Time spent looking: 9 Hours
Today saw another attempt at finding Skoll. But again to no avail. I had Toresh posted at the snowdrift, and Arria at the foot steps. Toresh would make the trip to check the lake every 5 minutes or so. Again for another day no sign of this great spirit beast.
But there was some good news I did see Vyragosa. I didn’t get the tag though so missed out on the kill. That was ok as I was not after her anyway. I’m starting to think the blue wolf is a myth. Either that or it just does not want to spawn for me.
Maybe ill have to try again tomorrow. I have put to much time in now to give up right?
Ill leave you with a story I found a few days ago while looking for information on the mighty spirit beasts. I don’t normally like to repost stuff that is all ready on the internet, but I’m going to break my rule just this once because it is that dam good.
Good Evening fellow hunters…
This day, June 12, 2009, marks the day that I have completed my set of Spirit Beasts…for Gondria and I have bonded in the ancient rites known to all Azerothian Hunters!
Here are the details of my hunt for this elusive, and majestic beast…
I searched in the pre-dawn hours on Dark Iron, searching for signs of Gondria…I mounted my Swift Wind-rider to get a better picture of the scene from the air…and just north of the Altar of Rhunor, my pet Core Hound, Wraith, picked up the scent of another elusive beast, a dire spider known in dark whispers as “Terror Spinner”. I didn’t have to track him very far to spy his gargantuan bulk, which stood out in sharp contrast against the white snow.
Motioning to Wraith to attack, he sped off, hitting the grotesque insect with a blast of Lava, and slammed his considerable bulk into the spider’s thorax, stunning it. I unleashed a barrage of fire from my trusty rifle, a gift from an engineer friend who, if I can believe him, received a copy of the plans for the gun from the great hunter, Nesingwary himself. Round after round slammed into the beast, as Wraith mauled and tore at the spider’s underbelly. Soon, the great spider lay twitching, it’s gore staining the pristine snow for yards in every direction. Wraith trotted up to me, grinning in satisfaction in helping me slay yet another foe, yet he sensed something was different in me today…that my mind was elsewhere, and tilted his heads at odd angles as he stared up at me. He seemed to know that our time together was coming to an end…but accepted his fate as we began searching again for Gondria…
Just after noon, I transited the paths between the outpost at Zim’Torga and the great set of stairs leading upward to the Altar of Mam’Toth, and as I ventured around the northwestern side of the stairs, I sensed a great aura…and off, in the distance, barely perceptible against the drifted snows, I saw my first glimpse of the great spectral Tiger, Gondria. The descriptions I’d heard of him whispered by other hunters in The Filthy Animal in Dalaran paled in comparison to seeing him for the first time, and kneeling next to my friend and faithful core hound, Wraith, I removed the collars that bound him to me, and whispered, “Wraith, you have served me well, and your memory will be in my heart always, but now I release you of your bond to me…you are free to go home…where you belong.” He looked me with both sets of eyes, nodded as if in understanding, then licked my hand, and slowly trotted southward, disappearing as he faded from my sight.
I stalked Gondria swiftly, and, closing almost to where I could reach out and touch him, chose a freezing trap from my pack, placed it at my feet. Using the techniques shown me at an early stage in my training as a hunter in Durotar, I called out to him with my heart and soul, exerting my will and hoping that he would accept the bond that I wished to form with him. He growled and walked towards me, and as he reached me, stepped into the trap I’d laid for him just under the snow’s surface, magically freezing him in a block of ice. He froze, mid stride, and as our eyes locked, his will pushing back against mine, I could sense that he knew that I would win this battle of wills, and that we would walk together as one. After what seemed like an eternity, the trap thawed, and I could sense that he had found my soul pure, and ceased to resist me, and accepted me as his brother as the ritual bonding completed. I fed him until he was sated, as I sensed his hunger, and called forth the words of power bound to the hearthstone I carried with me, transporting us back to the Filthy Animal back in Dalaran, my hunt having reached it’s successful conclusion.”
His spawn time was almost exactly 8 hours after killing Terror Spinner this morning at 7:30AM server time on Dark Iron, finding and taming Gondria at approximately 12:35PM server time, at coordinates (63.1,42.7), on the northwestern side of the stairs.
I named him “Ineluki” (Storm King), and he now joins Loque’Nahak as well as The Kurken (White Core Hound) in my stable of exotic pets.
Total time of my hunt: Approximately 1 full day. You will find him…and you too will know the joy of having such a Regal companion by your side. Good Hunting!
Enth
80 Troll Hunter
Dark Iron
Taken from here.