step 94 of 147
Rewards4,100 XP

Description

I'd have given up had I not noticed... He's a Thistlehead. I couldn't place it at first but the signs are all there... Now if we could get our hands on some bloodthistle, we'd be in business. In my travels, I met a shady Broken in Shattrath named Tobias. Tobias made a business of trading bloodthistle to blood elves for rotten arakkoa eggs. Directly west of here are arakkoa ruins. Search them for an egg and head to the lower city of Shattrath. That's where you'll find Tobias.

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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.

Terokkar Forest Quest turn-in 8 mapped points
Terokkar Forest map showing where to go for Of Thistleheads and Eggs...Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #108 33.0 30.1

Shadowmoon Valley Objective area 1 mapped point
Shadowmoon Valley map showing where to go for Of Thistleheads and Eggs...Objective area

In-game waypoint: /way #104 47.6 57.2

Coordinates

  • Turn-inTerokkar Forest 33.0, 30.1/way #108 33.0 30.1
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Terokkar Forest 97.8, 84.5/way #108 97.8 84.5
  • Objective areaShadowmoon Valley 47.6, 57.2/way #104 47.6 57.2

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 Terokkar Forest map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Terokkar Forest:

  • Shattrath, Terokkar ForestAlliance and Horde · about 250 yards north
  • Stonebreaker Hold, Terokkar ForestHorde · about 1,000 yards south-east
  • Allerian Stronghold, Terokkar ForestAlliance · about 1,700 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 4,000 yards south-east
  • Objective areaabout 4,200 yards south-east (on the Shadowmoon Valley map)

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.

Related
Experience4,100 XP

Storyline

Shadowmoon Valley

Part 94 of 147.

Previous: Borak, Son of Oronok · Next: The Bundle of Bloodthistle

  1. 89Demonic Crystal Prisons
  2. 90Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart
  3. 91The Cipher of Damnation - Ar'tor's Charge
  4. 92The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered
  5. 93Borak, Son of Oronok
  6. 94Of Thistleheads and Eggs...
  7. 95The Bundle of Bloodthistle
  8. 96To Catch A Thistlehead
  9. 97The Shadowmoon Shuffle
  10. 98What Illidan Wants, Illidan Gets...
  11. 99The Cipher of Damnation - Borak's Charge
  12. 100The Cipher of Damnation - The Third Fragment Recovered

Showing steps 89 to 100 of 147.

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.

  • Borak, Son of OronokShadowmoon Valley · Level 25-30

    While Ar'tor was off hunting and Grom'tor was off fighting, Borak studied. Eventually he took up a vocation as a scholar and left for the wilds of Draenor. He returned home a few years ago a changed orc. His heightened sense of awareness and mental acuity had forged a silent assassin.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Bundle of BloodthistleShadowmoon Valley · Level 25-30

    I wasn't lying. That egg was incredible. Where did you get it from? Well, if you ever need more bloodthistle, you know where I am and what I need. Here's a bundle of the stuff. Take it back to your benefactor.

The storyline at a glance

Shadowmoon Valley has 147 steps, from Spleendid! to A Job Unfinished....

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Shadowmoon Valley (129), Terokkar Forest (10), Nagrand (7), Shattrath City (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Terokkar Forest 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.