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xerox
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
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posted November 24, 2009 03:02 PM |
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Edited by xerox at 19:55, 05 Dec 2009.
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World of Warcraft
One of the reasons people are annoyed at me is because I have like 10 different WoW threads in this forum. I have already been asked to make one, single thread about it.
This the perfect date because WoW turns 5 years today and Warcraft 15. 5 and 15 are the perfect numbers, says Xerox Winfrey. And that is the real reason.
Well, now Xerox has become very responsible and taken the iniative to make one, big, single WoW thread so everybody (well, not really...) becomes happy.
In this thread, I will post everything from patch 3.3
Expect a lot of spoilers regarding the Lich Kings demise and who the new Lich King is. I will also review WoW (WotLK era) in a such neutral way that I can (I dont really play a lot anymore anyway, especially not now when im sick).
I will also post a Newbies Guide to Azeroth and report from the Cataclysm beta (even if I dont get in) and Cataclysm information.
I wont do a lot today since im sick (I slept for 14 hours) but I will do a Wrath of the Lich King story summary.
Races of Draenor
Here I will speak about the races of Outland, which was once the planet of Draenor.
The Arakkoa
The Arakkoa are an avian people that live in many parts of Outland. Once there was a sect of Arakkoa called the Apexis. They were incredible intelligent and powerful and used Apexis shards. Then the Apexis disappeared.
The Arakkoa have their capital in the Terokkar Forest, in Skettis. There they await the return of their god, Terokk. The Arakkoa also believe in Rukhmar but it seems that Terokk has replaced him. The Arakkoa are mostly hostile to the Alliance and the Horde and they have attempted to summon an Old God to Draenor once. Fortunaly, that ritual failed. The Arakkoa have some mysterious relation to the Emerald Dream or Azeroth and the bird god Anzu, who is related to the Emerald Dream. There relation with Azeroth supports the theory that Azeroth and Draenor were pararell-planets.
My speculation of the Apexis is that they were once the ruling caste of the Arakkoa. They lived west of the Blades Edge Mountains together with their primodial god Rukhmar. Rukhmar and the Arakkoa fought the Ogres and their war god Nath. Rukhmar and Nath later fell, and Rukhmars son - Terokk, led the Arakkoa south to whats now called Terokkar Forest. Terokk later disppaered for unknown reason. With their god dead, the Apexis also disappeared.
Mostly spoiler-free.
Wrath of the Lich King - A Summary of the Story
In Wrath of the Lich King, we have basically returned from Outland where we freed Outland from Illidan. Illidan had enslaved the Broken of Outland (The Broken, or Krokul, are degenrated Draenei) and Illidan was finally executed by Maiev Shadowsong who had become Vengeance itself.
Maiev says: It is finished. You are beaten.
Illidan says: You have won...Maiev. But the huntress...is nothing without the hunt. You...are nothing...without me.
Maiev says: He's right. I feel nothing. I am nothing. Farewell, champions.
Akama says: The Light will fill these dismal halls once again. I swear it.
Though many considers The Burning Crusade a failure the lore (and I agree), Blizzard has actually said sorry for how the whole Illidan situation turned out.
The Lost Monarch
(If you dont want to read this, because this is the long story, you can read the summary of this chapter below this long text)
Before the Wrath of the Lich King story actually starts, a man is found washed up on the shores of Durotar (the Orcs and Trolls new homeland, named after Thralls father Durotan who was murdered by bandits in the very emotional novel Lord of the Clans by Christie Golden).
The slavemaster and the shaman Reghar Earthfury watches the washed-up human as he fights a Crocolisk (Crocodiles in Warcraft) with a stick and wins. Believing that the human is a deserter from Jainas Alliance state of Theramore, he takes him as a slave and calls him
"Croc-Bait".
Croc-Bait doesnt remember anything of his past and is thrown into a cage (on a caravan) where the Blood Elf Rogue Valeera Sanguinar and the Night Elf Druid Broll Bearmantle are also held captive. Its revealed that Reghar uses Valeera and Broll as gladiators in the rogue faction known as the Crimson Ring and that Croc-Bait will become the third and final member of his Arena team.
During the night, Broll places Croc-Bait in a trance.
In the vision, Croc-Bait sees himself as a child in a burning city.
In the Orcs capital city of Orgrimmar, Reghar takes the group to the Crimson Rings secret armory. Croc-Bait sees a familiar belt with a Lions head on it. He gets a flashback.
