I did not find the above directions to be correct. You need the SW tower, not the SE one. From the entrance, turn right, left, left, right and go upstairs, right, right, upstairs, and cross the passage to the SW tower. The niche is in the bookshelf to the left of the entrance.

As a ghost, enlarge your minimap and find your way up to the southwest tower. The green shelves are at the very top of the tower being guarded by one mob next to the shelves and another one walking up and down the stairs. Don't resurect yet. Go onto the bridge that connects the two s.west, and s. east towers and hop onto the roof that connects the south towers to the north towers. If you died at street level at the top of the stairs before you entered the building, you should be able to res by standing on top of the roof (or well, you can res anywhere but the roof is the safest cuz there's no mobs on there). Once you res, heal, buff, kill the one mob that's walking around, and kill the one that's guarding the shelves. open the shelves and you're done.

Solod this as a lvl 15 mage, did the ghost trick by dying at the steps and ressing on the roof. Then just frostbolt+fireball+fireblast the guy as hes coming towards, nova, run to the other side of the roof and repeat. Do it for both guys, grab the book, and slowfall off the roof out over the walls.

Ghost trick DOES work, but make sure you look around in deep and exacting detail.&nbsp You'll easily find yourself surrounded by three bad guys, not one.

The bug i believe has been fixed you cant finish this quest from the out side. I recommend going to roof then find the SW tower clear the enemy inside then locate bookcase which is on the left side of entrance.

It's on a dusty shelf, not a typical bookshelf as I had expected.&nbsp Stuck back in a corner on top of one of the towers.

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In the southwestern tower. >65,24<

Died outside the building, after not reading the quest properly. Ran to the top of the Keep, looked around at the mobs and the patterns they walked, then waited and resurrected while walking backwards on the roof (the peak of it). Healed / Manaed up, then finished quest.

Jope - Level 17 Undead Mage, Malygos

If your finding it hard just die at the bottom of the keep then res on the roof (after running through the keep as a ghost. Then kill the guard patroling the walkway that leads to the south west tower, then you can access the shelves through the wall from the roof without any need to kill the guard standing next to it =)

The next portion of the quest asks you to take his remains in the keep in an alcove behind a dusty shelf. It is one the third floor sw tower of the keep itself. You need to get to second floor and go upstairs through the NW 3rd floor tower to get to it though.

Be careful of the adds and named up there.

Edited, Wed Nov 17 02:44:08 2004

The ghost thing does work. It took me about twenty minutes to find the shelf, but I would've given up if I didn't run around dead looking for it. I also had problems killing the two mobs once I was in the room with the shelf (the one guarding it and the one walking around outside). I found out that if you ressurect outside on the roof, you don't have to worry about mobs attacking you. Once my health and mana was full and I had my pet, I killed the one outside and the one in the room.&nbsp This quest takes time and patience and lots of exploring while you are dead. I'm a 22 Warlock and I almost gave up on this quest.

I did it in party lvl 17 priest and party member lvl 17 warlock, was preaty easy. Just turn left on first floor, and left again to stares, on roof go to oposit tower and ull find shelve. U fight 2 mobs max in 1 fight, and u get some preaty nice stuff for lover lvls.

Just a small tip. Once you make it to the roof and you find yourself in the wrong tower you can climb/jump onto the roof and goto the other side.

I did this last night. Had a bugger of a time getting up the stairs and taking the wrong turn,a nd we always seemed to come out on the wrong side :). So I jumped on the roof and went to the SW corner, found the little green bookshelf

Level 15 Undead warlock, got killed down stairs in the tower, i resurected my self on the roof, the "complete the quest trough the wall" thing did not work so i completed the quest when my pet had the aggro.

Dont bother trying to grab the bookshelf from the other side of the wall, Blizz fixed it.
Soloed as Lvl 16 Rogue, died at bottom of stairs then rezzed on roof took care of Lvl 19 & 18 fairly easily went to bookshelf and voila !
Dont know why I couldn't do this at Lvl 15 but I couldn't :P

No need to kill anything...

Die inside the keep anywhere near the front, run back and run to the very top.

Hop onto the roof, and res near the SW tower on the roof next to the wall so the wondering mob can't see you. hover your mouse around the wall till you see the gold icon and open it through the wall... poof all done

The coords for this shelf is 65,25 Just in case u have the mod! Happy Hunting.

I seriously recommend running this with someone, the gnolls are EVERYWHERE, and lets just say they don't play fair...

I tailed more than three, more than once.

This is how I did it as a lvl 19 UD warlock. On the -east- side of the keep (the side closest towards Lordaeron, right by SE tower), there is a large crack in the wall. Approach the island to the east, you'll have to fight a murloc or two, then carefully go to the crack. On the other side of the wall are three gnolls, a 22, 19, and 18, under a tent. Sicced the voidy on them, dotted them up, and feared one. Those done, there was a chest under the tent to loot. There were a couple of 18 or 19 gnolls to beat down by the wall. Then I got next to the keep's wall, moving west until I was almost right under the yellow question mark. I dismissed the VW, took off all my armor, then CoA'ed a gnoll, who I let kill me.

