Quick Facts

Series

1.	Speak with Scout Neftis
2.	Who Are They?
3.	Kill the Shadow Council!

Storyline
Terokkar Forest Olemba Seed Oil And Now, the Moment of Truth Arakkoa War Path Stymying the Arakkoa An Unwelcome Presence The Firewing Liaison What Happens in Terokkar Stays in Terokkar An Unseen Hand Vestments of the Wolf Spirit Patriarch Ironjaw Welcoming the Wolf Spirit WANTED: Bonelashers Dead! Torgos! Speak with Scout Neftis Who Are They? Kill the Shadow Council! Strange Energy Clues in the Thicket It's Watching You! By Any Means Necessary Wind Trader Lathrai A Personal Favor Investigate Tuurem What Are These Things? Report to Stonebreaker Camp Attack on Firewing Point The Final Code Letting Earthbinder Tavgren Know Speak with Rilak the Redeemed The Eyes of Skettis Seek Out Kirrik Veil Skith: Darkstone of Terokk Veil Rhaze: Unliving Evil Veil Lithic: Preemptive Strike Veil Shalas: Signal Fires Return to Shattrath The Skettis Offensive Missing Friends The Tomb of Lights Vengeful Souls Recover the Bones Helping the Lost Find Their Way Before Darkness Falls The Infested Protectors Cabal Orders The Shadow Tomb Taken in the Night For the Fallen Terokkarantula Return to Sha'tari Base Camp The Dread Relic Evil Draws Near Digging Through Bones Fumping The Big Bone Worm An Improper Burial A Hero Is Needed The Fallen Exarch

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Comments

Comment by 6934

Scout Neftis will cast this disguise on you upon accepting the quest. Entering combat will remove the disguise, but don't worry, just talk to Neftis again to regain it. You may, however, mount without losing the disguise. Be careful while going into the village - the Shadowy Hunters that patrol the area will see through the disguise and call you out, causing everyone near to engage you.

Comment by 807

If you are druid, you can shift forms freely, you will not lose your disguise. Wich is handy, because you can move faster in travel form and just switch to cat and stealth when hunter is arriving.

Comment by Gokou

Comment by 14842

Watch out for the hunters, they have a lot of escorts and can see through your disguise.

Comment by 16194

You cannot mine minerals without losing your disguise

Comment by 18519

Stay mounted you won't be disguised on combat

Comment by 22576

The camp (Grangol'var Village) is the area right behind Neftis. I got in easily by going around the tree she has her back to and climbing up a small hill.

I found the Laborer walking between two 'guard towers', the Initiate next to the small body of water and the Advisor in the big building talking to the leader. I think the race of each of these can change because the next quest has you killing mobs in this camp and the 3 people might respawn as different races.

I lost my disguise twice, but just return to her for another one.

Comment by 32567

If you're a shaman, talk to the quest giver in ghostwolf form. Then if you lose your disguise you will revert to ghostwolf and can run away quickly. This saved me from dying.

Comment by 32282

Laboror = 38, 39 (Patrols supposedly, found him standing there)
Initiate = 39, 39
Advisor = 40, 39

Comment by 34266

You also change dancing when you disguise.

Comment by 46878

As for the advisor, be quick about it. I stood in there too long and a hunter patrols back inside the building. However, I did almost make it all they way out of the area before dying lol ;)

Comment by Arkuray

You will lose the disguise if you take damage, mount or entering any other area then the camp.

Comment by Rattja

Another way to compleate this quest is just kill the mobs you should talk to, it gets compleated just the same, and you get some exp killing your way in aswell :P i never enven noticed the disguise

Edit: After leveling a new char and revisit this quest i agree that doing it the way its meant is alot easyer, and it may have been patched anyways ;)

Comment by 68244

You can accept this quest while mounted. However, you will not receive the disguise. Make sure to be unmounted to receive the disguise as intended.

Comment by 71444

If you have a hard time finding them, stand in middle of the camp, press Enter on your keyboard and type one of the following lines followed by another Enter:

/tar shadowy laborer
/tar shadowy initiate

When you do this the correct NPC will be targetet and a lot easier to locate.

Advisor is in the building so it's easy to find.

Comment by 25819

If you are mounted you do not get "Shadowy Disguide".

Comment by 66315

The Laborer is a bit hard to be found. As you enter the camp from the southern gate, go straight (always aware of the Hunters) and you will see a troll patrolling from the south to the north and then from the north to the south.

Comment by archimonde

you cant mount while u have the disguise on you that will interrupt the spell

Comment by 44993

All 3 guys are in Grangol'var Village.

The laborer = A Troll wandering around.
The initiate = In the middle of the area, on one of the docks surrounding the waters. A Human
The advisor = In the biggest building that you can find. A Gnome.

