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“You said the body was taken by cultists? I can only think of one place they would have gone, Deathspeaker’s Watch, the encampment on the rise west of the tournament grounds.
Whatever the cultists are doing must be stopped. The rumors I’ve heard can only be true, then. The infamous Doctor Kohler must be among the cultists, practicing his arts. Look for a rise or an altar overlooking the cultist camp, slay the doctor, and look for proof of his plans. Slow down his work in any other way you can.”
-Crusader Rhydalla
Capture Doctor Kolher’s Orders at Deathspeaker’s Watch, then return to Crusader Rhydalla at the Argent Tournament Grounds.
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Quest Giver: Crusader Rhydalla — Argent Tournament Grounds, Icecrown [75, 22]
Objective: Travel to Deathspeaker’s Watch west of the Argent Tournament Grounds, kill Doctor Kohler, and loot Doctor Kohler’s Orders.
Quick Facts
Walkthrough
Getting to Deathspeaker’s Watch
The Scene at the Platform
Killing Doctor Kohler
Returning to Rhydalla
Efficiency Tips
Lore & Secrets
Too Late to Stop It
The orders you recover reveal Doctor Kohler was commanded by the Lich King himself to sacrifice a Crusader named Kul on the nearby altar to bring the Black Knight back to full power.
By the time you arrive, the ritual is already underway. You kill the doctor and retrieve his orders, but the Black Knight’s resurrection cannot be reversed.
You spent the entire chain building a case against the Black Knight, defeated him in open combat, only to discover the Cult had contingency plans all along. The questline ends on an unresolved note, with the Black Knight reanimated and his next move unknown.
Connection to Trial of the Champion
The storyline picks up without further quests when the Black Knight crashes the Trial of the Champion dungeon. He flies in on a frostwyrm, kills a herald of the Crusade (either Arelas Brightstar or Jaeren Sunsworn depending on faction), and fights the players through three phases before being destroyed permanently.
The chain simply ends here, and the Black Knight’s dungeon appearance serves as a surprise payoff for anyone who completed the questline.
Kul the Reckless
The caged Crusader, Kul the Reckless, is being held as a sacrifice to fuel the Black Knight’s resurrection. His fate ties directly into the Doctor’s orders. This is one of the few times in the Argent Tournament storyline where the Cult’s activities result in a visible on-screen victim rather than just referenced deaths.
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“You said the body was taken by cultists? I can only think of one place they would have gone, Deathspeaker’s Watch, the encampment on the rise west of the tournament grounds. Whatever the cultists are doing must be stopped. The rumors I’ve heard can only be true, then. The infamous Doctor Kohler must be among the cultists, practicing his arts. Look for a rise or an altar overlooking the cultist camp, slay the doctor, and look for proof of his plans. Slow down his work in any other way you can.”
West of the grounds and up the hill. Near enough that the pennants are visible from it.
There is a raised platform at the west end of the watch. The Black Knight was sitting in the middle of it inside a bubble of sickly green light, freshly undead and not yet finished.
Two Sacrificed Aspirants were channeling into him.
Aspirants. That is a rank I held three weeks ago. Squire David calls men of it out into the ring one at a time, and a val’kyr told me they clamor for the chance. Both of these were corpses, and the Dark Zealots were tending the bodies while the bodies did the work.
Kul the Reckless watched all of it from a black cage.
Doctor Kohler died without ceremony. His orders were on him.
Crusader Rhydalla read them through twice. “The doctor will not have time to complete his work, but his plan is already in motion. From what you’ve reported, the Lich King’s servants have reanimated and empowered the Black Knight and there’s no telling what the knight’s master has in mind.” Then: “You have done well in uncovering this plot. I will tell High Crusader Adelard of your findings and together, we will alert the tournament’s participants.”
Alert the participants. Somebody ought to, and somebody ought also to work out which two aspirants stopped answering the roll, because Kohler did not bring those up the hill from anywhere else.
The Black Knight is on his feet again somewhere out past the ridge and the Crusade’s answer is not to hunt him but to finish building the army it started, which begins the day A Champion Rises.
