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Understanding the Shadowlands

Understanding the Shadowlands is a quest for level 50-60 in Oribos. It is step 7 of 8 in the Arrival in the Shadowlands storyline. It rewards 4,100 experience and money.

Description

As I sat upon the Frozen Throne all those years, <name>, I could peer into the Shadowlands. Brief glimpses, clouded and uncertain. Sights both wondrous and terrible.

We must work together to make sense of what has happened. To prevent the Maw from consuming all of reality.

Whatever Sylvanas and the Jailer want, we must stop them. But we cannot do so alone.

Perhaps Tal-Inara can put us on the path to find answers.

Rewards

Money12 gold87 silver
Experience4,100 XP
Top Comments

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Oceandust+12via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

If you run ahead of the NPC and take the teleporter before his dialogue finishes you won't get credit for the quest. Take the teleporter back to the Ring of Fates and then take it again to the Ring of Transference. You will then get credit.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold12g 87s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapOribos
Objective areaOribos3 mapped points
World Map

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.

Oribos Quest turn-in
Oribos Objective area 3 mapped points
Oribos map showing where to go for Understanding the ShadowlandsObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #1670 40.8 65.9

Coordinates

  • Objective areaOribos 40.8, 65.9/way #1670 40.8 65.9
  • Objective areaOribos 52.3, 57.1/way #1670 52.3 57.1

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 Oribos map

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

Getting there

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

  • OribosAlliance and Horde · about 60 yards south-east
  • 9.0 Maw - Oribos - Teleport InAlliance and Horde · about 60 yards north-west
  • Halls of Atonement, RevendrethAlliance and Horde · about 4,100 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 120 yards south-west
  • Objective areaabout 120 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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Arrival in the Shadowlands

Part 7 of 8.

Previous: The Eternal City · Next: The Path to Bastion

  1. 1Stranger in an Even Stranger Land
  2. 2No Place for the Living
  3. 3Audience with the Arbiter
  4. 4Tether to Home
  5. 5A Doorway Through the Veil
  6. 6The Eternal City
  7. 7Understanding the Shadowlands
  8. 8The Path to Bastion

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.

  • The Eternal CityOribos · Level 50-60

    You should become familiar with the Eternal City and how best to navigate it. We, the attendants, serve Oribos as its caretakers. Everything you see here is done in service to the Purpose. In this time of chaos and drought, we must adapt our perspective.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Path to BastionOribos · Level 50-60

    Within the Arbiter's Chamber are gateways to the infinite realms of the Shadowlands. As each soul was judged, a gateway would be opened to the appropriate afterlife. But since the... incident, all gateways have remained closed. Dormant.

The storyline at a glance

Arrival in the Shadowlands has 8 steps, from Stranger in an Even Stranger Land to The Path to Bastion.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Oribos (6), Oribos (2).

Other storylines on the Oribos 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.

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Quest Location and Connections

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