Preserving Knowledge

Quest #540 · Level 38 · Minimum level 20

Bring 5 Recovered Tomes and the Worn Leather Book containing The Arm of Gri'lek to Loremaster Dibbs in Southshore.

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How to complete this quest

1. Pick up

• Loremaster Dibbs: Hillsbrad Foothills: 50.6, 57.1 (Classic location)

2. Complete the objectives

Bring 5 Recovered Tomes and the Worn Leather Book containing The Arm of Gri'lek to Loremaster Dibbs in Southshore.

Recovered Tome × 5 (Classic reference)

• Crushridge Brute: Alterac Mountains: 42.8, 31.2 (Classic location); Alterac Mountains: 47.7, 38.6 (Classic location); Alterac Mountains: 48.5, 57.3 (Classic location); Alterac Mountains: 47.3, 36.4 (Classic location)
• Crushridge Enforcer: Alterac Mountains: 40.5, 51.0 (Classic location); Alterac Mountains: 39.9, 49.2 (Classic location); Alterac Mountains: 36.9, 51.0 (Classic location); Alterac Mountains: 35.7, 49.1 (Classic location)
• Crushridge Mage: Alterac Mountains: 41.3, 39.9 (Classic location); Alterac Mountains: 38.9, 49.5 (Classic location); Alterac Mountains: 40.4, 43.7 (Classic location); Alterac Mountains: 42.8, 45.8 (Classic location)
• Crushridge Mauler: Alterac Mountains: 39.3, 40.1 (Classic location); Alterac Mountains: 41.7, 43.5 (Classic location); Alterac Mountains: 43.8, 51.3 (Classic location); Alterac Mountains: 46.4, 46.9 (Classic location)
• Crushridge Ogre: Alterac Mountains: 53.6, 36.0 (Classic location); Alterac Mountains: 51.7, 45.4 (Classic location); Alterac Mountains: 52.5, 38.2 (Classic location); Alterac Mountains: 46.3, 32.8 (Classic location)
• Crushridge Plunderer: Alterac Mountains: 37.2, 54.6 (Classic location)
• Crushridge Warmonger: Alterac Mountains: 34.9, 53.4 (Classic location); Alterac Mountains: 40.5, 53.0 (Classic location); Alterac Mountains: 35.7, 55.5 (Classic location); Alterac Mountains: 36.8, 49.1 (Classic location)

Worn Leather Book × 1 (Classic reference)

• Weathered Bookcase: Alterac Mountains: 38.4, 46.4 (Classic location)

3. Hand in

• Loremaster Dibbs: Hillsbrad Foothills: 50.6, 57.1 (Classic location)

Quest text (Classic reference)

Those beastly ogres now reside within Alterac's ruins, and I shudder to think what they're doing with the precious books still there. You must recover what you can!

Enter the Ruins of Alterac and search for tomes looted by the ogres. Get whatever you can find and bring them to me, but also seek out one book in particular: The Arm of Gri'lek. It contains ancient troll lore that I must learn, and the Ruins of Alterac was the last known location of an intact copy of this book.

Rewards (Classic reference)

Stormwind reputation: +350.

Earlier quests

• Southshore (Complete first; classic)

Following quests

• Return to Milton (Complete first; classic)

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