The Restless Dead

WotLK Classic Northrend Leveling Guide

The Restless Dead

Quest 1 of 3 in the Frozen Heart Chain

Both Factions • Icecrown • Level 78 • Valley of Echoes

Use Holy Water on the corpses of Reanimated Crusaders to free 10 restless souls.

Two actions per kill, so ten crusaders means ten swings and ten pours. Holy Water reading Invalid Target means the kill was not yours. You have to land damage on the crusader before it dies, which matters if you are letting the Crusaders of Virtue near the Breach do the work. Every one of these also counts toward The Purging Of Scourgeholme and drops a Scourgestone, so take all three quests before you walk through the Breach and none of this costs an extra trip.

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The crusaders still moved with fragments of the training they had died with. He broke ten of them a second time and poured Gustav's water over the pieces, and something came loose and went up each time.

“Not all of our soldiers made it out of Scourgeholme. Many were slain and turned into twisted reflections of their former selves. Such is the way of the Scourge. For those damned souls, there is no eternal peace. We must provide their souls rest.

Travel through the Breach into Scourgeholme and slay the skeletal reanimated crusaders. Sprinkle this holy water on their bones so that their spirits may be freed.”

-Father Gustav

Objective

LEVEL

78

Requires level

77

Start

Father Gustav

END

Father Gustav

Father Gustav at the Valley of Echoes in Icecrown wants you to use Holy Water on the corpses of Reanimated Crusaders to free 10 restless souls.

Restless Soul Freed (10)

Provided item:

Holy Water

Quest Giver: Father Gustav
Location: Crusaders' Pinnacle, Icecrown (Coordinates: 79.9, 71.8)
Where to Find Reanimated Crusaders:
They spawn in Scourgeholme around 77, 65. Look for areas near ziggurats or around the Breach.
If you've completed the quest The Purging of Scourgeholme, you can still find these mobs near the Crusaders of Virtue just east of the Breach.
Efficient Strategy:
Position yourself near the Crusaders of Virtue at 82.8, 71.5. The NPCs will engage and kill the Reanimated Crusaders for you. Use the Argent Holy Water on their corpses to cleanse their souls.
Make sure you land a hit on the mobs to ensure you receive quest credit before the NPCs kill them.
Combining Quests:
Pair this quest with The Purging of Scourgeholme and The Scourgestone. All three share objectives in the same area, making it easy to complete them together. — **Quest Giver:** Father Gustav — Valley of Echoes, Icecrown [~80, 72]
**Where to Find Reanimated Crusaders:** Head northwest from the Valley of Echoes through the Breach into Scourgeholme. If you’ve completed the quest The Purging of Scourgeholme, you can still find these mobs near the Crusaders of Virtue just east of the Breach.
**Triple quest stack:** Grab The Scourgestone and The Purging Of Scourgeholme before heading in. All three quests target overlapping enemies in Scourgeholme.

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Reward

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Blade of Echoes

The Argent Resolve

Hand of Gustav

Staff of Redeemed Souls

You will also receive: (if completed at level 100)

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

11,910 experience

250 reputation with Argent Crusade

Walkthrough

Quest Giver: Father Gustav — Valley of Echoes, Icecrown [~80, 72]

Objective: Kill Reanimated Crusaders in Scourgeholme, then use the provided Holy Water on their corpses to free 10 restless souls.

Quick Facts

Location: Scourgeholme, eastern Icecrown [~78, 66]
Chain Position: Side quest available after Once More Unto The Breach, Hero. Must be completed (along with other Scourgeholme quests) before Into The Frozen Heart Of Northrend.
Pairs With: The Scourgestone, The Purging Of Scourgeholme

Walkthrough

Two-Step Kill and Cleanse

Head northwest from the Valley of Echoes through the Breach into Scourgeholme.
Kill Reanimated Crusaders (the skeletons), then use the Holy Water on their corpses. The item is used like a targeted ability on the dead mob.
You need 10 successful cleansings to complete the quest.
If the Holy Water shows “Invalid Target,” it means you did not get credit for the kill. You must deal damage to the mob before it dies.

Efficiency Tips

Triple quest stack: Grab The Scourgestone and The Purging Of Scourgeholme before heading in. All three quests target overlapping enemies in Scourgeholme. Reanimated Crusaders count toward The Purging’s kill requirement and drop Scourgestones.
Crusader assist trick: The Crusaders of Virtue stationed near the Breach entrance at [82.8, 71.5] will engage and kill Reanimated Crusaders that wander toward them. Tag mobs with at least one hit for loot and quest credit, then let the Crusaders finish them off. Use Holy Water on the corpses once they drop.
Reward note: The Staff of Redeemed Souls is one of the highest spirit weapons available before level 80 heroics, making it a strong pick for Restoration Druids looking to maximize their Innervate mana return.

Lore & Secrets

Pulp Fiction Easter Egg

Father Gustav’s completion text reads: “The path of the righteous crusader is one beset by inequity and evil. To cut through the middle is the only salvation.” This is a reworked version of Jules Winnfield’s famous Ezekiel 25:17 speech from Pulp Fiction (1994). The original movie quote: “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequity of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.” Blizzard swapped “man” for “crusader” and trimmed the rest. This is one of several Pulp Fiction references scattered across World of Warcraft.

Explore Icecrown’s hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Icecrown Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

1,190 experience

250 reputation with Argent Crusade

250 reputation with Knights of the Ebon Blade

Vikstone's War Journal

Gustav has moved up. He is at the Valley of Echoes now, out of the infirmary, closer to the Breach than a man of his trade has any business being.

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“Not all of our soldiers made it out of Scourgeholme. Many were slain and turned into twisted reflections of their former selves. Such is the way of the Scourge. For those damned souls, there is no eternal peace. We must provide their souls rest. Travel through the Breach into Scourgeholme and slay the skeletal reanimated crusaders. Sprinkle this holy water on their bones so that their spirits may be freed. It is a grim task, but it must be done.”

Four days ago Mograine sent me after the same men. He told me the Crusade would want a proper farewell said over them and that he would ask no such thing of me, and I went up there and killed eight of them. I am kaldorei. Their god is not mine and I do not know a human blessing.

Gustav handed me a bottle.

The crusaders are bone now, mostly, and they still hold formation. Not well. But when three of them came at me in the second yard, two went wide, and I have seen enough drill to know that was not accident.

The killing is not the work. That is what the priest did not say and what I understood as soon as I had done the first one. You kneel in the frost beside a heap of somebody’s ribs and you tip the bottle, and only then does anything leave.

What comes up is pale and it does not linger.

I did ten. I knelt for every one of them and I did not say any words over any of them, because I still do not have any, but I have decided that the kneeling counts for something, and that the water was somebody else’s words.

“The path of the righteous crusader is one beset by inequity and evil,” Gustav said. “To cut through the middle is the only salvation. You have done that on this day and much more.”

Ten souls went up out of Scourgeholme and one thing stayed behind, something in the rubble that had nothing to do with the dead and everything to do with why the nerubians were here at all, The Stone That Started A Revolution.

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Objective

LEVEL

78

Requires level

77

Start

END

Icecrown Storyline

Reward

2 Gold

70 Silver

11,910 experience

250 reputation with Argent Crusade

Walkthrough

1,190 experience

250 reputation with Argent Crusade

250 reputation with Knights of the Ebon Blade

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