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Twilight Highlands is the fifth and final level-up zone of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, found on the east coast of Khaz Modan on the Eastern Kingdoms. The quest chain starts in either Stormwind or Orgrimmar and involves a short chain in the capital city before heading out to the highlands proper.

The first half of the zone plays out in separate storylines for the Alliance and Horde, but once players reach the Maw of Madness, they share the storyline for the rest of the zone.

The progression of the storyline is tracked in the achievement Achievement quests completed twilighthighlands [Fading into Twilight]

Alliance-only portion[]

The Alliance-only portion of the Twilight Highlands storyline starts with a quest chain in Stormwind City, before reaching Highbank in the Highlands proper.

Cultists in Stormwind?[]

  1. A [30-35] Hero's Call: Twilight Highlands!
  2. A [30-35] Twilight Shores
  3. A [30-35] Twilight Shores

To Highbank.

Welcome to Highbank![]

After the second Twilight Shores:

  1. A [30-35] Welcome to Highbank!
  2. A [30-35] Burnin' at Both Ends
  3. A [30-35] Aiming High
  4. A [30-35] Kurdran's Waitin'
  5. A [30-35] Our Boys on the Shore
  6. A [30-35] Landgrab & A [30-35] Scouting the Shore
  7. A [30-35] Bird Down! Bird Down!
  8. A [30-35] Roots'll Do 'Er
  9. A [30-35] Wings Over Highbank
  10. A [30-35] Any Portal in a Storm
  11. A [30-35] The Way is Open

To Firebeard's Patrol.

Firebeard's Patrol[]

After The Way is Open:

  1. A [30-35] Firebeard's Patrol
  2. A [30-35] Welcome Relief / A [30-35] The Only Homes We Have
  3. A [30-35] Honorable Bearing
  4. Complete all of:
    • The Mullans
    1. A [30-35] Clan Mullan
    2. A [30-35] The Fighting Spirit / A [30-35] The Scent of Battle
    3. A [30-35] The Loyalty of Clan Mullan
    • The Doyles
    1. A [30-35] Stubborn as a Doyle
    2. A [30-35] The Fate of the Doyles
    • The Firebeards
    1. A [30-35] Firebeard Bellows
    2. Complete all of:
    3. A [30-35] Somethin' for the Boys
  5. A [30-35] Personal Request
  6. A [30-35] Dropping the Hammer

After Dropping the Hammer, two quest chain forks open up, starting with A [30-35] Dunwalds Don't Die and A [30-35] A Coward's Due:

Dunwalds Don't Die[]

After Dropping the Hammer:

  1. A [30-35] Dunwalds Don't Die
  2. Complete all of:
  3. A [30-35] Home Again
  4. A [30-35] Doing It Like a Dunwald

A Coward's Due[]

After Dropping the Hammer:

  1. A [30-35] A Coward's Due
  2. Complete all of:
  3. Complete all of:
  4. A [30-35] Magmalord Falthazar, A [30-35] Tempered in Elemental Flame, A [30-35] Hot Stuff, A [30-35] Potential Energy
    1. A [30-35] A Vision of Twilight
    2. A [30-35] We All Must Sacrifice
    3. A [30-35] The Eyes Have It
    4. A [30-35] Eye Spy
  5. A [30-35] Tear Them From the Sky!
  6. A [30-35] Last Stand at Thundermar
  7. A [30-35] Narkrall, The Drake-Tamer
  8. A [30-35] The Kirthaven Summit

Wild, Wild, Wildhammer Wedding[]

Upon completion of the Dunwald and Thundermar forks:

  1. A [30-35] The Bachelor
  2. A [30-35] Rescue at Glopgut's Hollow
  3. A [30-35] Find Fanny / A [30-35] Ogre Bashin'
  4. A [30-35] The Bachelorette
  5. Complete all of:
  6. A [30-35] Wild, Wild, Wildhammer Wedding

After the wedding, Thundermar itself is no longer under attack by the Dragonmaw. Thus, five daily quests open up!

