Finkle Einhorn

Finkle Einhorn is a gnomish inventor, explorer, and a quest giver. Testing his lava suit, he was found at the Furnace in Upper Blackrock Spire within The Beast's stomach and was released by adventurers when The Beast was killed and skinned.

In Cataclysm he also appears at the Circle of Cinders in Mount Hyjal, in various locations of Blackrock Caverns, and in the Den of the Devourer at Blackwing Descent. While in the mountain, he barely escaped Beauty and her pups. He also created and lost a mace and an extremely well-made knife.

He also appears in Frostwall Tavern / Lunarfall Inn on and asks the commanders to retrieve his knife, that his son had stolen, from Blackrock Spire.

Following the Fourth War, he is mentioned in a report of Mathias Shaw as the most eclectic informants for 7.

Quests

 * Garrisons
 * Family Traditions
 * Like Father, Like Son

In Blackrock Caverns, Einhorn starts and finishes all of the following quests, either directly or remotely via his deepdive helmet:


 * Wowhead & Wowhead


 * Blackrock Spire
 * Finkle Einhorn, At Your Service! (quest)

Blackrock Spire

 * Whew... I need a smoke and the touch of a fine gnomish woman - not particularly in that order!


 * I've been stuck inside the belly of that thing for months! What day is it anyway?  Ah, nevermind.  All that matters is that I'm finally out.


 * WOOO HOOO!


 * How?? Well, it's a long story.


 * Alrighty then! So I was down at the lava pits of the Molten Span, testing out my lava suit.  Everything was going great.  I was even able to swim around in that stuff without suffering a single injury!


 * So there I am, minding my own business, doing a few backstrokes, when out of nowhere this thing swallows me up whole! Had it not been for my lava suit and built in food pellet dispenser, I would have been done for!


 * Say, I sense a measure of disbelief in your voice - but yes, that's how it happened.


 * I'm not out of the belly of this beast for more than two minutes and someone is already asking me about my bathroom behavior??? Mister, I'd have smacked you silly for that question had you not been the one to rescue me!


 * Anyhow! I'm grateful for the assistance.  Maybe I can pay you back?


 * Well, maybe 'pay' isn't the best word to use. See, when I was stuck in the belly of that thing, I got to thinking:


 * This creature lives in hot, flaming magma and yet it doesn't take a lick of damage from the fire!


 * If only I could find a pristine hide from one of these beasts. I could take it back to my dear friend, Malyfous Darkhammer, in Everlook.  If anyone could do anything with the hide of a beast like this, it would be him.


 * So how about you deliver a message for me?

(The message delivery is the quest mentioned above.)

Garrison
Have you ever spent time, like really spent time, in the belly of an acidic swamp ooze? I wouldn't recommend it.

Trivia

 * Finkle's name is a reference to the film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, wherein Ace finds that Ray Finkle had assumed the identity of a female detective Lois Einhorn.
 * Finkle also begins some dialogue with the phrase "Alrighty then," Ace's catchphrase from the same film.
 * Einhorn is the German word for Unicorn, an appropriate name for one who searches for rare things.
 * One of the Saurfang 'facts' is that he once got so mad at a gnome that he hurled it across the Great Sea and into Blackrock Spire, where the Beast ate him.
 * In Hearthstone, the Beast appears as a legendary card, and upon death he summons Finkle Einhorn for the opponent.