But you dont need the disgustion to talk to them, just walk in there and kill them, the quest is done anyway :P
I killed them - and i completed the quest that way :) more fun!

Comment by 95057

pretty simple quest. Solod as 66 combat rogue
coords:
Laboror = 38, 39 (Patrols supposedly, found him standing there)
Initiate = 39, 39
Advisor = 40, 39
all confirmed
also as rogue i noticed few things

Stealthing DOES NOT remove disguise
i pulled aggro from a hunter and wound up killing him and the laborer but still got quest
if your on a mount u don't get disguise

Comment by wolfblood

Well, i actually did this quest WHIT OUT disguise as a lvl 65 hunter BM spec, i didn't even read the quest log so i didn't know about it, and if you kill the guys, is the same as talking to them xD i think is a bug....but o well..

Comment by Cross88

Be careful about talking to anyone else besides the three people. The other mobs talk about leather ball leagues and going into shat for drinks. I felt really bad about ruining their plans as I roasted them alive with fire balls...

Comment by Soroush

you cant get disguise while you are mounted

Comment by 109854

Abandoned this POS crap as 65 mage. Hunters spot you from miles away, sometimes I lost disguise for no apparent reason and then its run like hell, get yet another disguise, repeat.

Not worth it at all.

Will be back some levels later to just kill everything.

Comment by 162204

like everyone says hunter will see you even with dusguise and look around for like destroyed towers and laborers will be working on the tower and for the advisor go to the biggest building and for the intinate or whatever look at the docks he will be doing like sum spell or whatever

FOR THE HORDE!

Comment by 146819

Don't do anything other than talk to the people; any action will remove your disguise. I found that out the hard way when I tried to mine some Fel Iron next to one of the Executioners.

Comment by 87606

Apparently the Shadowy Executioner guys joined because the shadow council will pay their way through the academy.. When i saw that i lol'd

Comment by Amento

I did a MotW while in disguise ... Not smart, removed the desguise and I died ...

~Amento

Comment by 181575

When i switched from "track beasts" to "track humaniods" i lost my disguise and they all aggro'd me. -_- no idea why though

Comment by dontblink438

Easy quest, just don't use any spells or anything during it or it will break.

Also if you aggro try to make it back to the quest giver and get another disguise, it will drop all aggro instantly. Atleast it did for me.

Comment by 334721

Jumping into the water will dismiss the costume and also opening boxes will destroy the costume.

Comment by 403169

Wrong. You don't turn this quest in with Scout Neftis but you turn it in to Advisor Faila in Stonebreaker Hold instead.

Comment by 465791

All 3 guys are in Grangol'var Village.

The laborer = A Troll wandering around.=-- he is old man around <-
The initiate = In the middle of the area, on one of the docks surrounding the waters. A Human
The advisor = In the biggest building that you can find. A Gnome.
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Comment by 561678

In patch 3.3.3 invisibility removes disguise.

Comment by 698171

If you're a rogue, using sprint will break the disguise too.

Comment by 744278

If you're a mage and you're thinking of blinking - don't.

Comment by 795994

This @#$%ing quest..
Blink, Icebarrier and all other spells will break the disguise..

Comment by ziggy29

The most annoying thing? Even as a hunter it's hard to use your tracking to find the hunters because they almost always travel with another person, and the green dot superimposes the red dot...

Comment by 852458

Hunters - be sure to dismiss your pet before you go into the camp. A hunter picked up on my pet and I got ganked by a whole mob. Learned this lesson the hard way :)

Comment by 962237

i am alliance, does this mean i cannot do this quest as i cannot talk to Scout Neftis as he's horde? have tried talking but it doesnt give me the option to do so...

Comment by 885364

I tried this quest about a dozen times, was spotted each and every time by a hunter, died in the middle of the village, couldn't get to my corpse without being mobbed again, and finally had to take rez sickness and abandon it for good.

All that quest did for me was cost me gold to get my weapons fixed. I think it's one of the worst quests in the game.

Comment by 920140

If you do X, you lose disguise.

Now in place of X, put anything besides WALKING and INTERACTING with the folks in the village, beside the hunter. Sorted.

-I guess even if you sneeze while playing this quest, you lose disguise.
-Don't shake your desk, or you lose disguise.
-If your mom walks behind you and ask you "What game is this?" you lose disguise.

All the mobs in the path you walk towards the village, if you aggro them, and they hit you, you lose disguise.

Tip: Ask someone's help to clear the path for you. If they are 85, ask them to wipe the hunters too. Cheat.

Comment by cUnAzeroth

Here are a few things that helped me with this quest.

1. Remember that you are not allowed to do anything other than walk and talk with NPCs.
(No gathering resources, no mounting rides, NO FIGHTING, you may not stealth, blink, shield...etc.)

