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1.	Oronok Torn-heart
2.	I Was A Lot Of Things...
3.	A Lesson Learned
4.	The Cipher of Damnation - Truth and History

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Comment by 14235

Pretty easy, just go directly north and a bit to the east, u will see the eggs on the floor.

Just be aware of the Ravenous Flayer Matriarch, a lvl 70 elite Beast that wanders the area.

Comment by marskid2

The Cipher of Damnation is an extremely long quest line in Shadowmoon Valley. It is a prerequisite for attunement to The Eye in Tempest Keep and Mount Hyjal in Caverns of time.
"*" Indicates quests with rewards.

Quest Line
1 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10680 - "The Hand of Gul'Dan"
1 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10681 - "The Hand of Gul'Dan"
2 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10458 - "Enraged Spirits of Fire and Earth"
3 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10480 - "Enraged Spirits of Water"
4* - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10480 - "Enraged Spirits of Air"
5 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10513 - "Oronok Torn-Heart"
6* - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10514 - "I Was A Lot Of Things..." - Most annoying quest ever implemented in World of Warcraft.
7 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10515 - "A Lesson Learned"
8 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10519 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Truth and History"

At this point, the quests diverge into three separate lines (which can be done in any order) for each of Oronok's three sons who will in turn help you obtain the three Fragments of Damnation.

Quest Line I - First Fragment of Damnation
1 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10521 - "Grom'tor, Son of Oronok"
2 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10522 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Grom'tor's Charge"
3* - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10523 - "The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered"

Quest Line II - Second Fragment of Damnation
1 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10527 "Ar'tor, Son of Oronok"
2 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10528 - "Demonic Crystal Prisons"
3 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10537 - "Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart"
4 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10540 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Ar'tor's Charge"
5* - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10541 - "The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered"

Quest Line III - Third Fragment of Damnation
1 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10546 "Borak, Son of Oronok"
2 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10547 - "Of Thistleheads and Eggs..."
3 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10550 - "The Bundle of Bloodthistle"
4 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10570 - "To Catch A Thistlehead"
5 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10576 - "The Shadowmoon Shuffle"
6 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10577 - "What Illidan Wants, Illidan Gets..."
7 - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10578 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Borak's Charge"
8* - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10579 "The Cipher of Damnation - The Third Fragment Recovered"

After completing the quests for the three Fragments of Damnation, the lines converge and you need to kill one last boss.
Final* - https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10588 - "The Cipher of Damnation"

Rewards:

Everyone gets https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=31074 - Fire Resist Neck

Choose one of the following:
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=31036 - Caster Staff
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=31038 - Healer Staff
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=31062 - Paladin/Shaman 2H Axe
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=31071 - Tanking 1H Axe
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=31072 - Bow
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=31073 - Melee Dagger

After completing the quest, you will get a message in the mail from Khadgar. If you go to Shattrath, he will tell you to talk to A'Dal, who unlocks the the three Trials. These are prerequisites for attunement to The Eye in Tempest Keep and Mount Hyjal in Caverns of time.

Comment by Flyv

Druids can break the eggs while flying in Crow form. I was able to hover out of aggro range and avoid fighting any mobs.

Comment by kanezfan

I'm always one to complain about yet another "Kill X number of "somethings" and then a quest like this comes along and it makes me ask "why didn't they just ask me to kill 12 of these stupid flayers?" This was one of the most frustrating quests in WoW.

Comment by 25788

Annoyance confirmed. Watch out for the elite as aforementioned by someone else. She has a 1min debuff that slows your movement and some poison I think. Fearable, however.

Comment by Siggy

Hadn't read the comment about breaking while in crow form but i just flew from egg to egg and only aggroed a mob once, so with a flying mount you should be able to do the same thing. As long as you keep an eye out for the elite you should be fine, and priests can use soothe humanoid as well to get even closer w/o aggroing.

Comment by 9160

wow, i run over to an egg to try and destroy it, next thing i know i aggro 1 flayer, then 3 more lol, i let my felguard take the damage while we ran away and we did eventually. Then I went destroying more, killed a flayer and the elite agro'd on to me, got em down to 17k health but then i agro'd more of the flayers and it just went to hell.

Comment by 37128

As long as you clear first, you'll be fine. I finished this in 10 minutes-- (After dying the first time; not knowing that they would all attack me when I destroy their egg, lol) Pull them one by one, and clear everything. It's better than getting raped by 4-5 them.

Comment by 27389

Druids can destroy the eggs in flight form.

Comment by 45677

Very handy to use Mind Soothe as priest. Makes you able to bypass killing many of the mobs while running around there.
Note: Mind Soothe disappear when they run for a board-corpse to feast on.

Comment by 80719

QUEST BUGGED ATM TODAY AUGUST 19 11PM(SERVER HOUR) HAKKAR

Comment by 67196

Also to note if you're attempting to fight as few of them as possible: periodically a felboar carcass will appear in random places, and any nearby flayers will run over to eat it. try not to be standing next to one for long if you can help it.

Comment by 22012

As of patch 2.3.3, breaking in Druid flight form no longer works.

Suggestion: don't die. The run back from the graveyard is a major PITA. :)

Comment by r0b126

quest seems to be broken. can open eggs all day and it doesn't count.

Comment by 151763

Almost as as the quest before it

I would pull one mob about 20 yards away from anything else and get two more...

Comment by Allakhazam

Ok, everyone I spoke to, and every coordinates I found were wrong. Where you need to go is just North of Oronok's Farm. I missed the fact that the mobs there fighting the boars are the ones whose eggs you are supposed to smash. This is mostly because I didn't do the quest straight away but had to leave at that point.

-Gaiwyn

Comment by Allakhazam

The Cipher of Damnation - Truth and History

Comment by Allakhazam

keep an eye out for the level 70 elite matriarch she patrols the areas

the eggs are all over at 57,18

Comment by Allakhazam

Around 56,20 can they be found

Comment by Allakhazam

coords 57,18 confirmed...eggs all over the place.

And as was stated, really keep an eye out for the matriarch. It's easy to have your eye on the eggs and forget about him, but that guy will beat you up and steal your lunch money.

Comment by Allakhazam

You can find the eggs around 57,18ish, they light green.

Comment by Allakhazam

the first chain starts at http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?source=live;wquest=10681&locale=enUS for hellsanswer

Comment by Allakhazam

Three boxes from 70 and I wandered all over the map looking for the Shattered Plains. It's not marked, as usual, which is a pain. Apparently they are at 23,59. Have yet to confirm as the world server is currently down. Again.

-Gaiwyn

Comment by Allakhazam

double post sorry

Edited, Feb 3rd 2007 11:04am by OniLiquid

Comment by Allakhazam

its directly north of the questgiver

Comment by Allakhazam

To the druids 68+:
You can destory the egss while in flight form. Hovering just at the head-height of the flayers, your aggro is significantly decreased (it may be non-existant - I didn't check fully). Look out for the matriarch, but you can complete this quest without having to fight virtually anything if you're careful enough.

Comment by Allakhazam

What is the pre req for this quest i am lvl 70 and cannot get a quest from ornok at all? any help would be super!

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A Lesson Learned

Oronok Torn-heart at Oronok's Farm in Shadowmoon Valley wants you to destroy 10 Ravenous Flayer Eggs on the Shattered Plains.

	Ravenous Flayer Egg Destroyed (10)

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We need to show those flayers what happens when you mess with Oronok's business!

I want you to go back to the Shattered Plains and destroy every flayer egg that you see. They'll be deep in flayer territory so keep your guard up.

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See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10515))

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