# The Hinterlands, Blasted Lands & Loch Modan (levels 46–48) > A Polestar leveling guide for World of Warcraft: Forever, levels 46–48: 20 steps and 15 quests. Page: https://polestar.guide/guides/alliance/40-50/05-the-hinterlands Polestar is a free, open-source (GPL-3.0) leveling guide addon for World of Warcraft: Forever. Every guide here ships inside the addon: in game, `/polestar guides` opens the guide menu, and the guide window shows the steps with a waypoint arrow. ## At a glance - Category: Leveling; in game: Leveling > Alliance 40–50 > The Hinterlands, Blasted Lands & Loch Modan - Levels: 46–48 - For: Alliance - Zones: The Hinterlands, Duskwood, Blasted Lands, Loch Modan, Badlands, Teldrassil, Darnassus - 20 steps, 15 quests - Sets the hearth at Aerie Peak, then Stoutlager Inn - Flight paths: Nethergarde Keep - Comes after: [Tanaris](https://polestar.guide/guides/alliance/40-50/04-tanaris.md) (levels 45–47) - Next: [Searing Gorge](https://polestar.guide/guides/alliance/40-50/06-searing-gorge.md) (levels 47–49) - Last changed 2026-10-17, in Polestar 0.2.5 ## Steps The steps as the guide window shows them, in order. Goals marked with a race or class are only for that race or class. ### 1. Aerie Peak Where: 14.2, 41.6 on the The Hinterlands map. - Set your home to **Aerie Peak** at Innkeeper Thulfram — Innkeeper Thulfram: the last guide binds here, so this usually ticks at once - Accept **Skulk Rock Clean-up** from Fraggar Thundermantle - Accept **The Altar of Zul** from Gryphon Master Talonaxe ### 2. The Altar of Zul Where: 49, 68.7 on the The Hinterlands map. Ride south-east to the Altar of Zul, the stepped Vilebranch temple in the south of the Hinterlands, and climb to the top. Qiaga and Morta'gya the Keeper (elite, 50) stand up there: touch the top and come straight back down. - Complete **The Altar of Zul** ### 3. Skulk Rock Where: 48.9, 55.4 on the The Hinterlands map. Ride north to Skulk Rock in the middle of the Hinterlands. Green Sludges and Jade Oozes crawl all around it. - Kill **Green Sludge** ×10 for Skulk Rock Clean-up - Kill **Jade Ooze** ×10 for Skulk Rock Clean-up ### 4. Aerie Peak Where: 14.8, 44.6 on the The Hinterlands map. Hearth to Aerie Peak. - Hearth to **Aerie Peak** — Hearthstone on cooldown? Ride back north-west. - Turn in **Skulk Rock Clean-up** at Fraggar Thundermantle - Turn in **The Altar of Zul** at Gryphon Master Talonaxe - Accept **Thadius Grimshade** from Gryphon Master Talonaxe — for Thadius Grimshade at Nethergarde Keep, later ### 5. Darkshire Fly from Aerie Peak to Darkshire. - Fly to **Darkshire** - Turn in **Vital Supplies** at Watchmaster Sorigal - Accept **Supplies for Nethergarde** from Watchmaster Sorigal ### 6. The bloodmages Ride east through Deadwind Pass into the Swamp of Sorrows and south down the road into the Blasted Lands. The bloodmages' camp is the first stop beside the road. - Accept **Snickerfang Jowls** from Bloodmage Drazial - Accept **A Boar's Vitality** from Bloodmage Drazial - Accept **The Decisive Striker** from Bloodmage Drazial - Accept **The Basilisk's Bite** from Bloodmage Lynnore - Accept **Vulture's Vigor** from Bloodmage Lynnore ### 7. Nethergarde Keep Ride on east along the road to the keep first: the Crate of Power Stones expires an hour after Darkshire, and the bloodmages' beasts take longer than that. - Get the flight path at **Nethergarde Keep** from Alexandra Constantine - Turn in **Supplies for Nethergarde** at Quartermaster Lungertz - Turn in **Thadius Grimshade** at Thadius Grimshade — Thadius Grimshade, at the top of the keep - Thadius' next task, Nekrum's Medallion, is a Zul'Farrak quest: skip it. - Turn in **Mazen's Behest** at Watcher Mahar Ba - Turn in **Deliver the Shipment** at Quartermaster Lungertz ### 8. Boars and basilisks Ashmane Boars and Redstone Basilisks share the slopes south-west of the keep. Keep clear of the Helboars further south: they are level 52. - Collect **Blasted Boar