Elusive Emerald Hawkstrider

Horde onlyBlood Elf onlyAbout 6 hours of unlockingGuaranteed

Dragonflight · Quest

The game's mount journal

Quest: Blood Knight

Zone: Ghostlands

Quest: Victory for the Sin'dorei

Zone: Ghostlands

Find a character at the top of the page to see whether your account has this mount, and where that character stands on what it asks for.

Look it up on Wowhead

How to get it

Reward of the last quest of Knights of Blood, a chain of fourteen quests for blood elves added in patch 9.2.5. Lady Liadrin starts it in Oribos with Summons from the Matriarch; it runs through the old Silvermoon City and the Ghostlands, with two errands in Bastion and Maldraxxus, and ends with Vorath killed in Deatholme. Liadrin then hands the mount over in the Hall of Blood in old Silvermoon: Victory for the Sin'dorei for most classes, Blood Knight for a paladin.

Time there about 2 min a visit

Guide Wowhead: Blood Elf Heritage Questline and Rewards

Before you go

Exalted with Silvermoon City on that blood elf: the chain is not offered below it. Dungeons run in the Silvermoon City Tabard and the city's own quests earn it · about 5 h
The fourteen quests: Summons from the Matriarch, Briefing, Tranquillien Besieged, Death to the Scourge and Magus Installation, A Knight's Weapon, An Honest Heart and A Fair Race (Bastion), An Unbreakable Will and Unfair Fight (Maldraxxus), Return to the Ghostlands, I Am the Blade of the Light, Justice Long Overdue, then Victory for the Sin'dorei or Blood Knight · about 0.75 h

In all: about 5.8 h of play, starting from nothing.

Getting there

Lady Liadrin, by the Orgrimmar portal in Oribos (start of the chain; she hands the mount over in the Hall of Blood, old Silvermoon City 89.8, 37.6)

Oribos · 25.4, 51.5

/way Oribos 25.4 51.5

From Orgrimmar about 1 min of travel

Take the portal from Pathfinder's Den to Oribos*
Ride the rest of the way

/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.

Notes and sources

Only a blood elf is offered the quests, which is why the race is given. The mount itself, once earned, carries no race condition in the game's tables, and Wowhead's tooltip for the spell says only Faction: Horde, so every Horde character of the account can ride it (Wowhead's guide: only Horde players can ride it).

The journal's two quests are the two endings of the same chain: a paladin gets Blood Knight, which adds the Ensemble: Blood Knight's Dedication, and everyone else Victory for the Sin'dorei. The chain plays in the Burning Crusade versions of Silvermoon City and the Ghostlands, not in Midnight's Quel'Thalas.

That it can still be done rests on one 2026 Wowhead comment ('now you can do this faster. Just remember to take the TBC silvermoon portal from the downstairs portal room'); no guide written since Midnight was found, and where that portal room is was not checked. Whether Liadrin still offers the first quest in Oribos, or the chain can now be picked up in old Silvermoon directly, was not established either; the wiki and Wowhead's guide (2022) both start it in Oribos. Liadrin's place in Oribos is Wowhead's (25.2-25.6, 51.4-51.6; the wiki has 25.4, 52.2).

The best walk-through is the top comment on Wowhead's item page (Bursi, 2022), which goes through every quest with waypoints; Wowhead's guide lists the requirements, the quests and the rewards.

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

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