1/05/2010
Pretty Cool Fanfic
I think The Shadows Grow Longer is a pretty cool fanfic. Eh, captures Jaina and doesn't afraid of anything.
1/04/2010
Janus' Intervention
While reading a fanfiction, moments ago, I was nearly overcome by the most terrible fear I've felt.
The fanfiction itself is a hypothetical about if Arthas were to capture Jaina. So far, he has her in a cell, taunting her with memories of what they had. After agonizing words, he says,
“Brave words,” he repeated with a sneer. Then his stance softened, and resting a hand against the wall he leaned to the side. “So,” he began in a ridiculously conversational tone, “how’ve you been these past years, Jaina? It really has been too long.”
At that point, I was gripped with memories of Dereck. It sounded just like the type of jackass, insensitive sort of thing he would say in such a moment. I froze, then shrank away from my screen, staring at the words. I set my head in my hands. My eyes began to water.
But just then, I remembered what I had read on my calendar about the month of January: a time of looking forward, remembering past mistakes and learning from them, but not dwelling.
"Janus," I said, calling on the name of the two-faced Roman god of the new year.
My fear faded instantly. My eyes stopped watering. The heavy weight in my chest lifted.
The fanfiction itself is a hypothetical about if Arthas were to capture Jaina. So far, he has her in a cell, taunting her with memories of what they had. After agonizing words, he says,
“Brave words,” he repeated with a sneer. Then his stance softened, and resting a hand against the wall he leaned to the side. “So,” he began in a ridiculously conversational tone, “how’ve you been these past years, Jaina? It really has been too long.”
At that point, I was gripped with memories of Dereck. It sounded just like the type of jackass, insensitive sort of thing he would say in such a moment. I froze, then shrank away from my screen, staring at the words. I set my head in my hands. My eyes began to water.
But just then, I remembered what I had read on my calendar about the month of January: a time of looking forward, remembering past mistakes and learning from them, but not dwelling.
"Janus," I said, calling on the name of the two-faced Roman god of the new year.
My fear faded instantly. My eyes stopped watering. The heavy weight in my chest lifted.
1/03/2010
Keeping track of ideas
From an AIM conversation, these are my posts:
Dusk watched as the broken bound Leotheras' wrists, prying the warglaives from his clenched hands. He understood now. "Leotheras!" he called out. Leotheras looked up, his face twisted in rage. "You mock me as well, Sorrowdusk?!" he shouted.
Dusk shook his head as his comrade was positioned. "I... I understand now!"
"What are you saying," Leotheras growled. His face sank into impending despair as channelers made their way into the room.
"My brother... I get it. Why you saved me." Dusk winced as he realized that for once, strong and determined Leotheras was frightened.
The bound hunter stared at Dusk. "Well? Say it, then!"
Dusk shook his head. "This is the reason. To save you in return... From yourself."
Leotheras watched Dusk for a moment, growling as he resisted the clench of a spell on him The channelers were numerous, filing the room.
Dusk lowered his head, gripping his glaive tightly.
"I... I have to save you in return." He straightened up, leaping for the nearest channeler. The world slowed down. Blood sprayed as Dusk
slashed through throats, the glaive spreading the blood along its fine curved blade. Leotheras struggled against his bindings, shouting in Thalassian. Dusk didn't listen. He knew his destination now as his blade sang with the vibrations given to it by the channelers' bones
against it. He roared, draining the mana in the air to himself. He was no longer of the Illidari. He was not the Legion's. He was not a Farstrider. He was Sorrowdusk. He was a friend to Leotheras. And he would not allow his friend, his comrade, to be taken so easily by these
wretched, lesser beings. He would not allow them to-- An arrow pierced Dusk's stomach.
this is where the matron of the naga, the serpentine race that have taken the demon hunters in, interrupts, stopping dusk's killing spree.))
and she is this one: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/wowwiki/images/thumb/e/e8/Lady_Vashj.jpg/200px-Lady_Vashj.jpg ))
she basically tells him "shut the hell up stop what you're doing" and her guards stop dusk.
