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“I‘ve always suspected that the pillars have been the main reason for our weather and seclusion from the undead… this confirms it a bit. Not terribly long ago, there was a sound of a great explosion when the Lifeblood Pillar fell. The weather changed for the mosswalkers almost immediately… it began to snow, something we never see. They were able to stop the snow by bringing more lifeblood crystals to the Great Moss Stone.
Perhaps if we can do the same, it will help ward off the undead as well.”
-Moodle
Moodle wants you to collect 10 Lifeblood Shards, but stay away from the cave inside of the pillar itself. If you lose Moodle’s Stress Ball, speak to High-Oracle Soo-say in Rainspeaker Canopy.
You will be able to choose one of these rewards:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
Quest Giver: Moodle (summoned via Moodle’s Stress Ball) — Mosswalker Village, Sholazar Basin [76, 51]
Objective: Collect 10 Lifeblood Shards from the ground near the Lifeblood Pillar. Stay away from the cave inside the pillar.
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Moodle reveals the key backstory: the Lifeblood Pillar’s destruction caused an immediate climate shift for the Mosswalkers (it began to snow, something unprecedented in Sholazar), and this likely allowed the Scourge to breach the basin’s titan-maintained defenses.
The shards you’re collecting are the same lifeblood crystals the Mosswalkers used to ward off the weather change by bringing them to the Great Moss Stone.
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“I’ve always suspected that the pillars have been the main reason for our weather and seclusion from the undead,” Moodle said. “This confirms it a bit.”
Snow lay across the jungle floor. Snow, on broadleaf and vine, in a basin that sits in perpetual summer.
“Not terribly long ago, there was a sound of a great explosion when the Lifeblood Pillar fell. The weather changed for the mosswalkers almost immediately… it began to snow. Something we never see.”
I had been the one standing on top of that pillar with the powder kegs at my feet, working out what the Cult had done, and here was the answer in a form I had not thought to look for. Break a titan’s machine and the sky over a village changes within the day.
“They were able to stop the snow by bringing more lifeblood crystals to the Great Moss Stone. Perhaps if we can do the same, it will help ward off the undead as well.” Then, without looking at me: “But stay away from the cave inside of the pillar itself.”
The shards lay in the frost around the wreckage, red fragments of whatever the titans had put inside that pillar. The undead were still wandering the slope, but they came at me one at a time without any thought behind it.
Each shard I picked up was warm. Ten of them in a cold I had no business feeling in this basin.
“The Mosswalkers were good people,” Moodle said when I brought them back. “They did not deserve this.”
“The Mosswalkers were good people,” he said quietly. “They did not deserve this. We might be too late for the shards to make a difference. But our options are somewhat limited.”
He put them in a sack and started walking toward the stone, carrying ten warm pieces of a broken machine toward a rock, because that was the whole of what was available to him.
The cave Moodle had told Vikstone to stay out of was still there, still holding whatever had done this, waiting to become A Hero’s Burden.