Lung** ×2 for Snickerfang Jowls - Collect **Blasted Boar Lung** ×3 for A Boar's Vitality - Collect **Blasted Boar Lung** for The Decisive Striker - Collect **Basilisk Brain** ×10 for The Basilisk's Bite - Collect **Basilisk Brain** for A Boar's Vitality ### 9. Scorpoks and snickerfangs Ride west: Starving Snickerfangs roam the dry hills just south of the bloodmages' camp; Scorpok Stingers (level 50) scuttle across the middle of the north. Black Slayer vultures circle over all of it. Pull one at a time. - Collect **Snickerfang Jowl** ×3 for Snickerfang Jowls - Collect **Snickerfang Jowl** ×2 for Vulture's Vigor - Collect **Scorpok Pincer** for Snickerfang Jowls - Collect **Scorpok Pincer** ×2 for A Boar's Vitality - Collect **Scorpok Pincer** ×3 for The Decisive Striker - Collect **Vulture Gizzard** ×10 for Vulture's Vigor - Collect **Vulture Gizzard** ×2 for The Basilisk's Bite - Collect **Vulture Gizzard** ×2 for The Decisive Striker ### 10. The bloodmages - Turn in **The Basilisk's Bite** at Bloodmage Lynnore - Turn in **Vulture's Vigor** at Bloodmage Lynnore - Turn in **Snickerfang Jowls** at Bloodmage Drazial - Turn in **A Boar's Vitality** at Bloodmage Drazial - Turn in **The Decisive Striker** at Bloodmage Drazial - The bloodmages' second tier pays for the same parts with a buff item and no experience: skip it. ### 11. Thelsamar Ride back east to Nethergarde Keep and fly to Thelsamar. - Fly to **Thelsamar** - Set your home to **Stoutlager Inn** at Innkeeper Hearthstove - Accept **Uldaman Reagent Run** from Ghak Healtouch ### 12. Ironband's Excavation Site Ride east along the south shore of the loch to Ironband's camp. - Turn in **Murdaloc** at Prospector Ironband - Turn in **Ironband Wants You!** at Prospector Ironband - Accept **Agmond's Fate** from Prospector Ironband ### 13. The Uldaman dig Ride south through the pass into the Badlands' northern edge: the Stonevault troggs dig outside Uldaman there. The carved urns and the magenta mushroom clusters sit in their caves and tunnels, outside the dungeon itself. - Collect **Carved Stone Urn** ×4 for Agmond's Fate - Collect **Magenta Fungus Cap** from **Magenta Cap Clusters** ×12 for Uldaman Reagent Run ### 14. Ironband's Excavation Site Ride back north to Ironband's camp. - Turn in **Agmond's Fate** at Prospector Ironband ### 15. Thelsamar - Turn in **Uldaman Reagent Run** at Ghak Healtouch ### 16. Rut'theran Village Fly from Thelsamar to Menethil Harbor, take the boat to Auberdine and fly to Rut'theran Village. - Turn in **In Search of Knowledge** at Daryn Lightwind - Accept **Feralas: A History** from Feralas: A History — the book on her table - Turn in **Feralas: A History** at Daryn Lightwind - Daryn's next errand goes to Tanaris: skip it. - Turn in **Handle With Care** at Erelas Ambersky - Accept **Favored of Elune?** from Erelas Ambersky — Erelas Ambersky: keep it, the feathers come at the end of the Burning Steppes guide ### 17. Temple of the Moon Step through the portal into Darnassus. The Temple of the Moon is in the south of the city. - Turn in **Doling Justice** at Tyrande Whisperwind - Turn in **Rise of the Silithid** at Gracina Spiritmight — Gracina Spiritmight, beside her ### 18. Craftsmen's Terrace - Accept **Assisting Arch Druid Staghelm** from Innkeeper Saelienne ### 19. Cenarion Enclave - Turn in **Assisting Arch Druid Staghelm** at Arch Druid Fandral Staghelm — Arch Druid Fandral Staghelm, at the top of the tree - Accept **Un'Goro Soil** from Arch Druid Fandral Staghelm — the soil comes from Un'Goro Crater, later - Train at your trainer (Druid only) — The druid trainers stand in the Enclave; Ironforge has none ### 20. Back to Thelsamar Hearth to Thelsamar. The Searing Gorge guide starts at Thorium Point: from here, ride south into the Badlands, west past the Horde town of Kargath and up the trail into the gorge. - Hearth to **Stoutlager Inn** --- Index for language models: https://polestar.guide/llms.txt