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Prose before Hoes
Bit quiet for me lately, working away on lots of things for you guys. I came across this post by Archivist recently in, of all places, the wowhead comments section for the [Bang a Gong!] quest. For those of you unfamiliar with this one it was the quest that awarded the Scarab Lord title and mount.
Enjoy!
We often see in these large online games bitter-sweet victories and forgettable events; while it is true that the first time you sever the head of VanCleef you feel a surge of pride, it is sullied by the knowledge of the thousands that came before you and those who will soon follow.
Actual history has many more memorable events because they are truly that, history. While the actions are repeatable, none are equal to that original moment in any way, but merely act as homage to that unique moment. This however is one of those true moments of game history, set in a world where history is usually repeatable.
To most they only knew of it second-hand, a friend of a friend hearing something about a hasty Black Wing Lair run; while to others it was a frenzied pace of night-after-night raids and countless hours of grinding to help form this Champion, to help herald in this event.
You may still be able to grasp at shadows of what this once was, and follow the path of those who did it before you, but in this rarest of quests there are none on par with the champions who broke the seal of Ahn’Qiraj to face the would-be god C’Thun, and quest beside us a Scarab Lord.
They, and only they, opened the Gates of Ahn’Qiraj, and ended the Great War Effort.
Scarab Lord Whispers, Part 2
Some of you may recall my post back in September about all the whispers I get from having the Scarab Lord mount. Since moving to the Aman’thul realm I’ve been halfheartedly screenshotting the whispers here and there. I took a look through my screenshots folder recently and decided that there are probably enough for a part 2.
So without further ado…
Scarab Lord Whispers
So occasionally when I’m on my [Black Qiraji Battle Tank] someone will say to me “I bet you get a lot of whispers about that mount”. It recently occurred to me that the best way to show how much of an understatement that is would be to keep a record of the whispers I got over a month or two and put them all together.
So I did…and here you go! :)
So many memories – The Gates of Ahn’Qiraj
So I’ve been going through my old screenshots, some of which date back to 2005, and they’ve brought a lot of memories flooding back! I’ve picked out some of the better ones and I’m uploading them to galleries on the site.
To start things out, here are some of my favourite shots from the AQ40 questline and the gate event itself.
