Quick Facts

Series

1.	If He Cannot Be Turned If He Cannot Be Turned
2.	The Shadow Vault The Shadow Vault
3.	The Duke
4.	Honor Challenge
5.	Shadow Vault Decree

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Comments

Comment by 176018

when you return to the shadow vault to turn this in, you'll find the area transformed into a new quest hub, complete with a flight point ^_^

stable master, innkeeper and rep vendor are inside the building

Comment by 22103

These rewards seem kind of poor for the level of this quest. I have green quest reward trinkets from 5 levels ago that are better than these. https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=38761 for example

Comment by 223375

Here is the sequence of quests that lead to the Final Challenge.
(A for Alliance, H for Horde)

1A It's All Fun and Games
1H It's All Fun and Games
2 I Have an Idea, But First...
3 Free Your Mind
4A If He Cannot Be Turned
4H If He Cannot Be Turned
5A The Shadow Vault
5H The Shadow Vault
6 The Duke
7 Eliminate the Competition
8 The Bone Witch
9 Deep in the Bowels of The Underhalls
NOTE: You do not need to complete step 9, but you must be on the quest in order to loot Dr. Terrible's "Building a Better Flesh Giant", which starts step 10. I never handed in step 9, even after the Final Challenge, just to be sure.
10 The Sum is Greater than the Parts
11 The Art of Being a Water Terror
12 Through the Eye
13 Find the Ancient Hero
14 Not-So-Honorable Combat
15 Banshee's Revenge
16 Battle at Valhalas
17 Battle at Valhalas: Fallen Heroes
18 Battle at Valhalas: Khit'rix the Dark Master
19 Battle at Valhalas: The Return of Sigrid Iceborn
20 Battle at Valhalas: Carnage!
21 Battle at Valhalas: Thane Deathblow
22 Battle at Valhalas: Final Challenge

Enjoy! :D

Comment by 285372

Can someone explain to me how this world changing stuff works? For example, for one person the Shadow Vault is filled with enemies, and another player is just standing right next to the enemies on there screen, but that person is actually standing buy a merchant in a tent on his screen. Can someone elaborate?

Comment by 297154

if you have completed the quest and unlocked the hub, other players cant see u in that region and u cant see others that havnt unlocked the area.

Comment by 194762

these types of areas are partially instanced, like the death knight starting zone, completing certain quests will "change" the instance so to speak. there are a number of other "partially instanced" areas in zones all around northrend.

very cool addition i think, gratz to blizz

Comment by 171903

just putting this in in case some1 else has this issue and goes crazy, when i tryed to turn this in there was no one at the place, no undead or friendly peoples, (like half phased) but this was solved by a simple relog, discounting the fact that it dropped me out of the air into a mob of elites that killed me after i respawned

Comment by Whiterock

SHADOW VAULT Quest Tree From Whiterock
Give + to 12/09/2008 Rawkster aswell.

1)It's All Fun and Games {H}
1)I Have an Idea, But First...
1)Free Your Mind
1)If He Cannot Be Turned {H}
|->Blackwatch*
|
Orgrim's Hammer(H)* 1)The Shadow Vault {H} The Skybreaker(A)*
| / | \ |
Opportunity(H)* | Exploiting an Opening(A)*
1)The Duke
| |
2)Eliminate the Competition 2)Honor Challenge---->2)Get the Key
3)The Bone Witch 2)Shadow Vault Decree 2)Let the Baron Know
|->3)Reading the Bones |____________________/
| R)Reading the Bones |->3)Vandalizing Jotunheim
| |->D)Leave Our Mark
|->4)Deep in the Bowels of The Underhalls |->3)Crush Dem Vrykuls!
| | D)Vile Like Fire!
|->4)Revenge for the Vargul |
| N)Vaelen Has Returned
4)The Sum is Greater than the Parts 3)Ebon Blade Prisoners
| |->D)Shoot 'Em Up
3)The Art of Being a Water Terror |
| N)To the Rise with all Due Haste!
3)Through the Eye 6)The Story Thus Far...
| |->D)From Their Corpses, Rise!
3)Find the Ancient Hero |->7)Blood in the Water
| | 7)You'll Need a Gryphon
3)Not-So-Honorable Combat | D)No Fly Zone
| |->D)Intelligence Gathering
3)Banshee's Revenge +7)The Grand (Admiral's) Plan
| 7)In Strict Confidence
5)Battle at Valhalas 7)Second Chances
5)Battle at Valhalas: Fallen Heroes 7)The Admiral Revealed
5)Battle at Valhalas: Khit'rix the Dark Master
5)Battle at Valhalas: The Return of Sigrid Iceborn
5)Battle at Valhalas: Carnage!
5)Battle at Valhalas: Thane Deathblow
5)Battle at Valhalas: Final Challenge
Quest zones:
1)Shadow Vault_____2)Savage Ledge_____3)Jotunheim_____4)The Underhalls_____5)Valhalas_____6)Death's Rise_____7)Onslaught Harbor
D)Daily_____N)Not-needed_____R)Repeatable
*Click to see more info about that quest-line.
The Icecrown is done! Leave your comments/sugestions at my comment in Icecrown zone. Thanks everyone who helped me to make it via comments on wowhead and in-game pre-quest tracking.

Links

The Shadow Vault

Report back to Baron Sliver at The Shadow Vault.

Description

It sounds like you did extremely well. And you secured three very important allies for the Knights of the Ebon Blade in the process.

<Thassarian gazes out over the horizon.>

You should head back. By now, Baron Sliver and the other death knights will be fighting tooth and nail to hold The Shadow Vault against the might of the Scourge.

I'm sure they'll need your help.

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Softly Glowing Orb		Chuchu's Tiny Box of Horrors
	Thorny Rose Brooch

You will also receive:

	Thorny Rose Brooch		Softly Glowing Orb
	Chuchu's Tiny Box of Horrors		Emblem of Heroism

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

10 reputation with Knights of the Ebon Blade

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12898))

Guides

Knights of the Ebon Blade Reputation Guide for Wrath of the Lich King Classic