Hexed Caches

Quest Giver: Chronicler To’kini — Zim’Torga, Zul’Drak [59, 57]

Objective: Acquire 12 Zol’Maz Stronghold Caches from the Zol’Maz Stronghold.

Walkthrough

• Travel northeast to the Zol’Maz Stronghold. The caches are small gold chests scattered throughout the area around [63, 36].
• Click on caches to loot them. Each cache has a chance to inflict a random hex debuff on you:
  • Hex of Agony: 6,000 Shadow damage over 24 seconds. This is the dangerous one. At level 77 in quest gear, that’s roughly half your health.
  • Hex of Tongues: Forces you to speak Demonic and increases casting time by 25% for 2 minutes. Annoying for casters, harmless for melee.
  • Hex of Weakness: Reduces physical damage dealt by 55 and healing effectiveness by 20%. Minor nuisance.
• Tiki Hex Removers drop from the Enchanted Tiki Warriors around the stronghold at roughly a 15% rate. Using one removes all hex debuffs. Kill a handful of Tiki Warriors before you start opening caches so you have some removers on hand.
• Return to Chronicler To’kini at Zim’Torga to turn in.

Efficiency Tips

• Do Alongside: This quest overlaps perfectly with Enchanted Tiki Warriors (kill 12 Tiki Warriors) and The Key of Warlord Zol’Maz (all in the same stronghold). Grab all three from Zim’Torga before heading out.
• Prioritize your Hex Removers. Only one of the three hexes actually threatens your life. Save your removers for Hex of Agony. The other two you can just ride out.
• Mages and Druids can Remove Curse on themselves, making this quest trivial.
• Rogues can use Cloak of Shadows to clear all hexes.
• Don’t rush. Opening caches back to back can stack multiple hexes, and Hex of Agony hits hard. Open a cache, check your debuffs, handle accordingly, then move on.

Story Context

Chronicler To’kini is a Zandalari scholar who speaks unusually formally for a troll. No “mon,” no “der.” He’s here as an observer and chronicler, not a fighter.

His completion text reveals the big picture: the caches contain evidence that Warlord Zol’Maz understood the Scourge threat and deliberately pushed the prophets to sacrifice their loa for power to fight back.

As To’kini puts it, the Drakkari “inadvertently chose to be the instrument of their own destruction.”

Cross-Expansion Connection

• To’kini resurfaces in Battle for Azeroth at Dazar’alor in Zuldazar, where he works as an inscription vendor. During Zul’s rebellion, To’kini is captured aboard Rastakhan’s flagship and forced to reveal how the Drakkari sacrificed their loa for power. The knowledge he chronicled here in Zul’Drak directly enables the threat against the loa Rezan. A grim payoff for a researcher who thought he was just documenting history.

Explore Zul’Drak’s hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Zul’Drak Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.