The Sons of Hodir or your way to shoulder enchants

Unless you are a scribe, this is one faction you will be grinding. During BC, you found that your faction choice granted you shoulder enchants. In WotLK, it's a bit different. Unless you are a scribe and have inscription, then this is one faction you will need to unlock.

The quest line itself is not so hard as it is long and tedious. It begins in Stormpeaks with a quest you get from Gretchen Fizzlespark They Took Our Men!

This quest sends you to Sifreldar Village. Goblin prisoner cages can be found around the Sifreldar Village at 41, 70. Keys to the cages drop off the local storm maidens.

Once you complete this quest, visit Gretchen again, and she will give you Leave No Goblin Behind.

Basically, Gretchen is still missing her brother and sends you into the Forlorn Mine to find more information. You need to enter the mine using the entrance at 42,70. You need to locate Lok'lira the Crone. If you enter at the coordinates about, then you'll find her on your first left turn.

Lok'lira the Crone gives you the next quest The Crone's Bargain. You need to retrieve her runes from Overseer Syra. You can find Overseer Syra up the ramp the direction Lok'lira is facing, and to the right. 44.0, 69.8. Once you get the runes, return to Lok'lira.

At this point, you strike a bargain with Lok'lira to try and gain her freedom. She gives you the next quest Mildred the Cruel. You've probably already spotted Mildred from when you killed the Overseer Syra. Go back up the ramp, and speak to Mildred. She is up the stairs.

Mildred gives you the quest Discipline. You are to use the disciplining rod on exhausted vyrkul. You can find these guys in the tunnels to the sides of Mildred. Be warned though, sometimes they don't take lightly to being disciplined and will attack you.

Once you turn this quest back into Mildred, you get Examples to be Made. Basically you learn that by disciplining the males, a small uprising has happened. Mildred wants you to slay
Garhal. Garhal is directly behind Mildred. You may have to look for him since he gets beat regularly by a couple of guards. Once you slay him, return to Mildred.

Finally, at this point, Mildred's next quest is A Certain Prisoner. Mildred basically tells you to slay Lok'lira as painlessly as possible and gives you the key to Lok'lira's shackles.

After returning to Lok'lira you will receive the next quest: A Change of Scenery . You are to meet up with Lok'lira at Brunnhildar Village is 47.2, 68.5. You can head through the mine to it.

At this point, if you want to save Gretchen's brother, you start the next quest Is that your Goblin? You have to challenge Agnetta Tyrsdottar in order to save Zeev Fizzlespark- and Agnetta is directly ahead of Lok'lira at 48.2, 69.7.

Once you've done this, you have basically entered The Hyldsmeet. This is your next quest. You just need to listen to Lor'lira to complete this quest. She has a proposal for you. She wants you to continue to compete in the Hyldsmeet.

The next quest you get from Lok'lira is Taking on All Challengers. She wants you to defeat 6 victorius challengers. Look for friendly mobs with a dialog bubble available; talk to them. Click "Let's do this, sister" and beat the crap out of them. They are not lootable and do not give kill xp, if you are doing this quest line while leveling. This can also give you the daily of Defending Your Title from which it's basically the same quest, but you get a Hyldnir Spoils bag- which has a very small chance to contain The Reins of the White Polar Bear.

The next quest you get to proceed in this questline is You'll Need a Bear. To get through the next round of competition you will have to go speak to Brijana. Brijana outside Brunnhildar Village in Storm Peaks 53,66.

Brijana gives you the quest Going Bearback. You have no real control over the bear other than to speed it up but to complete this quest you need to burn 7 Frostworgs and 15 Frost Giants.

Completing this quest, and returning to Brijana gives you Cold Hearted. This quest will probably be very confusing to a lot of people. What you need to do is fly on your mount to Dun Niffelem at 64,59. Once inside, look around for drakes attached to chains and fly straight up to one. Your cursor should then allow you to click and mount one. From there, fly around looking for Brunnhildar Prisoners encased in ice. You need to zap them once with the frostbolt and then they should automatically be picked up by the drake. One prisoner will appear mounted behind your character and the other 2 will be in the drakes claws.Once you have picked up 3 prisoners, fly back to Brunnhildar Village and eventually the game will take over flight and deliver the prisoners and the drake. Repeat this 3 times and the quest will complete.