A bald man with a beard stands on the deck of a boat during a storm, wearing the same belt. He calls Croc-Bait lad.
After a long travel, Reghar and his gladiator slaves reach the arena within the Dire Maul courtyard in the forested region of Feralas. Dire Maul was once the Highborne city of Eldre'thalas. It is there that the gladiator tournament will be held.
The trio with Croc-Bait, Valeera and Broll becomes very successful and the crowd (with mostly Horde races) begins to call Croc-Bait Lo'gosh. Meaning Ghost Wolf in the Orcish tongue.
After the fight, Rehgar took Lo'Gosh and Broll to the tauren city Thunder Bluff for a cleansing ritual in the Pools of Vision. In the waters of the pools Lo'Gosh saw another vision: a fair-haired female who was ostensibly his wife holding an infant boy, telling him that his people and his son need him. Unfortunately, his vision was interrupted by a cave elemental which he subsequently defeated. Nevertheless, having learned more of his past, he planned to escape from Rehgar at the next possible opportunity.
In thanks for defeating the cave elemental, Broll and Lo'Gosh were invited to the tent of Hamuul Runetotem, elder druid of the tauren. He told Varian the legend of the original Lo'Gosh — a massive, white wolf-beast renowned for its ferocity in battle, already 10,000 years old when the Burning Legion first invaded Azeroth. According to the arch druid, the wolf's legend extended through Azeroth to trolls, goblins and dwarves who all had their own version of the story. In each tale, Lo'Gosh's unyielding will and sheer ferocity enabled him to push through the boundaries of the afterlife to aid his people. Hamuul then gave Lo'Gosh a feather, which Broll immediately recognized as belonging to a hippogryph. The night elf used it to call Sharptalon from Ashenvale, and immediately made a bid for freedom with Lo'Gosh.
Broll and Lo'Gosh eventually reached the Cenarion Enclave in Darnassus, and were summoned to dinner by Tyrande Whisperwind. Tyrande sent the two to Theramore, where Jaina Proudmoore would be able to help restore his memories.
Upon arriving in Theramore, Jaina vowed to Lo'Gosh that she would unravel the mystery surrounding him, and called upon her chamberlain, Aegwynn, to help. Breaching the dark aura surrounding Lo'Gosh's memories, visions revealed a fire and a voyage, the birth of his son, the death of his wife, and new darkness. Despite an invisible wall preventing Jaina and Aegwynn from further delving into his memories, they were able to confirm that he had been traveling to Theramore, and that he was, in fact, Varian Wrynn, the Lost King of Stormwind.
Clearly having been the victim of a dark magic attack, Jaina prepared one of her own ships to carry Varian to Stormwind in the Eastern Kingdoms, where she hoped that he could learn the identity of his enemies. Now knowing that his wife is dead, Varian was eager to return to Stormwind and reunite with his son, though Aegwynn advised him that circumspection was necessary, as Anduin could be endangered by any hasty actions. On the docks, Broll and Varian reunited with Valeera and prepared to set out for Stormwind.
While Varian, Broll, and Valeera were traveling on the Wavecutter — Jaina Proudmoore's private vessel — Varian contemplated the revelations Jaina had told him. Despite being revealed as one of the rulers of the Alliance, he became unsure if he truly wanted to resume being "Varian Wrynn" — if he had a choice, he would remain as "Lo'Gosh", a simple gladiator. Doubts began to fill Varian's head as they traveled to Menethil Harbor.
During a naga attack at sea, Varian had another glimpse into his lost memory — remembering the Defias abducting him on his diplomatic mission to Theramore, the naga attacking him on Alcaz Island for ransom, the funeral for his beloved wife Tiffin, and the day he was crowned King of Stormwind. Almost all of Varian's memory had been returned, except some vital parts of his abduction.
Jubilant throngs of Stormwind's subjects turned out for a massive ceremony to welcome home their king. However, the Varian that returned was arrogant, frivolous, and markedly interested in Katrana Prestor. The people of Stormwind had only been informed that Defias had ransomed the king, a ransom paid with a painful new tax. Upon his return, however, Varian seemed concerned only with spending more of his people's money, leaving affairs of state by the wayside. Anduin Wrynn was distressed by his father's change.
Around the same time, Lo'gosh appeared at Menethil Harbor with Broll and Valeera. The group had a chance encounter with a drunkard in Menethil Harbor, who ran after realizing that Varian was still alive. Varian and his companions gave chase with the intent of having "a conversation." The man ran to a bar filled with Defias members, who attempted to take out Varian again. During the fight, Varian met Thargas Anvilmar an emissary from Magni Bronzebeard whose brother had once trained the king.
