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“If you believe yourself ready to begin then I have just the match for you to cut your teeth on. Another group of outsiders thought themselves prepared for the rigors of Valhalas. They had much hubris, but in the end they fell like all of the others.
If you think yourselves so different — if you think that you have the skill and experience to fight here amongst such storied warriors — then please accept the challenge.”
-Geirrvif
Geirrvif at Valhalas has challenged you to, in a single combat, defeat all six of the fallen heroes: Eldreth, Geness Half-Soul, Father Jhadras, Masud, Rith, and Talla. Should you succeed, speak with Gjonner the Merciless overlooking the southern lip of Valhalas.
Suggested players: 5
![Location: Valhalas Arena in Jotunheim, Icecrown.
Quest Giver: Sigrid Iceborn, located at [30.8, 29.0] in Valhalas.
Objective: Defeat a group of undead challengers summoned in the arena.](https://gamertribute.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Battle-at-Valhalas-Fallen-Heroes-Map.png)
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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
Quest Giver: Geirrvif — Valhalas, Jotunheim, Icecrown [33, 35]
Objective: Defeat all six fallen heroes in the Valhalas arena in a single combat: Eldreth, Geness Half-Soul, Jhadras, Masud, Rith, and Talla. Then speak to Gjonner the Merciless.
Quick Facts
Walkthrough
Start the Event
All six spawn at once and attack together. This is a multi-target fight, not sequential one-on-one duels. Each hero has a different combat style based on their class archetype:
| Hero | Race | Role | Key Abilities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eldreth | Undead | Ranged (hunter-type) | Arcane Shot (1,473-1,627 Arcane damage), Shoot (ranged Physical), Magic Dampening Field (AoE: 75% reduced spell damage and healing in the area) |
| Geness Half-Soul | Undead | Melee (warrior-type) | Melee attacks, including Brutal Fist and Snap Kick |
| Father Jhadras | Undead | Melee/caster hybrid | Melee attacks with healing abilities |
| Masud | Undead | Melee | Whirlwind/Cleave abilities |
| Rith | Undead | Melee | Melee abilities |
| Talla | Undead | Melee/rogue | Melee attacks, Rogue abilities |
Note: Treat this as a chaotic multi-mob fight rather than six individually choreographed encounters.
Kill Priority
Efficiency Tips
Lore & Secrets
The Fallen Outsiders
Geirrvif’s quest text explains that these six were a previous group of adventurers who came to Valhalas, full of confidence, and were killed. Their reanimated corpses now serve as the opening challenge for new contenders.
The mix of races (night elf, human, troll, blood elf, dwarf) suggests they were a cross-faction group or simply adventurers from across Azeroth who met their end here. Geirrvif’s contempt for them is palpable; she sees this fight as beneath her arena’s standards.
Gjonner the Merciless, the vrykul death knight who serves as the turn-in NPC for all Valhalas quests, spits at your feet when you approach and sneers that you are “nothing before the might of the vrykul and the Scourge.”
Explore Icecrown’s hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Icecrown Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.
Vikstone's War Journal“If you believe yourself ready to begin then I have just the match for you to cut your teeth on. Another group of outsiders thought themselves prepared for the rigors of Valhalas. They had much hubris, but in the end they fell like all of the others. If you think yourselves so different — if you think that you have the skill and experience to fight here amongst such storied warriors — then please accept the challenge.”
Another group of outsiders. She meant a party like ours, and she offered it as an inducement.
Mardagan and Superjosh took the flanks. The Ebon Blade knights formed behind us. I put the shield up in answer.
“Vikstone and his comrades in arms have chosen to accept honorable combat within the sacred confines of Valhalas,” Geirrvif called out over the pit. “There can only be one outcome to such a battle: death for one side or the other. Let Vikstone prove himself upon the bones of these outsiders who have fallen before!”
Upon the bones of. She told us exactly what we were being handed, and I do not believe Superjosh heard it.
The frozen ground came open and the fallen heroes of Valhalas rose out of it to do battle once more. Six of them, and all six had names. Eldreth, Geness Half-Soul, Jhadras, Masud, Rith and Talla. And not one of those is a vrykul name. They were outsiders, the same as we are. They came up that glacier with a plan and a healer, and now they are kept in the floor and used on whoever arrives next.
They came at us together. Geness came up shrieking. Jhadras had corrupted magic ready before he was clear of the ground. I set my feet and took the charge on the shield.
Mardagan broke left with the Light out ahead of the hammer. Superjosh broke right and then stopped, for about as long as a man stops when six risen warriors choose a direction and it is his. Then he laid consecrated ground in front of himself and made them come to him through fire.
The mace did what it does. Spikes take rotted flesh away in handfuls, and old bone comes apart rather than bending. Eldreth went down under the shield. Mardagan burned Geness out of the air on her second shriek. Superjosh put down Masud and then Rith, steadier on the second than the first. The knights closed on Jhadras and Talla and finished it.
Gjonner the Merciless watched all of it from the southern lip and came down to us afterward. The vrykul death knight spat on the ground at our feet.
“New blood. You all think that you have what it takes to fight here. You are nothing before the might of the vrykul and the Scourge!” Then, as though the words were being taken off him: “Still, you did manage to defeat six incompetent corpses, so you must have some skill in you.”
“Vikstone has defeated the fallen heroes of Valhalas battles past,” Geirrvif said. “This is only a beginning, but it will suffice.”
Six dead adventurers were the warm-up Geirrvif admitted to, and the first thing she sends that was never anyone’s hero is Khit’rix the Dark Master.
