Quick Facts

Series

1.	Well, Come to the Jungle
2.	Northern Stranglethorn: The Fallen Empire Warchief's Command: Northern Stranglethorn!
3.	The Defense of Grom'gol: Raptor Risk

Storyline
Northern Stranglethorn The Defense of Grom'gol: Raptor Risk The Defense of Grom'gol: Murloc Menace Hunt for Yenniku Headhunting Nezzliok Will Know Speaking with Nezzliok Chasing Yenniku's Fate The Mind's Eye Saving Yenniku A Lashtail Hatchling I Think She's Hungry Favored Skull A Nose for This Sort of Thing Who's a Big Troll? Population Con-Troll Skullsplitter Mojo Bloodlord Mandokir Priestess Hu'rala Mind Vision See Raptor Mind Control Be Raptor Surkhan Welcome to the Jungle The Green Hills of Stranglethorn Tiger Hunting Panther Hunting Raptor Hunting Supply and Demand Tiger Stalking Panther Stalking Raptor Stalking Some Assembly Required Tiger Prowess Panther Prowess Raptor Prowess Excelsior Tiger Mastery Panther Mastery Raptor Mastery Big Game Hunter

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Comment by crazzychic

Head north out of Grom'Gol Base Camp and you'll find the eggs. They're in groups of 3 around the base of trees, level 1.
Is very easy to do without even killing the raptors patrolling the area

Comment by Jerodast

Upon completion (not turn-in, but completion) A Lashtail Hatchling will be auto-accepted for you.

Comment by Glowyrm

How to obtain the Lashtail Hatchling companion as Horde

To see the Lashtail Hatchling inside the Zul'Gurub instance after killing Bloodlord Mandokir you must first complete a series of small quest lines in Northern Stranglethorn.

As a member of the Horde this entire ordeal starts with The Defense of Grom'gol: Raptor Risk given by Commander Aggro'gosh in Grom'gol.
After completing that quest, you will automatically receive the quest A Lashtail Hatchling and the Lashtail Raptor Egg Fragment.
Return with the hatchling to Far Seer Mok'thardin in Grom'gol.
Next he will send you on a quest called I Think She's Hungry to feed the baby raptor murloc meat. Make sure your raptor is summoned so she can take bites out of the corpses as you kill them.
Now take the hatchling to the Bal'lal Ruins @ 33.7, 37.2 where you will find a pile of skulls on the ground, Your hatchling will run up to the pile and grab a skull from it. Now he will give you the quest Favored Skull which needs you to return to Nimboya in Grom'gol.
The cauldron near Nimboya will now offer the quest A Nose for This Sort of Thing.
Next you get the quest Who's a Big Troll? then Skullsplitter Mojo
After completing the above quest line, Bloodlord Mandokir will spawn and offer a "quest" of the same name. He really just wants to steal the raptor from you because it's special.
Nimboya will now give you a quest to speak to Priestess Hu'rala.
She will lead you on a chain to try and save your new raptor hatchling friend from her terrible fate of becoming the Bloodlord's new raptor slave. This is all your fault! But maybe you can do something about it...
1) Mind Vision, 2) See Raptor, 3) Mind Control, 4) Be Raptor, 5) Surkhan
After that really cool and fun quest chain from the Priestess you are read to enter the 85 Heroic Dungeon of Zul'Gurub and face the Bloodlord Mandokir. It's time to undo the mistake you made by bringing him back to life, and you must save your new friend from a world of torture and evil. Once the Bloodlord falls at your hands, you will see An Old Friend.

How to obtain the Lashtail Hatchling companion as Alliance (Credit to user: Madwolf)

For Alliance this chain starts with the quest Bad Medicine given by Brother Nimetz at the Rebel Camp.
Upon completion of Bad Medicine you will automatically obtain the quest Just Hatched and the Lashtail Raptor Egg Fragment. Return to Corporal Sethman at the Rebel Camp with the new hatchling.
He will then send you on the quest I Think She's Hungry to feed the baby raptor some basilisk meat. Make sure you have the hatchling summoned while killing basilisks so she may take bites from the corpses as you kill them.
Next you must do The Fate of Kurzen given by Lieutenant Doren in the Rebel Camp. Continue on his chain and do Spared from Madness next.
Now take the hatchling to the Bal'lal Ruins @ 33.7, 37.2 where you will find a pile of skulls on the ground. Your hatchling will run up to the pile and grab a skull from it. Now he will give you the quest Favored Skull. Return to Osborn Obnoticus at the Rebel Camp (This is the NPC that you must have logged out then back in to see according to some Alliance players).
Osborn will then give you A Nose for This Sort of Thing to start trying to figure out who that skull belonged to.
After that do the next quest in the chain, A Physical Specimen.
After completing the above quest line, Bloodlord Mandokir will spawn and offer a "quest" of the same name. He really just wants to steal the raptor from you because it's special. Do not chase him when he runs off. There is more to do, you must now embark on a chain to try and save your new raptor friend from her fate.
Osborn will give you a quest to go talk to Priestess Thaalia at Fort Livingston.
She will lead you on a chain to try and save your new raptor hatchling friend from her terrible fate of becoming the Bloodlord's new raptor slave. This is all your fault! But maybe you can do something about it...
1) Mind Vision, 2) See Raptor, 3) Mind Control, 4) Be Raptor, 5) Ghaliri
After that really cool and fun quest chain from the Priestess you are read to enter the 85 Heroic Dungeon of Zul'Gurub and face the Bloodlord Mandokir. It's time to undo the mistake you made by bringing him back to life, and you must save your new friend from a world of torture and evil. Once the Bloodlord falls at your hands, you will see An Old Friend.

Comment by 823376

If you are dumb like me, and wonder why you can't get this quest to start this questline, make sure you have talked to Bort near the zep towers in Orgrimmar and gotten his quest to go to Grom'gol. I wasted a lot of time and bothered a GM to figure out why the commander had nothing to say to me :(

Comment by 916021

Technically, you must also get the quest Well, Come to the Jungle from Cromula in Ashenvale in order to be able to get the quest from Bort. She starts the questline. Otherwise, Bort won't have the quest.

Comment by 1440987

The Defense of Grom'gol: Raptor Risk http://youtu.be/mauAbjTv45I

Comment by 1374013

The Defense of Grom'gol: Raptor Risk https://youtu.be/ntyZcce0d8E

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=Fhrp0rL9qvs&feature=youtu.be

Comment by bigunde

A video of the Quest The Defense Of Grom'Gol Raptor Risk https://youtu.be/BmdbzNOyQNk

Comment by Kexmon

This quest is unavailable to me in DF. I've completed the prerequisite quest in Ashenvale mentioned by 916021, but Bort doesn't offer me Northern Stranglethorn: The Fallen Empire.

If you're here for Lasthtail Hatchling, I was able to just pick up An Old Friend inside ZG after having completed Surkhan

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The Defense of Grom'gol: Raptor Risk

Destroy 12 Lashtail Eggs.

	Lashtail Egg slain (12)

Description

Throm'ka, <class>!

Your arrival at Grom'gol is timely, indeed. Our mission to provide a safe chain of supply to Stonard is being hampered by some of the local inhabitants.

I am putting you in charge of eliminating the raptor population outside of Grom'gol, just to the north. Don't worry about the raptors themselves... those wretched Nesingwary hunters will take care of them.

I want you to destroy their eggs.

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Orgrimmar

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(26278))

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