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“I need you down in Ymirheim, that big frost vrykul town in the middle of Icecrown. Frazzle Geargrinder is down there on the south side of town representing the Valiance Expedition in a competition against the Horde scum. It’s her jumpbot versus theirs in a king of the mountain contest! Don’t let us down, Vikstone. Gnomish engineering pride is on the line! Besides, all the boys here in the hold are counting on you.
That and we’ve got money riding on it that you can kick those idiots in the pants!”
-Chief Engineer Boltwrench
Speak with Frazzle Geargrinder in Ymirheim.
Quest Giver: Chief Engineer Boltwrench — The Skybreaker, lowest deck at the prow of the ship, Icecrown
Objective: Speak with Frazzle Geargrinder at the southern end of Ymirheim in Icecrown.
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What Ymirheim Actually Is
Ymirheim ranks among the most important places in vrykul culture, alongside Jotunheim, where the vrykul first reawakened. The reason is the Ymirjar: the elite warrior caste who earned their place here by surviving combat in the pit of Valhalas at Jotunheim. Every vrykul in Ymirheim won that battle.
Those who lost became vargul — lower-tier undead who serve the Ymirjar. When you descend into this town as a player, you are dropping into the prize city of the Lich King’s most capable vrykul servants.
The central saronite mines Ymirheim was likely built to protect are the economic engine of the Scourge’s war machine in Icecrown.
The Alliance vs. Horde Angle — Even Here
The quest establishes that both the Alliance (via the Skybreaker) and the Horde (via Orgrim’s Hammer) have separately infiltrated Ymirheim at the same time, and have apparently turned the situation into a competition.
The quest text is cheerfully absurd about this: gnomish engineering pride and gambling money are at stake while everyone is technically at war with the Lich King. The Horde equivalent of this quest chain runs the same scenario with a goblin engineer and their own jumpbot. The pettiness is the point.
The “Ymriheim” Typo
Explore Icecrown’s hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Icecrown Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.
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Vikstone's War JournalChief Engineer Boltwrench got through his brief in one breath and talked himself downhill the entire way.
“I need you down in Ymirheim, that big frost vrykul town in the middle of Icecrown. Frazzle Geargrinder is down there on the south side of town representing the Valiance Expedition in a competition against the Horde scum. It’s her jumpbot versus theirs in a king of the mountain contest! Don’t let us down. Gnomish engineering pride is on the line! Besides, all the boys here in the hold are counting on you. That and we’ve got money riding on it that you can kick those idiots in the pants!”
Pride, then the boys, then the wagering. Four sentences from honor to bookmaking, and he did not notice himself making the trip. Behind him the engineers were doing nothing at all with their hands.
Frazzle was on the south side of Ymirheim, crouched behind a building in the middle of a frost vrykul town.
“Oh my gosh, keep your voice down!” she hissed. “What? Are you trying to get us killed?! Of course I know who you are! Who in the Alliance doesn’t know the name?!”
That stopped me longer than it should have.
“Say, what do you think of my jumpbot? She’s based off of the mechagnome design. Sleek and aerodynamic!”
It was, and it is, based on the mechagnome design. I have met the originals. I let one out of a slave mine in the Storm Peaks and told it that it was free, and it thanked me by shutting itself down. This one had rockets on it and a flag rolled up in its fist, and it was going to spend the afternoon leaping between vrykul skulls for the honor of the Valiance Expedition and a pool of somebody’s back pay.
The war effort, apparently, required this.
Frazzle’s machine was assembled out of optimism and spare parts, the Horde had one just like it on the other side of town, and settling which gnome went home richer meant climbing a vrykul mountain in King of the Mountain.
