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“Glad to meet you. I’ve come here from the Grizzly Hills to do business with your cohorts. My people maintain a large outpost there, and you’d do well to visit it when you head north. I’ve set up traps in the woodlands and snowy areas around here. With the meat and the furs from the creatures they capture, I’ll have plenty to barter with the townspeople.
I can offer you a share of my profits if you’re willing to help gather prey from the traps. Beware though, you won’t be the only predator out there.”
-Trapper Jethan
Trapper Jethan at Fort Wildervar wants you to bring him 8 pieces of Trapped Prey.
You will be able to choose one of these rewards:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
Quest Giver: Trapper Jethan — Fort Wildervar, Howling Fjord [60, 16]
Objective: Collect 8 Trapped Prey from traps scattered in the woodlands north and west of Fort Wildervar.
Quick Facts
Walkthrough
Finding the Traps
Interacting with Traps
Efficiency Tips
Explore Howling Fjord’s hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Howling Fjord Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.
Vikstone's War JournalTrapper Jethan was the same man who’d been taking shots at Steelfeather. Apparently when he wasn’t trying to make trophies of mother hippogryphs, he ran a legitimate trapping operation.
“Glad to meet you. I’ve come here from the Grizzly Hills to do business with your cohorts.” He gestured vaguely north. “My people maintain a large outpost there, and you’d do well to visit it when you head north.”
He explained his arrangement.
“I’ve set up traps in the woodlands and snowy areas around here. With the meat and the furs from the creatures they capture, I’ll have plenty to barter with the townspeople.” He produced a pouch of coins. “I can offer you a share of my profits if you’re willing to help gather prey from the traps.”
His eyes narrowed.
“Beware though, you won’t be the only predator out there.”
He wasn’t wrong. The worgs had figured out that Jethan’s traps meant easy meals. Half the time I found prey still in the trap. The other half, I found worgs waiting for their chance. They learned quickly enough that I wasn’t worth the trouble.
I caught rabbits, foxes, a couple of small deer. Simple work after everything else.
“Nicely done,” Jethan said, “some of these will fetch a better price than others, but I should have plenty to trade with the locals.”
I overheard him trying to make deals with Gil Grisert as I left.
“Hey, Gil, you give my offer any more thought? I’ll have plenty of skins and preserved meat to trade for those heavy yeti furs or down your men are working with.”
“Much as I’d like to do business with you, Jethan, all this stuff is property of the Alliance expeditionary forces. Maybe after everything dies down, you and I can make a deal with some of the surplus.”
Jethan shrugged. “I’ll be lookin’ forward to it. Guess I’ll get to preserving this meat, then. A good quartermaster won’t turn down a reliable supply of rations.”
Commerce continues, even at the edge of the world.
Foreman Colbey’s trouble was closer than Giants’ Run, since something large had moved into Wildervar Mine, and the men were not going back down there while The Yeti Next Door had the run of it.
