# The Hinterlands & Blasted Lands (levels 47–50) > A Polestar leveling guide for World of Warcraft: Forever, levels 47–50: 30 steps and 26 quests. Page: https://polestar.guide/guides/horde/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 > Horde 40–50 > The Hinterlands & Blasted Lands - Levels: 47–50 - For: Horde - Zones: Blasted Lands, Undercity, The Hinterlands - 30 steps, 26 quests - Sets the hearth at Revantusk Village - Flight paths: Revantusk Village - Comes after: [Tanaris & Searing Gorge](https://polestar.guide/guides/horde/40-50/04-tanaris.md) (levels 45–48) - Next: [Azshara, Feralas & Stranglethorn Vale](https://polestar.guide/guides/horde/40-50/06-azshara.md) (levels 49–51) - Last changed 2026-10-16, 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. Fly to Stonard From Thorium Point's flight master. - Fly to **Stonard** ### 2. The bloodmages Ride west out of Stonard and south through the canyon into the Blasted Lands; the two bloodmages stand by the road just inside. - 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 ### 3. The northern beasts The five quests share the same parts: gather them all in one sweep. West of the road the Black Slayer vultures, Starving Snickerfangs, Scorpok Stingers and Deatheye basilisks share the hills. - 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 - Collect **Snickerfang Jowl** ×3 for Snickerfang Jowls - Collect **Snickerfang Jowl** ×2 for Vulture's Vigor - Collect **Scorpok Pincer** ×3 for The Decisive Striker - Collect **Scorpok Pincer** ×2 for A Boar's Vitality - Collect **Scorpok Pincer** for Snickerfang Jowls - Collect **Basilisk Brain** ×10 for The Basilisk's Bite - Collect **Basilisk Brain** for A Boar's Vitality ### 4. The eastern slopes East of the road the Ashmane boars and Grunters root on the slopes beside the Redstone basilisks. Stay away from the level 52 Helboars further south. - Collect **Blasted Boar Lung** ×3 for A Boar's Vitality - Collect **Blasted Boar Lung** ×2 for Snickerfang Jowls - Collect **Blasted Boar Lung** for The Decisive Striker ### 5. The bloodmages Ride back north to the bloodmages. - Turn in **Snickerfang Jowls** at Bloodmage Drazial - Turn in **A Boar's Vitality** at Bloodmage Drazial - Turn in **The Decisive Striker** at Bloodmage Drazial - Turn in **The Basilisk's Bite** at Bloodmage Lynnore - Turn in **Vulture's Vigor** at Bloodmage Lynnore - Their follow-ups ask for the same parts again for a buff item and pay no experience: leave them. ### 6. Grind to 48 Only if you are not level 48 yet. - Go to **Vulture hills** Blasted Lands - Reach level **48** — grind on Black Slayer at the northern hills, Blasted Lands ### 7. Fly to the Undercity Ride north back to Stonard and fly to the Undercity. - Fly to **Undercity** ### 8. Undercity - Accept **Lines of Communication** from Oran Snakewrithe — Oran Snakewrithe, the Royal Quarter - Accept **Assisting Arch Druid Runetotem** from Innkeeper Norman — Innkeeper Norman: for Thunder Bluff, around level 50 - Train at your trainer (Warrior, Paladin, Rogue, Priest, Mage, Warlock only) ### 9. Fly to Tarren Mill - Fly to **Tarren Mill** ### 10. Gilveradin's camp Where: 26.7, 48.6 on the The Hinterlands map. Ride north-east from Tarren Mill into the Hinterlands and east along the road; Gilveradin Sunchaser camps on the hill south of the elves' Quel'Danil Lodge. - Turn in **Ripple Recovery** at Gilveradin Sunchaser - Accept **A Sticky Situation** from Gilveradin Sunchaser ### 11. Highvale Where: 28.6, 46 on the The Hinterlands map. The Highvale elves camp around Quel'Danil Lodge. Burn the report, the notes and the records in their camps. Rin'ji is held inside the lodge: lead him out and fight off the ambush on the way. - Click **Highvale Report** for Lines of Communication - Click **Highvale Notes** for Lines of Communication - Click **Highvale Records** for Lines of Communication - Accept **Rin'ji is Trapped!