TheWoWDBWord of warning about this quest and its follow up chain.
Spoiler
It's a short chain where you try to help out a bunch of these Ravenbear creatures. It ends with a ritual you and the Ravenbears perform to try and appease the leader of these storm dragons, Nithogg, in an attempt at saving the Ravenbear flock. The dragon is not interested and wipes them all out. The reward is pretty poor and if you feel bad about this kind of thing (read the comments on the final quest page, a lot of people felt bad) then I'd honestly advise not doing it.
Every time I go to that area now I have to run by a bunch of charred corpses of these friendly Ravenbears surrounding their unsuccessful tribute. It really does make me feel quite sad. They were just trying to be friends and Nithogg incinerates them as a result.
Quest
Plight of the Blackfeather
A World of Warcraft quest in Stormheim. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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If you decide not to follow immediately, you turn in the quest inside a cave at (50.7,30.9)
Accept the quest and FOLLOW THE QUEST GIVER
(If you didn't follow, cave entrance is 50,30)
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-45
ZoneStormheim
Quest ID42444
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(42444))
What to do
StorylineThe Blackfeather Ravenbears, step 1 of 4
Rewards20g 22s, 6,150 XP
Description
<The ravenbear frantically gestures and points down the path. It seems he wants you to follow him.>
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 #634 49.8 32.6
Coordinates
- Turn-inStormheim 49.8, 32.6
/way #634 49.8 32.6 - Objective areaStormheim 50.3, 34.0
/way #634 50.3 34.0
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
- Seymour and Agnes about 360 yards
- Mother's Prized Knife about 360 yards
- Red-Eyed Revenge about 360 yards
- Drakol'nir Must Die about 360 yards
- Come at Me, Brul about 450 yards
- The Charge Within about 450 yards
- Eyes of Nashal about 450 yards
- Mysteries of Nature about 450 yards
- Ahead of the Game about 490 yards
- The Shattered Watcher about 490 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:
- Stormtorn Foothills, Stormheim
- Nastrondir
- Forsaken Foothold, 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
The Blackfeather Ravenbears
Part 1 of 4.
Next: Nithogg's Tribute
- 1Plight of the Blackfeather
- 2Nithogg's Tribute
- 3Singed Feathers
- 4Dances With Ravenbears
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.
- Nithogg's Tribute
It looks like the ravenbears have started gathering materials for some sort of tribute, but the storm drakes are keeping them from finishing what they started. From the looks of it, they're gathering fully intact stag horns and long tail feathers from the greatstags and eagles nearby.
The storyline at a glance
The Blackfeather Ravenbears has 4 steps, from Plight of the Blackfeather to Dances With Ravenbears.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Stormheim (4).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
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.