Quick Facts

Series

1.	No Mercy for the Captured
2.	Torture the Torturer

Storyline
Dragonblight Into the Fold Blood Oath of the Horde Agmar's Hammer Victory Nears... Rifle the Bodies Prevent the Accord A Strange Device Projections and Plans The Focus on the Beach Atop the Woodlands Search Indu'le Village Let Nothing Go To Waste Slay Loguhn Spiritual Insight Elder Mana'loa Freedom for the Lingering Conversing With the Depths Return to the Earth Through Fields of Flame The End of the Line Gaining an Audience Speak with your Ambassador Report to the Ruby Dragonshrine Heated Battle Return to the Earth Through Fields of Flame The Steward of Wyrmrest Temple Informing the Queen The Obsidian Dragonshrine No Place to Run No One to Save You The Best of Intentions Defiling the Defilers Culling the Damned Neltharion's Flame Tales of Destruction Cycle of Life The Plume of Alystros Seeds of the Lashers That Which Creates Can Also Destroy Mystery of the Infinite Mystery of the Infinite, Redux Marked for Death: High Cultist Zangus The Flesh-Bound Tome Koltira and the Language of Death In Service of Blood In Service of the Unholy In Service of Frost The Power to Destroy The Translated Tome Containing the Rot The Good Doctor... In Search of the Ruby Lilac Return to Soar Where the Wild Things Roam Strength of Icemist Chains of the Anub'ar Return of the High Chief All Hail Roanauk! The Might of the Horde Attack by Air! Blightbeasts be Damned! The Kor'kron Vanguard! Audience With The Dragon Queen Galakrond and the Scourge On Ruby Wings Return To Angrathar WANTED: The Scarlet Onslaught Blighted Last Rites Let Them Not Rise! Stealing from the Siegesmiths Need to Know The Spy in New Hearthglen No Mercy for the Captured Torture the Torturer Without a Prayer The Perfect Dissemblance The Rod of Compulsion The Denouncement A Fall From Grace The Truth Will Out Do Unto Others Nozzlerust Defense Stocking Up Shaved Ice Soft Packaging Something That Doesn't Melt Hard to Swallow Lumber Hack Harp on This! Slim Pickings Messy Business Stomping Grounds Apply This Twice A Day Worm Wrangler Really Big Worm

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Comments

Comment by Acku

Deathguard Schneider is located behind the gallows in a cage at 70, 72.
Chancellor Amai is located on a wagon at 73, 73.
Engineer Burke is located behind the church at 73, 74.
Senior Scrivener Barriga is in a cage at 68,75.

Comment by 228364

Pre quest is Wanted: The Scarlet Onslaught

Comment by 146426

Kind of a sad quest, really, but it is war...

On a side note, they can't attack you while youre hitting them with ranged attacks, and they don't evade (during this patch at least).

Comment by 259654

I don't get it, why do i need to kill them :S?

Comment by 259850

I hate Blizzard for doing these cruel quests.
Its same as in DK, ppl are frightened. When i ahd to kill my own race guy with 3hp, freakin unfair, i almost cired.
And now here, u have to kill ur ppl isntead of freeing them.
Dont udnerstand. :S:S

Comment by 40967

WotLK would make for a great drinking game though:

"Chug the whole bottle whenever you come across a really depressing quest."

Down the hatch then!

Comment by 266122

They may be bargaining for their lives as you kill them, but think of this. If you don't kill the captives, like the quests says for you to do, what do you think would happen to them? The Scarlet Onslaught isn't going to give them a slap on the hand and let them go, they would torture them, bleeding them of Horde secrets, and then leave them to die in a puddle of their own blood.

This is war and if the Scarlet Onslaught isn't a bunch of nice guys. If you can't free your sides captives, don't you think it's kinder to just put them out of their misery instead of letting the Onslaught play with their prey?

Comment by 282961

yeah this quest is brutal, killing guys in cages as they beg for their lives? feels like a DK quest, ouch.

my trick is (it may sound silly) pretend you are helping them fake their death so they can escape. i mean, hey, we can do anything we want in a game.

i think it's normal to feel bad and not want to do it, too bad there isn't another way to complete it

Comment by 278302

They must die, for it is the Will of the Forsaken.

Comment by 90006

As sad as the quest itself might be, the 1st phrase she says is absoluteley epic.

We have more fools for you to kill.

