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Quest

The Tongue of Ba-Shon

A World of Warcraft quest in Kun-Lai Summit. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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InsaneHacker+18via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Interestingly, the quest tooltips say "Lorekeeper Cho" instead of Lorewalker Cho, is this a bug or am i missing something?

EDIT: To people complaining that this has nothing to do with how to complete the quest, at least it's something related to the game, i'm just trying to point out a potential mistake that blizzard has made, nothing more. I don't see people complaining when comments about references to TV shows and such fills the comment section.

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Driva+17via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Right after punching Ba-Shon in the face, but before turning in the quest to Lorewalker Cho I saw a rope on the ground and thought, "Hey, what's this?" If you are as forgetful as me, I recommend you suppress your curiosity, since it starts the end cinematics for Path of the Last Emperor and makes Lorewalker Cho disappear. If you leave Seeker's Point and come back however, he will be waiting there for you again.

I'm sure there's no rope on the ground if you haven't completed that quest.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 20-35
Quest ID30829

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(30829))

What to do

StorylineKun-Lai Summit, step 44 of 88
Rewards13g 74s, 4,800 XP

Description

Thank you for coming, {name}. I am sorry to have been so cryptic, but I could not risk alerting the mogu to my work here. They are seeking something in the valley. Plundering the tombs of their old kings for relics of power. I could not observe them long before having to flee, but I did manage to recover a relic of my own. The Tongue of Ba-Shon will let us communicate securely over long distances, but only after I have bound it to myself. I think I'm ready to begin, if you are.

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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.

Kun-Lai Summit Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Kun-Lai Summit map showing where to go for The Tongue of Ba-ShonTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #379 43.8 51.0

Coordinates

  • Turn-inKun-Lai Summit 43.8, 51.0/way #379 43.8 51.0
  • Objective areaKun-Lai Summit 43.5, 51.4/way #379 43.5 51.4

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 Kun-Lai Summit map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Kun-Lai Summit:

  • Winter's Blossom, Kun-Lai SummitAlliance and Horde · about 670 yards south-west
  • Kota Basecamp, Kun-Lai SummitAlliance and Horde · about 780 yards south
  • One Keg, Kun-Lai SummitAlliance and Horde · about 950 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 30 yards south-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
Money13 gold74 silver
Experience4,800 XP

Storyline

Kun-Lai Summit

Part 44 of 88.

Previous: Seeker's Folly · Next: It Was Almost Alive

  1. 39They Stole My Luck!
  2. 40Comin' Round the Mountain
  3. 41One Traveler's Misfortune
  4. 42Seeker's Folly
  5. 43Seeker's Folly
  6. 44The Tongue of Ba-Shon
  7. 45It Was Almost Alive
  8. 46The Tomb of Shadows
  9. 47Breaking the Emperor's Shield
  10. 48Stealing Their Thunder King
  11. 49Lessons from History
  12. 50Chasing the Storm

Showing steps 39 to 50 of 88.

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.

  • Seeker's FollyKun-Lai Summit · Level 20-35

    I'm sure your pandaren friend has some ideas about what the mogu are after. He headed up the mountain a few days ago without a guide, and asked that only you be sent up after him. He was very specific: "The <class> must endure the trek alone, with only his thoughts.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • It Was Almost AliveKun-Lai Summit · Level 20-35

    A ritual took place here, and from the looks of it wasn't successful. Among the abandoned items a book lies open. The text on the pages is foreign to you. Carrying the whole book may be difficult, but a single page might be enough.

The storyline at a glance

Kun-Lai Summit has 88 steps, from Call Out Their Leader to Unbelievable!.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Kun-Lai Summit (87), Vale of Eternal Blossoms (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Kun-Lai Summit 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.