Dusk looked back at Leotheras, panting. His fellow hunter's skin was becoming darker in its magic hue... Shadows began engulfing him again.
Leotheras stared back at Dusk. A scent reached Dusk's nose.
Fear... Terrible fear.
"I... I can save him! Damnit!" Dusk lunged for Leotheras, but powerful, scaled hands gripped his arms, holding him back.
Leotheras slumped over slowly, letting out a quiet breath. He remained standing, but unable to support himself. The broken channelers recited a spell. Dusk recognized it immediately. It had been used often at the Temple.
Banishment.
Dusk froze against his retainers, staring in horror. *thinking* No...
but dusk is realizing what the naga will end up doing with leotheras.
since when he's in such a state of no control, he'd make a good mindless brute for them to use. he would attack anyone after they let him loose, destroying assailants.
after that, all they would have to do is simply banish him again.
Dusk watched as the broken bound Leotheras' wrists, prying the warglaives from his clenched hands. He understood now. "Leotheras!" he called out. Leotheras looked up, his face twisted in rage. "You mock me as well, Sorrowdusk?!" he shouted.
Dusk shook his head as his comrade was positioned. "I... I understand now!"
"What are you saying," Leotheras growled. His face sank into impending despair as channelers made their way into the room.
"My brother... I get it. Why you saved me." Dusk winced as he realized that for once, strong and determined Leotheras was frightened.
The bound hunter stared at Dusk. "Well? Say it, then!"
Dusk shook his head. "This is the reason. To save you in return... From yourself."
Leotheras watched Dusk for a moment, growling as he resisted the clench of a spell on him The channelers were numerous, filing the room.
Dusk lowered his head, gripping his glaive tightly.
"I... I have to save you in return." He straightened up, leaping for the nearest channeler. The world slowed down. Blood sprayed as Dusk
slashed through throats, the glaive spreading the blood along its fine curved blade. Leotheras struggled against his bindings, shouting in Thalassian. Dusk didn't listen. He knew his destination now as his blade sang with the vibrations given to it by the channelers' bones
against it. He roared, draining the mana in the air to himself. He was no longer of the Illidari. He was not the Legion's. He was not a Farstrider. He was Sorrowdusk. He was a friend to Leotheras. And he would not allow his friend, his comrade, to be taken so easily by these
wretched, lesser beings. He would not allow them to-- An arrow pierced Dusk's stomach.
this is where the matron of the naga, the serpentine race that have taken the demon hunters in, interrupts, stopping dusk's killing spree.))
and she is this one: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/wowwiki/images/thumb/e/e8/Lady_Vashj.jpg/200px-Lady_Vashj.jpg ))
she basically tells him "shut the hell up stop what you're doing" and her guards stop dusk.
Dusk looked back at Leotheras, panting. His fellow hunter's skin was becoming darker in its magic hue... Shadows began engulfing him again.
Leotheras stared back at Dusk. A scent reached Dusk's nose.
Fear... Terrible fear.
"I... I can save him! Damnit!" Dusk lunged for Leotheras, but powerful, scaled hands gripped his arms, holding him back.
Leotheras slumped over slowly, letting out a quiet breath. He remained standing, but unable to support himself. The broken channelers recited a spell. Dusk recognized it immediately. It had been used often at the Temple.
Banishment.
Dusk froze against his retainers, staring in horror. *thinking* No...
but dusk is realizing what the naga will end up doing with leotheras.
since when he's in such a state of no control, he'd make a good mindless brute for them to use. he would attack anyone after they let him loose, destroying assailants.
after that, all they would have to do is simply banish him again.
1/01/2010
The Abusive Love Affair With My SS WoW Mouse
It was a long time since I had reconnected my simple Logitech mouse. A long time, indeed. I had been using the Steel Series World of Warcraft Gaming Mouse. You know the one. Fifteen buttons, lights up, brushed steel paint job.
