Technically, it’s storm silver that is then gold plated. So yeah, expensive, but not so bad.
I did appreciate that text mentioned that making things out of solid gold was not only stupid, but the boats would be so heavy with all the ornaments done in solid gold, that they would always sink even with a Loa’s blessing.
Victory for Sylvanas.
I think it was something about uniting Alliance and Horde under one banner and making Tinkertown the sovereign seat of power for all of Azeroth. All for just $50.
Vicodin for Alleria.
Ya know, I’m a lifelong Blue player (Even when I was playing Red for Blood Elves, I was still playing the “wrong” faction) and an Elfophile…but even I never got into the Windrunner Clones and all three’s weird obsession with taking on Human Male flings.
I seriously wish someone in the setting would address the fact that it’s weird the entire family lineage decided to go with Humans. At this point I’m waiting for the as-yet-unnamed eldest brother to turn up with a Human Male Boyfriend.
I’d buy a 10 year subscription if they did this. No joke.
Because the writers were obsessed and self insertion was as physically close to the target as they could get.
But all three?!
I gotta say, though, WoW kind of struggles to find romantically fulfilling leading men, in general.
You’ve got Thrall, who fairly routinely forgets he has a wife. You’ve got Malfurion, who has only ever gotten in Tyrande’s way and produced some truly cringe dialogue. You’ve got various weak-chinned humans hooking up with elves.
Lor’themar is probably the closest we’ve got and a lot of that is the voice acting doing some heavy lifting.
Never doubt Blizzard’s commitment to going all in on Cringe.
Their fling for humans is better than the many terribly whispers Loh has gotten in RP before I put ‘Married’ as his relationship status in his TRP.
Like… no. Size differences go too far people.
I’m still waiting on him to punch a hole in a mage’s chest as the voice actor did in a previous game.
Has Aggra even been seen since Warlords of Draenor?
Are we sure Thrall didn’t just leave her there?
She’s popped up again in a big way in the Orc Heritage Quest, getting equal rank to Thrall in terms of Shaman-Stuff, and she’s arguably the 2IC for Orcs on the Horde Council if Thrall goes AWOL on us in the next expansion.
She is sadly under-utilized as a non-Horde-raised Orc, especially since she cured Thrall of his Orc Weeb status and made him face the ugly reality of what their culture(s) were really like before the Shadow Council and Gul’dan ruined things, but alas, responsible leadership and self-aware criticism doesn’t mesh well with power-metal story-telling from the 80’s.
I mean, there’s also the fact she was just manifested wholesale as someone of Importance in Cataclysm. Prior to Aggra, there was a big Thrall x Jania fanbase and I don’t think they ever forgave Aggra for being created for being Thrall’s arm candy.
Glad to hear there’s still stuff being done with her, unlike Thrall’s Schrodinger’s Children.
OhboyhowdoIexplainthis…
Oh do tell. Seriously, I checked out of the story really during BfA. Shadowlands just convinced me to stop paying attention, full stop.
Seriously, I burned through the entire Emerald Dream zone when I boosted Vanndrel and I have zero idea what happened, beyond Not-Deathwing made an alliance with the Firelands. The rest is all elevator music.
I mean, you could make the argument that WoW doesn’t write male characters very well in general. They’re either : super awesome amazing warrior dude who has zero faults and how dare you not love them; hyper aggressive toxic masculinity bozo who goes full villain at some point; or sad and reflective person who just mopes around (Anduin).
But I guess considering the culture that Blizz has had, not surprising.
TL:DR mode for young Durak, Thrall and Aggra’s oldest child, is one of some very serious angst, a youth on the knife-edge between childhood and the burdens of being an adult, goes with the Orc Champion on the first of a new take on the old Coming of Age trials all Orcs were meant to go through, before the coming of the Shadow Council and the Dark Horde.
He’s respectful, knowing full well who we are and the burden of association with his storied parents, but agonizes because he’s never felt any special connection to the spirits, and given who his parents are, everyone assumes he’s going to become a Shaman, and you can feel his spirit being crushed under the weight of all these expectations.
Then, we get to the short story, “Trials”
And we get to see some neat stuff with Aggra and Thrall and little Rehze, the daughter of the family group and much younger than Durak, and some good parental bonding between Thrall and Rehze as he explains why the Trial matters, and why he’s asking Durak to wait before going out due to the risk of a cocky or ill-prepared youth picking a challenge well beyond their capacity to handle.
They did give poor Durak the dumbest hairstyle, however … I suppose we all have to go through that ‘awkward’ phase at least once in our lives?
I don’t necessarily agree. My impression of WoW’s male characters has been much the same as WoW’s female characters–a loose collection of vague capabilities and vaguely optimistic outlooks that are ill-defined enough to react to any plot.
We’re in a dark ages for entertainment right now and part of that is the reluctance to write any character that’s complicated, gross, uncomfortable or otherwise interesting. Every hero is a capable, quippy, non-threatening person of action with kiddie pool-deep pathos and a fashionable desire to do better.
That’s kind of always been the problem with WoW, though. Every character has a switch on their back that goes between Honor and Sad.