Quick Facts

Series

1.	The Videre Elixir
2.	Meet at the Grave
3.	A Grave Situation
4.	Linken's Sword
5.	A Gnome's Assistance

Screenshots

Videos

Comments

Comment by 7423

Take the elixir in the graveyard of gadgetzen, it will kill you but you suffer no damage penalty on gear. From there head due north to the mountain range and find the ghost(54,24). He is hard to see due to the colour contrast of being dead, and the exclamation mark above his head is also grey, but he is there. Speak with him to continue questline.

Comment by 33042

Graveyard at 54,29

Remember, don't resurrect, just head north.

Comment by 32540

Gaeriyan is at 54.23.

Comment by 68117

Easy 5100 XP

I found him at 53,23

Comment by 71576

Would like to point out that if you have a resurrect trigger finger like I did, just go die near the graveyard and run north. The quest will work even if you don't die from the elixir. You just need to be a ghost to see him.

Comment by 41592

This quest too is a reference to The Legend of Zelda

"Meet the old man at the grave" Was one of many famous quotes from the original game along with "dodongos dislike smoke" and "It's dangerous to go alone", Which is the name of the last part of this quest chain

Comment by Deluxe05

Rewards 7350 XP following patch 2.3.0.

Comment by Jhvh

so after 2.3 patch this rewards 2950 exp at 60...what??

Comment by Valdan

Some say Legend Of Zelda I say Sword in the Stone.

Pulling the sword out of the stone with the light comming down and all and recieving the sword reminds me of this cartoon movie.

Comment by Ilidar

You do NOT lose durability when you die after drinking the videre elixer.

Comment by 135893

54,24 (ghost)

Comment by 123449

if you happen to be on the quest but run out of elixers for whatever reason, you can also do the quest if you die (e.g. you attack an opposing faction inside gadgetzan) you take durability but it saves a trip to Feralas

Comment by 162028

ok i know what to do go to tanris graveyard use elixir run north talk to ghost guy ok i do that but when i tlk to the guy it just says "please leave an old spirit to rest" or somthing like that i want to turn in that quest lol

Comment by 23371

Be sure you return to Donova Snowden after getting the Videre Elixir from Gregan. You can drink the elixir in the graveyard before talking with her, but you won't be able to continue as "The Old Man" will only say "Please leave an old spirit to rest." of you aren't on the quest.

Comment by 175893

video helped a whole lot!!! Thank you for posting it...

I felt like I was running right next to you while i was watching the video because I was doing the quest at the same time... :P

thanks again

Comment by 104220

I was wondering with the recent addition of 'Achievements' would this quest add a death to my statistics? There is a page on your achievements that lists how many times you have died among other things, however since this quest doesn't kill you in the normal sense would it add a death anyway? I need to know if I should avoid this part of the quest or not.

PS - Yes I will be trying to level to 80 with a big fat 0 for deaths.

Comment by 271713

Thanks for the video. I did not understand what to do... however, the video helped me.

Comment by danroe

Something Really fun happened to me while doing this quest. I drank the Elixir, and talked to the guy.

I finished the quest... and...

*DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!*
*You have earned the achievement: Level 50!*

I recovered all my HP and MP (i resurrected), so i had to drink the elixir at the tanaris GY again.

Comment by EllieBelly

You push on gravestones in at least 2 of the Zeldas too if I remember right, 1 and 3?

Comment by holasa

Lol the dwarf gives you a potion saying it puts you an 'other form' and it kills you lol

Comment by Nobodyy

Am I the only one that caught this? Whenever it has you talk to Gaeriyan as a ghost in the spirit world, its like when you had to go to the dark world or whatever it was called in Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

Comment by xxxstonie

Counts towards Loremaster.

Comment by 580260

Something went probably wrong, because he doesn't speak to me. I died found him with no problem but I can click on the quest in the dialog window, but nothing happens, I can't finish the quest. :(

Comment by Thottbot

53,23 It was hard to find because of the contrast in color when you are dead.

Comment by Thottbot

Found wandering around 54,23 and 54,24 along the mountain walls.