Piece of crap when you hook it up to a mac.
First of all, no drivers. None. It's $100 from a retailer. Maybe less online. I don't know. But no drivers for the Mac use of the mouse. Though it is advertised as being OSX compatible. Sure, it is compatible--if all you want to do is hook it up and use it as a two-button scroll mouse. The only button that naturally worked other than the usual buttons and wheel: the little tiny one on the left side. Pressing it would activate auto run, a staple for any adventurer without a mount, or anyone who has to fly across Northrend for no good reason.
About a month ago, I started to notice something strange on the left mouse button: An orange spot was showing through the paint. I had thought at first that the brushed steel look was created through the use of a two-tone metallic plastic. Wrong. It was painted. And I had worn it off with my constant finger presence. I painted some decoupage medium on it and went along my way. It looked stupid. Yes, it did. It wasn't even orange. It was sickly pink orange. Puke plastic under a brushed steel paint job. Yuck.
The auto run button became the next problem. I no longer could simply lightly press it to activate auto run. Now, it demanded that I hold it down for about a fourth of a second. Of course, that isn't much time at all, and I realize that. But I had to press it with purpose. I couldn't just lightly tap it anymore.
An acrylic woven cord covered the mouse's wire protectively, shielding it from damage and looking nice to boot. The mouse's position on the desk's keyboard tray, however, proved to be too much, as it had started to fray in the position it most often came in contact with the corner of the tray. The mouse was bulky. It was hard to move. It was a bit heavy. It had some strange balancing fins on it. These made the cord's abuse even worse as I would desperately try to swing the mouse from my action bar back to the party interface while healing.
The tracking was slow. About 50% slower than any Logitech mouse (the brand I'm most familiar with, obvious by now). Tracking was at max. The mouse didn't seem to give a damn.
It's been a painful time. I've had to get used to a bulky mouse with fifteen buttons that don't all work without the drivers to program them in order to perform better, and all the while the paint wears off.
...
Awesome mouse, Blizz. Awesome product, Steel Series.
Awesome.
Welcome back, sweetums. Let's lower that tracking speed just a tad, mm?
Piece of crap when you hook it up to a mac.
First of all, no drivers. None. It's $100 from a retailer. Maybe less online. I don't know. But no drivers for the Mac use of the mouse. Though it is advertised as being OSX compatible. Sure, it is compatible--if all you want to do is hook it up and use it as a two-button scroll mouse. The only button that naturally worked other than the usual buttons and wheel: the little tiny one on the left side. Pressing it would activate auto run, a staple for any adventurer without a mount, or anyone who has to fly across Northrend for no good reason.
About a month ago, I started to notice something strange on the left mouse button: An orange spot was showing through the paint. I had thought at first that the brushed steel look was created through the use of a two-tone metallic plastic. Wrong. It was painted. And I had worn it off with my constant finger presence. I painted some decoupage medium on it and went along my way. It looked stupid. Yes, it did. It wasn't even orange. It was sickly pink orange. Puke plastic under a brushed steel paint job. Yuck.
The auto run button became the next problem. I no longer could simply lightly press it to activate auto run. Now, it demanded that I hold it down for about a fourth of a second. Of course, that isn't much time at all, and I realize that. But I had to press it with purpose. I couldn't just lightly tap it anymore.
An acrylic woven cord covered the mouse's wire protectively, shielding it from damage and looking nice to boot. The mouse's position on the desk's keyboard tray, however, proved to be too much, as it had started to fray in the position it most often came in contact with the corner of the tray. The mouse was bulky. It was hard to move. It was a bit heavy. It had some strange balancing fins on it. These made the cord's abuse even worse as I would desperately try to swing the mouse from my action bar back to the party interface while healing.
The tracking was slow. About 50% slower than any Logitech mouse (the brand I'm most familiar with, obvious by now). Tracking was at max. The mouse didn't seem to give a damn.
