Everfrost

Quest Giver: Item-initiated. Loot an Everfrost Chip from the ground in Storm Peaks to begin the quest.

Turn-in NPC: Calder — Dun Niffelem, Storm Peaks (near the eastern entrance)

Objective: Find an Everfrost Chip in the wild and bring it to Calder.

Quick Facts

• Type: One-time quest (followed by the unlimited repeatable Remember Everfrost!)
• Requires: Friendly with Sons of Hodir to loot chips. Chips are visible at Neutral but cannot be picked up.
• Not a daily. You can turn in as many chips as you find with no daily limit.

Walkthrough

Step 1: Find an Everfrost Chip

• Everfrost Chips are small, glowing ice shards scattered across the southeastern portion of Storm Peaks. They spawn in 6 zones, each zone producing one chip at a time on an approximately 45-minute respawn timer. The spawn location within each zone is random.
• Known spawn regions: Thunderfall and its surrounding cliffs, the mountains southeast of Thunderfall, Frostfield Lake, Dun Niffelem itself (including under the frost giants), Valley of Ancient Winters, and the ridgelines near Fjorn’s Anvil.
• Coordinates:
  • [74.0, 54.3] — Mountain tops between Fjorn’s Anvil and Thunderfall
  • [62.6, 60.9] — On the Sons of Hodir flight path platform
  • [60.7, 57.7] — Ground level near the path to Brun’s Base Camp
  • [68.6, 63.9] — Mound at ground level behind Dun Niffelem
  • [67.1, 62.1] — Near Arngrim’s throne in Dun Niffelem
  • [68.0, 62.5] — Ground level on the frozen lake side, behind trees
• These are sample locations, not fixed spawns. Chips appear randomly within each spawn region.

Step 2: Loot and Inspect the Chip

• Right-click the Everfrost Chip on the ground to loot it. Right-click the item in your bags to begin the quest. The first chip starts the one-time quest Everfrost. All subsequent chips are turned in via Remember Everfrost!.

Step 3: Turn in to Calder

• Bring the chip to Calder, located near the eastern entrance of Dun Niffelem. He’s a separate NPC from Lillehoff (who handles Relics of Ulduar).

Tips

• Farming strategy: Everfrost Chips share the same general area as all your Sons of Hodir daily quests. Keep your eyes open while doing dailies rather than making dedicated farming runs. Many chips spawn high up on mountain cliffs, so check elevated terrain.
• Phasing caution: Some chips near Thunderfall can disappear from view if you approach from the wrong direction due to phasing boundaries. If a chip vanishes as you approach from the east or north, try coming at it from the southwest.
• Addons help. GatherMate or similar tracking addons can mark previously found chip locations. The Everfrost Chip world object also emits a sound similar to a portal effect, so turning up your sound effects volume and lowering music/ambient can help you hear nearby chips while flying.
• Not unique. You can carry multiple chips at once and turn them all in during the same visit to Calder.
• Counts toward achievement. This quest counts toward the Storm Peaks quest completion achievement despite being item-initiated.

Lore Context

Everfrost is magically compressed, never-melting ice formed by immense subterranean pressure combined with natural arcane forces deep underground. Calder describes it as “the symbol of the heart of our people,” prized by the frost giants and now extremely rare.

The jormungar, those voracious tunnel-boring worms infesting Storm Peaks’ underground caverns, have devoured nearly all of it over the ages.

The parallel to TBC’s Netherwing Eggs is widely noted by the community. Both are rare world spawns turned in for faction reputation, and both supplement daily quest grinding for players pushing toward Exalted. The key difference is that Everfrost Chips compete with an even faster alternative: Relics of Ulduar, which drop from mobs throughout the zone and can be turned in 10 at a time via Hodir’s Tribute (added in Patch 3.0.8).

This made Everfrost Chips a nice bonus rather than a primary grind method for most players.

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.