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The Scarlet Onslaught Emerges

A World of Warcraft quest in Plaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 8-30
CategoryDeath Knight
Quest ID12756

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12756))

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 3.80.2.69874, read from the beta game data we hold
Versus the Classic Era clientNew in the WoW Forever beta client - quest id 12756 is not sighted in our Classic Era baseline (build 1.15.9.69722)

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

Requirements

ClassesDeath Knight, Evoker, Adventurer and Traveler

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

Description

Listen well, courier. The Scarlet lands are lost. New Avalon and Havenshire are overrun by Scourge. The specter of death looms overhead and threatens to overtake us at any moment. Return to Galvar with this message: "Turn your armies around and prepare your ships for travel to the frozen wastes. When next we meet it will be in Northrend." Give this to Galvar. <Abbendis hands you a journal.> It will explain everything. The Scarlet Crusade is no more. Long live the Scarlet Onslaught!

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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.

Plaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Plaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave map showing where to go for The Scarlet Onslaught EmergesTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #124 56.3 79.8

Coordinates

  • Turn-inPlaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave 56.3, 79.8/way #124 56.3 79.8
  • Objective areaPlaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave 65.6, 83.8/way #124 65.6 83.8

Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.

Getting there

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 310 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.

Related
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience6,200 XP

Storyline

The Scarlet Enclave

Part 49 of 58.

Previous: A Meeting With Fate · Next: Scarlet Armies Approach...

  1. 44A Special Surprise
  2. 45A Special Surprise
  3. 46A Sort Of Homecoming
  4. 47Ambush At The Overlook
  5. 48A Meeting With Fate
  6. 49The Scarlet Onslaught Emerges
  7. 50Scarlet Armies Approach...
  8. 51The Scarlet Apocalypse
  9. 52An End To All Things...
  10. 53The Lich King's Command
  11. 54The Light of Dawn
  12. 55Taking Back Acherus

Showing steps 44 to 55 of 58.

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.

  • A Meeting With FateLevel 8-30

    This message must reach Abbendis. We do not want to draw their suspicion. They must continue under the assumption that everything is going as they planned. You will don the Scarlet courier's clothes and with the help of some dark magic, take on the form of the courier.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Scarlet Armies Approach...Level 8-30

    We must prepare for the encroaching armies, <name>. You will take what you have discovered to Highlord Mograine at once! I will open a portal directly to Acherus. Step inside and it will transport you. Give Highlord Mograine Abbendis' journal as well. Perhaps he'll find it useful.

The storyline at a glance

The Scarlet Enclave has 58 steps, from In Service Of The Lich King to Saurfang's Blessing.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Plaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave (54), Eastern Plaguelands (2), Elwynn Forest (1), Orgrimmar (1).

Other storylines on the Eastern Plaguelands 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.