Ebon Hold Quest Guide (WoW)  

Acherus, The Ebon Hold (called Plaguelands: The Scarlet Lands in-game) is the Death Knight starting zone. The zone is unique because you must complete the quests in it to leave, and as you travel to and from the beginning section of the zone, the appearance of the rest of the zone changes with each return trip. This zone quest guide will have a unique feel to it, as all the quests are extremely sequential.

Inside Acherus

Your new Death Knight starts off in front of the very Lich King himself. Your first quest, In Service of the Lich King (1) sends you to find Instructor Razuvious in the back of the area. Razuvious will instruct you to find a nearby worn down weapon and runeforge it for The Emblazoned Runeblade (2) and then Runeforging: Preparation for Battle (3). At this point, you will finally get to do battle with one of the Unworthy Initiates in the ring around you for The Endless Hunger (4). This is your first chance to do battle and understand the way runes behave. Simply mash buttons and you'll survive just fine.

The follow-up quest is downright weird. After The Eye of Acherus (5) sends you back to the Lich King, his task, Death Comes From on High (6) is easily one of the most frustrating quests in the zone. Upon clicking on the controlling orb nearby, you will take control of an "Eye of Acherus" that travels to the nearby town of New Avalon. Notice that you have a new set of hotkeys, and that when the Eye is finally officially under your control that you are able to fly with it. The goal is actually very simple -- get near each of the four buildings in the quest objectives and use the analyze ability on your first hotkey. The other two abilities the eye has are rather inconsequential. When you have completed the quest, the adjusted interface will have a dismount button (the green half-circle arrow) to return to your character.

After this, The Lich King impends you to visit Highlord Darion Mograine for The Might of the Scourge (7) through the glowing teleporter nearby, and Mograine will then make you Report to Scourge Commander Thalanor (8). If you visit one of the trainers on the three side wings of this level of Acherus, they will tell you about The Power of Blood, Frost, and Unholy (9), which is only nominally a quest.

From next to Thalanor, hop onto a skeletal gryphon and fly down to Death's Breach.

Death's Breach, part 1

When you report to Prince Valanar for The Scarlet Harvest (10), he will give you a new quest, and it will open up three others in the area:

• If Chaos Drives, Let Suffering Hold the Reins (11) - kill stuff nearby in Havenshire.
• Grand Theft Palomino (12) - approach a horse in the stables, mount it, and bring it back to Death's Breach.
• Death's Challenge (13) - duel 5 players or Death Knight Initiates.
• Tonight We Dine in Havenshire (14) - collect fallen arrows in the farms area.

If you are being efficiency-minded, and there's really no reason to be, focus on collecting the horse last. Go to the farm and get your arrows and your kill count first. (You can do Death's Challenge whenever.) After you return the horse by dismounting it next to Salanar the Horseman, he will give you the follow-up quest Into the Realm of Shadows (15), which is your first real taste into the instancing of the zone. Run down into where the Havenshire stables were and try to engage a Dark Rider of Acherus. Defeat him and mount his horse to take it back to Death's Breach. Salanar will join you in the shadow realm, congratule you, and tell you to speak to him outside it.

When you finish all of the quests up to 15, you will be asked to talk to Gothik the Harvester (16), who wants you to reward the Havenshire miners with The Give That Keeps on Giving (17). Go into the mind and throw his device at various miners. They will either become a ghoul or a ghost. You want ghouls, but if you get a ghost, put it to rest. Once you have 5 ghouls following you, return to Gothik. He will send you back to Valanar for An Attack of Opportunity (18).

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