Look for flying spellbooks and fight them for the pages. There are also some you can click on the ground and tables.
Quest
Spellbook Scuffle
A World of Warcraft quest in Eversong Woods. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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The turn in is located at 37.41, 18.73
/way 37.41, 18.73
(The following is just for fun, btw)
Tytalor: You there! I've heard whispers of your so-called "heroics," but I'm convinced they must be false. For if they were true, it would mean you would have achieved more than I, Tytalor Goldenblade--the finest, smartest, and most handsome mage at this academy. Therefore, I challenge you to prove your worth, if you are not a coward. The arcane tomes will make a fine warm-up for you... if you survive. Tear out their pages and prove you're not a complete fraud.
Me: Oh, so this is how we're going to play this? Are you sure you want to do this? Yeah? Then take a seat, friend...
I am but a humble night elf. My deeds are few and far between, but very important. I have been to every corner of this world that can be seen and some unseen. I have been to it's deepest, darkest depths and I have traversed the highest peaks and everything in between while I scorched my skin in the hottest climates and become frostbitten in the coldest. I have even seen the world's heart, heard its rhythmic thrumming and felt it beating as if it were my own and I have helped mend the world pillar that literally keeps the world from imploding on itself. I have been to other planets that have been on the verge of self-destruction, and others that did, where nearly every single thing wants to kill you or eat you. I have traveled both time and space, forward and backward, and have been at every single point in space at the same time. I've been thrust through the very fabric of reality itself to planes of existence that only a few could even conceive, and some that don't even believe exist, to see the very heavens our heroes ascend to and the horrors of the hell and damnation we send our enemies. I have touched the ethereal plane and discovered the very beginning of creation itself and been on the brink of the possible ending of everything we know and all that we don't.
I have slain countless enemies, human, orc, dragon, murloc, demons... too many to count. I have stood before the gods and devils of the cosmos and I have defeated them just the same with my own mortal hands. The Titans and the Void Lords know my name and fear it. The Legion dare not rouse my anger, lest they be cast into oblivion for all eternity. My power has grown immensely, from a simple bow to the very cosmic forces that make up the universe itself. I have died and been resurrected multiple times. I have saved the world countless times from mere pirates and evil black dragons. I helped bring down the very Deathwing that no other being in the last 10,000 years could. I have stopped the unending armies of the Legion twice, put to rest the very evils that are jailed inside this world. I have stopped plagues and corruption, only to have more to come and fended off against the hungering dead and the endless undead. I have fought in wars between the Horde and the Alliance that have lasted for so long that neither side can remember why we were even fighting, but have also witnessed both sides fighting for common causes as if there were no conflict to be had.
I have witnessed as Stormwind and Azeroth was razed by Deathwing, I was there when Theramore was obliterated from the map and my home of Teldrassil burned to the ground and nearly all of my kin burned in agony because they could not be saved. Great heroes from every race and faction have died, most with honor. Some without. I watched as friends died, lovers turn to enemies, the proud humbled while the meek stood tall, and the greatest of heroes fallen by cowards. I wept for Ysera and Varian and cursed Sylvanas and Garrosh. I've made alliances with my enemies and made enemies of my alliances. I am aligned with the very factions of the afterlife and they would heed my call should I so choose, only because I have gained the very respect that you dare to question about me.
I have seen everything, I have touched everything, I have gained everything, and I have lost everything. I have sacrificed much and asked nothing in return. I am exhausted, my body is bruised and battered. It aches in ways no other can understand. My hands are covered in the blood of my enemies. They are also covered in the blood of the innocent, whether by accident or simply me just being there. My hands will never, ever truly be clean. My will is near the breaking point and I'm ready to lay down my bow and let the world burn just so that I may close my eyes one last time into a forever sleep and find the peace that I have sought for so very long, hoping my spirit is blessed to be accepted into the afterlife to live out the rest of eternity in harmony and no worry or sadness.
So, maybe you can show just a bit of respect for myself and NEVER question me or the way I do things. Ever.
Oh, by the way, here are your stupid tome pages.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(86997))
What to do
Description
You there! I've heard whispers of your so-called "heroics," but I'm convinced they must be false. For if they were true, it would mean you would have achieved more than I, Tytalor Goldenblade--the finest, smartest, and most handsome mage at this academy. Therefore, I challenge you to prove your worth, if you are not a coward. The arcane tomes will make a fine warm-up for you... if you survive. Tear out their pages and prove you're not a complete fraud.
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 areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #2395 37.4 18.4
Coordinates
- Turn-inEversong Woods 37.4, 18.4
/way #2395 37.4 18.4 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Eversong Woods 39.2, 19.1
/way #2395 39.2 19.1 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Eversong Woods 38.1, 18.9
/way #2395 38.1 18.9 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Eversong Woods 38.4, 17.4
/way #2395 38.4 17.4 - Objective areaEversong Woods 39.3, 17.5
/way #2395 39.3 17.5
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 Eversong Woods map
- Career Counseling about 540 yards
- A Path Not Yet Chosen about 540 yards
- A Test of the Hunt about 550 yards
- A Test of the Arcane about 590 yards
- A Test of Blood about 600 yards
- The Power of Anguish about 720 yards
- Prey: Astalor's Initiative about 720 yards
- Clothes Make the Man about 1,240 yards
- Thief at Bark about 1,280 yards
- Tracking the Trail about 1,310 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Eversong Woods, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Eversong Woods:
- Sanctum of Light, Silvermoon City
- Fairbreeze Village, Eversong Woods
- The Royal Exchange, Silvermoon City
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
- 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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Other quests on the Eversong Woods map
Storyline
Aspiring Academic
Part 2 of 4.
Previous: Down a Peg · Next: Training Arc
- 1Down a Peg
- 2Spellbook Scuffle
- 3Training Arc
- 4Academic Aspirations
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.
- Down a Peg
There seems to be a problem student at the academy. I have heard reports that a student, Tytalor Goldenblade, is stirring up trouble in Sunstrider Isle. I'd go myself but I have my hands full running practice here already. Could you go check on him and... educate him of his misgivings?
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Training Arc
Hah! You actually managed to defeat the spell books? I suppose even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. Don't get too proud of yourself though! My followers ahead won't be so easily dismantled by your flailing.
The storyline at a glance
Aspiring Academic has 4 steps, from Down a Peg to Academic Aspirations.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Eversong Woods (4).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Eversong Woods map
- Prey
- Saltheril's Haven
- Shadowfall
- Far Striding
- Ripple Effects
- Paladin Rescue
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.