Quote:I remember part of the Borean line was KT raising a large army in the Plains of Nasam. I didn't pay too much attention (I'm not a major lore-hound or anything,) but wasn't there some tie in from those very early quest lines?
Fjord questing explains at least a good portion of this. There is a quest line that terminates at killing the Queen that tells you a lot about what is going on with them. Arthas comes out and stops the King from going all up in your stuff, saying he needs him in Pinnacle. (Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense, because if he's at all confident in the King, he should just let him stomp you, then he can go to Pinnacle like 5 minutes later... And that way, Arthas could suck another soul into Frostmourne so you couldn't rez.)
True, I forgot about the scourge tank quest in my lore rant. I just wish that we were able to 'do something' in naxx besides kill '4thelewtz' and one item that starts a quest to get you into malygos.
I will have to force myself to quest out the fjord then. I have always been curious why these 15 foot tall vikings allied with arthas. Maybe this will help me understand that.
I guess my thing is, if I'm going to play a game, I want to have a reason to do something. I need to be motivated to propel the story forward. While I enjoyed Kara and it's quests in it's 'pocket' of lore, it felt disjointed to me story wise from the rest of the xpac. Mags was semi-understandable as it was a blow to Illidan's fel army, I must have missed the lore on why we were going to kill a being that was offing the black dragonflight. (if someone knows why we had to kill gruul let me know:)).
THen we get to t5 and it makes sense. Kael, Vashj, Illidan (t6), they were bad people, doing bad things that threatened Azeroth. I get it.
Hyjal? CoT? Where was the infinite flight in all this? I remember the intro quest saying that something was going on there, but you never saw anything that connected it.
Just my opinion though. I like backstory, and reasoning. But I also have hated some of what blizz has done too (i know i'm overly critical and want it my way). I wanted the blood knights to be angry, and wrenching control over the light from a very being of light. It was a very interesting idea, and I liked the angry emo crack addict beat you with a stick to get what I want ideology of the blood knights.
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