What to do
Go to Death's Stand and ride Dusk to the location of Tanathal's Phylactery. Obtain it and bring it back to Thassarian inside the Wailing Ziggurat.
Objective by objective
- Collect Tanathal's Phylactery item #35687
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
No time for small talk, <name>. I was sent on what was to be a suicide mission to take this ziggurat. I've accomplished my duty as a soldier, now is the time to get some answers.
This lich has knowledge I seek, yet I cannot inflict pain to his physical body to obtain that knowledge.
The lich stored his soul in a phylactery, and while it remains hidden, I won't be able to pry the information from him.
Return to the camp and take my horse, Dusk, she will lead you to the phylactery. Bring it to me.
Progress
You're back, <name>. Did you get the phylactery?
Completion
Just in time, <name>. Pinning down a lich is not as easy as it looks.
Category: Borean Tundra.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- none
- and 1g 20s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 20,100
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at level 76 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 68–76 20,100 100% 77 16,100 80% 78 12,050 60% 79 8,050 40% 80 4,000 20% 81–89 2,000 10% 90 none 1g 20s 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 +250
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
Nothing – this is where the chain starts.
After this
- Buying Some Time #11938
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Thassarian npc · Borean Tundra at 0.848, 0.417
- Hand in to
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- Thassarian npc · Borean Tundra at 0.848, 0.417
- 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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Borean Tundra
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Thassarian
Starts the quest · 84.8, 41.7
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Thassarian
Hand the quest in · 84.8, 41.7
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Phylactery Guardian
Quest objective · 85.4, 33.4
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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 (Borean Tundra), 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.