Posts with tag explorers-league
Posted May 31st 2008 5:00PM by Alex Ziebart
Filed under: Dwarves, Analysis / Opinion, Know your Lore, Wrath of the Lich King
Welcome to Know Your Lore, where each week Elizabeth Wachowski and Alex Ziebart bring you a tasty little morsel of lore to wrap your mind around. Sweet, sweet lore. Mmmm. Oh yeah, and it's late this week. Blame it on the severe dehydration. Or Alex, you can blame him too, if you want.Continuing the
Wrath preparation train, this week's
Know Your Lore will take a look at one of the three Bronzebeard brothers. Not
the King one or
the dead one, but the eccentric, probably-should-be-dead one. The one and only Brann Bronzebeard, explorer extraordinaire.
Brann Bronzebeard is the very definition of a
Jack of all Trades. He's an explorer, a linguist, a warrior, an archaeologist, et cetera, et cetera. He is the premier member of the Explorer's League, and while the guild was founded under an edict by Magni, Brann was one of its founding members.
Continue reading Know Your Lore: Brann Bronzebeard
Posted May 23rd 2008 11:00AM by Daniel Whitcomb
Filed under: Horde, Alliance, Human, Night Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes, Orcs, Tauren, Undead, Trolls, Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Blizzard, Expansions, Draenei, Blood Elves, Lore, RP, NPCs, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King
It seems like one of the biggest problems a lot of people have with
Death Knights is the fact that
they can be all races. Me, I say: Why not? The lore really isn't as bad as you might think. Sure, some of the
retcons can get a little annoying, but despite the fact that non-Paladin races will get to be Death Knights, I don't think you really consider it a retcon, but rather an evolution in an ever-evolving story that opens up a lot of great story ideas and
RP opportunities, and I'm really looking forward to it.
Continue reading Why all race Death Knights make sense from a lore standpoint
Posted Mar 21st 2008 6:20PM by Daniel Whitcomb
Filed under: Dwarves, Analysis / Opinion, News items, Expansions, Lore, RP, NPCs, Wrath of the Lich King
The WoTLK Bestiary has been updated today with the next monster in the series: the Iron Dwarf. These fearsome creatures, uncovered by the Dwarven Explorer's League in the Howling Fjord, are apparently a missing link between the Earthen and the Dwarves, an Iron-skinned race with runes of power etched on their skin. Unfortunately, they appear to be nearly as surly and destructive as the Troggs, not only fighting against the Explorer's League, but outright destroying any artifacts that the Explorer's League could find useful.
There's not too much info on them yet, only a few paragraphs and a sketch, but it's certainly exciting to see a new chapter in the storyline of the Dwarves. The Iron Dwarves look like they may be the next step in the storyline that began at Uldaman, another piece of the puzzle of the Titans, so that could have reprecussions for all races, and give us more insight into the origin of Azeroth itself. Perhaps we'll encounter more of them at Ulduar, or at the ancient Dwarven citadel of Thor Modan, or find out that they have their own copy of the Plates of Uldum or other such historical artifacts.
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