Zephras Isle partial leveling notes (1–12)

Questions these notes answer

What Blizzard has published

Blizzard text Zephras Isle is the level 1–12 starting experience for the Skyborne. It sits in Skywall, on the elemental plane of air. Blizzard's story is that Highborne exiles made a pact with wind spirits and built a home there. When players arrive, the air spirits are gone, the pylons that hold the island together are failing, and parts of the island are falling into ruin.

Blizzard text Three groups are named in that crisis: the Windshapers, the High Order, and the Al'Aketh. Horde characters are Windshapers and can be shamans. Alliance characters are High Order and can be mages. Both can be warriors, hunters, rogues, and druids. The race and this starting experience are included with the Skyborne Heroic Pack or a higher digital upgrade.

What this page refuses to invent

Not sourced A complete hub order, hand-in order, and quest-by-quest objective list is not published here. The wiki page retrieved on 6 November 2026 was last edited on 26 September 2026 and only covers Thendal Village. Later villages are not on that page. A pre-launch third-party route was not copied in to fill the gap. If the live island differs from the names below, the names are the thing to discard.

Thendal Village names, wiki order

Wiki list Warcraft Wiki spells the village Thendal. Wowhead's trainer table spells a similar place Thendall. This section uses the wiki spelling. The list follows the wiki's order. An arrow on the wiki is kept as an arrow. Side-by-side items were indented together on the page. The page does not write prerequisite sentences, so an indent is not upgraded into a rule.

• Coming of Age, listed at level 1, then Harmony in Balance at level 1, with an arrow toward class quests.
• Grouped with that stretch: Infestation Investigation (2) arrow to The Cirrusfly Queen (3), Falling With Style (2), The Anchors of Zephras (2), Harvesting Windstones (4), and Reading the Leylines or The Gift of Skysight, both listed at 4.
• Then Elemental Unrest (3), Agitators (3), Return to Rorian (4), Aetheen of the Gales (4), Foul Matriarch (5), with Aggressive Encroachment (4) grouped there.
• The Next Step (5), with Al'Aketh Thugs (5) and The Adventurer (6). The Adventurer has an arrow, and the page does not name the quest that follows.

Wiki list Class quest names on the same page, all listed at level 2: A Student of Nature, The Way of the Hunter, A Student of the Arcane, At Home in the Shadows, Embracing the Elements, and The Warrior's Path. Embracing the Elements is drawn onward to Call of Earth (Zephras Isle) and then Call of Earth (Zephras Isle 2). The wiki does not label those six names with classes. Call of Fire, which a Wowhead sentence mentions for shaman totems, is not on this wiki page.

Leaving and arriving

Database report Wowhead's pre-launch guide says two skyboats call at Valanaar about every five minutes. One goes to Dalaran. One goes to a cliff just south of Skywatcher Plateau, which that guide describes as the Thunder Bluff boat. It says both factions can ride either boat, and that Dalaran is generally meant for Alliance players and the Thunder Bluff boat for Horde players. Blizzard's own pages used here do not publish these docks.

Trainers in the October guide

Rewards the October guide singles out

Database report These three are the quests that guide calls out as useful early rewards. They are not a loot table, and they predate launch.

Database report The same guide says Skyborne shamans should complete Call of Earth and Call of Fire to receive an Earth Totem and a Fire Totem, because some totem abilities require them. Call of Fire does not appear on the wiki storyline page. Reputation on that Wowhead page is described only in outline: High Order is the Alliance-sided faction, Windshapers are the Horde-sided faction, and most isle quests reward the faction tied to your character. Point values are not taken from a second site.

Checklist

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Related notes

• Opening levels on the 1–60 index 1 and up
• Alliance races on the published table
• Horde races on the published table
• Starting areas Same index band, 1 and up
• Windshaper Skyborne Same index band, 1 and up
• High Order Skyborne Same index band, 1 and up

Sources for this page

1. World of Warcraft: Forever Now Live!
   Blizzard Entertainment. Retrieved 6 November 2026. Launch article, retrieved the day after the 4 November 2026 global launch.
2. WoW: Forever Meet the New Skyborne
   Blizzard Entertainment. Retrieved 6 November 2026. Source for the published Skyborne racial wording. A later database guide disagrees on several numbers.
3. World of Warcraft: Forever Found Photos Panel Recap
   Blizzard Entertainment. Retrieved 6 November 2026. Panel recap written before launch. It still says the beta begins 17 September. World facts from this page are Blizzard's published design, not a post-launch quest log.
4. World of Warcraft: Forever What's Next Panel Recap
   Blizzard Entertainment. Retrieved 6 November 2026. The recap points ahead to a Deep Dive on 13 September, so it predates launch. The 9 December raid date is a roadmap line from this page.
5. Return to Azeroth in World of Warcraft: Forever
   Blizzard Entertainment. Retrieved 6 November 2026. Restates the new combinations and says Skyborne access requires the Heroic Pack or a higher digital upgrade.
6. Zephras Isle storyline
   Warcraft Wiki. Retrieved 6 November 2026. Their page says updated 26 September 2026. Last edited 26 September 2026. The retrieved page lists only the Thendal Village portion. Later hubs are absent, so they are not filled in.
7. Zephras Isle Zone Overview
   Wowhead. Retrieved 6 November 2026. Their page says updated 22 October 2026. Byline updated 22 October 2026, before launch. Coordinates, trainers, boats, and reward notes stay provisional.
8. Phase 1 Overview: New Features, Dungeons, Zones, Raids
   Wowhead. Retrieved 6 November 2026. Their page says updated 5 November 2026. Updated 5 November 2026. Its dungeon brackets differ from Blizzard's dungeon article, so those brackets are not used. Zone access lines are kept only where labeled as a database report.