"Courage, Honor, and above all, Patience"

— Glimmering Mithril Insignia

The Mithril Order is an association of Mithrilsmiths — artisan blacksmiths who specialize in working with Mithril. Members of The Mithril Order can be found in Horde, Alliance, and Neutral cities. The Order appears to be a part of the larger Thorium Brotherhood faction, but you do not gain reputation with the larger faction by helping them or doing their quests. The leader of the order is Galvan the Ancient. ^[1]

Notable Members of The Mithril Order

Name	Location
Galvan the Ancient	Near Zul'Gurub	Stranglethorn Vale
Hank the Hammer	Stormwind	Elwynn Forest
McGavan	Booty Bay	Stranglethorn Vale
Ox	Orgrimmar	Durotar
Trenton Lighthammer	Gadgetzan	Tanaris

Joining The Mithril Order

The Mithril Order only accepted new members that prove their skills in working with Mithril. Sadly the entire, interesting quest chain related to them was removed in Patch 4.0.1, but is preserved here for historical purposes. To do that, upcoming blacksmiths would do the Mithril Order quest chain. During this quest chain a blacksmith received all blacksmithing plans that are needed for doing The Art of the Armorsmith. Note that the player was not obliged to specialize in Armorsmithing to start or complete this series of quests.

Following is a short overview of this removed quest chain:

1.  [40] The Origins of Smithing/ [40] The Old Ways
2.  [40] In Search of Galvan/ [40] Booty Bay or Bust!
3.  [40] The Mithril Order
4. Three quests, which can be completed in any order:
   •  [45] Smelt On, Smelt Off
   •  [45] The Great Silver Deceiver
   •  [45] The Art of the Imbue

   Complete all of the above to get the quest

    [45] Expert Blacksmith!

5. Complete any one of the three to progress:

    [45] Galvan's Finest Pupil

6. Again, three quests which can be completed in any order:
   •  [45] The World At Your Feet
   •  [45] A Good Head On Your Shoulders
   •  [45] The Mithril Kid
7.  [45] Did You Lose This?

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