Though the drunk escaped, Varian found a defias mage to question. Though the mage did not reveal who wanted Varian dead, he said that the person had paid in Stormwind gold. The mage mocked Varian by claiming that his son would be murdered. The three gladiators and Thargas then continued on their way to Stormwind.
A few days later in Stormwind City, King Magni Bronzebeard was on a visit and was discussing war plans against the orcs and Dark Iron dwarves with king "Varian" and Bolvar Fordragon. However, Varian Wrynn did not want to send troops to help the dwarves against the dark irons. King Magni left disappointed but while going to the Deeprun Tram he was met by the young prince Anduin Wrynn who told the dwarven king he too suspected something about his "father".
Some time later, as Anduin was practicing his archery with his "father" and inquired him how he was kidnapped by the Defias, and wondered how he came in the hands of the Naga for a ransom, to which his father told him his past was blank and he could not recall any events.
Upon arriving at Ironforge, Lo'Gosh was informed by King Magni that much of what had transpired was no coincidence and that someone was secretly orchestrating the events, knowing of Varian's significant importance to the Alliance. Magni had previously enlisted the aid of Highlord Bolvar Fordragon and Marshal Windsor at the behest of young Anduin, who suspected the Varian in Stormwind to be a imposter. Varian, having studied sword fighting with Windsor for years, held a deep respect for him as a friend and ally. A disturbingly short time after Marshal Windsor began his investigation, he had come to the conclusion that the imposter Varian may not only be an imposter, but a dragon.
As Varian and Magni continued to converse they were secretly being followed by a bearded man. Valeera sensed arcane energy being manipulated and witnessed the man creating a dagger with the intent to kill Varian. Valeera quickly subdued the man, but he transformed into a black dragon and fled.
Outside Stormwind, Anduin, Varian, Bolvar, and Lady Prestor were riding horseback through the countryside with Anduin trying to implore his father to listen to Stormwind's problems, but before he could elaborate, his horse was purposely roused by an unknown assailant causing Anduin to lose control and tumble over a ledge, Varian swiftly caught Anduin, and upon making physical contact, his mind is enveloped with visions of the Defias carrying him while knocked out, strapped to the ground and covered in a rune-circle with robed figures casting dark magic, being chased on Alcaz Island by naga, and finally jumping over a cliff reaching for branches just beyond his reach.
Anduin, embracing his father, lost any doubts about him being an imposter. Varian started to tell Bolvar, Anduin, and Lady Prestor about his visions until Lady Prestor touched him and remarked how astonished she was by his nobility. Bolvar surmised that Varian becomes befuddled when around her and loses his honor and respect for others and becomes more anxious in discovering the secrets of Varian's abduction and sudden return knowing this would lead to trouble.
Via magic, Bolvar informed King Magni that Windsor's report indicated he was close to discovering the dragon's identity but was captured by Dark Iron dwarves in Blackrock Depths. Varian and his allies mounted and rode to Blackrock Depths and rescued Windsor, who revealed to Varian what he had discovered regarding his investigation.
Marching through the gates of Stormwind, Lo'Gosh and his friends were halted by General Marcus Jonathan under the direct jurisdiction of Katrana Prestor, who ordered their immediate arrest and execution as traitors. Windsor succeeded in convincing Marcus of his loyalty to Stormwind as they had previously served together under Turalyon.
Katrana Prestor hastily gathered soldiers only to have the false-Varian tell her that she was disobeying the chain of command and was not in charge of Stormwind. Entering Stormwind Keep, Lo'gosh declared Katrana's masquerade was over and called her by her true name, Onyxia.
Revealing her dragon form and transforming multiple guards into dragonspawn, Varian and his allies began battle in the great hall of Stormwind Keep. The arrival of Highlord Bolvar Fordragon along with Anduin greatly aided them in securing the keep but Reginald Windsor was killed moments later by Onyxia.
Lo'gosh engaged his doppelganger, claiming he threatened the stability of his kingdom and nearly cost the Alliance Thandol Span, only to have his doppelganger retort he was starting to repress her spells and regain control of his actions. Anduin, surprised by seeing two Varians, urged them to stop fighting to face the true threat, the brood mother Onyxia. The great dragon snatched Anduin and teleported them to her lair daring Varian to follow suit. Regrouping with his friends Varian was left to grieve the loss of his son and told his friends the final battle would end in Onyxia's Lair .
