Last step of the AQ40 Scepter Chain, required to open the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj.

All the weapons are named after major characters in the War of the Ancients.

Runesword of the Red - Rhonin the Red, named so because of his characteristic bright red hair

Shadowsong's Sorrow - Named after Jarod Shadowsong, Maiev's brother. Commander of the Night Elf army after the nobles died.

Ravencrest's Legacy - Named after Kur'Talos Ravencrest. Leader of Black Rook Hold and Commander of the Night Elf army before his death, upon which the nobles took command.

Fang of Korialstrasz - Named after Korialstrasz. The dragon form of the magus Krasus, now primary consort of Alexstrasza.

Question: if you complete this specific quest and get a dagger or a sword - can you still bang a gong on a server with closed gates (assuming a server like that would be available for transfers some day)?

( NOTE: I DO NOT KNOW IF THE FINAL REWARD IS OBTAINABLE ANY LONGER. If it isnt, at least you have something to brag about! )

PART ONE THE BLUE SHARD

Step 1.) ""What Tomorrow Brings""

This is relatively easy. A simple Fedex quest. To obtain the quest you have to head to the center of Silithus and get this from Bristolth of the Shifting Sands. He is a Night Elf commander in full ""Giant-stalker"" hunter tier. To complete this quest you just have to head to the Caverns of Time. Travel to Tanaris. Head towards the Caverns of Time and head between the two large mountain sides on the path towards the entrance to the cave. The quest should complete then. Once that done, turn it in to Bristolth.

Step 2.) ""Only One May Rise (Raid)""

This quest should be relatively easy as well. Especially with all the new Northrend gear and content that was released in Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack. Gather a raid group and head into Blackwing Lair. Once there kill Broodlord Lashlayer and loot his head then bring it back to Bristolth

Step 3.) ""The Path of the Righteous""

This one is also very simple. Head to Hive'Zora, Hive'Ashi, or Hive'Regal in Silithus and collect 200 carapace fragments from the Silithus insects dwelling inside the hives. Then return to Bristolth.

Step 4.) ""The Hand of the Righteous""

This is the same as the previous quest. Go out and get 200 more fragments then return to Bristolth to exchange them.

Step 5.) ""Anachronos""

This one is another Fedex in the chain. Head back to Tanaris and go to the coordinates 64,50. Speak with Anachronos and complete the quest then speak with him again to gain the next part of this chain.

Step 6.) ""Long Forgotten Memories""

This is ANOTHER Fedex! Head to the gates of AQ in Silithus and look for a small red glowing shard on the ground, click it. After the scene return to Anachronos (If you are unable use the shard try obtaining some Dreamfoil from Zangarmarsh then return to the shard and try again.) The shard is located at 28,89.

Step 7.) Chit-chat in Azshara. <---- (not the real quest name just making it up due to what you need to do next)

After you go back to Anachronos you need to then go speak with Azurego in Azshara. He will then give you a letter that will then start the Azuregos' Magical Ledger.

Step 8.) Azuregos' Magical Ledger

Just head back to Tanaris and give the Ledger to Narain Soothfancy. Head to Steamweedle Port and go north along the shoreline until you start running out of land, look around and you should find him. Hes a little gnome in red.

Step 9.) Stewval, Ex-B.F.F.

A.) Now before I explain, there will be two other quests he makes available after you give him the ledger, accept those as well. Head to Silverpine forest and go to 46,86 or around there, search for a little wooden box and open it. He should be in there.

B.) Once you get to him hell tell you he left the goggles in Molten Core. SO! Get a group going and get into Molten Core and keep trying until you find those goggles.

Step 10.) Never Ask Me About My Buissness

A.) Okay first part is just go back to Gadgetzan and speak with Dirge Quickcleave. Hell give you a quest that is part of the chain.
B.) Now you gotta run over to Feralas and head over to the Isle of Dread. There youll find your birds. All of the mobs are solable so keep killing until you get 20 of the loinchops. Now you may notice an elite boss called Lakmaeron. I suggest getting a second or third person unless you think you got more balls than a kodo. Kill him, grab the carcass and head over to Gadgetzan to turn it in.
C.) Now hes going to tell you to get him 20 goblin rocket fuel and 20 deeprock salt. Just head to the nearest city and look for some on the Auction House unless you know an engineer. Head back to him and fork em over to Dirge
D.) Finally he gives you a final quest that gives you your 500 pound chicken. Go back to Narain and give it to him.

Step 11.) Draconic for Dummies

A.) Okay to start off you need to look at your map and zoom way out until you see just Kalimdor. Look south of the continent and you should see a sea serpent on the map. Head towards that sea serpent and move towards the very tip of its nose. There is where you should find the place to complete the quest and continue the next ones in the chain.
B.) Now return to Narain and get another quest from him. Head to Winterspring then go down to 67,72. Use the bag of golds there. Once the gnome that appears in the gyrocopter appears, hell say afew things then send a 61 elite gorilla on your ass. Kill him then return to Narian.
C.) Now you must travel quite a bit to gain the pages in this next part.
Chapter I = Doctor Weavil, Dustwallow Marsh - Alcaz Island
Chapter II = Felguard Elite, Blasted lands - Tainted Scar/Dark Portal
Chapter III = Hederine Initiate & Hederine Slayer, Winterspring - Darkwhisper Gorge
Chapter IV = Undercity on table near the book vendor
Chapter V = Stormwind library
Chapter VI = Rawowhead:1,id: Onyxia
Chapter VII = Rawowhead:1,id: BWL on a table, Near Firemaw's patrol path
Chapter VIII = Rawowhead:1,id: Ragnaros
Once all the pages are obtained, bind them together then return to Narain for your reward!