Finally at this point, Brijana gives you the quest Deemed Worthy. It's another "go talk to quest" but you're almost through the long questline so chin up. You need to talk to Astrid Bjornrittar at Brunnhildar Village in The Storm Peaks 49,71.

Astrid gives you the quest Making a Harness. Basically you need to go and slay the Yetis around 48.3, 74.9. You are after 3 Icemane Yeti Hides. Then go back to Astrid.

Ok, now smile, and pat yourself on the back.. you survived the first chain... now it's time for the second. (no frowns!)
Astrid will start you on the next chain The Last of Her Kind. Astrid wants you to find a surviving icemaw matriarch. To complete this quest, enter the cave at 55,63.Take the far left path and fight mobs along the cave wall.Eventually you will stumble across a large white bear laying on the ground which you are able to ride.Simply hop on the bear, it is a vehicle and it will automatically ride back to the quest giver.

Astrid gives you The Warmup when you return. She basically compliments you on the bear, but tells you to practice on Kirgaraak. Kirgaraak is inside Brunnhildar Village chained up at 50 , 67. This quest has a few known bug issues, so if this happens to you, check the link for ways to counter the bug issues- and be careful of the knockback.

Once you have completed the Warmup, you get Into the Pit. It's pretty straight forward, Use [Reins of the Icemaw Matriarch] to 6 Hyldsmeet Warbear then kill him inside the Pit of the Fang in The Storm Peaks 49,68. This quest also becomes a daily called Back to the Pit. You can pick up this quest from Gretta the Arbiter. When you complete this daily, you get a spoils sack just like the other quest.

Astrid sends you back to see Lok'lira with the quest Prepare for Glory. Turn in quest to Lok'lira the Crone in Brunnhildar Village in Storm Peaks 47,69

Lok'lira gives you Lor'lir'a Part Gift and sends to Gretta the Arbiter. ( yes I know, more running around.) Gretta the Arbiter is standing right next to the Hyldsmeet Proto-Drakes. Coords are 50;65.

Gretta gives you the Drakkensryd. When you pick it up from Gretta, she will hand you a harpoon and pack you up on a proto-drake. The drake will fly west to the Temple of Storms, which rests on a very tall mountain peak. There you will enter formation with other riders, doing laps around the temple itself. At this point, dismounting is inadvisable, as there's no parachute.To begin the quest itself, target one of the other proto-drakes (not the riders), and use your harpoon. This will launch you to the back of the drake, where you and its rider will fight. So, yeah, there you are, on the back of a dragon, a mile above the ground, battling to the death. When you defeat your opponent, she falls to her doom, arms and legs flailing. Continue jumping from dragon to dragon until you've killed all ten, and when you're done, use your harpoon on one of the column ornaments. That will get you into the temple itself, so you can turn in to Thorim.

This brings you to Thorim. (yes, it's almost over.. finally). Basically the next quest is listening to Thorim's story Sibling Rivalry . He gives you Mending Fences once you listened to his story. Mending Fences has you slaying Fjorn slain and 5 Stormforged Iron Giants slain. From wowhead:
Step 1: Fly to the lake east of Dun Niffelm. Look around the east bank of the lake, or the path leading eastwards from the lake (there are dots on the map denoting the path).
Step 2: Find Granite Boulder on the ground. Click to pick one up.
Step 3: Use Thorim's Charm of Earth on these guys: Stormforged Iron Giants, then kill them. The dwarves that spawn will periodically taunt before they die, so go hog wild on DPS.
Step 4: Your first or second giant should drop Slag Covered Metal. Start the quest and kill Seething Revenant (non-elite) until you have 10x Furious Spark.
Step 5: By now, you should have killed 5 giants. Pick up another boulder and kill Fjorn. After he's dead, make sure to turn in The Refiner's Fire to the anvil. If you forget to do so, Fjorn will respawn and camp the anvil. Also, make sure to pick up the follow-up quest from the anvil.Step 6: Fly back to Thorim, turn in both quests. Both quests will award you 22000 reputation with the Sons of Hodir (each), taking you from Hated to Neutral.


Some things worth noting- you can purchase shoulder enchants at honored, but they aren't upgrades but comparative to the Aldor/Scryer exalted enchants. (the upside is that if you aren't exalted, you can buy these enchants here). There are some patterns available with reputation from this faction.