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“You have done much for the animals of the Borean Tundra, Vikstone. Nesingwary’s lackeys have been beaten back and taught a lesson that they will not soon forget. Harold Lane, the primary agent responsible for the mass slaughters in Nagrand, has been identified as the man in charge of Nesingwary operations in the tundra. He is stationed at Lake Kum’uya, west of here.
<Lathorius hands you an intricately carved oak horn.>
Find Lane and kill him. Use this horn should you require our aid.”
-Archdruid Lathorius
Arch Druid Lathorius at the D.E.H.T.A. Encampment in the Borean Tundra wants you to kill Harold Lane.
Provided item:
You will be able to choose one of these rewards:
You will receive (if completed at level 90):
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
Quest Giver: Arch Druid Lathorius at D.E.H.T.A. Encampment [57, 44]
Turn In: Arch Druid Lathorius at D.E.H.T.A. Encampment [57, 44]
Objective: Kill Harold Lane.
Quick Facts
Walkthrough
Location: Harold Lane camps at [49, 41], near the shore of Lake Kum’uya. He has a campsite with a few Nesingwary hunters nearby.
Pre-Combat Prep: Clear the Loot Crazed Poachers and other hunters in the immediate area. They respawn quickly and can add during the fight if you don’t.
The Cenarion Horn: Your Secret Weapon
The Cenarion Horn summons a stampede of rhinos and mammoths that tramples Harold, removing approximately 50% of his health. This is a one-time use item.
CRITICAL: How to Use the Horn
The horn does NOT automatically target Harold. You must:
If you just blow the horn without targeting Harold, nothing happens.
When Harold Gets Trampled:
He shouts: “You seek to deafen me? Pathetic… Wait… What’s that sound?”
Combat log: “Harold Lane gets run over by a stampede”
Harold’s Abilities
Throw Bear Pelt: Ranged attack dealing 1000-1200 damage to leather (500-600 to mail, 900+ to cloth) every 3 seconds. This is his primary damage source if you’re at range.
Bear Trap: Places a trap that roots you in place and deals 315 damage per second for 10 seconds (3150 total if you stand in it the full duration). While you’re trapped, Harold backs away to range and spams Throw Bear Pelt.
Combat Strategy
Use the Horn Early: It is recommended to blow the horn at the start of the fight to immediately cut Harold’s health in half. This makes the remaining fight trivial.
IMPORTANT: Don’t Horn While He’s Stunned: If Harold is stunned (from Cheap Shot, etc.), the stampede may not register properly. Use the horn when he’s mobile, then stun him to keep him in the stampede’s path.
Breaking the Trap:
Keep Moving: Avoid standing still to minimize trap triggers.
Range Management: If you’re melee, close the gap quickly after traps. If ranged, kite while maintaining DPS. Harold’s melee hits approximately 2000 on cloth, so staying at range is actually safer if you can manage it.
Story Context: The Borean Butcher
Arch Druid Lathorius summarizes the campaign:
“You have done much for the animals of the Borean Tundra, <name>. Nesingwary’s lackeys have been beaten back and taught a lesson that they will not soon forget.”
“Harold Lane, the primary agent responsible for the mass slaughters in Nagrand, has been identified as the man in charge of Nesingwary operations in the tundra. He is stationed at Lake Kum’uya, west of here.”
“Find Lane and kill him. Use this horn should you require our aid.”
Upon completion, Lathorius is disappointed the main target escaped:
“Alas, Nesingwary is gone. Perhaps he was never here to begin with… The demon is a slippery one, but his days are numbered. We will find him and when we do…”
Lore: The Fur Baron’s History
Harold Lane is not a stranger to players. In The Burning Crusade, he was a friendly quest giver at the Nesingwary Safari in Nagrand. There, he ran the Talbuk Mastery questline, having players hunt talbuks for him.
In Nagrand, Lane appeared perpetually injured from “a scratch from one of the thorns native to Nagrand.” He would moan dramatically, worsening throughout the quest chain, then suddenly become “better” the moment players killed Bach’lor, the final talbuk target. His suspicious recovery suggests the injury was an act to manipulate players into doing his hunting.
Now in Northrend, Lane has risen to become Nesingwary’s primary lieutenant. D.E.H.T.A. calls him “The Fur Baron” and “The Borean Butcher” for orchestrating the mass wildlife slaughters across the tundra.
Players who helped Lane hunt talbuks in Outland now assassinate him in Northrend.
Easter Egg: Ernest Hemingway Reference
Harold Lane’s name is a literary reference to Ernest Hemingway’s short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1936). The protagonist of that story is named “Harry Street.” Blizzard’s naming convention: Harry → Harold, Street → Lane.
Explore Borean Tundra’s hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Borean Tundra Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.
Vikstone's War JournalLathorius handed me an intricately carved oak horn.
“Harold Lane, the primary agent responsible for the mass slaughters in Nagrand, has been identified as the man in charge of Nesingwary operations in the tundra.” He waited fifty years for a chance to kill him. “He is stationed at Lake Kum’uya. Find Lane and kill him. Use this horn should you require our aid.”
Harold Lane. The Fur Baron. The Borean Butcher. The druids had many names for him, none kind.
Vor met me on the road west. He was another night elf, a warrior. We had no healer between us or caster support.
“Two warriors against one hunter,” he said. “What could go wrong?”
“Everything,” I said. “But mostly for him.”
We found Lane by the lakeshore, surrounded by the spoils of his trade. Pelts, bones, tusks, and a career measured in carcasses. He smiled like a man who’d never been hunted.
Lane fought dirty as Vor caught the first bear trap three steps in, the steel jaws clamping around his shin. He cursed in Darnassian, words I hadn’t heard since Ashenvale. I pressed forward alone while he pried himself free, and Lane made me pay for every foot of ground. Pelts were thrown like weapons, weighted and sharp-edged. He’d survived a long time in a violent business, and he knew how to hurt people.
Vor caught up limping, shield-checked Lane sideways, and bought me the opening I needed. I raised the horn and blew.
“You seek to deafen me? Pathetic…” Lane sneered. Then the ground shook. “…Wait.”
Rhinos. Mammoths. A stampede called by druidic magic, thundering across the tundra toward the man who’d slaughtered their kind for profit. Lane’s face went white. He tried to run. The animals didn’t let him.
Vor and I stood there watching in silence. There was poetry in it, I suppose.
“Two warriors,” Vor said afterward, still favoring his leg. “And the rhinos did the real work.”
Lathorius received the news with a sigh.
“Alas, Nesingwary is gone. Perhaps he was never here to begin with.” He stared west. “The demon is a slippery one, but his days are numbered. We will find him and when we do…”
Nesingwary was gone and the druids would carry their war into somebody else’s expansion, and none of that had slowed the arcane disturbances spreading across the tundra, starting with Monitoring the Rift: Cleftcliff Anomaly.
