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“The Fleshwerks is a vast operation, and it will be difficult to keep an eye on all that transpires there. Fortunately, I have a plan.
<Arly produces an orb from the folds of her cloak and shows it to you.>
This is a death’s gaze orb. With it, we can observe the Scourge’s actions and decide how best to strike. Place these orbs on the stands at three crucial areas — the abomination lab and the flesh giant lab to the southwest, along with the area surrounding the green cauldron far to the west.”
-Darkrider Ally
Use the Death’s Gaze Orb to place orbs on the Abomination Lab Orb Stand, the Flesh Giant Lab Orb Stand, and the Cauldron Area Orb Stand, then return to Darkrider Arly at Blackwatch.
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Quest Giver: Darkrider Arly – Blackwatch, Icecrown [35.4, 66.3]
Objective: Use the Death’s Gaze Orb to place orbs on three stands in the Fleshwerks: the Abomination Lab Orb Stand, the Flesh Giant Lab Orb Stand, and the Cauldron Area Orb Stand.
Quick Facts
Walkthrough
You receive the Death’s Gaze Orb when you accept the quest. Fly to each of the three stands and right-click the stand (not the orb) to place an orb. The stands are small pillars with blue eye-like objects on top and show a gear icon on mouseover when active.
Stand Locations:
The quest text directs you southwest for the abomination and flesh giant labs, and further west for the cauldron area.
Efficiency Tips
Lore Context
Darkrider Arly’s plan here is simple but clever: set up surveillance orbs throughout the Fleshwerks so the Ebon Blade can watch Scourge operations remotely. After you place the orbs, she closes her eyes and connects to them, announcing: “With the eyes of death itself, I watch our enemy.” This intelligence gathering is what enables the targeted strikes in follow-up quests.
The three stand locations correspond to the Fleshwerks’ three production areas: the abomination lab (where standard abominations are assembled), the flesh giant lab/Sanctum of Reanimation (where the larger, more dangerous flesh giants are built), and the cauldron area (where plague and chemical components are mixed).
Each facility represents a different arm of the Scourge’s undead production pipeline.
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 Fleshwerks is a vast operation, and it will be difficult to keep an eye on all that transpires there. Fortunately, I have a plan.”
Arly produced an orb from the folds of her cloak and showed it to me.
Three locations. Three windows into the Fleshwerks’ operations.
“This is a death’s gaze orb. With it, we can observe the Scourge’s actions and decide how best to strike. Place these orbs on the stands at three crucial areas, the abomination lab and the flesh giant lab to the southwest, along with the area surrounding the green cauldron far to the west.”
The stands are already down there. Small pillars with a blue eye cut into the top, one at each place, standing empty and waiting for something the size of what I was carrying. Either the Scourge built mounting points and never filled them, or the Ebon Blade know exactly where they are because they used to work in that building.
The abomination lab first. They keep the failures stacked in the corners with the limbs still going and the mouths still working, and the successes standing in rows. I could not decide which of those I liked less. The orb went onto the pillar.
The flesh giant lab held half-made giants left on the floor where the work stopped. Somebody moved on to a newer design and did not finish these, and nobody has cleared them, and some of them still move a little.
The cauldron far to the west stank of chemistry gone wrong. Green in the vats and the fumes coming off it thick enough to lean on. The guards there fought and died and I placed the third orb.
Darkrider Arly closed her eyes and seemed to focus on something far away.
“With the eyes of death itself, I watch our enemy. With this knowledge, we will utterly destroy them.”
What she wanted done with that knowledge was not subtle at all, since the only way to stop a place that builds bodies is to Spill Their Blood.
