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I stumbled upon this article the other day and remembered reading about this incident when it originally happened. Two years later and it’s still impressive.
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As with the Night Elves, the Dwarves are also heading down the path to civil war. The reason lies in one, soon to be born, dwarf.

If one has done the quest “The Princess Saved?” on the Horde side, or “The Princess’s Surprise” on the Alliance side, then one already has an idea of what we’re talking about.
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As part of an interview Warcry did with Jeff Kaplan, Jeff was asked…

WarCry: Much of the Horde experience in Outland revolved around the history of the orcs and the Mag’har tribe. What races can we expect to find tied to the lands of Northrend?

Jeffrey Kaplan: Northrend has some great story development in it. Humans, dwarves, tauren, and trolls will all have their storylines developed further. Of course, all of the other races will share the spotlight as well, but those four have an especially strong presence throughout the icy continent.

The rest of the article can be found here.

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Just a heads-up that we’re in the process of setting up a forum for Loregy.com. We’re taking care of a couple things server-wise, then it should be up in no time. See you soon.

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It was a great shock to a lot of fans of WoW’s lore that Illidan actually dies when you defeat him at the end of Black Temple. This was doubly surprising when taking into account Chris Metzen at Blizzcon 2005 who said we’d only be “slowing him down”.

So there’s the question? Is Illidan really dead? Is his active participation in Warcraft’s lore over?
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I recently stumbled upon an interesting article by Chris Avellone describing a day in the life of the lead lore master (Chief Creative Officer) of Obsidian Entertainment.

The article can be found here.

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“Alliance of Convenience”

Those words, spoken the very first time a Forsaken character logs on, tells us where the faction is going.

The moment the Forsaken no longer

need

their horde allies, they will break away. It’s as simple as that.
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As I discussed in a previous post, game lore and game mechanics are connected hand-in-hand, so to discuss one while entirely ignoring the other would be a fallacy.

With that in mind, when discussing game lore, one can reach a point where the lore has been pushed so far that the game mechanics can no longer be able to support it. This is what I call a “lore wall”.

Note that this “wall” is not a road block, but merely a boundary that should be acknowledged when it is crossed. One can go beyond the wall, but an entirely new game must be created at that point to support the lore.

A good example of this would be the factions of World of Warcraft.
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Just received the WAR newsletter a few minutes ago, and yep, they’re indeed doing Shadow Warriors.

You can check out the video here.

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