Mankrik's Wife
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Mankrik's Wife refers to the quest "Lost in Battle" in the Barrens, in which Mankrik asks you to find his wife, who fell in battle.
Mankrik's wife is very far away from him, and he offers almost no directions to her location. There is also no NPC called "Mankrik's Wife", as she is called "Beaten Corpse". This results in almost everyone accepting this quest resorting to asking for her location in Barrens general chat. This becomes extremely annoying, as Horde characters spend large amounts of time in the Barrens, and hearing the same question repeated over and over and over again tends to drive the somewhat more experienced players a tad irritable.
Repeated requests for the location of Mankrik's Wife have resulted in responses that vary wildly in accuracy — some place her quite close to her actual location (though such responses are probably given out of pity for the lost player), while others — depending on the prevailing mood — attempt to send players to far-off, hard-to-reach (or often totally impossible to reach) places (such as 'Inside Blackrock Mountain' or 'Next to Illidan's Throne'). Even the World of Warcraft general database Wowhead has answered this question, pointing out the location very clearly should the user type in "Mankrik's Wife" into the search engine.
On many realms "Mankrik's Wife" has also become a generic response to general chat questions involving quest-givers, merchants, etc. For example:
- Player 1: "Where do you train Shadow bolt?"
- Player 2: "Mankrik's Wife."
Many people who begin Blood Elves often ask in General Chat for the location of the Shrine of Dath'Remar. A handful of people have recently dubbed this "The Shrine of Mankrik's Wife"
Among the facts about High Overlord Saurfang, one of them is "Mankrik's wife made the mistake of telling Saurfang that Sword Specialization is superior to Axe Specialization".
According to popular vote, Mankrik has been considered the strongest mortal on Azeroth.[citation needed]
Cataclysm
With the Introduction of the gigantic river of lava splitting the Barrens, there are fears that Mankrik's Wife will be lost forever. However, maybe the very "slow" Mankrik will finally remember his wife, get her corpse, and move on, and hopefully stop asking Horde players to look for her.
While others believe she will simply be replaced by Mankrik's lover, who too will have gone missing and likely found dead.
