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Return to the Earth (Horde)

Return to the Earth is a Horde-only quest for level 15-30 in Dragonblight. It is step 43 of 149 in the Dragonblight storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Dragonblight at 43.0, 50.9. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

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 the pass in the south... 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.

Rewards

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

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

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Aethox+28via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Turning my UI off (Alt+Z was my default) enabled the quest item identifier on the seeds. Try turning that off and see if sparkles start to pop up around the base of the tree. I'm not sure if this will work for everyone, but without the sparkle these seeds are incredibly difficult to spot. Before switching off the UI, I was convinced I was looking in the wrong spot or the quest was broken.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapDragonblightTurn-in marker at 43.0, 50.9, 17 mapped points
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.

Dragonblight Quest turn-in 17 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #115 43.0 50.9

Coordinates

  • Turn-inDragonblight 43.0, 50.9/way #115 43.0 50.9
  • 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

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

  • Agmar's Hammer, DragonblightHorde · about 360 yards north-west
  • Moa'ki, DragonblightAlliance and Horde · about 930 yards south
  • Wyrmrest Temple, DragonblightAlliance and Horde · about 970 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 260 yards east
  • Objective areaabout 250 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

Dragonblight

Part 43 of 149.

Previous: Heated Battle · Next: Through Fields of Flame

  1. 38The End of the Line
  2. 39Gaining an Audience
  3. 40Speak with your Ambassador
  4. 41Report to the Ruby Dragonshrine
  5. 42Heated Battle
  6. 43Return to the Earth
  7. 44Through Fields of Flame
  8. 45The Steward of Wyrmrest Temple
  9. 46Informing the Queen
  10. 47The Obsidian Dragonshrine
  11. 48No Place to Run
  12. 49No One to Save You

Showing steps 38 to 49 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: Horde 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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name Return to the Earth. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
Return to the Earth (this page)Horde12449
Return to the EarthAlliance12417
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