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WoW - Northrend & Other Lore

KinslayerXKinslayerX Member Posts: 87
in World of Warcraft
One for all the WoW lore freaks out there, but exactly How complete is Azeroth at the moment? What would you love to see added? How can the lore be expanded on as part of WoW? With a few more areas of Azeroth itself opening up as part of BC, it got me thinking about exactly how much of the world remains uncharted



My WoW lore is quite sketchy as I never played WC or WC2 and haven't read any of the books so all I know comes from WC3 and WoW itself.



That said, I know we're currently missing the following areas



Gilneas - A Walled off human kingdom, somewhere near Hillsbrad. Rumours are it's to be added in a future expansion and will have been taken over by Naga or Worgen



Northrend - Arthas himself in this desolate wasteland and will surely be the last item of content ever added



Kul'Tiras - This Island kingdom is still meant to exist somewhere off the coast off the South Western coast of the Eastern Kingdom.



Mount Hyjal - One of the biggest zone placeholders in game at the moment socould be a LOT going in there



Nazjatar - Aquatic Home of the Naga. It was mentioned by the dev's at Blizz con that Nazjatar and Northrend were planned for future expansions but little more has been said since BC.



There's also unaccessible areas of the world map North of Redridge Mountains, East of Wetlands and Northwest of Stormwind. Finally, there are a few other places that are known of in lore such as Pandaria, the sunken part of Kalimdor, The Goblin island of Kezan and Undermine, the Broken Isles, Balor



Then there's the more interesting question of future playable races. Worgen, Naga, Furbolg, Pandaren(If these EVER turn up I will cancel my sub!)Ethereal and Goblin have all been rumoured.



Personally, I'd love to see Naga and Worgen included from a lore perspective and Northrend is definitely the one place I'll be very annoyed not to see implemented before the plug is eventually pulled on WoW.

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  • alyndalealyndale Member UncommonPosts: 936
    This was extremely interesting and quite refreshing, for a change.  Yes, I would truly be interested in more lore from this game...anyone care to ad any input?

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  • KinslayerXKinslayerX Member Posts: 87
    Looks like Blizz are letting some Zul'aman details trickle out now. Personally, i'd love this one to be a 10 man as there's an abundance of 25 man raids now.

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    There's also more stuff they can do with the portal. If you remember in the lore for the strategy games, there are countless worlds out there besides Azeroth and Draenor. I've always been curious where the Death Knights, the originals, ended up. I heard they were supposed to have been led to their own little world by Terron Gorefiend, but since I haven't tromped around Outland I don't know if this is true.
  • ElgarethElgareth Member Posts: 588
    Why should Northrend be the last Area added?

    I mean, Arthas is basically a Loser, compared to Illidan, and since you can already kill Illidan, Arthas should be no Problem whatsoever *shrug*
  • b0rderline99b0rderline99 Member Posts: 1,441
    Originally posted by Elgareth

    Why should Northrend be the last Area added?

    I mean, Arthas is basically a Loser, compared to Illidan, and since you can already kill Illidan, Arthas should be no Problem whatsoever *shrug*
    i read a dev interview where they said they were waiting for players to be at least level 90 before they could kill arthas
  • Unknown
    Originally posted by Elgareth

    Why should Northrend be the last Area added?

    I mean, Arthas is basically a Loser, compared to Illidan, and since you can already kill Illidan, Arthas should be no Problem whatsoever *shrug*
    Arthas beat Illidan...without the powers of the Frozen Throne that he later gained. So, it stands to reason he's tougher than Illidan now.
  • KinslayerXKinslayerX Member Posts: 87
    Originally posted by Elgareth

    Why should Northrend be the last Area added?

    I mean, Arthas is basically a Loser, compared to Illidan, and since you can already kill Illidan, Arthas should be no Problem whatsoever *shrug*
    The only fight between Arthas and Illidan was won by Arthas and that was before he became the Lich King when he was trying to reach the Frozen Throne. He was also severely weakened at the time because of the attacks on the Frozen Throne. At full strength and with the powers he also gained as Lich King there is little doubt he is more powerful than Illidan.

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  • thetankthetank Member Posts: 200
    Originally posted by b0rderline99

    Originally posted by Elgareth

    Why should Northrend be the last Area added?

    I mean, Arthas is basically a Loser, compared to Illidan, and since you can already kill Illidan, Arthas should be no Problem whatsoever *shrug*
    i read a dev interview where they said they were waiting for players to be at least level 90 before they could kill arthas If what you are saying is correct atleast we can hope for a few more expansions

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  • AseenusAseenus Member UncommonPosts: 1,844
    Originally posted by KinslayerX

    Looks like Blizz are letting some Zul'aman details trickle out now. Personally, i'd love this one to be a 10 man as there's an abundance of 25 man raids now.
    yeah a lot of info on zul'aman is being released slowly...



    i prefer 40 mans rather then 10 mans >< BRING BACK 40 MANS PLX
  • PureChaosPureChaos Member Posts: 839
    well iv played every warcraft game and WoW so i guess i know something of it. A few things id like t osee is the Emerald Dream,Northrend and the maelstrum as a bunch of good areas to hit up. OR even the elemental Plane. Alot of lore for Warcraft are in the books.



    Hm id like to go hit up the Nether also , go kill some scourge, which the game has kinda let gowith TBC. OH and some panderans in the game are needed.

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  • b0rderline99b0rderline99 Member Posts: 1,441
    reports are that a new folder was added to the MPQ in the 2.1 patch which is named Expansion02 (Expansion01 was the name of TBC folder, and it was in the client for a long time before TBC was released) which includes a map for Howling Fjords (an area in northrend)



    if this is indeed accurate then we shall soon see northrend
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