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Rethu's Sacrifice

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

Description

Miner... speak with me a moment. I haven't much time in this place.

I see you fight for your ore. I believe that is the most noble way to obtain your stone. It gives the land a fighting chance.

Still, one mustn't be callous with their own life. Dig too deep, and the land will overcome you. No stone is worth the price I paid.

But that is a tale for another day...

Rewards

You will receive:

Experience6,150 XP

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Top Comments

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

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Rubysage+99via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Journal Entry - Day ?

The basilisks have accepted me as one of their own. I've killed hundreds of them, thousands. Decimated their population time after time and still seen no sign of Rethu. But through it all I have earned the respect---or the fear---of the leystone basilisks of Azsuna. Hours of blood and mining has come at the cost of the tears of my wilting soul in this abyssal grind. I'm not sure Rethu is even real. What a ridiculous name too! "Rethu Ironhorn" Of course he's not real. Just a mad hallucination of my failing mind---but I must continue. Basilisks must die. Corpses must be mined. The eternal cycle continues. Where am I? T-T

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capnbiff+59via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

OMG. FIFTH kill and it spawned! I am an uber-collector so I was prepared for a massive grind. Just finished weeks of grinding Leystone Seams on Broken Shore to get level 3, came here to look for farming locations, decided to give Stormheim a try. Went to Hafr Fjall flightpoint at the south of the zone near the PVP tower. Flew down to ground level, popped three basilisks as I worked my way west along the shelf, saw the cave, popped the first basilisk there, popped the second one, AND RETHU SPAWNED! Cave entrance 54.68, 90.67. Thank you thank you THANK YOU to those who mentioned this spot. GL to you all!

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Top Comments

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

1
Rubysage+99via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Journal Entry - Day ?

The basilisks have accepted me as one of their own. I've killed hundreds of them, thousands. Decimated their population time after time and still seen no sign of Rethu. But through it all I have earned the respect---or the fear---of the leystone basilisks of Azsuna. Hours of blood and mining has come at the cost of the tears of my wilting soul in this abyssal grind. I'm not sure Rethu is even real. What a ridiculous name too! "Rethu Ironhorn" Of course he's not real. Just a mad hallucination of my failing mind---but I must continue. Basilisks must die. Corpses must be mined. The eternal cycle continues. Where am I? T-T

2
capnbiff+59via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

OMG. FIFTH kill and it spawned! I am an uber-collector so I was prepared for a massive grind. Just finished weeks of grinding Leystone Seams on Broken Shore to get level 3, came here to look for farming locations, decided to give Stormheim a try. Went to Hafr Fjall flightpoint at the south of the zone near the PVP tower. Flew down to ground level, popped three basilisks as I worked my way west along the shelf, saw the cave, popped the first basilisk there, popped the second one, AND RETHU SPAWNED! Cave entrance 54.68, 90.67. Thank you thank you THANK YOU to those who mentioned this spot. GL to you all!

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Macmagotty+23via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

It is now almost patch 11.0.7 and I have been trying to get this on my miner alt since 7.0.1.

Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining, all the other Legion mining skill-ups came fast and easy. But when Battle for Azeroth came, my efforts went away from the Legion zones. As each successive expansion wound down and server populations dwindled, I would always go back and try to finish this one last bit of Legion mining. Especially after Broken Isles Mining Techniques was added towards the end of Dragonflight (patch 10.1.7).

Now, after no-lifing my way through the 20th Anniversary event (and that being done while not fully recovered from the burnout of no-lifing Pandaria Remix), I am looking forward to doing near no-effort activites like mining and herbing. And I find myself mirroring Rubysage's thoughts. I may well have already descended into madness.

No matter the many leystone basilisks I have sacrificed in his name, Rethu Ironhorn refuses my offerings. At this point, I would gladly accept the gift of the Black Blood from Xal'atath in hope that Rethu Ironhorn may appear to me this one last time.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP6,150
Where it comes from
Objective areaHighmountain1 mapped point
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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.

Highmountain Objective area 1 mapped point
Highmountain map showing where to go for Rethu's SacrificeObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #650 55.1 84.0

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

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 12 of 12.

Previous: Rethu's Experience

  1. 1Leystone Deposit Sample
  2. 2Leystone Seam Sample
  3. 3Living Leystone Sample
  4. 4The Highmountain Tauren
  5. 5Where Respect is Due
  6. 6The Legend of Rethu Ironhorn
  7. 7Rethu's Journal
  8. 8Rethu's Pick
  9. 9Rethu's Horn
  10. 10Rethu's Lesson
  11. 11Rethu's Experience
  12. 12Rethu's Sacrifice

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.

  • Rethu's ExperienceLevel 10-45

    Miner... you... you know who I am? I see. That is good. My tribe continues to honor its roots. If you return to the land of the Ironhorn tribe... let them know that they are looked upon with pride.

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

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.

Related
Rethu's Horn
Rethu's Journal
Rethu's Lesson
Rethu's Pick
Reticent Evil
Retraining the Trainees
Retreat!
Retribution for the Light
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