It's been a painful time. I've had to get used to a bulky mouse with fifteen buttons that don't all work without the drivers to program them in order to perform better, and all the while the paint wears off.
...
Awesome mouse, Blizz. Awesome product, Steel Series.
Awesome.
Welcome back, sweetums. Let's lower that tracking speed just a tad, mm?
Lich King Euphamisms
Jaina -really- chases Arthas' balls in Halls of Reflection. Here's some guesses as to what she wants.
His...
chilly slobberknocker
frozen bone
bony boner
rising lich thing
Frostfournicator
Frostpourne
hardened iron shortsword of frozen wrath
His...
chilly slobberknocker
frozen bone
bony boner
rising lich thing
Frostfournicator
Frostpourne
hardened iron shortsword of frozen wrath
12/28/2009
CRAFT COCAINE
Lol's. So I just downloaded the WoW Fansite kit from WoW's official site. It's full of a bunch of stuff I don't quite understand, such as just about anything involved with web programming. Let's see... I have now a bunch of logos (for original, BC, and WotLK respectively), some renders of Arthas (both his badass Wrath model and his... somewhat ugly Culling of Stratholme model), some avatars for forums (The ones in the lvl 80 avatars folder look like lvl 60 avatars), borders, stuff like that. Interesting...
12/26/2009
Cosplay Idea
I don't even play this game. El Oh El. But damn, that guy's got a sexy costume. I want one.
12/25/2009
So, what the hell did you get for christmas?
Holidays? Whatever it is you celebrate, winter-time festivities! What'd you do? Where'd you go? What'd you get?
What I got:
new cd: Kamelot "The Black Halo"
bunches of white chocolate
gold chocolate coins
awesome socks
awesome sweater
black ripped tights
a dvd with digital copy of "UP"
two magazines to tickle my art bone
a witch's calendar
a new purse
two WoW game cards
Where I will be going: Probably just staying home. I really doubt I'm gonna be going over to my uncle's or aunt's or anything.
What I'll do: Take a shower and eat!
This new cd, I'm listening to it now, mmmmmmm. Loving it.
Hope you all have a good time this season. :)
What I got:
new cd: Kamelot "The Black Halo"
bunches of white chocolate
gold chocolate coins
awesome socks
awesome sweater
black ripped tights
a dvd with digital copy of "UP"
two magazines to tickle my art bone
a witch's calendar
a new purse
two WoW game cards
Where I will be going: Probably just staying home. I really doubt I'm gonna be going over to my uncle's or aunt's or anything.
What I'll do: Take a shower and eat!
This new cd, I'm listening to it now, mmmmmmm. Loving it.
Hope you all have a good time this season. :)
12/19/2009
Hmm... Neat
Interesting. Wanted this as the page's header, but can't figure it out.
You can make your own at this site.
12/15/2009
How to make a Gordon
It starts very simple: Find a picture. This one will work!
Next, take out the messy background. Let's put our soon-to-be-Gordon in City 17. That light in the background matches the light on the Gordon!
For this Gordon, I burned his chin to make the goatee, copy+pasted some nerd glasses on, then drew frames around them to match Gordon's iconic glasses, and found a picture of a crowbar on the internet. Color replacement fixed that blue crowbar right up!
No Gordon is complete without the Lambda symbol, though. I didn't feel like copy+pasting a whole HEV suit onto this guy, so I drew one and burned it up a bit!
Now, you have your very own Half-Life 4 Gordon Freeman! This is the one where he doesn't have an HEV suit, and instead runs around in jeans and a wifebeater. That's just how badass he is, now. *nod*
Next, take out the messy background. Let's put our soon-to-be-Gordon in City 17. That light in the background matches the light on the Gordon!
For this Gordon, I burned his chin to make the goatee, copy+pasted some nerd glasses on, then drew frames around them to match Gordon's iconic glasses, and found a picture of a crowbar on the internet. Color replacement fixed that blue crowbar right up!
