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Series

1.	Tablets of Baa'ri
2.	Oronu the Elder
3.	The Ashtongue Corruptors
4.	The Warden's Cage
5.	Proof of Allegiance
6.	Akama
7.	Seer Udalo
8.	A Mysterious Portent
9.	The Ata'mal Terrace
10.	Akama's Promise

Storyline
Shadowmoon Valley Spleendid! The Second Course... The Main Course! The Path of Conquest Breaching the Path Blood Elf + Giant = ??? Tabards of the Illidari Dissension Amongst the Ranks... Besieged! To Legion Hold Setting Up the Bomb Blast the Infernals! The Deathforge Minions of the Shadow Council The Fate of Flanis The Summoning Chamber Bring Down the Warbringer! Gaining Access Invasion Point: Cataclysm The Art of Fel Reaver Maintenance The Fel and the Furious News of Victory What Strange Creatures... Frankly, It Makes No Sense... Felspine the Greater The Path of Conquest Breaching the Path When Worlds Collide... Tabards of the Illidari Dissension Amongst the Ranks... Besieged! To Legion Hold Setting Up the Bomb Blast the Infernals! The Deathforge Minions of the Shadow Council The Fate of Kagrosh The Summoning Chamber Bring Down the Warbringer! Gaining Access Invasion Point: Cataclysm The Art of Fel Reaver Maintenance The Fel and the Furious News of Victory Illidari-Bane Shard Illidari-Bane Shard Capture the Weapons Capture the Weapons The Hermit Smith The Hermit Smith Additional Materials Fresh from the Mechanar The Lexicon Demonica Underworld Loam Tear of the Earthmother Bane of the Illidari Quenching the Blade The Sketh'lon Wreckage Find the Deserter The Sketh'lon Wreckage Find the Deserter Asghar's Totem The Rod of Lianthe Sketh'lon Feathers Imbuing the Headpiece Thwart the Dark Conclave A Ghost in the Machine Harbingers of Shadowmoon Teron Gorefiend - Lore and Legend A Haunted History Spectrecles Teron Gorefiend - Lore and Legend Divination: Gorefiend's Armor Divination: Gorefiend's Cloak Divination: Gorefiend's Truncheon Teron Gorefiend, I am... Teron Gorefiend, I am... Enraged Spirits of Fire and Earth Enraged Spirits of Water Enraged Spirits of Air Oronok Torn-heart I Was A Lot Of Things... A Lesson Learned The Cipher of Damnation - Truth and History Grom'tor, Son of Oronok The Cipher of Damnation - Grom'tor's Charge The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered Ar'tor, Son of Oronok Demonic Crystal Prisons Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart The Cipher of Damnation - Ar'tor's Charge The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered Borak, Son of Oronok Of Thistleheads and Eggs... The Bundle of Bloodthistle To Catch A Thistlehead The Shadowmoon Shuffle What Illidan Wants, Illidan Gets... The Cipher of Damnation - Borak's Charge The Cipher of Damnation - The Third Fragment Recovered The Cipher of Damnation Karabor Training Grounds A Necessary Distraction Altruis Karabor Training Grounds A Necessary Distraction Altruis Against the Legion Against the Illidari Against All Odds Illidan's Pupil The Book of Fel Names Return to the Aldor Varedis Must Be Stopped Return to the Scryers Varedis Must Be Stopped Tablets of Baa'ri Oronu the Elder The Ashtongue Corruptors The Warden's Cage Tablets of Baa'ri Oronu the Elder The Ashtongue Corruptors The Warden's Cage Proof of Allegiance Akama Seer Udalo A Mysterious Portent The Ata'mal Terrace Akama's Promise Kindness Seek Out Neltharaku Neltharaku's Tale Infiltrating Dragonmaw Fortress To Netherwing Ledge! The Force of Neltharaku Karynaku Zuluhed the Whacked Zuluhed the Whacked Ally of the Netherwing Ally of the Netherwing Blood Oath of the Netherwing In Service of the Illidari Your Friend On The Inside The Great Netherwing Egg Hunt Enter the Taskmaster A Job Unfinished...

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Comment by 13955

58, 36 - Items are on the ground. Anoying quest, lots of patroling mobs around.

Comment by Phaleux

They can also drop off the Ashtongue Workers, but it seems like ~10% drop rate.

Comment by Gignor

Annoying quest, I died once because adds kept coming in every time I killed one, so I constantly had to deal with 2-3 mobs a a time. Drop rate from workers is pretty low, so look for the tablets on the ground.

Comment by 16232

Are the workers evade bugged for anyone else?

