As a WarCraft II player, the fall of Deathwing is a story point that has been driving me for a dozen years. Betrayal of the best and brightest is a standard literary trope, and one that tends to resonate well with me; add in some incomprehensible cosmic horrors and it’s basically a hardwired switch straight to the centers of my DO WANT story-consuming brain….
Let’s take a quick little look at the life cycle of Forsaken death knights. You are a dude(tte). Maybe you are a soldier, maybe you are just some schmuck. You are poisoned, and get incredibly sick, waste away, and die a horrible death. Your soul is stolen and you are raised as a zombie in mindless service to the Lich King. Sylvanas Windrunner, because…
All right, folks. Time to pull up a chair, crack open a beer (for those of you sweltering in summer heat, might I suggest a nice crisp ale like New Belgium’s Mighty Arrow, or one of my personal favorites, Magic Hat’s #9?), and break out the popcorn, because Aro is gonna lay some nerdraeg on y’all. I am going to talk a little bit…
It is very nice when, as a new blog author, someone provides you with content ideas that you can then plumb for your own interesting writing opportunities. World of Saz has done exactly this, with Through Your Interface: 15 Days of Screenshots. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in Reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express…
It is very nice when, as a new blog author, someone provides you with content ideas that you can then plumb for your own interesting writing opportunities. World of Saz has done exactly this, with Through Your Interface: 15 Days of Screenshots. This one is so easy that it almost feels like cheating. I try very hard not to be The Lore Guy, the…
There are a couple of things that have been making me consistently angry since Wrath. One of these is the character assassination of Jaina Proudmoore, which will be a subject for another time because I do not have the spoons right now to talk about how terribly the WoW team has been treating its female lore figures over the past few years (no, Aggra…
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