No Gordon is complete without the Lambda symbol, though. I didn't feel like copy+pasting a whole HEV suit onto this guy, so I drew one and burned it up a bit!
Now, you have your very own Half-Life 4 Gordon Freeman! This is the one where he doesn't have an HEV suit, and instead runs around in jeans and a wifebeater. That's just how badass he is, now. *nod*
12/08/2009
12/06/2009
Goings-on
It's been a rather long time since I posted anything worthwhile on this blog, so I'll let you know what I've been up to.
--Sintas is in an rp guild on ER (finally) that actually rp's. Granted, it's simple clan style rp, but it's kind of fun to watch from there as Echelon Militia and Conjurers Court go at it. Silly drama bits.
--I've been working on a fan fiction (fanfic) for Sintas. It's viewed through the link to the right of this post. In the link bar. With all the other links. Though they're not really in bar form... Link stack? Eh.
--I'm thinking I'll write one for Sorrowdusk, too. I've been told it would be a cool idea, so... Eh.
In other news, screenshots are fun to play with in photoshop. Nice effects can be done on them to make them more realistic. Well, not realistic, but less pixelated and less obviously game models. I posted the two I've done below, as well as use one for the banner on Sint's fanfic site.
Gimme comments, guys. <3 Haven't talked to you people who know this blog in forever.
--Sintas is in an rp guild on ER (finally) that actually rp's. Granted, it's simple clan style rp, but it's kind of fun to watch from there as Echelon Militia and Conjurers Court go at it. Silly drama bits.
--I've been working on a fan fiction (fanfic) for Sintas. It's viewed through the link to the right of this post. In the link bar. With all the other links. Though they're not really in bar form... Link stack? Eh.
--I'm thinking I'll write one for Sorrowdusk, too. I've been told it would be a cool idea, so... Eh.
In other news, screenshots are fun to play with in photoshop. Nice effects can be done on them to make them more realistic. Well, not realistic, but less pixelated and less obviously game models. I posted the two I've done below, as well as use one for the banner on Sint's fanfic site.
Gimme comments, guys. <3 Haven't talked to you people who know this blog in forever.
12/04/2009
9/19/2009
T-shirt Design
A design I made from a motivational poster.
(http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/political-pictures-mahmoud-ahmedinejad-balls-steel.jpg?w=450&h=536)
New Drawings
A new picture of Sintas, a new style, and a variation of her altogether.
My demon hunter, Sorrowdusk, before adding armor and cleaning up edges.
Sorrowdusk after adding armor and a background.
9/04/2009
The Most Useless WSG of All Time
I shit you not. Can you say clusterfuck? This was awesome. When we first ran out, we stayed in tree form, so when the horde saw us coming, they just stood around on their mounts staring at us for a minute. Then they figured out they couldn't kill us.
8/23/2009
8/21/2009
While watching Blizzcon!
This is my list of notes on the awesomeness being unveiled.
By the way, about the screenshots: sorry about them, but I have to keep the quality at medium to be able to load it properly. Even still, it sits around buffering often.
-7 new zones
-Lush southern Barrens
-Orgrimmar gets wrecked
-Barrens ripped in half
-Flyers in Azeroth
-Yes, Worgen and Goblins
-Heroic Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep
-Twilight Highlands
-Hillsbrad belongs to Horde now
-Deathwing Returns
-Phasing zones
-New PVP stuff, Garrosh controls Horde forces
-Still not caring much about PVP stuff
-New level flow
-Desolace isn't quite so desolate anymore. A crack from the Cataclysm in the land there allows water to flow in. Yay, irrigation!
Some probably won't believe me on some of this. Really, Heroic Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep?
Believe me. I shit you not.
An example of the new level flow. What they're basically doing is changing the level ranges for the zones. This relates to Horde claiming Hillsbrad, too, since that makes the whole upper half of the Eastern Kingdoms better for the leveling flow from Tirisfal.
