Quick Facts

Series

1.	The Reckoning
2.	Stormherald Eljrrin
3.	Whatever it Takes!

Storyline
The Storm Peaks Clean Up Just Around the Corner Slightly Unstable A Delicate Touch Reclaimed Rations Expression of Gratitude Ample Inspiration Only Partly Forgotten Bitter Departure Cell Block Tango Know No Fear A Flawless Plan Demolitionist Extraordinaire Offering Thanks Missing Scouts Loyal Companions Stemming the Aggressors Baby Stealers Sirana Iceshriek On Brann's Trail Sniffing Out the Perpetrator Pieces to the Puzzle Data Mining The Library Console Norgannon's Shell The Missing Bronzebeard The Nose Knows Sniffing Out the Perpetrator Speak Orcish, Man! Speaking with the Wind's Voice Catching up with Brann Pieces of the Puzzle Data Mining The Library Console Norgannon's Shell Rare Earth Fighting Back Relief for the Fallen Slaves of the Stormforged The Dark Ore The Gifts of Loken Facing the Storm Armor of Darkness The Armor's Secrets Valduran the Stormborn Destroy the Forges! Hit Them Where it Hurts A Colossal Threat The Heart of the Storm The Iron Colossus Aid from the Explorers' League The Frostborn King Fervor of the Frostborn An Experienced Guide Unwelcome Guests The Lonesome Watcher The Hidden Relic Fate of the Titans Fury of the Frostborn King The Master Explorer The Brothers Bronzebeard Going After the Core The Core's Keeper Forging the Keystone Xarantaur, the Witness The Witness and the Hero Memories of Stormhoof Distortions in Time Where Time Went Wrong The Hero's Arms Changing the Wind's Course They Took Our Men! Leave No Goblin Behind The Crone's Bargain Mildred the Cruel Discipline Examples to be Made A Certain Prisoner A Change of Scenery Is That Your Goblin? The Hyldsmeet Taking on All Challengers You'll Need a Bear Bearly Hanging On Cold Hearted Deemed Worthy Making a Harness The Last of Her Kind The Warm-Up Into the Pit Prepare for Glory Lok'lira's Parting Gift The Drakkensryd Sibling Rivalry Mending Fences The Refiner's Fire A Spark of Hope Forging an Alliance You Can't Miss Him Battling the Elements In Memoriam A Monument to the Fallen Forging a Head Placing Hodir's Helm Forging Hodir's Spear A New Beginning Veranus Territorial Trespass Krolmir, Hammer of Storms The Terrace of the Makers The Earthen Oath Loken's Lackeys The Reckoning

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Comments

Comment by 191502

It's the temple with the snakes entwined around the pillars.

Comment by narub

its easly to find, just head northeast, but for ppl in trouble, mapscreenshot
http://img125.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot091608081531kq2.jpg

altho its not snakes entwined on the temple pillars, its briarthorns just like the ones that are abundant in the barrens, exept that these are back instead of brown :)

Comment by Mumpley

Great End to a fantastic storyline. If you noticed though this questline follows Norse Mythology perfect.

Thor,God of Thunder had a wife called Sif and a Hammer named Mjolnir. Thorim also has a wife named Sif and a hammer called Krolmir. Loki,God Of Trickery was Thor's Brother. He was a master of shape-shifting and would Trick many people. Most known among the Norse God's as a liar. Wow Introduces Loken as Thorim's Brother and just as the Myth goes,he disguised himself and you. Some players may then call Loken a Liar,then?

Though I love how Blizz incorperated Norse Myth into this questline. Really nice and greatly done.

Comment by gennym

Coords are 36, 32 the temple has thorns all around the pillars and stone.

Comment by 226771

I totally agree - this quest line has been designed very carefully and beautifully. I also like the fact that the players' meddling with the lifes of gods does work well. When you mess around with higher powers, your intent doesn't matter much, you will be likely to fail either way.

Comment by madmartigen

Can someone link where this quest chain begins?

Comment by 254867

Good chain indeed.

After the fight Loken mentions he was waiting in that mine for weeks. Now reread The Crone's Bargain.

