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“We were here long before the puppy-men came. This is very sacred place – we will not leave. You seem like maybe you good, but we have Lafoo stay with you just in case. You understand we think. There snakes thing that keeps trying to eat our hatchlings. Go with Lafoo and make them stop, okay?
Especially big one near waterfall to northeast.”
-High-Oracle Soo-say
High-Oracle Soo-say in Rainspeaker Canopy wants you to kill Venomtip and 10 Emperor Cobras. If you lose Lafoo’s Bug Bag, 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: High-Oracle Soo-say — Rainspeaker Canopy, Sholazar Basin [54, 56]
Objective: Kill Venomtip and 10 Emperor Cobras.
Quick Facts
Walkthrough
Summon Lafoo
Kill 10 Emperor Cobras
Kill Venomtip
Efficiency Tips
Lore & Secrets
The Other Side of the Argument
Rakjak sent you north to break a shrine because “we no want big-tongues in this land anymore.” Soo-say opens with the mirror image of that sentence, claiming the Oracles held Sholazar first and that Rainspeaker Canopy is sacred ground they will not abandon.
Blizzard hands you both grievances in identical broken Common, roughly a dozen quests apart, and leaves the rest to you. By the time you reach A Hero’s Burden and have to pick a side, you have run errands for both tribes and heard each describe the other as vermin.
Your Parole Officer Says Hi
Lafoo is not a reward for good behavior. Soo-say’s exact reasoning is that you “seem like maybe you good,” which is a long way short of trust, and the bug bag comes with a minder attached. The gorloc who bounces along behind you shouting “Hi!” after every kill is there to watch what you do with a weapon.
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“We were here long before the puppy-men came,” Soo-say said. “This is very sacred place, we will not leave.”
That was the first anyone had mentioned who had arrived when. The Frenzyheart had come to this basin as refugees with the Scourge at their backs, and everything I had done for them in the past week had been done to help them push out the people who were already here.
“You seem like maybe you good, but we have Lafoo stay with you just in case. You understand we think.” He gestured at a gorloc holding a bag of insects. “There snakes thing that keeps trying to eat our hatchlings. Go with Lafoo and make them stop, okay? Especially big one near waterfall to northeast.”
Hatchlings. He meant children.
Lafoo came along at my heel with the bug bag over one shoulder, less a partner than a witness. The Emperor Cobras had taken the ground between the canopy and the falls, and they were not hard to find.
The first one reared up, hood spread wide. It was quick, weaving between my swings, fangs going for whatever gap it could find. I killed it, of course.
“Hi!” Lafoo contributed.
More cobras came out of the reeds. The axe handled most of them, and Lafoo offered the same greeting after each one, from the same safe distance. Zepik would have been in the middle of it by now with his spear and possibly a fire. Lafoo watched, and commentated, and said hi.
Then we came to the falls, and to Venomtip.
He was twice the length of anything else in that river, and the venom on his fangs came off them in strings. Lafoo went quiet for the first time all afternoon.
“Hi?” he whispered.
Venomtip struck before I had finished getting my footing, venom spattering the rock at my boots. I rolled under the second strike and came up swinging, and the axe took scale and nothing under it. The tail came around low and nearly had my legs. I went over it, closed inside the reach of that head before it could track me, and put the mace into the base of the skull with the axe going in behind the hood.
“Hi!” Lafoo celebrated.
Soo-say stared right through me when we returned, the way he does.
“Snake gone? Good night elf. We thank you.”
Hatchlings safe. It was the plainest piece of work I had done in this basin, and I had needed one.
Soo-say thanked him for the hatchlings, and Lafoo kept following him around, but the wolvar were still out there calling him a traitor, and someone was going to have to try Making Peace.
