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The Runic Keystone

The Runic Keystone is an Alliance-only quest for level 15-30 in Grizzly Hills. It is step 34 of 115 in the Grizzly Hills storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Grizzly Hills at 59.8, 27.4. It rewards 4,100 experience and money.

Description

Brann's journal mentions that he used a runic keystone to illuminate the important runes on the plate he discovered. Without the keystone, the plate's contents would be little better than gibberish.

At the end of Brann's last entry, he describes the iron dwarf defenders seizing the keystone from him, shattering it, and dividing it among themselves. Before we can decipher the runed plate, we must hunt down the fragments. Any of the dwarves within Thor Modan or the buildings around it may carry fragments.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapGrizzly HillsTurn-in marker at 59.8, 27.4, 7 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.

Grizzly Hills Quest turn-in 7 mapped points
Grizzly Hills map showing where to go for The Runic KeystoneTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #116 59.8 27.4

Coordinates

  • Turn-inGrizzly Hills 59.8, 27.4/way #116 59.8 27.4
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Grizzly Hills 63.4, 28.2/way #116 63.4 28.2
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Grizzly Hills 66.6, 24.4/way #116 66.6 24.4

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 Grizzly Hills map

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

Getting there

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

  • Westfall Brigade, Grizzly HillsAlliance · about 30 yards north
  • Zim'Torga, Zul'DrakAlliance and Horde · about 1,400 yards north-west
  • The Argent Stand, Zul'DrakAlliance and Horde · about 1,800 yards north-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 190 yards east
  • Objective areaabout 370 yards east

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

Grizzly Hills

Part 34 of 115.

Previous: The Damaged Journal · Next: The Runic Prophecies

  1. 29Thinning the Ranks
  2. 30Descent into Darkness
  3. 31Report to Gryan Stoutmantle... Again
  4. 32Hollowstone Mine
  5. 33The Damaged Journal
  6. 34The Runic Keystone
  7. 35The Runic Prophecies
  8. 36Softening the Blow
  9. 37Brothers in Battle
  10. 38Uncovering the Tunnels
  11. 39The Fate of Orlond
  12. 40Steady as a Rock?

Showing steps 29 to 40 of 115.

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 Damaged JournalGrizzly Hills · Level 15-30

    This battered, mud-stained journal has seen better days. Leafing through the pages, you discover dozens of notes, diagrams, and maps. The author's handwriting seems vaguely familiar, but you're unable to place it until you discover an entry signed with the name of Brann Bronzebeard.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Runic PropheciesGrizzly Hills · Level 15-30

    We've no time to lose! Now that we've reassembled the runic keystone -- well, most of it -- we can decipher the contents of those very same runic plates Brann was working on before he fled.

The storyline at a glance

Grizzly Hills has 115 steps, from Local Support to Loken's Orders.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Grizzly Hills (115).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Grizzly Hills 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.

Related
The Rune of Command
The Runes that Bind
The Runesmiths of Malykriss
The Runewood's Revenge
The Runic Prophecies
The Runic Prophecies
The Rush'kah
The Sacrifices We Must Make
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