Spawn of Galakras

Reward of the achievement Glory of the Orgrimmar Raider: fourteen achievements in the Siege of Orgrimmar, one special feat on each of its fourteen bosses, on Normal difficulty or higher. Thirteen can be had in a single clear; the fourteenth, Now We are the Paragon, takes three kills of the Paragons of the Klaxxi. Two of them take five players at once and a third takes two. The reward item is Reins of Galakras.

Inside Siege of Orgrimmar, a raid (Normal or higher (not Raid Finder))

Time there about 2 h a visit

Guide Wowhead: Glory of the Orgrimmar Raider

• Five players in the raid at the same moment, for two of the fourteen. Go Long: the Mark of Anguish has to be handed on to at least 5 different players, 200 yards in all, within one Desperate Measures phase of the Fallen Protectors, so five stand in a ring, each within 40 yards of the next, and pass it round. Giant Dinosaur vs. Mega Snail: Thok only goes into the phase that brings the Kor'kron Jailers and their keys when at least five players, in a raid set to ten, stand together at under half health. A third, Criss Cross, takes two players: no raid member may defeat both a Mantid and a Mogu enemy at the Spoils of Pandaria, so one opens only the Mogu crates and another only the Mantid ones, and the two pull the levers together
• Thirteen of the fourteen on one clear, each a feat during the fight (the list is in notes). Several have to happen before the boss dies, so one missed on a boss that then dies waits until that boss is alive again · about 1.5 h
• Now We are the Paragon: the Paragons of the Klaxxi, the thirteenth boss, killed three times, the character taking up the power of a different dead Paragon each time (click the body); only one can be taken in a fight. Normal, Heroic and Mythic each allow a kill in the same week; on one difficulty it is three weeks · about 1.5 h

In all: about 3 h of play, 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.

The place given above is the raid's entrance, the first of two points in the game's own table (the other is 74.7, 39.3). The wiki has 74, 42, at the bottom of what was the central lake of the Vale, under water in the Vale's Battle for Azeroth version, with a meeting stone at 69, 45. Whether it matters which version of the Vale the character is in was not looked up.

The wiki mentions a Scroll of Past Deeds just inside (patch 10.1.5) that skips straight to Garrosh Hellscream, which is no help for the other thirteen. The time on the spot is an estimate for one clear of the fourteen bosses with the achievements. How the reward is delivered (mail or bags) was not found.

Players: three comments on the meta-achievement (2016, 2018, 2026) agree that Go Long and Giant Dinosaur vs. Mega Snail take five players and Criss Cross two, and that the other eleven set no such number. The 2026 group did all fourteen with four or five players, and a later 2026 comment did Thok with five.

For Thok the best-rated comment (2016) gives the rule: with the raid set to 10 players, 5 have to be Bloodied (under half health) before he changes phase; with a larger raid, more. Later comments add:

• the five have to stand stacked together (2023, 2024, 2026)
• health is best lowered before the pull with Forbidden Flounder or with Pinchwhistle Nitro Fuel beside a fire
• the key from each Jailer goes into the cage on the left of the corridor before the room, three times, after which Thok is killed and the snail left to reach the corpse

Reports of 2024 and 2025 have the Jailers failing to appear without a tank holding Thok, with a group of mixed factions or with players spread over several raid groups; none of that is confirmed.

The fourteen, by wing, as Wowhead's guide and the comments give them. Vale of Eternal Sorrows:

• No More Tears (Immerseus): kill 10 Tears of the Vale; a Sha Puddle held back from the centre by crowd control that does no damage turns into one
• Go Long (the Fallen Protectors, see above): the Mark comes at 66% and 33% of He Softfoot's health
• None Shall Pass (Norushen): defeat the Amalgam of Corruption without any unleashed corruption fusing with it; killing it fast does it
• Swallow Your Pride (Sha of Pride): no player gains Pride from the Manifestations of Pride while Norushen is alive

Gates of Retribution:

• The Immortal Vanguard (Galakras): no friendly character dies
• Fire in the Hole! (Iron Juggernaut): stomp on 6 superheated Crawler Mines, which the Cutter Laser of his siege phase heats when led across them
• Rescue Raiders (Kor'kron Dark Shaman): before the fight save Ji Firepaw, free a caged prisoner with the key from Mokvar the Treasurer in the bank, and save one group of unwilling fighters by killing their overseer while leaving the neutral ones alive
• Gamon Will Save Us! (General Nazgrim): free Gamon and have him alive in the fight

The Underhold:

• Unlimited Potential (Malkorok): free the chained Corrupted Skullsplitter before his room, bring it into the fight and let Breath of Y'Shaarj hit it
• Criss Cross (Spoils of Pandaria, see above): by the 2026 group's comment, breaking a green Pandaren crate fails it, and further players wait by the chest that starts the fight
• Giant Dinosaur vs. Mega Snail (Thok)

Downfall:

• Lasers and Magnets and Drills! Oh My! (Siegecrafter Blackfuse): killed without destroying the laser turret, missile turret, electromagnet or crawler mines on the belt; the guide spreads it over two weeks for a group of the raid's own level, while the comments of 2018 and 2026 just kill him
• Now We are the Paragon: see below
• Strike! (Garrosh Hellscream): 18 Kor'kron Warbringers killed by a single Iron Star in the first phase; gather them at about half health in the star's path

The Paragon powers are tied to the character's role (guide), so any role has at least three to choose from; the achievement window shows which have been taken:

• tanks: Rik'kal's, Kaz'tik's or Korven's
• healers: Rik'kal's, Kaz'tik's, Xaril's or Iyyokuk's
• damage dealers: Rik'kal's, Kaz'tik's, Skeer's, Hisek's, Ka'roz's or Kil'ruk's

Strike!: a 2018 comment said it was then lenient about the single star, a later 2018 reply that it no longer was, and the 2026 group needed several tries.

Wowhead's tooltip marks the meta-achievement's progress as account-wide and names three criteria slightly differently from the achievements themselves (Mega Snail Vs. Giant Dinosaur; Now We Are the Paragon; Lasers and Drills and Magnets! Oh My!). The wiki's page for Go Long has 200 yards in the description and 250 in its text; Wowhead's guide has 200.

Wowhead's guide is a player's (SquireKel, patch 9.2.5, updated 2022): it quotes each achievement and gives a way to do it, and says any difficulty but Raid Finder counts.

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

Sources

• Wowhead tooltip: achievement 8454
• Wowhead: glory of the orgrimmar raider
• Wowhead: giant dinosaur vs mega snail
• Wowhead: glory of the orgrimmar raider 5307
• Wiki: Glory of the Orgrimmar Raider
• Wiki: Go Long
• Wiki: Criss Cross
• Wiki: Now We are the Paragon
• Wiki: Siege of Orgrimmar (instance)