Hall of Thanes: quests, bosses & entrance

Your quest checklist

Alliance has three pickups to arrange before entering and two quests to find inside. Horde follows the two shared quests below. Quest links open the Forever database, not Classic records.

Both factions

• Important Heirlooms — Thom Filch by the entrance bridge. Collect eight Dwarven Heirlooms; return to Thom on your way out.
• An Ancient Grudge — Ghostly Attendant inside Anvilmar’s Rest. Defeat Faldrim Anvilmar, then return to the attendant.

Alliance only

• Old Ironforge Incursion — unlock it through Underground Map before traveling to Ironforge. Loot Durgen’s head and turn in to Magni.
• The Restless Dead — Afadra Dunwall outside the instance. Defeat 15 Enraged Apparitions, 10 Tormented Souls and Faldrim Anvilmar; return to Afadra.
• The Treaty of Understanding — starts from the stone tablet in the final vaults. Take it to Magni.

1. Alliance: unlock Old Ironforge Incursion

Get a Dark Iron Map from the Dark Iron dwarves at Ironband’s Compound in eastern Dun Morogh. Use it to start Underground Map, then take it to Earthseer Farsen on the hillside overlooking Gol’Bolar Quarry, around 64.8, 58.5.

Turn in Underground Map and accept Old Ironforge Incursion before heading to the dungeon. This gives you the objective to loot the final boss’s head. Its eventual turn-in is Magni in Ironforge, not Farsen.

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2. Find the entrance and collect the outside quests

Enter the High Seat in Ironforge. In Magni’s throne room, take the open passage on the left wall, descend into Old Ironforge, and follow the path toward the bridge and instance portal.

Alliance: speak to Afadra Dunwall for The Restless Dead. Both factions: stop at Thom Filch by the bridge for Important Heirlooms. Do not enter until you have the quests that apply to your character.

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3. Work through the dungeon

Faldrim Anvilmar

In the opening ghost rooms, finish your apparition and soul kills for The Restless Dead before moving on. Inside Anvilmar’s Rest, speak to the Ghostly Attendant and accept An Ancient Grudge before killing Faldrim.

Faldrim patrols: clear space before pulling so he does not join another pack. Keep him on the tank, interrupt Mind Blast where possible, and remove his curse if your group can. Return to the attendant after the kill to finish An Ancient Grudge; Alliance should also check the boss objective for The Restless Dead.

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Heirlooms and Dark Iron packs

Look on raised platforms and around burial areas for Dwarven Heirlooms as you progress. More are available in the final vaults. Summoners cast Fireball and bring in enemies; engineers throw bombs. Interrupt where possible, move out of bombs and avoid combining packs.

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Magmatus

Deal with the nearby Dark Iron Summoner first. Keep ranged players back from the boss’s fire damage and watch players affected by Combust. Focus Magmatus once the extra caster is down.

Plunder

Pull this patrolling stone golem into cleared space. Put a wall or corner behind the tank to limit knockback, and avoid getting knocked into untouched packs. Pull the golems on the approach to the Reliquary of Kings back toward your group rather than rushing into the room.

Durgen Dirgehammer

Clear the room’s edges first: fear can send players into enemies left alive. Have the tank pick up Durgen and both Lesser Stone Golems, then focus the golems down one at a time before finishing Durgen. Keep an eye on the tank through his bleed damage.

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4. Before leaving the final room

• Alliance with Old Ironforge Incursion: loot Durgen’s head. A kill alone is not the item turn-in.
• Finish collecting your eight Dwarven Heirlooms.
• Alliance: find the stone tablet in the vaults and accept The Treaty of Understanding before leaving.

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5. Turn in your quests

1. Return An Ancient Grudge to the Ghostly Attendant after Faldrim.
2. On the way out, hand Important Heirlooms to Thom Filch by the bridge.
3. Alliance: return The Restless Dead to Afadra Dunwall.
4. Alliance: go up to Magni in the High Seat for both Old Ironforge Incursion and The Treaty of Understanding. You do not need to travel back to Farsen.

Old Ironforge Incursion offers Calibrated Blunderbuss, Ironforge Greathammer or Deepblaze. Compare the choices for your character before selecting; this guide does not rank every reward or assume launch-final item stats.

Looking for boss drops? Open the Hall of Thanes database page and the linked boss records. For another useful quest reward, see our Cozy Sleeping Bag guide.