Relinquishing command of Stormwind to Bolvar, his old friend begins to sense that despite two Varian's commanding Stormwind, they both carried polar opposite personalities. Lo'Gosh was incredibly anxious to find his son while showing incredible will in commanding his troops, while the other Varian was calm, passive and charming ever since ridding himself of Onyxia's influence.
Arriving in Theramore, they all met up with Jaina and she told them she had discovered what dark magic was used on them in an old tome. Jaina came up with the theory that Onyxia greatly gained influence with Varian after his wife's death but periodically lost control as Varian's attachment to Anduin grew and so she attempted to reassert her control by using a spell that would not kill Varian but would remove and destroy his conscience, will and responsibility.
Jaina casted enchantments around the two Varians and they recalled the last part of their abduction: Being on Alcaz Island tied to the ground, cloaked figures casting dark magic causing unbearable pain as he desperately tries to break himself free. In a blinding flash of light he awakes to find himself laying next to an exact duplicate. Onyxia unmasked herself intending to kill the strong-willed Varian but is stopped by the arrival of Morgala Darksquall and her naga. The cloaked figures and Onyxia turn into dragonkin and battle the naga while the strong-willed Varian breaks himself free and begins to fight. He tried to free the other Varian and implores him to find a weapon but discovered his other is too unnerved to properly wield a weapon.
The other Varian is knocked off a cliff, falls into the ocean and is captured by the naga. Varian is left alone to fight and tricks Onyxia into believing she had killed him. Pleased, Onyxia left before more naga appeared. Morgala attempted to capture Varian but he fled to another side of the island and jumped into the ocean, knowing he wouldn't be followed as that part of the ocean contained many rocky shoals. His escape failed, however, as the strong tide overpowered him and he's swept away to the shores of Durotar.
Back in Jaina's tower both Varians came to the startling conclusion they are both the same person and at the same time only half of what they should be. Jaina explained that although Onyxia's spell split them in half, they were both able to fight past the spell and regain who they truly were, even though they both lived as separate beings.
One Varian became Lo'Gosh, the gladiator champion of the Crimson Ring and fought to regain his memories and birthright. The other Varian was ransomed and returned to Stormwind, and was further ensorcelled by Onyxia. While bereft of will, he would break free once again. After a moment, Jaina unveiled two ancient elven swords, Shalla'tor the Shadow Render and Ellemayne the Reaver. After receiving their new weapons, both Varians decreed retribution would finally be brought to Onyxia.
Leading an assault against Onyxia, both Varians engage her in battle. Weapons and magic clash with her numerous dragonkin with both sides determined to win. Onyxia casts a fear spell on Broll and tail swipes Jaina, removing them from the battle after growing agitated by their constant spellcasting.
Becoming desperate to end the fight Onyxia begins casting an enchantment she was using on Alcaz Island to kill Lo'Gosh, but Lo'Gosh's double responds by stepping in front of the blast, saying he should die because Lo'Gosh was the embodiment of the true Varian.
Not willing to sacrifice his double, Lo'Gosh leaps alongside his other self hoping to save him. The magic spell becomes disrupted having the two Varians in the same radius and causes a fusion between the two. After a moment of silence one Varian emerges.
Proclaiming he was restored at last, Onyxia desperately tries to incinerate him, but Varian swiftly reaches Onyxia's head and impales her with his elven swords. With Onyxia dead Varian reunites with his son and friends, telling them their long and noble deeds will be rewarded and Stormwind will be reborn with a new hope for the future
Summary: King Varian Wrynn had gone missing. He is found by an Orc slavemaster. He makes an arena team with Broll Bearmantle and Valeera Sanguinar. Valeera flees herself on a Wyvern. Varian had lost his memory and doesnt known he is Varian. Everybody calls him Lo'gosh. He and Broll travel to Thunder Bluff. There they flee on a Hippogryph. They come to Theramore. Jaina and Aegwynn reveals to him that he is the lost King of Stormwind. They are reunited with Valeera. They return to Stormwind only to find that King Varian Wrynn is already there. It is revealed that the black dragon Onyxia, under the disguise of Katrana Prestor, kidnapped Varian and then splitted him into two Varians. The noble King Varian and the barbaric Lo'gosh Varian. The Varians succeeds in merging back to one Varian and kill Onyxia in her lair.
Now the really story begins.
