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Comment by arhqirah

Whirling Runekey is part of a secret quest to obtain Thrayir, Eyes of the Siren

Thrayir, Eyes of the Siren is a secret mount obtained at the isle of Siren, added in patch 11.0.7

Video Guide: https://youtu.be/Vlrwpc4oDTE

She is lying unconcious in the Forgotten vault, surrounded by 5 runestones: Whirling, Cyclonic, Turbulent, Torrential & Thunderous.
/way 38.19, 51.78 Forgotten Vault Cave Entrance
/way 50.31, 15.36 Singing Crystal (Teleporter to Forgotten Vault)
/way 72.70, 61.32 Thrayir

To bring her back to life & obtain her as a mount, you have to collect 5 runekeys, 1 for each rune stone.

Whirling Runekey - Drops from KSVIR the forgotten. This rare can be found in the forbidden vault during the storm.
/way 38.19, 51.78 Forgotten Vault Cave Entrance
/way 50.31, 15.36 Singing Crystal (Teleporter to Forgotten Vault)
/way 38.02, 76.25 Ksvir the Forgotten

How to enter a storm: Complete the weekly activity quest for Siren Isle Serpent's Wrath by doing WQ's, events & killing mobs. Once complete you can enter and exit the storm by talking to Suzie Boltwrench
/way 68.99, 49.14 Suzie Boltwrench

Torrential Runekey - Drops from ANY mob in a storm.
Best spot is the skeletons on the shore just outside the forgotten vault cave, as they hyperspawn. Got mine in about 5 minutes of solofarming.
/way 41.92, 25.78 Shore with skeletons

Thunderous Runekey
For this runekey you’ll need to assemble five Thunderous Fragment. The fragments drop from treasures and chests both inside and outside of the storm. So there is two ways to go about it. First is the big chests that are spread around the zone, sometimes your character will emit a wind, that guides you to these chests and you’ll make em appear with an extra action button. These chests can be found both inside and outside the storm. The other way is by farming seafarer’s caches. To unlock seafarer’s caches, you have to had completed the quest Dipping a Toe, given by Apprentice Tanmar, after completing a few of the introductory quests at the island, so if you’ve done most quests you should’ve completed it already. Anyway, completing it will give you Blessing of the Seadweller, allowing you to walk on the seafloor and find treasure. In general just exploring underwater. And this is where you find the seafarer’s caches, so circle the island underwater to search for caches. Theres quite a lot more seafarer’s caches than normal treasures, so this i what i recommend if you want to farm it as fast as you can. But you can definitely also just pick up treasures that you come across as you do other content in the zone. The caches only appear outside of the storm. And the dropchance for the fragments seem to be around 5% from Seafarers caches and 20% from regular treasure, but ofc RNG be RNG, and this is just my assumption from what i experienced.
When you have all 5 Thunderous Fragment, click them to combine into the Thunderous Runekey

Cyclonic Runekey - Drops from Zek'ul the Shipbreaker located in the storm
/way 33.18, 73.62

Turbulent Runekey
For this runekey you'll need to assemble 3 Turbulent Fragment
They are all found in the storm version of the isle.

First fragment is gathered from a dirtpile, next to a kul tiran Ghost
/way 38.19, 51.78
Second Fragment in front of a ghost inside a cave
/way 67.07, 78.44
Third Fragment is found in the hands of a ghost in another cave
/way 52.39, 38.59
Combine all fragments to get the final runekey Turbulent Runekey

When all runekeys are gathered, go to Thrayir and activate all the runestones.
/way 38.19, 51.78 Forgotten Vault Cave Entrance
/way 50.31, 15.36 Singing Crystal (Teleporter to Forgotten Vault)
/way 72.70, 61.32 Thrayir

When all runestones are activated, you'll simply get a quest from Thrayir that awards the mount. Congratulations!

Comment by Galahfray

I used it without knowing what it was for, while in the vault, nothing happened. Do I need to get another one?

Comment by Nerothos

Cant be 100% drop. I killed him yesterday, but no key.

Comment by AlexisJay

Video guide on how to get Thrayir, Eyes of the Siren: https://youtu.be/I_EQMWb1qTg

Step by step how to get the mount:
Ways to get to Siren Isle: Use the Zepplin in Dornogal (coordinates 72, 5) or the Mole Machine in the Ringing Deeps at coordinates 46, 30.
Speak to Suzie Boltwrench at coordinates 69, 49 on Isle of Siren to go into the storm phase.