Horde-only portion[]

The Horde-only portion of the Twilight Highland storyline starts with a quest chain in Orgrimmar before reaching Dragonmaw Port in the Highlands proper.

Preparing For the Assault on the Highlands[]

  1. H [30-35] Warchief's Command: Twilight Highlands!
  2. H [30-35] Machines of War
  3. H [30-35] Weapons of Mass Dysfunction
  4. H [30-35] Sauranok Will Point the Way (Optional) & H [30-35] Unfamiliar Waters
  5. H [30-35] Where Is My Warfleet?
  6. Complete all of:
  7. H [30-35] Twilight Skies
  8. H [30-35] Twilight Skies

To Dragonmaw Port

Dragonmaw Clan and the Horde[]

  1. H [30-35] Stalled Negotiations
  2. H [30-35] Madness
  3. H [30-35] Negotiations Terminated
  4. H [30-35] You Say You Want a Revolution
  5. H [30-35] Insurrection
  6. H [30-35] Death to Mor'ghor
  7. H [30-35] Securing the Beach Head
  8. H [30-35] Muddied Waters
  9. H [30-35] Saurfang Will be Pleased
  10. H [30-35] Traitor's Bait
  11. H [30-35] Return to the Highlands

After Returns to the Highlands, two quest chain forks open up, starting with The Southern Flank leading to The Krazzworks and The Northern Flank leading to Bloodgulch:

The Krazzworks and Repelling the Alliance[]

  1. H [30-35] The Southern Flank
  2. H [30-35] Blood on the Sand & H [30-35] Scouting the Shore
  3. H [30-35] Mo' Better Shredder
  4. H [30-35] Krazzworks
  5. Complete all of:
  6. H [30-35] Everything But the Kitchen Sink
  7. H [30-35] Reprisal
  8. H [30-35] Off The Wall
  9. Complete all of:
  10. H [30-35] Krazz Works!

Bloodgulch and Newfound Allegiances[]

  1. H [30-35] The Northern Flank
  2. Complete all of:
  3. H [30-35] Narkrall, the Drake-Tamer
  4. Complete all of:
  5. Complete all of:
    • The Eye of Twilight:
    1. H [30-35] A Vision of Twilight
    2. H [30-35] We All Must Sacrifice
    3. H [30-35] The Eyes Have It
    4. H [30-35] Eye Spy
    • The Demon Chain:
    1. H [30-35] Bait and Throttle
    2. H [30-35] How to Maim Your Dragon
    3. H [30-35] The Demon Chain
    4. H [30-35] Fury Unbound
  6. H [30-35] Purple is Your Color & H [30-35] Dressed to Kill
  7. H [30-35] Whispers in the Wind & H [30-35] Thog's Nightlight & H [30-35] Night Terrors

Shared climax and conclusion[]

After the Alliance/Horde-only portions of the storyline, players from both sides wind up at the Maw of Madness and generally share the storyline for the remainder of the zone.

Descent into madness[]

After Wild, Wild, Wildhammer Wedding for the Alliance or after dealing with the ogres and cultists at Glopgut's Hollow and The Twilight Breach for the Horde, it is revealed that the Twilight's Hammer have summoned Iso'rath, a servant of the Old Gods who is tormenting anyone who gets near it with nightmares. The Earthen Ring is trying to destroy its brain and has asked for the help of adventurers.

Completing this part of the storyline awards the achievement Inv jewelry ring ahnqiraj 05 [Consumed by Nightmare].

  1. A [30-35] The Maw of Madness / H [30-35] The Weeping Wound
  2. N [30-35] Torn Ground
  3. Complete all of:
  4. N [30-35] The Maw of Iso'rath
  5. N [30-35] Devoured
  6. N [30-35] The Worldbreaker
  7. N [30-35] The Terrors of Iso'rath
  8. N [30-35] Nightmare

To the Vermillion Redoubt:

Plight of the reds[]

After surviving the Maw of Madness, the adventurer's faction ambassador appears, sending him or her to the Vermillion Redoubt to gain the favor of the members of the red dragonflight near Grim Batol. The red flight is having problems of its own with the Twilight's Hammer, and the fight between the red and twilight flights escalates to the point that Alexstrasza and Deathwing both make appearances!