From the Sepulcher's GY, I ran back, but this time thru the front gate, to the keep, and followed Halldorr's directions to get to the SW tower, above. I waited for a free moment from the wandering gnoll, rezzed, then beat him down (demon skin, dots + lots of shadow bolts, plus popping a healthstone and pot, he almost got me). After the gnoll was dead, I put my armor back on, summoned the voidy, and took care of the gnoll right in front of the dusty shelf inside the tower.

Instead of fighting my way down the tower, I went back out to the east side of the roof, jumped down to the wall below, then down to the ground. Fought a couple more murlocs, swam back to Silverpine shore, and turned in the quest. Not easy, but not too hard, the GY walk took the most time.

Soloed this at 26 (I haven't been questing much... so I'm doing all the low lvl ones.)

It's at top of the keep.&nbsp Get up on top where the guard walk is, and go to the south west tower.&nbsp In there, by the stairs going down, there will be a shelf, if it's not there, wait for it to spawn.&nbsp That ends your quest, but starts another.

The first time I tried soloing this as lvl 18 warlock, I got beat down.&nbsp Then, they beat my corpse unmercifully.

Fortunately, a lvl 60 warlock came along farming for wool (good place to do it!) and escorted me upstairs.&nbsp w00t.

Like someone said above, it's in the southwest tower. Just die and res on the roof, kill the guard on the wlakway, kill the guard in the SW tower, and do the gear thing on the shelf. Once you find the top of the SW tower you can't miss the shelf.

Soloed as a lvl 17 rogue, with no problems. Went to one of the towers in stealth mode, i had to kill the mobs on the stairs, and at the top of the tower. The quest says it's in the tower at southwest - and it was there, a bookshelf without books. was really easy...

Enter through the entrance
RUN LIKE CRAZY in below direction
left->right->right->go up the stairs->left->left
and hopefully die somewhere around there.&nbsp When in a ghost form, keep following the path and find a rooftop- do some exploring.

YOU WILL NEED TO GET ON IT AND CROSS TO THE OTHER SIDE.&nbsp There is only one mob pat on the other side of the roof top- kill it- and then kill one more near the shelf, which is placed to the left side.

There is a way to get to the dusty self through the wall behind it and never aggro the mob.

Do the "Die by the wall" trick to get to the top of the roof. Then goto the wall on the southwest corner. When you're next to the wall your cursor will turn color and complete the quest. After, hearth out and go on your way.

No need to kill anything and can be done by almost any level.

Odd that there weren't any comments and for some reason I got errors trying to post.

Just thot it was funny cuz I'm alliance and was just checking out what was in Fenris Keep when, lo & behold, a talking head was part of the loot!&nbsp rofl

Only for the hordies but interesting to see.

Hmm this quest isn't to hard.. I did it with a 16 mage alone. Also there is a rare silver dragon spawn in one of the buildings that is a lvl 22 that was mistaken for a 22 elite. And there is a 24 elite somewhere in the main building. Anyways yeah this quest works best with the "Ghost Trick"

I did it at lvl 18-19 warlock... did the ghost thing and then killed mob walkin between the towers and as my pet help agro with the twi in the tower completed the quest and then just died... rezed outside the spelchur and flew ta UC... not too hard, and its a wand u get not a book...

At level 21, I walked to the top of the tower, I killed a few of the guards (just waited for the roamers to roam past).

I tried to click the table from outside, it didn't work so I just killed the guard inside and finished the quest there...

At any rate, just wanted folks to know as a rogue it was very easy to do...

There is an easier way to complete this quest. Just run inside the barracks, you will die since there are too many enemies there. Take your ghost up stairs as the person above me has mentioned. Locate the Dusty Shelf while still in ghost mode. Get out of the tower and rez where no enemies can see you (outside the tower). The shelf is accessible from OUTSIDE the wall (it is a bug). Just move your mouse curser on the wall from outside the tower until "Dusty Shelf" appears. You can easily put the stuff on the shelf without encountering any enemies.

I was killed many times when I tried to finish this quest at 17. At least I died almost in the center of 1'st floor. Then I walked up on the roof like a spirit and resurrect there. Now all I need to kill 3 mobs to complete this quest :)

i might be a bad rogue...

but i found it HARD as a lvl 17 rogue....i was on like 10 health mx when i killed the lvl 19 gaurds.

died atleast 3 times against the guards

You can access the shelf without aggroing from outside the tower, through the wall beside the door, if you turn your camera angle right.

To find the shelf, enter the keep on fenris isle (middle of the lake between The Sepulcher and Undercity, go to the North-Eastern Tower and go up. Once you reach the top, go over the roof to the South-Western Tower. There you'll find the Dusty Shelf.

The bookshelf is in the top portion of the southwestern tower (coord 65,24). The place is full of lvl 19-20 mobs, so be prepared. Find staircase to second floor near the center of the keep. Make 2 lefts and find the stairs to the roof down the hall. Walk across the roof arch toward southwestern tower. Green bookshelf inside!

I did this quest, and its pretty hard for anyone 17 or under... once you have finished it, you barely get any XP, and no items that you would care for (unless you are an enchanter) are gained... waste of time you would get more done if you just grinded.

The XP and reputation points for finding the shelf are not that great, but I think we got 1700 XP and more reputation points for the next quest in the chain, which was just taking the book to a guy in the Undercity.

The gnolls were worth killing for a couple level 20s: not bad XP, and we got some fabric and I think we got a couple green items in the course of fighting in and back out.&nbsp