Hi folks,
I’m happily invested in playing Gnome and was wondering what questhubs to do to get deeper into their Lore.
I know of good olde Gnomeregan and tinker town, but I wonder what else has snuck through since cataclysm that I most likely had missed or not payed attention to as I powered through.
Also I wonder if people here would also recommend an order to go through these hubs to get the best experience/story.
Cheers,
Cranks
Well, there is that Gnomish Outpost in Blade’s Edge Mountain in Outlands and Fizzcrank’s Airstrip in Borean Tundra…
Vashj’ir holds some minor Gnome lore with the useage of their Submarines! Vol’dun looks closer into Kelsey Steelspark and her crew! And you should not forget Kelsey’s questline in Tanaris!
Ofcourse next patch is bringing us Mechagon, ancient Gnomish City! And they’ll update Gnomeregan into a Pet Battle dungeon, which will likely include some more Gnomish lore to!
You should just wait for the next patch which features a small new continent revolving solely around Gnomes. That’s much more than everything the Gnome have gotten from Classic to Legion. Of course, that new zone is all about Mechagnomes, since Gnomeregan Gnomes have never been important.
Sadly you’re speaking the truth about Gnomeregan Gnomes.
And honestly, I don’t like the look of these new Mecha-Gnomes… Whats wrong with updating the ones from Northrend into a proper race? I mean they look like proper Mecha-Gnomes and its not like Blizzard disn’t use a reskin as a “new” race! (Void Elves, Dark Irons, Lightforged Draenei, Mag’har)
I think we all lnow that thry will be sub-races, like Gilgoblins after the Azshara patch.
I just read the Gelbin Mekkatorque story in Paragons and really loved it.
It was nice to see some Gnome story telling without the slapstick to it.
Gnomes have a lot of potential.
But they haven’t the human potential 
Gelbin Mekkatorque is just amazing as a leader. Gnomes are far from slapstick. They have the bleakest backstory in game, Lordaeron is a picnic in comparison…
Picture being part of a deep exploration team, your population is expanding, you need to start expanding your city, your people have always lived underground, it is …comforting… perhaps to do with your racial origins, But then one day, it all goes wrong…You dig too deep. Suddenly, nightmarish creatures from legend, rangy things of fang and talon spring from all around you, They’re more than twice your size, and more than five times your body mass, they outclass you in every way apart from brains, and technology, but they pour from the deep, dark fissures of the earth, and they do not stop coming!
You lay down suppressive fire, backing up, even as more and more of your party are savaged by the creatures, or grabbed, dragged back screaming into the deep, deep darkness. Suddenly a blessed respite “There’s a Plan!” someone shouts. “King Mekkatorque has been advised by Sicco Thermaplugg, that there is a Gas that will kill these Troggs! Its being released! Just hold on a little while longer!” And so that bitter, relentless fight continues.
Oh, the Gas was released alright. But Sicco Thermaplugg was not honest…The Gas changed people…and worse…It didn’t even -work- on the Troggs. Above you, you can hear the screams from the city, as people start going crazy and attacking each other “What the Hells is going on?” you think, but don’t have the time to worry too much, as you still have these massive primordial horrors spewing from the darkness.
After a while, there are no new orders…there is no one saying “Hold the line!”, there is no reassuring “We have this under control”, there is just a horrible silence. Same as the upper levels of the city. The Screaming stopped… but was replaced by something worse…
The dull ‘thud’ as the reactors that gave your city power, now untended and unmaintained, malfunctioned, pushing out poison into the air. You don’t know why…You’re still deep down, knee deep in Trogg guts, but you know what an exploding reactor sounds like… Are your family OK? Your Friends?
Slowly the realisation hits… Something has gone badly wrong. You start to retreat, back up, towards the surface, but the Gas, you see, was issued from the top, and drifted down, and suddenly you find out why there was a screaming, and a horrible silence, masses, masses, huge amounts of your people, green of face, ravenous, savage, see you and start screaming and charging at you. You’d stop and hold your ground, but you -can’t-, the Troggs are still nipping at your heels, to stop is death, but to continue upwards is to fight your way through crazed effigies of your family and friends, and then the radiation? The reactors blew. What route do you take? Some of your number sicken and die, hair falling out in clumps, then teeth, their skin yellowing and eventually becoming too weak to move. You can’t save them. Troggs are chasing you, and the Crazies are all around you, constantly attacking. You have to keep moving, and stop up your ears to the screams of the ones you left behind, as either the Crazies or the Troggs find them.
Eventually, you scramble to the top, you see daylight, and collapse, heaving a sigh of relief, after being one of the small amount of your people who survived.
That’s your Gnomes…Comedy my backside…
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