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Comment by selvin

Part of the pre-cataclysm release event.

Quest started next to SW bank by Erunak Stonespeaker.

For the quest you go to SW harbor, close to the entrance to the pier that takes you to the ship for nighthaven (on the right side of the harbor area), there's plenty of bodies lying around so it shouldn't be hard to find.

Essentially you use the "mysterious crystal" that Courier Tourmun sticks out for you to use, and that changes your action bar. You will have three portals that appear and three types of elementals that appear in random order from any of them. Just use the elemental ability that is opposite of the elemental you are attacking- fire for the water elemental, water for the fire elemental, and air for the earth elemental. After a couple minutes of killing them the Twilight Seeker summoning them from his dragon above you will give you the traditional evil genius speech of defeat and fly away to fight another day, leaving you to take the tablets on the ground beside you, which you hand in to Advisor Belgrum in the IF Hall of Explorers (not King Magni like it says in the quest text).

Comment by error10

Courier Tourmun is at 29.6, 48.3.

Edit: Since someone who downrates doesn't pay attention to patch changes, this quest and associated NPCs were removed with the Shattering. If you still have it in your log, you cannot complete it.

Comment by Seahawks

Found this while digging around the WoW forums, great guide to phase 2 for Alliance posted by Arathanaar

Phase 2 Quests: Aiding the Earthen Ring

These quests are a little different in that they have no definitive structure - it's just a number of quests related to helping the Earthen Ring with various problems. Though some of these quests lead into Ironforge, it is much easier to start them all in Stormwind.

Tablets of Earth
Do NOT follow the instructions of the quest tracker. Before returning to Advisor Belgrum, you must meet with the dwarven courier in Stormwind Harbor (near the ship to Darkshore). Speaking with him will start an event and spawn a crystal, which will grant you new abilities when clicked. A Twilight Seeker will open portals that summon elementals, which you must defeat.

These elementals come in fire, earth, and water varieties, and any type can spawn from any portal. Use your water ability to kill fire elementals, your air ability to kill earth elementals, and your fire ability to kill water elementals. This quest can be completed by multiple people at once, and does not require you to be in a group - when the event is finished, the tablets will spawn on the ground.

What's Shaking in Ironforge
This quest will send you to Earthcaller Myra in The Commons of Ironforge, who will tell you to put 20 earth spirits to rest. The item she gives you, the Earthen Ring Supplies, must be opened for get the Sapta and Totem. Drink the Sapta to allow you to see the spirits, and then use the Totem on the ground near them to destroy them. This is much easier if you bind the Totem to a hotbar.

Show Me Your Papers
This quest is totally straightforward, but requires you to have completed Captain Anton/Blood Guard Tormuk's quest chain. Travel to the entrance of Stormwind/Orgrimmar and read King Varian's/Garrosh's Proclamation (an item that the quest will give you), then right-click on five citizens. Innocent citizens and cultists BOTH count for quest credit.

Citizen's Arrest
This quest is no longer bugged. It becomes available after doing Show Me Your Papers. Use the manacles on five cultists, then bring them to the Stockade. In the back of the room, surrounded by guards, will be Detained Cultists, different NPCs. Use their gossip option to complete the quest.

Back Under Cover
Very easy, just use the book Sylandra gives you by the altar. Follows Citizen's Arrest.

I Said The Words...
A bit tricky. Follows Back Under Cover. While the actual disruption is easy (and funny), the locations are a bit obscure. For Stormwind, it is a deserted building in the north of the park, the Argent Dawn building (which has always been empty) in the Cathedral District, and the empty Dwarven Embassy (big stone building) in the north-east dwarven district. The running theme with all of these is that they take place in buildings that were formerly empty. This is the end of the Show Me Your Papers mini-chain.

A Meeting in Outland
This is a simple delivery quest. The Throne of Elements is in northeast Nagrand, and can be easily flown to from Shattrath. If Thrall has not already arrived, this will trigger a nice little cutscene.

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Invasion Stage (Phase 3a & 3b)

Prelude
This stage begins once every 1-3 hours. You will know instantly when it starts if you are in Stormwind, Ironforge, Thunder Bluff, or Orgrimmar. The skies will turn the yellowish-grey that they become in real life right before a massive rainstorm, and guards will start yelling for citizens to evacuate, which they will begin doing as they run out of the city. This phase lasts about four minutes, during which you should get inside the city if you want to participate, and get out if you don't.

Sandbags and Thunderheads/Firestorms
Then, in Stormwind and Thunder Bluff, it will start to absolutely pour. I'm really impressed with Blizzard here - it's not just normal weather effect rain, the downpour will be incredibly dense and, above all, loud - if you have your sound on. Sandbag piles will spawn in various areas of the city, which must then be deposited in different locations, such as the passages between districts in Stormwind. In Orgrimmar and Ironforge, the same happens, but with Earth and Fire Elementals.

