Thomas, was it? Your soul has been wandering on Azeroth for quite some time, would you like me to personally escort you to the lush fields of Bastion?
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Sure thing! You can either usually find me somewhere in Duskwood between 7pm and 1am if you want to bump into him naturally, or you can message me on Discord if you want to talk more. My Discord is Carnie#2510. I’ll put this up in my earlier posts too for people.
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“It is not yet my time! How could I rest peacefully in a land of paradise when Duskwood yet languishes? When the people must fend for themselves against horrors that were once their brothers? Why do I deserve saving above the other undead wretches that still wander the woods? No… until our curse is lifted, so too will I remain and aid this sickly land. I must.”
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I really need to come find you and RP before I cancel my sub.
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The Ghost is: in!
Please come to Duskwood I’m very lonely.
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What’s your favorite part of Duskwood?
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Oooh good question! My favorite place in Duskwood is the little waterfall you can find behind Beggar’s Haunt, and the tomb with the Dark Portal statues beside it. Vanilla WoW concept art will show this place was meant to be a lot more expansive, and was called Knight’s Hollow. These days a rare spawns there but not much else, a shame but I’m glad it’s a neat little out of the way place all the same. A wonderful spot for rp as well!
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(me. his favorite part of duskwood is me.)
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The Ghost is: In!
Come marvel at the transparent man on his transparent horse.
What’s your favorite bit of Duskwood lore? How about headcanon/fanon?
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If Duskwood had Gilnean architecture, I would never leave.
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Hmm, favorite lore. I think that has to go to the story of Abercrombie, the Embalmer. He’s spoken about like a ghost story in his vanilla questline, heck they don’t even know his name is Abercrombie. They just call him The Embalmer, a once kindly alchemist who lost his wife and was driven mad, to the point that he used black magic to put his own still beating heart into Eliza to bring her back to life. It worked, but at a cost. Her risen body craved human flesh, so Abercrombie had to re-bury her for her own good.
Now that he’s gone mad, he creates Stitches with the unwitting help of the adventurer, a horrible monster of flesh, bone and metal to terrorize Darkshire with. And like a good ghost story, all attempts to appease Abercrombie, or kill him, or break his dark magic have failed, and he gets away to try again another day. As far as we know, he’s still alive in Legion, creating Stitches Jr. Jr. to fight in the pet battle arena. Maybe he’s running out of parts and has to build smaller each time.
As for my own headcanons? I’ve got a couple. My headcanon for Beggar’s Haunt is that it’s a leftover scout tower from the First War, left to rot after the Alliance lost and had to flee the area until it was reclaimed after the Second War. Kind of like how you can still find broken down siege weapons scattered here and there in Elywnn Forest. Another headcanon I have is that Morbent Fel is still somewhere out there in hiding, biding his time. After all, we never did find and destroy his phylactery…
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t like the juxtaposition of the Gilnean camp in Raven Hill to the rest of the broken down Stormwind architecture. I feel like they should have gone fully one direction or the other. Maybe if they do that second world update. Maybe. Maaaaybe.
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Wait no! I have another favorite lore storyline! The tragic story of Mor’ladim, aka Morgan Ladimore. He was a well known knight who did great deeds, to the point that he got a call to arms by the Silver Hand to fight alongside Uther the Lightbringer. Leaving his wife and three kids behind, he went to fight in the Second and Third Wars, and witnessed all of its terrible atrocities, but the thought of his family at home kept him going.
When he finally made the return trip home, Brightwood didn’t look the way it did when he left, cloaked in darkness and beset by evil. When he started to look for his family in the changed landscape, someone told him to check Raven Hill for tombstones, but he refused to believe that and was going to make a trip up north and see if they had fled. But against his better judgement, he went to the cemetery, much larger now than it had been when he left, and started to search. And lo and behold, he found what he had feared: the grave of his wife and two kids.
Mad with grief, he started to strike at the tombstones, to which some grave attendants found him and tried to restrain him, but in his fury he cut them down. Realizing what he had done, he took his own life, and when his body and the bodies of the other attendants were found he was buried off to the side and away from Raven Hill. But his spirit couldn’t rest, and his corpse, twisted by the despair of his actions, roamed the cemetery and aggressively struck down any unwitting adventurer in his wake.
Morgan thought his whole family taken from him, but when adventurers finally put him to rest, they are sent to speak with Sarah Ladimore, aka Watcher Ladimore. She gives the adventurer a ring in the hopes it brings her father’s spirit rest. And it does, the knowledge that his daughter yet lives gives him the hope and peace to pass on, and bestow the adventurer with his trusty sword, Archeus. (Which should have been an artifact weapon, you can’t change my mind on this.)
Duskwood has a lot of good lore, man. Too much good lore to choose just one. Best zone, man. Best zone.
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Now there are two Old Knights of Duskwood!
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Oh yeah? Well do I ever have a treat for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S7MHVBbqcs
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Ohhhhh. Ohhhhhh. This, this is good. This is very good.
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aw yiss bumping this, they showed up to duskwood and not gonna lie I was hyped. Local Celebrity appearance, Thomas is badass ftw
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The Mistmantle tragedy too, that’s campfire worthy.
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Yes! Yes yes yes! It’s basically a softer version of Lolita, to the point the object of Mistmantle’s affections is the young girl Tilloa, an anagram of Lolita. The cataclysm version of the quest only sends you around Duskwood, but the Vanilla version sends you to all the places Mistmantle stayed in his letters: the rundown and abandoned schoolhouse in Moonbrook, his room in Goldshire, and Eastvale Logging Camp as we’re constantly attacked and warned by a mysterious spirit to leave the tale of Mistmantle alone.
We slowly learn about the school teacher’s growing unhealthy obsession with the girl he’s tutoring, to the point that a glancing and unintentional touch sends his heart racing. When presented with Tilloa’s betrothed- someone he actually knew and wrote about before he became obsessed- it broke the fantasy he had built up in his head. And if he couldn’t have her, no one could.
All of Duskwood’s main storylines are like ghost stories come to life, which is why they’re so top tier. Man I haven’t even gotten to the Scythe and the Dark Riders! Though that’s more your territory, huh Raedolf? C;
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The Ghost is: In!
Somewhere in the gloom of another Duskwood night, an old spirit stirs.
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