Skull can be found at 50,49 underwater.

1.&nbsp travel to blackwood lake
2.&nbsp jump in lake&nbsp :-)
3.&nbsp find neutral/friendly ghosts fighting at bottom of lake
4.&nbsp hover over them at a reasonably close distance (app. dist. 5 or 10 feet)
5.&nbsp most important:&nbsp adjust your camera angle so that you are looking STRAIGHT DOWN on the group of ghosts (if you don't, you won't be able to select the skull because you'll keep selecting all the mobs around it.&nbsp that's why people think this quest is bugged).
6.&nbsp the skull is the only one that is directly within the group of ghosts, and is larger and a more light-brownish color than the other skulls lying near the ghosts.

The full quest chain for The Battle of Darrowshire:

• 1. Little Pamela
• 2. Pamela's Doll
• 3. Auntie Marlene
• 4. A Strange Historian
• 5. The Annals of Darrowshire
• 6. Brother Carlin
• 7a. Villains of Darrowshire
• 7b. Heroes of Darrowshire
• 8. Marauders of Darrowshire
• 9. Return to Chromie
• 10. The Battle of Darrowshire
• 11. Hidden Treasures

Villains and Heroes do both need to be completed in order to get Marauders. However, Defenders of Darrowshire (the Uncle Carlin chain) does not need to be completed in order to get to The Battle of Darrowshire.

For those who don't want to jump and risk dying, you can find the entrance to the infected scar at 49,75.

For those without coordinates, go west of Corin's Crossing along the road. It's east of Crown Guard Tower and on the map you'll see a little set of hills - entrance to right of these.

Alluria

Lothar

If you aren't using coordinates:

Follow the road north from Corin's Crossing until you get to the bridge. Go west along the "scar" until you reach the hills, you should see Blackwood Lake. The skull is very near to the eastern shore, near some non-hostile ghosts.

Now head southeast back in the direction of Corin's Crossing. On the western edge of the scar are two "fingers" that stick out, the sword is closest to the northernmost one. Just jump down, or go around to the "ramp" but it's faster just to jump. There are some non-hostile ghosts nearby, and it glows pinkish.

So the guy tells you Marduk the Black's sword was lost then right after tells you where to find it...guess it wasn't to lost.

there is a fire thats looks like the sword, but if you go the the next crevas, then you will find the sword by some ghosts. That may be why some of you cant obtain the sword....

This quest does not lead to Heroes of Darroshire.

I have Villians, Heroes and Defenders of Darrowshire on my list at same time

I found the sword fragments at 54,66.

Possibly they move around a bit...

I got the sword at 53,65

I just completed the quest, it's not bugged.
~lvl 54 Hunter~

There are pink glow light around the objects.

The cords are also correct for both skull (51,50) & Sword (53,65)

location 53,55

next to a rich thoriumvine

The skull is in Blackwood lake, not Northdale as stated above. Sword is as stated above.

It appears you MUST be solo when you pick up the sword or the skull. If you cannot click on them after first insuring that you are on the right item (surrounded by ghosts), then check to see if you are still grouped or in a raid group.
- Do not attack the ghosts if they do not attack you. I watched several people spend a Loooonnngg time fighting the ghosts (who give no xp!) before grabbing the relic. After they were done, I waltzed up, walked calmly through the ghosts (who were fighting a water elemental in the lake), picked up the relic and calmly walked away (Well, I swam away in the lake, but you get what I mean!).
-The only thing that bugs me is that the quest chain&nbsp starts with the idea of redeeming this lost soul who went bad... relates back to the child ghost in the ruins of Darrowshire... the lost soul is her father. And then it just ends! Perhaps the lvl 60 links finish the quest. Anyone know?

yeah, thats right coords

Skull: 51.49 - In the middle of the ghost fight.

Sword: 53.65 - Surrounded by a red glow.

same as that other guy 53,65 Bunch of ghosts and spririts around here

sword loc 53,65 there is a fire thats glowing with skulls in it in infectis scar this is not part of this quest the sword is NE of there surrounded by some ghosts. you can get the skull while the npcs are fighting in the lake just swim up close to it to click on it you wont have to fight anythign just kill any elementals nearby so they dont interupt your taking of the skull.

The Skull is in the Blackwood Lake, when u see some spirtis ( humans spirits and Undead ) fighitng the skull is in their middle, and the sword is in the infectis Scar, u have 2 jump down to get it 55,66 cords of the Sword down the Scar.

Sword is at 53,65

I took 2357 damage jumping in

Skull about 50,50 - cant miss it

the coordinates listed above were all correct.&nbsp

The spectres don't bother you at all and actually disappear once you pick up skull and sword.

