Aman'Thul's Titan Archive · Quest record 10609

What Came First, the Drake or the Egg?

A verified Blizzard quest record from Blade's Edge Mountains. Use the archive brief, rewards, and linked research to finish it without losing your place.

Blade's Edge MountainsAllianceLevel 20 - 30

Quest start

Who gives What Came First, the Drake or the Egg?

1 record

The NPC, object, or item that starts this quest, with the first known coordinate when available.

Fizit "Doc" ClocktockNPC #21110
Blade's Edge Mountains · 60.8, 68.2

Quest completion

Where to turn it in

1 record

The NPC or object that accepts the completed quest. Phasing and alternate-faction versions can produce more than one endpoint.

Fizit "Doc" ClocktockNPC #21110
Blade's Edge Mountains · 60.8, 68.2

Identity and tooltip facts come from Blizzard. Relationship rows are refreshed from Wowhead's structured source tables and merged with anonymous in-game observations from WoW-God Sync. Inspect source

What To Do

Complete the quest objective shown in your tracker in Blade's Edge Mountains, then return to the turn-in NPC.

Quest Text

I'm researching the applications of drake essences to my work as a physician. I think they could be a panacea for a host of maladies! I need someone to go south to the Singing Ridge and get me some. Willing to take my temporal phase modulator and use it on the nether whelps that hatch from the nether drake eggs? Retrieve the essences from whatever they turn into. Which, I might add, I'm not certain of what that will be as we're using some pretty dicey, time and space modifying tech here.

Aman'Thul's field brief

Plan the run before you travel

Archive context

Blade's Edge Mountains belongs to the The Burning Crusade archive. Start with its campaign track if this record is unavailable or the next step is missing.

Stuck?

Check the exact quest giver and turn-in records above first. Use this page's community comments for phase changes, cave entrances, spawn timing, and corrections from the live game.

Group size

No group size is listed by Blizzard, so this is usually soloable unless the objective text says otherwise.

Use the evidence

Pin the quest in-game, enable objective outlines, then use the exact-title references in the archive for NPC or object coordinates. Add a correction below if the live game differs from this record.

Field notes

Objectives and map pin

Blizzard's public API publishes a quest's text and rewards but not its objectives, its own level, whether it can be shared, or any map coordinate. Nobody has synced quest 10609 yet, so there is nothing to show here rather than a guess. Running the WowGodSync addon while you play contributes those fields for everyone.

Have I done this?

Check it in game

Quest completion is stored per character on Blizzard's side and is not in the public API, so paste this in your chat box and it prints true or false for “What Came First, the Drake or the Egg?” on the character you are logged into.

Completion check

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10609))

Warband-wide check (11.0+)

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompletedOnAccount(10609))

A false also comes back for a quest id the client does not know, so it means “not recorded as complete” rather than proof the quest exists on your account.

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