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Comment by Obsidian

Event NPC you need to speak to in order to procede with the Escape from Old Hillsbrad quest. Once spoken to, the epoch hunter will appear and mobs will spawn in waves.

Comment by 2902

Taretha Foxton, childfriend of Thrall.

Here's some background.

Thrall's first action as Warchief was to attack Durnholde in an effort to dismantle the entire internment camp system. He secretly met with Taretha, asking her to leave Durnholde with her family, but she refused, hoping that it would never come to battle and fearful of the consequences if Blackmoore noticed her missing (Blackmoore had taken her as his mistress, an arrangement she had never been happy with). When Thrall arrived at Durnholde with the Horde at his back, he confronted a drunken Blackmoore, and asked for a peaceful parlay in order to prevent useless bloodshed. Blackmoore went through a plethora of emotions - from amusement at Thrall's rise to power, anger at what the Warchief was demanding, and grief at how Thrall had supposedly betrayed him. Once again demanding that Blackmoore surrender or be killed, the master of Durnholde gave his response...by tossing the severed head of Taretha Foxton into the courtyard, screaming that this was what he would do with traitors.

Thrall screamed in rage and grief, the elements themselves echoing his fury, and he gave the command to attack. During the siege, Thrall cornered Blackmoore in his hidden tunnel, and tossed a sword at the traitorous man's feet. Blackmoore had sobered enough to hold his own against the Warchief - who had been holding back to allow Blackmoore a fighting chance - but when he tried to explain, and asked for Thrall's aid to help him subjugate the Alliance, the Warchief's rage at Taretha's fate broke all barriers, and he struck the mortal blow. As he lay dying, the master of Durnholde expressed pride in what Thrall had become - what Blackmoore had made him...or so he thought.

Thrall emerged shaken from the castle to find his orcs victorious. Thrall gave a message to Blackmoore's second-in-command, Lord Karramyn Langston, to take to his superiors: to free the remaining orcs, and to cede land for their use. If the Alliance would let them be, they would not trouble the Alliance and would be willing to engage in cooperation and trade. If the Alliance chose to fight them, they would have made an enemy the likes of which had never been seen before - making the old warlock-controlled Horde shrink to insignificance. He then left Durnholde after allowing Sergeant and the surviving humans to walk away unharmed. When they were gone he called upon the Spirit of the Earth to destroy the keep, before leading his people to freedom.

Thrall later composed a lok'vadnod ("song of a hero") to commemorate Taretha's sacrifice.

Note that she is the only human to ever receive a lok'vadnod (see we can get along ;))

Comment by 42243

Lol you got that from the book "The Lord of The Clans" i have read it too m8...

Comment by 141056

never the less, thanx to AuriorE for description, not all of us had the fortune to read the book ;)

Comment by 136162

nice, i just searched the name (just finished Lord of the Clans - great book btw) because i figured that she would be in old HBFH....

Comment by 265030

In a quest chain you learn that she and Elysa are one in the same-so she can also be found in alterac.

Comment by stubbsy

He makes a comment about her in the completion text in Warchiefs Blessing (the Quest that horde DK's get at the end), he says that there have only been two nice humans those being Tirion Fordring and Taretha.

Comment by 424849

Some people do mistake taretha for tabetha or elysa but do not mistake them for the name/looks and also remember taretha got killed in old hillsbrad

Comment by 133694

Hers is the saddest story I've yet read in Warcraft.

I actually cried when I read it.

Comment by 46491

Not surprisingly, Taretha has the same face/hair combination as (the pre-patch 3.3) Jaina Proudmoore. Kind of a subtle reinforcement of Thrall's feeling that Jaina reminds him of Taretha.

Comment by 467538

Indeed, this story is very sad. I feel sorry for Taretha's end. I'm sure Arthas would have killed Blackmoore. In the book: Arthas, Rise of the Lich King, he feels sorry for Taretha. He had a snack with her and they talked. And both Arthas and his father didn't approve of Blackmoore for he wasn't sober most of the time.

Comment by 111622

Long story short, Taretha is the one that actually helped free Thrall, she was the one who set fires to the encampments and snuck Thrall out of the Keep. The reason you are here in Old Hillsbrad, is because the Black Dragonflight is stopping this from happening.

Comment by 314933

Of interesting note: the screenshot shows her with blond hair, as she appears ingame. But when i click on View in 3-D, it changes her haircolor to black.

Comment by gubugu

The Only time when Thrall cried was the time of Thareta's demise

touching

Comment by Gimroth

"What is happening to your eyes?" asked Thrall.
"These are called tears. They come when we are so sad, so soul sick, it's as if our hearts are so full of pain there's no place else for it to go." Taretha explained. "You are so innocent, Thrall. So pure. But someday you will understand."

That day would be the only day that Thrall let tears. For the same person who taught him what they meant.

Comment by 199115

Think he cried when Grom died?

Comment by Gymlea

In the Caverns of Time you can do the Durnholde instance. When you enter the instance, talk to the humanoid Erozion, he will give you these Incendiary Bombs. If for any reason you lose them, go back to him and get more.

Each one of the buildings in the pit at Durnholde has a darker-brown barrel. Place one Incendiary Bomb on each. You will need to kill the guards to do this.

The fires they cause will call Lieutenant Drake.

Then go into the basement of the hold. The basement entrance is under the stairs up.

Free Thrall, and as you leave the gate Captain Skarloc will appear.

You must speak, right click, Thrall to get him to move out of the basement, and again to get him to leave Durnholde for Tarren Mill. Taretha is upstairs in the Inn, which you will reach after Thrall searches the barn, and the church. You must kill the mobs to get Thrall to move on. Click on Thrall to get to the next segment after he finds Taretha.

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Taretha

This NPC can be found in Old Hillsbrad Foothills (6).

Taretha

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