Cooking the Books

Cooking the Books
Start	Archmage Khadgar
End	Archmage Khadgar
Level	100 (Requires 100)
Category	Legendary
Experience	15,070
Rewards	15 40
Previous	[100R] We Don't Need No Library Card
Next	[100] Light Be With You  [100] Draenor's Blessing

Cooking the Books
Level: 100 (Requires 100)
Archmage Khadgar
Archmage Khadgar
XP: 15,070
Rewards:
15 40

Objectives

Deliver Gul'dan's Library of Chaos to Cordana at Zangarra and ensure they are destroyed.

• Travel to Zangarra
• Give Books to Cordana
• Confront  Cordana

Description

<Name>, we've got to destroy these tomes. Many of them have actual tortured souls bound into the pages, so we can't just burn them. Cordana will know what to do.

Take these books to my tower in Zangarra and give them to Cordana. Let me know when the deed is done.

Rewards

You will receive: 15 40

Progress

<Khadgar smiles.>

So, how is Cordana doing? Is all well at my tower?

Completion

<Khadgar's face falls as you describe your encounter at the tower.>

Cordana...? Oh no no no...She's been very distant lately. I just... I thought it was part of her stone-cold warden routine. I didn't realize...

Ah, <name>! You see? This is exactly what Gul'dan does. He finds our weakness and turns it against us. Be careful who you trust. Ah, Cordana!

<Khadgar turns his eyes to the sea.>

Cordana.

Gains

• 15,070 XP

Notes

Quest accept

Archmage Khadgar says: Give Cordana my best. She's been quite distant lately.

Approaching Khadgar's Tower

Wrathion makes a small cameo, sitting on a Kirin Tor banner and then flying off.

James Lamone says: Careful, <name>. Cordana has declared Khadgar's tower off-limits. She's acting odd.

Cordana

I am busy, <name>. Finish your business here and move on.

 Khadgar wants you to destroy these books.

 ...What are you doing with the Orb of Dominion, Cordana?

Nothing.

Nothing that concerns you.

I have this under control.

After selecting the first chat option, Cordana creates a fel pentagram using the tomes while talking.

Cordana Felsong says: Books. Yes, Gul'dan's tomes. Are you sure Khadgar didn't try to use them?

Cordana Felsong says: Books of power... books of knowledge... books written in the language of chaos... Don't you worry, champion, all will be destroyed.

Cordana Felsong says: Now, give me your ring. I need it. Give it here!

With the fel pentagram finished...

Yes, your ring. THE ring! The one Khadgar has been cooking up for you since we arrived on Draenor.

Give it here. I just want to borrow it...

 No.

 Oh, HELL no!

Cordana Felsong says: Then I will TAKE it from you! For the Glory of Gul'dan!

At start of combat after destroying the tomes that protect Cordana

Cordana Felsong says: The Orb of Dominion spoke to me. I saw the TRUTH.

At 50% health

Cordana Felsong says: Khadgar is just a child, swaggering around, torturing his prisoners, playing with lives, dabbling in magics he pretends to comprehend.

Failure

Cordana Felsong says: Such is the power of the Legion!

At 10% health, Cordana stuns the player and a demonic gate opens at the back of the room.

Cordana Felsong says: Very well, walk away. Nothing will stop Gul'dan, for the Legion stands behind him. Mark my words: Your leaders will betray you. AZEROTH WILL BURN.

Cordana leaves through the demonic gate, which closes behind her.

Known bugs

After Cordana places the books and creates the pentagram, stepping out of the pentagram can stall the quest, leaving the player unable to interact with Cordana. If this happens, join a group in another realm (eg. using the group finder or the Cross-Realm Assist addon). Cordana will reform on the new realm and one can interact with her. Defeat her and then leave the group. Hearth back to your shipyard to turn in the quest.

Progression

1.  [100] Call of the Archmage
2.  [100D] Spires of the Betrayer
3.  [100] Khadgar's Task
4. Complete all of:
   •  [100D] Core of Flame
   •  [100D] Core of Iron
   •  [100D] Core of Life
   •  [100] Draenor's Secret Power
5.  [100D] Tackling Teron'gor
6.  [100] Eyes of the Archmage
7.  [100] Fugitive Dragon
8.  [100] The Dragon's Tale
9.  [100] Tarnished Bronze
10.  [100] Power Unleashed
11. Complete both:
    •  [100R] Empire's Fall
    •  [100R] Legacy of the Sorcerer Kings
12.  [100] The Scrying Game
13.  [100] Hunter: Hunted
14.  [100] Touch of the Kirin-Tor
15. Complete all of:
    •  [100R] Heart of the Fury
    •  [100R] Flamebender's Tome
    •  [100R] Reverse Piracy
    •  [100R] Might of the Elemental Lords
16. Complete both:
    •  [100R] Blackhand's Secret
    •  [100] The Unbroken Circle
17.  [100] Prisoner of the Mind
    • Optional post-Patch 6.1.0:  [100] We're Not Finished...
18.  [100] Orb of Dominion
    • Side quest:  [100] The Shadow War (optional)
19.  [100] Breaking Badness
20.  [100] To Gul'dan!
21.  [100] An Inside Job
22.  [100] The Final Assault
    •  [100] My Garona
23. Complete all of:
    •  [100] Command of the Seas
      •  [100] Master vs. Commander
    •  [100R] We Don't Need No Library Card
      •  [100] Cooking the Books
24.  [100] Light Be With You /  [100] Draenor's Blessing
25.  [100R] Darkness Incarnate

Trivia

The quest name is a reference to the phrase "cooking the books", which is accounting slang for altering financial information to appear more financially stable than you would otherwise, usually to perpetuate some sort of fraudulent activity.

Patch changes

• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Removed.
  
• Patch 6.2.0 (2015-06-23): Added.
  

External links

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