Quick Facts

Series

1.	Finding the Phylactery
2.	Buying Some Time
3.	Words of Power
4.	Last Rites

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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Comments

Comment by 8323

The mount takes you to 85.0, 33.5. It is underneath the water. It spawns 4 mobs easily killed.

Comment by Nashiira

This item will not appear if someone had recently done the quest before you. You may have to wait a moment for it to respawn.

Comment by 51395

Dusk is a Deathknight horse next to the previous questgiver.

Comment by dezmond

Note that the phylactery is (a) an item that you have to open at the bottom of the pool, and then (b) an item you have to loot from one of the guardians (the Phylactery Guardian).

Comment by Jancarius

Note that it can take a CONSIDERABLE amount of time to respawn, I've been waiting about 3 minutes, and it was not here when I got here. Finally spawned

Comment by 63403

The horse you are directed to is at a camp at 82, 47.
You can pick up this quest without pre-requisites.

Comment by Blackboy0

When you get the Quest, ride to Death's Stand (where those 2 guards are) and get on Dusk, Thassarian's horse. Dusk rides out to 85, 33, where he points into the water. Dive in there and open the little flask thingy.

3 Drowned Guardian's and a Phylactery Guardian spawn. Kill the 4, and then loot the Phylactery Guardian and receive Tanathal's Phylactery.

Comment by NicoleTehDrood

Did this the first time on my mage. I didn't read all of the comments above, proceeded to get on Dusk and have him run me through quite a few Ziggurat Defenders.. Needless to say, with my mage's lack of armor and such, I was down to below half health by the time Dusk was finished trying to kill me.. Arrived at the pool and swam to the bottom (not knowing 4 mobs would spawn), didn't think I would need to regen health before grabbing the quest item, managed to kill all 4 with about 1 HP left, luckily 3 of them died very quickly.
So...
TIP: If Dusk takes you for a death-ride, REGEN HEALTH BEFORE GRABBING THE PHYLACTERY!

Comment by jaldaan

Can you get this quest without doing any other quests in Borean Tundra?

Comment by mickytk

I'd say this is the prereq here:
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12088

Comment by 144775

I hope that it is and will check it out. Per another

The two quests are not connected, I got Finding the Phylactery without completing Thassarian, the Death Knight.

However after logging on with my third character and finding Thassarian, the Death Knight in his quest log, I decided to again have him visit Thassarian and low and behold, this quest had now become available to him. Note that Word on the Street is the first quest in the chain that leads to the Thassarian, the Death Knight quest.

Comment by lioncourt

What is the equal quest chain for Horde characters? Is there one that leads up to the same rewards as alliance gets here? The Weapons at the end are amazing.

Comment by 236660

I have a hard time believing that a 68 would arrive in Northend and not take any quests, skipping dozens of quest givers, as he raced out to Death's Stand to pick up this quest.

It's not that hard to believe; this quest chain gives one of the best weapons you can get for several levels. I just entered Borean Tundra with my level 69 guy and this was the first place I ran to.

I also was able to get the quest without any previous Borean Tundra quests; I have done 30 in Howling Fjord. I'm a DK so I am friendly with Ebon Blade, though that doesn't seem to be a requirement based on other people's reports.

tl;dr: I have no idea why some people can't get this quest, but there was no Borean Tundra pre-req for me.

Comment by 59915

This was the first quest I picked up when I arrived in Northrend. I had done no previous quests with any faction, and was level 68 when I picked it up. I wanted to get my hands on the axe ASAP.

Comment by 208611

I just picked up this quest and it is slightly bugged.
I was in combat after picking up the quest, I ran over to the pool of water without agroing anything, and was still in combat. I killed the guys that spawned, looted the item and was still in combat... I hearth and you guessed it, still in combat..

After logging out, I switched to another char, than switched back and was finally out of combat. Asked in general chat and others had the same problem. They said they had to wait anywhere from 2mins to 15mins to get out of combat.

So best solution if this happens, Alt F4 out(or click the X at the top right of your screen if you play in Windowed mode), log back into the game, but login to a different character first.

Comment by NightmareMJ

confirmed, quest is available if it is the first one you pick u for the zone, if you do certain others you will have to do some pre-reqs, though this could merely be a timing issue and the quest may actually be available at any time so long as certain conditions are met, obviously a bugged quest =_-

Comment by 237463

Horde version?

Comment by 368042

Horde version: 3 questlines, veiw Hellscream's Champion quest for the Pre chains

Comment by yeeman

where do i get this quest? i just got to borean thundra

Comment by Daestrom

I agree this has no pre-requisites.
But there are quests at Death's Stand which will lead to the quest Finding the Phylactery.

In Valiance Keep there is a quest, called In Wine, Truth, and when this is completed you get the quest A Deserter.

This leads to a quest that takes you to Kaskala Cowards and Fools. This sends you to Death's Stand - when you take The Son of Karkut.

That leads to Surrounded and finally to Thassarian, the Death Knight.

As the other posters said, this is not required to get the quest Finding the Phylactery - but its fun!

Hope this helped.

Comment by Navysquat

It wont let me open the thing at the bottom of the pool. What do i do?

Comment by 291222

For Balance Druids, You could actually go into moonkin form and still ride Dusk..

Comment by Aranyszin

I didn't see anyone mention this, so I thought I would share this one humorous observation:

Blizzard, ever on the lookout for an inside joke, has given us a quest where a horse leads us to water.

Comment by 314861

You need to start the chain with this first

Comment by Ornthorpe

Came straight here on first trip from stormwind - level 68 warlock, picked up the quest no problem.

Comment by Jimmz

I dinged my Dwarf DK, took the boat to Northen, flyed straight to there and i could get it.

Comment by 624027

If you're doing this with higher hunter, put your pet to passive... mine one-shot killed the mob and I couldn't loot to get the Phylactery.

Comment by Drunkion

You do not need to use the horse Dusk in order to complete this quest. You can use any mount you want to.

Comment by 1227558

The Exact Cordinates to the Phylactery are 85.41,33.37 it;s a big pond, go into pond to retrieve the article, there are 3 mobs that you have to fight, my monk took all 3 with the spinning kick no problem.

Comment by 1440987

Finding the Phylactery http://youtu.be/OHMHEHGL7PA

Comment by Boxofbeer

Finding the Phylacteryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQMLOThA2Js

Comment by Verenda

You can pick up the quest from Thassarian inside the Wailing Ziggurat at co-ords 84,41. As others have said, you do not need to use his horse; you can fly straight to the pool, kill the mobs and loot it.

Word of advice; if you are completing this at a higher level and you are a class that uses a pet, dismiss it or put it on passive first! If you forget and your pet kills the mob without you tagging it, you will not be able to loot it and will have to abandon the quest. You then have to go back to Thassarian and get the quest again.

Comment by SarumanWise

Don't be like me. Read the other comments and DO NOT RIDE DUSK TO THE QUEST AREA - just go there yourself.

The reason is that, unlike other taxis, Dusk does not have aggro turned off. Meaning you will aggro every random Ziggurat Defender and Scourged Mammoth you are unlucky enough to run past, and like me, will be unceremoniously dumped by Dusk straight into a rampaging mammoth intent on goring your face off. Not particularly fun.

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Finding the Phylactery

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.

	Tanathal's Phylactery (1)

Description

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

Completion

Rewards

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(11956))