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<<Feedback here, please>>Return from the Firelands{H}*──>G)The Fires of Mount Hyjal | 4)Fighting Fire With ... Anything G)Aviana's Legacy | | S)Wings Over Mount Hyjal<──Return to Nordrassil* |OR| ┌──────────┴──────────┐ 1)An Offering for Aviana 1)Scrambling for Eggs 1)The Wormwing Problem S)A Plea From Beyond ├─────────────────────┘ 1)A Prayer and a Wing 1)A Bird in Hand ├────────────────────────┘ 2)Fact-Finding Mission ├─────────────────┬──────────────────────┐ 2)Sethria's Brood 2)The Codex of Shadows 2)A Gap in Their Armor | 2)Egg Hunt 2)Disassembly ├─────────────────┴──────────────────────┘ 2)Sethria's Demise 1)Return to the Shrine 1)An Ancient Reborn ├>3)The Hatchery Must Burn | 3)Flight in the Firelands | 3)Wave One | 3)Wave Two | 3)Egg Wave | 1)Return to Aviana | | The Return of the Ancients* | ├─────────────────────┬────>4)If You're Not Against Us... | 4)Save the Wee Animals | 4)Seeds of Their Demise | 4)Oh, Deer! | 4)A New Master | | | 4)The Name Never Spoken(ver2) | | 4)Disrupting the Rituals 4)Black Heart of Flame | ├──┴─────────────────────────┘ | S)Last Stand at Whistling Grove | 4)The Bears Up There | 5)Smashing Through Ashes | ├───────────────┬──────────────>6)Firebreak | 6)Fresh Bait 6)Durable Seeds 6)Prepping the Soil | 6)Hell's Shells └────────────────┴──────────┐ | 5)Tortolla Speaks | | ├────────────────────┐ | | 5)Breaking the Bonds 5)Children of Tortolla | | ├────────────────────┘ | | 5)An Ancient Awakens | ├──┴───────────────────────────────────────────┘ 6)The Last Living Lorekeeper<──Return from the Firelands{H}* 6)Firefight 4)Aessina's Miracle───┬>7)Hyjal Recycling Program 7)Tortolla's Revenge └>7)Lost Wardens ├>7)Breakthrough 7)Pressing the Advantage | 7)The Hammer and the Key 8)The Third Flamegate─────>8)The Time for Mercy has Passed 8)The Strength of Tortolla 8)Finish Nemesis 7)Tortolla's Triumph 9)The Ancients are With Us──>Commander Jarod Shadowsong* Quest zones:
1)Shrine of Aviana_____2)Sethria's Roost_____3)Firelands Hatchery_____4)Grove of Aessina+The Inferno_____5)Ashen Lake+Sanctuary of Malorne_____6)The Flamewake_____7)The Scorched Plain_____8)The Crucible of Flame_____9)Nordrassil
G)Gluing Separate Questlines_____S)Skippable
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Quest
Tortolla's Triumph
A World of Warcraft quest in Mount Hyjal. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Tortolla quest chain
You're most likely coming from Aessina's Miracle
(The map of Hyjal phases at this time. The western part is no longer burnt. Tortolla moved)
m1. Tortolla's Revenge (go to Tortolla) 1. The Hammer and the Key (kill ogre) 2. Lost Wardens (rescue 8) 3. Breakthrough 1. The Third Flamegate 2. Pressing the Advantage (k 4 ogres) 4. Hyjal Recycling Program | | 1. The Time for Mercy has Passed 5. The Strength of Tortolla (bring turtle to crystal) (kill 4 + 10) 5. Finish Nemesis (kill Nemesis in cave) 5. Tortolla's Triumph (go to Tortolla, get ilvl 288 rare) 5. The Ancients are With Us (go to Ysera) Twilight quest chain begins
Guide to Alliance Mount Hyjal Quests, part 1:
Optional initial quests:
Hero's Call
As Hyjal Burns
The Earth Rises
Inciting the Elements and Flames from AboveThen:
Protect the World Tree (unlocks optional War on the Twilight's Hammer)
The Flameseer's Staff
Flamebreaker
The Return of Baron Geddon
Emerald Allies
The Captured Scout
Twilight Captivity
Return to Alysra
A Prisoner of Interest
Through the Dream
Return to NodrassilAt this point, you must awaken three ancients. A Vision of Ysera will appear after each. You must awaken Goldrinn before beginning the Aessina/Tortolla quests but can otherwise work on them in any order.
Goldrinn Quests:
The Return of the Ancients (enables optional Harrying the Hunters and In the Rear with the Gear)
End of the Supply Line
The Voice of Goldrinn
Goldrinn's Ferocity
Lycanthoth the Corruptor enables several optional quest chains:
- The Shrine Reclaimed (optional but do it now if you are are going to do it)
- Gar'gol's Gotta Go and Get Me Outta Here!
