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“That blasted necropolis blindsided us! In the wake of its destruction Wintergarde Mine was lost. Worse yet, Kel’Thuzad’s acolytes have raised the slain miners as Scourge and are using them to supply their siegesmiths with materials from our mine! The supply line must be halted and our lost brothers must be put to rest. Travel to Wintergarde Mine, northeast of here in the Carrion Fields, and destroy the risen miners.
Return to me with their miner cards so that I may put their passing in our registry.”
-Highlord Leoric Von Zeldig
Highlord Leoric Von Zeldig at Wintergarde Keep in Dragonblight wants you to recover 10 Wintergarde Miner’s Cards.
Quest Giver: Highlord Leoric Von Zeldig — Wintergarde Keep, Dragonblight
Turn In: Highlord Leoric Von Zeldig
Objective: Recover 10 Wintergarde Miner’s Cards from the Risen Wintergarde Miners inside Wintergarde Mine.
Walkthrough
Leoric explains the situation: when Naxxramas attacked, the mine was lost. Kel’Thuzad’s acolytes raised the dead Alliance miners as Scourge, and now these undead workers supply the Scourge siegesmiths with materials. Leoric wants you to put the risen miners down and bring back their identification cards so their deaths can be officially recorded and their families notified.
Head to the mine entrance at approximately [80, 46], south of the Keep in the ruined lower village.
Enter and kill Risen Wintergarde Miners and Risen Wintergarde Defenders throughout the mine. The Miner’s Cards are not a guaranteed drop, so expect to kill more than 10 mobs. Clear everything you encounter inside and around the mine.
Tips
Quick Facts
Do Alongside
Pick up all mine quests before heading in. They all complete in the same location:
Lore & Story Context
Putting the Dead to Rest
This quest stands apart from the other Wintergarde Mine quests because it isn’t about the mine’s strategic value. Leoric doesn’t care about the ore or the supply line in this quest. He wants the miner’s identification cards so their families can be notified.
These were Alliance citizens, workers, people with families who need to know what happened. The completion text makes this personal: “I will get these to our recorder and deliver the grim news to the families of the miners.”
In the middle of a zombie apocalypse and a war against the Lich King, someone is still tracking the dead by name so their loved ones don’t spend the rest of their lives wondering.
Explore Dragonblight’s hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Dragonblight Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.
You will be able to choose one of these rewards:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
Vikstone's War JournalI heard them before they saw me. Von Zeldig and Quarterflash, voices low near the parapet.
“Yes, yes, I haven’t forgotten Hyjal, or Silithus, or the march of the Legion, or every other damnable confrontation the 7th Legion has faced.” Von Zeldig’s voice dropped. “I don’t want the soldiers to hear this, Two-bit, but for the first time in my life…”
“Say no more, Leoric.” Quarterflash said. “We all feel the chill in our bones.”
Hyjal. Silithus. I had bled in those same campaigns. Knew what it took to shake a man who’d survived them.
He straightened when he noticed me. The mask went back on.
“That blasted necropolis blindsided us,” he said. “In the wake of its destruction, Wintergarde Mine was lost. Worse yet, Kel’Thuzad’s acolytes have raised the slain miners as Scourge and are using them to supply their siegesmiths with materials from our own mine.”
Our dead, mining ore to fuel the weapons that would kill more of us.
“The supply line must be halted,” Leoric said, “and our lost brothers must be put to rest. Return to me with their miner cards so that I may put their passing in our registry.”
Not just killing. Recording. These men had names, families waiting somewhere for news that would never be good, but it was better than never knowing at all.
The risen miners worked the tunnels with the same persistence as before. The Scourge had left only muscle and bone, animated by dark will. I put them down one by one, searching each corpse for the small metal cards that marked them as Wintergarde workers.
Ten names and letters that would need to be written.
Leoric took the cards from my hands.
“I will get these to our recorder and deliver the grim news to the families.” He looked toward the distant spires of Naxxramas. “There is still much to be done if we are to succeed here and ultimately at the Wrathgate. Lord Fordragon is depending on us.”
The families would mourn and the war would continue. And somewhere in Northrend, more miners were becoming soldiers, and more soldiers were becoming dead.
Mine sealed, ore collected, and the dead recorded by name, with Quarterflash finished analysing what came out of that shaft and Wyrmbane wanting the results, which is the beginning of Understanding the Scourge War Machine.