Comment by 131653

http://www.wowhead.com/?maps=65:700720730730729741680751

Comment by 189866

Here's what these poor souls have to say before you do them in:

Deathguard Schneider: "What do you mean my time has come? I'll kill you where you stand!"

Chancellor Amani: "What is the meaning of this? Stop! I'll double whatever they're paying you!"

Engineer Burke: "No! I beg you! Please don't kill me!"

Senior Scrivener Barriga: "You can't possibly mean to.... I'll write you up for this, (class)!"

Comment by 253196

To all the people complaining this quest is cruel: you rolled a Horde, what were you expecting? The Horde is the "evil" faction. And as stated above, have you ever played a Forsaken? Most of the quests in Tirisfal, Silverpine, and Hillsbrad are like this.

And speaking of the Forsaken, you do know they're planning to kill every living thing on Azeroth, right...?

Comment by 315027

I'm surprised no one picked up that when you're talking to the deathguard you say "You're Time has come" instead of "Your time has come"...

Comment by 332900

just thought i would chip in...

im glad that im finally playing world of 'war'craft; i think it adds a more mature layer to the game.

Comment by 225164

To bad you can't loot em'
>:D

Comment by 308734

I really like the quest design in WotLK and how they are bringing more quests that give you the feeling of actual war. After all, it's world of WARcraft that we are playing. And war is cruel.

Comment by peeweesweden

Don't go here unless you're prepared to have to wade through dozens of mobs to get to wherever you want to go.¨Wait until you can fly over them instead, saves you a lot of time.

Comment by 195092

Funny discussion.

Comment by 69709

I'd like to kill the quest giver.

What a @#$%^.

Comment by 342247

... on the upside, it's an excellent quest for warriors to level their throwing/guns.... XD

Comment by Essay

Map

http://www.wowhead.com/?maps=65:702720734732730743680751

Comment by 127997

im such a level slacker, im considering turning this sad quest into a sad machinima video, any song requests?.

i'll give this quest a 48hr hold. see if I can come across any good songs,
to go along with this quest.

Im using my undead deathnight for this quest.

Comment by taurenmoo812

This is one of those quests that really puts forward the kind of person your character is.

Are you a member of the horde who believes in honor among your own, and sees the quest this insane banshee gives you as nothing to do with honor and allies, or are you just as cruel and twisted as she is, and willingly go along with it.

I have only ever done this quest once. I refuse to do it on any other of my characters for the moral fiber. Yeah its a game, but if you don't feel anything for the captured prisoners whos only crime was being captured, then your a little less human on the inside.

Screw that banshe @#$%^. If I had an alliance alt I'd fight into venomspike just to kill her.

Comment by Nurrah

There are several quests like this in the game. Quests that will tug at your heart. I did most of these the first time around... remember the demon that gives you a quest in Teldrassil that you get reprimanded for later and have to atone for? Yeah I skipped him the next character.

I'm going to skip these two quests (this one and it's follow-up) and won't be doing them unless I have to for the achievement. It was bad enough I brought three horses in to have their flesh eaten away before my very eyes.

Comment by 453527

As I am doing this quest on my orc warrior I can't help but smile. Back in the orc starting area they have you do some pretty evil things for honor. And this brings me back to those days i hunted down humans.

On topic however.
The way i see it is these undead knew what they were getting into. The undead kill their prisoners, or the prisoners bribe the hero (you) to bust'em out of there. And if they aren't smart enough to do that then off with their heads! No quests? No gold? No loot? pshh. One of them SAYS he'll give you double the gold but I don't think he was telling the truth (:<

Besides people, it's a game. I won't lie. I came to wowhead to see WHY I am killing these people exactly. But then I thought back to Bc..we killed gronn the dragonkiller ( I may have the wrong name.) Who killed black dragons. That's right folks, the enemy. And yet we killed the enemy of our enemy? I don't understand that. I don't understand a lot about this game. But hey, lewts lewt.

Comment by jelito

hmm you don't have choise to free them, thats stupid, and If you leave them alone they would be tortured for informations and then die anyway... so its better to kill them anyway... on war irl i wouldnt obey such command (and you got right to do so) but its game... (good that i didn't choose rp realm ;X )

Comment by 293207

You all cry that we have to kill a caged forsaken, but I bet you'd all be makin' jokes and begging Blizz to make more quests like this if it was gnomes or death knights. ;P

Comment by Lmjkdd6

I can't believe no one has noticed this yet, but at least 3 out of 4 of these captured guys are references to Blizzard employees.