As of right now, I haven't heard anything about Malfurion returning D: sadface.
So, mum and dad's reaction to my nerdgasm?
*eyeroll*
Yep. Mum and dad -and- sis are pretty annoyed with all my WoW interest, it seems like.
I'll say the teenager cliche, though, and say that they don't get it.
To explain simply, I want to work for this company that makes these awesome games. That's what I want to work towards in college, not to -just- be a fan my whole life. So I guess if they don't get it after I've explained it to them, screw 'em. I'll go into computer animation, I'll work hard at it, and I'll work at Blizzard. Whether they roll their damn eyes or not.
Second day:
-Whoever this comedian is, I -really- hate him.
-Mistress of Pain cosplay: AWESOME.
-Girl who did the tidbit of Lament of the Highborne: AWESOME
-Guy in kilt doing Talon King Ikiss... wow. Very well done, for something that retarded and annoying to hear in-game! (sort of a compliment)
-Jared doing the Draenei male dance: AWESOME, got the crowd going, hope he gets something!
-LoL @ TAFKAL80ETC lawl
-Can these Directv airheads talk any longer? And how many recaps must they give us?
-imho: you can't be -that- hardcore of a player when you're presentable for tv. lawl.
-Finally the Directv airheads shut up so Ozzy can play. =D "Bark At the Moon" first, of course. Go worgen!
By the way, about the screenshots: sorry about them, but I have to keep the quality at medium to be able to load it properly. Even still, it sits around buffering often.
-7 new zones
-Lush southern Barrens
-Orgrimmar gets wrecked
-Barrens ripped in half
-Flyers in Azeroth
-Yes, Worgen and Goblins
-Heroic Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep
-Twilight Highlands
-Hillsbrad belongs to Horde now
-Deathwing Returns
-Phasing zones
-New PVP stuff, Garrosh controls Horde forces
-Still not caring much about PVP stuff
-New level flow
-Desolace isn't quite so desolate anymore. A crack from the Cataclysm in the land there allows water to flow in. Yay, irrigation!
Some probably won't believe me on some of this. Really, Heroic Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep?
Believe me. I shit you not.
An example of the new level flow. What they're basically doing is changing the level ranges for the zones. This relates to Horde claiming Hillsbrad, too, since that makes the whole upper half of the Eastern Kingdoms better for the leveling flow from Tirisfal.
As of right now, I haven't heard anything about Malfurion returning D: sadface.
So, mum and dad's reaction to my nerdgasm?
*eyeroll*
Yep. Mum and dad -and- sis are pretty annoyed with all my WoW interest, it seems like.
I'll say the teenager cliche, though, and say that they don't get it.
To explain simply, I want to work for this company that makes these awesome games. That's what I want to work towards in college, not to -just- be a fan my whole life. So I guess if they don't get it after I've explained it to them, screw 'em. I'll go into computer animation, I'll work hard at it, and I'll work at Blizzard. Whether they roll their damn eyes or not.
Second day:
-Whoever this comedian is, I -really- hate him.
-Mistress of Pain cosplay: AWESOME.
-Girl who did the tidbit of Lament of the Highborne: AWESOME
-Guy in kilt doing Talon King Ikiss... wow. Very well done, for something that retarded and annoying to hear in-game! (sort of a compliment)
-Jared doing the Draenei male dance: AWESOME, got the crowd going, hope he gets something!
-LoL @ TAFKAL80ETC lawl
-Can these Directv airheads talk any longer? And how many recaps must they give us?
-imho: you can't be -that- hardcore of a player when you're presentable for tv. lawl.
-Finally the Directv airheads shut up so Ozzy can play. =D "Bark At the Moon" first, of course. Go worgen!
8/17/2009
Amidst the Confusion
SO. About those goblins and worgen! Obviously they're the only interest anyone has in the new expansion, other than Onyxia and Ragnaros' returns. But let's get down to business.
