Aman'Thul's Titan Archive · Quest record 12042

Heart of the Ancients

A verified Blizzard quest record from Grizzly Hills. Use the archive brief, rewards, and linked research to finish it without losing your place.

Grizzly HillsLevel 15 - 30

Quest start

Who gives Heart of the Ancients

1 record

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

Image of DrakuruNPC #26543
Grizzly Hills · 17.4, 36.4

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.

Heart of the AncientsObject #188365
Grizzly Hills · 37.0, 32.4

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 Grizzly Hills, then return to the turn-in NPC.

Quest Text

Secrets of da ages, be revealed to me now! <Drakuru peers through the Eye of the Prophets.> Ahh, great be mah destiny, {name}. You be lucky ta know me.... There! I be seein' it, mon. The Heart of the Ancients. Dis be too easy! You gunna find da heart lyin' near da corpse of a goblin east of here. He be up in a chamber, near a river of broken trees. Hurry, mon, before someone else be findin' it!

Aman'Thul's field brief

Plan the run before you travel

Archive context

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.

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 12042 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 “Heart of the Ancients” on the character you are logged into.

Completion check

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12042))

Warband-wide check (11.0+)

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompletedOnAccount(12042))

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.

Community quest guide