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What Strange Creatures...

A World of Warcraft quest in Shadowmoon Valley. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 25-30
ZoneShadowmoon Valley
Quest ID10660

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10660))

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineShadowmoon Valley, step 23 of 147
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

I am interested in learning more about the strange reptiles that mill about the lava flows of Shadowmoon Valley. Never have I seen beasts able to withstand the searing heat of molten lava! Outside of Shadowmoon Village, where the ground has ruptured and lava flows through the cracks, you will find felfire diemetradons. Slay them and bring me their spleens. From their spleens I will be able to begin preliminary analysis of their resistance to heat. Begin your search to the southeast.

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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.

Shadowmoon Valley Quest turn-in 25 mapped points
Shadowmoon Valley map showing where to go for What Strange Creatures...Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #104 30.1 28.3

Coordinates

  • Turn-inShadowmoon Valley 30.1, 28.3/way #104 30.1 28.3
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Shadowmoon Valley 34.4, 28.2/way #104 34.4 28.2
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Shadowmoon Valley 37.9, 43.4/way #104 37.9 43.4
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Shadowmoon Valley 31.1, 39.0/way #104 31.1 39.0

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 Shadowmoon Valley map

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

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Shadowmoon Valley:

  • Shadowmoon Village, Shadowmoon ValleyHorde · about 40 yards south
  • Spinebreaker Ridge, Hellfire PeninsulaHorde · about 1,700 yards north
  • Sanctum of the Stars, Shadowmoon ValleyAlliance and Horde · about 1,800 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 240 yards east
  • Objective areaabout 700 yards south-east
  • Objective areaabout 400 yards south

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
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP

Storyline

Shadowmoon Valley

Part 23 of 147.

Previous: News of Victory · Next: Frankly, It Makes No Sense...

  1. 18Gaining Access
  2. 19Invasion Point: Cataclysm
  3. 20The Art of Fel Reaver Maintenance
  4. 21The Fel and the Furious
  5. 22News of Victory
  6. 23What Strange Creatures...
  7. 24Frankly, It Makes No Sense...
  8. 25Felspine the Greater
  9. 26The Path of Conquest
  10. 27Breaching the Path
  11. 28When Worlds Collide...
  12. 29Tabards of the Illidari

Showing steps 18 to 29 of 147.

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.

  • News of VictoryShadowmoon Valley · Level 25-30

    You must bring word of our success to Kurdran Wildhammer immediately! His men, under Wing Commander Nuainn, have fought nonstop to keep Wildhammer Stronghold safe and your return will surely bolster their spirits.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Frankly, It Makes No Sense...Shadowmoon Valley · Level 25-30

    We must study these creatures further. Far to the east - near the huge lava flow beneath the ruins of Baa'ri - you will find arcano control units. These controllers were crafted by a genius named Gnomus for the sole purpose of exploring lava via mechanical scorpion.

The storyline at a glance

Shadowmoon Valley has 147 steps, from Spleendid! to A Job Unfinished....

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Shadowmoon Valley (129), Terokkar Forest (10), Nagrand (7), Shattrath City (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Shadowmoon Valley 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.