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The Heart of Darkness

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

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneHellfire Peninsula
Quest ID10399

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10399))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineHellfire Peninsula, step 40 of 103
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

It is just as I feared. Arix'Amal - the demon you killed earlier, was working for a secret Legionlord - Arazzius the Cruel. It appears this new villain has amassed a force of hellish terrorfiends near the Pools of Aggonar. You must journey there and slay the terrorfiends before they strike against us. But be wary, friend - the Pools of Aggonar lie within a tortured, poisonous valley. You can find the cursed pools to the northwest of here, beyond Hellfire Citadel. Light be with you, {name}.

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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.

Hellfire Peninsula Quest turn-in 8 mapped points
Hellfire Peninsula map showing where to go for The Heart of DarknessTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #100 56.7 66.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inHellfire Peninsula 56.7, 66.5/way #100 56.7 66.5
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Hellfire Peninsula 40.6, 32.2/way #100 40.6 32.2

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 Hellfire Peninsula map

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

Getting there

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

  • Honor Hold, Hellfire PeninsulaAlliance · about 170 yards north-west
  • Shatter Point, Hellfire PeninsulaAlliance · about 1,600 yards north-east
  • Hellfire Peninsula, The Dark PortalAlliance · about 1,700 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 1,400 yards north-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.

Related
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationHonor Hold +250

Reward details

Reputation: Honor Hold +250

Vestiges of the Sons of Lothar, veterans of the Alliance that first came into Draenor, have steadfastly held on to this Hellfire outpost. They are now joined by the armies from Stormwind and Ironforge.

Reputation group: The Burning Crusade.

Other quests in Hellfire Peninsula that reward Honor Hold reputation: A Job for an Intelligent Man (+250), Rampaging Ravagers (+250), Forgotten Heroes (+10), The Arakkoa Threat (+250), The Finest Down (+250), Gaining Mirren's Trust (+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

Hellfire Peninsula

Part 40 of 103.

Previous: The Dark Missive · Next: Overlord

  1. 35Go to the Front
  2. 36Disruption - Forge Camp: Mageddon
  3. 37Enemy of my Enemy...
  4. 38Invasion Point: Annihilator
  5. 39The Dark Missive
  6. 40The Heart of Darkness
  7. 41Overlord
  8. 42Fel Orc Scavengers
  9. 43Ill Omens
  10. 44Cursed Talismans
  11. 45Warlord of the Bleeding Hollow
  12. 46Return to Honor Hold

Showing steps 35 to 46 of 103.

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.

  • The Dark MissiveHellfire Peninsula · Level 10-30

    The text on the note is written in some dark, indecipherable scrawl. The more you stare at them, the more the symbols seem to twist and burn before your eyes. There is only one at Honor Hold who can decipher such archaic script - the draenei mystic, Kryv.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • OverlordHellfire Peninsula · Level 10-30

    The honorable Warp-Scryer has told me of your perils, <name> - and of the new foe you've discovered. If Kryv is to be believed, this 'Arazzius the Cruel' is as powerful and evil as any foe the Sons of Lothar have ever faced. Will you stand for us now, <name>?

Also counted by To Hellfire and Back

Its criteria name 15 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

Hellfire Peninsula has 103 steps, from Eradicate the Burning Legion to Natural Remedies.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Hellfire Peninsula (103).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Hellfire Peninsula 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.

To Hellfire and BackComplete the Hellfire Peninsula storylines listed below.10