'The Day I Met Illidan' - A Story (Part 1)

Thanks to a couple of my friends, and my love of all things Lore'ish, I thought it would be cool to write a story about my favourite raid in WoW - Black Temple. This story will go on for a while, since it will be in seperate parts. Anyway, hope you enjoy it! ^_^

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The sky is tinged with green, the odd lightning strikes crackle in the air, and you can feel your breath come in gasps as some form of toxic fel substance chokes your lungs.

Welcome to Shadowmoon Valley, home to the Black Temple, and current residence of the Lord of Outland, Illidan Stormrage.

I can feel it watching me somehow. The temple looms above me, looking down at the world, daring me to come closer. Closer to my doom.

As I pull my eyes from the rocky walls, I catch two braziers, filled with Fel flame. A massive door blocks entrance to the temple itself near the braziers, forcing me to look elsewhere for an entrance to the citadel.

'It's not the temple watching me', I think to myself, 'it's the guards'. This would be more trickier than I thought getting in, as the Felguards were everywhere, on high alert, waiting no doubt for some kind of promotion from Illidan himself for their never-ending patrol duties.

Illidan Stormrage. 'Betrayer' to his kin.

The reason I was here. I wanted to learn from him, to study his fighting skills, to truly know why he chose to hate everything that he had left behind in his previous life, before becoming the feared demon-hunter he had become.

That is, if he didn't kill me on sight first!

I started to walk down the long path towards the huge Temple doors, as I hugged the right wall, using my stealth abilities to avoid the guards as I made my way forward.

Something stopped me though. A huge fissure had teared open the wall partway down the long path, revealing the depths of the Black Temple.

My heart started to pound. What would I find within? Would I get out ok? Part of me wanted to run away, to never look back at this dark, menacing place. But the other side of me, the side that wanted to explore, won out.

Steeling myself, I stood up straight, took a deep breath, and crossed the threshold of the fissure.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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Pandarian Journey (Part 2)

So it's been 2 months past since my last blog post, and in that time, I've seen and done a lot in the World of Warcraft, specifically Pandaria (aka Panda Land).

My main character has reached the level cap of 90, he's gotten awesome gear, done so many new quests, achievements, dungeons & raids, and more!

I have to say, now I've played the Pandarian expansion through a lot, the story in each zone, and to an extent the characters who share each story, has improved so much from past WoW expansions. You feel more connected to the world and people, it feels like an incredible journey as you discover this new world (least, that's what it felt like to me anyway! ^_^