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“Okay guy, Rakjak have very important job. You go capture injured big-tongue that tracker spotted at river to north. Not bring hunter this time because they maybe want to just kill it. I want to hide it so that I can poke it and make it tell me things. Go you and bring me big-tongue prize thing.”
-High-Shaman Rakjak
Locate an Injured Rainspeaker Oracle for High-Shaman Rakjak at Frenzyheart Hill.
You will be able to choose one of these rewards:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
Quest Giver: High-Shaman Rakjak at Frenzyheart Hill
Objective: Locate an Injured Rainspeaker Oracle for High-Shaman Rakjak.
Quick Facts
FACTION SHIFT WARNING: Completing this quest sets your Frenzyheart Tribe reputation to Hostile and your Oracles reputation to Friendly. This is intended and unavoidable. You will get the chance to choose your final faction allegiance later at A Hero’s Burden.
See “Faction Planning” below before proceeding.
Walkthrough
Rakjak sends you to capture an injured gorloc that a tracker spotted near the river to the north. He specifically tells you not to bring a hunter companion this time: “Not bring hunter this time because they maybe want to just kill it. I want to hide it so that I can poke it and make it tell me things.”
Efficiency Tip: Once the faction shift occurs, Frenzyheart wolvar throughout the zone become hostile. If you need to pass through Frenzyheart Hill afterward, use a flying mount to avoid unnecessary combat.
Faction Planning
Before completing this quest, consider your long-term goals:
Lore & Secrets
The Moment Everything Changes
This quest is one of WotLK’s most clever narrative pivots. Rakjak sends you on what seems like a routine capture mission, but the moment you protect the Oracle from the crocolisk instead of capturing it, the story turns. You didn’t choose to betray the Frenzyheart. You just did the decent thing.
You were “just following orders,” and the orders led you here.
Shaman Vekjik’s Accusation
Vekjik isn’t just any wolvar. He’s a shaman who was apparently spying on the mission. His outburst is immediate and absolute: “You help Rainspeaker! I saw you help Rainspeaker! Traitor thing!” followed by “If you want to be friends with big-tongues, you not friends with Frenzyheart! I tell village! We no trust you anymore!”
He then scurries off toward Frenzyheart Hill to spread the word. Vekjik reappears later in the Oracle chain at Making Peace, where he throws you into the lake.
The Oracle’s Plea
The gorloc’s terrified response contrasts sharply with the Frenzyheart swagger you’ve been immersed in for the entire chain. After a dozen quests of hearing wolvar bravado, this simple plea about just wanting to fish lands with real weight. It’s the first time the player hears the Oracles’ side of the conflict.
Rakjak’s Ironic Orders
Rakjak’s reasoning for not sending a hunter reveals the wolvar mindset: he assumes the only risk is that his own people would be too violent. It never occurs to him that you might show the Oracle mercy instead. The “very important job” of capturing and interrogating a gorloc ends up being the catalyst for the entire faction shift.
Explore Sholazar Basin’s hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Sholazar Basin Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.
Vikstone's War Journal“Okay night elf, Rakjak have very important job. You go capture injured big-tongue that tracker spotted at river to north.” He made a stabbing motion with one claw. “Not bring hunter this time because they maybe want to just kill it. I want to hide it so that I can poke it and make it tell me things. Go you and bring me big-tongue prize thing.”
He said that last part cheerfully. He was sending me instead of Zepik because I would bring it back breathing.
The oracle was on the island north of the hill, huddled at the water’s edge with its scales gone dull.
“No kill me please!” it croaked. “We was just looking for fish. We not want to die.”
Fish. It had come to the river for fish, and a Frenzyheart tracker had seen it, and now a shaman with a good imagination was waiting to find out what it knew about a village it had probably never left.
I stood there longer than the job required. Namarie used to say that you can tell what a man is by what he does with something that cannot stop him.
A low growl came out of the shallows. The crocolisk was on the oracle before I had finished turning, jaws opening wide enough to take the whole of it, and my mace was moving before I made any decision worth the name.
Then the underbrush moved.
“You help Rainspeaker! I saw you help Rainspeaker! Traitor thing!” Shaman Vekjik stood at the treeline with his spear shaking in both hands. “If you want to be friends with big-tongues, you not friends with Frenzyheart! I tell village! We no trust you anymore!”
He scurried off toward Frenzyheart Hill to tell them.
The oracle rose clumsily to its feet and looked up at me, and I could not read anything on that face at all.
A week of hunting for them. Wasps, apes, a queen, a sand beast, and a matriarch who died defending young I had taken from her myself. I had done all of it and called it the work.
This one I did not do.
Vekjik had run off to tell the village, which meant the wounded gorloc could not stay where it was, and getting it home was going to be a matter of Fortunate Misunderstandings.
