Who will be Cataclysm's big bad guy in the end?

SARGERAS.......

This name comes to mind time and time again as I take in all the lore and quests around me in the this expansion. Allow me to explain. There are several events that have happened so far in this expansion that point to Sargeras. 

First, the Twilight Cultists refer to "The Master" when they speak if the person in charge, even Deathwing himself has referred to "The Master". People have speculated that the "head bad guy" in this expansion could be the Old Gods.  I'm not so sure about that.  First off there is the obvious problem in phrasing. Simply put, Old Gods can not me "THE" Master.  But, if you were to take it down to just one of the Old Gods, then that would put them back in the running. But there is more information that pulls it back away form the old gods.

Next, what is the one race that stopped Sageras from coming through to Azeroth and were a main force in repeatedly stopping the Burning Legion over and over again?  The Night Elves.  What is one of the only places to actually take a massive hit in Cataclysm? The Park District in Stormwind.  Now, yes, he has destroyed mountains in the badlands and re trashed the dame in Loch Modan, but The Park District is different.  Deathwing swoops down, obliterates the Park District, roars around Stormwind for a minute or two and then leaves.  Does not kill or trash anything else really.  Sure he messes up the front gate area a bit, but nothing like sending an entire district to the sea. This is even spoken of by some of the guards in Stormwind.  If Sargeras was "The Master", then Deathwing would be acting under instructions from Sargeras and would even be working to make his master happy.  So taking out an entire area of Night Elves would be a good start.

Now, it is confirmed that we will be getting a new Caverns of Time instance. This in itself is not too big a deal until you find out that it is taking us back to the War of the Ancients. This is where the Burning Legion and Sargeras first start to come to Azeroth for its power and to take over and bring chaos to the world. Blizzard is literally bringing us back to the events that changed the world as we know it and the events that would lead to the Burning Crusade expansion. Seems a bit odd to go there if the head bad guy here is one or all of the remaining Old Gods.

Now, I know what some people are saying. Sargeras is dead. Medivh's mother killed him in the past and buried his body in the Maelstrom. And that his essence went in to her an then in to Medivh who was later killed by Khadgar. This is all completely true according to lore and what has been seen in game. However, when Khadgar killed Medivh, it freed his soul from the essence of Sargeras. This did not destroy the essence, it only detached it from Medivhs soul, freeing him. Secondly, His mother never killed Sargeras, she merely destroyed his avatar that was on Azeroth. He himself never came through and is still in the twisting nether.  With his essence still in Azeroth, he could have been spending all this time gaining strength again and quietly building up an army on Azeroth to do his bidding

One other thing that I noticed that seems odd, Deathwing went almost straight for Uldum and recruited lackeys to help him get the power of the Origination Machine that is there in Uldum, left by the Titans. Now, how could he have know everything about that machine, that is was there and how it worked and what he needed his lackeys to go after? Well, if your boss was a crazy, insane demon version of a Titan that was once on the good guys team and helped to create Azeroth, you would know about the Origination machine and how to use it. And since, assuming he has no physical form at this point, Sargeras would have to recruit a lackey of his own to get get stuff done for him, enter Deathwing, who is already nuts and would be easily susceptible to the power that Sargeras could offer him.

Kinda starts you thinking, doesn't it?  Well, keep in mind that this is all just ideas that I have though about for awhile now and could be completely wrong. But you never know, there are a lot of things going on that do seem to point to Sargeras.  We will just have to wait and see.

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Can you live in BC again?

I've been seeing people talk lately about "retro-toons" and was curious as to what this was exactly.  It seems that there are people that are creating new characters, leveling them up to lvl70 and then.....*gasp*, capping their experience.  At first I thought this was a bit of a crazy idea.  However, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I had so much fun back in BC that it might be worth a shot.  So I leveled up a mage that I already had sitting as lvl62 and capped off my XP at 70.  It was at that point that I had a huge rush of flashbacks from when I hit lvl70 on my druid back in Burning Crusade.

