Quick Facts

Series

1.	Enemies of the Light
2.	Further Investigation
3.	The Hunt is On

Storyline
Borean Tundra Enlistment Day A Time for Heroes The Siege Death From Above Plug the Sinkholes A Soldier in Need Cultists Among Us Notify Arlos Enemies of the Light Further Investigation The Hunt is On Military? What Military? Pernicious Evidence Reference Material It's Time for Action Take No Chances Repurposed Technology Fruits of Our Labor One Last Delivery Weapons for Farshire Call to Arms! Thassarian, My Brother The Late William Allerton Lost and Found In Wine, Truth A Deserter Cowards and Fools Karuk's Oath Gamel the Cruel A Father's Words The Trident of Naz'jan The Emissary A Mission Statement Help Those That Cannot Help Themselves Khu'nok Will Know Kaw the Mammoth Destroyer Nedar, Lord of Rhinos... Happy as a Clam The Abandoned Reach Not On Our Watch The Nefarious Clam Master... Unfit for Death The Culler Cometh The Assassination of Harold Lane Monitoring the Rift: Cleftcliff Anomaly Monitoring the Rift: Sundered Chasm Monitoring the Rift: Winterfin Cavern Prison Break Abduction The Borean Inquisition The Art of Persuasion Sharing Intelligence A Race Against Time Reforging the Key Taking Wing Rescuing Evanor Dragonspeak Traversing the Rift Nuts for Berries Keep the Secret Safe Basic Training Hatching a Plan Drake Hunt Cracking the Code Puzzling... The Cell Keristrasza Bait and Switch Saragosa's End Mustering the Reds Springing the Trap The Son of Karkut Not Without a Fight! Muahit's Wisdom Spirits Watch Over Us The Tides Turn The Mechagnomes What's the Matter with the Transmatter? Check in With Bixie Oh Great... Plagued Magnataur! There's Something Going On In Those Caves Rats, Tinky Went into the Necropolis! Might As Well Wipe Out the Scourge I'm Stuck in this Damned Cage... But Not For Long! Let Bixie Know Back to the Airstrip Dirty, Stinkin' Snobolds! Just a Few More Things... Hah... You're Not So Big Now! Plan B It Was The Orcs, Honest! Re-Cursive Lefty Loosey, Righty Tighty The Gearmaster Finding Pilot Tailspin A Little Bit of Spice Lupus Pupus Emergency Protocol: Section 8.2, Paragraph C Emergency Protocol: Section 8.2, Paragraph D Give Fizzcrank the News Scouting the Sinkholes Fueling the Project A Bot in Mammoth's Clothing Deploy the Shake-n-Quake! Learning to Communicate Winterfin Commerce Oh Noes, the Tadpoles! Them! I'm Being Blackmailed By My Cleaner Grmmurggll Mrllggrl Glrggl!!! Succulent Orca Stew The Spare Suit Surrender... Not! Keymaster Urmgrgl Escape from the Winterfin Caverns Surrounded! Thassarian, the Death Knight Finding the Phylactery Buying Some Time Words of Power Last Rites

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Comment by Rando

Quest plays within Valiance Keep, use the orb you got to track them down. This orb gives you a 'buff', and is not an equip able item. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd clarify the best order you can find them (on the route)

Cultist in the Docks(2nd)

He can be found at the docks. To be more specific, the docks just behind the gryphon master, walk down the stairs you see there, and you can't miss him.

Cultist in the Jail(3rd)

Can be found in the valiance keep, though just at the building at the other side of the ship. If you enter this building, there is a stair that goes to the cellar, it's directly after the open place.

Cultist in the Kitchen (1st)

Easiest of all, this one is in the same building as you are, just walk down and go to the 'kitchen'. You'll see him standing there.

Rando

Comment by XenosBH

use the Oculus of the Exorcist and then speak to each of the following when you are near them.
Tom Hegger is on the lower docks at 58,68.
"Salty" John Thorpe is in the kitchen of the Inn at 59,67.
Guard Mitchells is inside Valiance Keep down in the basement at 57,72. as you enter the Keep, you'll see three iron gates after the first main gate. the one on the left will be open. go down there. Guard Mitchells will be directly on you right at the bottom in the small room.

Comment by 103462

completing this chain will get u 45250 exp and 525 rep with Valiance Expedition

Comment by 134873

Be sure to pull Guard Mitchells into the nearby jail cell to kill him, otherwise he'll get attacked by the nearby guards and you won't get credit.

Comment by 88189

Doing this quest when friendly and talking to the guard in the prison will result in the guards helping you kill him. Be sure to 'tag' him asap or you won't get the quest objective done.

Comment by 244407

3 times I tried to kill the guy in the jail, pulling him in different areas in the room, including the cell behind him, and I wasn't getting credit because of the other guards "helping" me kill him.

I finally pulled him out into the hallway, and only one guard helped me rather than all three, and I got credit for the kill.

Comment by 244442

A nice easy quest what only takes a few min, It is all done inside Valiance Keep,

Fisrt of all go to the dock behind the flight master in and use the orb the person has a stange talk to them and then kill them do this for in the jail down stairs in the keep and in the inn's kitchen done :-)

Comment by Argowal

Keep in mind that if after following e1's post you still don't see the quest npc then that prolly means that some1 just killed them, so wait a sec :)

Comment by Astygia

Requires level 68.

