Peak of Serenity

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Peak of Serenity
Race(s)	Pandaren
Location	North-central Kun-Lai Summit, Pandaria
Characteristics
Status	Active

The Peak of Serenity is located in the north-central part of Kun-Lai Summit, very high in the mountains. Surprisingly, the grounds are laced with hot springs, mitigating the frigid mountaintop winds. The only animals seen with any frequency are the large and unfriendly  Upland Eagles, a few athletic  Tolai Hares, frisky  Arctic Foxlings - and the very occasional view of a  Wild Onyx Serpent.

Four schools of monasticism find high-level training here: The studious Crane Style Monks, the aggressive Tiger Style Monks, the stolid Ox Style Monks and the contemplative Serpent Style Monks. The Tiger training area is towards the north side, across a pair of bridges; the Serpents are both east and west of the main building, with a training area like the Tigers, and a contempative space where a Jade Serpent statue stands surrounded by one of the bubbling pools. A little south and uphill from the Serpent training floor is the scroll-filled cave of the Cranes.

Scrambling up the hillside between the Crane cave and the main building, one might overlook the road between the Shado-pan Monastery and the Mogu'Shan Terrace. On the side of the peak opposite, forming the south side of the road, occasional furious barrages of giant snowballs fall on unfortunate climbers. The bellows of the  Sha of Anger may be heard all the way up here.

Travel

Getting there

The only method to reach the Peak of Serenity on foot seems to be to climb north from the east-west road between the Shado-Pan Monastery, and the intersection between the road southwest from the Valley of Emperors and north from One Keg. Start uphill just at the westmost pair of road-marker braziers.

There are no apparent obstructions to flying in.

The closest flightpath seems to be Winter's Blossom.

Spiritual travel is far more efficient - Zen Pilgrimage takes you to the Peak almost instantly.

Inhabitants

NPCs

•   Iron-Body Ponshu <Monk Trainer - Master Ox>
• There are no Ox Style monks present yet as of 12 June.

•   Number Nine Jia <Monk Trainer - Master Crane>
•   Crane Style Monk
•   Crane Style Monk

•   Wise Scholar Lianji <Monk Trainer - Master Serpent>
•   Avatar of Jade
•   Serpent Style Monk
•   Serpent Style Monk

•   Fearsome Jang <Monk Trainer - Master Tiger>
•   Trainer Lin <Tiger Style>
•   Trainer Ko <Tiger Style>
•   Tiger Style Monk
•   Tiger Style Monk

•   Aspiring Monk
•   Aspiring Monk

Notes

• The Master answer three questions:
  • How do I reset my Class Specialization?
  • How do I reset my Talents?
  • How do I reset my Glyphs?

• Fearsome Jang no longer cheerfully murders those who would speak spar with him, but answers the training questions instead.

• There is a courtyard with tents, suggestive of a small market planned but not yet implemented. There is a game laid out on a mat in one tent, and a chest of documents in another.

Media

Images

Courtyard of tents (during beta)

Crane Monks' cave and scribery

The Serpent statue in the springs

Wise Scholar Lianji and the Avatars of Jade

Fearsome Jang and the Tiger Monks practice under the watchful gaze of their patron

The 'entrance' to the Peak of Serenity from Neverest Basecamp to the south

The 'entrance' to the Peak of Serenity from the opposite side of the pass road

Peak of Serenity Ox pavilion and Tiger training ground facing outward from the Crane cave.

A panorama: Seeker's Folly (avalanche), upper left; road, bottom middle; Peak foot-access, lower right; Temple of the White Tiger, far background right

The Peak of Serenity as seen from Neverest Pinnacle with the Temple of the White Tiger, far background/right

Patch changes

• β Patch 5.0.1 (Beta): Added.
  

See also

• Peak of Serenity (scenario)

External links

• Wowhead
• Thottbot
• WoWDB