You must take the sandbags from the pile (you can carry only one at a time) and use them when at the locations, which will have purple markers on them. When all sandbags have been placed, the invasion will begin. You should position yourself in a populated district (Old Town and Trade for Stormwind, Strength and Honor for Orgrimmar, Military and Commons for Ironforge) so you aren't overwhelmed in elementals when the event starts.

The Elemental Tempest
When the sandbag counter hits 0, air and water elementals will spawn in Stormwind and Thunder Bluff, while fire and earth elementals will spawn in Ironforge and Orgrimmar. Additionally Evacuation Mages, Evacuation Portals, and Earthen Ring Defenders appear throughout the cities. It is important to realize there are two types of each elemental - elites and non-elites. Non-elites can be soloed, but elites WILL kill players if they are alone. Killing enough elite elementals will close a rift. In addition to this, Trapped Citizens will spawn inside buildings, encased in ice. Earthen Ring Defenders will give players totems that will free these citizens.

When all citizens in a district are freed and all three rifts in the area are closed, the district becomes secured. Some districts (ones with named NPCs in them) will have a zonewide yell when they are secured, but this is not applicable to all of them. When all districts are safe, Garrosh, Varian, Magni, or Cairne will yell for players to enter the rifts that have formed in the Trade District/Valley of Strength/Commons/Central Rise, signaling the end of this phase.

Aftermath
The skies will clear and all the elementals will despawn, but rifts will remain that can be clicked on. Like NPCs for holiday events, these rifts will allow you to queue for four specific event bosses in Blackrock Depths, Zul'Farrak, Maraudon, and Ahn'Qiraj. These bosses will be fought alongside your faction leader, and all aside from Prince Sarusan are upgraded bosses from the original instance. These bosses all drop ILevel 251 necks, chests, and rings. It is unknown if they share loot tables.

Grand Ambassador Flamelash and Crown Princess Theredras are unlocked by securing Ironforge as Alliance and Orgrimmar as Horde. Prince Sarusan and Kai'ju Gahz'rilla are unlocked by securing Stormwind as Alliance and Thunder Bluff as Horde. This phase only lasts around twenty minutes, so you should get as many bosses down as quickly as possible. The rifts will remain for the entire time, but using them after this phase ends will merely queue you for random heroics.

Grand Ambassador Flamelash (Chamber of Enchantment, Blackrock Depths)
Formerly just Ambassador Flamelash, AF has received a substantial retuning to level 80. The trash near him CAN be pulled separately if you wait a short while for them to walk towards you. AF himself has the primary ability of spawning patches of flame that you MUST get out of - unlike our current namby-pamby fire effects, these will kill you VERY quickly. Magni Bronzebeard will join you in this battle, and will offer a quest to speak with Commander Cragfist in the entrance to Ironforge if you are successful.
Video Guide (courtesy of Bravehearth of Draenor): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKjBs1wgah4

Crown Princess Theradras (Zaetar's Grave, Maraudon)
Princess Theradras, now Crown Princess, has not changed much. Kill her uneventful pair of trash mobs, then engage her. The only thing you must watch out for is her random boulder throwing, which will reduce a random player to 20% health - healers should watch out for this. Magni also joins you in this fight, and sends you to Commander Cragfist again.
Video Guide (courtesy of Bravehearth of Draenor): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-JsyRhve2s

Kai'ju Gahz'rilla (Reflection Pool, Zul'Farrak)
Another simple fight, Gahz'rila has gained the title of Kai'ju, and with it, forty levels and some tricky trash. KG has the most trash of any event boss, which should be brought down before he is engaged. AoE is a lot weaker now, so you may need to rely on single-target burning. Once they're down, you can engage the hydra. All he really does is use Ice Spikes, which may be avoidable, but do low damage regardless. At low health, he will attempt to heal himself back to 100% - this ability must be interrupted, or he must be killed before it completes. Varian Wrynn will accompany you here, and will send you to Marcus Jonathan if you defeat the monster.
Video Guide (courtesy of Bravehearth of Draenor): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuxZmwMM2AI

Prince Sarusan (Ahn'Qiraj Terrace, Ahn'Qiraj)
Sarusan is an entirely new boss in a somewhat new area. His arena, the Ahn'Qiraj Terrace, is unique in that is isn't a reused area from another instance. Time will tell what this means. Regardless, defeat his simple trash and engage him. The Prince is actually somewhat tricky, possessing two abilities - Tears of the Windlord, a group-wide damage and stun, and Cyclones, which fly around the arena chasing random players. Getting hit by a cyclone will do a large amount of damage, and multiple hits will likely kill a player. Varian fights with you once more on this boss, and again tells you to report to Marcus Jonathan in the Valley of Heroes after your victory.
Video Guide (courtesy of Bravehearth of Draenor): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3YXgRJvEL0

Comment by Tulavelir

This quest is now on live servers.

