Oh you’re correct, I did. Terribly sorry, thank you for pointing it out.
I left it out of the main post, but i really enjoyed the tidbits that talk about various tier sets for each class. Additionally the tidbits about the inscription weapons/artifacts tied to each temple/celestial.
The paragraphs on the cloaks were a bit saddening though since they are unobtainable.
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When does this book take place? I’m assuming it’s before the time skip.
Speaking of ships - any mention of Pandaren / Zandalari relations?
The same year as dragonflight. They meet a tuskarr that just came from there.
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Nope. The only time the Zandalari are mentioned is when their invasion in ancient times was in the history recap section and when their invasion in Mists led by Zul was brought up.
It actually sucks that BFA had both Zandalari and Pandaren involvement, yet not once did they decide to touch on the ongoing tensions between the two peoples. The most we got was Ji Firepaw saying he was gonna punch a dinosaur, and forgetting he didn’t actually come from Pandaria. The fact they’re still not touching on it tells me they either won’t or can’t handle that kind of storytelling.
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It’s so cool how the Shado-Pan followed the mogu to Zuldazar in BfA and then proceeded to do absolutely nothing the entire time they were there.
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Any news of Yalia Sagewhisper, or the status of Chen/Yalia? The fact that he’s built a new brewery in Zouchin Village is nice, as he really fell in love with the place in Shadows of the Horde.
Catelyn is allied with the Blackwater Raiders, who are based in Stranglethorn, and IIRC she used to hang out in the Booty Bay inn, or maybe she still does. Anyway, she’s spent a lot of time in troll country.
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Nope. Though since Chen was rather upbeat, I presume that they are still going strong.
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This is hardly surprising. Blizzard has done barely anything with the Pandaren Leaders since their inception. They weren’t even involve either of them during the campaign on Pandaria, their ancestral homeland. In fact, the Pandaren in general have gotten very little in regards to lore since MoP, likely due to Blizzard fearing another backlash when the expansion was first announced.
Until this book, the most we’ve learned about the pandaren was from BFA when it was revealed that there were other pandaren communities beyond Pandaria. Save for that,Blizzard seems only interested in using the race sparingly.
Though all of this sounds a bit boring, it does sound like Pandaria has gone back to what it was before the events of MoP. Strange that there is some slight possibilities of the mists returning to shroud the continent again. Though I’m not sure why Blizzard would do that.
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Plus it wouldn’t be the first time a member(s) from one race appropriated a deity of anothers in some way. Such as the Orcs with Lo’gosh (Goldrinn). After all, Orcs do go to Hyjal to visit his shrine in Cata.
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Honestly I’m not sure if Ji and Aysa were ever actually meant to be leaders and not just characters in the Tushui/Huojin. Not that not being leaders should mean they shouldnt do more (if anything being a leader should mean doing less, why are heads of state constsntly going into battlefields in this game?).
I think that’s because the Sunreavers are from Quel’thalas and were always essentially emissaries to the Kirin Tor from Quel’thalas. They’ve never been a distinct political entity.
Everyone is having to do some forgiving in order to stop hostilities. Sunreavers are not unique in this. Aethas had to give up the Sunstrider sword, Night elves have to give up literally all of their territory, some sacrifices have to be made for peace. The hostilities stop when both decide enough is enough and walk away.
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Dragonflight does seem like the expansion where Taran Zhu’s words are finally starting to sink in. It only took another ten years of Blizzard dragging characters through the mud.
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Can i get a refresher on what those were?
It was during the ending of one of the Isle of Thunder scenarios back in MOP when Jaina and Lor’themar were about to start throwing down:
Taran Zhu yells: ENOUGH! There will be no more bloodshed today! I see now why your Alliance and Horde cannot stop fighting! Every reprisal is itself an act of aggression, and every act of aggression triggers an immediate reprisal!
Jaina and Lor’themar start shouting
Taran Zhu yells: SILENCE! YOU must break the cycle.
Taran Zhu yells: It ends TODAY. Here. The cycle ends when you, Regent Lord, and you, Lady Proudmoore, turn from one another. And walk. Away.
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I mean, the faction leaders are like living weapons. Varian literally soloed a Garothi worldbreaker.
And he died for it.
Vol’jin also died there and the result was the Darkspear being without a leader for years.
Heads of state really shouldn’t be out on the frontlines, they’re too important to the function of their societies. They should be heading their state. Ordering stuff on the battlefield is what generals are for.
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Well, that would be modern society, but trough history in many places we see Kings and rulers taking the frontlines, if we goto warcraft, many societies that we play a part of have had their leaders stablished by their power or what they achieved in battle, Tyrande and Malfurion for the night elves, Thrall for the orcs, and so on.
And we do have race leaders that arent exactly fighters either, like Talanji for the Zandalari, or Velen for the Draenei.
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