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“I appreciate everything that you have done for us, Vikstone. I have one last errand for you… one last gleaming hope for a paladin who deserves any salvation that we can extend. Go now to Shattrath and speak to the naaru, A’dal. He has long been a beacon of light and powerful ally to devout paladins. Impart Bridenbrad’s story and seek any aid that he might have to offer.
I cannot impress how important it is that you move quickly – I fear our crusader does not have much more time in this world.”
-Highlord Tirion Fordring
Request the aid of A’dal at Shattrath City in Terokkar Forest.
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Quest Giver: Highlord Tirion Fordring — Crusaders’ Pinnacle, Icecrown [80, 72]
Objective: Travel to Shattrath City and speak with A’dal at the Terrace of Light at [54.6 44.6].
Quick Facts
Walkthrough
Accept and Use the Portal
Speak with A’dal
Efficiency Tips
Lore Context
A’dal is the leader of the Naaru stationed in Shattrath City, the same being who played a central role in the Burning Crusade’s storyline, from the Tempest Keep raid to the judgment of Kael’thas Sunstrider. His appearance here, reached only after Remulos and Alexstrasza have both fallen short, positions the Light itself as Bridenbrad’s final hope.
Explore Icecrown’s hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Icecrown Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.
Vikstone's War Journal“I appreciate everything that you have done for us,” Tirion said. “I have one last errand for you… one last gleaming hope for a paladin who deserves any salvation that we can extend. Go now to Shattrath and speak to the naaru, A’dal. He has long been a beacon of light and powerful ally to devout paladins. Impart Bridenbrad’s story and seek any aid that he might have to offer. I cannot impress how important it is that you move quickly. I fear our crusader does not have much more time in this world.”
One last errand. He did not say what came after one last, and I did not ask.
I had barely finished accepting when a woman in Kirin Tor colors crossed the yard to us. “Hail. I could not help but overhear your conversation.” Archmage Rhydian, already shaping the portal. The whole Pinnacle knows the name Bridenbrad by now. A man none of them have ever met, dying alone at the edge of the map, and an archmage eavesdrops on the Highlord for the chance to move his cause one city closer.
The portal took me, and Outland’s broken sky swallowed the cold.
Shattrath. I served here during the war against Illidan, and the Lower City smells exactly as it did then: refugees, incense, too many peoples cooking too many dinners in too little space. I was married the last time I walked these streets.
Then the Terrace of Light, and A’dal.
The naaru turns slowly above the terrace floor, living crystal and holy fire, lit from no source I could find. The city’s noise thinned as I came near, and then the ringing began. A gentle ringing that fills the head rather than the ears, harmonics settling into the chest.
I know why you have come.
I had come with Bridenbrad’s story rehearsed. The Broken Front, the men carried out one by one, the vigil, the plague, the acorn, the fire. I never gave the speech.
So I waited in the light, and the song went on, and for the first time since the fire at the Silent Vigil, waiting did not feel like losing.
What Vikstone carried out of the Terrace of Light was the last gift anyone would ever hand him for the man on the mountain, The Boon of A’dal.
