#alterac

[the-alterac-apologist]

"It was only a bird. I am more interested in preventing a much larger number of regrettable deaths."

[nyxiemania]

Bang 💥

This is Iveera Hawken, my Alteraci half-elf rogue! She grew up in the Syndicate learning to survive through banditry. With the rise of the Red Dawn and the Syndicate’s turn toward human supremacy, Iveera’s heritage became a mark of distrust, and she has recently chosen to flee the gang.

On her own without the support of her family or the Syndicate, Iveera survives the only way she knows how—through thievery. Only time will tell whether she’ll find a better path.

[atopvisenyashill]

in the middle of my pyramid of needs is a book written by septon barth and edited by maester marwyn thats nothing but targ dirt

Marwyn has been trying to get Jaehaerys Is A Dumb Bitch, His Whole Family Is Whack, And Me & Alysanne Have Done Most Of The Actual Ruling: A True Telling By Septon Barth and Seven HELLS What The Fuck Is Wrong With My Family: A Tell All Memoir From Archmaester Vaegon published for the last decade, to the point that he tried to get an audience with Robert to be like heyyyy can i please pretty please publish my books shit talking the Targs but unfortunately for him Yandel was also there trying to get funding for his latest vanity project and fucking bodied him before he could get anywhere the Red Keep.

[naomida]

Sure Thing

The Alliance of Lordaeron has no time to listen to Varian Wrynn, king of a broken kingdom, and his pleas for aid in marching south, saving his people and retaking his land. Instead, they have to deal with King Aiden of Alterac’s treachery, and finding a way to keep the Alteraci from doing anything rash. It's a good thing then, that Bolvar comes up with a crazy plan to get Varian an army, the Alteraci a pardon, and Stormwind a chance.

[read on AO3]

[ninamodaffari]

I just wanted to say I’ve been going thru my old sphinx tag and that old sphinx piece you did years ago remains one of my all time faves

omg thank you! That was....boy, I did that like eight years ago haha. My teacher who assigned it wasn't a fan but I want to redraw it one day!

thank you so much my friend ❤️

[breadknight-likes-things]

The Old World: Alterac Mountains.

Welcome to what I hope will get my game writing creative juices flowing, two subjects that are hard to go wrong for me: environment design, and World of Warcraft. To put it simply, in this (Hopefully) series of posts, I want to take a look back at some of the more notable zones in WoW Classic. Zones that changed heavily with Cataclysm, and thus no longer have the same feel, or design, as they once did, but are now preserved inside WoW classic, hopefully forever! To kick things off, I thought I'd start with a zone that has long fascinated me as a player. All the way back to when I first started playing World of Warcraft: Alterac Mountains. If you've only played World of Warcraft in the post Cataclysm Era, you may well be thinking "That isn't a zone", but here's the neat part, it never really was! Oh sure, Alterac Mountains had it's own map, and it's own set of neat things to find, but beyond five or six quests, that didn't even start in the zone itself, there really wasn't much to find there. That said, that's what made it so fascinating to me the whole time!

Of course Alterac has it's place in Warcraft Lore, home of the kingdom that betrayed The Alliance and was destroyed for it. Home to the original location of Dalaran (Still there, as of The Burning Crusade), and an important area of the kingdom of Lordaeron all the same. So somehow with all of that to work with, how is it that there's so little to actually do in the zone? It has a snowy mountain core, and some hilly grasslands, but not a whole lot to find in either place. There really aren't that many quests that have much to do with Alterac. You'll be sent to kill a few wizards, silence a few turncoat Forsaken, asked to steal some syndicate plans, but nothing with any kind of story through line, just scattered tasks. That lack of cohesion is, to me, what made this such a fascinating place to explore. It's like there was this whole grand zone, with so much to find, just left to rot on live servers with no real plan, or idea of what it's supposed to be.

The Lordamere Internment Camp is a fun example of everything WoW needing to be scaled down as an open world. I'll be honest, thousands of orcs probably didn't fit in those two buildings. Going there yourself reveals so many interesting sights even beyond the big points I've already touched. The claw like mountains overlooking Hillsbrad offer the best view a 2007 level of distance fog could handle. The southern shore of Lordamere Lake's long easy curve as it makes contact with the land, is a small little piece of natural beauty still left in a land that had been so thoroughly ravaged by the army's of the scourge. The farmstead in the northeastern corner of the zone that seems, against all odds, to actually be a functioning settlement so close to the Undercity. There's much to see, and more to find, even if nobody actually points you in it's direction. During Cataclysm, when the map was being changed, altered, and in some cases condensed: Alterac Mountains ceased to be. Obviously, it was still there, it never actually left the game, and many of the same sights I brought up in this post are still there for you to find. In reality, all that happened was the zone became combined with Hillsbrad Foothills. And frankly, it wasn't the worst idea. The two zones flow into each so naturally it's actually a bit a odd they weren't always just one place. After all, for a zone with the word "Hill" in it twice, it was always sort of odd that going uphill in any real way in Hillsbrad would invariably bring you to a different zone.

Alterac Mountains is an odd place. A full zone by name, the location of one a battleground entrance even, but still a little forgotten piece of one of the, at the time, biggest games around. I've imagined many more things that could have been done with Alterac, but of course, it's far from the most important place in the game. Until we get that Lordaeron revamp expansion of course, I'll just be over counting the days down to that theoretical beauty. Well that, and continuing to love Azeroth and everything in it.

[intriga-hounds]

What is a recent Sivi atrocity?

humping his son

[bonefarm]

47, 67

47) Does your dog have any bad habits?

Josie - thinks everything is A Food

Olivia - could escape Rikers Island if she felt like something smelled good across the water.

Mo & Kairi: Can do no wrong.

67) Would you describe your dog as high, low, or medium energy?

I dont feel like any of them are particularly high energy, but I acknowledge that would very likely feel differently if they didn’t live on a farm. All 4 have very good ‘off switches’ in the sense that if their needs are met during the day they’re happy to lay around in the evenings.