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[Dr. Livingstone]

Here is some custom lore I created for our project. If you are just interested in the project itself, please scroll down farther. I posted some of the lore to give you guys a feel of how the world will be after we have reworked it, and how lore will play an integral part in our project. Check out our forums at ProjectTimewarp • Index page These forums are merely temporary until we get our website, forums, and test server online.

78 years have passed since the days of the Wrath of the Lich King. The Horde and the Alliance have shattered. Azeroth has fallen into war and chaos. Destruction has come across the land, and it has left Azeroth barren. The world is hardly recognizable to those who once saw the the old Azeroth. Darkness has descended throughout the land…

Chapter One: The Rise of King Varian Wyrnn (9 years after WotLK)
The great city of Stormwind once stood as the center of all affairs to with religion and politics. The Cathedral of the Light stood proud as the center for all religious ordeals in Azeroth, and Stormwind Keep could be seen from miles away. The keep represented the power of the great kingdom of Stormwind, whose influence spread as far north as Northrend, and even into other worlds, but all would soon change. The Stormwind Harbor acted as the center of Alliance trade to and from Northrend, and its bank acted as a center of commerce throughout the world. The Mage Quarter made Stormwind a central figure in all things arcane, and established the city as one of the most magical in Azeroth. Stormwind itself had become one of the grandest city in all of Azeroth, but it was this grandeur that would ultimately lead to its destruction.

Conflicts had begun to rise within the kingdom itself as Varian Wyrnn attempted to centralize more authority in the crown itself. He had ended the republic in Redridge by declaring himself its supreme ruler. The people there did not accept this declaration with joy, but their small town could not have resisted the massive armies of Stormwind. Elwynn Forest had always been seen as directly under the control of Stormwind, but for the first time they recognized Varian as their sole ruler. This recognition didn’t come without prompting. The King had ordered almost three hundred soldiers to march into Goldshire, and remain there until he was declared their king. Just southwest of Elwynn was the farming region of Westfall. The people of Westfall had been battling the Defias in Moonbrook for years, and they were beginning to slip. Defias bandits could be seen arming cannons just outside of Sentinel Hill, and the bombardment of the small city had left things in ruins. Varian offered his aid to the sentinels in exchange for their becoming a member of the Kingdom of Stormwind. The people of Sentinel Hill agreed to his terms as they had no other options. In just ten years, Varian had brought most of the major regions around Stormwind under his control, making his kingdom the most powerful on Azeroth.

Varian’s expansion of the Kingdom of Stormwind had brought an influx of new people into Stormwind. Many of the people who had been forced out of their homes by Varian’s armies moved into the great city to try to start over. Conditions within the city began to deteriorate as the poor and homeless became even poorer, but not everyone was becoming poorer. The aristocrats of Stormwind were growing wealthier every day. New markets had been opened up as Varian expanded, and provided new places for the wealthy to invest their money. As the separation between the poor and the rich grew, so did the tension between the classes. Just nine years after the invasion of Northrend, the Bank of Stormwind was burnt to grown in a riot that left Stormwind in a state of anarchy.

The king ordered his army to march into the city and force the rioters to flee. This did not go as everyone had expected. The rioters armed themselves with whatever they could find within the city and started a fierce battle with Varian’s mighty army. In the end, the untrained peasants did not stand a chance against the most powerful army in Azeroth. The rioters were quickly defeated, and Stormwind was stained with the blood of its own people. The riot itself began a series of events that would eventually lead to the assassination of Varian Wyrnn, and the civil war that would rage for twenty years.

Chapter Two: The Death of Thrall (12 years after WotLK)
As King Varian grew more powerful in Stormwind, Thrall grew weaker in Orgrimmar. Tensions between the Orcs had risen to a level never before seen. It became even clearer that not all orcs agreed with Thrall and his views about growing more peaceful as a race. Garosh himself began to speak out against Thrall’s ways, and began to claim even more power. It seemed that the days of orcish unity had been short-lived.

Thrall was returning from a visit to Razor Hill where they were discussing the tensions in Stormwind and how they could aid the Horde. As he passed through the canyons he found a small force led by Garosh Hellscream. Garosh challenged Thrall saying, “I wish to complete the duel we never finished.” Thrall accepted Garosh’s challenge as he was an honorable leader. The duel lasted for hours and neither of its participants seemed to have an upper hand. As night began to fall, Garosh moved to end the duel quickly. Thrall was weary from a long journey and Garosh moved far too fast for him at this point. All of Durotar was shocked to see the axe of Garosh land in Thrall’s chest. The deed was done. Thrall himself fell to the ground and looked up at his opponent. He begged Garosh to show him honor by leaving him there, but Garosh did not oblige. He tied Thrall to a post and marched into Orgrimmar brandishing the War Chief’s body. Garosh declared himself the new War Chief of the Horde, but his actions had made the many orcish clans grow even more separated.

Just a year after the death of Thrall, the clans of the Horde rose up against Garosh sundering the once mighty Horde. Drek’Thar led an army made up of members from the Frostwolf Clan, the Warsong clan, and the Shattered Hand clan. Garosh rode out from Orgrimmar and met this great army just outside of Razor Hill. Early in the battle, it seemed as if Drek’Thar was going to successfully defeat Garosh, but then Zando’zan noticed movement along a ridge just north of the battle. There stood a massive Forsaken army ready to support Garosh. Garosh’s forces retreated into the canyon where his enemies’ numbers were useless. There he made a stand while the massive cannons of the Forsaken army destroyed Drek’Thar’s forces. Drek’Thar ordered his armies to retreat. They fled to Stranglethorn Vale where he negotiated a peace with Garosh which left the traitors exiled to Stranglethorn. The civil war had left Durotar in turmoil, and had placed a violent leader in control of the Horde.

Chapter 3: The Great War (17 years after WotLK)
As Varian continued to gain power in Stormwind, Garosh began to plan his assault on the Alliance territories on Kalimdor. The port town of Theramore Isle was the clear first choice for Garosh’s invasion, but there was a problem. Jaina Proudmoore had foreseen the invasion of Theramore at the death of Thrall. She sent word to Varian Wyrnn of Stormwind in hopes of gaining his support. Varian saw it as an excellent opportunity to gain more territory in Kalimdor so he sent five thousand of his best men to Theramore Isle. His troops were stationed there for almost two years before Garosh began the invasion.

Garosh had planned his invasion of Theramore for years and it seemed like the time was right for him to take action. He led his main forces south into Dustwallow Marsh while he sent a second force to invade Theramore by sea. Garosh began the siege of Theramore as his catapults launched boulders into the citadel. The battle had begun.

Jaina and Varian decided their best option was to attempt to wait out the siege until more soldiers of the Alliance arrived as Garosh’s forces far outnumbered their own, but when the Horde ships were seen approaching the coast they knew they had no choice but to sally forth and fight Garosh.

The human forces had no opportunity to group together as that would have meant certain death with boulders still soaring over the walls. Jaina led her forces out of the safety of the city’s walls and into the sights of the massive orc army. Varian followed suit leaving a small army within the city to delay the orcish force that was coming by sea. As Jaina and Varian fought alongside their men, Garosh was nowhere to be found. Just as the humans seemed to have won the battle, Garosh appeared leading a force of mighty ogres into battle. The ogres killed hundreds of humans and left nothing in their wake. Jaina and Varian were forced to flee back into the citadel where they boarded their ships and abandoned the city. Garosh had been victorious, but war had begun…

Features of the Project
A completely custom world with brand new NPCs and quest lines
A completely different WoW experience
Designed for Blizzlike rates
Tens of thousands of custom NPCs, quests, and items
Custom instances to help you level from 1-50
A world designed around PvP
Brand new endgame instances for your enjoyment
Custom quest lines which add lore to the world
NPCs that actually do stuff and don’t just look dead…
A Blizzlike world with the option of becoming more of a funserver
Completely custom lore as seen above!
And much much more!

Specifics
As some of you may have seen, I’ve been working on my ‘Well of the Forgotten Project’. I’ve made the Well of the Forgotten the first endgame instance within this new world. Along with the Well of the Forgotten will come brand new instances in brand new places, and maybe some old ones revamped to fit the lore. Right now I’m working to get a well thought out plan for this project and currently it looks something like this:

1st Release
Levels 1-10 for all races
1 custom instance for each faction
Roughly 150 quests per starter zone
Roughly 250 NPCs per starter zone
Capital cities for each race (Even gnomes)
Items equivalent to the level 1-10 items found on retail
Level cap set to 15(Difficult to achieve as most mobs will be grey)

2nd Release
Levels 11-22 completed
5 custom instances
Roughly 90 quests per zone
Roughly 150 NPCs per zone
8 zones completed
Level cap set to 27

3rd Release
Levels 23-40 completed
7 custom instances
Roughly 70 custom quests per zone
Roughly 100 custom NPCs per zone
15 zones completed
Level cap set to 45

4th Release
Levels 40-50 completed
5 custom instances
2 custom endgame raids
Roughly 70 custom quests per zone
Roughly 100 custom NPCs per zone
10 zone completed
Level cap set to 50

Future Updates
As people complete our endgame raids we will add more
Level 50 is the cap for now to allow future expansion

The Team!
Myself (Dr. Livingstone/Justin)
Runiker
Zaronz
Sounddead
Linkn

We Are Recruiting!
Currently we are looking for the following:
1 C++ Devs
2 Database Devs
1 Webmaster/Designer

If you are interested in joining contact me at [email protected], and then apply on our forums located HERE. Also. I’m not going anywhere. So you can expect this project to stick around for awhile. I’m going to be working on it even if no one joins so you can eventually expect a release, but if no one joins… well then it will take awhile, a very long while, before we get a release.

[Gastricpenguin]

Dude... is this your third project? Finish one before you start 5 others.

[Dr. Livingstone]

I've finished the instance part of my other project. And this is just the second. And I'm actually merging my other project into this one. So its more like my only project...

[DeadlyMaker]

Sounds a bit like Heroicwow.

[Cursed]

Sounds like it's not going to happen... Wait! Why am I in the Emu section? I left quite some months ago oO

Tehee!

[Dr. Livingstone]

I never played at Heroicwow so I can't say much about it, but if they are currently doing something like this than thats pretty cool. But Cursed, I'm not gonna let this die. I will get a release out on this one. Hopefully a first release maybe with just one starter zone to give you an idea of what it is like, but I won't just stop working on this.

[Hellgawd]

It sounds kinda like HeroicWoW or Netherstorm WoW or the million other servers that took the idea nao
But, more the merrier! It spawns more creative ways of thinking things over, and truly unique work, lookign forward to the release.

[Gastricpenguin]

The lore seems pretty nice, though.

[Vindicated]

^^ Hellgawd many servers have had ideas like this prior to Herioc, the main problem is the dedicated that enlies with making all that stuff over again :P

[Dr. Livingstone]

Thanks Gastric. Btw. I love writing. So if you guys ever need lore and that sort of thing just hit me up . Also NetherstormWoW is a custom realm like this idea?

[Oceanblack]

Yes the lovely projects which wish to do away with everything that currently exists in World of Warcraft and wish to create a new experience while replicating the quality of the current questing experience.

Bear in mind that World of Warcraft took several years to complete.

What you are trying to accomplish is extremely overwhelming, and I wish you the best of luck.

[Dr. Livingstone]

I fully understand the work that is involved with this project. So I would like people to stop pointing out the 'massive load of work this will take' Anyways. Still looking for people to help out if they are interested.

[Fireblast]

good luckk maayn !

[Dr. Livingstone]

Thanks. I'm looking to have an alpha release out by Sunday so I can start checking how things balance out. This release should include the new orc starting zone in Elwynn Forest, and possibly its level 10 instance. And please welcome Runiker to the team!

[runiker]

I joined the team :P and fyi we might want to think about an irc or some forums or even a whole website to get our info out.