Sorrow's Furnace

This article is about the explorable area. For the story, see Sorrow's Furnace (story).

Sorrow's Furnace
Campaign	Prophecies
Region	Southern Shiverpeaks
Type	Explorable area
Exit(s)	Grenth's Footprint
Images
Interactive map
Getting there from Deldrimor War Camp
Collector map

Sorrow's Furnace is the largest mine of the Stone Summit Dwarves, resting at the base of Grenth's Footprint. The land surrounding Sorrow's Furnace was once sacred for the Deldrimor Dwarves until it was stripped by the Stone Summit for the metals in the mountain, and turned into a series of mines with Sorrow's Furnace at the base. Within Sorrow's Furnace itself is a series of underground mining operations as well as a multitude of ruins. Within the northern portions of Sorrow's Furnace, a huge crevice opens into the surface in the area known as The Gap, allowing the cold mountain air and snow to meet with the burning heat of the furnaces. In the southern portions lie a series of tunnels covered in vegetation, not yet mined and littered with the old ruins - including The Stone Basilica.

In the heart of the furnace lies the Iron Forgeman, a large cyclopean golem being constructed to both replace the need of the Stone Summit's Dredge Slaves as well as become a weapon to use in the war against Deldrimor.

Getting there

Exit Deldrimor War Camp into Grenth's Footprint and head downwards into the Stone Summit. Make your way north from there, being careful of the various bosses that spawn. The entrance into Sorrow's Furnace isn't far in, and should become visible on your radar soon after going north.

Quests available

To Sorrow's Furnace serves as an overarching quest for the Sorrow's Furnace quests, leading up to The Final Assault and The Forge Heart.

• Ennis Granitestrider
  • The Forge Heart (only when The Final Assault is active or completed)
• Galen Trask
  • Summit Slaves (only when To Sorrow's Furnace is active or completed)
• High Priest Alkar
  • Unspeakable, Unknowable (only when To Sorrow's Furnace is active or completed)
• Kilroy Stonekin
  • Kilroy Stonekin (only when To Sorrow's Furnace is active or completed)
• Krak Flamewhip
  • Cold One (only when Summit Slaves is active)
  • Fire in the Hole (only when Summit Slaves is active)
  • Gathering Resources (only when Summit Slaves is active)
  • Unruly Slaves (only when Summit Slaves is active)
  • Wrenches In The Gears (only when Summit Slaves is active)
• Marshall Whitman
  • Tasca's Reprise
• Molachev
  • Subversive Ideas
• Orozar Highstone
  • Noble Intentions (only when To Sorrow's Furnace is active or completed)
  • Noble Intentions Plan B (only when To Sorrow's Furnace is active or completed, after completion of Noble Intentions)
• Tharn Stonerift
  • Political Ramifications

NPCs

Allies

• 24 (?) Makar Thoughtslayer (collector of 5 Dredge Manifestos)
• 24 (24) Molenin (collector of 5 Enslavement Stones)
• 24 (24) Dredge Slave
• 5 (?) Marshall Whitman
• 24 (26) Molachev
• 24 (?) Tharn Stonerift

Foes

Dredge

• 24 (26) Dredge Brute
• 24 (26) Dredge Spirit Guard
• 24 (26) Dredge Scout
• 24 (26) Dredge Spirit Caller
• 24 (26) Dredge Shaman
• 24 (26) Dredge Spirit Keeper

Dwarves (Stone Summit)

• 24 (26) Summit Deep Knight
• 24 (26) Summit Surveyor
• 24 (26) Priest of Sorrows
• 24 (26) Summit Dark Binder
• 24 (26) Summit Taskmaster
• 24 (26) Summit Warden

Elementals (Stone Summit)

