Taivan

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Dragonflight · Achievement

The game's mount journal

Achievement: A World Awoken

Category: Expansion Features

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.

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How to get it

Reward of the achievement A World Awoken, as the item Good Boy's Leash. It is fourteen Dragonflight achievements, most of them meta-achievements themselves: the three raids cleared (Vault of the Incarnates, Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible and Amirdrassil, the Dream's Hope), Myths of the Dragonflight Dungeons, Loremaster of the Dragon Isles, Friend of the Dragon Isles, Oh My God, They Were Clutchmates (every Dragonflight renown and reputation at its top), Dragon Quests, Dragon Isles Pathfinder, Across the Isles, You Know How to Reach Me, Que Zara(lek), Zara(lek), Dream On and Now THIS is Dragon Racing!. The meta-achievement's progress counts for the whole account.

Time there about 5 min a visit

Guides Wowhead: A World Awoken Dragonflight Meta-Achievement Guide - Taivan Mount · Wowhead: A World Awoken, achievement page (the comments have tips on the slow parts and the communities that gather players for Leftovers' Revenge and Collapsed Reality) · Blizzard Watch: How to get Taivan, a very good boy, as a mount (with a checklist to copy)

Before you go

Renown 25 with the Dragonscale Expedition, its last rank (A True Explorer; it also opens A Mystery, Sealed at 13 and In the Halls of Titans at 24) · about 20 h over 2 weeks
Renown 30 with the Iskaara Tuskarr, its last rank (Joining the Community; The Chieftain's Duty opens at 11) · about 24 h over 3 weeks
Renown 25 with the Maruuk Centaur, its last rank (Joining the Khansguard) · about 20 h over 3 weeks
Renown 30 with the Valdrakken Accord, its last rank (Ally of the Flights; The Silver Purpose opens at 12 and Garden of Secrets at 19) · about 24 h over 3 weeks
Renown 20 with the Loamm Niffen, its last rank (There's No Place Like Loamm) · about 12 h over 2 weeks
Renown 20 with the Dream Wardens, its last rank (Warden of the Dream): campaign chapters 2,500 each, the first Superbloom of the week 1,000, the weekly A Worthy Ally 500, world quests and rares 50 · about 17 h over 4 weeks
True Friend with Wrathion at the Obsidian Citadel (Loyalty to the Prince): 42,000 reputation from Restored Obsidian Keys, his weekly quests and his event · about 12 h
True Friend with Sabellian at the Obsidian Citadel (The Obsidian Bloodline): 42,000 reputation, earned the same way in the weeks he is the dragon chosen · about 12 h
Legend of the Multiverse with Soridormi, her last rank, and her quest Realized Potential (Legend of the Multiverse): 42,000 reputation from Time Rifts at the Tyrhold Reservoir (one an hour), the weekly Time Rift quest and the dungeon Dawn of the Infinite · about 15 h
Esteemed with the Artisan's Consortium - Dragon Isles Branch, its last rank (In High Esteem): reputation from the weekly profession quests, the weekly crafting-order quests and one-off quests of the Dragon Isles professions
Maximum with the Cobalt Assembly in the north of The Azure Span (Maximum Power!): 10,000 reputation, most of it from looting the elite Sundered Flame there · about 3 h
Winterpelt Conversationalist, the last part of Oh My God, They Were Clutchmates: the Furbolg language at 100. Sonova Snowden's quests in The Azure Span as far as Academic Acquisitions give the first point; the other 99 are 99 hand-ins of 5 Liberated Furbolg Artifacts, which drop from Primalists and furbolgs at Vakthros Range, Rustpine Den, Imbu and Shiverweb Vale (a rare Intact Scribe Stick is worth a point by itself) · about 5 h
The three raid achievements: every boss of Vault of the Incarnates (8), of Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible (9) and of Amirdrassil, the Dream's Hope (9) defeated, on any difficulty, Raid Finder included · about 3 h
Myths of the Dragonflight Dungeons: the eight launch dungeons on Mythic (Algeth'ar Academy, Brackenhide Hollow, Halls of Infusion, Neltharus, Ruby Life Pools, The Azure Vault, The Nokhud Offensive, Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr). Dawn of the Infinite is not part of it · about 3 h
