Putting Olakin Back Together Again

Quest Giver: Darkrider Arly — Blackwatch, Icecrown [35, 66]

Objective: Obtain a Spool of Thread and The Doctor’s Cleaver, then use Crusader Olakin’s Remains at the Sanctum of Reanimation Slab to reassemble the crusader. Return to Darkrider Arly.

Quick Facts

• Location: Sanctum of Reanimation, the Fleshwerks, Icecrown
• Chain Position: Quest 2 of 3 — He’s Gone to Pieces → Putting Olakin Back Together Again → The Flesh Giant Champion

Walkthrough

Enter the Sanctum of Reanimation

• Head back into the same cave you used during A Visit to the Doctor (where you freed Patches). The entrance is at [34, 68], in the flesh giant lab area of the Fleshwerks.

Collect the Spool of Thread

• After entering the cave, turn left into the small alcove. The Spool of Thread sits on a table inside. [35, 66]

Grab the Doctor’s Cleaver

• Continue past the alcove and head down into the laboratory area at the back of the cave. The Cleaver is on one of the lab tables near the equipment. [37, 67]

Use Olakin’s Remains at the Slab

• The Large Slab is a dark granite platform on the ledge between the thread alcove and the lab area, near the cave entrance overlooking the workshop below. [36, 67]
• Stand near the Slab and use Crusader Olakin’s Remains from your inventory to trigger the reassembly event.
• Crusader Olakin Sainrith is restored with a Holy Light effect. He delivers a short speech and heads off to rejoin the fight.

Return to Darkrider Arly at Blackwatch [35, 66] to complete the quest.

Efficiency Tips

• Optimal route: Grab the Thread first (left at the entrance), then jump down to the lab below to get the Cleaver, then clear your way back up toward the entrance and use the Remains at the Slab. This avoids unnecessary backtracking.
• Warlocks: Place a Demonic Circle at the Slab before heading down. After collecting both items, teleport back up.
• Watch your pulls: The cave still contains Scourge mobs. Pull carefully if you’re undergeared or lack AoE. The space is tight enough for accidental multi-pulls.
• Do alongside: This quest runs concurrently with the broader Fleshwerks assault chain. If you still have By Fire Be Purged or Killing Two Scourge With One Skeleton objectives, clear those on your way through.

Lore & Secrets

The Fleshwerks Rescue

Crusader Olakin Sainrith is a draenei member of the Argent Crusade, assigned to coordinate the joint Crusade/Ebon Blade assault on the Fleshwerks.

He was snatched by the frostwyrm Ghostwing during the previous quest chain, dismembered, and his parts used to build abominations. Despite being literally torn apart and stitched back together with a spool of thread and a cleaver, he walks away in perfect health.

Darkrider Arly’s reaction captures the absurdity well: she warns Olakin that “no amount of thread and heroism will save him a second time.”

Notably, the previous quest (He’s Gone to Pieces) only has you recover a torso, legs, a left arm, and a right arm. No head. Olakin reassembles just fine anyway.

Darkrider Arly is one of the game’s few gnome death knights, and one of the even fewer with pink hair. Her dry, sarcastic personality throughout the Fleshwerks chain contrasts sharply with the Argent Crusade’s earnest tone, reflecting the uneasy alliance between the two factions.

Humpty Dumpty

• The quest name, “Putting Olakin Back Together Again,” is a nod to the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme (“All the king’s horses and all the king’s men/Couldn’t put Humpty together again”). Unlike Humpty, the player actually succeeds, though the method is questionable at best.

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