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“They taunt us – even as they lie dying here…
Please, brother… Don’t allow their mocking to be the last sounds I hear…
Finish me… deliver me from this torment… into… the Light.
Seek out my companions… offer them the same mercy.
Leave nothing for the Scourge to raise!
I beg you…”
-Dying Soldier
A Dying Soldier in the Broken Front wants you to kill 5 Dying Soldiers and report to High Captain Justin Bartlett on the Skybreaker.
You will be able to choose one of these rewards:
You will also receive:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
Quest Giver (Alliance): Dying Soldier — The Broken Front, Icecrown [68, 62]
Quest Giver (Horde): Dying Berserker — The Broken Front, Icecrown [70.7, 68.5]
Turn In (Alliance): High Captain Justin Bartlett — The Skybreaker
Turn In (Horde): Sky-Reaver Korm Blackscar — Orgrim’s Hammer
Objective:
Walkthrough
/target Dying Soldier to locate them, then set a raid marker for easier tracking.
Efficiency Tips
Lore Context
The two faction versions of this quest tell a remarkably different story through identical mechanics. The Alliance version is a solemn mercy killing. Your soldiers beg to be finished off so the Scourge cannot raise them as undead. The dying soldier’s plea is haunting: he asks you to deliver him “into the Light” and to leave nothing for the Scourge to raise.
The turn-in dialogue from High Captain Bartlett acknowledges the emotional cost, telling you not to let it haunt you.
The Horde version is pure vengeance. The dying berserker hears the moaning of wounded Alliance soldiers and asks you to finish what the Horde started.
Korm Blackscar’s turn-in is chilling: “The time of tolerance for the Alliance has passed. They have earned our hatred! They shall live in fear of the Horde until they no longer pollute our world!”
The Horde attacked the Alliance from behind, and yet the dying Horde soldiers frame themselves as victims who need avenging, while the dying Alliance soldiers (the ones who were actually ambushed) ask only for a clean death.
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 JournalThe Scourge do not shut up. That is the part nobody tells you about a field they have not finished clearing. They wander it calling out, in the voices they have collected, at men who cannot get up.
“They taunt us,” the soldier said. “Even as they lie dying here.”
He had been holding my forearm since I knelt.
“Please, brother… Don’t allow their mocking to be the last sounds I hear… Finish me… deliver me from this torment… into… the Light. Seek out my companions… offer them the same mercy. Leave nothing for the Scourge to raise! I beg you…”
Leave nothing for the Scourge to raise.
I gave him what he asked for and it took four seconds.
Then I walked the field.
Not one of them argued. One asked me to be quick and I was. One would not look at me and I let him not look. One thanked me, which I had not prepared for. The last was young enough that I checked twice that he understood the question, and he did.
“That was a difficult thing you did,” Bartlett said. “But it was the right thing. Don’t allow the memory of your actions to haunt you. Harness that sorrow and pain you feel! Direct it at those who caused it. The Horde must pay!”
The Skybreaker would reissue every morning for as long as the Horde flew that airspace, filed under No Mercy!