• 24 (26) Siege Ice Golem

Ettins

• 24 (26) Enslaved Ettin

Giants

• 28 (30) Furnace Guardian

Bosses

Dwarves (Stone Summit)¹

• 28 (30) Grognard Gravelhead → Bull's Charge (Grognar's Blade, Grognar's Defender, Grognar's Sword)
• 28 (30) Tanzit Razorstone → Eviscerate (Razorstone, Tanzit's Cleaver, Tanzit's Defender)
• 28 (30) Drago Stoneherder → Melandru's Arrows (Drago's Flatbow, Stoneherder's Flatbow, Drago's Vampiric Flatbow)
• 28 (30) Tarnok Forgerunner → Melandru's Arrows (Forgerunner, Tarnok's Longbow, Tarnok's Recurve Bow)
• 28 (30) Brohn Stoneheart → Mark of Protection (Brohn's Holy Rod, Brohn's Staff, The Stonehart)
• 28 (30) Gardock Stonesoul → Mark of Protection (Gordac's Holy Rod, Gardock's Staff, The Soulstone)
• 28 (30) Gordac Fleshweaver (Fleshweaver, Gordac's Hook Blood, Gordac's Needle)
• 28 (30) Villnar Painforge (Villnar's Glove, Villnar's Claw, Villnar's Staff)
• 28 (30) Garbok Handsmasher → Crippling Anguish (Garbok's Cane, Garbok's Chalice, Handsmasher)
• 28 (30) Vokur Grimshackles → Crippling Anguish (Vokur's Cane, Vokur's Chakram, Vokur's Staff)
• 28 (30) Galigord Stonestrike (Galigord's Rod, Galigord's Stone Scroll, Galigord's Stone Staff)
• 28 (30) Runar Brimstone (Brimstone Wand, Runar's Brimstone Staff, The Brimstone)

1. See notes section.

Points of interest

• Darkhaven
• Iron Forgeman
• Sorrow's Belly
• The Gap
• The Iron Arch
• The Stone Basilica

Notes

• Interactive objects
  • Burnt Corpse (during Fire in the Hole)
  • Gearbox
  • Ore Box (during Gathering Resources)
• To unlock the Eternal Conqueror of Sorrow's Furnace you must complete The Final Assault, which has these prerequisites:
  • The Forge Heart
  • Summit Slaves
  • Unspeakable, Unknowable
  • Kilroy Stonekin
• The crushing traps only harm Frost Golems and party members. However, as with other traps, deaths caused by them do not result in Death Penalty or affect progress towards the Survivor title.
• These quests will affect the spawns in this area:
  • Noble Intentions
  • Noble Intentions Plan B
  • Kilroy Stonekin (quest)
  • The Forge Heart
  • Summit Slaves
  • Unruly Slaves
  • Wrenches in the Gears
  • Unspeakable, Unknowable
  • Fire in the Hole
  • Cold One
  • To Sorrow's Furnace
  • The quests give access to different bosses, which are often used to farm for their green weapons. The following overview may be helpful to determine the bosses' locations when looking for a specific green weapon.

Boss	Unaccompanied	Galen Trask/ Kilroy Stonekin	Orozar Highstone (without quests)	Orozar Highstone with Noble Intentions and Noble Intentions Plan B	The Forge Heart
Spawns	12 of 12	0 of 0	6 of 6	11 of 14	6 of 81
28 (30) Grognard Gravelhead
28 (30) Malinon Threshammer
28 (30) Tanzit Razorstone				()
28 (30) Drago Stoneherder				()
28 (30) Graygore Boulderbeard
28 (30) Tarnok Forgerunner
28 (30) Brohn Stonehart				()
28 (30) Gardock Stonesoul
28 (30) Ivor Helmhewer
28 (30) Bortak Bonesmelter
28 (30) Gordac Fleshweaver
28 (30) Villnar Painforge				()
28 (30) Garbok Handsmasher
28 (30) Korvald Willcrusher				()
28 (30) Vokur Grimshackles				()
28 (30) Galigord Stonestrike				()
28 (30) Rago Kindlerock
28 (30) Runar Brimstone

1. Malinon, Ivor, Korvald and Rago are guaranteed spawns.

() can be killed before activating the quest spawns or after completing the quests. This is the easiest way to get to those bosses since the Forge is not hostile with Noble Intentions active.

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Trivia

The Guild Wars 2 Wiki has an article on Sorrow's Embrace.

• This area was added with the September 7th, 2005 update.
• This area was the first introduction of the implementation of unique (green) items.
• "War Census of Orr", an anagram of Sorrow's Furnace, was displayed with a countdown timer before Sorrow's Furnace's release.

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