Loremaster of the Dragon Isles: the main story of the four zones (Waking Hope, Ohn'a'Roll, Azure Spanner, Just Don't Ask Me to Spell It) and every side quest line of each (the four Sojourner achievements: 6 lines in The Waking Shores, 8 in the Ohn'ahran Plains, 12 in The Azure Span, and those of Thaldraszus). Two of the Ohn'ahran lines end inside The Nokhud Offensive, which Follower Dungeon mode covers · about 30 h
Friend of the Dragon Isles: the six quest lines the renowns open (A Mystery, Sealed; In the Halls of Titans; The Chieftain's Duty; The Silver Purpose; Garden of Secrets; and The Dreamer, which follows Garden of Secrets) · about 4 h
Dragon Quests, six story achievements: A Blue Dawn (after the main campaign), Active Listening Skills (after the Misty Vale line of Sojourner of Thaldraszus), Of the Tyr's Guard (two chapters, after The Silver Purpose), A New Beginning (Baine's story with the centaur), In Tyr's Footsteps (the old Spark of Ingenuity quests, one of them inside Halls of Infusion, which Follower Dungeon mode covers) and Fringe Benefits (8 of the 16 daily quests of Eon's Fringe in Thaldraszus, one offered a day) · about 8 h over 8 days
Dragon Isles Pathfinder: the four zone stories, Embers of Neltharion, and the maps uncovered (Dragon Isles Explorer, Explore Zaralek Cavern, Explore the Emerald Dream). All but Dragon Isles Explorer are counted in other entries here · about 1 h
Across the Isles: nine achievements, six of them meta-achievements with a mount of their own (Wake Me Up, Army of the Fed, Centaur of Attention, Flight Club, Closing Time, Into the Storm) and three single events. Two of its parts take many players at the same moment: in Leftovers' Revenge (inside Army of the Fed) those present at one Community Feast in Iskaara have to do Big Kinook's tasks fast enough between them to bring the soup to Legendary quality within its 15 minutes, which calls out Bisquius, and in Collapsed Reality (inside Closing Time) those present in one Time Rift have to fill its Temporal Essence bar to 7,500 in the ten minutes before the portal opens · about 89.5 h over 4 weeks
You Know How to Reach Me, eleven achievements of the Forbidden Reach: Door Buster (150 doors of the Zskera Vaults opened, a key each: six fully opened vaults, and a character gets one vault a week), Every Door, Everywhere, All At Once (all 28 or 29 doors of one vault within its week), Scroll Hunter (the treasures of 50 Sealed Scrolls), Hoarder of the Forbidden Reach (100 small treasures), Forbidden Spoils (10 Forbidden Hoards, about one every half hour), Champion of the Forbidden Reach (its 30 rares, some called with profession reagents found there), Treasures of the Forbidden Reach (one of each of 12 kinds), Librarian of the Reach (9 books) and While We Were Sleeping (8 items), three of each in rooms of the vaults, Under the Weather (a Froststone Vault Primal Storm of each of the four elements: one every two hours, element at random) and the map uncovered · about 30 h over 5 weeks
Que Zara(lek), Zara(lek), seven achievements of Zaralek Cavern: Embers of Neltharion (the patch 10.1 story), The Smell of Money (200 Unearthed Fragrant Coins), Sniffen Around, Adventurer of Zaralek Cavern (10 rares), Treasures of Zaralek Cavern, the map uncovered, and the Loamm Niffen renown counted above · about 15.7 h over 5 days
Dream On, seven achievements of the Emerald Dream: Defenders of the Dream (the zone's story, begun at Call of the Dream in Valdrakken), Adventurer of the Emerald Dream (10 rares), Treasures of the Emerald Dream, I Dream of Seeds (a Dreamseed given at each of the 18 Emerald Bounty plants, after the short line that starts with Mysterious Seeds), Super Duper Bloom (one Superbloom, the hourly event, finished at Epic quality), the map uncovered, and the Dream Wardens renown counted above · about 8 h
Now THIS is Dragon Racing!: at least Bronze in every skyriding race of the Dragon Isles (Normal and Advanced in the four first zones; Normal, Advanced and Reverse in the Forbidden Reach, Zaralek Cavern and the Emerald Dream) and every Dragon Glyph of the seven zones · about 6 h

In all: about 362.2 h of play, spread over 5 weeks, starting from nothing.

