Results tagged “Death Knight” from Bitter Roots

It's been a while since I've done one of these, so here we go!

Name: Kaliaa Shadowstep
Age: Mid-20s when alive, plus a few years in the service of Arthas.

(Yes, I know the Death Knight starting experience makes it less time than that, but I'm taking artistic license for RP!)

Kaliaa was a Knight of the Silver Hand, a paladin fighting for the forces of good.  Like so many, she was killed in service and raised to be an undead servant of the Lich King. 

Yes, I finally have Wrath.  I'm still waiting for my CE code, but I got too impatient and made poor Admosmori/Maelwyn get up and go buy me a copy of the regular edition so I could play it at the weekend.

Stop reading here if you don't want any possible spoilers.

The first thing I did was make a Death Knight.  WOW!  The starting experience is even better than I thought it would be.  I have a ton of screenshots.  The way that the world changes depending on what part of the quests you've done is incredible, I can't wait to see more of it.  It's a really fun class to play and I love how mine looks.  Now of course, I'm torn between levelling her and levelling my 70s.  Argh.  I think I'm going to have to get at least one to 80 to be my money maker and raider.

Here's Kaliaa.  She's going to be another relative of Emelyn's, probably a fallen paladin.

I think she looks creepy.  Maelwyn says she looks like she has a bad make-up job.

Wow.  From there being not much information about Wrath of the Lich King, it's suddenly exploded into a wealth of it.  I'm not going to respost everything, just talk about some of my favourite things.

Death Knights

I'm really looking forward to making a Death Knight, and it sounds like the class will be a blast to play.  I think my poor warrior is going to get neglected as the DK may replace her as my tank.

This is an interesting snippet, saying you may be able to make a Death Knight of either faction.  This means that if you have all Alliance characters you could potentially have a level 55 Horde without having to reroll.  The question in the post is more for PVP realms, I think, as you can only have characters of one faction on a PVP server, but it opens up all sorts of possibilities.  If you have Horde friends on the same server you could make a Horde Death Knight and play them up to the new level cap with a lot less work than starting over.  Of course, with the limit being one DK per server, you then couldn't have an alliance one.

Factions

Here is the main article with all the snippets.  The most interesting thing for me is that Hemet Nesingwary will have a rival faction.  Wow.  Hemet would have to offer something pretty dang special to avoid me trying to kill him for all of those hunting quests he made me do.  The "Wolvar" sound like they might be a worgen faction, perhaps some that are a little smarter and have broken away from Arugal or whomever is controlling them?

That also brings me nicely to my next topic;

Lore

Wow oh wow is there a lot of stuff to cover.  I love the Azerothian stories.  Don't get me wrong, some of the Outland stuff is entertaining, but after having levelled several characters through Ashenvale and Duskwood I have come to love the Worgen tales and legends, such as those covered in the Scythe of Elune quest.  It sounds like the worgen lore will be developed further and I can't WAIT. 

There's also some dragon lore that I'm looking forward to as well, but I really do have an unhealthy obsession with the Worgen.

So in the last few days, I've been having some interesting discussions about how the Death Knight class is going to work, lore-wise.

 

The Death Knights were created by Gul'dan, who slaughtered his acolytes and put their spirits into the bodies of fallen Stormwind defenders.  So essentially, they were orc spirits in human bodies.  Does this mean that only humans can be Death Knights?  I doubt it.

 

I thought perhaps there would be a way to split the spirits from the bodies again.  Or perhaps somebody has figured out how to train themself as a Death Knight without their spirit leaving their body, and can train others to do it.  With the paladin/Death Knight in the WotLK trailer, this one seems the most likely.

 

And will our old friend Teron Gorefiend be involved in the plot?  Given where he is now (Black Temple) I somehow doubt it, as it was stated that the questline would be one that anyone could do.

 

Teron Gorefiend.  Only a mother could love him.