Quest Log

Rethu's Journal

Rethu's Journal is a quest for level 10-45. It is step 7 of 12 in the Legion Mining storyline. It rewards 6,150 experience.

Description

Tucked in between a few pieces of rubble, a scrap of paper catches your eye.

Mining carefully, you uncover the tattered remains of an old scroll. The tauren handwriting is archaic, but one word catches your eye:

"Rethu".

Rewards

You will receive:

Spell: Mining Technique: Leystone DepositFurthers your understanding of how to mine leystone deposits more efficiently.

Experience6,150 XP

Stuck on this quest?

Go to Highmountain 55.1, 84.0 /way #650 55.1 84.0

Known issues

Top Comments

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e5ordieJun 26, 2016+10via Wowhead

Must have completed The Legend of Rethu Ironhorn (quest chain starts with The Highmountain Tauren) for [item=124492] to drop. Journal page drops from a leystone deposit.
Similar quests include:

Rethu's Pick which is started by mining [item=124493] from a leystone seam and

Rethu's Horn which is started by mining [item=124494] from the corpse of a leystone creature.

The felslate equivalents require completing Darkheart Thicket: Nal'ryssa's Sisters (quest chain starts with The Felsmiths).

unclevinnySep 16, 2022+3via Wowhead

In case it helps anyone, I got this when I had Legion mining at 67/100. In Legion Herbalism, you start to get these kinds of quests very quickly, but mining is much slower.

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Check whether you have already completed it in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(38789))

Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

e5ordieJun 26, 2016+10via Wowhead

Must have completed The Legend of Rethu Ironhorn (quest chain starts with The Highmountain Tauren) for [item=124492] to drop. Journal page drops from a leystone deposit.
Similar quests include:

Rethu's Pick which is started by mining [item=124493] from a leystone seam and

Rethu's Horn which is started by mining [item=124494] from the corpse of a leystone creature.

The felslate equivalents require completing Darkheart Thicket: Nal'ryssa's Sisters (quest chain starts with The Felsmiths).

unclevinnySep 16, 2022+3via Wowhead

In case it helps anyone, I got this when I had Legion mining at 67/100. In Legion Herbalism, you start to get these kinds of quests very quickly, but mining is much slower.

naylzSep 22, 2016+2via Wowhead

Question:
Can the Journal and Chunk of Horn only be mined in Highmountain? I got the Pickaxe almost immediately after completing the Legend quest, but after 2 weeks I haven't seen either of the other two quest items.

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Rewards in detail

Type	Reward	Amount
Experience	XP	6,150

Where it comes from

Objective area	Highmountain	1 mapped point

World Map

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

Objective areaHighmountain 55.1, 84.0/way #650 55.1 84.0

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 Highmountain map

The Highmountain Smiths same spot
The Firmament Stone same spot
Maw of Souls: Hammered By The Storm same spot
You Are Not Worthy about 30 yards
Leystone Mastery about 30 yards
Ironhorn Leysmithing about 30 yards
Honor the Flame about 40 yards
Demonsteel Armguards about 40 yards
Demonsteel Waistguard about 40 yards
Demonsteel Pauldrons about 40 yards

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Highmountain:

Ironhorn Enclave, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 130 yards east
Obsidian Overlook, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 550 yards west
Skyfire Triage Camp, StormheimAlliance · about 750 yards east

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

Legion Mining

Part 7 of 12.

Previous: The Legend of Rethu Ironhorn · Next: Rethu's Pick

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.

The Legend of Rethu IronhornLevel 10-45
A long, long time ago, a tauren by the name of Rethu entered this land. His exploits paved the road that all miners walk. If you wish to learn more about mining, you must first learn about Rethu.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

Rethu's PickLevel 10-45
This seam has been mined before - it bears the telltale diagonal ruts of a miner's pick. Looking down, that pick now lays on the ground - handle broken, pick-point dulled with use and years. Carved into the haft is a familiar name: "Rethu"

The storyline at a glance

Legion Mining has 12 steps, from Leystone Deposit Sample to Rethu's Sacrifice.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Highmountain (8), Dalaran (2), Darkshore (2).

Other storylines on the Highmountain map

Legion Blacksmithing42 steps, starts with Strange New Ores
The Bloodtotem Tribe14 steps, starts with The Bloodtotem Tribe
Rivermane Tribe13 steps, starts with Keepers of the Hammer
Allies of the Horde: Highmountain18 steps, starts with Walking in Their Footsteps
Legion Leatherworking45 steps, starts with Skin Deep
Snowblind Mesa10 steps, starts with Battle of Snowblind Mesa

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.

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