Getting there

Valdrakken (hub: the fourteen achievements are spread over the Dragon Isles, the Forbidden Reach, Zaralek Cavern and the Emerald Dream)

Valdrakken · 38.2, 37.6

/way Valdrakken 38.2 37.6

From Stormwind (Alliance) about 1 min of travel

Take the portal from Wizard's Sanctum to Valdrakken*
Fly the rest of the way

From Orgrimmar (Horde) about 1 min of travel

Take the portal from Orgrimmar to Valdrakken*
Fly 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

A project of months, not a trip: Wowhead commenters call it an expansion-wide achievement 'meant to be obtained over the course of many months of playing' (2024), wow.gg says a few weeks to several months, and Wowhead shows it attained by 21% of profiles.

The hours above add up to about 360 for an account that has done nothing in Dragonflight, but they are estimates stacked on estimates and they overlap: the renowns come largely from the same quests, world quests and events the other entries count. Parts are covered by other mounts in this guide and only summed here: the Stormtouched Bruffalon (Across the Isles, which itself rests on the Bestowed Ohuna Spotter, Bestowed Trawling Mammoth, Bestowed Thunderspine Packleader, Bestowed Ottuk Vanguard, Bestowed Sandskimmer and Coralscale Salamanther) and the Calescent Shalewing.

Low confidence, for three reasons given for the Stormtouched Bruffalon and three more:

Collapsed Reality needs a crowd in one Time Rift
Tetrachromancer is pure luck
Storm Chaser waits on random storms
Leftovers' Revenge (below)
the Artisan's Consortium, for which no time could be found
the question of what is account-wide (below)

On Leftovers' Revenge: a 2025 comment calls it the hardest part now, because the soup only reaches Legendary with 'around 12-15 people all doing the tasks' and three or four is what a feast usually draws. Players arrange it through in-game communities: a raid gathered in 2025; the community Not Yet Awoken (2026) runs it on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 8 PM EST, all realms and factions; another community (2025) does the same for Collapsed Reality. The Stormtouched Bruffalon's and Bestowed Trawling Mammoth's notes were written before that comment was read and set 5 and no player count.

On account-wide: Wowhead's tooltip gives A World Awoken account-wide progress, and its guide (updated 2025) marks most parts account-wide but says the three raid achievements and the zone story and Sojourner achievements are not; a 2024 comment asks for the guide to be brought up to date for Warbands, and the wiki notes several of the Forbidden Reach and racing achievements as account-wide since patch 11.0. Which still have to be finished on one character was not established.

Where sources disagree: wow.gg (2026) says every race needs gold, against the achievements' own names, Wowhead's guide and Blizzard Watch, which all say Bronze.

The Zskera Vaults: a character is given one vault a week, one of the four named ones (Az, Ur, Ix, Kx) at random, and from the fifth week a random one through the weekly quest More Doors To Open (wiki, on a page last edited in 2023). If every door is open and the achievement does not fire, leave the vault and enter again (guide). Keys are account-bound (Wowhead's guide) and:

drop from the Reach's rares (nearly always), creatures and treasures
come six at a time from the one-off quest The Keys You Need
by the wiki, are sold by the renown envoys in Morqut Village for 50 Dragon Isles Supplies

Forbidden Hoards come back about 30 minutes after the last one was emptied, not on the half hour (2024 comment). A 2025 Wowhead comment advises doing the Reach's treasures and scrolls together with the Reliquary Scroll of Perception from Cataloger Daela and the Azure Scrying Crystal from Kraxxus on the Forbidden Reach (34, 59.8), both bought with Elemental Overflow.

Stones Can't Fly, once part of Que Zara(lek), Zara(lek) and impossible after The War Within began, was taken out of it (2025 reply); the Seething Cache treasure of Zaralek Cavern can be held up by other players collecting its orbs (2024 comment). The Whelp Daycare races of Flight Club threw players out of bounds after The War Within launched; a 2024 reply reports them working again.

The achievement is not a Feat of Strength and is not going away (2024 and 2025 replies); patch 11.2.7 added a housing decor reward, The Great Hoard, beside the mount (wiki, Wowhead tooltip). Added in patch 10.2.6 (19 March 2024).

The place given is nominal: there is nowhere to collect the mount, and Valdrakken is the hub of the work. The coordinates are those used for the Stormtouched Bruffalon (Mythressa, the Primal Storms vendor), so the two fall on one stop. Blizzard Watch's checklist is of 2024 and written before Warbands; its writer counted 134 objectives. The wiki's pages for most of the sub-achievements are bare lists. Wowhead's own guides for each renown and reputation, linked from its guide, were not read.

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

Sources