Comment by Thottbot

I drank, i died like normal, nothing strange, had happened, is this correct? Get 6 minute cool down. just doesnt seem right. Need help

Comment by Thottbot

Just finished this quest, so here's how it went. I went to the graveyard and drank the potion, which seems to have the nasty side effect of making you drop dead on the spot. From there, go almost straight north. I found him at 54, 24. He's tough to spot cause he's a ghost (black and white and faded), and the death effects (the whole world going black and white) don't make it any easier. On top of that, the telltake yellow question mark is also grey, but I assure you, he's there. Then, with linken's sword, go back to the graveyard as he instructs, and you'll have a "use" mouseover on the large tombstone, and complete the quest.

Comment by Thottbot

Make sure to go back to the Lady in Winterspring and get the blasted sword.

This is VERY important.

FM

Comment by Thottbot

If you use up your last Elixir of death you can still complete the quest as long as you have the sword.

I went outside the graveyard and let an animal kill me. While in wisp form I went and found the guy and completed the quest.

Comment by Thottbot

You can now see the yellow ? and it will also appear in your mini map. After you drink (and die) go straight north you cant miss it. Just remember when you die you loose all your buffs.

Comment by Thottbot

if you're having a hard seeing in death mode, just go to your video options and turn the death effect off.

Comment by Thottbot

just confirming what was mentioned earlier about not needing to actually use the elixir in order to die for this quest. i went to go do a different quest before attempting to drink the elixir, got killed by about 50 scorpids trying escort a homing chicken to steemwheedle port (ok maybe 50 is an exaggeration...), got body, tried the chicken again, got killed again and decided to forget the chicken and see if i could find Gaelyn instead. sure enough, he was where you all said he would be and i had no trouble talking to him and completing this leg of quest string.

so really the only reason you even need to go to feralas, find brewspigger (or whatever his name is), and get the elixir at all is so that you can go through the go steps necessary to complete the quests that lead you up to this point. Gaelyn won't talk to you unless you've been told by Brewspigger to seek him out and Brewspigger, obviously, has prerequisites of his own. but the actual act of drinking the elixir at the cemetery, or even having the elixir in your pack at all once you've gotten it from Brewspigger, is not necessary.

Comment by Thottbot

Sure, you can just let yourself get killed by mobs, BUT... You will suffer 10% durability loss on everything, which DOES NOT HAPPEN if you drink the goo instead. Drink the goo. Save money. This quest chain already eats enough of it.

Comment by Thottbot

Gaerlin is at (53,23), which is somewhat into the mountains to the east of the road through the mountains towards Thousand Needles.

For the rest: you die, no equipment dammage, do not resurrect, walk to the fellow as a ghost and go back to ressurrect and do the next quest at the graveyard.

Comment by Thottbot

You can also just kill yourself near the area if you are out of potion... lol

Comment by Thottbot

Here is the deal....

like acollier said...

First talk to Gregan Brewspewer at 45,26 or you who don't have cosmos... he is at the T in The on the map in the the title The twin Colossus.

Buy the bait off him and head north to meet Miblon Snarltooth. You can see the ruin with the arch from the road east of the ruin Icon and just west off the road.

Place the meat on the steps. He moves and the door opens. Get the ingredient and head back to Gregan so he can make the potion.

now....

Go back to see Donova Snowden and she will give you the tempered sword and instruct you to go to the cemetary.

Hope this helps!

Comment by Thottbot

I loved this quest line. Anyways, go to the grave, drink a potion and then as a ghost run striaght up to 54,24. Just run up until you see the yellow dot on the map. Its really easy. After that ressurrect, hit the gravestone.... then its off to deliver Link's sword in Un Goro!

Comment by Thottbot

Just a small note:

You won't lose any durability if you use the potion.

Nice, isn't it? :)

Comment by Thottbot

please help me. I went to the graveyard died and went to Gaeriyan (I think its was him it just said unknown entity) anyway i cant talk with him and then i go back to the graveyard resurect and nothing happen. please tell me how i can finish this quest

Comment by Thottbot

I drank the elixir, went to the guy and actually dinged when I was dead, now thats a cool way to ding to 60 > while being dead!

