Honor is for the Weak

WotLK Classic Northrend Leveling Guide

Quest 4 of 6 in the Eyes of Dominion Chain

Both Factions • Icecrown • Level 80 • The Shadow Vault

Assassinate 20 Restless Lookouts in the Weeping Quarry.

The lookouts cannot see through the shade's stealth, unlike the plaguehounds. Walk up behind one and use Assassinate. You must be behind it, and it takes two strikes rather than one, but nothing about the approach requires care. If you do get pulled into combat, Dephase out first and Phase Jump to reposition, because the shade cannot fight and the ability needs your target's back. Respawns are quick, so a loop beats waiting.

Vikstone's Classic Expedition

Twenty of them died without turning around, killed by a warrior who was not in the room and not in his own body. Keritose's compliment was that he had managed it without getting his hands dirty, and Vikstone looked at his hands afterward and could not disagree.

“Ghouls are fragile things when it comes down to it, and the lookouts at the saronite quarry down the path to the southwest are no exception. Using one of the shades, I have no doubt that you can sneak up and put down their lookouts without making a sound.

Clear out as many lookouts as you can reach in a reasonable amount of time… we’ll want their ranks thinned for our assault to come.”

-Keritose Bloodblade

Objective

LEVEL

80

Requires level

77

Start

Keritose Bloodblade

END

Keritose Bloodblade

Keritose Bloodblade at The Shadow Vault would like you to assassinate 20 Restless Lookouts.

Restless Lookout assassinated (20)

Quest Giver:
Keritose Bloodblade at Shadow Vault (Coordinates: 44, 24).

Quest Objectives:
Assassinate 10 Restless Lookouts in the Weeping Quarry using the Eidolon Watcher.
Activate the Eidolon Watcher
Interact with the Eye of Domination, a red orb near the quest giver, to take control of an Eidolon Watcher.
The shade has abilities tailored for stealth, movement, and eliminating enemies.
Locate Restless Lookouts
Restless Lookouts are perched on ledges and platforms throughout the Weeping Quarry (~39, 37), southwest of the Shadow Vault.
They are stationary and will not detect you while stealthed. — **Quest Giver:** Keritose Bloodblade — The Shadow Vault, Icecrown [44, 25]
**Activate the Eidolon Watcher:** Use one of the red Eye of Dominion orbs next to Keritose at [44, 25] to take control of an Eidolon Watcher. The key ability for this quest is Assassinate Restless Lookout (button 5).
**Locate Restless Lookouts:** Head southwest from the Shadow Vault into the Weeping Quarry area (~39, 37). Restless Lookouts are stationary ghouls perched on ledges and platform edges throughout the quarry.

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Reward

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Shadow Vault Cowl

Gloves of the Flayed

Links of the Battlemender

Ebon Pauldrons

You will also receive:

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

12,190 experience

250 reputation with Knights of the Ebon Blade

Walkthrough

Quest Giver: Keritose Bloodblade — The Shadow Vault, Icecrown [44, 25]

Objective: Assassinate 20 Restless Lookouts in the Weeping Quarry using a possessed Eidolon Watcher.

Quick Facts

Prerequisite: Parting Gifts
Do Alongside: From Whence They Came and An Undead’s Best Friend (all three share the same Eidolon Watcher vehicle and operate in the same area)
Unlocks: Completing all three Eidolon quests opens Seeds of Chaos and Amidst the Confusion

Walkthrough

Possess the Eidolon Watcher

Use one of the red Eye of Dominion orbs next to Keritose at [44, 25] to take control of an Eidolon Watcher. Accept all three quests before possessing the shade.
For the full Eidolon Watcher ability reference, see the table in the From Whence They Came guide. The key ability for this quest is Assassinate Restless Lookout (button 5).

Eidolon Watcher Abilities

Button	Ability	Function
1	Phase Jump	Phases the shade 30 yards forward. Also frees from any bonds. 2 sec cooldown. Use for fast travel.
2	Blood Siphon	Channeled drain, 20 yd range. Transfers health over 6 sec. Extremely weak; the shade is not built for direct combat. Emergency use only.
3	Dephase	Exits combat and increases run speed for 10 sec. Use to escape if detected.
4	Feed Hungering Plaguehound	Throws food at targeted area, making plaguehounds less aggressive (for An Undead’s Best Friend).
5	Assassinate Restless Lookout	Backstab kill on lookouts. Must be behind target (for Honor is for the Weak).
6	Banish Scourge Crystal	Channeled, 10 yd range. Banishes a Containment Crystal back to the realm it was summoned from. ~10 second channel.
0	Ethereal	Puts the shade into stealth. This is the shade’s default state.

