What is drustvar themed after?

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I like horror and am trying to find more stuff like this. I know it was styled a bit after the salem witch trials and zandalar was kinda themed after aztec temples and whatnot.

is there anything else? i’m in LOVE with the whole theme! bones and wicker and everything! any info would be great :smiley:

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Seems kinda more Eldritch Horror, more or less witches and the Blair Witch wicker stuff.

Loosely based around Celtic mythology IIRC.

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Thank you! that is very helpful! :D!

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I would have guessed the Salem witch stuff. I played through it as Alliance because I’d read lots of gushing about the whole zone. I left completely disappointed because there wasn’t a single Monty Python joke :frowning:

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It’s a conglomeration of historical stories, camp horror films, and various witch-based mythologies.

The wicker, the witch hunts, the cultishness, the scary witch in the woods, the haunted mansion, the disappearances…it’s a combination of things.

Dedaru summed up the major themes pretty well, but it’s basically like they sat and had a round table and put together all the witch-based horror tropes of the popular media universe and made it into a unified thing.

I hate the mob density in Drustvar, but I loved everything else.

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Yeah i really enjoyed the style its my fav zone in a long time. I DO wish we got a raid or some more scary looking gear. i didn’t get a haunting
witch hunting bow D:

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I would love to see more. I’m so stoked about the wicker druid forms for the KT humans. REALLY happy about those.

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me too! i can’t wait! ty very much for the info now to go to amazon and look for decor to go on the book cases lol

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I think it is modelled after Quentin Tarantino themed trailer park that I used to live in.

Instead of velvet Elvi on the walls you had wickermongerstuff…and the term ‘paying the rent’ to Haggatha the Landlady still makes me want to shower and gargle…

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Couldn’t help that it reminds me of the Salem witch story themes with heavy Celtic and European witch folklore.

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But what it really needs is a Stitches 2.0 tromping up and down the roads.
That one raid group construct thing that’s out there just doesn’t have the same feel.

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Witches.

I think it is themed off of Witches, and Witch stuff.

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That area is one of the coolest zones in Kul’tiras. Blizzard really outdid themselves with area design this expansion. The old legion areas by comparison were so boring.

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Well this certainly clarifies the OP’s question

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in Rift we had two zone like this Stillmoor / Gloamwood and they were creepy AF, just like Drustvar

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Edgar Allan Poe.

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Here’s a fun thing to do OP, play the Darkmoon Faire Merry Go Round music in the Waycrest Manor and prepare to get SPOOPED

Also, read yourself some Shadows Over Innsmouth and prepare to be freaked out.

Guaranteed couldn’t sleep for a day after reading it!

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I love the spooky zones because in my opinion they immerse you into the environment more then any other type of zone.

Take The Witcher and Fable and roll it together and that is what Drustvar feels like.

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Aside from the neat ambience, I thought it was pretty neat how they rolled in the Drust as a Vrykul offshoot. It helps tie the universe together by making it clear that Vrykul aren’t just a Northrend + Broken Isles thing.

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Explained at Blizzcon;
Drustvar started out as a Game of Thrones inspired frozen wasteland, similar to “beyond the wall”

But those notes weren’t hitting so started over from scratch with the horror zone.

There were some camps of witches in the frozen wasteland version of Drustvar, so we kept those and built on it.

Hope that answers your question.