Quest 2138 · Confirmed in World of Warcraft: Forever through matching reports from players using RestedRealm Companion.1 player report · Classic details with player reports

Cleansing of the Infected

Quest level16Requires level10Classic zoneDarkshoreEligible races in ClassicHuman, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome

Parts of this page come from real play in Forever, reported through RestedRealm Companion. The rest is Classic Era reference from QuestieDB, not verified for Forever. Quest ID 2138 is present in the Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70790. QuestieDB 1.0.10, Vanilla release, retrieved 2026-11-03 (source).

The task

Objectives

Cleanse the forest of 20 Rabid Thistle Bears and return to Tharnariun Treetender in Darkshore.

  • Rabid Thistle Bearnpc 216420 required

Rewards and gains

Reputation

Experience

1,150 XP

Coin

0copper

The route

Quest locations

Classic pins are approximate reference points. Reported ! and ? markers are search points near quest NPCs. Hover or focus a marker for details.

Start Turn in

Darkshore

Forever search area

Tharnariun Treetender

Darkshore (38.8, 43.5)

Player position near this quest NPC, not its exact location

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Fully revealed map assembled from client map and exploration textures. Artwork from build 1.60.1.69977, compared file by file with build 1.60.1.70790 and unchanged. Associated by the client filename Interface/WorldMap/Darkshore_c60, not by a direct map-art foreign key. This is client artwork, not a verified in-game map. Artwork © Blizzard Entertainment.

The people

Start and turn-in

Starts from

  • Tharnariun Treetender
    Approximate Classic location: Darkshore

Seen in Forever: Tharnariun Treetender offered this quest to 1 player.

Ends at

  • Tharnariun Treetender
    Approximate Classic location: Darkshore

Coordinates are approximate Classic references. The `/way` formats require TomTom or a compatible addon; use the named-zone form from outside the zone.

The path

Quest chain

Quest text

As I had feared, the cure does not work.

It saddens me greatly to order the death of any of nature's beasts, but the sick and tainted thistle bears must be put down.

Return to the forest and destroy 20 rabid thistle bears, your name. It will most certainly not put a stop to the plague but it will slow down the damage the animals are doing to our forest and its inhabitants for a short time.

World of Warcraft: Forever quest text, © Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. As 1 player saw it in build 70170, reported through RestedRealm Companion.

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