TheWoWDBThe 3 Clues are:
1. Dead body on the deck of the ship.
2. Alliance Banner inside ship.
3. Journal inside the ship.The Encoded Captain's Log drops from a Hozen Diver swimming inside the sunken ship. He's wearing a diving helmet.
Quest
The White Pawn
A World of Warcraft quest in The Jade Forest. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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When you pick up the Fine Leather Journal, be sure you have inventory space because you "create" Partially Soaked Pages when you do. If you are unable to create the pages then you will not be able to complete the quest. A little FYI I learned after a few moments of bewilderment.
This quest also rewards a book called "Partially Soaked Pages". The book reads:
<Most of the pages are soaked in water, you can make out a few passages.>
The battle is more fearsome then I could have imagined.
All around us, I hear the booming of Horde artillery.
Their shells rain upon the deck above, and the screams of the crew are drowned out only by the roar of return fire.
Admiral Taylor bade me hide here, in the hold, until the fighting ceases.
They have posted guards outside my door.
I feel restless, I should be out there, helping them!
Those that did not perish in the initial battle were lost in the ensuing storm.
As our battered ships fought their way through rain and fog, the most critically injured succumbed to their injuries.
I did what I could to staunch their wounds, but it was not enough.
Why am I always too late to save my friends?
I awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of a great, loud noise, like thunder.
The ship was running aground on the rocks.
The ship groaned and listed, and shouts and screams erupted on deck.
I rushed to the door of my cabin, but my bodyguard locked me inside.
There is nothing I can do now but wait.
The Sapphire has washed up on an unfamiliar shore. The ship is still, and all around me, I hear silence.
No one has come for me and I fear that the crew is dead.
The cabin is filling with water, so I must find a way out soon.
If any Alliance soldier finds this, know that I, Prince Anduin Wrynn, am alive.
I am going to travel inland and search of food and aid.
Please tell my father that I am well.This is a lore item only, and it may be safely deleted once you are finished with it.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-35
ZoneThe Jade Forest
Quest ID29555
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(29555))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineThe Jade Forest, The Waterspeaking Ceremony, step 1 of 13
RewardsPartially Soaked Pages, 13g 74s, 4,800 XP
Partially Soaked Pages, 13g 74s, 4,800 XPDescription
Alright, soldier. I've got a critical mission for you. Get down to the coastline south of here - in the cove there you'll find a wrecked Alliance vessel. I need you to search it and find out if it was the ship that was carrying Anduin. Then, recover the Captain's Log and see if it has any information on where we can find him. Since the log is from a military ship, it'll be written using a cipher - take it to Nodd Codejack afterwards. He's keeping watch on the wreck from the other end of the cove.
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #371 50.4 88.3
Coordinates
- Turn-inThe Jade Forest 50.4, 88.3
/way #371 50.4 88.3 - Objective areaThe Jade Forest 50.3, 90.8
/way #371 50.3 90.8 - Objective areaThe Jade Forest 47.8, 88.1
/way #371 47.8 88.1
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 The Jade Forest map
- Mists of Pandaria: Onward to Adventure in Pandaria about 340 yards
- The Mission about 620 yards
- Defiance about 750 yards
- Rally the Survivors about 750 yards
- Orchard-Supplied Hardware about 760 yards
- Spitfire about 760 yards
- Unbound about 940 yards
- Maul Gormal about 940 yards
- The Splintered Path about 940 yards
- Journey to the East about 1,450 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on The Jade Forest, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Jade Forest:
- Paw'Don Village, Jade Forest
- Pearlfin Village, Jade Forest
- Serpent's Overlook, Jade Forest
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
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.
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Money13 gold74 silver
Experience4,800 XP
Reward details
Items you receive
TypeMiscellaneous
Item level1
BindingBinds when picked up
Sells to vendors for25 copper
“The penmanship is impeccable.”
Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.
Storyline
The Jade Forest, The Waterspeaking Ceremony
Part 1 of 13.
Next: Hozen Aren't Your Friends, Hozen Are Your Enemies
- 1The White Pawn
- 2Hozen Aren't Your Friends, Hozen Are Your Enemies
- 3The Missing Admiral
- 4The Path of War
- 5Freeing Our Brothers
- 6Ancient Power
- 7Kung Din
- 8Jailbreak
- 9The Pearlfin Situation
- 10Road Rations
- 11The Elder's Instruments
- 12Family Heirlooms
- 13Spirits of the Water
Also part of: The Jade Forest (part 19 of 88).
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.
- Hozen Aren't Your Friends, Hozen Are Your Enemies
We've located an Alliance wreck to the south. Unfortunately, the locals have informed us that it's currently being scavenged by a group of creatures called "hozen." By pillaging our wrecked ships, these creatures have already shown that they aren't friendly.
The storyline at a glance
The Jade Forest, The Waterspeaking Ceremony has 13 steps, from The White Pawn to Spirits of the Water.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Jade Forest (13).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on The Jade Forest map
- The Jade Forest, Dawn's Blossom & Tian Monastery & Nectarbreeze Village
- The Jade Forest, Greenstone Quarry & Terrace of Ten Thunders & The Jade Serpent
- The Jade Forest, Strange Bedfellows & Grookin Hill
- The Jade Forest, The White Pawn & Pearlfin Village
- The Jade Forest, Paw'don Village
- Mists of Pandaria
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.