Brothers in Battle

Quest Giver: Brugar Stoneshear — Westfall Brigade Encampment, Grizzly Hills [59.8, 27.6]

Objective: Kill 10 Runic Battle Golems at Thor Modan.

Quick Facts

• Level: 75
• Location: Thor Modan, around [63, 22]
• Chain Position: 2 of 5 in the Brugar Stoneshear/Thor Modan Survey chain
• Pairs With: The Damaged Journal (starts from a Battered Journal object outside Thor Modan), and the Kurun chain if you’ve picked up Find Kurun!

Walkthrough

Pick Up and Travel

• Grab the quest from Brugar Stoneshear at the Westfall Brigade Encampment [59.8, 27.6]. He becomes available after you complete Softening the Blow, which has you bring him a cask of moonshine from Redwood Trading Post.
• Head northeast to Thor Modan. The Runic Battle Golems are scattered across the area around [63, 22], fighting alongside the iron dwarf defenders against the earthen siege forces.

Killing the Golems

• The golems are level 73-74. They’re melee mobs without complicated mechanics, so this is a straightforward grind.
• Friendly earthen NPCs are fighting the golems and will assist you. Their damage output is low (roughly 11-25 per hit), but they serve as useful distractions to split aggro if you pull more than one golem.
• As ranged DPS, kite around the earthen and let them tank hits while you burn golems down. Melee should be fine with cooldowns available, but avoid pulling multiples if undergeared.

Efficiency Tips

• Do Alongside: The area around Thor Modan also serves the Find Kurun! chain (starts from a Fallen Earthen Warrior nearby). Kurun stands on the hilltop overlooking Thor Modan at [65.7, 17.7] and gives several quests in the same combat zone, including Rallying the Troops and Raining Down Destruction. Stack these before heading in.
• Mining Bonus: If you have Mining, you can mine the fallen Runic Golems for Geodesic Fragments, a vendor junk item. The value per stack is modest but adds up over the course of the zone.
• Chain Progression: Turn in to Brugar back at camp. The next quest, Uncovering the Tunnels, sends you into Thor Modan’s interior, followed by The Fate of Orlond and Steady as a Rock?. The full chain has you pushing deeper into the iron dwarf city alongside the earthen assault.

Lore Context

Brugar Stoneshear is an Explorers’ League archaeologist who was forced to halt excavation work at Thor Modan when the battle between the earthen and iron dwarves erupted. Captain Gryan Stoutmantle ordered Brugar’s team to pivot from research to supporting the military effort of finding tunnel routes to Icecrown Glacier beneath Thor Modan.

The Runic Battle Golems are iron dwarf constructs deployed to fight back the earthen siege. The earthen and stone giants (led by Kurun) have been at war with the iron dwarves here for millennia. The iron dwarves of Thor Modan serve Loken, the corrupted Keeper, which foreshadows the larger Loken storyline in Storm Peaks and the confrontation in Halls of Lightning.

Thor Modan’s architecture mirrors Ironforge itself, complete with a statue resembling Modimus Anvilmar, hinting at the shared origins between Ironforge dwarves (Curse of Flesh descendants) and their titan-forged ancestors.

Cross-Expansion Connections

Thor Modan’s Ongoing War

• Exploring Azeroth: Northrend: The Bronzebeard brothers note that even years later, Thor Modan remains a ruin. The stone giants continue to bombard the city to prevent rebuilding. Ironically, by this point the iron dwarves have rejoined the uncorrupted forces of Ulduar, but the earthen here still serve the stone giants and refuse to stop fighting. The iron dwarves have been forced to consolidate at Dun Argol as a result.
• The War Within: The earthen become a playable Allied Race, bringing the titan-forged origin story full circle from the archaeological questions the Explorers’ League was chasing at Thor Modan.

Explore Grizzly Hills’ hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Grizzly Hills Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.