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“As is usual practice, the undead at the saronite quarry to the southwest starve plaguehounds to keep them extra aggressive. Use the shade to get up close and feed some of those hounds and I promise you they’ll be content to leave you alone, if not side with the hand that fed them.
Don’t get too close to those things until you’ve fed them though. Their noses don’t fall victim to your shade’s elusiveness.”
-Keritose Bloodblade
Keritose Bloodblade at The Shadow Vault wants you to use the Eidolon Watcher to feed 18 Hungering Plaguehounds.
You will be able to choose one of these rewards:
You will also receive:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
Quest Giver: Keritose Bloodblade — The Shadow Vault, Icecrown [44, 25]
Objective: Use a possessed Eidolon Watcher to feed 8 Hungering Plaguehounds.
Quick Facts
Walkthrough
Possess the Eidolon Watcher
| 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. This quest. |
| 0 | Ethereal | Puts the shade into stealth. This is the shade’s default state. |
Find and Feed the Plaguehounds
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Lore Context
The Hungering Plaguehounds serve as patrol animals for the Scourge forces guarding the Weeping Quarry. Keritose’s plan is characteristically indirect: rather than killing the hounds, the Ebon Blade feeds them to make them docile. Satisfied hounds are sleepy hounds, and sleepy hounds don’t raise alarms. This is part of the broader operation to weaken the quarry’s defenses before a full assault.
The quest name plays on the expression “a dog’s best friend.” Even Scourge plaguehounds can be bribed with a good meal.
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Vikstone's War Journal“As is usual practice, the undead at the saronite quarry to the southwest starve plaguehounds to keep them extra aggressive,” Keritose said. “Use the shade to get up close and feed some of those hounds and I promise you they’ll be content to leave you alone, if not side with the hand that fed them. Don’t get too close to those things until you’ve fed them though. Their noses don’t fall victim to your shade’s elusiveness.”
Their noses do not fall victim to it.
I went back down into the Weeping Quarry wearing the same shade I had worn the day before.
The dogs knew where I was from the moment I came over the lip.
They could not reach me and they could not look at me properly, and they came to the ends of their chains anyway with their heads up and their noses working, because I smelled of something and they had not been fed in days.
Which is the arrangement. Somebody at that quarry decided that a hungry hound is a better hound.
And the errand was to get close. Close enough to put meat down in front of a starving thing with my own hands, or with the hands I was borrowing. So I did that eighteen times.
They ate the way animals eat when they have been kept short, without any dignity in it at all, and afterward they did not follow me and they did not bark and they lay back down. Nobody at that quarry will notice until they need the alarm.
“No need to be wasteful. Those hounds will serve whoever bothers to feed them.”
The hounds were fed and the crystals were down, which left the watchers on the ledges who would raise the alarm the moment the Ebon Blade’s gryphons cleared the ridge, and killing a man from behind while wearing someone else’s body is why Honor is for the Weak.
