Oh no, “World of Warcraft” made me fold Elf again

Like someone who played World of Warcraft From time to time for what is now qualified as an important part of my life in the past 21 years, I learn that there are two things that I deeply appreciate in the longtime fantastic MMO of Blizzard. The first is the path Warcraft A seated and managed, the evolution of his world and his characters during these two decades as an in progress.

Well, it’s not really the first. Because the real The first is that I really really like WarcraftThe Elves. I appreciate World of WarcraftThe approach of the passage of time, but really, I am there for the elves.

And in Gamescom this week, Blizzard provided elves near the bucket with the unveiling of World of WarcraftFollowing expansion, Midnight. The chapter of the environment of what the developer calls a “world saga” in three parts “, Midnight East World of WarcraftThe 11th expansion and opens onto the forces of the Alliance and the Horde which is associated with retaining an invasion of empty creatures designed by the sinister Xal’Atath entity, which has threatened the story of the game actively and passively for some time now. The invasion will focus on the region of Quel’Thalas, the kingdom of blood elves has been introduced for the first time in World of Warcraft With the arrival of his first expansion pack, The burning crusadein 2006.

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Of course, it meant MidnightThe traditional opening filmmaker reveals to launch things was Elf City, the population me and a bunch of elves. We were able to see important characters of blood elf like Lor’Themar Theron and Lady Liadrin fighting the forces of Xal’Atath directly on the walls of the capital of Blood Elf, Silvermoon City. We herself have Xal’Atah, who takes an elven form, being very nasty and disturbing.

After War inside Emphasize the underground regions of Azeroth and dwarf heritage, among others, Midnight is formed as a very elfant story, focusing on characters such as blood elves or the quest for revenge of Alria Windrunner against Xalatath. Which’thalas is revitalized and reworked as one of the four main areas that will be part of the expansion campaign experience. Void Elves, a sub-section of ancient blood Elves who have been avoided for having experienced the void and joins the alliance, will become the third race which can play as a demon hunters (a specific class at the Elven for narrative reasons, with only night elves and blood Elves before capable of playing), which will get a new class of night class for the first time since the first time since the first time since the first time since the first time since empty classes Legion in 2016.

As a person who ended up jumping largely War insideAll of this stung my potential ears with intrigue. I loved the tragic story of the high elves and their transformation into blood elves Warcraft 3Watch him play on my older brother’s shoulder when I was a child. My very first World of Warcraft The character was a druid elf at night – in part why I cried Battle for AzerothSUDERING of their own Teldrassil house – but only because the game did not have blood elves as a playable race when it was launched in 2004. Burning Crusade ‘The addition of blood elves and their lands was the real beginning of my love story with the game. I played a lot, a lot characters in the past two decades of World of WarcraftAnd the overwhelming majority of them were a flavor or another elf. If you are one of World of Warcraft Fans who have complained when a new race has been added to the game over the years and it is “just another elf”, sorry! They did this for me.

But refocus WarcraftThe current story on the parameters and elves characters constitutes a part of my renewed interest. A plot of this interest is enveloped in the above accent MidnightThe campaign. The versions of Quel’Thalas – in fact three areas in the current World of Warcraftin the form of Eversong Woods, Ghostlands and the island of Quel’Danas, transformed into a single singular massive zone including them all in Midnight-and Silvermoon City that currently exist in World of Warcraft have not been touched since they were added The burning crusade 20 years before MidnightRelease next year. After Cataclysm Revised vanilla World of WarcraftThe areas of 2010, these areas remained among the oldest in the whole match (this doubtful honor, after next year, will fall into the Dranei departure area of ​​Azuremyst Isle and its capital – my apologies to extraterrestrial goat players among us).

This does not only mean that they do not look as detailed graphically as modern World of Warcraft zones or they are strewn with the kind of conceptions of charming quests Warcraft Having moved away from the past years. This means that the lands of the blood elves were frozen when they were introduced for the first time in 2006. The burning crusade was set only a few years after the events of Warcraft 3Who saw the fallen prince Arthas Menethil lead a scourge of the living dead to ravage the then high elf kingdom of which’thalas, by killing an incalculable number, holding waste in Silvermoon and corrupt the Sunwell, the police of high magic power elves.

A large part of the Burning crusadeThe story of the blood elves focused on their decades. There are still workers in vain, almost put at this stage, working on the reconstruction of Silvermoon walls. There is still a massive scar and not wearing dead and decomposing lands that marks the road to Arthas in the heart of high elf civilization. For a world that is defined and celebrated as a living entity, which has used its longevity to leave the major changes on him and to let the characters age with him, who’thalas and the blood elves had the impression of being trapped in Amber.

So far, it is. MidnightThe overhaul does not only give these regions a new layer of paint; He tears them forward in time in the blink of an eye. From what we do not know, there will still be conflicts in these lands – Xal’Atath and its empty armies are literally at the doors – but Midnight We will give us a version of these lands which have really healed in time since we saw them for the last time. Silvermoon was not only rebuilt in Midnight; As a epicenter of the current great threat to Azeroth, he will become the main hub for MidnightA space where the members of the horde And The alliance can coexist (certain regions will remain, at least, only hordes). But for the most part, we will be able to see Silvermoon, Eversong, and the Ghostlands, and which of it as we should have seen them for 20 years.

And it is even before considering the implications of what will happen after Midnight For these lands. Presumably, when the threat of Xal’Atath is answered, Silvermoon will become a capital of the horde, if it is still standing, that is to say (it would be very Rude of Blizzard to destroy it after waiting to see it rebuilt for so long!). What will that’thalas look like in the future? World of Warcraft Previously answered the mechanical question of players who need to access older versions of certain locations after having settled narrative events in a progressive process, a metanarrative explained to the players when they were transported over time by a member of the bronze dragonflight keeping the chronology. Three versions of which’thalas will they exist simultaneously in the game – the Burning crusade original, Midnightthe redesign and a potential version later – or should we wait another 20 years before the region was authorized to “pass” technically Midnight?

Before arriving at this question, for the moment, I am just happy to worry about World of Warcraft A little more. I am already leveling a new character now (an elf, of course – an Elf Mage vacuum, this time), with plans to have a blood -blooded bloodshot ready to play Midnight With when it will be released next year. Blizzard knows that the way to my heart is an endless sea of ​​heroes and bad guys with sharp ears, but which brings me back over and over in recent decades Warcraft Then and add to its living history in the process.

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