My first stop, Isle of Quel'Danas! Time to start knocking out my Isle dailys again. The more I started doing some rep grinding in dungeons and with turn ins, not to mention beginning to gather some better gear through quartermasters and dungeons, I began to have more fun than I thought I would.  I figured it would be fun for a few days and probably lose it's interest, at which point I'd simply turn back on my XP and move on.  But it's been well over a week and I haven't lost any interest yet.  Maybe it's the fact that I know I can always turn on my XP and move on if I get bored. Maybe it the fact that Blizzard has, in the past, made changes to the over all stats in the game and even with the actual BC gear, I'm doing more damage now then I did then.  Who knows, all I know is that it's become so much fun, I have 5 other guild member that have decided to do the same thing. Next thing we know, we'll have enough people at lvl70 to run Karazhan with all 70s, lol.

I must admit, it's has been really fun.  Running some Cataclysm raids on my level 85 toons and then switching over and running dungeons and other stuff on my level 70 has been a blast so far.  I hope that it doesn't get old or boring any time soon. One thing we, the people in my guild that are going to have toons stay at lvl70, have decided is no twinking.  By this, we mean that you have to get gear from dungeons, heroics, raids, quests or quartermasters. Running battlegrounds to power through and grab all the super-high level PvP gear you can takes away form the fun of it and is somewhat frowned on.  1 or 2 pieces of PvP are ok, but full BG epics is a bit much.

If you have a level70 toon and are interested in having some fun on the Anvilmar server (Alliance side), cap that XP off and give me a pst.  Just whisper Taeo (my lvl70) or Neotaeo, if I'm not on then just whisper anyone in <DunderMifflin> and if they can't invite you, they will let someone know that can that you want an invite.  Come and have some fun, that is what retro-toons are all about!

Druid lore 101: Bears

I'm big in to WoW lore, I love it.  There is so much storyline to the game in all the different area that I'm totally amazed.  The creators do a great job of giving the game an almost real world feel to it by adding in all this back story or "history" to the game.  You get a real feeling of continuity as you play if you take time and read the quests and listen to NPCs.

With all this lore, I thought I'd jump in to a little bit of Night Elf lore.  More to the point, Druid lore and how the bear form played a huge part in Azeroth and still does today.

Druids have played a large role in the history of Azeroth.  The first druid was *Malfurion Stormrage, taught by Cerarius, who is not only thought of as the most powerful druid in Warcraft lore, but one of the most powerful beings in all of Azeroth. Over years upon years, Malfurion taught some of the Night Elves the druidic ways.  How to harness the power of nature and how to take the forms of other beings in nature.  One of these forms was the bear form.  This form was thought of as one of the strongest and resilliant amoung the creatures that roamed Kalimdor. These druids, knows as the Druid of the Claw were a large help in the War of the Ancients during the first attack of the Burning Legion which lead to the Great Sundering that spilt the world continent in to what we see today.

Years after the Great Sundering, When the world tree Nordrassil was planted and the Night Elves were given the gift of immortaility and access to the Emerald Dream in order to protect Azeroth, Malfurion and other druids locked themselves away in many different barrow dens where they would sleep for centuries, protecting the world.


This would be short lived, by Night Elf standards, as the Burning Legion would once again threaten Azeroths very exsistance.  Awaken from the long slumber, the Druids of the Claw would take their fight to the Burning Legion and to Archimonde.  After the defeat of the Legion once again, the druids decided to remain in the waking world, feeling that so much damage had been done that the natural order of things itself had been scared.   


Seeking to heal the world around them, the Night Elves teamed up with the druids of the Tauren. Together they work to restore the balance of order on Azeroth.  Working for a common goal, the Night Elf and Tauren druids consturcted a druid sanctuatry in The Moonglade. Here, Tauren and Night Elves coexist peacefully, united by their reverence for the spirit of nature. Conflict between the races in Moonglade is not tolerated by its protectors. To the druids in The Moonglade, the Alliance and the Horde are of no concern to them.  They are druids first and foremost. 

If you are in to lore, RP or just really get in to your character, be proud of your druid.  Your druids history is one full of keeping the world safe.  If you are not, then I hope you enjoyed this little tidbit of geekdom where WoW is concered.

Remember, keep up the good work bear!  We gotta show those other tanking classes how it's done!

*Althought Tauren lore would have them believe that they were infact the first druids, A blizzard post back at the start of wrath stated that "The Taurens believe they were the first, the Night Elves WERE the first of the druids." A link to this post will be placed here once I find the post again.