Comment by 6406

This area seems to be bugged for some. The workers are all evade bugged. I spoke with a GM on the issue and was told that there have been a few reports of workers evading. They are "Looking into it" but I was also told its probably client lag.

This was as of 2/9/07

Comment by 20418

Works fine for me, workers don't evade bug, but I've killed atleast 20 and not one tablet has dropped for me. I just picked the ones up off the floor.

Comment by stylewalker

Some, not all, workers evaded for me. Actually, made the quest easier to do since you dont have to pull as many mobs. You can just run to some of the tablets and loot them since the evaded workers dont aggro.

Otherwise, this quest is pretty hard. Since you have to kill 3-5 mobs to get to a tablet, and you need 12, it takes some time.

Place is really crowded aswell, and aggro range seems rather long, so prepare to kill atleast 3 mobs a time.

Comment by Sihmm

The process of attunement to the Black Temple begins in Shadowmoon Valley with a very long quest chain that requires trips to the Arcatraz, Serpentshrine Cavern, Mount Hyjal and finally the doorstep of the Black Temple itself. Even if you're not planning on raiding just yet, the chain does offer some nice blue rewards half way through. It starts differently depending on whether you're Aldor (A) or Scryer (S):

Aldors pick up the line from Anchorite Ceyla in the Altar of Sha'tar:
1. (A) Tablets of Baa'ri
2. (A) Oronu the Elder
3. (A) The Ashtongue Corruptors
4. (A) The Warden's Cage

Scyers get it from Arcanist Thelis at the Sanctum of Stars:
1. (S) Tablets of Baa'ri
2. (S) Oronu the Elder
3. (S) The Ashtongue Corruptors
4. (S) The Warden's Cage

At this point the chains converge for both factions:
5. Proof of Allegiance
6. Akama
7. Seer Udalo (Dungeon)

Here, you have to venture into the Arcatraz (which requires a Rogue with 350 lockpicking or somebody to open the door who's completed the Arcatraz Key chain, which requires trips to the Mechanar and the Botanica respectively) to the room just before the final boss. Sadly it's impossible to solo-stealth to. Finding Udalo leads to:

Talk to Akama:
8. A Mysterious Portent
Kill waves of nonelites, 3 elites and a boss (5-man) on a terrace outside the Black Temple:
9. The Ata'mal Terrace
Finally, deliver the medallion to A'dal in Shattrath City:
10. Akama's Promise

The chain ends here, and you're granted a choice of rewards:
Akama's Sash (cloth DPS belt)
Bloodwarder's Rifle (gun)
Spellbreaker's Buckler (spelldamage shield)
Ashtongue Blade (phsyical DPS dagger)
Verdant Gloves (feral leather gloves)
Staff of the Ashtongue Deathsworn (healing staff)
However, if you now go into Serpentshrine Cavern and kill Karathress, you'll be able to talk to Seer Olum who'll continue the quest chain for you:

1. The Secret Compromised
Go back to Warden's Cage in SMV and talk to Akama.
2. Ruse of the Ashtongue
Using the Ashtongue Cowl provided, kill Al'ar in Tempest Keep while disguised as a member of the Deathsworn.
3. An Artifact From the Past
You need to be attuned to Mount Hyjal for this. Simply kill Rage Winterchill and loot his phylactery (what is it with liches and their phylacteries?), then deliver it to Akama...
4. The Hostage Soul
...then return to Ad'al in Shattrath City...
5. Entry Into the Black Temple
...then go back to Shadowmoon and talk to Xi'ri on the road leading to the Black Temple. He'll ask you to help with
6. A Distraction for Akama
...but once you tell Xi'ri you're ready (talk to him after accepting the quest), you can watch a scripted sequence that you do not actually have to help with in any way. After this is finished, talk to Xi'ri again for your Medallion of Karabor and the completion of Black Temple attunement. Congratulations, you can now waltz in to Illidan's latest bachelor pad!

But before you go, the chain continues from Xi'ri with:
7. Seek Out the Ashtongue
Time to start exploring the Black Temple! When you find the Deathsworn, they'll give you
2. Redemption of the Ashtongue
...which requires you to kill the Shade of Akama. Finally you're given
3. The Fall of the Betrayer
Yup, kill Illidan. No problem. Then you're done.

Comment by Marfu

You can complete two quests at once here.

The Ashtongue Broken
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10807

Kill quest where you need to kill the mobs at the same area.
Also, Tablet fragmets drop from the Ashtongue Workers.

