In order to get this quest you must complete ALL of Tirion Fordring's quests at the cave in EPL. After numerous kill quests and a trip to Live Strath you will go to hearthglen in disguise. Only with this disguise buff can you speak to Highlord Taelan Fordring and do this quest.

You can keep your disguise on for a long time. No need to remove it when he says. The quest is very easy while you are in hearthglen, just let him kill everything and try not to get aggro from the elites.

Once you get outside you will be attacked by 5 lvl 60 elites. He can kill them all on his own if you let him. You will not fail for dying at this stage if you can get rezzed immediately to catch up with the Highlord.

The last part is kinda rough. The highlord will take you to the tower where everyone farms for Crusader enchants and yell for the Inquisitor to come out. Do not attack them...it will take a little bit but eventually the Highlord will engage. He will handle the main guy and he tells you to "deal with the crimson elites". Doing this with just myself and a shaman proved to be fairly difficult. There are only two guards with him but a group of 5 comes down the path and engages as well.

I am not sure if these auto aggro you, or if you can let them aggro the highlord as well. When i did it we got aggro and it was a mess. The shaman ended up dying and even with a combat rez right away he failed the quest.

The highlord basically ends up getting owned and Tirion Fordring (the original quest giver) comes to save the day. If you can avoid getting aggro he will handle all the elites and you will get your nice reward.

If i have one piece of advice it is: either dont aggro anything or bring a full group.

Best is to let Highlord Taelan tackle them to death so do not terminate the disguise and watch from a distance until big daddy Fordring arrives to spank everybody.

Easily the best questchain in the game so far.
And i'm not really thinking about the rewards, even if they're not bad either.

Because this questchain is almost like a "sequel" to the book that Chris Metzen wrote a while back; "Of Blood and Honor". It's the story about Tirion Fordring, and why he became exiled. The story is simply amazing, and I love how they continued the story here in World of Warcraft.

Don't help Taelan fight. Stay in your disguise so you don't aggro any of the guys fighting him. He's good enough on his own, even against four level 60 Elites. I thought for sure he was going to die against them but when his health was at 10% or so, it suddenly filled up again all the way. Apparently the quest insists that he doesn't die until later.

He gets killed in front of the tower east of Hearthglen. Forget about helping him--his death is inevitable. Stay in your disguise if you can, and stay far enough away so as not to aggravate the level 63 Elite priest that helps take Taelan out... this is the only member of the Scarlet Crusade that you can aggro throughout the whole quest, assuming you're still disguised.

When he dies, wait a minute. His father will ride up to the tower and have words with the level 63 Elite that killed him. Tirion proceeds to obliterate the priest. If you haven't gotten it yet, you still don't fight or try to help out. In fact, don't help Taelan or Tirion at all in this quest. Just sit back and watch. It's that easy, especially if you stay disguised. Taelan will tell you to take your disguise off when he starts to leave his keep, but ignore that.

After Tirion is done cracking skulls, he'll stay put in front of the tower, and after a long tangent about him and his son and his terrible regrets and mistakes, he'll be ready to reward you.

I did this quest as a level 60 paladin, and had to do it over once because I accidentally aggroed the level 63 Elite priest after Taelan had died, but before his father had arrived. Trust me, you can't take him. Otherwise this quest is a cakewalk, and there are some VERY good rewards at the end. More than enough compensation for a very, very long quest chain.

I'm surprised no one mentioned this but his name tells you how to complete the quest

Taelen Fordring
Tailin' For d ring

His fight with the 4 60 elites just out of the gate he will die sometimes if you don't help him but all you need to do is attack whoever he's attacking and you won't aggro any of the mobs onto yourself.

All you need to know:

1. He will instruct you to remove your Scarlet Illusion. Do not.

2. You do not need to help him in combat from where he starts until the gates of Hearthglen. You can if you like, but it is not required. I found that snaring mobs for him saved me lots of time and additional mobs since he is not the best at chasing down runners.

3. At the gates of Hearthglen you may encouter a patrol of 4 level 60 elites. If you do, Fordring will likely die and there is nothing you can do about it (if you are solo). Once he gets a ways out of Hearthglen he becomes able to completely heal himself, so this same group of 4 level 60's is no problem.

4. When he approaches the East Tower down the road from Hearthglen, go south off the road and up on to the hill - watch from there. Do not get involved - you can not help and will only die. Fordring will die, and a minute later his father will come up and kill all the scarlets and give you your reward.

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If fordring dies before the end, drop the quest and go back to the Hag at Uther's tomb. She will give you another Illusion. Took me 3 times to get it right.

If you somehow get agro in the final fight and die, do not release your corpse. Wait until the father shows up and goes through his script, then release. He will still be there when you rez and come back.

Edited, Thu Apr 21 09:03:53 2005

Even if you think all of the rewards are garbage, DO THIS QUEST CHAIN. It's so awesome.

the rewards were like epics pre BC only not purple. (Look at the heal ring or tank plate) The quest chain is really one of the best in all WoW. Just do it for fun and crazy exp around 58-60 if you have an alt. Ask any 70 friend to help with strath part.

-Don't remove the disguise until you have to fight the 4 lvl 60 coming out of the city. Help him there, he dies now there if you don't help.

- Don't fight at the tower, let him fight and die. When he dies you get aggro: Vanish, feign death, whatever you can do but don't run away, stay there. If you die, it doesn't matter: DON't RELEASE.

- The father comes and kills them all, if you are close there you get the "complete" message even if you are dead.

- Get&nbsp out of stealth to get the quest done, if you are dead, release then and run back as fast as possible (you have time enough to run back so don't stress)

Easily soloable. Did it as lvl 59 rogue last night. Did not interfere at all. Stayed in stealth all the time except when Highlord Taelan Fordring died. Lord Tirion Fordring did not appear until I came out of stealth and aggroed the mobs. I vanished and watched him came down the road and spank everybody. He did NOT die. He kills everyone and says his piece before the gold ? appears over his head.

"Look what they did to my boy"

I love this quest line, simply love it. The best quest line in WoW imo.

I just did it by myself (level 60 hunter). Getting out of hearthglen is easy, but when you get to the tower this mage guy comes and about 8 elites attack you and Fordring. He dies, and then his father Tyrion comes and positively OWNS all the elites. After they die, you complete the quest. Admittedly, I died, but if you die DO NOT RELEASE! Wait until Tyrion kills all of them and you complete the quest. Then run back to the tower for handins.