The biggest problem for me, was the skull being underwater then the game crashing as I was mid pickup :(

And the elementals in the lake, if you solo w/o a minion or a pet its a big trickier, but kill a couple off first then go in for the skull.&nbsp If you have the pet or minion, sic em on the elemental then go snag your skull.&nbsp

good luck!

i got both quests at the same time, Heros of Darrowshire and Villains of Darrowshire

Still bugged as of April, 2 2006. I clicked onto the skull pile and a loot window popped up showing the skull. Before I could loot it one of the elementals aggroed and did a knockback. The loot window disappeared and I killed the elemental. When i tried to click ontot he skull again I couldn't interact with it.

I abandoned the quest and picked it up again and proceded to loot the sword successfully. I then went back to the skull and I still can't interact with it.

The sword was relatively easy to get having prowled (stealth) in cat-form around all the Spectral Defenders and stood as close as I could to the sword (I suppose an invisibility potion wold be just as good) I popped into Druid-form and immediately used Shadowmeld (a Night Elf racial trait) to stealth (but only if you don't move) although as it turned out this wasn't entirely necessary as the sword is far enough away from the defenders for them not to pay any attention to me, I performed opening on the sword and got it without a weapon raised in anger.

The skull was a bigger problem, I'd attracted a lot of mob attention just finding the lake North of where the sword is and jumped into the lake only to be confronted by lvl58 Elementals that have a knock-back effect, which left me only with the choice of dying a very brutal watery death as near to the skull as possible.

On ressurecting I tried in vain to perform opening on the skull and got killed again, the next time I tried to Shadowmeld on res. and wait for the Elementals to pass out of range, but on trying to open the skull one targetted me and interrupted the opening. I died 4 time before I was at the point of giving up ever trying this as a solo effort, but I thought I would try to at least kill the one Elemental that gives all the grief on opening the skull (to the West of the Lake nearest to the Skull)- so on dry land I hit it with Moonfire which was all resisted, Nature's Wrath worked better and so did Starfire, lucky I had a full Innervate spell to top up my rapid loss of Mana and perform emergency Regrowth healing when it's health was failing Moonfire kicked in and I was able to finish it for good XP. Swam back to the skull this time I performed opening without interuption and thus jumped on my frostsabre back to Light's Hope Chapel to cash in.

This is achievable by all classes, for the least amount of grief bring along some invisibility potions for those who can't stealth, or bring along a group and wipe them out for Argent Dawn Rep.

Celebavari

Edited, Aug 28th 2006 at 8:02am EDT by Celebavari

where is that lake?

Edited, Dec 9th 2006 5:58pm by kebesas

I just completed this quest, and had some difficulty with interacting with the sword, as a couple of people previously posted. The way I completed it, was by going to Blackwood Lake, where ghosts where fighting over the skull. I looted it, after killing a couple of elementals in the way. Then I was able go to the Pestilant Scar, and loot the sword. Not sure if this is a bug, or how the quest is supposed to be done by design.

skull 51,50

[deeppink]THE SKULL IS INDEED AT 51,50 in the middle of Blackwood Lake above Corin's Crossing... it took me forvever to find it because it was in the middle of a group of NPCs fighting... so swim down to where the NPCs are fighting and find the skull glowing purple..after you get it.. the NPCs go away for a minute or so.

The sword is at 54,66 in the infectious scar..

goodluck[/deeppink]

Anyone know if this is broken? Has anyone had any problems getting the sword? I went into the sinkhole and found a sword with a glowing red aura but I can't get any interaction with it. There are neutral undead guarding it so I assume I am at the right spot.

I sent in a bug ticket today on this quest, 8/9/06. I've been to the skull (surrounded by spectral defenders, etc.) at the bottom of Blackwood Lake and I cannot interact with it. I then tried the sword in the Infectis Scar- I found the sword (surrounded by spectral mauraders, etc.) with the red aura, but I cannot interact with it, either. Broken quests FTL.

See below: I re-acquired the quest and tried it again on 8/11/06 and it worked. One way to help you find the right places (with or without coords) as a hunter is to have your undead tracking on. When you're at Blackwood Lake, you'll see a glob of undead at the bottom of the lake on your tracking- that's where the skull is. You'll also see a glob of several undead when you're at the right area of the scar where the sword is, because there's spectral maurauders hanging out there watching over it.

Edited, Aug 11th 2006 at 3:00pm EDT by pinktoque

sword 53,65

Thanks for all you help everyone. Because of your postings I did this quest as a 55th lvl druid in 10min...from landing on Gyphon to stoning out after getting the sword....

No problems interacting with either item...skull 1st. 02.18.06

Edited, Sat Feb 18 02:09:52 2006

The Skull is located in the bottom of Blackwoodlake and the sword is located at 53,66

Edited, Sun Mar 6 12:59:45 2005

I just completed this quest with a lvl 60 rogue. Walked to the lake and picked up the skull (51,50). Went to sword and jumped in from the north-west side (53,65) didn't get agro. Stealthed out and did not have to fight anyone. I cant speak of the glitch SubNormal mentioned - maybe it only applies if you pick up sword first then dagger?