Lok'lira as in Loken
"Among my people I am known as a Yrkvinn, a practitioner of illusions."

And as Mumpley wrote earlier:

Loki,God Of Trickery was Thor's Brother. He was a master of shape-shifting and would Trick many people.

I encourage you to find more clues like this :)

Comment by Omegastar

Spoiler alert! Spoiler alert!

In the dialogue, Loken mentions having plans for Thorim and special plans for the broodmother, Veranus. Since neither appear in Halls of Lightning, i speculate that they have been taken further into Ulduar, and will be part of the upcoming raid there. Veranus will most likely be a raid-boss. Thorim might be corrupted by Yogg-sharon( Lokens master), just as Yogg-sharon did to Loken, in which you would have to defeat him, or he might be imprisoned, in which you would have to free him.

Comment by 204550

http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=30399 is link to where you have to go.

Comment by Blackboy0

!SPOILER ALERT!

I've hidden from my destiny long enough. What I must do has never been clearer.

Loken must be destroyed by my hand.

Thorim says: It is time I put an end to my brother's madness.
Thorim yells: Loken!
Thorim yells: Stand up and fight me, you worthless traitor!
Loken says: You seem eager to join your beloved Sif, brother.
Thorim says: Do not dare...
Thorim says: Speak...
Thorim says: Her name!
Loken yells: ENOUGH!
Loken says: Looks like you can still best me in a fair fight, little brother.
Loken says: Unfortunately for you... this fight is anything but fair!
Loken says: Thanks to your little friend, you've left the Temple of Storms, where you were at your strongest. Instead we fight closer to my master's power.
Loken says: Minions! Take my brother and his drake to their new dwellings. Make sure the beast makes it alive. I have special plans for the broodmother.
Loken says: As for your life, mortal. I will be generous. After all... why would I destroy my most useful servant? I waited for you for weeks inside that Hyldnir mine.
Loken says: The shape wasn't mine, of course. And had you not been so reckless, you would've seen past my illusion. But you came through for me, and for that... I must thank you!

Loken is truly the master of deception and trickery. What he just did in this Questline is a true work of art.

Comment by 244939

Please notice that NPC who you need to speak to start event/fight is located on end of the bridge extended from the top of Temple/tower. He is not in centre as logic would suggest.

Comment by 279261

what are the pre req to get this quest i have done everything that i believe i should do in able to make this quest available ive done equipment recovery and they took are men! and ive done all the quests after that ... i believe the last quest i did was Mending fences and thorim is still where i handed in the quest and cant find him in any other places to get this quest... any help would be greatly appreciated!

Comment by Romir

Prequests are as follows:

http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12843 (16 Steps)
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12983 (8 Steps)
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12922 (2 Steps)
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12924 (6 Steps)
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12966 (2 Steps)
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12975 (2 Steps)
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=13011
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=13005
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=13035
and finally The reckoning :)

Comment by token

Seems like I had to do a few extra quests in between the last few. But eventually made it through. Wish I had written them down to add them

Comment by 110727

It is also convienant for them to have this quest happen near a flight path so you can just use the auto gryphon to get to the next part.

Comment by 283042

Ok, so as a tank I'm dying to get these gloves. I did a ton of research on quest lines/chains and how to get them. Some of the posts are helpful, but here's the chain of events I've found to truly unlock "The Reckoning" quest.

1) Do the entire chain starting with “They Took Our Men”, http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12843 This chain should end 16 quests later with “Making a Harness” http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12900

2) Once you complete “Making a Harness”, it will unlock “The Slithering Darkness” http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12989 and “The Last Of Her Kind” http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12983. Do “The Slithering Darkness” first because it’s only one quest (it may or may not be necessary to do it, but you might as well do it while you’re here). Once it’s done, start working on “The Last Of Her Kind”, which is a 8 quest chain ending with “Mending Fences” http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12915

3) During the quest “Mending Fences” a piece of “Slag Covered Metal” will drop…this begins a new quest chain called “The Refiner’s Fire” http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12922 This chain is only 2 quest long, ending with “A Spark Of Hope” http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12956

3) Upon turning in “A Spark Of Hope”, you will unlock the chain “Forging An Alliance” http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12924 which is 6 quests long. Here’s a catch…In order to do quest #5 of this chain, “Krolmir, Hammer of Storms” http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=13010, you must be friendly with “The Sons Of Hodir” and have completed “Jormuttar is Soo Fat…” http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=13011 Then you will be able to talk with the king about Krolmir for “Krolmir, Hammer of Storms” and finish the chain with “The Terrace of the Makers” http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=13057

4) Completing “The Terrace of the Maker” will unlock “The Earthen Oath” http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=13005 and Loken’s Lackeys” http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=13035 Complete both these quests and it will unlock “The Reckoning”

Hope this helps everyone!

