The Runic Keystone
A verified Blizzard quest record from Grizzly Hills. Use the archive brief, rewards, and linked research to finish it without losing your place.
Who gives The Runic Keystone
1 recordThe NPC, object, or item that starts this quest, with the first known coordinate when available.
- Torthen DeepdigNPC #26361Grizzly Hills · 59.8, 27.4
Where to turn it in
1 recordThe NPC or object that accepts the completed quest. Phasing and alternate-faction versions can produce more than one endpoint.
- Torthen DeepdigNPC #26361Grizzly Hills · 59.8, 27.4
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What To Do
Complete the quest objective shown in your tracker in Grizzly Hills, then return to the turn-in NPC.
Quest Text
Brann's journal mentions that he used a runic keystone to illuminate the important runes on the plate he discovered. Without the keystone, the plate's contents would be little better than gibberish. At the end of Brann's last entry, he describes the iron dwarf defenders seizing the keystone from him, shattering it, and dividing it among themselves. Before we can decipher the runed plate, we must hunt down the fragments. Any of the dwarves within Thor Modan or the buildings around it may carry fragments.
Plan the run before you travel
Grizzly Hills belongs to the Wrath of the Lich King archive. Start with its campaign track if this record is unavailable or the next step is missing.
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.
No group size is listed by Blizzard, so this is usually soloable unless the objective text says otherwise.
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.
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 11988 yet, so there is nothing to show here rather than a guess. Running the WowGodSync addon while you play contributes those fields for everyone.
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 “The Runic Keystone” on the character you are logged into.
/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11988))/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompletedOnAccount(11988))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.
Build The Runic Keystone together
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Rewards
- Experience
- 4,100
- Money
- 10g 50s
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