The Collapse

Reward details

Pick one of these

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.

Getting there

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

• Taunka'le Village, Borean TundraHorde · about 140 yards south-east
• Unu'pe, Borean TundraAlliance and Horde · about 630 yards south
• Warsong Camp, WintergraspHorde · about 1,600 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

• Objective areaabout 300 yards west
• Objective areaabout 320 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.

Where this quest fits

Before this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

• The Horn of Elemental FuryBorean Tundra · Level 10-30

  I can fashion the likeness of an elemental from these pieces of inanimate stone, but breathing life into it is different. For that, we'll need help and a bit of luck. Legend tells of an ancient artifact called the Horn of Elemental Fury, sought after by a great hero.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

• Sage Highmesa is MissingBorean Tundra · Level 10-30

  There are many new mysteries walking the lands now. One of our sages, Highmesa, has foolishly gone north with only one longrunner to investigate something strange near the Dens of Dying. What are the dens, you ask? They are a sacred place to the magnataur, where they go in their old age to die.

Also counted by Nothing Boring About Borean

Its criteria name 23 quests; others include:

• Them!
• Succulent Orca Stew
• Surrender... Not!
• Keymaster Urmgrgl
• Escape from the Winterfin Caverns
• The Emissary
• Return My Remains
• The Plains of Nasam

The storyline at a glance

Borean Tundra has 182 steps, from Enlistment Day to Across Transborea.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Borean Tundra (178), Sholazar Basin (2), Wintergrasp (1), Dragonblight (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

• Nothing Boring About Borean Complete the Borean Tundra storylines listed below.
• D.E.H.T.A's Little P.I.T.A. Uphold D.E.H.T.A's beliefs by completing all of the quests up to and including the Assassination of Harold Lane.
• Mrglgrgl of Grglmrgl Complete the storylines involving King Mrgl-Mrgl in Borean Tundra, Highmountain, and Zul'Aman.

Other storylines on the Borean Tundra map

• Winterfin Retreat13 steps, starts with King Mrgl-Mrgl
• Light's Wrath8 steps, starts with The Light's Wrath
• Aluneth, Greatstaff of the Magna7 steps, starts with Aluneth, Greatstaff of the Magna
• Gnome Heritage Armor11 steps, starts with Shifting Gears
• The Veiled Ossuary20 steps, starts with Keeper of the Ossuary
• The Blue Dragons63 steps, starts with Keeper of the Ossuary

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.