Zul'Gurub

Level 60 · 20 players · Stranglethorn Vale

Yojamba IsleStranglethorn Vale

Vinchaxa

Exzhal

A Collection of Heads60

Maywiki of Zuldazar

Rin'wosho the Trader

Al'tabim the All-Seeing

Falthir the Sightless

Jin'rokh the Breaker

Tanaris

Prospector Ironboot

Confront Yeh'kinya58

Elsewhere

Battered Tackle Box

Nat's Measuring Tape60

Inside

Zanza the Restless

Heart of Hakkar · from Hakkar

The Heart of Hakkar60

Horde quests

Elsewhere

Battered Tackle Box

Nat's Measuring Tape60

Inside

Zanza the Restless

Heart of Hakkar · from Hakkar

The Heart of Hakkar60

Alliance quests

Yojamba IsleStranglethorn Vale

Jin'rokh the Breaker

Inside

Zanza the Restless

Syncretist's Sigil60

Zul'Gurub is a temple city in northeastern Stranglethorn Vale and the old capital of the Gurubashi Empire of jungle trolls. In the hard centuries after the Great Sundering, the Gurubashi turned to Hakkar the Soulflayer, a blood god whose secrets helped them spread across Stranglethorn and some islands of the South Seas. Hakkar demanded sacrifices every day and wanted to enter the physical world to drink the blood of every mortal creature. More than a thousand years ago the strongest tribes, joined by the Zandalari, rose against him and his Atal'ai priests; they destroyed his avatar and banished him, but the war shattered the empire.

The Atal'ai were driven out and raised a temple to Hakkar in the Swamp of Sorrows. They later learned that his physical form could be summoned only in Zul'Gurub, and they have now succeeded: the Soulflayer is present in the heart of the ruins. The trolls of the region sent five high priests, champions of the bat, panther, tiger, spider and snake gods, to stop him, but all five fell under his sway. In Tanaris, the troll Yeh'kinya tricked adventurers into capturing the essence of Hakkar's avatar in an egg, and he later boasts that their help sped the Soulflayer's return.

Hakkar waits in a temple in the deepest part of the city, served by the Gurubashi. The high priests, Jeklik of the bat, Venoxis of the snake, Mar'li of the spider, Thekal of the tiger and Arlokk of the panther, now channel their gods' power into him and take animal form in battle. The witch doctor Jin'do the Hexxer, who helped summon Hakkar, and Bloodlord Mandokir, who rides the raptor Ohgan, also serve the god. The Zandalari warn that Hakkar grows stronger on the blood spilled for him and will soon be stronger than any being on Azeroth.

The Zandalar Tribe, whom other trolls regard as the priest caste of their race, has set up camp on Yojamba Isle, off Stranglethorn's northwestern coast, to recruit the Horde and the Alliance against Hakkar. Prospector Ironboot in Tanaris, who fears that Hakkar's new reign could spread across Azeroth, sends adventurers to their leader, Molthor, the Hand of Rastakhan. Exzhal asks for the high priests' heads, strung on a sacred cord, and the tribe rewards those who destroy Hakkari bijous at its Altar of Zanza with tokens, standing and gear.

Hakkar's heart keeps a spark of his power after his death, and adventurers carry it to Molthor. Molthor's servants banish it into the void in a ritual, and he hails the slayer as a hero of Azeroth. A blessing called the Spirit of Zandalar then falls on everyone on Yojamba Isle and in Booty Bay.