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The Sad Truth

This quest was marked obsolete by Blizzard and cannot be obtained or completed.

Eralan in Tranquillien wants you to retrieve the Archeologist's Shrunken Head from one of the chests in Zeb'Tela or Zeb'Nowa.

	Archeologist's Shrunken Head

Description

Remember how I told you about the fat merchant who was looking for that ring? As it turns out, he had his archeologist son looking for the thing and it didn't turn out so well. By not so well I mean they killed him and shrunk his head.

Now this might seem cold, calculating, and exceptionally callous, but he'd pay a lot to get his son's head back. Sounds like the perfect job for you!

Go east until you find the troll ruins of Zeb'Tela and Zeb'Nowa. You're bound to find it one of the chests there.

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Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Leafblade Dagger		Ghostclaw Tunic

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

1,350 experience

Comments

Comment by radnor

The head can spawn in any of the chests around the two troll camps.

Comment by Tasque

Keep lockpicking until you get it as said above. Try do it together with the quests from the nearby camp for max efficiency

Comment by pulseh

Description is correct, took me 1 hour to get it though, and about 50 levels of lockpicking later ( including green level ups) i got it

so, be prepared it can be a very spontaneous Quest, might take anytime :D

Comment by Zorinna

65, 66 is where i got mine

Comment by Parmenides

You will get the head after 5x lockpicking skill. This questline is a 'fun' way to get it to a reasonable level. If at the previous quest your leveled lockpicking to 35, then you will be able to complte both other quest at that area ( Attack on Zeb'tela + shadowspine weaponry ) aprox at the same time as this quest.

Comment by mithic

hahahahhaha got mine on first chest! :D

Comment by lilimm

Around 68, 55 in Zeb'Nowa is a good area to do this. There are two houses next to each other that spawn chests and another spawns in between them. The respawn rate is fairly quick and it's much easier to run between these than to kill your way through the entire camp.

Comment by dazerdude

I got the Item after getting 25 more skill points in Lockpicking.

Comment by damnreds

This quest (The Sad Truth) is the only one in the series (A Discreet Inquiry -> Greed -> The Sad Truth) that can be obtained by a non-bloodelf rogue.

Comment by Manicminer

I don't think it's based on your skill or how many points you get before it drops, I started at 26 and got it on 30.

Comment by Linis

Got it on my 2nd chest, was lucky I guess :)

Comment by Shadex

Got it my first chest, level 34 lockpicking.

Comment by Roper

LOL!!!!!! i looted 2 chests and got the head, OH YEAH!!!!

Comment by pigma

As of patch 2.3, only bother to loot the chests that sparkle. This patch added a sparkle which looks exactly like the loot sparkle to items that are related to the quests you're currently on.
I spent 30 minutes looting chests and then I came to a sparkling one and BAM, there's the head.

Ofcourse, If you'd like the lockpicking skills, it's your choice... :P

Comment by IgnisX

I dont know which reward to have any ideas on which is better?

Comment by AriaOfWar

As has already been confirmed, only a 'sparkling' chest will yield the shrunken head. I found one at 64.0 72.6 on the top floor of the building.

Comment by vengeance7

got mine on my first chest. as stated above, this quest is solely for the purpose of gaining lockpicking skill, but a much easier place to do this is on the ship in the barrens. it has a roomful of chests that spawn very fast.

Comment by phants

As of patch 2.3, the correct lock box will now "sparkle" (like a dead mob with your loot on it), as per other quest object. You no longer need to open boxes randomly, hoping to find it.

Comment by Yutani

It would APPEAR (key word "appear") that there is a consistency in the location of the sparkling chest.
A previous post stated at coords 65:66.... mine was 64:67 (using Cartographer)

It's just a hunch but maybe worth testing?

Comment by TheLykin

Yep, find the sparkling chest.

Comment by Stompa

64,73. First sparkling chest I found, 54 Lockpicking. I think there are no rules other than get a sparkling chest...

Comment by Kaelnas

So the correct chest is in Zeb'Nowa ?

Comment by Kaelnas

And should i use the dagger instead of sunwell blade (until i get Cruel Barb)

Comment by Kaelnas

I found it at 64,73 in the two-floor building(the chest is called "Sacred Burial Chest" and it sparkles) in the middle floor (between the stairs)

Comment by krannel

I get it after I opened sixth lockbox...it isn't very hard only takes 10 mins for me I hope you will get it too so fast like me

Comment by Arkinas

I actually got it at a lockpicking skill of 40. I think there's a set skill you have to get through, then it's a random number after that.

(Whoops, pressed the wrong button. :x)

Comment by jovani

Any point to doing this quest other then the 2 greens you get?

Comment by hai2u2

Worst quest of my entire life. Here is some much helpful advice - don't do it! It will make you cry.

Comment by joman

got it in first feel lucky=) im was skill 26 lockpicking=)=)=)=)

Comment by edthew

easy. turn right on the path and you come to a small corner wall, go round and its in the corner. The box with the head in also glitter

Comment by vasili

I have a level 16 rogue that has this quest right now but im wondering which reward to take my weapons are the blade of cunning and stung and my chest is the leather chest rep reward from tranquilen if you could help me i'd appreciate it

Comment by AvalonModel13

It seems that the head drops when your Lock Picking skill hits 75, it happened for me. Good Luck.

Comment by Nazanin13

I got the drop at lockpicking skill of 42 it seems its just random

Comment by vono85

The loot is not random! Look for a chest with the glittering effect, this chest will contain a head. All other chest will contain junk and coins.

Comment by ozanuyan

The chest with the head in it will glitter as vono said.

Comment by snuzzle

The sparkle trick really works. I looped around both camps for an hour, frustrated, just looting chests. Then I came here to check what the heck was going on with the drop rate, and decided to just look for a box with sparkles and loot only that. Would you believe it could be that simple! So try it! It works!

Comment by MasakiKudo

Got it on my third box at a 24 skill, good luck finding it quickly like I did.

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