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“So they’re summoning in their workers and warriors at those altars? They’ll need to be the first thing to go. The master summoner should have a staff which allows him to activate the portal. If you kill the master summoner and take the staff, you can use it to overload the summoning portal and destroy its altar.
Do this at all four of the altars and return to me once they’ve been destroyed.”
-Darkrider Ally
Kill Master Summoner Zarod and use his Summoning Stave to destroy the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Summoning Altars. When you’ve completed this task, report to Darkrider Arly at Blackwatch.
You will be able to choose one of these rewards:
You will also receive:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
Quest Giver: Darkrider Arly – Blackwatch, Icecrown [35.4, 66.3]
Objective: Kill Master Summoner Zarod and use his Master Summoner’s Staff to destroy all four Summoning Altars in the eastern Fleshwerks.
Quick Facts
Walkthrough
Kill Master Summoner Zarod
Zarod is a lich who patrols between all four Summoning Altars in the eastern Fleshwerks. He has three abilities:
Zarod is not elite and goes down fast. The knockback from Lich Slap is the main annoyance; melee classes should keep their backs to a wall or open space where knockback won’t push you into additional mobs. Ranged classes can burn him before he reaches melee range.
Kill him and loot the Master Summoner’s Staff.
Destroy All Four Altars
Use the staff on each of the four Summoning Altars around [37, 70]. The staff overloads the summoning portal at each altar, destroying it. You can use the staff while mounted (including flying mounts), so fly between altars and use it without dismounting for a fast completion.
Return to Darkrider Arly at Blackwatch.
Efficiency Tips
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“So they’re summoning in their workers and warriors at those altars?” Arly said. “They’ll need to be the first thing to go. The master summoner should have a staff which allows him to activate the portal. If you kill the master summoner and take the staff, you can use it to overload the summoning portal and destroy its altar. Do this at all four of the altars and return to me once they’ve been destroyed.”
Master Summoner Zarod is a lich and he walks a circuit between the four of them, all day, checking his work. I have watched shepherds do the same thing with less attention.
He did not expect to be interrupted at the third altar. The Destroyer caught him mid-cast and the greataxe came in behind it. I took the staff off him while he was still coming back together.
The staff does not break anything. It is the same instrument Zarod uses to open the portal.
So the altars were not destroyed by me. They were destroyed by doing their own work harder than they were built for, and I only held the handle.
The first one had its defenders up before I reached the circle. The second had abominations, with skeletal constructors moving among them who did not appear to register that anything was happening.
When the fourth went, the eastern end of the Fleshwerks went quiet.
Darkrider Arly nodded in approval.
“Good. Now, we can focus our efforts on shutting down the rest of the Fleshwerks.”
The factory still had everything it had already built, along with something at the centre of it that had been watching the whole operation without ever moving, which Arly wanted dealt with under Death’s Gaze.
