The Sins of the Ashbringer

Dropped on the ground after killing Solayne Hand of the Lich King

Just so nobody is confused - the NPC has the name of a player character, so it won't be "Solayne". My NPC was called "Zelos, Hand of the Lich King", which makes /target macros kind of useless. But it seems to always spawn at the left side of the area.

After nearly going insane trying to follow the directions in all of these comments, I finally got this today and wanted to leave additional details in case anyone else is still struggling:

The most important thing I noticed is that the coordinates seem to change during the event. The ~39, 57 that kept being mentioned took me to Valdrakken, but during the event, it took me right to the spot. Outside of the event, if you were trying to find it to be prepared like I was, it seems like the coordinates are ~48, 59. I don't know why they're different - I only noticed during the event that it was actually 39, 57 in the same spot.

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• If you don't have coordinates, if you fly straight from Soridormi across the central circle where the portal spawns, the entrance to the Titan chambers in the mountain wall is where people are referring to
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The larger rift that spawns the npc has the same sandy effect as the smaller rift portals, but it also has some swirling blue in it, and most notably, there was a giant patch of ice on the ground underneath. After a few moments, the npc came out and we could kill it. After it died, the quest item appeared and I could pick it up.

Other notes:

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• Seems like you have to tag the npc to get the item, or maybe at least be there when it dies - I found the corpse of this npc during one of the events, but the quest item was not there, unlike some of the other items
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• There wasn't anyone around at the time that the rift spawned, but it did copy a player that flew up during that time
  
• I didn't do any quests, I just hung out in front of the chambers and killed things around the area
  
• Timing seems random - both times I saw the corpse and the spawn were about halfway through the event with about 2-3 additional quests still after it, unlike other comments mentioning it happened during the last free for all
  
• It took a couple of seconds for the quest item to drop after it died, during which time I nearly had a heart attack thinking I didn't get it again