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Unearthed Knowledge

Unearthed Knowledge is an Alliance-only quest for level 5-30 in Darkshore. It is step 49 of 55 in the Darkshore storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Darkshore at 37.7, 82.8. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 2,050 experience and money.

Description

Listen, <name>. We need to learn more about what we're up against.

To the southwest, beyond the Master's Glaive, there is a group of dwarven prospectors who were excavating the nearby ruins.

Perhaps they have uncovered knowledge that is useful to us in this matter.

Rewards

Money5 gold25 silver
Experience2,050 XP
ReputationIronforge +75
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP2,050
MoneyGold5g 25s
ReputationIronforge+75

Reward details

Reputation: Ironforge +75

This Alliance capital is the pride of the Dun Morogh dwarves. Home to King Magni.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Darkshore that reward Ironforge reputation: The Last Refugee (+350).

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapDarkshoreTurn-in marker at 37.7, 82.8, 2 mapped points
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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.

Darkshore Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Darkshore map showing where to go for Unearthed KnowledgeTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #62 37.7 82.8

Coordinates

  • Turn-inDarkshore 37.7, 82.8/way #62 37.7 82.8
  • Objective areaDarkshore 45.3, 75.0/way #62 45.3 75.0

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 Darkshore map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Darkshore:

  • Grove of the Ancients, DarkshoreAlliance · about 540 yards north-east
  • Blackfathom Camp, AshenvaleAlliance · about 780 yards south
  • Wildheart Point, FelwoodAlliance and Horde · about 1,500 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 600 yards north-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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Darkshore

Part 49 of 55.

Previous: Stepping Up Surveillance · Next: Soggoth and Kronn

  1. 44The Bear's Paw
  2. 45The Bear's Blessing
  3. 46Cleansing the Afflicted
  4. 47The Defiler
  5. 48Stepping Up Surveillance
  6. 49Unearthed Knowledge
  7. 50Soggoth and Kronn
  8. 51The Slumbering Ancients
  9. 52Naga In Our Midst
  10. 53The Darkscale Warlord
  11. 54The Offering to Azshara
  12. 55The Battle for Darkshore

Showing steps 44 to 55 of 55.

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.

  • Stepping Up SurveillanceDarkshore · Level 5-30

    The cultists appear to be digging out the remains of a being known as Soggoth the Slitherer. Perhaps their superiors on the rafters above have more information.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Soggoth and KronnDarkshore · Level 5-30

    The Master's Glaive was the site of an ancient battle, <name>. The titans sent twenty of their stone giants against Soggoth. Of those twenty giants, one survived.

The storyline at a glance

Darkshore has 55 steps, from The Last Wave of Survivors to The Battle for Darkshore.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Darkshore (55).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Darkshore 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.

Related
Undoing the Damage
Undying Totems
Undying Twilight
Unearthed Artifacts
Unexpected Aid
Unexpected Allies
Unexpected Guests
Unexpected Results
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