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“Prince Navarius must be stopped. We can’t let the Scourge continue to use this area as a zombie factory. If we can get the tank operational we might stand a chance. What I need right now are spare parts. Northwest of here is an area called Thrym’s End. The Scourge armies are using the area as a base of sorts. Spread out across the base is the wreckage from their arrival. Bits and pieces of Scourge scrap metal litter the landscape.
Get that stuff to me and I’ll try and put it to good use.”
-Engineer Reed
Engineer Reed at Crusader Forward Camp in Zul’Drak has asked that you recover 10 pieces of Scourge Scrap Metal.
Quest Giver: Engineer Reed — Crusader Forward Camp [25, 64]
Turn-in: Engineer Reed — Crusader Forward Camp [25, 64]
Objective: Collect 10 pieces of Scourge Scrap Metal from Thrym’s End.
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Engineer Reed is trying to repair the steam tank that Prince Navarius destroyed during the Scourge attack on the camp. His plan is to scavenge Scourge wreckage for spare parts. His tone is already pessimistic when giving the quest: “I really don’t know if this plan will work.”
He’s right to worry: “What is this junk! Ah, damn it all! It’s useless. Scourge metal isn’t gonna do the trick. What are we going to do?” The scrap metal is completely worthless. Reed can’t fix the tank this way, which sets up the Forward Camp’s escalating desperation and the eventual need for a much bigger solution: Gymer, the captured storm giant.
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.
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Vikstone's War JournalThrym’s End stank of rot and rust in equal measure. The Scourge had turned the place into a staging ground, and the detritus of their arrival lay scattered across frozen earth: twisted plating, shattered gears, fragments of whatever dark machinery they used to process the dead.
Engineer Reed wanted spare parts. “If we can get the tank operational, we might stand a chance.”
I gathered what I could. The metal was cold through my gloves, each piece filmed with something that might have been ice or might have been worse. Ten pieces, enough to rebuild hope, or so we thought.
Reed’s face fell the moment he examined the salvage. “What is this junk! Ah, damn it all. It’s useless.” He threw down a corroded plate. “Scourge metal isn’t gonna do the trick. What are we going to do?”
The answer, apparently, was not this.
The tank isn’t getting repaired, and Reed knows it. Meanwhile, Gerk is dying in Thrym’s End with one last request that has nothing to do with rescue in Light Won’t Grant Me Vengeance.
