#Arathi

[cince-arts]

The Stowaway

Artwork (c) @cince-arts

[goethial]

Homosexual priests in Hallowfall 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[esperanta-dragon]

I almost thought I will never be invested in the game again. And then The War Within happened. I could say a lot about the writing, quest design, cinematics, mechanics, and how I overall enjoy the expansion.

What resonated in me was the Hallowfall questline, because it's can be easily put into a real life experience of trauma and going through hard times. But the Light always returns. So even if I would be the only one to wear this pin, I am still happy that I've made it.

You can get it here: SHOP

[breadknight-likes-things]

Okay, Who Exactly Are The Arathi in The War Within?

I think every Warcraft lore fan has been working through a similar question over the last couple of weeks: who the hell actually are the Arathi of Hallowfall? In WoW lore we think of the Arathi Empire as one thing, the same thing I've been thinking since this expansion launched, Stormgarde, The Arathi Highlands, an old empire that split apart into many human kingdoms hundreds upon hundreds of years ago....so why do the people of Hallowfall refer to it in the present tense? Initially I felt like I had to have missed something. Something had to explain the characters referring to the Arathi Empire like it still exists, making reference to an extant emperor. If these people had set out from The Arathi Highlands ten or fifteen years ago did we....just not notice? Who is the emperor? Hallowfall seems shockingly well established for having only been established, what, ten to fifteen years prior? Nothing really explains any of it, and nobody stops to really ask any clarifying questions, and that's what makes it so fun. It's obvious that this new faction is being set up to play a major part in the World Soul Saga, and I personally am wildly excited about that very fact because it's something very new for this game. Sure, we'd had set ups and payoffs for things before, but often time it was broad strokes about things we already knew about in general. Warlords of Dreanor led to the Legion returning, and etc, but that wasn't exactly new. There suddenly being this entirely different culture of humans, insisting they've existed for a long time alongside everyone else, and having a presence and culture that's undeniable to look at? That is new, and that is exciting. I greatly look forward to where this whole Hallowfall storyline goes not just in this expansion but, I assume, the new saga being laid out in front of WoW fans. Damn, it's an exciting time for this game.

[embersoftheorder]

NPC face claim - Jaime Murray

Jezebelle Vidala A voice like embers.

Lute strings were plucked with concentrated ease as if no matter how many times they have been used for a song they still needed to remember. Remember the tension. The soft pain to tips. Strength of each pluck. Memory of a song.

'Undo this storm Undo this storm Undo this storm and wait I can't control withering wonders Flowers that lose their shape.'

Her voice carried gently through the Empire's Edge with softness but clarity as each line was spoken to match the instrument. Those words would flow from a mouth that had spun a hundred tales, a thousand songs, and a million barbs. Some were harsh; many gentle; and mostly truthful.

'I lie awake and watch it all It feels like thousand eyes I lie awake and watch it all It feels like thousand eyes.'

The stanza was completed again as she continued on with her song. It didn't feel like an appropriate tavern ditty or something someone could even imagine requesting. And it felt odd. It felt wrong.

'I'll be the calm I will be quiet Stripped to the bone, I wait No, I'll be a stone, I'll be the hunter A tower that casts a shade.'

Again it rose with her voice, strength rising but never volume. The volume in the tavern was receding as the song caught energy to it, filling the empty space in the room. A stifling warmth was causing some to look about in search of the innkeeper to perhaps make the call to change it. It should stop. It needed to stop.

'I lie awake and watch it all It feels like thousand eyes I lie awake and watch it all It feels like thousand eyes I lie awake and watch it all It feels like thousand eyes.'

As the woman's voice continued on with the opus, someone called out for it stop. But it kept gaining, the empty space expanding with her sound to squeeze all those in the common together. It was oppressive and heavy as hands gripped cups tighter and shouts tried to rise above the music. But it was getting louder but her voice was still so level. It had to stop. There was a cry into the wind of the words to please make it end, but she would not stop.

And then it stopped.

Silence.