Deathguard Schneider = ?

Senior Scrivener Barriga = Luis Barriga (Senior Game Designer)

Engineer Burke = Steve Burke (Game Designer)

Chancellor Amai = Craig Amai (Associate Game Designer)

Comment by 274984

Hahaha, if you're a hunter with a Warp Stalker pet he warps into the cage to kill them xD, it's actually quite funny to see a giant warp stalker knawing on someone in a small cage =)

Comment by structure

If you turn invisible as a mage after making one of these killable, they will dissapear.

Edit; rephrased :<

Comment by Kayserofmisha

This quest made me feel terrible... and the engineer called me buddy before I killed him.

You can't kill someone who called you buddy and live with a clean conscience..

Comment by ZootiX

I chose to abandon the quest when one of the prisoners begged me not to kill him. :/

Comment by Syncness

Came to check out this page to see if anyone else was on the same boat as me.

This is indeed a very sad quest, killed me a bit inside. :(

Comment by Mazra

This has to be one of the most illogical quests ever and it broke my cold, undead heart when I saw the engineer beg for his life. War is hell and all that, but here's the illogical part:

You're there to kill them because they'll be tortured for information and you aren't given any tools to free them with. However, another quest giver in Venomspite has you blowing up ballistae in the area with bombs that don't seem to harm living beings (knockback, but no damage dealt).

It doesn't take advanced math to figure this one out.

Bomb + cage = win.

Of course, that would remove the whole "zomgsad" flavor to the quest. I take it the quest designers at Blizzard suffers from the same depression as the script writers in Hollywood these days. It's sad endings across the board, with or without plot twists.

Comment by 825008

Wow...this was a really depressing quest...the begging for mercy definitely didn't help. But I can understand...if they were going to be tortured, these were kind of mercy killings. And it would have been near impossible to escort them back to Venomspite, given how deep they were in the town and the ridiculous number of mobs in the vicinity... :(

Comment by 1025679

I do not know how to kill them are green for me and within cages. How to kill?

Comment by 168405

Definitely not doing this quest after reading what it's about.....

Comment by THRobinson

Lot's of people on here that are easily depressed it seems. :D

I have no moral issues killing them, but am having a game issue. I talk to them, all 4 questions, but, will not allow me to kill them.

?

Comment by 1137162

Hey. Im a tauren druid with WotLK 3.3.5a and cannot kill the prisoners, I can only talk to them.Can you guys help me?

Comment by GitGudGuides

No Mercy for the Captured http://youtu.be/bq-p6ih3E2w

Comment by 968833

I can think of 3 reasons why you was sent to kill these 4 guys

1. They had information that the Forsaken didn't want falling into the Scarlet Crusade hands.

2. A deterrence against any other Forsaken who think it might be a good idea to surrender.

3. A mercy killing seeing how much the Scarlets love to torture.

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc2QQjjMypQ&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Nagoragama

Buddy... :(

Comment by lybrewa

Seems so... dishonourable to kill them while they're incapacitated.

Comment by Anaeria

I killed the first three guys, and felt kinda bad when I killed the dude who was offering to pay you more. But when I arrived in front of the Engineer... I died inside, blinked away and abandoned the quest. I might be a coward blood elf, but that beg of the Engineer was too sad for me >.<

Links

No Mercy for the Captured

Spy Mistress Repine has asked you to slay Deathguard Schneider, Senior Scrivener Kinnedius, Engineer Burke, and Chancellor Amai.

When you've accomplished this task, report your success to High Executor Wroth at Venomspite.

	Deathguard Schneider slain (1)
	Senior Scrivener Kinnedius slain (1)
	Engineer Burke slain (1)
	Chancellor Amai slain (1)

Description

We have more fools for you to kill.

My agents tell me that several of our good citizens have seen fit to fall into the hands of the Scarlet Onslaught.

This will not do.

Go back to New Hearthglen and eliminate Deathguard Schneider, Senior Scrivener Kinnedius, Engineer Burke and Chancellor Amai.

From what I hear, they're spread out throughout the area. No doubt they are being kept in cages awaiting torture.

Speak with them and then kill them!

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with The Hand of Vengeance

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12245))

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