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The Butcher of Taurajo

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

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General Hawthorne and Ambassador Gaines at Forward Command are two Alliance questgivers. General Hawthorne regrets the fact that his conscripted convicts decided to loot Turajo and has you arrest them on the grounds that they're only going to increase faction tensions when the end goal of this war ought to be the start of a lasting peace.

Ambassador Gaines makes quite plain that he thinks General Hawthorne is a soft touch. He advocates genocide against the Quillboar and claims that there can never be peace with the Horde based on their past relations with the Alliance.

As the Alliance players hand in some intelligence gathered from Turajo, Gaines discovers an active warrant for the General's death. As in, the Horde are out for him in a very real and serious way. He says this is "very interesting" and nothing further happens.

General Hawthorne, the nearly pacifist commander surrounded by a number of warmongers and possibly the only person in the Barrens with the power to make sure the war doesn't turn into a revenge fueled bloodbath for both sides, walks into a Horde "trap" with only two bodyguards.

And just to rub it in, the good General's replacement is General Twinbraid. Who's only son the Horde unwittingly killed when they attacked Bael Modan. To which he responds to by collapsing a mine on top of its workers and promising to destroy the Bilgewater Goblins.

Everybody loses in Southern Barrens and this is the quest that does it. The Horde got played. Good going Gaines, you ass.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneSouthern Barrens
Quest ID24637

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(24637))

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineSouthern Barrens, step 63 of 89
RewardsBattlescar Amice, Battlescar Monnion, Cloak of Harvested Fear, 21g, 5,150 XP

Description

This operative had orders to secure the roadways between the Alliance command and Fort Triumph. General Hawthorne is on the move. <Bloodhilt crumples the documents in his fist.> It's HIM, {name}! Hawthorne - I spit the name - he is the one who ordered the assault on Taurajo! Now we know when and where to strike him down. Quickly, follow the road north of the Battlescar and meet up with my assassin Karthog. CRUSH Hawthorne and string his body up along the road!

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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.

Southern Barrens Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Southern Barrens map showing where to go for The Butcher of TaurajoTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #199 41.6 69.8

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSouthern Barrens 41.6, 69.8/way #199 41.6 69.8
  • Objective areaSouthern Barrens 48.1, 57.4/way #199 48.1 57.4

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 Southern Barrens map

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

Getting there

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

  • Desolation Hold, Southern BarrensHorde · about 50 yards south-west
  • Vendetta Point, Southern BarrensHorde · about 1,100 yards north
  • Brackenwall Village, Dustwallow MarshHorde · about 1,100 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 780 yards north-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.

Related

Choose one of these rewards:

Money21 gold
Experience5,150 XP
ReputationOrgrimmar +350

3D Model

First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeMail Shoulder
Item level20
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor10
Stats+5 Agility or Intellect, +7 Stamina, +7 Critical Strike
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for2 gold58 silver
TypeLeather Shoulder
Item level20
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor7
Stats+5 Agility or Intellect, +7 Stamina, +7 Critical Strike
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for2 gold68 silver
TypeCloth Back
Item level20
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor3
Stats+3 Intellect, +5 Stamina
Suited toDiscipline, Balance, Restoration, Arcane, Fire, Frost, Mistweaver, Holy, Devourer, Destruction, Demonology, Affliction, Elemental, Shadow, Augmentation, Preservation, Devastation
Sells to vendors for2 gold48 silver
TypeOne-Handed Sword One-Hand
Item level20
BindingBinds when picked up
Weapon7 - 11 damage, speed 2.6
Stats+3 Agility, +3 Stamina, +5 Critical Strike
Suited toBrewmaster, Vengeance, Havoc, Windwalker, Outlaw, Survival
Sells to vendors for4 gold94 silver

Reputation: Orgrimmar +350

Founded by Thrall, this Horde capital city is home to many of the proud orc clans of Durotar.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Southern Barrens that reward Orgrimmar reputation: Warriors' Redemption (+250), Eye for an Eye (+250), Put the Fear in Them (+250), The Low Road (+150), Stalling the Survey (+250), Meet the New Boss (+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

Southern Barrens

Part 63 of 89.

Previous: Intelligence Warfare · Next: Parts-is-Parts

  1. 58Changing of the Gar'dul
  2. 59Flightmare
  3. 60Silithissues
  4. 61Claim the Battle Scar
  5. 62Intelligence Warfare
  6. 63The Butcher of Taurajo
  7. 64Parts-is-Parts
  8. 65Hearts-is-Hearts
  9. 66Smarts-is-Smarts
  10. 67A Growing Threat
  11. 68Mangletooth
  12. 69Mahka's Plea

Showing steps 58 to 69 of 89.

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.

  • Intelligence WarfareSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30

    I am convinced the Alliance is using spies to scout the field and pass along information. They knew to strike at Taurajo while the hunters were afield. And they countered every one of Gar'dul's moves like he was an open book. Well <name>, I for one will not be outplayed. Not here.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Parts-is-PartsSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30

    I've always wanted to try making an abomination. It looks simple enough, but you know how it is when you learn things from a book. There's no substitute for doing! First, I'm going to need parts. Lots of parts. And you're going to get them for me. No need to be picky: human, orc...

Also counted by Southern Barrens Quests

Its criteria name 25 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

Southern Barrens has 89 steps, from Running the Gauntlet to Sabotage!.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Southern Barrens (88), Northern Barrens (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Southern Barrens 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.

Achievements

Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.

Southern Barrens QuestsComplete the Southern Barrens storylines listed below.10