Tour #3: Black Morass

We’ve taken all of the printed and in-game material and arranged it into a roughly thematic order within each expansion and we plan to go through the story using a number of thematically appropriate toons. We’ll be discussion our impressions here. Be warned: our discussions will contain spoilers for all currently published Warcraft material. This isn’t meant for first timers, but for old timers like us to experience it in a new way.You can find our tentative list here.

Sonaira says:

• I had honestly forgotten how bare bones this one was.
• I had also forgotten that the reason you are given to save this moment in time is because otherwise the races of Azeroth would never have overcome their squabbles to come together and defeat the Legion (presumably referencing Mount Hyjal).
• The best moment was when the advance detachment of orcs actually came out of the portal. It was really fun to see the orc silhouettes start to form in the portal and realize you had just doomed your world to decades of destructive warfare just so it could survive the Legion invasion in the Third War

Shoryl says:

Bringing in Warcraft II lore via the bronze dragon flight is an interesting conceit. Since it’s important to know about Medivh (why the heck would we have Karazahn without him being around?), this is a reasonably clever methodology.  The dungeon itself isn’t exceptionally interesting, and doesn’t bring in much lore, but seeing Medivh in pixel format is pretty cool.

Also, considering this was brought in during Burning Crusade, some of the graphics still hold up.

Random Thoughts:

• Wait…. we both started as Tauren, why is Sonaira a dwarf and I’m a gnome? That’s backwards…
• I want an infinite dragon mount.
• Why aren’t minimalist effects with high contrast (like the portals) used more often in WoW? Also, I think the golden portals were a hint to the true nature of the infinite flight.
• I had forgotten that the orcs came through the portal, then went back through to let Gul’dan know it was safe. Leave it to him to not be willing to try it himself.

More screenshots we took: