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"What could this tome be hiding?"
Quest
Secrets of the Scourge
A World of Warcraft quest in Dragonblight. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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I highly recommend not waiting around after you accept this quest. The hordes of undead took me down rather quickly, and painfully. Finish up killing the Necrolord first (The Noble's Crypt which you should have before you go down there), grab the book, and get out fast.
Is it just me or does this seem to be a nod at army of darkness? When you take the book and try and leave, undead spawn and attack you, kinda seems like the movie
Quest facts
LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneDragonblight
Quest ID12312
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12312))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineDragonblight, step 71 of 149
Rewards1,050 XP
Description
Scrawled across the flesh-bound chapters of this tome are strange symbols and shapes that seem to have been scraped into the pages with a blade. You have no idea what is written, but you are certain that whatever it is, it must be important. Deliver the tome to Cavalier Durkon standing guard topside at Wintergarde Crypt.
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 #115 79.1 53.2
Coordinates
- Turn-inDragonblight 79.1, 53.2
/way #115 79.1 53.2 - Objective areaDragonblight 78.6, 52.3
/way #115 78.6 52.3
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
- Honor the Flame about 410 yards
- Saving Nine about 660 yards
- Killing Time about 660 yards
- Cut from the Same Cloth about 660 yards
- Onslaught Envoy about 820 yards
- Apostate Liberation about 840 yards
- Scarlet Redemption about 910 yards
- Draconic Secrets about 1,050 yards
- The Day That Chromie Dies about 1,070 yards
- Rewind about 1,070 yards
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:
- Wintergarde Keep, Dragonblight
- Wyrmrest Temple, Dragonblight
- Windrunner's Overlook, Crystalsong Forest
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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Experience1,050 XP
ReputationValiance Expedition +25
Reward details
Reputation: Valiance Expedition +25
The main armies of the Alliance in Northrend, moving against the Scourge and unified under King Varian Wrynn's command.
Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.
Other quests in Dragonblight that reward Valiance Expedition reputation: A Letter for Home (+250), Strengthen the Ancients (+250), Pest Control (+250), Canyon Chase (+250), The Lost Courier (+25), The Liquid Fire of Elune (+250).
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 71 of 149.
Previous: Find Durkon! · Next: Mystery of the Tome
- 66The Bleeding Ore
- 67Leave Nothing to Chance
- 68Understanding the Scourge War Machine
- 69Rescue from Town Square
- 70Find Durkon!
- 71Secrets of the Scourge
- 72Mystery of the Tome
- 73Understanding the Language of Death
- 74A Righteous Sermon
- 75Into Hostile Territory
- 76Steamtank Surprise
- 77Scattered To The Wind
Showing steps 66 to 77 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.
- Find Durkon!
After the Scourge breached the south wall, I ordered Cavalier Durkon to investigate the town crypt. Moments ago I was handed his report. The undead that plague us are coming from two sources: the ruins of Wintergarde, now a breeding ground for Scourge, and our very own town crypt!
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Mystery of the Tome
What can it be, <name>? That was certainly no ordinary curse that the blasted lich put on you! <Durkon flips through the grisly pages of the tome.> I don't even know if I'm looking at it the right way. We must find out what information is held within this tome!
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
- Lorewalking: Arthas
- The Deaths of Chromie
- Fulfilling the Prophecy II
- Icecrown
- Light's Wrath
- Aluneth, Greatstaff of the Magna
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.