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While flying out of the Tundra en route to Dragonblight, I realized that I hadn't explored the zone's eastern expanse. So I turned right around and went back. I would up getting embroiled in the questline involving this Tharassian. He's a reformed Death Knight who sends you to, yes, kill a few things, but also do a little swimming.

He lets you ride his Death Knight horse to the site where you have to steal the phylactery of the lich he's subjugating in the previous screenshot. If you've never read the D&D Monster Manual, a phylactery is a foci in which a lich stores its soul. You can only kill them permanently if you smash it.

This is where it was hidden. Nice-looking environment, isn't it?

En route back to Tharassian, I aggroed a mammoth, which followed me into ziggurat. Tharassian helped me kill right. Right afterwards, he sent me on a kill quest to stamp out 20 monsters. So yeah. Next week, Dragonblight for sure.