Comment by 42872

When i did this quest i had a 24% drop rate on the tablets just an FYI

Comment by 52713

At 58, 38 there is a column at a slant on the edge of the hill. If you pull too many enemies and need a place to go, run up to the top of the column. The enemies can't reach you there and will leave you alone after a short period of time.

Comment by 57597

this quest is a realy pain the ass

Comment by Wraath

This is a quest involved in the Black Temple Attunement Chain:

The Black Temple attunement starts at The Altar of the Sha'tar for Aldors, and the Sanctum of the Sun for Scryers. Both are in Shadowmoon Valley.

Aldors start attunement from Anchorite Ceyla (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=21402) at the Altar of Sha'tar in Shadowmoon Valley:
1. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10568 Tablets of Baa'ri
2. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10571 Oronu the Elder
3. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10574 The Ashtongue Corruptors
4. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10575 The Warden's Cage

Scyers start attunement from Arcanist Thelis (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=21955) at the Sanctum of Stars:
1. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10683 Tablets of Baa'ri
2. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10684 Oronu the Elder
3. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10685 The Ashtongue Corruptors
4. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10686 The Warden's Cage

After that, the chain comes together for Aldor and Scryer.

5. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10622 Proof of Allegiance
6. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10628 Akama
7. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10705 Seer Udalo

Seer Udalo is found in the Arcatraz (http://www.wowhead.com/?zone=3846) just before the last boss.

8. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10706 A Mysterious Portent
9. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10707 The Ata'mal Terrace
10. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10708 Akama's Promise

After you finish this chain, you get to pick from some rewards and the chain seems like it ends. It continues however, inside Serpentshrine Cavern (http://www.wowhead.com/?zone=3607) from an NPC called Seer Olum (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=22820) who you can speak with after killing Fathom-Lord Karathress. He starts the next part of the Black Temple Chain by offering the quest:

1. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10944 The Secret Compromised
For this quest you just return to Akama.
2. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10946 Ruse of the Ashtongue
In this quest, you must use the costume Akama provides, and kill A'lar in Tempest Keep: The Eye while wearing the Ashtongue Cowl. Attunement for The Eye is a whole different chain.
3. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10947 An Artifact From the Past
In this, you need to gain access to The Battle of Mount Hyjal in Caverns of Time, and slay the first boss, Rage Winterchill. Attunement for this involves killing Lady Vashj and Kael'Thas Sunstrider.
4. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10948 The Hostage Soul
For this you must speak with A'dal in Shattrath city.
5. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10949 Entry into the Black Temple
For this, just speak with the naaru Xi'ri in front of Black Temple.
6. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10985 A Distraction for Akama
Unknown what this quest asks of you, most likely you need to defend Xi'ri and make your way into Black Temple. At the end, you become attuned to enter and are granted The Medallion of Karabor (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=32649)

At this point, you are attuned and can enter Black Temple, although the chain continues and you can soon upgrade your medallion. It continues with:

1. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10958 Seek Out the Ashtongue
You just need to find Seer Kanai (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=23158) inside Black Temple.
2. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10957 Redemption of the Ashtongue
This involves entering Black Temple, and killing the boss the Shade of Akama (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=22841).
3. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10959 The Fall of the Betrayer
After killing the Shade of Akama and returning to Seer Kanai, he asks one last thing of you. Kill Illidan The Betrayer. After doing so, you are granted the Blessed Medallion of Karabor, an upgraded version of your original medallion, and allows teleportation to the Black Temple.

Comment by audir

These only seemed to drop off the Workers for me. I was able to single pull every single one of these, easy. I charged in as a 70 warrior. Double this quest with The Ashtongue Tribe quest.

Comment by 53694

stupid ass quest. SOOOOOO many mobs it just wastes my time.

Comment by 53694

Easy to do with a friend or wait until ally farmer bots clear all the mobs before you and then do it. Don't go for drops, just pick them up.

Comment by mistadabolina

Anoying, yes but fairly easy as rogue. Use sap frequently and the quest goes quite fast.

Comment by Flitzy

Wow, not only do the worker's love to run away and bring additional friends, they have a way of multiplying while you're facing one - oops, now you have to fight two mobs.. and so forth. Bring friends on this one or prepare to rip your hair out of your skull.

Comment by rayzorium

Not quite as bad as many people have said. The drop rate was quite high for me - somewhere in the neighborhood of 30%. I found it easier to just go along walls and kill off workers rather than look for them on the ground. I did get several nasty adds at times - but if you mind your surroundings and don't let runners get far, you can manage mostly single or double pulls.

Comment by 43040

I just put a + mark on everyones comment that basically said this quest will drive you retarded. Because it WILL!!!