Step 12.) The Good News and The Bad News

Now hes going to want you to gather a large assortment of items for him. Youll need 20 Arcanite Bars. 10 Elementium ore. 10 Azerothian Diamonds. Finally 10 Blue Sapphires. Return to him once you have collected these.

Step 13.) Wrath of Neptulon (Raid)
Now you have to return to Azshara and look around for a Swirling Maelstrom in the Bay of Storms. It should look like a wrecked ship. Use the Buoy and itll summon your elite monster, make sure you have a group so you can kill it, loot it. Go to Anachronos to get the
blue shard needed to make the scepter.

PART TWO THE GREEN SHARD

Step 14.) Eranikus, Tyrant of the Dream

What you need to do here is go into Sunken Temple and kill Eranikus and get the quest from Malfurion Stormrage. He will tell you to go to the outer walls of Darnassus. Once you are there, search for a wisp that completes the quest.

Step 15.) Tyrande and Remulos

The wisp will give you this quest, travel to Moonglade in search of Keeper Remulos, when found; turn the quest in and obtain the next part of the chain.

Step 16.) Nightmares Corruption

This one is quite annoying. Youll need to travel to the Emerald Dream Portals around the world and gain shards from it. There will be dragons around the portals. Though shards only drop off of the dragon trash mobs in Ashenvale, Hinterlands, and Feralas. Though there is one in Duskwood which requires you to kill Twilight Corruptor which is a raid boss in itself. Make sure you loot the shard because there is only one on him and only one person gets it. Head back to Remulos to get the next quest.

Step 17.) Nightmare Manifests

Now youll need a 5 man before you accept this quest. Once you have it, Eranikus appears and you have to fight him. You arent there to kill him, just weaken him I guess. Anyway just fight heal and tank until something new happens or until you can turn in the quest back to Remulos then choose your epic.

Step 18.) The Champion Returns

Now you must head back to Anachronos and turn in the green shard.

PART THREE THE RED SHARD

Step 19.) Nefariuss Corruption

Were getting close to obtaining the scepter. Head back into Blackwing Lair and kill Vaelstrasz the Corrupt and get a quest from him then kill Nefarius and pick up the red shard then take it to Anachronos to complete the scepter.

PART FOUR GETTING THE SCEPTER AND FINISHING THE CHAIN

Step 21.) The Might of Kalimdor

Accept this quest and turn it back in and get the scepter of the shifting sands. Once that is done, speak with him again to get the second to last quest.

Step 22.) Bang A Gong! (Only available to people who had the scepter during/before the war began. It only happens once per server unless there is a bug or Blizzard changes it otherwise.)

Once you bang that gong go back to get that legendary mounter and the next and final quest.

Step 23.) Treasure of the Timeless One

This one is the very last quest in this astronomical chain. Talk to the Jonathan the Revelator. Speak with him once more to turn it in and choose your reward from the Timeless Trove

Quest text (since it is missing from Wowhead):<div class=""quote"">Greetings, champion. I am Jonathan, keeper of the sacred gong and eternal watcher of the Bronze Flight.

I have been empowered by the Timeless One himself to grant you an item of your choosing from his timeless treasure trove. May it aid you in your battles against C'Thun.

Completed it today, May 2, 2010 (started it 2008). By far is the best chain quest I have ever did in the game! I encourage every lore interested players to do it, they won't regret it. Don't forget to do the most fun parts with your friends! Like Malfurion Stormrage in Sunken Temple, the defense of Moonglade and some Narain's related quests (like Dr. Weavil, the most infamous criminal of Azeroth)

The hardest part for me was to farm elementium ores (I hate to pug BWL)

- Nancho, proud Moonkin since vanilla

A new Feat of Strength is being added, ?achievement=5533"">(Achievement #5533), that requires the completion of this quest.

Upon the release of the Cataclysm expansion, any character who completed the massive quest chain leading up to (and including this final quest) received the Feat of Strength https://vanillawowdb.com/?achievement=5533 Veteran of the Shifting Sands.

With the release of Cataclysm, this quest will no longer be obtainable OR completable by any player. Here is the confirmation from a Blue poster:<div class=""quote"">I believe the quest chain will still work in patch 4.0.1. It will definitely be gone when the world shatters (4.0.3) though.

-Bornakkhttp://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25969039696&amp;pageNo=2&amp;sid=1#33 Source

It has been confirmed that in 4.0.3, this quest chain will be unavailable to complete. In it's place we are given a feet of strength for completing this quest chain.