Comment by 178390

This entire 40-quest chain from start to finish (starting with the one at K3) has netted me just under 500 gold at level 80... and it had amazing quest descriptions and an epic plot twist at the end.

Actually, made almost 600 after selling all the items and drops I got from the massive chain, a nice reward for those who don't need exp or the gear.

Comment by 296239

One of the far best questlines i have done in a long time!

Comment by 115171

Long epic quest chains like these are so much more rewarding on a personal level, than running heroics. I sometimes wish Blizzard would create even longer chains with rewards to rival dungeon runs for those of us that crave storyline over raiding. Oh well I can dream can't I? Awesome chain. Couldn't use any of the rewards, but the story was worth it all. :)

Comment by inufin

FFS! FINALLY IT ENDED! :D

Comment by Grizela

Wowwiki really helps me with following this and many other chains.

I used http://www.wowwiki.com/Storm_Peaks_quests for storm peaks. And clicking on the quest gives you both content and comments...and links to Wowhead, Allakazam and Thottbot.

A truly excellent source.

Cheers,

Comment by 162553

On one hand, epic questlines are way better than fetching 20 scraps of fur out of rhino stomachs, on the other, how many times must I help the Lich King before I learn better.

Comment by Citano

i wouldn't be suprised if both Thorim and Veranus (his proto-drake that was caught also) will become raid bosses in Ulduar

Comment by Kathucka

Spoiler Alert!

Loken casts some sort of spell on Thorim, and ends up capturing him and his mount, taunting you, and running off.

You get to kill Loken in the Halls of Lightning, but the fate of Thorim and his mount are not currently explained. Expect to see this loose end tied up in a future expansion, probably in Ulduar.

Comment by Varyss

Once you hand this quest in to King Jokkum back at Dun Niffelem, he will give you the quest "Whatever it Takes!", which as you'd probably expect, takes you into the Halls of Lightning to give Loken a good beating.

Comment by TheFastCat

Wait ... so Lok'lira the Crone was actually Loken in disguise waiting for <Player Name> to come spring his trap the entire time?

wow.

very cool

Comment by Tyrsenus

Thorim will be a boss in Ulduar.

Comment by 274653

so blizzard didnt follow the exact lore, but forging it to fit their needs.

Must be a cool job to have working for Blizzard on something like this. I can imagine them speed dating :

Girl : "So what do you do for a living?"
Blizzard designer : "Oh.. you know - this and that?"
Girl : "Well, what?"
Blizzard designer : /looks sheepish "I forge lore to fit my needs"
Girl : "You what? How?"
Blizzard designer : "Oh you know... take some of the sands of time, mix in some Nordic legend spanning back hundreds of years, blend it with an epic landscape riddled with mystery, throw in some mythology and well... yeah just forge it /shrug"
Girl : "Ah right yeah, course." /flee

Comment by DraXXus667

OMG that was a awesome quest line.
Fyi Loken's master happens to be Yogg'saurron (or however it is spelled)
and he is a Old God .

It seems like now Thorim will be a boss in Ulduar under Yogg's control.
poor guy.

Well I'm glad we got to kill Loken in the end.

Comment by 126855

Why are these last comments downranked they are all correct.

Comment by 311916

I would say equally matched with the Dragonblight questline. Both are awesome chains.

Comment by ytrill

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it strange that Lok'lira is still in Brunnhildar Village--even after completing the entire chain?

Comment by 380116

For having revenge of Thorim, this quest leads to two HoL dungeon quests..

