For someone like me who’s autistic and has social issues, contacting artists I’m unfamiliar with is a legitimately tricky problem for me. Managed to break through the nerves however and contact an artist on getting a commission in the future who’s delighted with my character and all the information I’ve provided to help with the artpiece. Might seem like a minor thing for those who commission art non-stop, but it’s a real great goal for me.
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And now the studio that made the Jedi Academy series back in the day is remastering KOTORs with a triple A budget to bring them to current gen 
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Source? (in ten characters)
https://screenrant.com/star-wars-kotor-remake/
They also went and recently hired some of the old folks from Bioware who worked on KOTOR back in the day. Another source claims Aspyr has a $70 million budget for it.
Female gnome priest looks insufferably smug in her casting animation and I love it.
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Only now realized Kael’thas’ torturer in Castle Nathria is called Darithos.
What can I say, I’m easily amused. 
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I both hate and love that it’s a thing.
New headcanon: Darithos wasn’t his real name, but one Kael gave him out of spite.
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Accepted. Write that down. It’s now canon.
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So, re-reading Shamus Young’s Mass Effect series, I think there’s one thing we don’t give Warcraft lore enough credit for: how the backstory is a series of interconnected events that lead to one another and make the current events tragically inevitable in hindsight.
It all dates back to the War of the Ancients. Azshara’s abuse of the Well of Eternity nearly destroyed the world and left the surviving night elves so horrified that they banned arcane magic.
And a faction of them disagreed, sailed across the sea, and founded Quel’Thalas.
But they needed help against the Amani trolls, so they taught the arcane to the humans.
Which led to Dalaran.
Which led to demons slipping into Azeroth through the cracks.
Which led to the Guardians, who were walking shining beacons of arcane power.
Which gave Sargeras an opening to possess a Guardian and open the way for a proxy war against Azeroth.
Which led to the First and Second Wars, the formation of the Alliance, and the Horde getting trapped on Azeroth.
Which led to pretty much everything else.
And that was before Chronicle tied a lot of other stories together and made the backstory of Warcraft even more cohesive.
Which is so much better than the typical fantasy world timelines of “this happened, and then that happened, and it adds up to nothing in particular”.
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Elves ruin everything: the setting.
It’s very peculiar how hung up the writers are on the exact 10,000 years figure even if it isn’t tied to the big events exactly 10,000 years ago. S’pose it rolls off the tongue nicely.
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Yes, every ancient living race also has to be over 10 000 years old. Night elves, Sethrak, Tortollans etc.
Except the draenei who get to be even older but blizzard doesn’t want to write ancient beings so everyone acts like a human but this isn’t the peeve thread aaarrrgghh…
Proper delight: bad stuff solved, good news were had, life is less terrible.
It’d be good to know how old Draenei do get…
In part, I believe, is due to the never-ending retcons and to its open beginnings.
It’s easy to tie stuff together when the premise is: orcs invade human land and you have thirty years to write lore down.
I like how Sethrak, out of nowhere, are the oldest race on Azeroth in terms of individual lifespan (barring some immortal draenei… Maybe?).
Vorrik (and Korthek, until we smacked him about) were around for Mythrax’ imprisoning over 13000 years ago, and they were evidently already the big leaders back then. They might be older than the Kaldorei empire, or even the Draenei.
16 000 in fact.
They are.
Fortunatly not that. Draenei rose to “power” 25k years ago.
Though I guess it is still possible…I hope not.
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Which makes it pretty odd how tortollans are so obsessed with how old they are. Yeah sure you’re several millennia old, but so are like half the races on Azeroth.
They also seem to be one of the only “ancient” races to age horribly.
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Elves and draenei are juiced with magic, Velen and the Lightforged being biologically immortal. Which is terrifying.
Ever played a game you really didn’t expect to like all that much, but then you check the time and it’s 4 am and ohgodwhatishappening?
That’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and me. It’s nice to have a game get you hooked that way however, so I consider it a delight above a sleep deprived pet peeve.
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