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The Land Beneath

The Land Beneath is a quest for level 10-80 in Valdrakken. It is step 1 of 16 in the Breaking Ground storyline, the opening step. It rewards 1,200 experience and money.

Description

I heard word you were aiding the green dragonflight, <name>.

I bring word from Ebyssian.

The Life-Binder has news of the Incarnates, and she requests our presence at the Seat of the Aspects.

The black dragonflight will await you there. I will move on ahead to continue tracking our foe.

Rewards

Money2 gold80 silver90 copper
Experience1,200 XP
Top Comments

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

1
DraaxxTV+230via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

If you log into 10.1 and do not get this quest from the splash screen you have to follow the Embers of Neltharion storyline in the Forgotten Reach until you complete 1/7 "A Creche Divided" then you will get a message saying "Continue the campaign by accepting the quest "The Land Beneath" in Valdrakken. You can then go up to the top of The Sea of the Aspects and talk to Hadexian to accept "The Land Beneath" and start the new 10.1 zone. Hope that helps some folks!

2
S1rArthur+81via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

If your on an alt, and skip the Forbidden Reach storyline, and get teleported to the Seat of the Aspects but didn't/can't get the quest "The Land Beneath", you may have to go back to Forbidden reach and get News From Beneath from Ebyssian at on Dragon Skull Island (Northeast on the Forbidden Reach map). Once there, accept the quest News From Beneath, and then select the option to go back together and it will teleport your back to The Seat of the Aspects to complete the quest. You can then start A Crack in the World, watch the cinematic, and continuing to Where the Flames Fell. Essentially you're on the track after the "Land Beneath." Not sure why, but this is an alternate route to go on if you don't see "The Land Beneath" after skipping the forbidden Reach questline.

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Spilledstars+54via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

As an alt who did SOME of the FR quests, you might instead get the next quest in line (News from Beneath) from Ebyssian next to Scalecommander Emberthal on Dragonskull Island, forbidden reach.

Edit to add: Because apparently it doesn't count as completing the Storyline unless you also tell the leader of the Healing Wings just how bad this all has gotten.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP1,200
MoneyGold2g 80s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapValdrakken
Objective areaOhn'ahran Plains1 mapped point
World Map

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.

Valdrakken Quest turn-in
Ohn'ahran Plains Objective area 1 mapped point
Ohn'ahran Plains map showing where to go for The Land BeneathObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #2023 19.9 81.6

Coordinates

  • Objective areaOhn'ahran Plains 19.9, 81.6/way #2023 19.9 81.6

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 Valdrakken map

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

Getting there

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

  • Valdrakken, ThaldraszusAlliance and Horde · about 350 yards south-west
  • Gelikyr Post, ThaldraszusAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards south-east
  • Algeth'era, ThaldraszusAlliance and Horde · about 1,400 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 7,100 yards south-west (on the Ohn'ahran Plains map)

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

Breaking Ground

Part 1 of 16.

Next: News From Beneath

  1. 1The Land Beneath
  2. 2News From Beneath
  3. 3A Crack in the World
  4. 4Where the Flames Fell
  5. 5Scar of Earth and Fire
  6. 6The Patience of Princes
  7. 7It Was Not Enough
  8. 8Culling the Deep
  9. 9Niffen and Goliath
  10. 10Brother's Keeper
  11. 11Secrets From Our Father
  12. 12The Earth Gives Way

Showing steps 1 to 12 of 16.

Also part of: Zaralek Cavern (part 1 of 72).

Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.

Where this quest fits

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • News From BeneathValdrakken · Level 10-80

    Before I arrived, I was informed that the Life-Binder has need of our aid. There is news of the Incarnates, and she requests our presence at the Seat of the Aspects. As for Emberthal -- there is very little we can do for now. It is best we allow her to reflect and gather thoughts alone.

The storyline at a glance

Breaking Ground has 16 steps, from The Land Beneath to Six Hundred Feet Under.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Zaralek Cavern (10), Valdrakken (3), Ohn'ahran Plains (2), Zaralek Cavern (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Valdrakken 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.

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The Kurken's Hide
The Labyrinth
The Ladder
The Lady's Fate
The Land Is in Their Blood
The Land, Corrupted
The Land, Corrupted
The Last Chapter
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