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Comment by Falrinn

Alliance Death Knights receive this quest after completing The Battle For The Ebon Hold. The Horde equivalent is Warchief's Blessing.

Comment by Erlinn

When you are on the way to the King, you will be unfriendly to all the NPCs in Stormwind. They will say things when you pass such as "Monster!" and "I lost my family to to Scourge!" They will also throw rotten food and spit at you. You gain 6000 Stormwind reputation when you talk to the King.

Overall a very interesting quest.

Comment by 36991

Where Bad Grammer's Are

Note: I posted this when the name was still "Where King's Walk." Fortunately, Blizzard fixed the spelling.

Comment by Drakonis7

Err..when we have the reputation with Stormwind, do we start with all the known Flightpaths, or must we start from zero?

For the rest, I've followed the entire quest chain now via wowhead, and... I'm really planning to make a DK afterall. First, i was hesistant, cause of the fighting mechanics, but the quests alone are more than worth it :D

Comment by chilargar

my guess drakonis is u start with zilch FP's....

Comment by Cantras

For the curious: If you take the tram to Ironforge, Yes, ironforge is friendly to you.
You actually start out friendly with all alliance factions, despite the way SW treats you.

I did not try to go down to Westfall to see if it's all SW-aligned NPCs that are like this.

Comment by Kharantar

Quest solved , in the end u reach honored , the "unfriendly" is only a part of storyline , the 6000 honor let you reach honored as you started a normal char that start friendly

Comment by 253105

If you need to do this then hope that the horde haven't decided (and succeeded) to kill him. Otherwise it's gonna be a wait. If anyone knows his respawn timer that would be great, but I waited at least 20 or 30 minutes and nothing (he was dead and all were gone before I even got there, so who knows how long it had been prior to it).

Comment by 20301

He is in the Keep.

Comment by 173866

Well... King is in the Keep, but as a corpse only (killed by the horde, apparently).
He respawned about an hour (!) later, but then a horde reappeared and killed him again. :(

BTW: QuestHelper sometimes suggests ending point for this quest in King's alternative location in Tirisfal Glades. I've checked, it's an error - there is no sign of the King.

Comment by 111804

Currently, in 3.0.3, there's a bug where if you enter a barber's shop and get a haircut (or at least enter the hair-changing menu) all the npc's will return to friendly, you can mount again and you won't get egged even if you haven't talked to Varian yet.

Comment by 288482

Want to get a head start on the Death Knight chains? here it is

1-In Service Of The Lich King
2-The Emblazoned Runeblade
3-Runeforging: Preparation For Battle
4-The Endless Hunger
5-The Eye Of Acherus
6-Death Comes From On High
7-The Might Of The Scourge
8-Report To Scourge Commander Thalanor
9-The Scarlet Harvest
10-If Chaos Drives, Let Suffering Hold The Reins
11-Gothik the Harvester
12-The Gift That Keeps On Giving
13-An Attack Of Opportunity
14-Massacre At Light's Point
15-Victory At Death's Breach!
16-The Will Of The Lich King
17-The Crypt of Remembrance
18-Nowhere To Run And Nowhere To Hide
19-How To Win Friends And Influence Enemies
20-Behind Scarlet Lines
21-The Path Of The Righteous Crusader
22-Brothers In Death
23-Bloody Breakout
24-A Cry For Vengeance!
25-A Special Surprise (Race/faction based)
26-A Sort Of Homecoming
27-Ambush At The Overlook
28-A Meeting With Fate
29-The Scarlet Onslaugh Emerges
30-Scarlet Armies Approach
31-An End To All Things...
32-The Lich King's Command
33-The Light of Dawn
34-Taking Back Acherus
35-The Battle For The Ebon Hold
36-Where Kings Walk (alliance)
Warchief's Blessing (horde)

I might have missed some but if i did, post them under mine. Dont Downrate!

Comment by 331569

He's in the Stormwind Keep.

Comment by 159686

I for one is a little bit %^&*ed. I meen before I completed this quest, I wasnt allowed to mount up on my Deathcharger in Stormwind, but a couple of days ago, I saw a Death Knight comming straight from the Scarlet Enclave, and the NPCs were making nasty remarks to him, and throwing food, but he was allowed to mount up!

