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Comment by Miyari

The Shady Rest Inn quest chain can start either at the Inn itself, from the objects, or from Brackenwall Village (37.6,31.7), Dustwallow Marsh.
If the player chooses to start the quest chain in Brackenwall, Krog (36,31) will give the following quest:

Inspecting the Ruins

This quest completes at Inspector Tarem (29.6,47.5), located just outside of the inn, who will then use powder to help 'illuminate' the "clues." This basically causes purple arrows to appear, pointing at the individual quest objects strewn about the destroyed inn. Obtaining and completing this quest is not necessary, as the quest chains can be started directly from the objects regardless.

From the Shady Rest Inn (29.4,47.5), the quest branches into three paths, each starting when a different item gets looted.
The first quest for each chain will have you bring the three items to Krog in Brackenwall Village.

Loot the Black Shield (29.6,48.6):

Loot the Suspicious Hoofprints (29.7,47.7):

Suspicious Hoofprints

Loot the Theramore Guard Badge (29.8,48.2):

After completing all three quest chains, Krog will offer a fifth The Black Shield quest, asking players to bring the Blackened Iron Shield to Mosarn (55.6,79.6) in Thunder Bluff.

Mosarn will then volunteer new information regarding the "mystery" and starts the following short chain:

When these three quests have been completed, Krog will direct you to Tabetha (46.0,57.1) for further progression and conclusion:

Comment by Allakhazam

The Quest chain starts with the black shield at the shaddy inn. The shaddy inn is the demolished building that is on the side of the road that connects the barrens with dustwallow marsh.

This quest is available to both Horde and Alliance. My toon is an Undead so ill post what i know about the Horde chain.

The Name of the Quest is, The Black Shield.

Go to the shaddy inn and look at the fireplace, there is a shield there.
If you mouse your cursor over it you will get a cog and when you open it you get the quest.

Take it back to the guy at the village and you get some xp and another quest to get acid off of the spiders in the area to clean it off. once you complete that part you get Xp and nothing else off him.

Go back to the inn and you'll now be able to find Hoofprints in front of the inn. it just looks like a horseshoe crab on the left side of what should be stairs. Mouse over and get that quest.
Take it back to the guy and complete it and he summons a guy to go investigate.
That guy runs out of the side of the village and dissapears. dont bother looking for him.

Go Back again to the Inn and in the middle there are planks. on one of the planks is what looks like a pebble or small rock.Its a badge. Mouse over that and you get the last part of the quest. Go back to the village and talk to the guy again.
complete the quest. nothing pops over his head , but if you right click on him as if you were to get a quest you will now see another option to talk to him.
He now tells you to find Ogron. Orgon is at 40,36

this quest part is lvl 37 , the other ones where lvl 35

Its an Odd way for quest chain , but thats the way is set up. you have to go investigate it a few times over to be able to complete the quest .

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Comment by dasbaum

Full Reethe Questline Info

It's a long story following Rethe's mystery on both alliance and horde side. I will tell the alliance side of things. I can also confirm it works in classic, you just need to get the required prequests. Questie will show the badge on the map, even if you didn't complete the prequests yet.

Alliance starts with James Hyal and the followup James Hyal OR They Call Him Smiling Jim (you can do only one of the prerequisites)

Once you got these prerequisites you will be able to loot the Blackened Iron Shield and Reethe's Badge as well as inspect Hoofprints in the burned down Inn in Dustwallow Marsh at 29 47.

The badge is really small sitting on a plank in the middle of the inn, the shield hangs on the chimney, the hoofprints are in front of the house.

These items start 3 quest:

Lieutenant Paval Reethe
The Black Shield
Suspicious Hoofprints

You are then send around 2 more times to other NPCs with the shield:

The Black Shield
The Black Shield

And the badge continues to the following questline:

Lieutenant Paval Reethe
Daelin's Men
The Deserters
The Deserters

There is no follow-up to this quest, though you do get a bit more from the Horde's perspective if you come back and do their side of the chain. The conclusion to the mystery was not added into the game until Patch 2.3, thus we won't be seeing it in Classic. That patch addressed many of the abrupt endings to quest chains in Dustwallow Marsh.

On Horde side:

Lieutenant Paval Reethe from Theramore Guard Badge

Suspicious Hoofprints from Hoofprints

The Black Shield from Black Shield
The Black Shield
The Black Shield
The Black Shield

Questioning Reethe

After handing in Reethe's Badge you get an escort quest to help an ogre go talk to him.
However before you can get anything out of him some alliance show up and kill him for treason.
After all three of them has been completed horde gets a quest to go talk to the smith of the Blackened Iron Shield in Thunderbluff.
Unfortunatly the smith cant possibly remember for whom he made the Blackened Iron Shield so the quest ends there.

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[DEPRECATED]The Black Shield

This quest is no longer available within the game.

Show the Blackened Iron Shield to Do'gol in Brackenwall Village.

	Blackened Iron Shield (Provided) (1)

Description

Hmm... I don't see anything out of the ordinary with this shield. We should have Do'gol, the blacksmith, take a look at it, and see if he can tell us more about it, but I wouldn't hold out hope...

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/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(1321))