Comment by 208573

the NPCs you need to kill are http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=25828 http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=25827 http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=25248

Comment by sasexw

For guard Mitchells go into the jail behind him then use the quest item and talk to him only 1 guard will attack. Worked for me!

Comment by Foxpaw

I honestly don't know what people are talking about :/ I had no trouble getting the jail credit even as a bloody healadin. :V

Comment by 131293

I am not familiar with the this area so I had trouble with where the lower docks was located. As you are walking to the flypoint (past the inn) take the ramp to the left right before.(##RESPBREAK##)6152##DELIM##CalaelenDT##DELIM##

Comment by 310717

Here's how I did Guard Mitchells: go into the cell behind him. Use quest item, talk to him through the cell. Step as far back as you can. He'll run at you through the bars, and you can fight him in the cell, no probs. I didn't pull a single guard.

Comment by 266216

Well, what I did for Guard Mitchells (the guy in the jail) was talking to him, then pulling back to the farthest corner in the jail cell away from him. Two guards aggroed, but only at the end of the fight, so I got the credit.

Comment by sixhigh1

Definitely go to the farthest corner of the cell after talking to Guard Mitchells so as not to agro the other guards in the basement jail when he turns hostile.

Comment by pezz

'Take care of the cultists before something nefarious happens.'

The category of things which could be defined as 'nefarious' goes up to but does not include three seemingly random and gruesome homicides around Valiance Keep.

Comment by 693430

The 3 one, is near flying trainer ...... If you go down a stair you will find him

Comment by Quarf

I had problems with this quest since the mobs would get killed by the Valiance keep gaurds.

For guard mitchell: Talking to him and then running to the far back of "his" jail and waiting for him to become hostile will give you the credit for the kill.

For the cultist in the kitchen: Talk and move to the far back of the room to avoid the guards from disturbing.

Cultist on the dock: Make sure theres no patrol close by, then run to the north after talking to the cultist and fight there to get the kill credit.

Comment by simidude

It is purple somke around them! :-)

Comment by Caglock

They should be quite obvious, even without the exorcist oculus.

They should have yellow names above them, despite not being a shopkeeper/trainer/quest giver.

Comment by 824969

For this quest... You have to use the"bulb" the quest giver gave you, when you use it by the people (that u need) turn purple... You have to talk to the purple person and click "How long have you worked for the Cultist Damned?" then you kill the guy and get that part of the quest done!

Comment by MsPhelix

I had no trouble with the Guards interfering and no trouble finding the Cultist in the Jail and and the Cultist in the Kitchen. I had a LOT of trouble finding the Cultist on the Docks. Here's how to find him:
exit the Inn (Valiant Rest);
turn left;
pass (on your left) the Flight Master (he's a ways to the left) and Airman Skyhopper and his flying contraption and go onto the wooden dock straight ahead;
just past the thing (wall; short tower) the flying contraption is on is a ramp down on the left;
go down it and you will find him.

Comment by Moirine

When completing quest: "Darkness has a way of hiding even in plain sight." Such as Mr. Vampire/Counselor here? http://www.wowhead.com/npc=25301#comments

Comment by 1132894

And now we know why the keep is short on cooks. Good thing that recruiting officer didn't look too hard at the last adventurer's papers.

Comment by 1440987

The Hunt is On http://youtu.be/0M5AIsxBg5Y

Comment by Boxofbeer

The Hunt is On https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IepII-ciuVQ

Comment by BIackDahlia

"Salty" John Thorpe would only sell me stuff after I used the Oculus of the Exorcist on him. I couldn't talk to him. So I killed the guy on the docks and went back; the option to talk to him magically appeared.

Comment by Grifferyn

"You don't know who you're messing with, death knight! Death reckons!"

Well, I have reasons to think my character perfectly knows what she's messing with

Comment by Legeri

Maybe this was just something broken on my end, but I could not "interact" with the cultist in the kitchen, only access their vendor menu.

Had to go into key bindings and bind "Interact with Target" to a key. Then used it to bring up the menu to speak with him and thus accuse him to make the fight start.

Hope this helps someone else!

Comment by bookworm13

To continue the quest chain, complete Farshire

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The Hunt is On

Vindicator Yaala wants you to use the Oculus of the Exorcist in three different locations in Valiance Keep to uncover and defeat Cult of the Damned members.

	Cultist in docks defeated (1)
	Cultist in jail defeated (1)
	Cultist in kitchen defeated (1)

Provided item:

	Oculus of the Exorcist (1)

Description

I've made it my business to learn as much as possible about the vile death cult, including their secret language.

Vurenn was right. The cultists mention disguised operatives in various locations in Valiance Keep: the lower docks, the jail inside the inner hold and in the inn's kitchen.

Take this oculus. Use it at those three locations - anyone that has recently used the cult's necromancy will be enshrouded by a dark aura. Take care of the cultists before something nefarious happens.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Transborean Leggings			Marshwalker Pauldrons
	Tundrastrider Ringmail			Mightstone Helm

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Valiance Expedition

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11794))