2. Do a preflight check to see if the NPCs you need to talk to are there.
(Because the follow-up quest for this one Kill the Shadow Council! asks players to go in and kill the leader and his followers, sometimes the NPCs you are looking for have been executed. This happened with me for the Shadowy Advisor. Fly over the biggest building there and you can observe through the hole in the roof just who is alive or not in the building below.)

3. Clear a walking path from Private Weeks (he is the guy who will give you the disguise) to the front gate of Grangol'var Village before you get into disguise. You might have to kill few Ironspine Petrifiers or Timber Worgs, because remember rule 1: NO FIGHTING once in disguise.

4. You are looking for 3 NPCs in disguise without being discovered by the hunters.
(If you go into your game interface under Names check "Hostile and Quest NPCs." You will then be able to spot the hunters a mile away. They will be the only ones with a red name over there head. Once finished just go back to the game interface under Names and check "Quest NPCs." to reset as original.)

Comment by cUnAzeroth

Everything goes very fast in this quest so you might not have had a chance to stop and read the question and answer series with each of the three. Here is the full Exchange of text for each NPC:

Shadowy Laborer
"Yeah, what do you want? Can't you see I'm busy here? The Shadow Council isn't paying me by the hour!
Question: "Why are you fixing all of this up?"
Shadowy Laborer
"What's it look like I'm doing? I'm fixing the place up - all on my own I might add - so that we can move in!"
"With a base of operations out here in the forest, it'll be easier to keep track of what Shattrath, Allerian, Stonebreaker and the Cenarion druids are all up to. Our base in Auchindoun is just to inconvenient for that."
"Wait a minute, do I know you?"

Shadowy Initiate
"Yes? Darn it all, now I'll have to start over from scratch!"
Question: "What are you doing there?"
Shadowy Initiate
"Practicing! Soon I'll be good enough to join the other summoners and take my turn inside the Shadow Labyrinth at Auchindoun."
"I hope that I'll get the chance to summon something big! Maybe something as big as Murmur, though I wouldn't lose control of him!"

Shadowy Advisor
"And what is it exactly that you think I can do for you? Can't you see that I'm very busy here discussing matters of import with our illustrious leader?"
"Be Quick about your business or I'll have you beaten, dog!"
Question: "Advisor, what's the latest news?"
Shadowy Advisor
"Well I was just giving our leader here a progress report on how everything is proceeding according to plan. It should only be a few more weeks and we'll have this place back in shape."
"We may want the Shadow Council to only staff the village with orcs, however. That way we can make an ancestral claim and work undercover."
"Wait a minute. Do I know you? What's your name?"

Comment by MidnaLink

after thinking i was stupid, being an Alliance, i thought the quest was wrong, i abandoned my quest, went back (unmounted) and got the disguise to go in and speak to them, keep in mind do not mount again while in this disguise otherwise you need to go back and ask him for another disguise.

Comment by skysky055

When i tried to speak to them, it did not work. Do you think it may be bugged or glitched? Because it doesn't count it.

Comment by whecks

If you lose your disguise, return to Scout Neftis at 39.0,43.7

Shadowy Initiate at 39.0,39.7
Shadowy Laborer at 39.0,40.8 (moves/walks)
Shadowy Advisor at 40.3,39.0 (in hut/building)

Best route is up the back side:
1. Get costume from Scout Neftis
2. Goto right, up rocks, through back of village (avoids attacking mobs)
3. Goto all three Shadowy mobs

Don't mount, mine, attack, etc...you will lose the disguise.

Return to Scout Neftis to complete.

Comment by 1440987

Who Are They? http://youtu.be/-iXMfd3clO8

Comment by WoWGnGP

I made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjitwawKEOE

Comment by tkalfaoglu

I just posted a bug report -- the Scout Neftis is unresponsive.. Cannot interact with him/her at all...
Abandoned quest, still cannot interact!

Comment by Frazley

I was having trouble with this. Even unmounted, my Shadowy Disguise at 120 kept going away. I removed all armor and it worked. I don't know if it was my Azerite Armor abilities or my corruption.

Comment by ekrietlow

Found laborer at 40.9, 40.7

Links

Who Are They?

While in disguise, speak with the Shadowy Initiate, the Shadowy Laborer and the Shadowy Advisor. Then return to Scout Neftis at Grangol'var Village in Terokkar Forest.

	Shadowy Initiate Spoken To (1)
	Shadowy Laborer Spoken To (1)
	Shadowy Advisor Spoken To (1)

Description

I don't know who they are, but I know they're hostile!

I'm going to give you a disguise, and I want you to go in there and speak with three of them that I've observed as being 'chatty'. Talk with the initiate, the laborer, and the advisor.

Just watch out; there're a few hunters in there who'll be able to see through your disguise and they look tough! And whatever you do, don't leave the village -- the disguise is kind of flimsy. If you lose your disguise, come back to me and I'll give you another.

Completion

Rewards

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Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10041))