Comment by Thottbot

Have you seen the name of the next link in the quest-chain?

:-D

Comment by Thottbot

The graveyard in Tanaris is found at

54,28

Use the potion there and run to

53,23 - 54,23

Gl

Comment by Thottbot

I figured I would grab the Winterspring FP after delivering the potions to the quest npc and then started to fly back to Gagetzan. You fly in a big U shape to Auberdine and then start going south, also the flight takes an astonishing 28 silver. Honestly I don't think you can find a flight point that is much more expensive and time consuming.

Comment by Thottbot

An easier way is just getting something to kill u near him or go on video options and take away death effect so u can see colors

Comment by Thottbot

Just wanted to clarify, after drinking the potion dont ressurect yourself. Stay in ghost form and run straight north.

Comment by Thottbot

co ords using cosmos for Gaeriyan 53-23 are spot on. he now has a yellow ?.

Comment by Thottbot

same thing happened to me just get killed agan and go talk to him agan i hade to do it 2 times

Comment by Thottbot

EDIT - I logged out and in and it worked.

Comment by Thottbot

The key is NOT to resurrect! Go north in your dead state and you will see the question mark before you see who you need too talk to.

Comment by Thottbot

If you were foolish enough to not realize that dropping dead was part of the quest and used the elixir up, can you simply just die by a beast and find him?

Comment by Thottbot

yeah same happened to me i didn't realize the elixir is suppose to kill you. I just changed to at war with gadgetzan and just let them kill me and went due north there he is. Good xp for a dead man. just take off at war asap you can do it when dead :)

Comment by Thottbot

There are a lot of people here saying that you can just die and still complete the quest, but I didn't see it anywhere mentioned (sorry if I didn't see it) that The Videre Elixir quest before this one ( https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/quest=3909/the-videre-elixir ) is a repeatable quest at Gregan Brewspewer... Basically, go back to Feralas, go back to the guy, buy a bate, run back to Riblon Snarltooth and place the bate, get another Evoroot and go back to Gregan to get 3 more elixirs, that way you don't suffer durability damage from dieing from a mob or anything else.

Comment by Thottbot

DONT RES AFTER DRINKING POTION!

Like an idiot, I didnt read the quest info... and then proceeded to waste the elixer by drinking and then rezzing.

If like me you used up all the potion, just die anywhere near cememtary (location not important, just easy to res) and head DIRECTLY north, looking for yellow questionmark on minimap. You'll find guy walking around/above the first hill you come to. Speak to him then go back to grave site. Rest of instructions posted are fine.

Grab sword from tomestone and head off to Ungoro Crater!

Comment by Allakhazam

I went to the graveyard in Tanaris and drank the elixir as prescribed, and it killed me instantly (one elixir gone) so I revive, drink the second re: last) one, same deal, killed instantly. The quest states that you might be surprised at the result, well I was surprised to find out that I wasted the two porions, and can now not complete the quest, YAY! :/

Comment by Allakhazam

The graveyard is located just east south-east of gadgetzan near a small outcropping of rocks.

Comment by Allakhazam

But the quest was simple enough. Drink the potion, release your spirit, but don't revive. Turn your ghost and face north, then walk to the mountains. There, just past the edge of the range, you'll see another ghost. When I did this quest, the ghost did NOT have a yellow question mark above him - the question mark was white. But when I ran my cursor over him, the cursor showed a yellow question mark. So I right-clicked on the ghost, and he told me to go back to the graveyard, revive, and find a special tombstone. I did all that, and the tombstone was very obvious, since all the other grave markers were just crosses, and the tombstone was standing over by itself with a yellow mark above it. From there on, it's just a matter of clicking on the tombstone, accepting the quest it offered, and going on my way.

Comment by Allakhazam

I've lost the sword, is there any way to get it back?

Comment by Allakhazam

hey you guys
where can i find a map
yougiving the coord s but i can't find the map

Comment by Allakhazam

You die when you drink the pot, and when you rez as usual you are without minion. So before you drink it, ditch your minion (tell it to stay then walk out of range) to save yourself a shard when you rez again.