Comment by dreadblood

they changed that for some reason

Comment by 165543

Something 2 note the reason why npcs outside of elwynn r friendly is because of flight paths but it seems like a flight from lakeshire 2 IF is 23 silver must be because the FP cost calc in game thinks that the flight is from ebon hold

Comment by makron

Where Eagles Dare?

Comment by 434557

Can anybody confirm that the portal to sw only stays on for the quest? After that when you use death gate to Ebon Hold, you do not have a portal to SW.

Comment by JonTargaryen

If Varian or Thrall are dead, go do some other quests and come back in a few hours. NPCs in other cities of your faction (other than Stormwind/Orgrimmar) will still be friendly to you. Theoretically you can even turn in this quest at level 80. The only major disadvantage is that you cannot reset your talents until this quest is done.

So if your faction leader is dead, don't fret and don't just stand stand around waiting impatiently. Just go level in Outland for a few hours until he respawns.

Comment by 545254

to kill time you should go to these portals they will send you straight to the dark portal
Horde: Orgrimmar (Valley Of Spirts) look for a hut that`s double storied and then go to
the top and you should find a portal

Alliance: Stormwind (The Mage Quarter) Look for a tower then follow it when you reach the top you should see
a portal to the dark portal

Comment by TehOracle

Before this quest is completed.
Stormwind city is the only faction you are unfriendly with.
If you are a human this may be a bad thing, but with my Draenei. I still have my mounts and auction houses.

EDIT
Also Stormwind would appear to be unfriendly wthin it's immediate region only
Elwynn Forest
Stormwind City
NPC's within Stormwind that are not of the Stormwind faction like in Dwarven District while still pelting you still fully work. Including repairs and vendors.

Comment by aceaxe11

For anyone that really REALLY wants the original classic feel to this quest... Varian is dead thanks to zombie infection... good luck turning in the quest! (Trust me... 50+ of us still waiting for respawn lol)

Comment by sweeetp03

For those now trying to get the Frostbrood proto-worm mount, a few pieces of information hopefully you will find helpful:

1) If you create your new DK on the classic WOTLK it will start it at lvl 55 in the starter area.
2) You get 1 freebie roll of the above mentioned. If you try to roll another DK, or even on another classic WOTLK server it will give you an error message "You must have an existing character of at least lvl 55 on any realm to create a DK" It is because you have used your freebie already. If you want to delete your first freebie and have it on another realm you can do that. e.g. I created mine, my husband wanted to do the intro with me on his DK and we were both rolled on diff. servers. I deleted my new DK and was able to re-roll my freebie on his realm. I had not started any quests, only picked up the very first starter quest and then backed out after realizing we were on diff. realms.
3) Total quest line took us just shy of 2 hours. We just sped through it. Those looking to enjoy the quest-line and take their time I would say probably closer to 3 hours time.
4) Once you complete the final quest you can simply log back into your toon on Retail and in your mount menu it should be there in a pretty little box with a bow.

Comment by Tteer

After finishing this quest, and becoming all friendly with SW, I discovered that I had not received a hearthstone. After retracing my steps and searching Wowhead for a couple of hours (I apparently never ask the internet the right questions), I finally resorted to asking Trade chat. Was inundated with answers from many others who apparently had had the same problem.
Answer: Go ahead and make the local inn your hearth, EVEN THOUGH you don't HAVE a hearthstone yet, THEN she'll pop one into your bag.
So NOT intuitive!

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Where Kings Walk

Deliver the letter to King Varian Wrynn of the Alliance at Stormwind Keep in Stormwind City.

	To King Varian Wrynn of the Alliance (Provided) (1)

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You are now, and forever will be, a Knight of the Ebon Blade, <name>, but know this: you were once a hero of the Alliance.

<Darion stares at you.>

This order must establish allies for itself if it is to survive. You must represent the Knights of the Ebon Blade to the Alliance.

On the platform, southeast of me, is a portal to Stormwind City. Take this letter, given to me on your behalf by Lord Fordring, and deliver it to King Varian Wrynn. Use the portal.

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

6,000 reputation with Stormwind

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13188))