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“You remember Lady Nightswood, don’t you? She certainly remembers you. She’s the forlorn and very angry banshee that you ‘saved’ when you also broke Vile and myself out from under the Lich King’s dominion. The lady has gone into Jotunheim and possessed their bone witch. She intends to wreak havoc upon the vrykul from within.
She has asked that you seek her out. You’ll find her in the cave on the south side of Njorndar Village to the southwest within Jotunheim.”
-The Leaper
Speak with The Bone Witch within the cave at Njorndar Village.
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Quest Giver: The Leaper — The Shadow Vault, Icecrown [43, 25]
Objective: Fly to Njorndar Village in Jotunheim and speak with The Bone Witch in her cave.
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Lady Nightswood
The Bone Witch is not actually a vrykul. She is Lady Nightswood, a banshee who was freed during the Shadow Vault capture chain (the same questline where you broke The Leaper and Vile free from the Lich King’s control).
She has possessed the vrykul bone witch at Njorndar and is using the body to infiltrate Jotunheim and sabotage the Lich King’s vrykul operations from within.
Her backstory, delivered through idle dialogue, reveals she was originally from Quel’Thalas, meaning she was a high elf (or blood elf) in life. She had a family, a husband, and children before the Lich King destroyed everything. Her personal vendetta drives the entire Jotunheim sabotage operation.
The completion text captures this: the vrykul witch’s face “breaks into a reluctant grin as if she’s fighting the will of Lady Nightswood.”
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Vikstone's War Journal“You remember Lady Nightswood, don’t you? She certainly remembers you. She’s the forlorn and very angry banshee that you ‘saved’ when you also broke Vile and myself out from under the Lich King’s dominion.”
He leaned on saved in a way I did not care for.
“The lady has gone into Jotunheim and possessed their bone witch. She intends to wreak havoc upon the vrykul from within. She has asked that you seek her out. You’ll find her in the cave on the south side of Njorndar Village to the southwest within Jotunheim.”
The cave mouth is on the east path, where the split through Jotunheim runs at its widest. What turned around inside was a vrykul woman a long time dead and dressed for ritual work, and the voice that came out of her was not the one that face had been built for.
“Vikstone, you came. Already I have heard of your activities on the Savage Ledge. This is good. I am glad that you seem willing to help with undermining the vrykul here at Jotunheim.”
The face of the witch broke into a reluctant grin as if she was fighting the will of Lady Nightswood.
“You and I are going to have a great deal of fun with them!”
I cut Nightswood’s chains myself. Whatever else I expected out of that, it was not this, and it took her under a fortnight to find herself a body. The witch is still somewhere behind that face.
I believed her.
Whatever Lady Nightswood wanted from the vrykul, she wanted it read out of their dead first, which is the whole of Reading the Bones.
