The Staff of Storm’s Fury

Quest Giver: “Silvermoon” Harry — Scalawag Point, Howling Fjord

Turn In: Orfus of Kamagua — Ancient Lift, Howling Fjord

Objective: Recover the Staff of Storm’s Fury from the abandoned ship at Iskaal and deliver it to Orfus.

Quick Facts

• Location: Ship at Iskaal [35, 64], Isle of Spears
• Chain Position: Part of a four-way fork after “Scoodles.” All four artifact quests (plus the Shield of the Aesirites sub-chain) must be completed before A Return to Resting.
• Pairs With: Avenge Iskaal (kill 8 Crazed Northsea Slavers at Iskaal, from Elder Atuik in Kamagua), and the other three artifact quests: The Frozen Heart of Isuldof, The Ancient Armor of the Kvaldir, The Lost Shield of the Aesirites

Walkthrough

Getting to the Ship

• Head to the abandoned ship moored at Iskaal [35, 64], on the coast of the Isle of Spears northeast of Kamagua. The ship is visibly crackling with lightning energy from the cursed staff.
• Abdul the Insane, a level 72 Elite, patrols the ship’s decks. He has 96,100 HP but relatively low damage output. Despite this, he’s a long fight to solo at-level and respawns within seconds of being killed, so fighting him gains you nothing.

Retrieving the Staff

• Wait on the gangplank and watch Abdul’s patrol route. When he walks to the upper rear portion of the deck, run onto the ship and head immediately below decks.
• Go all the way down to the lowest level of the cargo hold. The staff is at the very back.
• Loot the staff, then head back up. Check Abdul’s position before exiting onto the main deck. If he’s nearby, jump off the side of the ship into the water (the side facing away from shore) and swim clear.

Efficiency Tips

• Don’t fight Abdul. Even if you can kill him, he respawns almost instantly. Stealth or avoidance is the intended approach.
• Mages: Use Invisibility to walk past Abdul entirely. The spell lasts long enough to reach the hold. Note the 3-minute cooldown if you need it again on the way out.
• Rogues/Druids: Stealth trivializes this quest.
• Everyone else: Abdul’s patrol is predictable. Patience beats bravery here. If he catches you on the way out, just jump overboard.
• Quest Pairing: Pick up Avenge Iskaal from Elder Atuik in Kamagua before coming here. The Crazed Northsea Slavers you need to kill are in the same area around the ship, so you can clear both objectives in one trip.
• Artifact Route: Do all four artifact quests in a single loop from Scalawag Point: cave for the Frozen Heart → Iskaal ship for the Staff → coast for the Ancient Armor → ghost ship (Sister Mercy) for the Shield chain.

Lore Context

• The Staff of Storm’s Fury is one of four vrykul artifacts stolen from the burial ground at Shield Hill by the Northsea Freebooters. The grave robbery awakened the kvaldir, undead vrykul spirits that now terrorize Northrend’s coastlines.
• Abdul went mad specifically from proximity to the cursed staff. His ranting (“Its power courses through me! I AM A GOD!”) echoes what happened to the Freebooters’ leader, “Mad” Jonah Sterling, who was driven insane by the Frozen Heart of Isuldof.
• Returning all four artifacts to their graves at Shield Hill (in A Return to Resting) concludes this chain and earns significant Kalu’ak reputation toward the faction’s rewards.

Easter Egg

• Abdul the Insane is likely a reference to Abdul Alhazred, the “Mad Arab” from H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Alhazred is the fictional author of the Necronomicon, a forbidden tome that drives its readers insane.
• The parallel is fitting: both Abduls are driven mad by contact with an artifact of terrible power. This isn’t the only Lovecraft nod in Howling Fjord; the crazed dwarves in Whisper Gulch chant “Shur’nab… Yogg-Saron!” (a reference to Lovecraft’s Shub-Niggurath).

Cross-Expansion Connections

Kvaldir in Later Expansions

Legion (Stormheim): The kvaldir, awakened here by the Freebooters’ theft, become major antagonists in Stormheim. They serve Helya, the corrupted titan keeper who rules Helheim. Players face kvaldir throughout the zone and ultimately confront Helya in the Trial of Valor raid.

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.