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“I wanted to remove the Black Knight’s remains from the tournament grounds after your victory, but Confessor Paletress insisted that he receive a decent burial. Ever since, a dark presence has lingered in the cemetery and people are afraid to go there to visit the fallen.
Would you visit the cemetery just past the eastern end of the tournament grounds and see if you can discover what’s happening?”
-Crusader Rhydalla
Crusader Rhydalla at the Argent Tournament Grounds wants you to investigate the Black Knight’s Grave.
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Quest Giver: Crusader Rhydalla – Argent Tournament Grounds, Icecrown [75, 22]
Objective: Investigate the Black Knight’s grave in the graveyard east of the Argent Tournament Grounds, then deal with the Cult of the Damned agents you discover there.
Quick Facts
Walkthrough
Getting to the Grave
The Encounter
Returning to Rhydalla
Efficiency Tips
Lore & Secrets
The Body Snatcher
After you defeated the Black Knight in the previous quest, Confessor Paletress (who also appears as a boss in Trial of the Champion) insisted the Black Knight receive a proper burial despite his crimes. Rhydalla wanted to remove his remains entirely but deferred to Paletress’s judgment.
That mercy is now being exploited: the Cult of the Damned is stealing his body to resurrect him.
This quest reveals that the Cult’s plans run deeper than simple infiltration. Even the Black Knight’s defeat was anticipated and worked into their strategy, which Rhydalla finds particularly unsettling.
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 JournalCrusader Rhydalla found me the morning after.
“I wanted to remove the Black Knight’s remains from the tournament grounds after your victory, but Confessor Paletress insisted that he receive a decent burial. Ever since, a dark presence has lingered in the cemetery and people are afraid to go there to visit the fallen. Would you visit the cemetery just past the eastern end of the tournament grounds and see if you can discover what’s happening?”
Paletress insisted. Rhydalla wanted the body off the grounds altogether and a confessor talked her out of it, on the grounds that even that man was owed a hole and a stone over it.
The cemetery sits east of the grounds. The Black Knight’s stone stands off by itself with a purple cloud sitting on top of it, and the thing sparkles, which graves do not do. The earth in front had been turned recently, and turned by hand.
Two of them were still at it when I came up.
“What do you think you’re doing?” the Cult Saboteur said. Then: “You’re too late to stop our plan.” Then, to the one beside him: “See to it that I’m not followed.”
“Gladly,” the Cult Assassin said, and drew, and the Saboteur was gone in a flash of light before the blades were clear.
The Assassin did not last long. He was told to stand there and be killed, and his answer to that was gladly. The grave was empty behind him the whole time. They had the body before I ever reached the stone.
Crusader Rhydalla frowned. “Do you think they’ve been planning this? I suppose it doesn’t matter, but I don’t like the implication that we’ve been playing into their hands. Whatever is going on, we have to stop it.”
A stolen corpse and a cult that planned for losing leaves Rhydalla one question worth asking, and following the body out of that graveyard is all of The Black Knight’s Fate.