Comment by 106202

I thought I'd mention that Thorim's model was upgraded in 3.1 to match his Ulduar model. Previously he looked more like an armored male frost vrykul (which, seeing as his wife was a female frost vrykul, made sense)

Comment by 267839

/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\HeadlessHorseman\\Horseman_Bomb_01.wav")

Comment by isendims

The tenticles that you see at the end of the show are yogg-sarons to my best guess, taking control of thorims mind as he did loken

Comment by breuger

It wasn't to make peace between the viking amazons and the Sons of Hodir.
It was initially to save the goblin's brother, incidentally you end up entering yourself in the Hyldsmeet and so decide to continue competing.
The point of the Hyldsmeet is to gain the favor of Thorim (I might be wrong). So you win and bam, there's Thorim.
Now we move on again to yet another goal, reuniting Thorim with his buddies and his gear.
And you know the rest of the story.

Edit: This was made at a no longer existent post.

Comment by danieltang34

13481 HP vs 390k HP
i knew it

Comment by benm550

Awesome quest line, i think they should have made an epic cutscene at the end though.

Comment by 415964

Yep.. Both Hodir and Thorim are Ulduar keepers. as a bonus, right before the Thorim encounter, he will announce "Wait.. you. i remember you, from the Mountians.. I..."

Then Sif interrupts (not the real Sif, a made up version made by Yogg-Saron) and convinces Thorim to fight you.

you do not kill Thorim or any of the other keepers, they simply get to 1 Health and return to their normal forms. its Possible to get buffs from each of the Keepers on the Yogg fight, or none at all.

Comment by Tyrion

Anyone else see Metal Gear in this whole fight sequence?

Frequent "Brother", The golden evil and the dark heroine. Thorims headband, lol

Comment by Synthea

Very impressed with the way the storyline played out. Really makes one feel "used" by Loken. I thought that Lok'lira (Loken in disguise) would be gone from Brunnhilda Village but she/he is still there.

Comment by 452400

A great ending for an epic quest chain. However, it did feel a bit like a déjà vu. Remember the chain at Coldarra? You free Keristrasza, she confronts Malygos, who captures her and you'll have to fight her in The Nexus. Sure, the details are very different and I like the Norse mythology in this one, but still...

Comment by jster

I always do this quest on my toons right when i hit level 77. This quest rewards me about 400G and I end with about a level of Exp. With these you also get great lore, and awesome loots. All my toons have http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=38 now because of it.

Comment by Tunaria

An awesome questline ^^

Thought it was really cool when the placeholder model for Thorim was used.
It still is, although using the proper Thorim model makes it look like Loken is pointing at Thorim's boots as they continously stare at eachothers crotches, as shown in one of the screenshots here :P

Comment by luio2revenge

What a way to insert some Norse mythology into WoW's Titanic Lore, eh? i really loved this quest chain. And specially when almost everything inside Storm Peaks is related to it, I.e: in the Halls of Stome when you do the Tribunal of Ages event, there they introduce Loken and from that you can guess how Yogg'Saron enters in the story and most important: How the hell the curse of flesh is implemented into the poor earthen, my guess if that yogg'saron did it, then when the titans set up new defences and liberated the dwarves Yogg' took advantage and put Aesir and Vanir onto war between each other with the help of loken (probably what the big faces of the tribunal of ages are referring to) and then finish them, and then killed Sif to get Thorim out if the way, and with the protectors away and the master of the remaining eathen in Ulduar under his controll Yogg' could live unoticed in a big fancy stoneyice made home with a masive army of iron made dwarven, so he actually too controll of the defences the titans set upon Azeroth, and in my guesses his also responsible for the corruption of most aspect and the liberation of Deathwing, i might be rong but it makes sense that with his protectors out of the way Deathwing could slip out of his misery and bring a little of chaos to azerth, thats my opinion, if you get any other guesses or find out im wrong then plz reply i encourage you :).

Comment by 552686

Great storyline, i enjoy it. Thank you Blizzard :P

Comment by Lunii

... Oops. Sorry, Thorim, mah bad.