Oh, and it's probably better if you don't have a soulstone in use when you drink either. When you die, don't rez, just walk north to talk to the guy.

Comment by Allakhazam

This is just funny!
It actually kills you.
Just release your spirit and head north to talk to the ghost at 54,23.
He will send you back to res and examine a gravestone.

Comment by Allakhazam

One small thing for everyone. If you use the potion to kill yourself you will not take the 10% durability loss on your gear. If a mob kills you then you will. I recommend using the potion as stated in the quest unless you rich and don't care.

Ugor -- Alleria

Comment by Allakhazam

haha
this quest was quite funny

I drink it, i thought i was going to turn into a bear or something
then im dead, im like ok w/e lol

Comment by Allakhazam

Ah the joys of levelling in wisp form :D

Comment by Allakhazam

WASTE OF TIME

Comment by Allakhazam

Cool, I haven't seen the ghost form untill now , at 52.... ;)

Comment by Allakhazam

Still need to get the porion so that its veracity is verified in Feralas

Comment by Allakhazam

Went to those coordinates in ghost form after taking the potion... ghost isn't there. SEems like a bugged quest.

Comment by Allakhazam

well, due north means straight up from your corpse, but if your really can't function without numbers, try 53,23 (ct)

Comment by Allakhazam

Go to graveyard at 53,29, use the Videre elixir. U must need in "ghost" form. Travel at 53,23 Gaeriyan. Speak with him, quest is complete :)

Edited, Feb 18th 2007 5:23am by lotmay

Comment by Allakhazam

I really liked this quest; it sure is different.

Comment by Allakhazam

this quest line is sweet...like 10k exp for downsized forum trolling flying

Comment by Allakhazam

You have to talk to him as a ghost.. stated so many times yet people still whining about it killing you..

Comment by Allakhazam

NPC is @ coords 57,80

Comment by Allakhazam

no probs here. everything worked so blizz must have fixed at 1.10

Comment by Allakhazam

can some1 give me cordinates

Comment by Allakhazam

lotmay told:

Go to graveyard at 53,29, use the Videre elixir. U must need in "ghost" form. Travel at 53,23 Gaeriyan. Speak with him, go to the gravestone etc. quest is complete :)
This is all you need.....

Comment by Allakhazam

wow i never knew some people are so stupid in this world

Comment by Allakhazam

I did find him, but he just says "Please leave an old spirit in peace", so he won't do anything... :(

Comment by Allakhazam

That was a fun quest ^_^

Edited, Jul 14th 2006 at 12:52pm EDT by ethica

Comment by Allakhazam

Some may think that because you need to head north from Gadgetzan that you are heading for Shimmering Flats/Thousand Needles. The path you want is to the right of that one. I was easily able to see the ghost to talk to with the yellow question mark over his head, plus he shows up as a yellow dot on the mini-map. He wanders, even while you talk to him so if you are interupted just wait for him to stop walking and talk to him again. Then go back to your body and rez (don't take the spirit healer rez, just rez like normal, your body is right there! Somebody might think that since the Spirit Healer is right there you have to take her rez and stumble around with rez sickness for 10 minutes, you don't. I'm just saying because somebody I was doing this with asked that very question).

Comment by Allakhazam

There are many ways to die, however, and if like me you refuse to read all the post then you might try the potion and not realize you are suppose to be dead -- but all you have to do is allow a mob to kill you then you can complete the quest...

Comment by Allakhazam

Buenas a todos, este quest es muy facil cuando le des al elixir encima del cementerio de tanaris teneis que ir a las coordenadas 54,23, donde hay un enano que os completa esa parte del quest, acto seguido resucitais y vais a la lapida para devolver la siguiente quest.

