The Cruel

Reward details

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

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Emerald Dream:

• Verdant Landing, The Emerald DreamAlliance and Horde · about 620 yards north-east
• Central Encampment, The Emerald DreamAlliance and Horde · about 790 yards west
• Eye of Ysera, The Emerald DreamAlliance and Horde · about 1,600 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

• Objective areaabout 410 yards south
• Objective areaabout 440 yards south
• Objective areaabout 420 yards south

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 Face of Our EnemiesEmerald Dream · Level 10-80

  Powerful foes lurk among the enemies Fyrakk summoned into the Emerald Dream. I have not seen Cassaphine since she came up out of the barrows. Find her, and assist our allies by striking down these leaders.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

• AmirdrassilEmerald Dream · Level 10-80

  This tree has grown peacefully in the Emerald Dream since it was planted here. We have watched over it and nurtured it. And now, just when it is about to leave the cradle of this realm and enter Azeroth, our enemies see it as a means to further their own plans. It is so much more. Come.

The storyline at a glance

Enter the Dream has 12 steps, from Call of the Dream to A Multi-Front Battle.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Emerald Dream (11), Ohn'ahran Plains (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

• Defenders of the Dream Complete the following storylines in the Emerald Dream.

Other storylines on the Emerald Dream map

• Eye of Ysera12 steps, starts with Eye of Ysera
• A Dream of Fields and Fire10 steps, starts with The Bloom Begins
• Emerald Dream Campaign10 steps, starts with Call of the Dream
• Ice and Fire9 steps, starts with Mayhem Incarnate
• Druids of the Flame8 steps, starts with The Burning Barrow
• A Mix of Hope, Care, and Patience5 steps, starts with Some Water...

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.