** from Rin'ji - Complete **Rin'ji is Trapped!** ### 12. Grim Message Where: 31.6, 56.5 on the The Hinterlands map. South of the lodge the Witherbark trolls hold their villages. Every one of them carries a skull: with twenty, use Nimboya's Pike to make the Laden Pike, then plant it inside the village. - Witherbark Skull ×20 - Use **Nimboya's Pike** - Use **Nimboya's Laden Pike** - Complete **Grim Message** ### 13. Violet Tragan Where: 40.6, 59.7 on the The Hinterlands map. East of the village, the violet flower grows in the hills. - Collect **Violet Tragan** for Sprinkle's Secret Ingredient ### 14. The Atal'ai Exile Where: 33.8, 75.2 on the The Hinterlands map. South-west again, the exile hides by the ruins of Shadra'Alor. - Turn in **The Atal'ai Exile** at Atal'ai Exile ### 15. Revantusk Village Where: 77.2, 80.1 on the The Hinterlands map. Follow the roads east across the Hinterlands to the troll village on the eastern coast. - Accept **Vilebranch Hooligans** from Smith Slagtree - Set your home to **Revantusk Village** at Lard - Accept **Lard Lost His Lunch** from Lard - Accept **Dark Vessels** from Primal Torntusk - Accept **Kidnapped Elder Torntusk!** from Primal Torntusk - Accept **Cannibalistic Cousins** from Mystic Yayo'jin - Accept **Message to the Wildhammer** from Otho Moji'ko - Accept **Stalking the Stalkers** from Huntsman Markhor - Accept **Hunt the Savages** from Huntsman Markhor - Accept **Avenging the Fallen** from Huntsman Markhor - Accept **Separation Anxiety** from Huntsman Markhor - Accept **Snapjaws, Mon!** from Katoom the Angler - Get the flight path at **Revantusk Village** from Gorkas ### 16. Saltwater Snapjaws Where: 80.6, 77.3 on the The Hinterlands map. The big turtles crawl along the beaches north of the village. Whiskey Slim's port bottles lie on these beaches too, but his quest is not on this route. A snapjaw can drop OOX-09/HL's distress beacon, rarely: keep it. - Kill **Saltwater Snapjaw** ×15 for Snapjaws, Mon! - Collect **OOX-09/HL Distress Beacon** (optional) — OOX-09/HL Distress Beacon, a rare drop ### 17. Rin'ji's Secret Where: 86.3, 59 on the The Hinterlands map. The secret lies on the Overlook Cliffs, above the beach. - Turn in **Rin'ji is Trapped!** at Rin'ji's Secret - Accept **Rin'ji's Secret** from Rin'ji's Secret — for Oran Snakewrithe in the Undercity, around level 50 ### 18. Lard's lunch Where: 84.5, 41.2 on the The Hinterlands map. North along the coast, Lard's picnic basket is on the small island; a Vilebranch Kidnapper guards it. - Kill **Vilebranch Kidnapper** for **Lard's Lunch** for Lard Lost His Lunch ### 19. The Vilebranch temples Where: 71.9, 47.2 on the The Hinterlands map. West of the island, the Vilebranch scalpers hold the temples of Agol'watha and Shaol'watha. Slagtree's tools lie at one of the temples. - Kill **Vilebranch Scalper** ×30 for Cannibalistic Cousins - Collect **Slagtree's Lost Tools** for Vilebranch Hooligans ### 20. The central hills Where: 69.3, 49.8 on the The Hinterlands map. The Silvermane Stalkers, Savage Owlbeasts and Razorbeak Skylords share the hills between the temples and Skulk Rock. Use the Wildkin Muisek Vessel on the owlbeasts you kill. The Skylords also drop Long Elegant Feathers: keep ten for Otho's second message. - Kill **Silvermane Stalker** ×10 for Stalking the Stalkers - Kill **Savage Owlbeast** ×20 for Hunt the Savages - Kill **Razorbeak Skylord** for **Skylord Plume** for Avenging the Fallen - Collect **Wildkin Muisek** ×10 for Testing the Vessel - Long Elegant Feather ×10 ### 21. Skulk Rock Where: 60, 42.5 on the The Hinterlands map. The crates of Hinterlands Honey Ripple lie around the abandoned Horde camp at Skulk Rock, among the oozes. - Collect **Hinterlands Honey Ripple** from **Horde Supply Crate** ×10 for A Sticky Situation ### 22. OOX-09/HL Where: 49.4, 37.7 on the The Hinterlands map. Only with the distress beacon: the robot sits at the head of the river west of Skulk Rock. Escort it east to the shore beyond the Overlook Cliffs; its reward waits with Oglethorpe in Booty Bay. - Accept **Find OOX-09/HL!