One World of Warcraft Patch 10.2.7 Sidequest Features a Neat Ending Twist

15.04.2024 - 22:39 / gamerant.com / Emerald Dream / Eric Law

A new sidequest in World of Warcraft gives fans a choice that actually influences the game world in a tangible way. Though it is a small detail, this Patch 10.2.7 sidequest allows World of Warcraft players to physically shape Azeroth by deciding where a grave marker will permanently appear in the game.

Warning: Spoilers for WoW: Dragonflight Patch 10.2.7 side stories below.

World of Warcraft is currently testing Patch 10.2.7, Dark Heart, on the Public Test Realm. One of the new stories found in the first builds of the PTR was called An Uncommon Request, in which players help a Night Elf named Kelestra, who hopes to bury her family together in a barrow den. However, fans quickly learn that Kelestra is none other than the sister of Koroleth, a Primalist leader they defeated during the Dragonflight story.

According to Wowhead’s walkthrough and screenshots of the quest, players learn more about Koroleth’s past, recover her remains, and speak with some of her former Primalist allies. Near the conclusion, the character is asked by Malfurion Stormrage what Koroleth’s fate should be. Fans can convince him to allow or refuse Kelestra to bury Koroleth with the rest of her family, the choice of which not only changes the rest of the questline, but also where her grave marker appears in the game world for them.

Players will remember Koroleth as the main antagonist of the Ohn’ahran Plains zone in Dragonflight. They encounter her a few times throughout the zone, eventually clashing after rescuing Ohn’ahra and thwarting her plans to invade the Emerald Dream. However, during this new questline, fans learn she was once a Druid of the Talon, and was thought to have been killed trying to save her family after the Burning of Teldrassil, after which she joined the Primalists for revenge on the Horde.

This new Dragonflight questline sets an interesting precedent for World of Warcraft. Fans have been able to make choices in the game before, such as siding with certain factions, or for Horde characters on whether they would remain loyal to Sylvanas in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, but never before has a choice changed the physical game world for them like this, let alone in a way that has such emotional weight. This new mechanic has great potential, so hopefully World of Warcraft continues to experiment with it to heighten the narrative impact and player involvement of The War Within, The Worldsoul Saga, and beyond.

World of Warcraft: Dragonflight was developed by Blizzard Entertainment and is the ninth expansion pack for the iconic massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.

Dragonflight features an overhauled user interface, raises the level cap to 70, and introduces a new race and class.