Root Causes
- For the Val'sharah quest, see
[10-45] Root Cause.
 Root Causes | |
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| Start | Ember Clutch Ancient |
| End | Ember Clutch Ancient |
| Level | 10-30 |
| Category | Howling Fjord |
| Experience | 25150 |
| Rewards |
 [Dark Iron Signet] or  [Flint-Reinforced Spaulders] or  [Cold-Iron Armbands] or  [Arcanum-Bound Bracers] |
Objectives
Slay 5 Dragonflayer Handlers and Skeld Drakeson. If you manage to do so, return to an Ember Clutch Ancient in the Ember Clutch.
- Dragonflayer Handler slain: (5)
- Skeld Drakeson slain
Description
All things in nature seek a balance. It is only through the interference of those not in tune with that harmony that the balance is shifted.
You waste your efforts when you kill the whelps and drakes. The real culprits behind the expansion of these magically burning woods are the newly awakened vrykul and their master, Skeld Drakeson.
If it's blood on your hands that you seek, start with them. You will find their lair on the south side of the Ember Clutch.
Rewards
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[Dark Iron Signet] | 
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[Flint-Reinforced Spaulders] | |
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[Cold-Iron Armbands] | 
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[Arcanum-Bound Bracers] |
Completion
Unfortunate that one predator must be used to put down another, but that is the natural order of things.
Perhaps now the proto-drakes and their whelps can go back to living peacefully. Somehow I doubt it with the reawakening of the vrykul.
Notes
Skeld hits like a truck!
Patch changes
Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.