Personalizing Your Garrison with Flavor NPCs

By Wowhead Updated: 2018/06/13

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Shadowmoon Valley

Squiggy: While on Think of the Children!, complete the quest In Need of a Hero to save Ariaana’s baby fey dragon. Once in your Garrison, this NPC can be petted!

Jarrod Hamby is a ghost that haunts the Alliance garrison, even awkwardly wandering in to your outhouse. He is the deceased husband of Shelly Hamby and shows up after you complete Gloomshade Grove quest line.

Frostfire Ridge

Guh is a distrustful ogre who is unsure why you want to befriend him after killing his ogre friends. If you tell him to visit your Garrison and bribe him for a few copper, he will periodically show up. He sells Mists of Pandaria potions and Gas-Powered Stick for .

After completing the sad quest Gut Guttra, the orphaned frostwolf Snowpaw joins your Garrison. Once in your Garrison, this NPC can be petted!

Spires of Arak

After completing all of the quests in Spires of Arak, Reshad and his sidekick Percy show up. Percy sells basic Inscription supplies.

If you purchase Bubblefizz Bubbly from Tickle Bubblefizz in Admiral Taylor’s Garrison (37.4, 50.8), this spectral gnome bartender will appear in your Garrison selling Draenor drinks like Elekk's Neck.

Nagrand

Hemet Nesingwary (86.2, 46.6) has been told to hunt Warsong wolves, which disappoints him as it’s not “big” game. Talk and drink with him and you may later find him in your Garrison.

Horde players that complete The Blessing of Samedi will have the three dancing spectral Shadow Hunters you used Samedi Fetish on to appear at the Garrison.

Alliance players that complete The Others will get Caregiver Felaani and her daughter Isel. In the Burning Crusade, she's the Nagrand innkeeper Caregiver Isel.

Gorgrond

Peckers the Majestic can be rescued from a cage in Gorgrond at Stonemaul Area (cave opening at 38.7, 67.4). Be wary of /petting him though, as he will kick you! He resembles a tallstrider in Gorgrond but a raptor in in your Garrison.

Feed Rooter the hungry stray (42.6, 37.8) in Rooter the Ravenous and he will join your Garrison. The Prickly Nopal he wants to eat is located by level 100 Blackrock orcs. Once in your Garrison, this NPC can be petted!

Birchus sells fruit and fruity drinks at your Garrison if you complete his related quest line at the end of Gorgrond and then head back to talk to him. The quest line is: Beatface vs. Boulder (Sparring Arena) or Shredder vs. Saberon (Lumber Mill), Steamscar "Reagents", Taking the Death Bloom, Laying Dionor to Rest.

Sappy is a hungry tree in Tangleheart (62.8, 63.2) — talk to him, feed him, and he'll hang out by your Herb Garden and attack any hostile podlings.

Pandaria

Dog: If you have completed Lost and Lonely for The Tillers, Dog from your Tillers’ farm will appear by your Herb Garden, complete with his dog house and some toys.

Followers

Aknor Steelbringer (Orc)

Professor Felblast (Goblin)

Abu'gar (Troll)

Caerania the Tempering (Blood Elf)

Kimzee Pinchwhistle (Goblin)

Rulkan (Orc)

Croman (Human)

Leeroy Jenkins (Human)

Millhouse Manastorm (Gnome)

"Doc" Schweitzer (Human)

Ahm (Draenei)

Soulbinder Tuulani (Draenei)

Soulare of Andorhal (Human)

BuildingsStables

Sky'reen, just an egg in Twilight Highlands, has grown up and is present at the Stables. Learn more about her gryphon family in Council of the Three Hammers.

Also from Twilight Highlands, Keegan Firebeard and his wife Fanny Firebeard are tending the Stables.

