Join famed hunter Rexxar, his animal companions, and Horde Ambassador Zekhan as they make the perilous journey across the lush and vivid reaches of Kalimdor to learn the secrets of the realm. Leave no stone unturned and no tracks unfollowed as Rexxar and Zekhan reveal lore, insights, equipment, and breathtaking landscapes from the ramparts of Orgrimmar to the golden plains of Mulgore to the wilds of Un’Goro Crater―and share one final kindness with a friend along the way.
So, the protagonists will be Rexxar and Zekhan instead of having Shaw and Flynn again.
Quite thankful about this one featuring Horde characters that can tackle better core Horde territories.
Regarding the picks, must say that I’m fine with both of them. Although I would’ve swapped Zekhan for Kiro or Geyarah, in order to have some additional lore regarding the newly introduced allied races.
He was made the horde ambassador in Zandalar in the Shadows Rising book. Specifically for saving Talanji’s life ( even though it was really Bwonsamdi who did that ).
The only interesting lands in Kalimdor for me, are Night Elves forests. I was hoping to get some info about current situation in Ashenvale forest. To get info about how currently Night Elves are living and where they build new city. To get info how Silverwing Sentinels are doing.
But it seams that they will not going to travel into Night Elves territory. Lame.
Blizzard wants to start giving him more spotlight. Even if by forcing him into certain roles, at the expense of sidelining other characters that should’ve had priority over him.
To be honest, can’t say I’m a fan of the character. But given how little his title means for the overarching plot, it’s a circumstance quite easy to ignore.
Who says they won’t?
When featuring Shaw and Flynn, the EK equivalent book had them visiting Horde lands such as Quelthalas.
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Regarding the summary itself, they seem to be visiting Saurfangs or Grommash grave.
Why not? Just because the protagonists are Horde, doesn’t mean they could do a bit of careful surveying and exploration even into Night Elf territory. Sure it probably won’t mean finding out specifics like what the town’s local gardener might be doing, but we’d for sure get to see an update even for Night Elves.
As for the roles… yeah, I would have been much more interested if it was Rexxar and any one of the current allied race leadership figures that had not gotten any spotlight so far. Would have been nice even to see Mag’har, Zandalari, Vulpera or even H. Tauren and Nightborne’s thoughts on the matter of exploring Kalimdor.
I am interested in this, however, specifically this part:
I hope they’ll put great emphasis on these. I want them to go crazy creative with even slight details such as Troll voodoo techniques, Tauren nomadic methods, Orcish fighting, Night Elven settlements etc.
From that excerpt I got the feeling that maybe Misha dies of old age and gets buried somewhere…
Though would be weird to happen in a non-narrative book like this.
Oh, good man, the chief lore historian. I hear that his team believes that continuity exists to enhance a story, not to tie the hands of creators. You wouldn’t want to tie your own hands, would you?
Aww, no Shaw and Flynn this time? That’s quite disappointing. I don’t think I’ll be buying this one. The featured characters don’t interest me in the slightest.
Would’ve made plenty of sense imo–Shaw and Flynn had their mission to chronicle important artifacts, so the premise is already there. I don’t see why it couldn’t be extended to Kalimdor as well. In fact, I feel it would be more consistent to have the same set of characters over the entire series.
That said, Shaw is humanity’s top spy. I’m pretty sure he knows more than enough about zones like the Barrens. And it’s not like he had any trouble with Horde-related lore in the first book.
These books are intended to give certain insight as to the zones background.
Neither Shaw nor Flynn were around for most of Kalimdor history, as most of it occurred at a time when humans didn’t even know said land existed.
Having Stormwind thinking that he is, doesn’t make it true for the rest of the games races.
In fact, evidence piles against his prowess/performance in said role.
And even if he was, there is little reason to have such explain how or why did he end up knowing about most of Kalimdor zones history.
The Spy Card doesn’t automatically give the one bearing it a know it all status.
Why would it make it consistent? This isn’t supposed to be a series about these two characters. It’s supposed to narrate the story about certain zones, through characters that can actually give valuable input.
And the ones used to describe the human dominated EK lore, are unsuitable to do so with the Kalimdor one.
Certainly less suited than those that actually live there and helped shape a great deal of said story.
I just checked the SMC chapter and it says the quel’dorei renamed themselves “the sin’dorei,” which means “children of the blood,” in honour of their fallen people in the first paragraph. Garithos is mentioned later, but as far as I can see there’s nothing about him having any impact on the elves’ decision to rename themselves.
t says just Blizzard Entertainment.