Rogues: Bring LOTS of Flash Powder for this quest. LOTS. Adds come from nowhere and Rend kills vanish. Oh, of course I have Preparation... But how does that help with 4 mobs continuously Rending you ???

It goes like this: Sap one from behind, distract the other to look the other way, click tablet, Sapped one agroes (WTF > ???) and then Distracted agroes. What about the guys behind the wall??? Well, its only natural to help a friend in need so they come too. Oh, might as well pull that Pat that's 50+ yards out also just because... well... he's there. Good going. You now have 3 on you with one sapped and waiting to get at you too. You have a long Rend timer stacking, and you can only Blind for 10 seconds. So what do you do then??? Well you die of course. After this happens a third time, you want to Pixelate and go there yourself just choke one of them out cold. So why did I say to bring lots of Flash Powder. Cause you should try to survive every chance you get, and finish this quest As Soon As Possible!

On a side note too: Terrain sucks, and you have to NAVIGATE to your body. Making this oh so more enjoyable.

Good look to all not loosing some hair with this!

Comment by Hotpockets

This quest is too ridiculous for words to describe... I can't imagine doing this quest without good crowd control.

FAST respawns...
Insane PATs (I counted about 5-6 SEPERATE groups of PATs at one entrance)...
13 second repeated Rend...

The list can go on and on....

I went in there with 70 waters... I came out with 5.

Comment by 93672

do this quest with The Ashtongue Broken ( http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10807 )

Comment by 78214

very fast q if you hav a flight mount or flight form!!
2 min...

Comment by Nostrils

Watch out, the respawn rate on these guys is _disgusting_

Comment by Motoki

I found many of the above comments to be a bit exaggerated. While it's true that there are many pats and the mobs are tightly grouped, with careful pulling you should be able to take one at a time. It's true that this is no walk in the park, but I completed the quest in less than 15 mins without ever finding myself in too much danger. In addition, the drop rate from the workers wasn't bad at all, around 25% for me. I got 9/12 quest items as drops. Don't let the comments scare you away; this quest is not simple, but it's definitely doable.

Edit: I entered from the east, if that helps.

Comment by 68112

Prepare for following scenario when undertaking this Quest:

oh a tablet! Just gotta take this group of workers...
*one of the Workers run of pulling an extra group of workers...*
/sigh damn runners...
*You start to loot tablet, but an annoying overseer decides to be very annoying..."
oh got damn it...
*You start loot the stupid tablet again, BUT! a shaman decides to drop by*
For *#¤% sake!
*You sit down to eat for you are low on health, but an elephant and his best friend rudely interrupts you eating/swearing and you die...*
/G Awmagawd! Tablets of Baa'ri Q is leik teh Sukks! QQ
*You run all the way back, loot the tablet in a triumphant roar of victory! and then the pack of workers spawn in your face and you die again..."

Comment by 45886

Since this is part of the old Black Temple Attunement quest, it's probably a good idea to be somewhere near going into Black Temple before doing it. Stories about how hard the quest is when you're 68 don't really make much sense when you're trying to do a questline that is comprised mostly of level 70 instances and end game 25 mans, to get attuned to what was once the hardest raid instance in the game.

With a flying mount, you simply plop down beside a tablet, you might have to fight 1 or two workers for it (which also drop tablets), then pick them up. Quest took me 10 minutes.as a PALADIN, a lock/hunter could've easily could've done it in 5.

Comment by 170833

Flyer's here are CRUCIAL if you don't want to be pulling your hair out for the next hour.

What I did that was effective is grab some other quests in the area (such as dailies), then do a quick fly over, if you see any tablets in the open, grab them, otherwise do your other quests. You don't have to finish it in a day.

If you got nothing better to do, hover around for a while, when a tablet pops up near an easy mob, drop down, nab it, then mount up again. Repeat.

WATCH FOR PATROLS!!!!

Also:

I found the hanging ledge at 57, 37.7 quite handy for getting an overall view, and having peace and quiet for eating/drinking.

Comment by oddible

The WORKERS drop Tablet Fragments! For all the folks complaining about all the mobs in here - KILL THEM, they have what you need!

Comment by bpillars

Starting from the bridge at 57,41 I worked my way north hugging the wall. Never aggro'd more than 2 mobs at once. Picked up 6 tablets lying on the ground and got 6 drops from workers out of 17 kills.

Also finished http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10807 in the process. Whole thing took less than 10 minutes.