- From the Mouth of Madness and Free Your Mind, the Rest Follows
- The Eye of Twilight, Mastering Puppets, Elementary!, and Return to Duskwhisper
Cleaning House (enables optional Sweeping the Shelf)
Lightning in a Bottle (enables optional Into the Maw! / Into the Maw!)
Rage of the Wolf Ancient, Forged of Shadow and Flame, and Crushing the Cores
Cindermaul, the Portal Master
Forgemaster Pyrendius
Return from the Firelands [vision of Ysera]Aviana Quests:
(optional linking quests ofWings over Mount Hyjal or Aviana's Legacy)
Two chains:
* An Offering for Aviana, A Plea from Beyond, and A Prayer and a Wing
* The Wormwing problem, Scrambling for Eggs, and then A Bird in HandNext comes Fact-Finding Mission which enables these required quests:
- Setheria's Brood
- A Gap in Their Armor and Disassembly
- The Codex of Shadows [from here ] leads to Egg Hunt
Finish the above for
Sethria's Demise
Return to the Shrine
An Ancient Reborn [Vision of Ysera]Optional bonus:
The Hatchery Must Burn
Flight in the Firelands
Wave One
Wave Two
Egg Wave [gives Beware of the 'Unbeatable?' Pterodacyl and choice of Gold Mini Jouster or Blue Mini Jouster]
Return to AvianaAessina/Tortolla Quests (must do Goldrinn first)
The Fires of Mount Hyjal (optional)
Save the Wee Animals and Oh, Deer!
Fighting Fire With ... Anything (optional, but must complete before Aessina's Miracle)
Disrupting the Rituals
If you're Not Against Us...
Seeds of Their Demise
A New Master
The Name Never Spoken
Black Heart of Flame
Good News... and Bad News (auto-accepted; can not be obtained later)
Last Stand at Whistling Grove
The Bears Up There (a good time to do Bounce!)
Smashing Through Ashes enables additional required quests:
Fresh Bait
Hell's Shells
Tortolla Speaks
An Ancient Awakens [Vision after all chains].After waking all the ancients, the third vision gives The Last Living Lorekeeper.
Continued in part 2.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(25928))
What to do
Description
I'll escort the children of Tortolla out of here and seal up this accursed portal. I'll leave it to you to inform Tortolla of our victory. Simply step back through the flamegate. The ancient will be pleased!
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #198 41.8 60.9
Coordinates
- Turn-inMount Hyjal 41.8, 60.9
/way #198 41.8 60.9 - Objective areaMount Hyjal 64.3, 53.6
/way #198 64.3 53.6
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 Mount Hyjal map
- Aviana's Grace about 380 yards
- Attack on the Roost about 470 yards
- Mother's Orders about 490 yards
- Talon Terror about 520 yards
- Battle Pet Tamers: Cataclysm about 1,150 yards
- Moments of Reflection about 1,240 yards
- Champion: Minerva Ravensorrow about 1,270 yards
- Communing With Malorne about 1,320 yards
- A Fresh Trauma about 1,330 yards
- Healing Nordrassil about 1,330 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Mount Hyjal, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Mount Hyjal:
- Shrine of Aviana, Hyjal
- Sanctuary of Malorne, Hyjal
- Grove of Aessina, Hyjal
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- 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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Reward details
Reputation: Guardians of Hyjal +10
Faced with the impending devastation of Mount Hyjal, the most powerful members of the Cenarion Circle have joined forces with their Emerald Dragonflight allies to fend off Ragnaros' elemental hordes and the Twilight's Hammer.
Reputation group: Cataclysm.
Other quests in Mount Hyjal that reward Guardians of Hyjal reputation: Trial By Fire (+250), In Bloom (+250), End of the Supply Line (+250), In the Rear With the Gear (+250), Harrying the Hunters (+250), The Voice of Goldrinn (+10).
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
Mount Hyjal
Part 85 of 118.
Previous: Finish Nemesis · Next: The Ancients are With Us
- 80Aessina's Miracle
- 81The Hammer and the Key
- 82The Third Flamegate
- 83The Strength of Tortolla
- 84Finish Nemesis
- 85Tortolla's Triumph
- 86The Ancients are With Us
- 87Commander Jarod Shadowsong
- 88Signed in Blood
- 89Your New Identity
- 90Trial By Fire
- 91In Bloom
Showing steps 80 to 91 of 118.
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.
- Finish Nemesis
Your turtle companion can use this newfound power to render the two of you invulnerable for a short period of time. You can "turtle up" to avoid the worst of Nemesis and his fury. To do so, simply invoke this totem. This is all I can do for you.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Ancients are With Us
Nemesis... destroyed. I feel rejuvenated. Powerful. Awakened. Tell Ysera my strength is hers. The Twilight's Hammer will fall.
The storyline at a glance
Mount Hyjal has 118 steps, from Protect the World Tree to The Firelord.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Mount Hyjal (118).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Mount Hyjal map
- The Eternal Dream IV
- Battle Pet Tamers
- The Eternal Dream II
- The Four Horsemen IV
- Moments of Reflection
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.