Swift Green Hawkstrider

Sold by Winaestra for 10 gold. Since Midnight she stands in Silvermoon City, west of the Royal Exchange flight point, and sells the classic hawkstriders there. A blood elf buys it outright; any other Horde race has to be Exalted with Silvermoon City first.

Time there about 1 min a visit

• Exalted with Silvermoon City, unless the buyer is a blood elf: the Silvermoon City Tabard worn in dungeons turns their reputation into Silvermoon City's; quests in the old Eversong Woods and Ghostlands and the Argent Tournament also count · about 3.5 h
• 10 gold

In all: about 3.5 h of play, 10 gold, starting from nothing.

/way is for the TomTom addon. Travel times are estimates: flying at 55 yards a second in a straight line and 30 seconds for a portal. A star marks a portal that needs a quest or other unlock done first.

Horde characters only. The journal and the item's tooltip still name only the old place, Eversong Woods (Burning Crusade).

Wowhead's sold-by list for the item (as read in 2026) has two Winaestras: the Midnight one in Silvermoon City (creature 254366, titled Stable Master, 10 gold), which is the place given here, and the old Hawkstrider Breeder in the Eversong Woods of the Burning Crusade (creature 16264; the wiki puts her at Thuron's Livery, 61.0, 54.6), listed there at 9 gold, presumably a price seen with a reputation discount.

Wowhead's tooltip puts the new one at 67.2, 66.0; the wiki has her in the Royal Exchange and lists the Swift Green Hawkstrider at 10 gold among what she sells in Midnight. That she stands west of the Royal Exchange flight point is from a 2026 Wowhead comment quoted in the Black Hawkstrider's notes, not read again. The old Eversong Woods is reached through Zidormi; the Black Hawkstrider's notes give the place.

The reputation rule is the wiki's ('Only blood elves can buy from Winaestra by default; other characters must be exalted with Silvermoon City'). Nothing read says whether the Midnight vendor asks the same: Wowhead's sold-by list carries no standing for her, the item's 15 comments end in 2018, and it was not confirmed in the game. The reputation time is zero on a blood elf and on a character that is already Exalted.

The ways to the reputation are the ones read from the wiki's faction page for the Black and Swift Purple Hawkstriders, not read again:

• the tabard, sold by the quartermaster Magistrix Nizara in the old Eversong Woods
• quests there and in the Ghostlands
• the Argent Tournament

No guide is linked: buying it only takes turning up, and by the Swift Purple Hawkstrider's notes Wowhead's racial mount guide predates her move.

Confidence in this entry: medium. Looked up in 2026.

Sources

• Wowhead: swift green hawkstrider
• Wowhead tooltip: npc 254366
• Wiki: Winaestra