Archmage Xylem

Archmage Xylem is a level 60 quest giver located at the Azshara Tower in the contested territory of Azshara.

Biography
He is a powerful archmage who was long ago attacked by the green drake, Morphaz, who devoured one of his apprentices whole and as such consumed an arcane shard of enormous power. The vengeful archmage has sworn to hunt and kill the drake and recover the shard from his stomach.

Archmage Xylem lives in his tower in the mountains of northern Azshara. To be able to get to the tower and to Archmage Xylem, you need to speak with Sanath Lim-yo and do the repeatable quest  to be teleported up the cliff.

He offers several mage-only quests and is part of the rogue quest at level 50. In the quest, Jediga asks members of the Horde to deliver the to the archmage. In return, Xylem offers the quest.

He is described by Jediga as being very dangerous, and acting odd compared to other humans. When the player returns without any problems she says she would've expected the mage to be at least reluctant.

Cataclysm
Archmage Xylem is still residing in his tower in Azshara. He has also become a part of the new Azshara questline starting with Quest:Azshara Blues.

During the Cataclysm beta Blizzard stated that: ''Archmage Xylem is still in his tower in Azshara, but seems to have stumbled upon something that has quickly driven him insane. '' However there is no proof of his severe insanity in-game for now, except for his nonsensical speech patterns, and blatant disregard for his apprentices' well being, so the idea might have been scrapped, but possibly not.

He appears in several locations as Image of Archmage Xylem.

Quests
He starts the following quests:

Apprentices

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