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“Here’s yer shield. Me hopes it doesn’t curse ye like it did me’n’me crew. Ye don’t have to go home, but ye can’t stay here… I be certain that thar be some that would be interested in getting’ it back. Now get that thing off me ship!”
-Captain Ellis
Slay Sorlof using the Big Gun and recover Sorlof’s Booty. Return Sorlof’s Booty to Captain Ellis aboard the Sister Mercy.
Quest Giver: Captain Ellis — Sister Mercy, Howling Fjord (aboard ship)
Turn In: Orfus of Kamagua — Ancient Lift, Howling Fjord [40, 60]
Objective: Return the Shield of the Aesirites to Orfus of Kamagua at the Ancient Lift.
Quick Facts
Walkthrough
After defeating Sorlof and turning in the booty to Captain Ellis, he hands over the cursed shield and tells you to bring it to Orfus. Head to the Ancient Lift at [40, 60], north of Scalawag Point.
Getting Back to the Ancient Lift
Turn in the shield to Orfus. His completion dialogue confirms that this is one of four stolen artifacts that must all be gathered before they can be returned to their graves at Shield Hill.
Efficiency Tips
Lore Context
Easter Egg
Captain Ellis’s quest description includes the line “Ye don’t have to go home, but ye can’t stay here,” a nod to Semisonic’s “Closing Time” (1998). Fitting for a ghost pirate who just wants you off his cursed ship.
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.
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Vikstone's War Journal
“Here’s yer shield,” Ellis said. “Me hopes it doesn’t curse ye like it did me’n’me crew.”
Fengir the Disgraced had promised eternal unrest for those who took it. Ellis and his crew had learned that lesson the hard way, bound to the Sister Mercy until their stolen treasure was reclaimed. Now, at last, they had it back.
But they couldn’t keep it.
“Ye don’t have to go home, but ye can’t stay here… I be certain that thar be some that would be interested in gettin’ it back.”
Ellis’s voice lost its pirate bluster for a moment.
“Now get that thing off me ship!”
I could feel Fengir’s promise thrumming through the metal, ten thousand years of grievance waiting to be appeased. Or unleashed.
I left the Sister Mercy behind, the ghost ship already fading into the fog as it resumed its endless patrol. Ellis had his booty back. What good it would do him, bound as he was, I couldn’t say.
Orfus waited at the Ancient Lift. His eyes widened when he saw what I carried.
“You have returned!” I could see his whiskers trembling. “We must return all of the artifacts. When all four are gathered, you will put them back in their graves.”
The artifacts were gathered. All that remained was carrying them back to graves that didn’t want to stay closed.
Orfus said there was one way to end the kvaldir’s fury, which is to put every one of them back where it came from and let there be A Return to Resting.
