Karazhan Crypts

The Karazhan Crypts lie beneath the tower of Karazhan in Deadwind Pass. The way down is a crypt in the graveyard of Morgan's Plot, a small, decaying church just behind the tower. Inside, halls such as the Well of the Forgotten, the Pit of Criminals, the Upside-down Sinners and the Slough of Despair wind on with no clear path.

An unnatural darkness fills the crypts; it hides everything beyond a couple of yards and slowly wounds anyone caught in it. Harrison Jones, an archaeologist working for the Royal Library of Stormwind, heard that a mage sought pieces of Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian, in these crypts, and went in with a hired crew. They reached the main burial chamber and found it heaped with treasure. When one of the crew pocketed a handful of gold, the tomb woke; as Jones ran, the darkness seemed to follow right on his heels, and he heard screams behind him.

The bone wraith Harbinger of Sin waits beyond the pool of the Upside-down Sinners, the spider Creeping Malison lurks in the Tomb of the Unrepentant, and reading the Dialogues of the Dead calls up the lich Kharon in the Pit of Criminals. A Dark Rider answers when three mysterious relics are set before the eidolons of the prison, where the doomguard Unk'omon, the Winged Sorrow, can also be called. Three siblings, Kaigy, Sairuh and Barian Maryla, known as the Failed Apprentices, sit locked in the prison cells.

In the Tomb of the Unrepentant, a stage manager named Edgar presents the Opera of Malediction, and the tale changes each day. In one, the quilboar Trizivast hunts three wolf pups; in another, the children Hans and Greta are the demons and an old woman is the innocent one; in the third, a goblin named Fimick Buzzkettle is thrown down a pit by his friends.

A torn flyer at Light's Hope Chapel promises a Kirin Tor reward for a certain magical artifact from the crypts and lets finders keep any other treasure. Agent Keanna of Dalaran, camped north of the crypt, binds a wisp with a will of its own into a torch that can pierce the darkness, and Harrison Jones pays for any curios brought back for his studies.