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“Not so fast there. I don’t know about you, Warrior, but I was hardly convinced by the general’s words. They rung unsure… as if they were not his own. Something’s amiss here. All of our efforts to collaborate have been blocked and delayed. It is time we took a more independent approach. If we’re to learn more about the cultists inside the keep… perhaps we should investigate those outside.
Intelligence reports a small group of them aiding the Scourge north of here. See if they carry any clues.”
-Harbinger Vurenn
Harbinger Vurenn wants you to fight the Cultist Necrolytes near Farshire to the north of Valiance Keep and retrieve the Cultist Communique from them.
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: Harbinger Vurenn, Valiance Keep barracks [56.6, 72.6]
Turn In: Harbinger Vurenn
Objective: Retrieve the Cultist Communique from Cultist Necrolytes near Farshire.
Quick Facts
Cultist Necrolyte Locations
The Necrolytes are found at summoning circles northwest of Farshire:
Combat Tips
Lore Context
Chain Context
This is the first investigative quest in a chain that ultimately exposes Counselor Talbot:
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 JournalHarbinger Vurenn stopped me before I could leave the command room. The draenei’s voice dropped low.
“I was hardly convinced by the general’s words. They rung unsure, as if they were not his own.” His eyes flicked toward Arlos, then back. “Something’s amiss here. All of our efforts to collaborate have been blocked and delayed. It is time we took a more independent approach.”
He wanted me to investigate the cultists outside the keep. If answers wouldn’t come from within, perhaps those aiding the Scourge near Farshire would provide them.
I found the necrolytes at their summoning circles northwest of the village, chanting over corpses that twitched. Living men and women, these cultists. They’d chosen this, chosen to serve the thing that unmade everything decent.
They fought like fanatics and died like anyone else.
Among the fallen, I found a worn communique, proof of correspondence between the cult outside and someone within the keep’s walls.
Vurenn took the document. “Be discreet,” he said. “We cannot examine this in front of prying eyes.”
The siege, it seemed, came from more than one direction.
The communique named nobody inside the Keep, and Vurenn said that was exactly what worried him, which is what turns a finished errand into Further Investigation.
