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“Maybe if the sentries won’t help me, you will? I’m the foreman of the mine just across the bridge. My men are mining ore for the weapons our expeditionary force will need to carve a path into the Grizzly Hills. A giant yeti has invaded the mine, blocking the tunnel we need to expand! We’ve tried yelling at him and smoking him out, but nothing’s worked.
Maybe you could rouse it from its sleep with a meal of meat from the frosthorn rams in the snowy areas around town? Please? We’re desperate!”
-Foreman Colbey
Foreman Colbey at Fort Wildervar wants you to defeat Shatterhorn.
You will be able to choose one of these rewards:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
Quest Giver: Foreman Colbey — Fort Wildervar, Howling Fjord [60, 16]
Objective: Gather ram meat, craft a meal, and use it to wake and defeat Shatterhorn in Wildervar Mine.
Quick Facts
Walkthrough
Step 1: Collect 4 Tough Ram Meat
Step 2: Craft the Giant Yeti Meal
Step 3: Wake and Defeat Shatterhorn
Efficiency Tips
Easter Egg
The quest name is a play on The Girl Next Door, the 2004 comedy film. The quest mechanics (a sleeping creature blocking a path, requiring a special item to wake it up) mirror the classic Snorlax encounter from the Pokémon games.
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 JournalForeman Colbey was running out of options.
“Maybe if the sentries won’t help me, you will?” He pointed across the bridge. “I’m the foreman of the mine just across the bridge. My men are mining ore for the weapons our expeditionary force will need to carve a path into the Grizzly Hills. A giant yeti has invaded the mine, blocking the tunnel we need to expand! We’ve tried yelling at him and smoking him out, but nothing’s worked.”
Yelling at a yeti. Bold strategy for sure.
“Maybe you could rouse it from its sleep with a meal of meat from the frosthorn rams in the snowy areas around town?” He clasped his hands. “Please? We’re desperate!”
Four rams and four cuts of tough meat, combined into a meal large enough to interest something Shatterhorn’s size. The things I do for logistics.
The mine was dark and smelled of stone dust and something musky. Shatterhorn lay curled at the tunnel’s end, a mass of white fur and muscle blocking the passage completely. I set down the meal and retreated to give myself room.
The yeti’s nose twitched, then its eyes opened.
Shatterhorn’s first swipe nearly took my head off. I ducked under his reach, drove my mace into his knee, and kept moving. He roared, filling the tunnel with fury, but rage made him sloppy, and I buried my weapon in his skull.
Colbey nearly wept with relief when I returned.
“You’ve done it? By the Light, you’re a walking miracle!” He sagged against a support beam. “I was beginning to think I’d personally have to explain to Captain Adams why his men’s weapons weren’t ready in time!”
Adams again. Apparently being mauled by a yeti seemed preferable to disappointing him.
South of the fjord a tuskarr elder stood at the edge of an ancient lift talking about debts owed to the dead, and Orfus of Kamagua was not asking for help so much as stating what was owed.
