Across the Weald

Across the Weald proves that there is no escape from the Shadowlands as Somnikus drags the Maw Walker back across the veil.

Meet Somnikus at the Grove of Awakening in Ardenweald.

• Cross into Ardenweald

It is time. I know I said that I was fine, but ever since Solethus' death, it's like I've been missing something essential.

I am alive, and he is not. That feels... wrong.

But there might be a way I can set things right. Ysera is the only one who can help us get control of Ancient Bough again. I think I can help bring her back.

It's getting harder and harder to cross over. We need to make this count.

Tyrande and Malfurion will meet us there.

You will receive:

• 1,200 XP

Greetings. Somnikus has told me of the grave threat in the Emerald Gardens. He has told me of his own part in it.

But I'm afraid the solution will not be as simple as he hopes.

On accept:

• say
• Somnikus walks through the Portal to Ardenweald held open by two Elder Portal Keepers.

Follow him in to return to the Shadowlands. The portal drops players off yards away from a return portal back to the Ohn'ahran Plains (yay!), just north of the Grove of Awakening. Catch up to Ysera, Somnikus, Tyrande Whisperwind, and Malfurion Stormrage:

• say
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Ysera has gossip here:

• I thought that I would remain here in these boughs forever. But my dreams of soaring above Azeroth have only become stronger.

• Somnikus cannot offer his life. Instead, someone must bear the binding that connects me to the Winter Queen and to Ardenweald.

• Dragons like him, and like his son, Solethus, are not predestined to come to Ardenweald. Ardenweald is for powerful nature spirits that may one day be reborn to their own realms. It has happened countless times over, and it will happen countless times again.

• Only someone who is already part of that cycle may take my place here.

As does Malfurion:

• Much has not felt right since Ysera was cast from the realms of life. It is as if there is a great imbalance striving to be corrected.

• I am Malfurion Stormrage, husband to Tyrande Whisperwind and brother to Illidan. I have lived and dreamed in the forests of Kalimdor since before the Sundering.

• Throughout the ages I have fought for my people and the lands we call home. One day, I hope that I will stand together with Tyrande before the new world tree, our new home.

• No matter what happens, she and I share a love that is eternal.