Light Won’t Grant Me Vengeance

Quest Giver: Gerk — Thrym’s End, Zul’Drak [17.6, 57.5]

Objective: Kill 15 Vargul in the Thrym’s End area.

Quick Facts

• Level: 76
• Location: Thrym’s End/Dargath’s Demise, northwestern Zul’Drak [19, 56]
• Prerequisite: Crusader Forward Camp
• Do Alongside: That’s What Friends Are For…, Making Something Out of Nothing, A Great Storm Approaches

Walkthrough

Pick Up the Quest

• Gerk is found inside one of the glowing green vats slightly west of Gymer’s cage at Thrym’s End [17.6, 57.5]. He’s a dwarf slowly dying in Scourge slime, and this is his last request.
• You’ll likely arrive here while completing That’s What Friends Are For…, which sends you to find Gerk, Burr, and the fallen Crusader Dargath.

Kill the Vargul

• The Vargul concentration is centered around [19, 56] in the Dargath’s Demise area. Three types count: Vargul Slayer, Vargul Deathwaker, and Vargul Runelord.
• Humanoid Vargul only. Vargul Blighthounds roaming the area do NOT give credit.
• Spawn density is low relative to demand. If the area is busy, check the edges of Thrym’s End. Some Vargul spawn near the banshee-occupied Dead Fields to the south, outside the main cluster.

Turn In

• Return to Gerk at his vat. His completion dialogue is his dying breath, warning you that these Vargul are the rejects of the Lich King’s trials, and that the “worthy” are far worse.

Efficiency Tips

• Triple quest pairing: Grab Making Something Out of Nothing from Engineer Reed at Crusader Forward Camp [25, 64] before heading here. Scourge Scrap Metal is scattered across the ground throughout Thrym’s End, so you can collect it passively while killing Vargul. Also pick up A Great Storm Approaches from Gymer’s cage [20, 56.6] while you’re in the area.
• Group up freely. No loot drops required; all group members get kill credit. If the area is contested, a quick /1 invite speeds things up considerably.
• Mages: You can Spellsteal the Plague Shield buff from Vargul mobs, granting 1,500 damage absorption for 2 minutes.
• Gymer warning: If you progress to the Gymer questline later, kills made while mounted on Gymer do NOT count toward this quest. Finish your 15 kills on foot first.

Lore Context

Gerk is a dwarf member of an Argent Crusade scouting party sent from Crusader Forward Camp. The party was wiped out at Thrym’s End: his brother was killed and laid out for experimentation, the paladin Dargath fell fighting the Vargul leader Algar the Chosen, and Gerk himself was captured and left to dissolve in a vat of Scourge slime. He knows he’s dying and “turning,” so vengeance is all he has left.

The vargul are undead vrykul who failed the Lich King’s ascension trials at Jotunheim in Icecrown. Those who passed became the elite Ymirjar; those who didn’t were raised as lesser undead. Unlike mindless Scourge, Vargul retain enough intelligence to resent their fate, which makes them more dangerous and unpredictable than standard undead fodder.

Gerk’s dying words drive this home: if these are the rejects the Lich King deemed unworthy, imagine how powerful the chosen must be. It’s a quiet bit of foreshadowing for the Ymirjar and Icecrown Citadel content ahead.

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.