Kill the Cultists

Quest Giver: Warden Jodi Moonsong — Stars’ Rest, Dragonblight [~29, 55]

Turn-in: Warden Jodi Moonsong (same NPC)

Objective: Collect 5 Functional Cultist Suits from Anub’ar Cultists at Icemist Village.

Quick Facts

• Type: Kill + Collect (item drop)
• Collect: 5 Functional Cultist Suits (drop from Anub’ar Cultists; not guaranteed per kill)
• Location: Icemist Village, north of Stars’ Rest [~24, 44]
• Chain Position: 2nd of 4. Follows The Liquid Fire of Elune. Leads to The Favor of Zangus (bonus drop) → The High Cultist.

Walkthrough

Jodi Moonsong now has the cause of the blight: it’s the Anub’ar Cultists at Icemist Village. Their suits emit fumes that seep into everything they come near, poisoning and corrupting the surrounding wildlife.

She wants you to kill the cultists and bring back their suits so she can destroy them by cleansing them in the moonwell.

Getting to Icemist Village

• Head north from Stars’ Rest. Icemist Village is the ruined taunka settlement at approximately [24, 44]. This is the former taunka capital, destroyed by Anub’ar nerubians.
• The cultists are concentrated around the southern buildings and the pools/waterfall areas on the lower tiers of the village.

Farming the Suits

• Kill Anub’ar Cultists throughout Icemist Village. The Functional Cultist Suits are not a guaranteed drop; the quest text hints at this with “bring back any of their suits that survive your assault,” implying some suits are destroyed during the fight.
• Anub’ar Cultists are casters with Shadow Bolt and can buff nearby mobs with increased movement speed (Empower) and cast speed (Zeal). Pull them away from groups when possible.
• Southern buildings and cliff edges [~25, 45] tend to have good concentrations. The area around the pools beneath the buildings also has consistent spawns.
• If the main village area is crowded with other players, check the ledges at [~27, 46] and [~24, 46] for less-trafficked cultist spawns.

Bonus Drop: The Favor of Zangus

• While killing Anub’ar Cultists, you have a chance to loot The Favor of Zangus, a quest-starting item. This is an inscribed token from the cultist leader, High Cultist Zangus, addressed to a favored pupil. It reads: “If you continue to show promise, I will teach you wonders beyond your imaginings. If you do not, I will have you destroyed!”
• Returning this to Jodi Moonsong gives her a name for the cult’s leader and starts the follow-up quest The High Cultist, sending you to kill Zangus in the Pit of Narjun.
• Don’t leave Icemist without this drop. Keep killing cultists until it drops, as it chains directly into the next quest and saves you a return trip.

Tips

• Horde players in the area: Icemist Village is a shared questing area. The taunka rescue questline from Westwind Refugee Camp brings Horde players into the same village. PvP encounters are possible on PvP servers.
• Watch for Anub’ar Slayers. The village also contains melee mobs (Anub’ar Slayers) and named elites like Sinok the Shadowrager that are part of Horde quest chains. These do not drop Functional Cultist Suits, so target the caster cultists specifically.
• AoE is useful but be careful about pulling Slayers along with Cultists, as the melee mobs hit harder.

Lore Context

The quest text explicitly identifies the mechanism of the blight you cleaned up in the previous quest: “The fumes that emit from the cultists’ suits seep into everything they come near, poisoning and corrupting their surroundings.”

This connects the environmental damage (blighted wildlife) directly to a Scourge intelligence operation. The cultists aren’t warriors; they’re infiltrators whose very presence poisons the land.

Jodi Moonsong’s completion text reveals what she does with the recovered suits: “I will dispose of these filthy garments by cleansing them in the moonwell and destroying them through the power of the goddess!”

The moonwell at Stars’ Rest serves as the cleansing agent for both the wildlife (Liquid Fire of Elune) and the suits. Elune’s power is positioned as the direct counter to Scourge corruption.

Icemist Village was the taunka capital before the Anub’ar nerubians destroyed it. The taunka evacuation and rescue is the parallel Horde storyline in this area, run from Westwind Refugee Camp. Both factions are dealing with the same nerubian incursion from different angles: the Alliance through the night elf warden’s ecological lens, the Horde through the taunka refugees’ displacement and ancestral reclamation.

Cross-Expansion Connection

The Anub’ar nerubians who destroyed Icemist Village are servants of the Scourge, converted during the War of the Spider when the Lich King conquered Azjol-Nerub.

In The War Within, players encounter the last independent nerubian kingdom of Azj-Kahet, which refused to aid Azjol-Nerub during that war and now serves Queen Ansurek under the influence of the void entity Xal’atath.

The cultists at Icemist represent the Scourge-enslaved branch of nerubian civilization; Azj-Kahet represents those who stayed free but fell to a different corruption.