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Sinking Sands Timeline
Recommended Levels 45 to 52
Introduced: Desert of Flames
Difficulty: Solo
Starts in: The Sinking Sands
Preceded by: Steamfont Mountains Timeline

Everfrost Timeline

Followed by: Maj'Dul Timeline

Peacock Club Timeline
Pillars of Flame Timeline

Sinking Sands Timeline [edit]
Solo Series
Kallon Ebbtide
1.1. Kallon's Vengeance
Numair
2.1. Cooking Crocodiles
2.2. Diggers for Dinner
2.3. A Terrible Crime
2.4. Scarabs and Spiders
Aliyyah the Embalmer
3.1. Unraveling the Mummies
3.2. Grisly Gathering
3.3. More Mummies?
3.4. Osseous Investigations
3.5. Undead Investigations
3.6. Sul'Dal Studies
Xilla Beetlebinder
4.1. Beetle Herding - Act I
4.2. Beetle Herding - Act II
4.3. Beetle Herding - Act III
4.4. Beetle Herding - Act IV
4.5. Beetle Herding - Act V
4.6. Beetle Herding - Act VI
4.7. Beetle Herding - Act VII
4.8. Beetle Herding - Final Act
Repeatable Quests
5.1. Mender Mending
5.2. Noxious Roundup
5.3. Sand Thing Special
El'Khazi, Purveyor of Fine Carpets
6.1. Threads of the Desert
6.2. Scouring the Sands
6.3. Rocky Correspondence
6.4. The Spirit of Ab'zheri
Fahad Nuhayd
7.1. Stopping the Flow
Ghassan the Trader Timeline

These quest lines start in The Sinking Sands. You'll find more quests at the same level range nearby in Maj'Dul; see the Maj'Dul Timeline.

(recommended levels in brackets)

Solo Quests

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The Sinking Sands

Kallon Ebbtide - on dock - a good introduction to this zone

  1. Kallon's Vengeance (44)

On Pirate's Perch island
(right-click and "rub" an ornamental metal lamp at ( -2080, -223, -160 ) Copy

  1. The Gauntlet of al-Azhar (45)

Chef Numair series

Numair - at north croc hunter camp

  1. Cooking Crocodiles (48)
  2. Diggers for Dinner (47)
  3. A Terrible Crime (47)
  4. Scarabs and Spiders (48)

Undead series

Aliyyah the Embalmer - at south croc hunter camp

  1. Unravelling the Mummies (47)
  2. Grisly Gathering (47)
  3. More Mummies? (50)
  4. Osseous Investigations (52)
  5. Undead Investigations (52)
  6. Sul'Dal Studies (52)

Beetle Herding series

Xilla Beetlebinder - at top of beach path

  1. Beetle Herding - Act I (47)
  2. Beetle Herding - Act II
  3. Beetle Herding - Act III
  4. Beetle Herding - Act IV
  5. Beetle Herding - Act V
  6. Beetle Herding - Act VI
  7. Beetle Herding - Act VII
  8. Beetle Herding - Final Act

Part of the Ghassan the Trader Timeline

Ghassan the Trader - at dock

Rashad - start of orc highway

continues with Sergeant Tuskin in the Ortallian camp in Pillars of Flame

Court Quests

There are three major factions in Maj'Dul called Courts: The Court of Truth, the Coin and the Blades. Each Court has a headquarters in the city of Maj'Dul, and a representative on the beach in The Sinking Sands. See notes below about doing quests for court faction. The following quests are offered by the courts representatives in the Sinking Sands:

Court of Coin

Thara Bashirah

Continues with Fadi Miyaz in Maj'Dul

- see Court of the Coin Timeline

Court of Truth

Taj As'ad

Continues with Muyassar Zuhur in Maj'Dul

- see Court of Truth Timeline

Court of Blades

Mahir Lu'ay

Hadoth Al'Uzza

Continues with Dirar Muti in Maj'Dul

- see Court of the Blades Timeline

Raising Court Faction

To gain entry to the Court headquarters in Maj'Dul, you need 20,000 faction standing with that Court. You can earn faction points by doing the Sinking Sands quests listed above. Once you reach 20,000 faction, you will not receive any more quests in the Sinking Sands, and will be directed to a new representative in Maj'Dul for further faction quests. Alternatively, to gain faction directly, you can kill rival faction members in Maj'Dul, and turn in their Insignia Coins to the appropriate Court Counsel in the Tower of the Moon.

Good standing with one of the Court factions brings the following benefits:

  • Gives you access to a banker, mender, broker, merchant, and quests within the Court headquarters in Maj'Dul.
  • Allows you to purchase a license to rent housing in Maj'Dul, and to be given the residence quest (which gives you the Call of Ro ability which is in addition to your call home).
  • With better faction standing, you can earn a special Title from the Court, and will be given a Court quest timeline, completion of which is necessary for the signature heroic quest Of Fate and Destiny.

Note: You can do all three sets of Court quests in Sinking Sands if you just want to earn experience. However, this is counterproductive in terms of earning faction - you will end up with all three factions hostile to you. If Maj'Dul faction and/or residence is your goal, then choose one of the three Court NPCs, and do faction quests for that Court only.

Carpet Quest (Heroic)

The following quest series is heroic, but is included here for completeness. This is the quest series to earn the Carpet of El'khazi.

El'Khazi, Purveyor of Fine Carpets - northwest of the docks in the Sinking Sands (-1320, -226, -589)

  1. Threads of the Desert (50)
  2. Scouring the Sands (52)
  3. Rocky Correspondence (55)
  4. The Spirit of Ab'Zheri (57)

Fahad Nuhayd-1319, -226, -591 ) Copy

  1. Stopping the Flow (47)
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