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“For years I neglected my duties, giving into defeat and self-pity. Not the brave earthen, however. Their oath to protect these grounds with their lives has gone unbroken. Even now, they fight the corruption of iron with selflessness, waiting for the moment in which the tides turn. That moment has arrived. We must rally what remains of the earthen defenders and lead them into a glorious victory.
Sound the Horn of the Peaks to call them to your side and take back the Terrace of the Makers.”
-Thorim
Thorim, at the Terrace of the Makers, wants you to use the Horn of the Peaks and call on the Earthen to defeat 20 Iron Dwarves and 7 Iron Sentinels.
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Quest Giver: Thorim — Terrace of the Makers, Storm Peaks [56.3, 51.4]
Objective: Use the Horn of the Peaks to summon Earthen allies and defeat 20 Iron Dwarves and 7 Iron Sentinels.
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Summon the Oathbound Warders
Kill Iron Dwarves (20)
Kill Iron Sentinels (7)
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Lore Context
Thorim’s dialogue here carries genuine remorse: “For years I neglected my duties, giving into defeat and self-pity. Not the brave earthen, however. Their oath to protect these grounds with their lives has gone unbroken.”
The earthen are titan-forged constructs, ancestors of modern dwarves, who remained loyal to their original directive even after the Keepers fell to corruption. While Thorim brooded for centuries, they kept fighting.
The conflict between the earthen and iron dwarves at the Terrace represents the broader corruption spreading from Ulduar. Iron dwarves are titan-forged who were never affected by the Curse of Flesh but instead serve Loken and, by extension, Yogg-Saron.
The earthen loyalists are the last uncorrupted titan-forged holding the line at the Terrace.
Explore the Storm Peaks’ hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Storm Peaks Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.
Vikstone's War Journal“For years I neglected my duties, giving into defeat and self-pity,” Thorim said. “Not the brave earthen, however. Their oath to protect these grounds with their lives has gone unbroken. Even now, they fight the corruption of iron with selflessness, waiting for the moment in which the tides turn. That moment has arrived. We must rally what remains of the earthen defenders and lead them into a glorious victory. Sound the Horn of the Peaks to call them to your side and take back the Terrace of the Makers.”
He gave me the horn. I want that set down plainly, on account of what I did with it afterward.
Four came up when I sounded it. Oathbound Warders, holding that ground since before my people had writing, and they fell in behind me because a horn was authority enough.
They are not what I expected. They do not close. One put a hand out and the stone came up around an iron dwarf’s legs and held him there while I opened him from collarbone to hip. Another threw fire from thirty yards. A third laid a working over me that turned every blow I took into something that mended me instead.
The Iron Dwarves came apart readily enough once the ground had hold of them.
The Sentinels were the work. Twice my height and full of borrowed lightning, and it took all four warders holding one in the stone before I could get the claymore into them.
Every Sentinel cost me warders.
So I sounded the horn again, and four more came, and they came exactly as quickly as the first four had.
“It’s a good start,” Thorim said. “But my brother’s forces will not take long to regroup. We must make our victory a decisive one.”
His brother’s forces would regroup fast, which meant the ones giving the orders had to go before they could, so the next targets had names and rank in Loken’s Lackeys.