You need a total of 5 runekeys:
1. Whirling Runekey: Go into the cave at coordinates 44, 24 on Isle of Siren, enter the tunnel and click on the Singing Tablet to enter the Forgotten Vault. Run down the corridor to the last room, defeat Ksvir the Forgotten to loot the Whirling Runekey.
2. Torrential Runekey: This runekey is made by combining 7 Torrential Fragment. These have a low chance to drop from any rares, elites and normal mobs found on Isle of Siren. Best place to farm is near the entrance of the cave mentioned above at 44, 24 as the spawn rate is quite fast. It takes 2-3 hours to get all 7 when farming in a group.
3. Thunderous Runekey: This runekey is made by combining 5 Thunderous Fragment which drop from treasure chests in the Isle of Siren. The easiest to find are Seafarer's Caches, you will notice gusts of wind blowing from your character to the direction of the cache. Make sure you completed the quest Dipping a Toe in order to see the caches.
4. Cyclonic Runekey: This drops from either Zek'ul the Shipbreaker found at coordinates 33, 73, or by fishing in the waters close to were Zek'ul spawns.
5. Turbulent Runekey: This runekey is made up of 3 turbulent fragments that are scattered around Isle of Siren.
- First fragment is at coordinates 38, 51 in a dirtpile next to a Kul Tiran Ghost
- Second fragment is at coordinates 67, 78 inside a cave infront of a ghost on the ground.
- Third fragment is another cave at coordinates 52, 38 in the hands of a ghost.

When you have all the runekeys, head back to the Forgotten Vault (entrance at coordinates 44, 24) head to the room at coordinates 72, 61, go up the staircase where you will see Thrayir on the ground surrounded by 5 inactive runestones. Activate each one, Thrayir will then give you a quest that gives you the mount.

Comment by RedWingToto

Note that you can NOT use the runekeys if it isn't storming.

Comment by Hytrax

Well, I killed him so f*** often, I am not counting anymore. But still no key. I was wondering what is going on and what I am doing wrong.
After hours of farming, I walked to the room where you can activate the runestones - just to have a look.
The runestone for this key was unlocked! Dont know why (maybe someone was unlocking it while I was in range?), but thats for sure the reason it is not dropping for me…..
If it is not dropping for you, just look if the runestone is already unlocked.

Comment by Doc25

I can confirm that there seems to be a bug with the drop from Ksvir. I have defeated him approximately 30 times and no key has dropped. I brought in my other level 80 player and the key dropped on the first kill. Opened a ticket with Blizzard and they mentioned RNG. Sure, but when I see so many other folks receiving the key after the 1st kill, thought there had to be an issue. And I think this is tied to my characters inability to do the weekly World Quest, Storm's A Brewin. For whatever reason, my one character cannot start the quest. I click on Suzie and my quests do not show the normal dialogue telling me how many things to kill. Even partied with two other people and had them party synch, no luck. We were able to complete the quest for them, but I didn't even get a progress bar. I have quit the game, logged out, changed players, pretty much everything with no luck. It appears that the game thinks I have completed the quest as Suzie's dialogue if clicking her again is to exit the storm. Thankfully my other toon was able to complete it with no problem. And, that toon now is only two toorential fragments from being done. Oh, and the inability to do the Storm quest meant that the one toon could not get the pet Marmaduke; my other has the pet. It happens and hopefully Blizzard is looking into both submitted bgs. Anyone else have whirling runekey drop issues?

Comment by lauba

After killing Ksvir the Forgotten I didn't drop this key and I didn't understand... before realizing that I had already killed him once and activated the ritual stone for Thrayir with this key without realizing this, at the very beginning of my exploration of this area! So if you don't loot it, check that you haven't already activated this stone with it before :)

Comment by Hellcry7

I was farming for this key not knowing I used it already before I knew about the mount GL

Comment by Hollyleaves

If you're like me, picked this key up, saw the activation stone somewhere in the Forbidden Vault and didn't know what you were really doing and you used it, DON'T PANIC.

It just means you unlocked 1/5 runestones already to get Thrayir.

If you have any of the keys to unlock the five runestones, the runestone will have a bright outline on the ultra graphics, as a signal to click it. If you do so, you've already completed one of the five steps to getting Thrayir. You can't go farm a new key, as it's been used for its sole purpose. Activated runestones no longer look clickable, instead they emit a fumey colour from it to show it's ready. If you have no key yet, the runestone just looks dull, with no outline and no colours coming from it.

The main thing is the Whirling Runekey is a very easy drop and I think a lot of people get it, and activate 1/5 stones and then panic when they realize they needed it for Thrayir, not knowing if they spoiled the key somehow. I did this, and I panicked. The key was used, and I just had to go ahead and farm for the other 4 keys. Whirling was just prematurely activated and ready, that's all.

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Whirling Runekey

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Dropped by: Ksvir the Forgotten

Drop Chance: 59.05%

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