** from OOX-09/HL Distress Beacon (optional) - Turn in **Find OOX-09/HL!** at Homing Robot OOX-09/HL (optional) - Accept **Rescue OOX-09/HL!** from Homing Robot OOX-09/HL (optional) - Complete **Rescue OOX-09/HL!** (optional) ### 23. Silvermane Howlers Where: 51.1, 40.6 on the The Hinterlands map. South-west, the Silvermane Howlers roam the hills east of the Witherbark villages. - Kill **Silvermane Howler** ×10 for Stalking the Stalkers ### 24. Highvale Where: 33.9, 43.2 on the The Hinterlands map. Back west to Quel'Danil Lodge; rangers and marksmen stay near the lodge, scouts and outrunners on the slopes south of it. - Kill **Highvale Outrunner** ×15 for Message to the Wildhammer - Kill **Highvale Scout** ×15 for Message to the Wildhammer - Kill **Highvale Marksman** ×15 for Message to the Wildhammer - Kill **Highvale Ranger** ×15 for Message to the Wildhammer ### 25. Gilveradin's camp Where: 26.7, 48.6 on the The Hinterlands map. - Turn in **A Sticky Situation** at Gilveradin Sunchaser - Accept **Ripple Delivery** from Gilveradin Sunchaser — for Dran Droffers in Orgrimmar, around level 50 ### 26. Vilebranch soothsayers Where: 44.6, 65.5 on the The Hinterlands map. On the way back east, the Vilebranch soothsayers hold the Altar of Zul, the troll temple south of the central hills. Qiaga and Morta'gya the Keeper (elite, 50) stand at its top: take the soothsayers on the lower steps. - Kill **Vilebranch Soothsayer** ×15 for Cannibalistic Cousins - Kill **Vilebranch Scalper** ×30 for Cannibalistic Cousins ### 27. Jintha'Alor Where: 58.6, 64.8 on the The Hinterlands map. Huntsman Malkhor's skull lies on a pile below the Vilebranch ruins, his bones on a pile at the foot of Jintha'Alor. The Vessels of Tainted Blood sit on the lower terraces, and Elder Torntusk is held at the top. Keep to the paths: the trolls inside are elite. - Collect **Huntsman Malkhor's Skull** from **Pile of Skulls** for Separation Anxiety - Collect **Huntsman Malkhor's Bones** from **Pile of Bones** for Separation Anxiety - Collect **Vessel of Tainted Blood** ×10 for Dark Vessels - Turn in **Kidnapped Elder Torntusk!** at Elder Torntusk — Elder Torntusk, at the top of Jintha'Alor - His next request, going on to the Altar of Zul, is for a group. ### 28. Revantusk Village Where: 80.3, 81.5 on the The Hinterlands map. - Turn in **Snapjaws, Mon!** at Katoom the Angler - Turn in **Lard Lost His Lunch** at Lard - Turn in **Vilebranch Hooligans** at Smith Slagtree - Turn in **Cannibalistic Cousins** at Mystic Yayo'jin - Turn in **Message to the Wildhammer** at Otho Moji'ko - Accept **Another Message to the Wildhammer** from Otho Moji'ko - Turn in **Another Message to the Wildhammer** at Otho Moji'ko - Accept **The Final Message to the Wildhammer** from Otho Moji'ko - Turn in **Stalking the Stalkers** at Huntsman Markhor - Turn in **Hunt the Savages** at Huntsman Markhor - Turn in **Avenging the Fallen** at Huntsman Markhor - Turn in **Separation Anxiety** at Huntsman Markhor - Turn in **Dark Vessels** at Primal Torntusk ### 29. Aerie Peak Where: 14.3, 48.1 on the The Hinterlands map. Ride all the way west to the Wildhammer town of Aerie Peak and place the message by the well in its centre. The town is full of Alliance guards: get in, place it and get out. - Go to **Aerie Peak well** The Hinterlands - Complete **The Final Message to the Wildhammer** ### 30. Revantusk Village Where: 79.4, 79.1 on the The Hinterlands map. The next guide starts here, at Revantusk Village. - Hearth to **Revantusk Village** - Turn in **The Final Message to the Wildhammer** at Otho Moji'ko --- Index for language models: https://polestar.guide/llms.txt