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“The Scourge has a large facility called the Fleshwerks, dedicated to producing abominations and flesh giants. If we can shut it down, we can deprive the Lich King of a large component of his armies. I’ve sent Darkrider Arly to the area. She has a small base, Blackwatch, on a ridge overlooking the Fleshwerks and to the west of Corp’rethar.
I’m told the Argent Crusade is sending someone to coordinate their efforts there, but the darkrider will know what to do. Find and assist her.”
-Baron Silver
Speak to Darkrider Arly at Blackwatch in Icecrown.
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Quest Giver: Baron Sliver – The Shadow Vault, Icecrown [43, 25]
Objective: Speak to Darkrider Arly at Blackwatch in Icecrown.
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Walkthrough
Fly southwest from the Shadow Vault to [35.4, 66.3]. Blackwatch sits on a high ridge between Corp’rethar and the Fleshwerks. Look for a small camp on the mountaintop. Land and speak to Darkrider Arly to turn in.
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Lore Context
The Fleshwerks is the Scourge’s dedicated factory for assembling abominations and flesh giants. It sits above the Avalanche that collapsed into Sholazar Basin, with poison and plague bubbles everywhere and undead fleshripper birds circling overhead.
The Sanctum of Reanimation inside handles flesh giant production, while a separate wing produces abominations using cauldrons and summoning circles.
Blackwatch is a joint Ebon Blade/Argent Crusade operation. Darkrider Arly handles the Ebon Blade side; Crusader Olakin Sainrith represents the Argent Crusade. Their mission is to shut down the Fleshwerks and deny the Lich King a major source of his armies.
Patchwerk, the infamous abomination boss from Naxxramas, may have been constructed at the Fleshwerks.
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“The Scourge has a large facility called the Fleshwerks, dedicated to producing abominations and flesh giants,” Sliver said. “If we can shut it down, we can deprive the Lich King of a large component of his armies. I’ve sent Darkrider Arly to the area. She has a small base, Blackwatch, on a ridge overlooking the Fleshwerks and to the west of Corp’rethar. I’m told the Argent Crusade is sending someone to coordinate their efforts there, but the darkrider will know what to do. Find and assist her.”
That was the last thing the baron asked of me. He did not mark the occasion and neither did I.
Blackwatch is a ledge with three tents on it and a view nobody would choose.
Below, the Fleshwerks. Green smoke off a dozen vents, thick and sweet, and the smell is rendered fat. Skeletal workers haul the finished abominations up out of the assembly pits. Past them, the giants come out and try their legs, and they do not have them yet; a thing made of nine men’s parts has to learn how many of them it has.
Somewhere down there, people are being sorted into piles by size.
Darkrider Arly is a gnome. Pink hair under the helm, half my height, standing at the lip of that ledge with her arms crossed, running an Ebon Blade operation against a factory. Beside her, a human in Argent Crusade colors, Crusader Olakin Sainrith, who was writing something down when I came up.
“Good. We’ll need all the help we can get. Olakin here is the Argent Crusade’s contribution to our effort. Let’s cut the chatter and get down to the business of denying the Scourge their armies of the flesh.”
Olakin did not react to being called a contribution. I suspect he has heard it before and has decided to be useful about it.
Below us another giant got its feet under it and took a step, and then another, and by the third it had the trick of it.
Arly wanted the Fleshwerks shut down and could not tell anyone how it was being supplied, because the raw material was arriving faster than the Scourge was killing anyone, which raised the only question worth asking first, Where Are They Coming From?
