#Lorewalker

[dylan-grimmkell]

A gift from my wonderful friend ThankU89121860 on Twitter of my Bronze Dragon Temporadormu in his Lorewalker Tem-Po pandaren visage doing some late reading by candle light. Thank you so much, my friend. I absolutely love this!

[mcrtalstrike]

It's okay Vol'jin you're just... A little intimidating! (The baby is @artistgem's Taran/Cho child Yang)

[lenamoongrove]

....Lets also make a post with these old Warcraft Tarot cards I used to make. Still a series id want to finish one day!

[artistgem]

Was fucking around with Narcissus today and made a work of art

[displacer-beasts]

I really love Lorewalker Cho

[pandaria-the-mistbound-continent]

[deathbydarkelves]

I’ve made some edits to my AU master doc that don’t warrant their own posts, but that I want to share anyway. So here’s the patch notes:

In kaldorei culture, it’s customary to bring small amounts of food and/or alcohol when visiting someone else’s home. This custom also happens to be shared with the pandaren and tauren.

The kaldorei have domesticated goats derived from mountain goats of northern and central Kalimdor, and a small species of deer, which provide both meat and milk.

Added a note in the War of Thorns recap that I’m still working out the finer details of why and how Teldrassil happened.

Kaldorei music includes but is not limited to (in broad terms) drums, pipes, flutes, their own varieties of lutes, and sometimes an instrument made of a large, hollow tree branch akin to a didgeridoo/yidaki.

The kaldorei use a lunisolar calendar with twelve months of twenty-eight days each, following the phases of Elune while also tracking the seasons. The new year starts in spring. Leap years occur every two or three years and add a thirteenth month. (This is inspired by the Chinese and Ojibwe calendars)

((To make things easier for myself I'm just going to make Azeroth orbit its sun and rotate at the exact same rate as Earth, and make the timing of Elune's phases occur at the same rate as our moon's. The Blue Child remains unaccounted for, for now.))

I also added sections on Pandaria, the pandaren, and their language. They're pretty short at the moment but for Pandaren the language, I've added:

Pandaren is extremely varied, with countless local dialects and accents even within one region. Someone from the northern Jade Forest may find a southerner’s accent difficult to parse at times, or feel the need to ask for rephrasing should they hear a word new to them.

Some argue the Wandering Isle dialect should be considered its own language, as the isolation from the mainland has led to so much divergence in both the spoken and written language that complex mainlander/islander conversations can be outright impossible.

Pidgins of a sort are extremely common among traders and other travelers such as Lorewalkers and the shado-pan.

I'm also gonna make a post on shadowmelding and tangentially the Wardens sometime soon. I'm supposed to be working on a comm today so I'm gonna do that first though lol

[nixalegos]

"...Was it just me, or did Lorewalker Cho sound like he could not be bothered to talk about the Scarab Wall? Sorry actually dealing with an Old One with nothing but mortal grit and violence isn't impressive enough of a story to not get sauced on the cheap hooch." Celebrating? With @tyleinth

[nraqi]

no. mr lorewalker i am DONE with being sad over anduin stop hurting me

[nelfs]

[peanut gallery] anniversary achievement is ridiculous. I gotta listen to lorewalker cho HOW many times?

[memendoemori]

Blown away by the fact that the writers of the latest lore codex in WoW were either not told the Pandaren Lorewalkers exist or they were told that canonically, Khadgar somehow does not know that the Lorewalkers exist. I don't know which option is funnier

[dylan-grimmkell]

Introducing my Bronze Dragon Temporadormu or as he is known in his Pandaren Visage form Lorewalker Tem-Po. A wonderful piece I got from @/TinaShuh on Twitter.

He has lived on Pandaria for a very long time. He was taken care of by the pandaren as when he landed on Pandaria, he was heavily injured. He owes them a great deal and cares for the Pandaren a lot. He often has his eyes half-lided to hide his full dragon eyes. For a time, it was only the August Celestials, The Shado-Pan, Golden Lotus, and the Lorewalkers that knew he was a Bronze Dragon. He is an important secondary character in my World of Warcraft stories.

[mcrtalstrike]

Cho is so squishable like marshmellow

[artistgem]

The Tavern

[sexhaver]

i havent touched Hearthstone in years but one of the parts i miss the most about the early (Naxx/Blackrock/GvG) meta was the way all the bullshit RNG mechanics occasionally allowed for some Heart Of The Cards moments. for example there was this one card, Piloted Shredder, that dominated the meta for most of the time it was legal. it was the best generic 4 mana creature most decks could play, and most decks that weren't planning on winning by turn 4 or 5 ran two Shredders. these fuckers were everywhere. statistically, you saw at least one of them every game on average.

this made the pool of available 2-drops EXTREMELY relevant, since any one of them could come out of a Shredder (regardless of class). whatever came out of the Shredder wouldn't proc its Battlecry on entering, which made deathrattles generally more valuable. the average outcome of Shredder's deathrattle was usually something like a 2/2 body, with highrolls like Loot Hoarder (a 2/1 that draws you a card when it dies) and lowrolls like Lorewalker Cho (a 0/4 that gives a copy of any spell you cast to your opponent and vice versa).

then there's Doomsayer.

i could write an entire post about Doomsayer as a standalone card and how it's some of the best card design i've seen in any card game, but the interaction it has with Piloted Shredder is especially hilarious. because Doomsayer triggers at the start of its controller's turn (that's who "you" refers to), if you kill your opponent's Shredder and it drops a Doomsayer, the entire board has just been wiped - you can simply pass the turn and watch Doomsayer go off before your opponent has a chance to act.

the best part about this interaction is that Shredder only dropped Doomsayer something like 0.5% of the time. that's not high enough to be noteworthy in most circumstances, but is definitely noteworthy in situations where you have literally no other possible options to survive. that was the peak of Hearthstone for me - that moment you can see your opponent pause, realize they're dead on board, and sink all their resources into killing your Piloted Shredder. you both hold your breath as the animation plays out. 99.5% of the time, they instantly concede, but the last 0.5% is truly magical.

also Unstable Portal enabled shit like this lol

[longveil]

Book of Burdens: Author's Note

I love building on top of and expanding in-game lore, and my latest little story (with, hopefully, more to come) is no exception. For those of you that never played through the Mists of Pandaria expansion - a wonderful expansion sullied only by the massive content drought at the end - The Book of Burdens is referenced in-game as part of The Seven Burdens of Shaohao.

An exploration achievement, The Seven Burdens of Shaohao has you traveling across Pandaria to read scrolls that tell the tale of the Last Emperor of Pandaria as he sought to spare his people from the foretold Great Sundering. In so doing, he was forced to overcome each of the Sha. The Sha, of course, are malevolent spirits spawned from the remains of the Old God Y'Shaarj after it was slain by the titan Aman'Thul (long before the Sundering). In killing Y'Shaarj, Aman'thul tore a rift in Azeroth that created the Well of Eternity, and led to the titans entombing the remaining Old Gods of Azeroth (C'Thun, Yogg-Saron, and N'Zoth) rather that risk further damage by slaying them.

All of which makes Shaohao's journey, and the effects of the masks, quite interesting for our dear spooky shadowy Seraanna. Don't you think?

Postscript: There's also The Burdens of Shaohao, an animated telling of the tale by Lorewalker Cho, but that version doesn't mention the masks. And yes, there are even in-game items. All the fun...

Post-Postscript: I never did make it clear, but this story and the one that preceded ("The Bridge") are set during the last year of the timeskip. We have not yet caught up to Dragonflight's now...