Gaming Guide

World of Warcraft: Undercity Priest Trainer Location in the War Quarter

Exactly where Aelthalyste, Father Lazarus, and Father Lankester stand inside the Forsaken capital, and how to reach them.

Exactly where Aelthalyste, Father Lazarus, and Father Lankester stand inside the Forsaken capital, and how to reach them.

Undercity is a maze of slime canals, stone rings, and identical arched tunnels, which makes hunting for a class trainer slower than it should be. The priest trainers are not spread across the city — all three stand in the same quarter, in the same building, a short run from where the elevators drop you off.

Quick answer: Undercity’s priest trainers are in the War Quarter, northwest of the Trade Quarter, in the building shared with the warrior trainers.


Where the War Quarter sits on the Undercity map

Undercity is built as a ring of quarters around a circular center. The elevators from the Ruins of Lordaeron drop you into the Trade Quarter at the middle of that ring. From there, the War Quarter is the section to the northwest, with the Magic Quarter to the northeast, the Rogues’ Quarter to the southeast, and the Apothecarium to the southwest.

Open your map and look for the labelled War Quarter in the upper-left portion of the city. The trainers sit along the outer ring of that quarter, on the raised ledge that overlooks the combat pit in the middle.

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The Undercity zone map, with the War Quarter marked in the city's northwest. Shown at 00:26 in PazarGamingGuides’s video. Image: Blizzard Entertainment

Route from the Trade Quarter to the priest trainers

Start at the bottom of the elevators in the Trade Quarter and face northwest. Take the ramp out of the central area and follow the corridor that leads away from the bank and auction house.
Cross the wooden ramps that bridge the green slime canals between quarters. These canals are the connective tissue of the city, so keep the map open if you lose your bearings — the ramp you want keeps the canal on your left as you head northwest.
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The wooden ramps over the slime canals connect the Trade Quarter to the War Quarter. Shown at 00:35 in PazarGamingGuides’s video. Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Enter the War Quarter and stay on the outer ring rather than dropping into the pit at the center. Undercity Guardians patrol this stretch, and the stone path curves around past the blacksmithing and mining stations.
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The outer stone ring of the War Quarter, which leads to the priest and warrior building. Shown at 00:10 in Waifu Simulator 27’s video. Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Follow the stone path upward toward the alcove hung with purple drapes. That curtained entrance is the priest and warrior building, and the first trainer stands right beside it.
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The purple-draped alcove marks the entrance where Father Lankester waits. Shown at 00:51 in PazarGamingGuides’s video. Image: Blizzard Entertainment

All three Undercity priest trainers

The War Quarter building numbered 20 on Undercity’s layout holds priest and warrior trainers together, so you will see six class trainers clustered in a small area. Only three of them carry the <Priest Trainer> title.

TrainerWhere they stand
Father LankesterBeside the purple curtain at the alcove entrance
Father LazarusIn the arched tunnel above the lower ring
AelthalysteCircular ledge, southeast of the skull icon on the map

Father Lazarus is the easiest of the three to walk past. He stands inside the arched tunnel on the raised section, so if you are running the outer ring at ground level you will pass underneath him.

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The arched tunnel on the upper level, where Father Lazarus is posted. Shown at 00:06 in Waifu Simulator 27’s video. Image: Blizzard Entertainment

Aelthalyste is the banshee priestess of the group and the one most players end up using. She is a level 60 NPC of the Undercity faction with 4,120 health, and she teaches the full priest spellbook, including the racial spells. Place your cursor on the outer War Quarter ring just southeast of the skull icon and you are standing on her spot.

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Aelthalyste's position on the outer War Quarter ring, next to the canal opening. Shown at 00:17 in Waifu Simulator 27’s video. Image: Blizzard Entertainment

Racial spells are trained here too. Undead priests pick up higher ranks of Devouring Plague from Aelthalyste, while Troll priests get Hex of Weakness ranks, starting at rank 2 at level 20.


How to confirm you found the right NPC

Hover over the NPC and check the subtitle under the name. A genuine trainer displays <Priest Trainer> directly beneath their name, and the War Quarter building keeps warrior trainers in the same room, so the title is the fastest way to tell them apart at a glance.

Talk to the trainer on a priest character and the training window opens with the list of available ranks and their gold costs. On any other class, you will only get a short gossip greeting and a Goodbye option — the NPC is correct, the character is not.


Use a guard if you lose the path

Undercity’s guards double as a navigation system. Speak to any of them and ask for a class trainer, and they will plant a red flag on your map pointing at the destination. The same trick works for the bank, auction house, inn, bat handler, stable master, weapon master, and profession trainers.

Since you are already in the War Quarter, it is worth noting what else shares the area: the blacksmithing and mining trainers, and Master Archibald, the weapon master who teaches crossbows, daggers, one- and two-handed swords, and polearms. One trip covers a lot of errands.