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Quest Giver (Alliance): High Captain Justin Bartlett — The Skybreaker, Icecrown

Quest Giver (Horde): Sky-Reaver Korm Blackscar — Orgrim’s Hammer, Icecrown

Turn In (Alliance): Thassarian — The Skybreaker

Turn In (Horde): Koltira Deathweaver — Orgrim’s Hammer

Objective: Speak with your faction’s resident death knight aboard the airship.

Walkthrough

• This is a one-step handoff quest. Accept from your airship captain and walk across the deck to speak with Thassarian (Alliance) or Koltira Deathweaver (Horde). That’s it.
• Alliance: Bartlett reluctantly sends you to Thassarian, admitting he’s “uncomfortable” relying on a death knight but recognizes the tactical value. Thassarian responds pragmatically, noting that while Bartlett obsesses over the Horde conflict, someone needs to stay focused on the Lich King.
• Horde: Korm Blackscar sends you to Koltira, acknowledging that death knights know the Scourge better than anyone. Koltira’s reception is colder: he looks you up and down and says he hopes you’re “up to this.”

Efficiency Tips

• This quest unlocks the entire Aldur’thar/Broken Front Scourge assault questline, including Poke and Prod and the chains leading to That’s Abominable!, Sneak Preview, and eventually the Bombardment dailies. Complete it immediately when available to open up these quest chains.

Lore Context

The quest dialogue reveals lingering distrust of death knights even within the faction militaries. Bartlett’s discomfort with relying on Thassarian is a practical example of the prejudice that freed death knights face throughout WotLK, despite proving their loyalty at the Battle for Light’s Hope Chapel.

Thassarian and Koltira are the Skybreaker and Orgrim’s Hammer’s respective Scourge warfare advisors because they understand the enemy from the inside.

Cross-Expansion Connections

Thassarian and Koltira’s Friendship

• Thassarian and Koltira Deathweaver are former enemies turned friends, bonded by their shared experience as death knights under the Lich King’s control. Their story begins in Borean Tundra (the Last Rites chain), continues here in Icecrown, and carries significant weight in later expansions.
• Cataclysm: Both are sent to fight the Battle for Andorhal in the Western Plaguelands. When Koltira secretly negotiates a ceasefire with Thassarian rather than press the Horde’s advantage, Sylvanas Windrunner is furious. She drags Koltira to the Undercity for “re-education,” and his fate is left unknown for years.
• Legion: During the Death Knight order hall campaign, Thassarian and the player finally rescue Koltira from the Undercity’s dungeons, where Sylvanas had imprisoned and tortured him for years.

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