The Frozen Wastes
King Varian had returned and is now the ruler of the Alliance and of Stormwind. However, months before this a small force of Alliance and Horde soldiers had already pushed through the frozen wastes of Northrend and into Icecrown itself.
But the mission failed and these were turned into Death Knights of the Scourge. In the Plaguelands, Kel'thuzad and his necropolis Naxxramas has failed and Naxxramas had returnt home to Northrend. Instead the Scourge sent another Necropolis called Acherus - the Ebon Hold.
Under the direct command of the Lich King, the death knights of Acherus were trained in its halls for a specific purpose: The destruction of both the Scarlet Crusade and the Argent Dawn, the last bastions of Light (albeit corrupted, in the case of the Scarlet Crusade) in the Plaguelands.
Given their task, the death knights of Acherus laid waste to the towns of Havenshire and New Avalon and destroyed the last standing army of the Scarlet Crusade before turning on Light's Hope. During the Battle for Light's Hope Chapel, the Lich King revealed that he sent the death knights on a suicide mission in order to lure Tirion Fordring out of hiding. After the Lich King fled back to Northrend when Fordring cleansed the Ashbringer, the death knights who remained on the field formed the Knights of the Ebon Blade under the command of Highlord Darion Mograine, and took control of Acherus from the Scourge to serve as their base.
The Death Knights rejoined their former factions and the Death Knights were accepted back into the Horde and the Alliance by Thrall and Varian.
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Over himself, over his own
body and
mind, the individual is
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- John Stuart Mill
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kipshasz
Undefeatable Hero
Elvin's Darkside
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posted November 24, 2009 03:31 PM |
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Yay! Copy-paste with bad gramurz!
Seeing how this game devolved from a decent MMO to a deranged plotholed snow, I'll rename it World of CRAPcraft and unsign from warcraft fans.
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"Kip is the Gavin McInnes of HC" - Salamandre
"Ashan to the Trashcan", "I got PTSD from H7. " - LizardWarrior
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emilsn
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posted November 24, 2009 04:53 PM |
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Okay great Xerox  Just unite your threads
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Don't walk behind me; I may not
lead. Don't walk in front of me;
I may not follow. Just walk
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kipshasz
Undefeatable Hero
Elvin's Darkside
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posted November 24, 2009 04:58 PM |
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This is wow thread #11.
All hail! Not.
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"Kip is the Gavin McInnes of HC" - Salamandre
"Ashan to the Trashcan", "I got PTSD from H7. " - LizardWarrior
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emilsn
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posted November 24, 2009 06:13 PM |
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Well Kip - Atleast he wont make anymore threads! He has united them...
and you dont have to read this thread ..
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Don't walk behind me; I may not
lead. Don't walk in front of me;
I may not follow. Just walk
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kipshasz
Undefeatable Hero
Elvin's Darkside
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posted November 24, 2009 06:17 PM |
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It gives me a sick demented twisted statisfaction to infuriate the little printerboy.
And it's a free community, I can read what I want and give my purest(within coc) opinion about anything.
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"Kip is the Gavin McInnes of HC" - Salamandre
"Ashan to the Trashcan", "I got PTSD from H7. " - LizardWarrior
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Carcity
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posted November 24, 2009 07:02 PM |
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yeah, insult him in such a way that he doesn't know you insults him
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Berny-Mac
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Legendary Hero
Lord Vader
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posted December 03, 2009 02:55 AM |
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well, everybody, dont hate on Warcraft or Blizzard, okay? They wanted to make a successful game, and they've done it. Don't hate on Xerox either, no matter how much you want to smash his face into a wall, he's merely voicing his annoying opinions.
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Skyrim RP? YES!
Here it is!
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Berny-Mac
Promising
Legendary Hero
Lord Vader
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posted December 03, 2009 02:58 AM |
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well, everybody, dont hate on Warcraft or Blizzard, okay? They wanted to make a successful game, and they've done it. Don't hate on Xerox either, no matter how much you want to smash his face into a wall, he's merely voicing his annoying opinions.
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Skyrim RP? YES!
Here it is!
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xerox
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
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posted December 05, 2009 07:57 PM |
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Added a new lore section with the Races of Draenor. The Arakkoa are first on the list. The mysterious birdmen worship the gods Rukhmar and Terokk and in ancient times, the mysterious Apexis Arakkoa seems to have ruled over them. Perhaps the Apexis had a close relation to Rukhmar and they stored his power inside the Apexis shards...
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Over himself, over his own
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