Voyage into the Maw

The Ghosts in the Dark achievement

Today my Human paladin Daytonaa reached the jagged coastline of Darkshore, the eerie northwestern zone of Kalimdor. How I hate what Deathwing and the Night Elfs have done to the once friendly village Auberdine. Near the ruins of the unfortunate settlement the Elfs built an encampment they call Lor’danel. Daytonaa set out to collect some bear meat and copper ores, when she stumbled across  a huge whirlpool: The Maw of the Void. Others before her had swam across it and were able to get back to the bank again, or so she had been told, so Daytonaa left her horse on the cliffs and jumped right into the maelstrom, in an effort to mine the copper node just outside the water. As soon as she hit the water, she found out that swimming back to the shore was not going to happen. The whirling water mass got hold of her, as if it were alive. Daytonaa desperately struggled and splashed, but the whirling water mass swept her around the Maw once, twice… and then the brave paladin submerged into the deep and all went black.

When she opened her eyes, surprised she even did, Daytonaa found herself in an underground cavern. Just outside the shallow water, she noticed a lonely figure sitting next to the remnants of what looked like a very old stone structure. The figure turned out to be a Night Elf named Bielara Ivyshroud. She told Daytonaa that she had fallen into the Bashal'Aran Collapse, at the bottom of the Maw. Behind Bielara Daytonaa heard some creepy sounds. As she walked up the slope, she had to fight some ghosts until she reached a spooky guy whom turned out to be the ghost of Telarius Voidstrider, once a powerful demon hunter, but slain during an encounter with Warden Maiev Shadowsong. 

The undead remnants of Telarius attacked Daytonaa. As she killed him (yes, even dead people can be killed again), he dropped  a scroll: Writings of the Dark Herald. Before returning Daytonaa to the edge of the Maw, Bielara asked her to return the scroll to ranger Glynda Nal'shea back in Lor'Danel. Upon doing so, she got the achievement Ghosts in the Dark.

Note: when Daytonaa hit the bottom of the Bashal'Aran Collapse, she also got the achievement Going Down? Swimming into the Maw clearly does not drag one into the deep. For the whirlpool to awaken, you have to jump into the Maw from height.