Didn't make me hate life at all :)

Comment by 206803

DRUIDS! Possibly one of the easiest quests here ever! I just completed this quest and had to share my experience. I tried doing the stealth in kill a guy but they aggro everyone and run and I was about to give up. Then I found out something fun.
Go into flight form and hover above the tablet on the ground.
Go straight down toward the tablet slowly JUST until it turns yellow to pick up.
Even if the guys are standing right next to it you WILL NOT aggro them. You're just low enough to pick up the tablets but not low enough to be in their aggro bubble.
I even had an Overseer walk under(through) me and didnt even blink.
Enjoy! Hope this helps!

Comment by Jak777

For some reason I cannot get this quest from Thelis. I am friendly w/ the Scryers and neutral with the Sha'tar. What else do I have to do?

Comment by antro

Why doesn't he have a qust for me? I'm friendly with the scryers :/

Comment by bearmug

At the moment the tablet fragments for this quest seem bugged: Some of the fragments give cogwheel mouse pointer but can't be looted. Just kill Workers or go to another fragment and try there.

The fragments on edges seem bugged, while the ones deeper inside work.

Comment by Galadius

Did this quest just fine. I had no problems looting any fragments off the ground.

Comment by mathias1500

My and My friend could not take the fragment on the ground why? it takes so long time to kill all the monsters and so not get anything. please write if you know why we cant take the fragment on the ground please!

Comment by Vlad

If you feel lost and unsure where you are in the chain, use the following copy-paste scripts:

The Aldor
/run local y={568,571,574,575,622,628,705,706,707,708,944,946,947,948,949,985,958,957,959}print"The Aldor:"for i,q in ipairs(y)do q="10"..q print(i,"\124cffffff00\124Hquest:"..q.."\124h\124h\124r",IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q)and YES or NO)end

The Scryers
/run local y={683,684,685,686,622,628,705,706,707,708,944,946,947,948,949,985,958,957,959}print"The Scryers:"for i,q in ipairs(y)do q="10"..q print(i,"\124cffffff00\124Hquest:"..q.."\124h\124h\124r",IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q)and YES or NO)end

Simply copy the script and paste in chat. You'll find a lot of text saying Yes/No for each quest in the chain, chronologically. Find the quest that isn't completed and look that up on Wowhead to proceed.

Have fun obtaining your Blessed Medallion of Karabor

Comment by GitGudGuides

Tablets of Baa'ri http://youtu.be/1yL8QVv5zxA

Comment by Boxofbeer

Tablets of Baa'ri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nc4G6G8DBs

Comment by Aurleis1

Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDBwF_RN_M8

1. Tablets of Baa'ri
• Fly to the Sanctum of the Stars, Shadowmoon Valley (Outlands), and accept the quest, Tablets of Baa'ri, from Arcanist Thelis at coords 56.2, 59.6.
• Travel north, to the Ruins of Baa'ri, to the area of 59, 34.
• On the ground you will see a greenish glowing object called Baa'ri Tablet Fragment.
- - Collect 12 of these fragments off the ground around you, which also have a chance to drop off of the Ashtongue Worker mobs.
• Travel south, back to the Sanctum of the Stars, to 56.2, 59.6.
• Turn in the quest to Arcanist Thelis.

Full Guide to obtain Blessed Medallion of Karabor.

If you're unsure about which stage of the quest line you are in to obtain the Blessed Medallion of Karabor, enter the following script into the chat box (special thanks to Vlad for the script):

The Aldor

/run local y={568,571,574,575,622,628,705,706,707,708,944,946,947,948,949,985,958,957,959}print"The Aldor:"for i,q in ipairs(y)do q="10"..q print(i,"\124cffffff00\124Hquest:"..q.."\124h\124h\124r",IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q)and YES or NO)end

The Scryers

/run local y={683,684,685,686,622,628,705,706,707,708,944,946,947,948,949,985,958,957,959}print"The Scryers:"for i,q in ipairs(y)do q="10"..q print(i,"\124cffffff00\124Hquest:"..q.."\124h\124h\124r",IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q)and YES or NO)end

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Tablets of Baa'ri

Arcanist Thelis at the Sanctum of the Stars wants you to collect 12 Baa'ri Tablets from the ground and from Ashtongue Workers at the Ruins of Baa'ri.

Completing quests with the Scryers will cause your Aldor reputation level to decrease.

	Baa'ri Tablet Fragment (12)

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The Ashtongue Broken have been ordered by Illidan to excavate the Ruins of Baa'ri, to the far north. They're in search of draenei artifacts, no doubt - Baa'ri was home to many Baa'ri relics before Gul'dan buried the town under a volcanic explosion. We must use this opportunity to recover the Tablets of Baa'ri, an ancient text rumored to hold the secrets of the Temple of Karabor... a place you might know as the Black Temple.

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