The dwarf is on the far south end of the wharf in Stormwind Harbor. Click the crystal beside him and it changes your main action bar to elemental abilities to fight off the three types (water, fire, earth) elementals that spawn from the three portals.
Once all the elementals are dead, pick up the tablets and head to Ironforge.

Comment by 253422

This quest is now available in US and EU servers, and it's exactly like Seahawks already described it.

Comment by dimentex

I'm torn about this quest. On one hand, it's cool to get this going. On the other hand, I'm not looking forward to a diamond-encrusted King Magni. :(

Comment by 270316

It's glitched for me. I can't "interact" with the crystal. I'm not sure if anyone else has experienced this but I have a ticket open and I'll update this with what the GM says.

Edit: So apparently you can start the event without picking up the quest. I must have accidentally not accepted the quest and just ran to the courier. If you can't interact with the crystal, check your quest log to make sure you aren't a noob like me.

Comment by 564335

The quests links for Alliance:

You can do these after completing the Tablets of the Earth quest.

Comment by Ketho

Courier Tormun: Our ship from Northrend was attacked by Twilight's Hammer! I don't know how they got aboard, but they killed everyone.
Courier Tormun: Using a crystal Brann sent with the tablets, I managed to protect myself and escape, but one of the attackers followed me!
Courier Tormun: I'll use the crystal to shield the tablets. See if it will grant you powers to defend me. If Twilight's Hammer's minions break through my shield, they'll kill me and take the tablets!
Twilight Seeker: Turn over the tablets and I will allow you a quick death.
Courier Tormun: You will never get the tablets!
Twilight Seeker: Very well, dwarf. I shall slay you and carry the tablets to Cho'Gall.
** The crystal has granted you new abili ties! Use them to defeat the summoned ele mentals. **
Twilight Seeker: Elementals, I bid you come forth and slay this enemy of Twilight's Hammer!
Twilight Seeker: Continue the assault!
Twilight Seeker: Slay the courier!
Twilight Seeker: I will have those tablets!

Failure:

Courier Tormun: I can hold out no longer...
Twilight Seeker: At last, the tablets are ours!

Success:

Twilight Seeker: That cursed crystal! We will not give up so easily. We will have that tablet for our ascendants. Perhaps not today, but soon!
Courier Tormun: You've done it! You've saved the tablets. Hurry and bring them to Ironforge. I'll be along once I've had some time to recover.

Comment by Cutthroat

This seems to be bugged, at least on EU-Dragonmaw for Alliance. I could pick up the quest, but I can't talk to Courier Tormun, neither before nor after clicking on the crystal to get the buff. Other people in the vicinity reported the same problem. Filed a ticket with a GM about it, nothing so far.

Comment by 627828

Why didn't Blizz activate the Earthen Ring rep so those doing the Earthen Ring pre-Cata quests could get something out of it? Really there is no reason to do these quests (besides Lore) and this is the last phase of the Earthen Ring stuff.

Comment by 471022

get out of your raid parties ppl

Comment by 412874

You can just grab the tablets off the ground if someone else has just completed the quest with the npc.

Comment by phelpy2

you cannot click on the crystal if you have already picked up the tablet....since you are already done.

Comment by 15528

I haven't gotten a shiver down my spine doing a quest in quite a while, but this one reverberated quite a bit.

SPOILER ALERT FOR THE SHATTERING. DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU PLAN TO / ARE READING IT BEFORE THE IRONFORGE CHAPTER.

So, for those of you who read the book, Advisor Belgrum is one of the advisors who translated some tablets delivered by Brann. These tablets referred to Earthen dwarves becoming one with the earth again. King Magni Bronzebeard decided it would be a splendid idea to take on the burden of finding out what was plaguing Azeroth after a series of shockwaves hit his city using the advice on these tablets. Turns out that was a bad idea.

This quest has your character being the chief factor responsible for what happens to Magni. You delivered the tablets that brought about the events.

After I saw Advisor Belgrum and read the quest completion text... Yep. A nice big shiver.

/SPOILER

Comment by Melyldya

is this quest still doable since the patch today?

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Tablets of the Earth

Bring the Tablets of Earth to King Magni Bronzebeard in Ironforge.

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Some time ago, my brother Brann sent an urgent message from Ulduar. He said he'd found an ancient titan cache with mysterious and important relics. King Wrynn dispatched one of his fastest ships to Northrend to transport the courier and the boat should've arrived by now.

I'm worried, <name>. I haven't heard anything about the courier's arrival. Would you be willing to travel to Stormwind Harbor and see if he's arrived?

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