Comment by Ciarin

I loved this questchain, really. At first, with going after the goblin, I was like "eh, whatever", but as I continued I got more and more into the questline... and now I'm sitting here feeling sorry for Thorim and telling myself how stupid I've been. x"D Great job on the lore here, as (almost x3) always. There should be way more of these kind of questchains. v_v

Comment by 565993

This was one of the most enjoyable questlines in the game i believe as it dipped into norse mythology and had a killer plot. Plus at 80 it got me about 800g from start to finish.

Comment by Vexallius

Am I the only one that noticed the item level difference between the cloth and leather gloves and the mail and plate ones?

Comment by Cierona

4.0.3 BROKEN

Loken says nothing. The effect where he calls on the power of Yogg Saron to kill Thorim has been replaced by what appears to be a giant crust burster (from hellfire) coming up through the whole of the arena and obscuring everything.

Comment by Suuckamedrya

I ended up on this questline on accident, I was looking for jormungar scales and found someone giving a quest, picked it up and continued, I am level 82 so I was kind of iffy about it since the xp is pretty much worthless to me, only got about a bar from all the quests in the chain, however as I kept progressing through it I got into the storyline and kept going for that alone.

Now at the end I am glad I did but also feel sort of like I watched a movie that had a killer cliffhanger for the sequel. When I turned in the last quest I was expecting king jokkum to say something like "Lets go get Loken!". The whole reason I came on here was to see if there was another quest in the chain to avenge Thorim, makes me sad to see that there isn't one!

However, if you are looking for a good storyline instead of just mindless boring quests to collect this or kill that so NPC whoever can make whatever, try this one. It really is worth it even if the ending isn't the happiest.

Comment by Mormolyce

When I handed it in I got the "you are not eligible for this quest" message. Weird. Left over from the follow up quest that has been moved to inside the dungeons maybe?

Comment by Vadel

Did he honestly think I didn't know it was him?

Comment by fiercefiona

Exp points: 3650. Not as advertised. Still 22g20s

I can't get the follow-on quest, even though I completed this and have Revered status. Has this changed recently?

Comment by Lloop

Fly over to the point where The Reckoning happens. talk to him and follow and do nothing more. stand there next to him and wait.

The Reckoning point: 35.91 31.55 ( to the left side of Ulduar ) He stands on a bridge with his flight pet, next to "Temple of Wisdom".

Dont and turn in all the way back at the start... what a long flight....

(flight master is close to this point so I just put mine on that and its a 5 minute brake) go get something to drink... take a brake.4..

Comment by 1440987

The Reckoning http://youtu.be/rk7LIMa-kyc

Comment by HunterSalty

One of the best quests and quest chains in the game.

SPOILERS

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From :

You've been a great ally, <name>. Now comes your true test. You will need skill, courage and a little luck.

<Lok'lira attaches a thin strand of hair to yours.>

You cannot fail now sister. Speak to Gretta the Arbiter. She'll see you on your way.

Loken attaches a strand of Sif's hair to yours, waking Thorim from his stupor as he thinks you're his wife in :

Sif? Is it truly you?

No? A <race>? But for a moment....

Enough of this! The visions of my Sif have tormented me for far too long. It is time for me to avenge her, and to bring honor to her memory.

Comment by Boxofbeer

The Reckoning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qv4yzXJAqk

Comment by Zidane3838

/way The Storm Peaks 35.89 31.57 Thorim

Comment by allOf

The Reckoning https://youtu.be/_yS-AMzoZ4E

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9CpULF_4JM&feature=youtu.be

Links

The Reckoning

Meet Thorim near the Temple of Wisdom. Report the outcome of the fight to King Jokkum in Dun Niffelem.

	Horn of the Peaks (1)
	Witness the Reckoning (1)

Description

Loken killed my wife, turned my followers and me against each other. He took away everything I had, but today... that changes.

Today we reclaim our sacred grounds. Today... Loken dies.

Meet me on the bridge near the Temple of Wisdom, just southwest of Ulduar. I will finish this one way or the other.

I need you there as a witness. You will not aid me -- this is personal.

After it's done, send word to Jokkum, King of the Frost Giants. He's a good friend and will know what to do.

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Gloves of the Servant			Rough Climber's Grips
	Gauntlets of the Windreacher			Gauntlets of Vigilance

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13047))