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Return to the Earth

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

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jevans45069+23via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

As of today, the Ruby Acorns are difficult to spot. They lack the outlining common in other quest objectives post-6.0.2, but strongly resemble embers from quests in the Valley of the Four Winds, i.e. diamond-shaped, dark red, and generally lacking luster.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneDragonblight
Quest ID12417

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12417))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineDragonblight, step 34 of 149
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

I have another task that needs attention. I have brothers who are falling in the battle overhead and if we do not act quickly, they will only bolster the emberwyrm ranks. Get into the shrine through one of the other passes to the south or north... the Scourge presence should be lighter there. Search the shrine for ruby acorns that have fallen from the tree and plant them near the bodies of my fallen brood. Through this, they can give new life... a proud fate for any of my kind.

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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.

Dragonblight Quest turn-in 17 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #115 52.2 50.0

Coordinates

  • Turn-inDragonblight 52.2, 50.0/way #115 52.2 50.0
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Dragonblight 47.4, 49.1/way #115 47.4 49.1

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 Dragonblight map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Dragonblight:

  • Wyrmrest Temple, DragonblightAlliance and Horde · about 450 yards east
  • Moa'ki, DragonblightAlliance and Horde · about 940 yards south
  • Fordragon Hold, DragonblightAlliance · about 1,200 yards north-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 270 yards west
  • Objective areaabout 280 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.

Related
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationThe Wyrmrest Accord +250

Reward details

Reputation: The Wyrmrest Accord +250

With the Blue Dragonflight's violent upheaval against all mortal users of magic, the remaining dragonflights have banded under the leadership of the Red Dragonflight to combat their wayward kin.

Reputation group: Wrath of the Lich King.

Other quests in Dragonblight that reward The Wyrmrest Accord reputation: Gaining an Audience (+25), Informing the Queen (+10), Disturbing Implications (+250), One of a Kind (+250), Mighty Magnataur (+250), Reclusive Runemaster (+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.

Storyline

Dragonblight

Part 34 of 149.

Previous: Heated Battle · Next: Through Fields of Flame

  1. 29The End of the Line
  2. 30Gaining an Audience
  3. 31Speak with your Ambassador
  4. 32Report to the Ruby Dragonshrine
  5. 33Heated Battle
  6. 34Return to the Earth
  7. 35Through Fields of Flame
  8. 36The Steward of Wyrmrest Temple
  9. 37Informing the Queen
  10. 38The End of the Line
  11. 39Gaining an Audience
  12. 40Speak with your Ambassador

Showing steps 29 to 40 of 149.

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.

  • Heated BattleDragonblight · Level 15-30

    The Scourge have overrun the shrine. The shrine's keeper, Dahlia Suntouch, is nowhere to be found. The red wyrms that fell in the shrine's defense now beset us in the form of twisted skeletal emberwyrms. The situation is dire, <race>.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Through Fields of FlameDragonblight · Level 15-30

    I have one final task for you, <race>... one that should turn the tide of this fight. Return to the shrine and kill the necromancers that are fueling this onslaught. With them dead, we should be able to beat these forces back and eventually retake the shrine.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Dragonblight · Level 15-30.

The storyline at a glance

Dragonblight has 149 steps, from The Liquid Fire of Elune to Really Big Worm.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Dragonblight (144), Crystalsong Forest (5).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Dragonblight 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.