Fellow lore whores are having the most trouble with this whole situation. So I'll explain it as it's been explained on other sites, starting with goblins, since they take the least amount of time to explain.
If you know anything about Deathwing (formerly Neltharion), then you know he employed goblins in the past to do his work for him. Well, in Cataclysm, the story is that he's calling on the goblins to serve him again. And since they can't exactly say no, they obey.
Except for a small group. (think eredar/draenei style) They resist, and become shipwrecked on an island off the coast of the Barrens. Somehow they stop an Alliance ship, and somehow that ship has an orc held captive. That orc turns out to be Thrall, and so the goblins tell him of their plight. He's grateful for their aid, of course, and offers them a place in the Horde. They accept. Yay, goblins! I'm still not sure what this means for the Steamwheedle Cartel, but we'll find out soon enough.
Now, the worgen of course are annoying the shit out of some people for being on the Alliance side. "Oh, but they look like animals! They're not an alliance-ey race!" Yeah, well draenei look like demons. Get over it. XP
So. Worgen are from another dimension originally, but are able to infect others with Lycantrope, which is the same as becoming a werewolf. Arugal, of course, found a way to summon worgen without the Scythe of Elune, but eventually couldn't control them himself. They ended up infecting the town of Pyrewood near Shadowfang Keep, making the residents humans by day and worgen by night. This infection spread to Gilneas, just south of Silverpine, despite the Gilneans' efforts to shut themselves off from the world. Unlike Pyrewood, though, the Gilneans have developed some manner of cure for this; they're able to keep their human minds intact, but are still nonetheless worgen. The Cataclysm, whatever the terrible disaster that befalls Azeroth is, ends up shattering their wall. Now that they have to contend with the rest of the world again, they seek allies, and are accepted into the Alliance.
But if anyone still can't get over this shit, just think. Flying mounts... In Azeroth...
Exploring Hyjal...
Malfurion returns...
Mmmmmmmm, Malfurion...
<3
Fellow lore whores are having the most trouble with this whole situation. So I'll explain it as it's been explained on other sites, starting with goblins, since they take the least amount of time to explain.
If you know anything about Deathwing (formerly Neltharion), then you know he employed goblins in the past to do his work for him. Well, in Cataclysm, the story is that he's calling on the goblins to serve him again. And since they can't exactly say no, they obey.
Except for a small group. (think eredar/draenei style) They resist, and become shipwrecked on an island off the coast of the Barrens. Somehow they stop an Alliance ship, and somehow that ship has an orc held captive. That orc turns out to be Thrall, and so the goblins tell him of their plight. He's grateful for their aid, of course, and offers them a place in the Horde. They accept. Yay, goblins! I'm still not sure what this means for the Steamwheedle Cartel, but we'll find out soon enough.
Now, the worgen of course are annoying the shit out of some people for being on the Alliance side. "Oh, but they look like animals! They're not an alliance-ey race!" Yeah, well draenei look like demons. Get over it. XP
So. Worgen are from another dimension originally, but are able to infect others with Lycantrope, which is the same as becoming a werewolf. Arugal, of course, found a way to summon worgen without the Scythe of Elune, but eventually couldn't control them himself. They ended up infecting the town of Pyrewood near Shadowfang Keep, making the residents humans by day and worgen by night. This infection spread to Gilneas, just south of Silverpine, despite the Gilneans' efforts to shut themselves off from the world. Unlike Pyrewood, though, the Gilneans have developed some manner of cure for this; they're able to keep their human minds intact, but are still nonetheless worgen. The Cataclysm, whatever the terrible disaster that befalls Azeroth is, ends up shattering their wall. Now that they have to contend with the rest of the world again, they seek allies, and are accepted into the Alliance.
But if anyone still can't get over this shit, just think. Flying mounts... In Azeroth...
Exploring Hyjal...
Malfurion returns...
Mmmmmmmm, Malfurion...
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