Green Dragon Turtle
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Look it up on WowheadHow to get it
Sold as Reins of the Green Dragon Turtle for 1 gold by the dragon turtle breeder at the pandaren camp in each capital: Old Whitenose in Stormwind, Turtlemaster Odai in Orgrimmar. A pandaren buys it outright; a character of any other race has to be Exalted with the Tushui Pandaren (Alliance) or the Huojin Pandaren (Horde) first.
Time there about 1 min a visit
Before you go
- Exalted with the Tushui Pandaren (Alliance) or Huojin Pandaren (Horde), unless the buyer is a pandaren: the faction's tabard, sold at the same camp, turns dungeon reputation into theirs · about 3.5 h
- 1 gold
In all: about 3.5 h of play, 1 gold, starting from nothing.
Getting there
/way Stormwind City 67.6 18.5 - Fly there
/way Orgrimmar 69.8 41 - Fly there
/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.
Notes and sources
The journal, Wowhead's tooltip and the wiki's page for the reins leave out the reputation. The wiki's page for Old Whitenose states it ('Only pandaren can buy from Old Whitenose by default; other characters must be exalted with the Tushui Pandaren'; his own line is 'If you are interested in purchasing one, you must prove your trust to the Tushui'), and its page for Turtlemaster Odai gives her words to a non-pandaren who is not yet Exalted: 'Alas, they are reserved only for our most trusted allies.'
Two of the three Wowhead comments on the reins agree: the turtles do not show for sale without the reputation (2012), and only a pandaren can buy without being Exalted (2013). It was not confirmed in the game, and nothing written since Mists of Pandaria was found.
The one reputation opens all twelve dragon turtles the two breeders sell (six at 1 gold, six Great ones at 10; wiki). Wowhead's sold-by list for the reins (2026) has exactly these two sellers: Old Whitenose (npc 65068), friendly to the Alliance only, and Turtlemaster Odai (npc 66022), to the Horde only.
The wiki puts Old Whitenose at 67.7, 18.5, west of the Eastern Earthshrine, and gives no coordinates for Odai. The coordinates given are those of the other dragon turtles, so that the turtles count as one stop, and were not read again from Wowhead.
The tabard: the wiki says the Tushui Tabard moved from Old Whitenose to Adherent Hanjun in patch 5.2 and that Disciple Jusi took over Odai's quartermaster duties; the other dragon turtles' notes have both at the same camps. The time to Exalted is the soft part, as for those turtles: how city tabards count for a level 90 character was not established.
Two item ids are tied to the mount, 82765 and 91004; both are called Reins of the Green Dragon Turtle, and Wowhead's tooltips give both the same two vendors at 1 gold. The wiki describes 91004. The reins bind when picked up, are unique and ask for Apprentice Riding (Wowhead's tooltip); the wiki has them at level 10 since patch 9.0.1.
Confidence in this entry: medium. Looked up in 2026.
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