Barn

The Stonefield family from Elwynn—Homer Stonefield, Tommy Joe Stonefield, Ma Stonefield—runs the Alliance Barn. Thanks to player efforts in Young Lovers, Maybell Maclure-Stonefield and Tommy Joe Stonefield got married! When the Barn is constructed, these NPCs roam around your Garrison.

Lumber Mill

When looking for trees in Gorgrond, you'll come across a fallen log that has a Barov brother stuck underneath it--The Rise and Fall of Barov Industries: Weldon Barov or The Rise and Fall of Barov Industries: Alexi Barov. According to the Barov you rescue, the brothers tried to reconcile, but one threw a log on top of the other. You are sent on a quest to kill the other brother and receive Barov Lumberjack Caller. The remaining brother becomes a Garrison follower and hangs out at the Lumber Mill.

Inn

Constructing an Inn attracts an array of famous faces to your Garrison, who are sitting and drinking along with your Garrison Followers. Each day, two NPCs have dungeon quests for you.

Other

Khadgar's Servant: Everyone's favorite tourguide is giving some unsuspecting Garrison workers a very slow tour of your Garrison.

Pepe, a player favorite, is a friendly bird who will sit on your head for an hour when you click on him. To reach him, just stand underneath his tree branch and jump. Texture and 3D Prop Artist Jordan Powers wrote a blog on the creation of Pepe that’s worth a read!

Painter Phaeren: This snobby Alliance painter is critical of all artwork, always saying he could do better.

Benjamin Brode, named after Ben Brode, Senior game Designer on Hearthstone, sells the toys Hearthstone Board and Winning Hand. He shows up in a level 3 Garrison.

Baros Alexston, the city architect of Stormwind, is now the Alliance Garrison architect. His Horde counterpart, Gazlowe, rebuilt Orgrimmar after the Cataclysm.

Comments

Comment by designadrug

Another cross-faction follower Alliance can get is Lantressor of The Blade. After you finish his questline in Nagrand he hangs around outside your outpost waiting to talk to you about signing-up.

Comment by Dyna

It would appear that you can only have a certain number of these flavor NPCs in your garrison at a time, limit seems to be 5 or 6 (I'm sure i had 6 but now i can only find 5 to confirm). I have now collected all of them, thanks for the guide, and not all of them will appear in your garrison at once.

I can confirm that:

Peckers the Majestic
Tickle Bubblefizz
Snowpaw
Reshad
Rooter
Birchus
Sappy
Hemet Nesingwary
Dog
And the three spirits from The Blessing of Samedi (can have 1, 2 or all 3 at any time)

are not permanent, some seem to be rarer than others and there are patterns to which NPC's you will have, so if you are looking for one of them leave your garrison (don't just walk outside and turn around that's not far enough away) and come back they may have turned up.

Comment by Dyna

Nat Pagle Should probably be part of this too for the fishing hut as he hangs around your garrison like the Barov brother once you have him as a follower (obviously all your followers hang around but these two are special)

Comment by Ragmor

hey guys, is possible to remove any of these guys out of the garrison ? I just dont want to have gnomish spirit or human in my horde garrison :D

Comment by sniperorc

The Stables entry is Alliance-specific. For a Horde Stables, Tormak the Scarred and Sage Paluna (from Camp Oneqwah in the Grizzly Hills of Northrend) will be giving you your mount taming dailies.

When you talk to Tormak, he even says "I sought to escape the frozen wastes of Northrend for a while. I choose poorly." XD

Also, the Horde barn is run by Farmer Lok'lub, Farmer Krella and (food vendor turned butcher and meat worshipper) Zlagk.

Comment by varenne

Some video guides:
Rooter the Ravenous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf-p9zCMgiA
Sappy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sG-mfcut-Y
Peckers the Majestic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeoshPjm-hM
Pepe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmdvnrvNjK8
Hemet Nesingwary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Xt-AlYeoQ
Tickle Bubblefizz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1qRO1Y1n4Y

Comment by Morwo

Demanding german translation of this guide (:

Comment by Zapph

Just to clarify, that means the spectral Shadow Hunters and Snowpaw are Horde only while Squiggy and Jarrod Hamby are Alliance only?

