The mammoth is believed to be the first domesticated mount on Azeroth, according to ancient manuscripts that depict travellers using them across the frozen tundra of Northrend.
Makes sense considering the Vrykul also use them in some cases, when not on Proto-Drakes.
Mixing the languages only enhances the power of the magic, clearly!
Collecting magical languages like Infinity Stones
Reality can be whatever Khadgar wants it to be
Wait, they do?
There’s more than a handful of them you find in Northrend using Mammoths, i recall a few instances.
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Yeah. Especially the final boss of the Zul’Drak Amphitheatre of Anguish: Vladof the Butcher, who rides a mammoth named Enormos, which is mounted and used against Vladof.
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The Sons of Hodir believe that riding an ice-white mammoth will prevent frostbite and freezing. This indicates that the frost giants actually ride mammoths, and since there are skeletons of colossal beasts in Northrend, this could mean that in the Storm Peaks, there are mammoths big enough for giants to ride.
It’s split across the contexually appropriate quests, like the draenei ritual orb and elemental runes from blackrock foundry. I forget the specific incantations and whatever screenshots I may have had aren’t in reach.
Three months is considered a short time (for an inexperienced traveler) to get from Halfhill in Valley of the Four Winds to Mount Neverest in Kun-Lai Summit
“I am Nurong, master of the Wu Kao. I will see you in three months’ time, little thief.”
Master Nurong whispered to Whitefeather, then sent the bird flapping into the evening sky. Ten turned to watch the hawk soar over the marshlands to the northeast, following after the other warriors. The thief finally found his voice.
“Three months. How am I supposed to reach the tallest mountain in the world—let alone climb it—in three months?”
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That makes sense. Climbing Mount Everest in real life is a crazy journey. I am not surprised it’s the same here - I am going to assume they ripped off the mountain’s size as much as they did the name.
Ten being a kid doesn’t help his situation much.
I always found that story interesting because MoP itself portrayed their civilisation as very harmonious, almost utopian even (at least when accounting for the humble tastes the populace is depicted as having), yet that story depicts something much less so. It’s honestly a bit too grim - recruitment trials in which lots of children die is something I’d expect from Warhammer, not WoW, let alone the pandaren!
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Pandaren history and culture and stuff is way more bloody and grim then people tend to assume anyway.
People generally just go “lol, kungfu panda” about Pandaren.
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Yeah the Shado-Pan are friggin hardcore. They don’t mess around AT ALL.
They also still have the best theme in the entire game. Don’t @ me.
How well would this be known amongst the Azerothian warriors, tho?
Sure, but being ruthlessly effective is one thing, being cruel to the point of inefficiency is another. Things like ‘There’s ten of you, but only six can survive this trial!’ gives me vibes of an infamous ego-inflated art teacher in school who goes ‘sorry, no more As for this class’.
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Fantasy and Sci-fi settings tend to really enjoy doing things like that to either show how gritty their world is or how elite/dedicated/etc the group who does it are, but usually to the point of stupidity.
Warcraft has done it before prior to this pandaren story, the most obvious example being the Lightning Blade’s Clan from the cancelled adventure game. With orcs only becoming clan members by getting hit by lightning 3 times in a row & surviving. Atleast that had some amount of self-awareness because the game openly stated that they all died out for obvious reasons.
I think one of the few examples of it actually serving a greater point is in Amonkhet in MtG lore. Because it’s still needlessly stupid and sacrificial in the way their society and trials are built, but that is atleast the point. Everyone outside the locals realizes that it’s dumb, and it serves a more nefarious motive behind it.
Getting those who fail killed is just stupidity. Your force is just as elite if you save the lives of those who don’t pass and send them home instead.
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“But that wouldn’t be as cool. It’s so serious and dark!” Steve Danuser laughed. (Or in this case Cameron Dayton)
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Some Vrykul have (seemingly on their own) devised fighting styles and Brewmaster traditions not at all dissimilar from those of the Pandaren monks. This includes shooting Jade Lightning and brewing ales capable of drastically augmenting the imbiber’s fighting prowess.
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Aegira
The listed character formally joined aforementioned monks during the events of Legion.
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Soul Mirrors of Revendreth can allow certain things to pass through while not permitting others to do so, but this can be changed on command. This is seen at the end of the Venthyr assault on the Tremaculum, where players may pass between mirrors frequently, but the redirected Light from the mirrors cannot until Renethal gives the command to blast Gothra the Trembler.
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What did they do to wowpedia?!
That is hideous!