Parting Gifts

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

Objective: Use an Eye of Dominion to seize control of a captured Eidolon Watcher.

Quick Facts

• Prerequisites: Requires progress through the Exploiting an Opening/Opportunity chain. Whiterock’s quest tree shows A Short Fuse (Alliance)/its Horde equivalent as the trigger,
• Unlocks: Three follow-up quests: From Whence They Came, Honor is for the Weak, and An Undead’s Best Friend

Walkthrough

Use the Eye of Dominion

• The Eye of Dominion and captured Eidolon Watchers are right next to Keritose Bloodblade at [44, 25]. You don’t need to go anywhere.
• Look for the red globes with “Eidolon Watcher” labeled in red text. There are blue globes nearby as well; ignore those. You want the red ones.
• Click on the Eye of Dominion to take control of a captured shade. That’s it. The quest completes instantly once you seize control.
• Turn in to Keritose, who is standing right there.

Efficiency Tips

• This is a 30-second quest. The only real obstacle is finding it in the first place, since it requires significant progress through the Exploiting an Opening chain (accessible from Thassarian on the Skybreaker for Alliance or Koltira Deathweaver on Orgrim’s Hammer for Horde).
• Don’t skip this quest. It looks trivial, but it gates the entire Weeping Quarry/Malykriss chain, which is a large chunk of Icecrown quest content leading all the way to Vereth the Cunning and the Death Knight Rider group quests.

Lore Context

The “parting gifts” in the quest name refer to the Eyes of Dominion, artifacts left behind by the Cult of the Damned as they were overrun at the Shadow Vault. Keritose explains that the Cult normally guards these items carefully, but when the Ebon Blade slaughtered them in their own home, they had nowhere to retreat with their treasures.

The Eyes allow any intelligent being to precisely control lesser undead. This is a tutorial for the mechanic used in later quests, where you’ll use mind-controlled undead for espionage and sabotage behind Scourge lines. Keritose’s completion dialogue foreshadows this: he’s already thinking about the “variety of destruction” they can cause with even lowly minions.

Keritose Bloodblade is a death knight who serves as the Ebon Blade’s specialist in covert operations. His quests throughout Icecrown revolve around using subterfuge, infiltration, and turned Scourge assets rather than brute force.

The shade’s ability bar is the real lesson. Seizing one gives you a 30 yard blink on a 2 second cooldown, a weak blood siphon, Dephase to drop combat and run faster, Feed Hungering Plaguehound, Assassinate Restless Lookout, Banish Scourge Crystal, and Ethereal for stealth. You can also talk to NPCs while wearing the shade. Every one of those buttons is a later quest in this chain.

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