Suerte a todos

Comment by Oceandust

To start this quest chain you have to click on a wrecked boat in Un'goro Crater. Here is the full quest chain in order:

1. It's a Secret to Everybody
2. It's a Secret to Everybody
3. It's a Secret to Everybody
4. The Videre Elixir
5. Meet at the Grave
6. A Grave Situation
7. Linken's Sword
8. A Gnome's Assistance
9. Linken's Memory
10. Silver Heart
11. Aquementas
12. Linken's Adventure
13. It's Dangerous to Go Alone

Comment by halvisCZ

If you lost or forgot the Videre Elixir, take off your gear and let the mobs next to gadgetzan to kill you. You can talk to ghost this way aswell (do not release before you find the npc)

Comment by Bengarion

Long chain

It's a Secret to Everybody
It's a Secret to Everybody
It's a Secret to Everybody
The Videre Elixir
Meet at the Grave
A Grave Situation
Linken's Sword
A Gnome's Assistance
Linken's Memory
Silver Heart
Aquementas
Linken's Adventure
It's Dangerous to Go Alone

Rewards:

Linken's Sword of Mastery
Spirit of Aquementas
Linken's Boomerang (Ranged weapon for Paladins!)

Comment by Tyranney

For this quest, once you are near Gadgetzan go to the grave yard at 54.02 28.74.
use the potion which will kill you, release body but stay dead.

go to the ? at 53,23 talk to the guy hand in the quest (remember you will still be dead) accept the next quest
return to your dead body and revive. the grave stone they send you to is near that look around or move your mouse over the grave stones. its actually a grave stone not a pole at 53.81 29.06.

hand in quest to get the next part.
hope this helps

Comment by Skiip

Don't do this if you have a heap of active buffs such as Dragonslayer.. like I did.

Comment by Darkwhen

'Once there, drink the potion. You may be quite surprised at the results, but do not be alarmed.

In your "other" form, head due north until you reach the mountains.'

I did NOT expect what happens when you do this but it is pretty hilarious. Well played Blizzard.

Comment by Etreum

Warning! Any and all buffs will dissappear.

I figured they would, but to test, with 1 minutes to go on Head and Heart buffs (And others) I used the elixir. When resurrected, they were gone.

So if you have buffs you don't want to lose, don't do it!

Comment by 2222738

WARNING! - This counts as a Death and it will make you lose Soul of Iron. I just tested this, by accident...

"Perished at level 56"

Comment by Xururuca

Any idea what happens with this quest with new official hardcore servers?

Comment by cpeace335

On official hardcore servers this will not kill you. This will bring you to 1 hp and give you a 5 minute debuff allowing you to talk to the dead.

Comment by l337neteng

11-28-23 - Just completed this quest and it does NOT kill you on official hardcore servers. I did close my eyes when I clicked the elixir waiting for the character to do a death noise tbh

Comment by madmurdock

HC check: This quest is "relatively" safe.

Spoiler:

You dont die, but your health drops to almost zero. So if someone is playing there and having mobs around the grave area (OBVIOUSLY on purpose) they might attack you with colleteral damage and THEN you die. So be prepared and look out if you are alone. Eat or use a pot right after you clicked on the quest item to regain health. You have enough time to visit the quest NPC. Lvl 40 something mobs are at the quest NPC, so even if youre way higher, they can still attack and kill you, if you just have something like 200 hps.

You have been warned.
Edit: Btw, to make it clear, Im talking about HC servers. If youre using a HC addon on a normal server your run is over.

Comment by Kylejin

On hardcore servers you don't need to drink Videre Elixir. You can get Emberglow vision buff as for Dark Iron Legacy and return to Tanaris by Hearthstone.

Links

Meet at the Grave

Go to the graveyard outside Gadgetzan, and use the Videre Elixir. Follow the rest of Donova's instructions to find Gaeriyan.

Provided item:

	Linken's Tempered Sword (1)

Description

This elixir will allow you to speak with one that you would not normally even see...

Take the Videre elixir, along with Linken's sword, to the graveyard just outside Gadgetzan in Tanaris. Once there, drink the potion. You may be quite surprised at the results, but do not be alarmed.

In your "other" form, head due north until you reach the mountains. You'll find the one you need to speak with in one of the rocky crevices. His name is Gaeriyan.

Remember, he will only speak to you in that form...

Completion

Rewards

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(3912))

Meet at the Grave

Description

Completion

Rewards

Gains

Related

Contribute