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The Grand Tablet (Alliance)

The Grand Tablet is an Alliance-only quest for level 15-30 in Tanaris. It is step 47 of 48 in the Tanaris storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Tanaris at 40.1, 77.0. It rewards 3 reward items, 1 reputation reward, 5,150 experience and money. Completing it counts toward 1 achievement.

Description

At the bottom of the chest, you find a large tablet. Made of a material resembling stone, but completely smooth and flawless, it is covered in strange writing.

While some resembles the writing on the walls, other scripts appear completely different. Gunstan would probably like to see this.

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money21 gold
Experience5,150 XP
ReputationIronforge +350
Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

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mineka+15via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)
These hieroglyphs are undoubtedly titan, but the markings below it...

If I had to hope, this is the same passage written over and over again in an entire assortment of ancient languages. We might be able to use this to decipher the hieroglyphs!

This quest, and the rewards (Rosy Tablet belt) are a reference to Rosetta Stone, an inscribed stone who permitted to dechiper hieroglyphs.

The text on the stone was written three times, in three different "languages" (hieroglyphs, egyptian demotic script and ancient greek).

Read all 7 on Wowhead ↗

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP5,150
MoneyGold21g
ReputationIronforge+350

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypePlate Waist
Item level25
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor13
Stats+5 Strength or Intellect, +8 Stamina, +10 Critical Strike
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for16 gold17 silver
TypeMail Feet
Item level25
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor10
Stats+5 Agility or Intellect, +8 Stamina, +10 Critical Strike
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for23 gold98 silver
TypeLeather Head
Item level25
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor8
Stats+7 Agility or Intellect, +10 Stamina, +9 Critical Strike
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for25 gold70 silver

Reputation: Ironforge +350

This Alliance capital is the pride of the Dun Morogh dwarves. Home to King Magni.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Tanaris that reward Ironforge reputation: Ancient Obstacles (+250), Laying Claim (+250), Fragments of Language (+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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapTanarisTurn-in marker at 40.1, 77.0, 2 mapped points
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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.

Tanaris Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Tanaris map showing where to go for The Grand TabletTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #71 40.1 77.0

Coordinates

  • Turn-inTanaris 40.1, 77.0/way #71 40.1 77.0
  • Objective areaTanaris 37.8, 84.1/way #71 37.8 84.1

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 Tanaris map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Tanaris:

  • Gunstan's Dig, TanarisAlliance · about 20 yards south
  • Bootlegger Outpost, TanarisAlliance and Horde · about 1,400 yards north-east
  • Ramkahen, UldumAlliance and Horde · about 1,900 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 380 yards south-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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Tanaris

Part 47 of 48.

Previous: What Lies Within · Next: The Grand Tablet

  1. 37Ancient Obstacles
  2. 38Laying Claim
  3. 39Fragments of Language
  4. 40The Secrets of Uldum
  5. 41Thunderdrome: Grudge Match!
  6. 42Laying Claim
  7. 43Fragments of Language
  8. 44Ancient Obstacles
  9. 45The Secrets of Uldum
  10. 46What Lies Within
  11. 47The Grand Tablet
  12. 48The Grand Tablet

Showing steps 37 to 48 of 48.

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.

  • What Lies WithinTanaris · Level 15-30

    As you lay your hand upon the chest, a faint rumbling can be heard. The sound of grinding movement echoes behind you as the chest begins to shut itself. Something is approaching!

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Tanaris · Level 15-30.

Also counted by Tanaris Quests

Its criteria name 9 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

Tanaris has 48 steps, from Seaside Salvage to The Grand Tablet.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Tanaris (48).

Other storylines on the Tanaris 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.

Tanaris QuestsComplete the Tanaris storylines listed below.10
Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name The Grand Tablet. They differ in the faction/rewards shown here.

QuestFactionRewardsID
The Grand Tablet (this page)Alliance5,150 XP, Rosy Tablet Belt, Translation Boots, Hieroglyphic Helm25421
The Grand TabletHorde5,150 XP, Hieroglyphic Helm, Translation Boots, Rosy Tablet Belt25107
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The Grand Magus Doane
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The Great Bank Heist
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Quest Location and Connections

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