Aman'Thul's Titan Archive · Quest record 75149

Obsidian Essays

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

Zaralek CavernLevel 10 - 80

Quest start

Who gives Obsidian Essays

1 record

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

KayannNPC #203516
Valdrakken · 36.6, 62.6

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.

Scridorsa the ChiselerNPC #203171
Zaralek Cavern · 55.8, 55.6

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 Zaralek Cavern, then return to the turn-in NPC.

Quest Text

It's not common these days, but we do have a few of our histories in writing--well, carvings really. We can trace the etchings with our fingers! We used to use clay tablets for this, but they were brittle, and prone to breaking. Not good if you want to preserve history! I hear the djaradin carve their important texts into volcanic glass. If they can manage that without shattering the tablets, we could probably learn a thing or two from their techniques! Take some samples back to Loamm for study.

Aman'Thul's field brief

Plan the run before you travel

Archive context

Zaralek Cavern belongs to the The War Within 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 75149 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 “Obsidian Essays” on the character you are logged into.

Completion check

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(75149))

Warband-wide check (11.0+)

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompletedOnAccount(75149))

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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