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Taking Back Acherus
Start	Highlord Darion Mograine
End	Highlord Darion Mograine
Level	55 (Requires 55)
Category	Death Knight
Experience	825
Reputation	+10 Knights of the Ebon Blade
Previous	The Light of Dawn
Next	The Battle For The Ebon Hold

Taking Back Acherus
Level: 55 (Requires 55)
Highlord Darion Mograine
Highlord Darion Mograine
XP: 825

Though they are free from the Lich King's dominance, the death knights' battle has just begun...

Objectives

Use your Death Gate spell to return to Acherus: The Ebon Hold. Report to Highlord Darion Mograine once you arrive.

Description

The haze has been lifted. I can see as clearly now as the day that I plunged the Ashbringer into my own heart to free my father's cursed soul: my last memory as a free man.

We must take back Acherus from the Scourge if our order is to survive in this new world. I have taught you how to call forth a death gate. The death gate will return you to Acherus when you call upon it, <name>. The first battle of the Knights of the Ebon Blade is underway! Death to the Scourge!

Completion

The Lich King has returned to Northrend, wounded by the Ashbringer, but the second floor still holds the last of his armies.

Notes

Stepping through the Death Gate will take you out of the instance and into the main world. The lands below Acherus are now the Ruins of the Scarlet Enclave, and everything has been destroyed. The plague cauldron is still there but you can no longer get Noth's Special Brew from it, and the pumpkins have been transformed into indescribably hideous things that look like they are breathing. The ground soil is now puke green colored, the trees are now brown and decaying, and the skies are filled with the same noxious reddish-orange mist as in the rest of the Eastern Plaguelands.

If you manually walk back to Death's Breach, you will remain in the instanced version of the Plaguelands until you use a Death Gate, and Acherus is completely empty save for a few trainers. This is an expected issue given that the battle for Acherus takes place in the non-instanced Acherus, but it is somewhat funny.

Quest progression

1.  [55] The Emblazoned Runeblade
2.  [55] Runeforging: Preparation For Battle
3.  [55] The Endless Hunger
4.  [55] The Eye Of Acherus
5.  [55] Death Comes From On High
6.  [55] The Might Of The Scourge
7.  [55] Report To Scourge Commander Thalanor
8.  [55] The Scarlet Harvest
9.  [55] If Chaos Drives, Let Suffering Hold The Reins
   • Side quest:  [55] Grand Theft Palomino &  [55] Into the Realm of Shadows
   • Side quest:  [55] Tonight We Dine In Havenshire
   • Side quest:  [55] Death's Challenge
   • Side quest:  [55] Abandoned Mail
10.  [55] Gothik the Harvester
11.  [55] The Gift That Keeps On Giving
12.  [55] An Attack Of Opportunity
13.  [55] Massacre At Light's Point
14.  [55] Victory At Death's Breach!
15.  [55] The Will Of The Lich King
    • Side quest:  [55] The Power Of Blood, Frost And Unholy
16.  [55] The Crypt of Remembrance

    Side quest:  [55] The Plaguebringer's Request &  [55] Noth's Special Brew &  [55] More Skulls For Brew

17.  [55] Nowhere To Run And Nowhere To Hide &  [55] Lambs To The Slaughter
18.  [55] How To Win Friends And Influence Enemies
19.  [55] Behind Scarlet Lines
20.  [55] The Path Of The Righteous Crusader,  [55] Brothers In Death
21.  [55] Bloody Breakout
22.  [55] A Cry For Vengeance!
23.  [55] A Special Surprise
24.  [55] A Sort Of Homecoming
25.  [55] Ambush At The Overlook
26.  [55] A Meeting With Fate
27.  [55] The Scarlet Onslaught Emerges
28.  [55] Scarlet Armies Approach...
29.  [55] The Scarlet Apocalypse
30.  [55] An End To All Things...
31.  [55] The Lich King's Command
32.  [55] The Light of Dawn
33.  [55] Taking Back Acherus
34.  [55] The Battle For The Ebon Hold
35.  [55] Where Kings Walk or  [55] Warchief's Blessing

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