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“It is time, Vikstone. I am prepared to face Loken now. Let us make our way to the Terrace of the Makers and face my brother’s forces. The fool will regret ever crossing me.”
-Thorim
Find Thorim at the southeastern edge of the Terrace of the Makers, just northwest of Dun Niffelem.
Quest Giver: Thorim — Thunderfall, Storm Peaks (after completing Krolmir, Hammer of Storms)
Objective: Find Thorim at the southeastern edge of the Terrace of the Makers, just northwest of Dun Niffelem.
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Lore Context
The Terrace of the Makers is the massive titan complex where the Keepers once worked their great experiments. It’s now contested ground, with Loken’s iron dwarf forces battling the earthen loyalists. By relocating here, Thorim is taking the fight directly to his brother’s doorstep for the first time since his centuries-long exile.
Thorim’s overconfidence is the tell. “The fool will regret ever crossing me” sounds like a hero’s rallying cry, but it’s the hubris of someone who doesn’t yet realize the entire sequence of events, from K3 to Thunderfall, was orchestrated by Loken to draw him out.
The follow-up quests (The Earthen Oath, Loken’s Lackeys) lead into The Reckoning, where Loken springs his trap and the truth about Lok’lira is revealed.
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.
You will be able to choose one of these rewards:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
Vikstone's War Journal“It is time,” Thorim said. “I am prepared to face Loken now. Let us make our way to the Terrace of the Makers and face my brother’s forces.”
He went up onto Veranus with Krolmir across his back.
“The fool will regret ever crossing me.”
The day before, he knelt in a crater of his own making and told the son of Arngrim that grief had led him to do great harm to the people closest to him. Today there is a fool who will regret crossing him.
I did not raise it. I have no standing to. I have been carrying the same sentence for a year, pointed at a lich instead of a brother, and I have never once knelt to anybody about it.
We went northwest. The Terrace of the Makers sits on high ground above Dun Niffelem, laid down by the titans.
Thorim put down at the southeastern edge and looked out over his brother’s positions.
“We’re here. My brother’s forces will learn the meaning of defeat today.”
The Terrace was already a battlefield, iron dwarves against earthen across the whole plain, and Thorim’s first order was not to fight but to find out whose side the stone people were actually on in The Earthen Oath.