  1. B [30-35] Warm Welcome
  2. N [30-35] Even Dragons Bleed
  3. N [30-35] Draconic Mending / N [30-35] Life from Death
  4. N [30-35] In Defense of the Redoubt
  5. N [30-35] Encroaching Twilight / N [30-35] Breach in the Defenses / N [30-35] Far from the Nest
  6. A [30-35] Mathias' Command / H [30-35] Patchwork Command
  7. B [30-35] Easy Pickings / B [30-35] Precious Goods
  8. (H [30-35] The Gates of Grim Batol)
  9. B [30-35] If The Key Fits
  10. B [30-35] Pressing Forward
  11. N [30-35] Enter the Dragon Queen
  12. N [30-35] Battle of Life and Death
  13. N [30-35] And the Sky Streaked Red
  14. N [30-35] A Fitting End / N [30-35] Blackout / N [30-35] Shining Through the Dark
  15. N [30-35] Following the Young Home
  16. N [30-35] Last of Her Kind

To the Twilight Gate.

Twilight rising[]

Upon completion of Last of Her Kind in the Obsidian Forest, adventurers are sent to their faction's forward camp just outside the Twilight Gate to take on the Twilight's Hammer forces guarding the Twilight Citadel and the Bastion of Twilight. In an attempt to end the Twilight's Hammer problem once and for all, Mathias Shaw and Garona Halforcen are on a hunt for The Hammer of Twilight, an artifact commissioned by Deathwing and imbued with power by the Old Gods created for Cho'gall's use.

  1. A [30-35] Victors' Point / H [30-35] Crushblow
  2. Complete all of:
  3. B [30-35] Move the Mountain
  4. B [30-35] Signal the Attack
  5. B [30-35] Four Heads are Better than None
  6. B [30-35] Up to the Citadel
  7. A [30-35] Just You and Mathias / H [30-35] Just You and Garona
  8. Complete all of:
    • Mathias'/Garona's quests:
    1. B [30-35] Dark Assassins & B [30-35] Bring the Hammer Down
    2. B [30-35] Distract Them for Me & B [30-35] The Elementium Axe
    3. B [30-35] Dragon, Unchained
    4. B [30-35] Coup de Grace
    • Earthen Ring quests:
    1. B [30-35] Help from the Earthcaller
    2. N [30-35] Spirit of the Loch
    3. N [30-35] Fire the Cannon
    4. B [30-35] Water of Life
  9. B [30-35] Back to the Elementium Depths (optional)
  10. B [30-35] Mr. Goldmine's Wild Ride
  11. N [30-35] A Little on the Side & N [30-35] While We're Here & N [30-35] Rune Ruination
  12. N [30-35] A Fiery Reunion
  13. A [30-35] Mathias Needs You / H [30-35] Garona Needs You
  14. B [30-35] The Hammer of Twilight
  15. B [30-35] Skullcrusher the Mountain

Completing this quest chain awards the achievement Achievement boss gruulthedragonkiller [King of the Mountain]

The Crucible of Carnage[]

The Ring of Blood of the Twilight Highlands takes place at the Crucible of Carnage. This is an entirely optional side chain, designed for five players. It awards the best weapons found outside of instances. Completing this quest chain awards the achievement Inv jewelry ring 03 [Round Three. Fight!] and is necessary for the achievement Ability warrior bloodfrenzy [The First Rule of Ring of Blood is You Don't Talk About Ring of Blood].

  1. N [30-35G5] The Crucible of Carnage: The Bloodeye Bruiser!
  2. A [30-35G5] The Crucible of Carnage: The Deadly Dragonmaw! / H [30-35G5] The Crucible of Carnage: The Wayward Wildhammer!
  3. N [30-35G5] The Crucible of Carnage: Calder's Creation!
  4. N [30-35G5] The Crucible of Carnage: The Earl of Evisceration!
  5. N [30-35G5] The Crucible of Carnage: The Twilight Terror!
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