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The Upstart

A World of Warcraft quest in Azj-Kahet. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 78-80
ZoneAzj-Kahet
Quest ID81667

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(81667))

What to do

StorylineSubterfuge in Silk, step 1 of 7
Rewards22g 78s, 7,950 XP

Description

You are the Weaver's "untethered third party?" Excellent. You are the perfect catalyst for a coup. The City of Threads has sent an upstart here to seize control of Rak-Ahat. The arrival of Ren'khat has everything all tangled up. He postures himself as some kind of silk visionary from the city, and he challenges the authority of the Overspinner who refused to relinquish control. Bad for the Overspinner, good for us. Speak with Ren'khat and feed his ambition. Help him against the Overspinner.

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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.

Azj-Kahet Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Azj-Kahet map showing where to go for The UpstartTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #2255 66.6 41.3

Coordinates

  • Turn-inAzj-Kahet 66.6, 41.3/way #2255 66.6 41.3
  • Objective areaAzj-Kahet 69.7, 48.0/way #2255 69.7 48.0

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 Azj-Kahet map

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

Getting there

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

  • Weaver's Lair, Azj-KahetAlliance and Horde · about 710 yards west
  • Faerin's Advance, Azj-KahetAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards north-west
  • Mmarl, Azj-KahetAlliance and Horde · about 1,300 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 370 yards south-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
Money22 gold78 silver
Experience7,950 XP

Storyline

Subterfuge in Silk

Part 1 of 7.

Sericulture Local Story

Next: The Entrenched

  1. 1The Upstart
  2. 2The Entrenched
  3. 3Measure Once, Cut Thrice
  4. 4Spring Collection
  5. 5I Expect You To Dye
  6. 6Azj-Kahet's Next Top Dyemaster
  7. 7That's All

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.

  • The EntrenchedAzj-Kahet · Level 78-80

    And now the other piece to this coup. I've been operating under Grand Overspinner Antourix's mandibles for a while now. She's entrenched in Rak-Ahat, and thinks nothing can touch her at the top. She has already refused to submit to Ren'khat.

The storyline at a glance

Subterfuge in Silk has 7 steps, from The Upstart to That's All.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Azj-Kahet (7).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Azj-Kahet 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.