Spy Hunter

Quest Giver: Frostworg Denmother — Dun Niffelem, Storm Peaks [63.5, 59.7]

Objective: Defeat 3 Stormforged Infiltrators in the Valley of Ancient Winters by summoning an Ethereal Frostworg to sniff them out.

Quick Facts

• Type: Daily quest
• Requires: Honored with Sons of Hodir

Walkthrough

Step 1: Accept from the Frostworg Denmother

• The Denmother is at [63.5, 59.7] in Dun Niffelem. She communicates through growls you’ve somehow learned to understand. She removes the chain from her neck and drops it at your feet, with an aged fang attached.

Step 2: Go to the Corpse of the Fallen Worg

• Fly southwest to the Corpse of the Fallen Worg at approximately [57, 64], near the entrance to Hibernal Cavern.
• Use the Ethereal Worg’s Fang on the corpse to summon an Ethereal Frostworg.

Step 3: Follow the Worg

• The spectral wolf will run through the Valley of Ancient Winters, “sniffing” for hidden iron dwarf spies. Its pathing is erratic and random. After roughly 50-55 seconds (regardless of your speed), the worg will howl, revealing a Stormforged Infiltrator who pops out of the snow.
• Kill the infiltrator. They’re straightforward solo kills.

Step 4: Return to Corpse and Repeat

• The worg despawns after revealing each spy. You must return to the Corpse of the Fallen Worg at [57, 64] and summon a new worg each time. Repeat for all 3 kills.
• You cannot have two worgs at once. Trying to summon a second while the first is active will despawn the first without spawning a replacement.

Step 5: Return to the Frostworg Denmother

• Fly back to Dun Niffelem and return the chain. She licks your face approvingly.

Tips

• Walk mode trick: The worg inherits your movement speed. Toggle walk mode (default: Numpad /) before summoning the worg, and it will move much slower, covering less ground and making it easier to follow. The spy still appears in about the same time (~55 seconds), so you just wait in a smaller area instead of chasing the worg across the entire valley.
• Ground mount is better than flying. Mounting a flying mount makes the worg sprint erratically and potentially run out of range and despawn. A ground mount or walking on foot keeps things manageable.
• The worg will fight jormungar. Roaming jormungar in the Valley of Ancient Winters will aggro the worg (and it will aggro them right back). Be prepared to kill one or two worms per summon to keep the worg moving.
• Spy is auto-tagged to you. If another player accidentally attacks your revealed spy, you still get kill credit. The infiltrator is tagged to whoever summoned the worg that found it.
• Target your pet. On busy servers with multiple players doing this quest, use /target Ethereal or watch for the blue selection circle at your worg’s feet to distinguish yours from identical translucent white wolves running through white snow.
• Do Alongside: Pair with Feeding Arngrim (unlocks at Revered). The worg will inevitably aggro jormungar, and you can use Arngrim’s Tooth on them to get credit for both quests simultaneously.

Lore Context

The Frostworg Denmother is one of the more charming quest givers in Storm Peaks. She’s not an NPC with dialogue boxes; you’ve developed enough rapport with the inhabitants of Dun Niffelem that you can understand her growls and body language.

She senses Loken’s iron dwarf spies infiltrating the valley around the frost giant homeland and enlists you to hunt them down using the fang of a fallen worg, which summons its spirit to track by scent.

The Stormforged Infiltrators are iron dwarves using stealth or concealment to scout Dun Niffelem’s defenses, hidden beneath the snow until the spirit wolf sniffs them out. This is one of several quests emphasizing that the war between the Sons of Hodir and Loken’s Stormforged forces is an ongoing, active conflict, not a historical one.

Easter Egg

• The quest name references Spy Hunter, the classic 1983 Midway arcade game where players drove a car while destroying pursuing enemy vehicles. The connection is thematic rather than mechanical: you’re hunting hidden spies across terrain, not driving a car.

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.