A Darkened Shard

Level 60Thundering SteppesEpicScales with level

Walkthrough

Starting the Quest

Travel to the Thundering Steppes and click on a terraporter, one of the bone structures found near gnoll camps. You will receive a a darkened azure shard in your inventory and examining it will start the quest. You can find the terraporters in one of the following locations:

Find the Gem

Once inside, you must find what the cave has to do with the gem. To do this, you need to obtain a key to open a chest located at the bottom of the dungeon.

Head to and kill The Tesch Val Fanatic. He will drop a chest containing a copper key.
- NOTE: The ribbon does not work well in the cave. Go to and then to to . Once there, put in the waypoint .
The copper key unlocks the chest on top of a rock 'platform' at . To reach the chest you must pile up crates. Find the three crates lying nearby and stack them one on top of the other at the base of the pillar to build yourself a staircase up to the chest. There are other crates in the zone if needed.
- You can invis all the way in and out except for the fight with the Fanatic and the roamer immediately in front of him.
- The key drops even if The Tesch Val Fanatic is grayed out.
Climb to the top of the pillar and have the person who looted the copper key open the chest. They will recieve a slightly glowing shard.
- Other group members will have to right click on the opened chest and choose to take a slightly glowing shard.
Examine a slightly glowing shard while still in the zone to make it fuse together with a darkened azure shard. A slightly glowing shard will disappear and your quest journal will be updated. Only the person that has the key and opens the chest will get the update automatically; everyone else in the group must right-click the chest to get their update.
- If you obtain the shard from the chest but have not advanced the quest, you can exit the zone and re-enter it. When you leave, you will be teleported to Thundermist Village. Return to the terraporter at to update the quest and complete it by examining the slightly glowing azure shard.
You can now exit via the terraporter at the entrance: . You will end up in Village of Thundermist in The Thundering Steppes.
Proceed to the entrance to Splitpaw Lair in The Thundering Steppes. Head to the Giant's Forge at then enter the Sundered Splitpaw at .

Reward

a slightly glowing shard - Examine it and it will merge with your A darkened azure shard, letting you access the rest of the Splitpaw Adventure Pack. It will also grant you the Gnollish language if you do not already have it.

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Quest information

Journal Category: Thundering Steppes
Introduced: Splitpaw Saga
Journal Level: Scales with player level
Journal Difficulty: Epic
Starting Zone: The Thundering Steppes
How to Start: ''(see below)''
Timeline: Splitpaw Saga Timeline

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Timeline

Splitpaw Saga TimelineStep 1

Next: Stop the Underpaw Army (Acts of War)

Rewards

XP: 2,427

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Reward data may be incomplete for choice rewards and conditional items.

Walkthrough

Starting the Quest

Find the Gem

Once inside, you must find what the cave has to do with the gem. To do this, you need to obtain a key to open a chest located at the bottom of the dungeon.

Head to and kill The Tesch Val Fanatic. He will drop a chest containing a copper key.
- NOTE: The ribbon does not work well in the cave. Go to and then to to . Once there, put in the waypoint .
The copper key unlocks the chest on top of a rock 'platform' at . To reach the chest you must pile up crates. Find the three crates lying nearby and stack them one on top of the other at the base of the pillar to build yourself a staircase up to the chest. There are other crates in the zone if needed.
- You can invis all the way in and out except for the fight with the Fanatic and the roamer immediately in front of him.
- The key drops even if The Tesch Val Fanatic is grayed out.
Climb to the top of the pillar and have the person who looted the copper key open the chest. They will recieve a slightly glowing shard.
- Other group members will have to right click on the opened chest and choose to take a slightly glowing shard.
Examine a slightly glowing shard while still in the zone to make it fuse together with a darkened azure shard. A slightly glowing shard will disappear and your quest journal will be updated. Only the person that has the key and opens the chest will get the update automatically; everyone else in the group must right-click the chest to get their update.
- If you obtain the shard from the chest but have not advanced the quest, you can exit the zone and re-enter it. When you leave, you will be teleported to Thundermist Village. Return to the terraporter at to update the quest and complete it by examining the slightly glowing azure shard.
You can now exit via the terraporter at the entrance: . You will end up in Village of Thundermist in The Thundering Steppes.
Proceed to the entrance to Splitpaw Lair in The Thundering Steppes. Head to the Giant's Forge at then enter the Sundered Splitpaw at .

Reward

a slightly glowing shard - Examine it and it will merge with your A darkened azure shard, letting you access the rest of the Splitpaw Adventure Pack. It will also grant you the Gnollish language if you do not already have it.