What to do
Vaelen the Flayed at The Shadow Vault wants you to free 8 Ebon Blade Prisoners. They can be found in the cages throughout the greater Jotunheim region.
Objective by objective
- Kill (any of) Ebon Blade Prisoner NPC #30186 counts 4 different creatures
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
Now that I'm back, I'm certain that the baron will want me to recover my men. I can see that we're barely hanging on here. The Lich King's forces are about to break through and we won't be able to hold without my captured death knights.
Can you assist me once more, <name>?
Go back to Jotunheim and let them out of those cages. Break the damn locks, I don't care what you have to do. The vrykul likely have the keys.
Just get my men free!
Completion
Thank you, <class>. With the death knights that you freed, we'll be able to hold the line... for now.
Category: Icecrown.
What you need
- You must be carrying
The reward
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Ebon Pauldrons
item #43844 · Uncommon · item level 174 · sells for 7g 35s 54c
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Shadow Vault Cowl
item #43859 · Uncommon · item level 174 · sells for 7g 22s 52c
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Gloves of the Flayed
item #43910 · Uncommon · item level 174 · sells for 4g 69s 56c
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Links of the Battlemender
item #43935 · Uncommon · item level 174 · sells for 9g 75s 83c
- Money
- 7g 40s
- and 1g 32s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 22,050
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at level 85 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 77–85 22,050 100% 86 17,650 80% 87 13,250 60% 88 8,800 40% 89 4,400 20% 90 none 1g 32s 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
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 80, requires level 77
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Vaelen Has Returned #13085 · any one of these
After this
- To the Rise with all Due Haste! #12806
- Shoot 'Em Up #13069
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Vaelen the Flayed npc · Icecrown at 0.431, 0.211
- Hand in to
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- Vaelen the Flayed npc · Icecrown at 0.431, 0.211
- 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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Icecrown
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Vaelen the Flayed
Starts the quest · 43.1, 21.1
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Vaelen the Flayed
Hand the quest in · 43.1, 21.1
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Ebon Blade Prisoner
Quest objective · 32.0, 27.4
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Jotunheim Warrior
Quest objective · 39.0, 24.0
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Instructor Hroegar
Quest objective · 37.0, 23.2
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Mjordin Combatant
Quest objective · 37.2, 23.4
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Njorndar Spear-Sister
Quest objective · 34.6, 27.0
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Valhalas Vargul
Quest objective · 34.0, 36.2
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Mjordin Water Magus
Quest objective · 31.0, 27.0
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Jotunheim Sleep-Watcher
Quest objective · 27.4, 47.8
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Kul'galar Oracle
Quest objective · 26.2, 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 (Icecrown), 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.