Find and Kill the Lookouts

Head southwest from the Shadow Vault into the Weeping Quarry area (~39, 37). Restless Lookouts are stationary ghouls perched on ledges and platform edges throughout the quarry.
Walk up behind a lookout and use Assassinate Restless Lookout (button 5). You must be behind the target to use this ability. The lookouts do not detect your Ethereal stealth, so you can walk right up to them without being spotted.
Assassinate kills them in two quick strikes, not one. It’s still very fast, essentially instant compared to normal combat.
You need 20 kills.

What to Do If You Get Detected

If you accidentally aggro a lookout (by running into it from the front or getting caught in AoE), you cannot use Assassinate while in combat since you won’t be able to get behind a mob that’s actively attacking you.
You can kill it with Blood Siphon (button 2), but this is painfully slow. It’s faster to use Dephase (button 3) to break combat, then Phase Jump (button 1) to reposition and Assassinate from behind.
Be careful on the stairs leading down into the quarry. AoE effects from nearby enemies can hit you in passing without aggroing you, but running through enemies directly can break your stealth.

Tips

Lookouts don’t detect stealth. Unlike the Hungering Plaguehounds, the Restless Lookouts will not see you coming. Just walk up behind them and Assassinate. No need to use Phase Jump to close distance unless you want to speed things up.
Short respawn timers. Lookouts and crystals both respawn quickly, so if the area feels sparse, wait a moment or loop back through.
Work on all three Eidolon quests simultaneously. Banish crystals and feed hounds as you encounter them between lookout kills. The full trio takes 5-10 minutes.
When finished, use “Leave Vehicle” to teleport directly back to Keritose at the Shadow Vault.

Lore Context

The quest name, “Honor is for the Weak,” perfectly captures the Ebon Blade’s philosophy. These are death knights, not paladins. They don’t challenge enemies to honorable duels; they stab lookouts in the back while disguised as a Scourge shade. Keritose’s entire operation is built on deception, infiltration, and turning the enemy’s own tools against them.

The Restless Lookouts serve as the Scourge’s early warning system for the Weeping Quarry. Eliminating them, along with the plaguehound patrols (An Undead’s Best Friend) and defensive crystals (From Whence They Came), systematically dismantles the quarry’s security perimeter in preparation for the Ebon Blade’s next move.

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

1,220 experience

10 reputation with Knights of the Ebon Blade

Vikstone's War Journal

“Ghouls are fragile things when it comes down to it,” Keritose said, “and the lookouts at the saronite quarry down the path to the southwest are no exception. Using one of the shades, I have no doubt that you can sneak up and put down their lookouts without making a sound. Clear out as many lookouts as you can reach in a reasonable amount of time… we’ll want their ranks thinned for our assault to come.”

Vikstone Portrait Act 3 — Illustrated by Christian DiBari and Simon Gough.

The same shade, the same afternoon. I banished the crystals and I fed the hounds and I killed the lookouts, all of it in one possession without ever returning to my own body.

A Restless Lookout stands where it is put and watches the approach. They are posted along the quarry rim at intervals, facing outward, doing the one job they were made for.

You come up behind. There is a thing the shade does that I am not going to describe, and it makes no sound, and the lookout does not turn because there was never anything to turn toward.

Not one of them fought. Not one of them saw me.

When I came out of the shade my own body was standing where I had left it and the warmth in it felt like an accusation.

“Hard to lookout for what can’t be seen,” Keritose said. “Without even getting your hands dirty.”

He is a funny man and both of those are true.

The quarry had no crystals, no watchers, and a pack of well-fed dogs asleep on the path, which is a perimeter that no longer exists, and the next thing Keritose wanted planted down there would grow into something considerably worse than sabotage in Seeds of Chaos.

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Objective

LEVEL

80

Requires level

77

Start

END

Icecrown Storyline

Reward

7 Gold

40 Silver

12,190 experience

250 reputation with Knights of the Ebon Blade

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Eidolon Watcher Abilities

1,220 experience

10 reputation with Knights of the Ebon Blade

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