Find Kurun!

Quest Giver: Fallen Earthen Warrior — Plaza of Thor Modan, Grizzly Hills

Objective: Speak with Kurun on the hill overlooking Thor Modan.

Quick Facts

• Level: 75
• Faction: Both (Alliance and Horde)
• Chain Position: 1 of 8 in the Thor Modan chain (Find Kurun! → Raining Down Destruction → Rallying the Troops → Into the Breach → Gavrock → Runes of Compulsion → Latent Power → Free at Last)
• Achievement: Counts toward Fo’ Grizzle My Shizzle (Grizzly Hills quest completion)
• Mutually Exclusive With: An Expedient Ally (Horde breadcrumb from Scout Vor’takh at Camp Oneqwah). If you complete An Expedient Ally first, Find Kurun! becomes unavailable, and vice versa. Both lead to the same chain.

Walkthrough

The Fallen Earthen Warrior lies dying in the plaza outside Thor Modan’s entrance. He is a crumbling stone figure, cracked and gouged from battle. In his last moments he gasps for you to find “Kurun,” the leader commanding the siege. Accept the quest before doing anything else at Thor Modan.

Finding the Path to Kurun

Kurun stands atop the cliffs above Thor Modan at [65.7, 17.7]. He is NOT accessible from inside the ruins. Do not enter Thor Modan trying to reach him. You will waste time fighting iron dwarves and hit a dead end.

Instead:

• Travel to [62, 24] where the road forks. Take the dirt path heading northwest (described as the “left fork,” though which side is “left” depends on your facing direction). The key is to look for the narrower sand/dirt trail that splits off from the main road.
• Follow this path as it winds uphill. It leads directly to the clifftop overlook where Kurun stands.
• Kurun is a massive stone giant with trees growing from his body. He is impossible to miss once you are on the right elevation.

Speak with him to complete the quest. He immediately offers the follow-up, Raining Down Destruction.

Important: Accept This Quest First

If you ride up to Kurun before accepting Find Kurun! from the Fallen Earthen Warrior, you can speak to him and pick up his quests directly. This means you will miss completing Find Kurun!, which may lock you out of the achievement credit. Always grab the quest from the dying earthen in the plaza first.

Efficiency Tips

• Pick up the Battered Journal near the Fallen Earthen Warrior (starts a separate Explorers’ League quest at Thor Modan). Both are in the same plaza.
• If you have Cold Weather Flying (or purchased the Tome of Cold Weather Flight for an alt), you can fly directly to Kurun’s clifftop position and skip the pathfinding entirely.
• After turning in, stay at Kurun’s location. The entire next chain (Raining Down Destruction, Rallying the Troops, Into the Breach) radiates outward from his overlook into the Thor Modan trench below.

Lore Context

The Fallen Earthen Warrior is one of Kurun’s soldiers, an earthen warrior made of living stone. His dying words establish the central conflict: the earthen and stone giants have been besieging Thor Modan but cannot break through.

The quest text says his surface is “covered with cracks and gouges” and that “although he is incapable of bleeding, you can sense that the warrior is near death.” This is a striking detail. The earthen are literally stone. They don’t bleed. They crack. Their deaths look more like a statue breaking apart than a person dying.

Kurun is described across sources as a “towering figure of rocks and trees.” He is a stone giant, one of the titan-forged races created by the Titans to shape Azeroth. His alliance with the earthen against the iron dwarves represents a civil war among titan-forged: stone giants and earthen (who would eventually become modern dwarves) versus iron dwarves who serve the corrupted Keeper Loken.

The entire Thor Modan chain is a ground-level introduction to the titan-forged conflict that defines Storm Peaks and culminates in the Ulduar raid.

The Horde version, An Expedient Ally, frames the same situation through a completely different lens. Where the Alliance version is a dying soldier’s last plea, the Horde version is pure military pragmatism. Scout Vor’takh tells Horde players that the earthen-versus-iron-dwarf conflict is “beyond the Horde’s interest” but represents an opportunity to “crush a mutual enemy.” Same destination, different motivation.

Cross-Expansion Connection: The Earthen in The War Within

The earthen you meet at Thor Modan, including the dying warrior who gives this quest, are the same type of titan-forged beings who became a playable Allied Race in The War Within (2024). The War Within introduces an isolated society of earthen in Khaz Algar, deep beneath Azeroth, who have maintained their stone forms for millennia.

These earthen were never affected by the Curse of Flesh, the Old God corruption that transformed other earthen into the flesh-and-blood dwarves players know from Ironforge.

The Thor Modan earthen sit at a fascinating midpoint in this lore: they still have their original stone bodies, they fight alongside stone giants, and their enemy (the iron dwarves) serves Loken, who is himself corrupted by the Old God Yogg-Saron.

This quest introduces the basic framework of titan-forged politics that Blizzard would spend the next 16 years expanding, from Ulduar to the Halls of Stone (where the Curse of Flesh is first explained), all the way through to the Earthen becoming a playable race.

When you speak to Kurun, you are standing at the very beginning of one of WoW’s longest-running lore threads.

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.