What's the specific trigger to get Hemet to join your Garrison as well? Do you just have to get smashed on his keg and click on him, do his bonus objective, /dance with him?

Comment by Melandroso

Absolutely fantastic guide. Thank you so much. I have a friend :)

Comment by Hanxi

Gazlowe is in fact the architect of ogrimmar he didn't just rebuild it.

Comment by brock91

I remember on the beta a couple of NPCs that you could place around your Garrison and kind of zip-line between them. All I can remember about them is that they were spectral'ish. Can't find anything on them. Unfortunately, they didn't hang around very long, even on the beta. Anyone know anything about these guys, or were they scrapped?

Comment by JasperKazai

Something I just noticed that isn't listed here... I believe it fits the criteria of a flavor NPC. (I believe this is Alliance-only.)
In the Nagrand quest The Others you rescue Caregiver Felaani and her daughter Isel. They then appear together in your garrison near that house that is near Druids of the Talon tree and the graveyard. Felaani sells some food.

Fun thing to note: little Isel here is the child version of Caregiver Isel from BC's Nagrand.

Comment by Mondoblasto

~~Currently, Birchus will NOT show up at the Alliance garrison.~~

Also Sappy will NOT hang out and assist at Herb Garden; he is located by a tree in between the first Large and second Medium plots across the path from the garden, and so there would be no way he would ever aggro any podlings.

EDIT: Birchus added in Patch 6.2.0.

Comment by Wowzir

SUGGESTION

For players working on catching up ALTS, especially from NEWER expansions, there is a simple way to bypass some or all of the Zone Outpost questlines to get to the ZONE of your choice.

For example, say you want to obtain Lantresor of the Blade for his Mining Ability, you can get to Nagrand and your outpost there to more quickly obtain him.

You do need to FINISH your starting zone questlines for your faction, including fighting The Battle of Thunder Pass or Strike While the Iron is Hot.

After that is completed, when you go to Gorgrond to meet Durotan (Horde) or Vindicator Maraad (Alliance), instead of completing the quest with the NPC with the yellow "?", look for another NPC nearby offering a quest (yellow !) which sends you BACK to your GARRISON. That quest will be News from Talador OR News from Talador.

Go back, complete THAT quest and take the flight from flight master to the next zone. Repeat the process of taking the quest sending you BACK to your garrison INSTEAD of actually starting the Outpost Questline for the zone.

CAUTION: the process is a bit more complicated for Spires of Arak. In THAT case, you will need to go (preferrably fly) to the location where your OUTPOST would have eventually been found after a long tedious questline. Skip the questline and go to
/way Spires of Arak 40.2, 43.5 Axefall (HORDE)
or
/way Spires of Arak 40, 61 Southport (ALLIANCE) Alliance waypoint location is ONLY approximate... my Horde alt did not get that close!
Pick up the "News From... " quest and return to your garrison.

Once you have done it for all the zones leading up to Nagrand, you will be able to simply fly back to the zone of your choice and work on the outpost in that zone.

Since Nagrand is the final zone with an Outpost Quesline, you will not be looking for a "News From... " quest.

Complete the lead-in quest depending on your faction:
Taking the Fight to Nagrand or Taking the Fight to Nagrand for Alliance -OR- Taking the Fight to Nagrand or Taking the Fight to Nagrand for Horde and accept the next quest from that NPC.

That will be either The Might of the Warsong -OR- The Might of the Warsong and the respective turnin locations are
/way Nagrand:Draenor 63.4, 61.8 Rangari D'kaan (Alliance)
and
/way Nagrand:Draenor 82.8, 45.0 Thrall (Horde)

Note that you are NOT required to complete the Outpost in Nagrand before you can obtain the Lantresor of the Blade Follower.;)

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