What to do
Return the Sacred Artifact to Lord Irulon Trueblade at Valgarde.
The quest giver's words
<Ares smiles.>
Glory to the Light. You have done it!
<Ares coughs.>
Take the artifact and return it to Valgarde. Lord Irulon Trueblade awaits its return.
Fight with honor, friend. Always. Honor.
<Ares dies.>
Progress
By the Light!
Completion
Many men and women died to recover this blade. Alas, I fear valiant Ares will not be the last.
But you do the Light's work, hero. This sacred blade will be wielded by Lord Tirion Fordring himself. Even now the Argent Crusade works toward Icecrown. Lord Fordring has vowed that he will tear down the walls of the cursed place himself! And with the blade, he just might stand a chance against the Lich King.
Lord Fordring remains our greatest hope.
Category: Howling Fjord.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Sacred Artifact
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- 4g 70s
- and 60s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 10,050
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at level 76 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 68–76 10,050 100% 77 8,050 80% 78 6,050 60% 79 4,000 40% 80 2,000 20% 81–89 1,000 10% 90 none 60s 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
- Valiance Expedition +75
- Argent Crusade +75
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 71, requires level 68
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- The Shining Light #11288 · any one of these
After this
Nothing follows it.
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Ares the Oathbound npc · Howling Fjord at 0.593, 0.554
- Hand in to
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- Lord Irulon Trueblade npc · Howling Fjord at 0.597, 0.624
- 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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Howling Fjord
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Ares the Oathbound
Starts the quest · 59.3, 55.4
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Lord Irulon Trueblade
Hand the quest in · 59.7, 62.4
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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 (Howling Fjord), 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.