With current content focusing more on the northern part of Kalimdor, most guilds have taken to (surprisingly) the northern part of Kalimdor. Instead of Feathermoon, most people linger around Astranaar in Ashenvale or even in Darkshore.
I’ve changed some things to the forum thread, again! I’ve added the Heart of the Forest event to the Upcoming Events tab and moved the Lunar Festival to the archives.
Ashenvale, as a zone, is contested. We know this because various missions of the mission board (both Horde and Alliance, I should clarify) speak of various attacks on settlements there.
Since I have some free time on my hands, I figured I’d take the time to make a large forum post to compile the missions from the mission table.
Zoram'gar - HORDE
Zoram’gar has been turned into a Horde port. In one of the mission table missions, the Alliance goes to place depth charges near it to prevent a naval assault on Azuremyst Isle, while the Horde goes to place depth charges to prevent a naval assault on the port.
In this mission, sentinels from the Stardust Spire launch attacks on the Silverwind Refuge, which is held by the Horde. This implies that the Alliance holds Stardust Spire and states the Horde controls Silverwind Refuge.
“Siege of Astranaar” is the mission that’s also important to answering your second question. We are told here that a certain Horde commander marches against Astranaar. This indicates that Astranaar is held by the Alliance, and thus allows for RP there.
The Horde attempts to infiltrate and take down the remaining commander of Astranaar.
This mission tells us that the Blackfathom Deeps aren’t held by either faction. They go there to investigate and claim whatever they find for their respective faction.
HOWEVER, the Alliance find Twillight’s Hammer agents there harvesting Azerite. They stop them and secure the Azerite for themselves, implying that they may hold the location.
All in all, from these missions we can tell that both factions launch multiple assaults on each other. Thus, Ashenvale is contested; neither faction really seems to have the upper hand.
Astranaar RP works the same way. The fact that it is contested is simply limiting to civilian characters, but military characters can most definitely hang out in Astranaar or Ashenvale.
EDIT: I’ll be adding a NEW tab to the opening post with regards to the current lore for the Night Elves; I understand it can be fairly confusing. I will work out some more lore in zones like Darkshore and Feralas, but also newer content zones like Nazmir.
I’ve made some minor adjustments to the style of the thread’s archive and moved Heart of the Forest from up-and-coming to the archive.
I’ll be looking to finally add in the new tab in the upcoming week, when I’ll have some time off due to Easter. Are there any things in specific (i.e darkened eyes, Nazmir) that people would like to make sure I include?
Going over the role of priestesses and druids in Kaldorei society for new people would be interesting, I think, seeing as there are a lot of misconceptions due to IRL assumptions / christian influences being carried over into RP (e.g. pacifist attitude / nun-style priestesses and so on).
A bit short notice, but we’re hosting a small spring celebration next week. https://www.argentarchives.org/node/224957. It’s kaldorei themed, but all alliance races are welcome.
I was thinking of just keeping it to an AA page this time. Once I get to planning for Jurina’tore, which is the bigger thing in summer, I’ll make sure to have a forum thread for it…and I will be announcing it a bit earlier too.
Sad to hear you can’t make it, but I understand. It is short notice.
I’ve recently added in a compilation of Night Elf lore in Battle for Azeroth. I’ve edited the second post to give people easier access to it should they need it.
I’ve also added in two new guilds to the guild list: Starsworn and the Adherents of Altruis. I wish both guilds good luck!
EDIT: there is also an unexpiring link to the Seeds of Kalimdor Discord. Please note that people are asked to post their armory upon joining!