Decipher the Tome
Quest #10229
Level 61
Hellfire Peninsula
1 run – thin
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What to do
Take the Mysterious Tome to Althen the Historian in Spinebreaker Post.
The quest giver's words
This tome appears to be some sort of history written in a secret Alliance cipher. Althen, the historian in Spinebreaker Post, has studied the Unyielding for some time; he may be able to crack the Alliance code and decipher the book.
Progress
What is this? A book carried by an Unyielding spirit? How strange. Let me study it. Perhaps I can learn the history of the Unyielding.
Completion
I have studied ancient history my entire un-life. I have never seen anything like this book. It tells the entire history of the Armory, including events that happened after its destruction.
The Unyielding have kept their history, even after they had fallen in battle. With this book we will be able to understand the Unyielding and convince them to join us.
Category: Hellfire Peninsula.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- A Mysterious Tome
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- none
- and 5s 70c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 975
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at level 66 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 58–66 975 100% 67 775 80% 68 575 60% 69 390 40% 70 190 20% 71–89 95 10% 90 none 5s 70c 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.
The listed figures and the players here disagree, so both are shown rather than one picked.
- Experience: players were paid 10% more than the 975 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.
Reputation
- Thrallmar +10
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 61, requires level 58
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Spinebreaker Post #10242 · any one of these
After this
- The Battle Horn #10230
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- A Mysterious Tome item · no recorded location
- Hand in to
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- Althen the Historian npc · Hellfire Peninsula at 0.617, 0.818
- 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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Hellfire Peninsula
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Althen the Historian
Hand the quest in · 61.7, 81.8
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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.
This guide rests on 1 completed run. That is enough to show where people went and not enough to trust the timings – treat them as one player's evening.
How precise this guide is
Early guide Built from 1 run by 1 player – 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 available
- Typical time and objective order – median and middle half needs 3 completed runs (now 1) not yet
- Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 1) not yet
- Where players die – death hotspots on the map needs 5 characters from at least 2 different people (now 1 from 1) not yet
Timings
Based on 1 completed run. Published by the analyser – low confidence.
Same 1 run; mean 31 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills, typically 1,072 XP, done around level 62.
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 (Hellfire Peninsula), 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
- turn in
- Pick up
- 0.620, 0.810 median of 1 recorded accept on Hellfire Peninsula
- Turn in
- 0.620, 0.820 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Hellfire Peninsula
- 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
| Character | Time | Deaths | Level | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bananaroot-Hoptallus |
31 s | 0 | 62 | – |
Community notes
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