No one spoke. No one moved. Was it just a dream? It was just a song. There was too much to drink. Uncomfortable laughter followed to match with creak chairs and floor boards. Orcs and humans stood up to leave. Men and women cast cautious gazes about to each other, the deep fear of the night that had plagued their ancestors settling in stomach. It didn't care about wealth. It didn't care about race. It didn't care about prestige.

It cared about blood.

'I am the storm I am the storm I am the storm So wait.'

A smile came to those lips again as she closed her song, gently resting her fingers from the frets and to caress the body of her weapon. She had gotten what she wanted.

From across that tavern, a pair of hard blue eyes knew what she had wanted and gotten. Despite his training and will, he could feel it into his bones and heart. But the witch hunter was used to it.

And he was patient.

@damien-ward

[jthorsten]

My dumb brain be turning.

So I read Heartlands a few days ago. Had to wait for the pdfs to be unearthed because I couldn’t listen to Metzen. It sounded like Varian describing everything, and I’m still not over that. But, without any kind of spoilers, not that there was much in it, it DOES set up a possible interesting interaction with Jaina and the Arathi of Hallowfall. Without getting into detail, a fanatic manages to get a jump on Jaina and knock her out for a significant amount of time. The fanatic almost gets something very important destroyed and cause irreparable damage on both sides.

Due to that situation, I will be very curious if Blizz carries that bit of story into TWW. I would love to see the dynamic of Jaina being wary and distrustful of the Hallowfall Arathi, especially when she finds out they come from the ‘glorious empire.’

I will be TICKLED if she goes full protective aunt!mom mode with Anduin, who seems fascinated and downright trusts them by comparison.

I will be honest, the Hallowfall Arathi give me the creeps. The whole place gives Scarlet Crusade vibes wrapped in the light of Beledar. From what I’ve gleaned from the expac so far, outside of this ‘lost expedition,’ the Arathi Empire is large and isolated. They had no knowledge of ANYTHING that we know of.

Now, I could be grasping at straws, but if the Arathi Empire is so grand and glorious, how would they react when they found out they many not, in fact, be so grand and glorious? There are other nations of humans that they didn’t know of. On top of that, there are whole other races they didn’t know about. With armies that have seen and experienced more wars than they realize.

Will they be friendly? Or will they seek to conquer and absorb the rest of the human nations?

I ask this, because this made me pause during the 30th anniversary stream.

They adjusted the original cinematic of Faerin gearing up. Instead of ending after she finishes, it pans back to an ARMY of people behind her.

Now, this could just be the army the Arathi are granting to fight whatever comes next in TWW concerning Xalatath. But what if it isn’t JUST that. What if this is just a taste of what the entire Arathi empire could be, backed by an unwavering devotion to the Light? Just like the Scarlet Crusade.

Or maybe I’m barking up the wrong tree and Faerin is just a shiny my little pony whose weird sweetness makes me TWITCH. I main a protection paladin, and everything about Hallowfall feels WEIRD.

[ederiuss]

I draws some warcraft

[wowtalesofadventurers]

OC-Tober day 5 Learning something new

A World of Warcraft The War Within fanfiction for @thepromptfoundry event OC-Tober 2024 day 5 learning something new featuring my Draenei priest OC Xali.

Xali the Draenei priest wearing a armored robe due to her role as a adventurer ask a male knight from a race of half-elves called Arathi while she and her party are at Hallowfall, "So, let me get this straight. You Arathi worship the Light just like most of the Alliance, but you also worship something called the Sacred Flame." which the Arathi knight nod and said, "Yes." Xali take a moment to think it over before she reply, "Well, you learn something new everyday."

[martyrette]

"The Auxiliary. Put her on the field; at the very least she knows how to use a gun."

Blodwynne Bellin posting? My new OC? Gunner Arathi with underground PTSD? You know it. :)

[corvid-and-flowers]

spoiler-ish

[wibblerart]

full body for WakenerMG on the bird app!

[1-800-dracula]

[aleanas-silverquill]

We are the seekers of light. We are the holders of Hope, in the very heart of shadow we are the lamps that guide the way.

We are the holders of hope.

[osho-b]

Abbil.

[oldeazeroth]

Arathi Highlands (37,74)

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