Gaining an Audience

Quest Giver: Image of Archmage Modera — Stars’ Rest, Dragonblight [29, 55]

Turn-in: Tariolstrasz — Wyrmrest Temple, ground floor, western side [~58, 54]

Objective: Deliver your Letter of Introduction to Wyrmrest Temple to Tariolstrasz at Wyrmrest Temple.

Quick Facts

• Type: Delivery (no combat)
• Chain Position: 7th quest in the ley line investigation chain. Follows The End of the Line. Leads to Speak with your Ambassador.

Walkthrough

Modera’s urgency from The End of the Line carries directly into this quest. She provides you with a letter of introduction and instructs you to travel to Wyrmrest Temple as quickly as possible and present it to the steward, Tariolstrasz.

The goal: gain an audience with Queen Alexstrasza herself to warn her about the blue dragonflight’s planned attack.

Getting There

• From Stars’ Rest, follow the road east. Modera’s own directions say to follow the road until it ends, then cross The Dragon Wastes to reach the temple. You can’t miss Wyrmrest Temple; it’s the massive tower dominating the center of Dragonblight.
• If you’ve already discovered the flight path at Moa’ki Harbor (south of Indu’le Village), you can fly to the temple’s neutral flight point instead. The flight master, Nethestrasza, is on the ground floor’s northern side.

Finding Tariolstrasz

• Tariolstrasz is on the ground floor, western side of Wyrmrest Temple at approximately [58, 54]. He appears as a male blood elf, but he’s actually a red dragon in humanoid disguise (the “-strasz” suffix is a naming convention for red dragons). He’s surrounded by drakes, and he doubles as the NPC who provides transport to the upper levels of the temple for players who can’t fly.
• Speak to him and deliver the letter. His response confirms the urgency: he reads your introduction and acknowledges it, but notes that whatever your business is, it had better be important because the skies are full of attacking blue dragons. The assault the Kirin Tor feared is already underway.

Continue the Chain

• Tariolstrasz doesn’t send you directly to Alexstrasza. Instead, he asks you to speak with your faction’s ambassador at the temple first. The follow-up quest Speak with your Ambassador sends you to Lauriel Trueblade (Alliance) on the temple grounds. Accept it before exploring the rest of the temple.

Tips

• Grab the flight path. If this is your first visit to Wyrmrest Temple, pick up the neutral flight point from Nethestrasza on the ground floor. You’ll be returning here repeatedly as the chain continues through the Ruby Dragonshrine and beyond.
• Explore the temple. Wyrmrest has multiple levels. The ground floor has vendors and repair NPCs. The middle level (accessed via Tariolstrasz or by flying) has Lord Devrestrasz. The top level has Queen Alexstrasza, the Wyrmrest Accord quartermaster Cielstrasza, and several other quest NPCs. You’ll be visiting all of these as the chain progresses.

Lore Context

This quest marks a major transition in the chain. For six quests, you worked for the Kirin Tor investigating ley line manipulation. Now the investigation is over and the threat is clear: Malygos is funneling ley line energy to the Azure Dragonshrine to empower his flight for war against the other dragonflights.

The Kirin Tor can’t handle this alone; they need the dragons themselves. So Modera writes you a letter of introduction to the steward of Wyrmrest Temple, the ancient seat of draconic power where the Wyrmrest Accord has united the red, bronze, and green dragonflights against Malygos.

Tariolstrasz was specifically chosen as steward because his role is to meet visitors and ambassadors and organize audiences with the dragonqueen. The fact that even the steward is stressed about the blue dragon attacks tells you the situation at the temple has deteriorated since the chain began.

Dragon naming conventions: Tariolstrasz’s “-strasz” suffix identifies him as a member of the red dragonflight.

You’ll encounter this pattern throughout Wyrmrest: Alexstrasza (the queen), Devrestrasz (the commander), Torastrasza (the majordomo), Cielstrasza (the quartermaster). The blues use “-gos” (Malygos, Kalecgos), greens use “-ra” (Ysera), and bronze use “-ormu” (Nozdormu, Chromie’s true name Chronormu).