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A Soldier in Need

Alliance • Borean Tundra • Level 71 • Valiance Keep
Retrieve Hawthorn's Anti-Venom from the First Aid Supplies inside the Stormbreaker's hold.
Medic Hawthorn stands near Sergeant Hammerhill outside the gates. Board the Stormbreaker (the large ship in the center of the Keep), go below deck, and loot the First Aid Supplies chest at (57, 69). While you're down there, click the cultist altar nearby to pick up Cultists Among Us and save yourself a return trip.
Vikstone's Classic Expedition
One soldier dying from cryptfiend venom, one vial of anti-venom buried in a ship's hold. In a war measured by thousands, Vikstone ran for the one.

“You there! Please, I need your help. This soldier will succumb to the cryptfiends’ venom unless we act immediately. I’ve managed to slow down the poison, but without a suitable supply of antidote I cannot counteract it. I was promised a new shipment of anti-venom in the Stormbreaker’s most recent trip from the south. Go inside its hold and search for a chest of first aid supplies.

Hurry, Warrior! We can’t afford to lose any more men unnecessarily.”

-Medic Hawthorn

Objective

LEVEL

71

Requires level

68

Medic Hawthorn, outside of Valiance Keep, wants you to go inside the Stormbreaker’s hold and retrieve Hawthorn’s Anti-Venom from a crate of First Aid Supplies.

  • Hawthorn’s Anti-Venom

 

Chest Coordinates: 57, 69 on the lower deck of the ship. Look for the small brown chest near the altar.

 

Reward

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Combatant Greatsword

Valiance Longbow

Writhing Longstaff

Medic's Morning Star

Soldier's Spiked Mace

Vicious Spellblade

You will receive (if completed at level 90):

0 Gold

90 Silver

Super Rejuvenation Potion

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

15,100 experience
150 reputation with Valiance Expedition

Walkthrough

 

Quest Giver: Medic Hawthorn outside Valiance Keep gates, near Sergeant Hammerhill

Objective: Retrieve Hawthorn’s Anti-Venom from the First Aid Supplies chest inside the Stormbreaker’s hold.

 

Quick Facts

  • Rewards: Super Rejuvenation Potion + 150 Valiance Expedition reputation
  • Pairs With: Cultists Among Us (separate quest, picked up from altar in the same location)

 

Walkthrough

  • The Stormbreaker is the large ship in the center of Valiance Keep.
  • Board the ship and go below deck.
  • The First Aid Supplies chest is at [57, 69], near the cultist altar.
  • Loot Hawthorn’s Anti-Venom and return to Medic Hawthorn.

 

While You’re There

  • The cultist altar beside the chest starts Cultists Among Us. Pick it up while you’re below deck to save a trip.
  • Hostile cultists patrol the hold. Alliance guards on deck will assist if you fight near the stairs.

 

Combat Tips

  • If overwhelmed by cultists, kite them up the stairs toward the deck. The guards will help, and fighting one at a time is easier in the narrow stairwell.
  • The cultists aren’t particularly dangerous for level 68+ characters.

 

Known Quirk

  • If you’re under the effects of Winterfall Firewater (size increase buff), you may not fit through the doorway to the lower deck. Remove the buff if needed.

 

Lore Context

  • The poisoned soldier reflects the ongoing nerubian siege. Crypt Crawler venom is potent enough to require specialized anti-venom, highlighting the danger these creatures pose to Alliance forces.
  • Medic Hawthorn’s completion dialogue hints at the cultist activity below deck, setting up the infiltration storyline.

 

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.

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
2,000 experience
10 reputation with Valiance Expedition

Phase1

Combatant Greatsword

Item Level 366

Binds when picked

Two-Hands       Sword

605 - 1,010 Damage       Speed 3.60

(224.3 damage per second)

+283 Strength

+596 Critical Strike

Durability 85 / 85

Requires level 110 to 120 120

Sell Price:

64

64

8

Phase2

Valiance Longbow

Item Level 366

Binds when picked

Ranged       Bow

572 - 774 Damage       Speed 3.00

(224.3 damage per second)

+320 Agility

+576 Critical Strike

Durability 85 / 85

Requires level 110 to 120 120

Sell Price:

62

12

73

Warrior IconVikstone's War Journal

 I could smell the stench of cryptfiend venom around the wounded soldier. His pallor told me everything. I’d seen poisons like this before. Slow, creeping, eating away at a man’s strength until there was nothing left.

Vikstone Portrait Act 1
Illustrated by Christian DiBari and Simon Gough.

“You there!” Medic Hawthorn’s voice cut through the cold. “This soldier will succumb unless we act immediately. I need anti-venom from the Stormbreaker’s hold. Hurry!”

I made my way to the ship, which waited at the center of Valiance Keep. Below deck, I searched through worn crates until I found the First Aid Supplies and took the vial.

I returned at a run. Hawthorn took the antidote without a word, already working.

The soldier’s labored breathing slowed. His face relaxed as the venom’s grip loosened.

“His recovery will be slow,” Hawthorn said quietly. “But we won’t lose him.”

It was only one life, pulled back from the edge. In a war measured by thousands, it still mattered.

 

The anti-venom was in the hold. So was an altar that had no business on an Alliance ship, which is how Vikstone found out there were Cultists Among Us.

Phase3

Gloves of Troubled Memory

Item Level 174

Binds when picked

  • Hands
  • Cloth

132 Armor

+26 Intellect

Durability 25 / 25

Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 53.

Equip: Increases spell power by 40.

Sell Price:

2

20

Phase4

Bloodstained Helmet

Item Level 336

Binds when picked up

  • Legs
  • Mail

563 Armor

+298 [Agility or Intellect]

+607 Stamina

Durability 85 / 85

Requires level 110 to 120 120

Sell Price:

36

60

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