Scarlet Monastery is one of the most-loved instances in the game, partly because the bosses in there are so memorable-- who's ever going to forget Harod yelling "Blades of Light!" or High Inquisitor Whitemane shouting "Arise, my Champion" (along with the ensuing realization that you're now fighting two bosses at the same time)?That why it's so cool to see, in the first Caverns of Time instance in Old Hillsbrad, all our favorite Scarlet Monastery minions running around as children. I ran CoT for the first time last week, and I spent a long time wandering about Old Southshore, listening to the conversation in the inn, and checking out all the old lore. I saw both Herod as a boy, and little "Sally Whitemane" as a pigtailed girl running around oblivious of her distant future.
Except, wait a minute. Apparently the future isn't as distant as it seems. Zerolimite points out on the forums that Old Hillsbrad is really only the Hillsbrad of seven years ago. Which means that even if Sally Whitemane, blonde and pigtailed, is even thirteen, that only makes her at most 20 in Scarlet Monastery. So what's with the white, err... mane? Likewise, Herod is just a kid seven years ago, so that makes him like 15 when he's hulking and yelling in the Armory. All this time, we've been killing teenagers.
And as an interesting sidenote, seven years ago means it's very likely our characters were alive as well. Our guild's main tank, Paws of Thunderhorn, has said that he was actually interred in Durnholde Keep with Thrall, but even though we poked around the camps there, we never saw him (or at least recognized him-- this was a whole seven years ago). As for my Orc Shaman, he definitely was held in an internment camp, but it was further north, near Lordaeron. I tried to head up there and see if I couldn't pull off a little Back to the Future action, but for some reason, I couldn't seem to leave Old Hillsbrad...
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2-15-2007 @ 1:46PM
Bonemaul said...
I thought the WoW cinematic intro starts with "ten years have passed"? And isn't that 10 years since the Horde and the Alliance banded together, which I believe was some time after the scourge invasion started?
And there's plenty of people who get white hair in their twenties... without considering the effects of living in a magical environment.
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2-15-2007 @ 1:50PM
Bonemaul said...
Oops. "Four years have passed..." Heh, seems like yesterday!
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2-15-2007 @ 2:00PM
Cheesehound said...
It must be the strain of piousness, it takes its toll on the skin.
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2-15-2007 @ 2:15PM
Zuuler said...
Look at her though, does that body look like any part is old?
Of course, no one really ever grows old in warcraft.
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2-15-2007 @ 2:58PM
FadedReality said...
So her last name is fitting then.
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2-15-2007 @ 3:24PM
Gazmik Fizzwidget said...
I guess the mail system is a fairly recent invention, too... I didn't see a mailbox in Old Hillsbrad. A shame, that... I was hoping to send my past self a warning not to waste gold on those auctions I bought out last year.
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2-15-2007 @ 4:10PM
Uoobie said...
Forget sm, the fact that you se kel'thuzad as a human. He was just lv35 member of kirin tor, i guess the exp from soutshore to northrend to the frozen thorne and offering your soul makes you ding boss lvl.
I gladly offer my paladins soul to become the second death knight :)
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2-15-2007 @ 5:19PM
R. Knight said...
You know... all this talk about what everyone’s characters where doing 7 years ago makes me wonder how many people made up histories and bios for their characters... I mean I know I have a pretty elaborate story in my head for my main paladin, but I always like to hear the stories other had developed based on theirs. Its always fun to intertwine that stuff with the canon story...
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2-15-2007 @ 9:03PM
Ollej said...
I thought it was "Herod" not "Harod"...I may be wrong, though. As I dislike SM for the most part.
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2-16-2007 @ 9:04AM
Meridith said...
Man, now I'm feeling inspired for a high school drama starring the Scarlet Crusade...
My little Forsaken mage is from Darrowshire, so I got that Back to the Future vibe doing the Battle for Darrowshire stuff. "Somewhere over that way I'm getting killed for the first time." Whee!
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2-16-2007 @ 10:36AM
Romnious said...
Im reading this and i am very confused. Old hillsbrad? SM children? can anyone clear this up for me? :) ive been to hillsbrad since expantion. didnt notice anything diffrent.
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2-16-2007 @ 11:26AM
Heymish said...
@11 They are talking about old hillsbrad in the Caverns of Time.
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2-16-2007 @ 12:18PM
Ryan said...
I'd hit it.
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2-16-2007 @ 12:26PM
rosemary said...
I figure WoW time is a little like soap opera time. You know, a baby stays a baby for about five years and then, whammo, the baby is suddenly a teenager. One year later, he's out of college and married.
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2-21-2007 @ 1:27AM
christophrr said...
How long is a year on Azeroth?
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