Theocritus' Retrieval
Quest #178
Level 23
Elwynn Forest
no runs yet
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What to do
Bring the Faded Shadowhide Pendant to Theocritus the Mage.
The quest giver's words
<You hear a disembodied voice...>
Do not be alarmed. I am Theocritus, High Mage of Tower Azora in Elwynn Forest. The pendant you are holding is a method of communication between the Shadowhide Gnolls and their master, Morganth.
Through months of research, I believe I too can communicate through these pendants. If you can hear this message, then my spell was a success.
Bring me this pendant and I will reward you for the service.
Progress
I spoke to you through a pendant, you say? Hmm...give it to me, so that I might study it.
Completion
You have my gratitude, <name>. I sent that message to the Shadowhide Pendants weeks ago and had believed it a failure. But it seems the spell did reach at least some pendants, after a significant delay.
In time I hope to learn how to send an attack through the pendants, to immobilize any Shadowhide Gnolls who wear them.
But before that is possible, I'm afraid that much more research is required.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Faded Shadowhide Pendant
The reward
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Restoring Balm
item #1970 · Common · item level 24 · sells for 1s 20c
- Money
- 12s
- and 8s 40c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 1,400
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at level 28 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 15–28 1,400 100% 29 1,100 80% 30 850 60% 31 550 40% 32 280 20% 33–89 140 10% 90 none 8s 40c more money The game pays the full figure up to five levels above the quest, then 20 % less for each level more, down to a tenth, and none at the level cap. A bonus of your own (a guild perk, a holiday) comes on top.
Reputation
- Stormwind +150
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome, Draenei
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 23, requires level 15
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
This quest stands alone: nothing leads to it and nothing follows it.
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Glowing Shadowhide Pendant item · no recorded location
- Hand in to
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- Theocritus npc · Elwynn Forest at 0.652, 0.697
- turn in
These two markers are the quest giver's and the hand-in's own positions – not where anybody was standing. The recorded positions are further down, under the community data.
Relevant locations
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Elwynn Forest
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Theocritus
Hand the quest in · 65.2, 69.7
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The pins are the game's own map markers; the coordinates are the game's 0–100, as
/way takes them.
What players recorded
Everything below this line is a different kind of knowledge from everything above it. Above: what the quest is, the same on every realm. Below: what actually happened when people played it, uploaded by them, with the number of runs printed against every figure. It is an observation, not a fact about the quest.
Nobody has completed this quest with telemetry on yet, so there is no timing. Everything below is drawn straight from the 0 recorded attempts the hub has.
How precise this guide is
Early guide Built from 0 runs by 0 players – low confidence. Every upload of this quest sharpens it: the hotspots tighten, the order and the timings settle, and the parts below unlock as the sample grows.
- Where to go – pick-up, objectives and hand-in needs one recorded run not yet
- Typical time and objective order – median and middle half needs 3 completed runs (now 0) not yet
- Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 0) not yet
- Where players die – death hotspots on the map needs 5 characters from at least 2 different people (now 0 from 0) not yet
Timings
Based on 0 completed runs. Computed on this page; the analyser has not published this quest yet.
Same 0 runs.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills.
The route
An early route: drawn from the first runs and sharper with every upload. Pick-up, hand-in and the objective hotspots are where the quest is, so they are shown from the first run.
Map coordinates are the addon's own 0–1 zone coordinates (Elwynn Forest), origin top-left, x to the right and y downward. Drag the zone map to pan, ctrl/⌘ + scroll or the buttons to zoom; the grid lines are tenths of the zone.
- Pick up
- Not recorded yet.
- Turn in
- Not recorded yet.
- Deaths during this quest
- None recorded – nobody died doing this.
Objectives, in the order players do them
No objective progress has been uploaded for this quest yet. Once somebody plays it with the addon on, the objectives and their hotspots appear here automatically.
Tips
No tips yet – they need a handful of runs before they say anything true.
Recorded runs
No runs recorded yet.
Community notes
Nobody has added a note to this quest yet.