The Lich's Identity
Quest #357
Level 8
Undercity
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What to do
Bring the Lich's Spellbook to Bethor Iceshard in the Undercity.
Objective by objective
- Collect The Lich's Spellbook item #2833
The quest's own structured objectives. How many of each you need is set by the game when you accept it, so it is not stored here – the sentence above is the quest's own wording.
The quest giver's words
There is a lich who dwells on the island in Brightwater Lake to the north. Although he is a free-willed Forsaken, he believes all other Undead are Scourge slaves and has his minions attack anyone who approaches him.
But because he is Forsaken, the Queen will want him. And if he is skilled in Necromancy, then his knowledge would be...quite useful to us.
To discover his identity and his talents, I must see his spellbook. Steal into his camp and acquire it, then return to me.
Progress
<name>, have you acquired the book?
Completion
Very good, <name>. I will study this book and determine the identity of that lich. You have served your Queen well.
Astonishing! The book you retrieved belongs to no one other than Gunther Arcanus!
Gunther was a skilled Necromancer in life; he and I were friends and comrades-in-arms, before the Plague. And judging from his book he has grown even more powerful in death.
His skills would be a great boon to us.
Category: Undercity.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- 1s 75c
- and 3s 30c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 525
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at level 13 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 5–13 525 100% 14 420 80% 15 320 60% 16 210 40% 17 110 20% 18–89 55 10% 90 none 3s 30c 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
- Undercity +75
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- Orc, Undead, Tauren, Troll
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 8, requires level 5
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- The Prodigal Lich #405 · any one of these
After this
- Return the Book #366
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Bethor Iceshard npc · Undercity at 0.841, 0.174
- Hand in to
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- Bethor Iceshard npc · Undercity at 0.841, 0.174
- pick up
- 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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Undercity
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Bethor Iceshard
Starts the quest · 84.1, 17.4
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Bethor Iceshard
Hand the quest in · 84.1, 17.4
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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 (Undercity), 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.