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Comment by Koviko

A key point being missed by many people in-game today:

Buy an Orange Marigold and then use it in order to see the quest NPC.

Comment by SoCalWoWGal

Some insight about the Grateful Dead:

Grateful Dead in Folklore:

Grateful dead (or grateful ghost) is a folktale present in many cultures throughout the world. The most common story involves a traveler who encounters a corpse of someone who never received a proper burial, typically stemming from an unpaid debt. The traveler then either pays off the dead person's debt or pays for burial. The traveler is later rewarded or has their life saved by a person or animal who is actually the soul of the dead person; the grateful dead is a form of the donor.

Grateful Dead in Music:

Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long musical improvisation.

Comment by 1116339

The Cheerful Worgen Spirit is for Worgen characters only, although the Night Elf spirit is also here in Darnassus. Other races must go to their own home cities.

Comment by Boxofbeer

The Grateful Dead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=534iXsUjXcg

Comment by WillowFae

It's been a long, long time since I did the quests for the Day of the Dead, but as an update in 2023:

If you are playing Dracthyr, you do not go to Valdrakken's graveyard. There is nothing there, they do not celebrate it in the land of dragons (Tested the marigold; there's nothing there). Try your luck at the Orgrimmar graveyard in Durotar. You should see an Orc, Troll, and Goblin spirit in the back row near the headstones. Try your luck with those; if you've already done the quest, then you may not need to bother with the holiday!

Comment by Rolaith

If you're a Dracthyr like me and cant find the quest giver, you can go to old Dalaran's graveyard and there will be a NPC there you can get the quest from after using the marigold!

Comment by TakeshySun

Where is Earthen day of the dead quest giver?

Comment by zaymaa

If you are looking for the blood elf graveyard in Eversong, the coordinates are 47, 49. I couldn't find it for the life of me with the descriptions I was finding here. It had been so long since I'd been dying in this area and with it being a no-flying zone, I couldn't just suicide and rez quickly and get it done. A kind soul was helping me find it while they did their candy buckets. Cheers.

Comment by Luatica

I did this for lightforged Dranei, and I imagine it is the case for allied races in general.

Buy Ice Cold Milk and Simple Flour from any inn and cooking trainer from Vanilla cities like Stormwind.
Go to Northrend's Dalaran. To your right of the Violet ~~Hold~~ citadel stairs and near the entry to the Underbelly, you'll find Chapman .
Buy from them Recipe: Bread of the Dead and Orange Marigold (buy a few if you want to play it safe since the effects only last 30s). While you are still there, make your Bread of the Dead
Use your Orange Marigold, you should be able to see Cheerful Dalaran Spirit and start The Grateful Dead and immediately hand your bread.

Comment by HalfBloodNord

Orange Marigold didn't work for me, "You have already have that appearance", so I bought the other temp item Marigold Petal Offering Bowl and that enabled seeing the cheerful dalaran spirt.

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The Grateful Dead

Acquire some Bread of the Dead and give it to the Cheerful Worgen Spirit in Darnassus' graveyard.

Use an Orange Marigold to see the otherwise invisible spirit.

	Bread of the Dead (1)

Description

It's good to visit with friends and family again, though I may have overdone it... I've already eaten everything they made for me!

Might I trouble you for some more of that delicious Bread of the Dead? I'd be most grateful...

Chapman there sells the recipe, I think.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

	Macabre Marionette

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27846))

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Day of the Dead