[Cataclysm Alpha] (Gilneas, Westfall) Story (UPDATE: Hyjal, Darkshore Screens inside)

[Dies Irae]

Malfurion is friendly with alliance players & hands out some quests.

Parts of Ashenvale soon to come, as the quest-lines are much bigger than I believed.

[ultrasaw]

No news about the Highlands or Varian?

[moonrunner]

But is he only friendly with the Alliance ? I mean, is he part of the new neutral faction or is he a specific Alliance leader? :confused:

[ultrasaw]

And my pestering for spoilers aside, I really do appreciate the news <3

[Dies Irae]

Preparing to post a huge update! Most (everything?!) of Ashenvale soon to come (approx. 30-60 minutes).

[jacknapier89]

posting any time soon m8t?

[Dies Irae]

Here you are!


Ashenvale

The sick child

Upon entering Ashenvale from Darkshore, the first outpost you’ll visitis the “Blackfathom Camp”, they’re handing out the to-well-known “Kill some Nagas, please” quests along with many (I think it’s been 5 or 6) Blackfathom Deeps quests. A little questline includes gathering some statues on the beach for some sort of archaeologist, he later on requires you to kill a Naga and get her ring, as it is the key to decrypt some inscriptions in the statues.
I then wandered off to “Orendil’s Retreat” where I met Evenar Stillwhisper, tells me something about a sick child in Astranaar and how I might help by collecting a herb, called “Bathran’s Hair”. A sentinel right beside him explains, how ,at the place where I am to gather the herbs, there are many grunts & apothecaries of the horde. As I approach the place I notice a huge scheme, which resembles an Ancient (those huge nightelven trees), he explains that he’s Bathran and how he was lumbered by the horde in order to harvest his hair. He asks me to burn his corpse, so the Horde wouldn’t profit of his dead body & the herb. I did as I was told, killed Horde, collected herbs & burnt the dead tree. After delivering the herbs to him, Evenar Stillwhisper explains how he wants us to join forces at Maestra’s Post, as it is heavily under siege.
Arriving there, I helped the local forces to thwart the Orcish invasion. A man called Orendil Broadleaf helped me in finding a cure for the sick child, as he made a potion out of the herbs I collected. But as I thought I might leave for Astranaar now, he added that the drink needed to be bathed in the light of Elune, so he advised me to get deeper into the forrests of Ashenvale, where I would find the light. Returning to Orendil he explains how the potion is finally ready to be consumed, he sends me off to Astranaar where I would meet the child and her father.
As I got there, I saw how there were Windriders flying all over the village & setting buildings afire. Kind as I am I helped the nightelves with this matter right before I got to the sick child. I handed her father the potion and he made his sleeping girl drink it. Although she wakes up for some seconds, she falls asleep again, as the potion was not able to cure her mysterious disease. Her father tells me that he and Orendil talked about another possible cure, the so-called “Elune’s Tear.” A stone which was to be found in the Iris Lake, which was completely destroyed by a volcanic eruption at Thunder Peak. After walking there I see some water and jumped into it, as I believed the stone may be down there. After desperately trying to find something, I walked into the direction of the volcano & finally found Elune’s Tear, but it was not quite as I imagined, as it was covered by dirt & a little tarnished.
The girl’s father put the Tear into a bowl and cooked a stew with it. Feeding the stew to his daughter, you watch her struggling in her sleep. Although the cure didn’t work, her father had an idea how the whole thing could work. He returns Elune’s Tear to you & asks you to visit the Moonwell of Purity, where you would cleanse it from the corruption, which was infused by the volcanic eruption. As I put it into the moonwell a huge ray of light irradiated from the moonwell and the Tear and I heard a tingling in my ear. After some seconds the tingling turned into a voice which told me how I was able to finally heal the girl. I was sent to a Satyr called Avrus Illwhisper, who was to be found at Raynewood Tower. The voice told me, that Avrus himself was looking for redemption & he achieved his goal, I would achieve mine too. When I talked to him, it was clear that he hates being a Satyr & that he wanted to help me healing the girl. He explained how his brethren possessed some corrupted Moonstones which he could cleanse & use for curing the girl. So I was off to kill some Satyrs to obtain five of those moonstones.
As I returned to him, he explained how that there was one additional objective to be met, in order to cleanse the moonstones: a sacrifice of life. Before I could say something, the Satyr ripped his own heart out of his chest & put it together with the moonstones. Instead of watching him die, I watched a light both cleansing the stones & turning him into a Nightelf. Avrus then thanked me for redeeming him & handed me the stones, which I again brought to the childs father who crushed them into a cup of tea. After the girl drank some of the tea, she miraculously wakes up & seems completely vivacious again.


Well, that was the first big questline in Ashenvale, a write-up of the others is soon to follow.
I’ll post some screens of the area as well, later I’ll put them in the right order concerning the story.














more pictures will follow soon, although it doesn't seem so, it's a bunch of work!
Stonetalon Mountains soon to follow, much more essential changes than in Ashenvale.

[Bareno]

Lord Magmathar = Lord Marrowgar? Seems like that would be the reason why they've added the flame marrowgar model in cata, plus some of the quotes are kinda similar.

[Dies Irae]

No, he's not the burning marrowgar, he uses the same model as Baron Geddon & shouts the same quotes all the time when you're over at Thunder Peak.





a forgotten one & tendrils from below the ground. Seems as if there is indeed an old god beneath Ashenvale.

[thomasden2]

Well done with the pics lad
Just keep em comming, and try to sleep once and awhile

[AbdulHahmed]

Probably it's still bugged.

This remind me something: I remember well that, in the first days of WotLK Beta, Trollgore (the first boss of Drak'Tharon Keep) spammed every 30 seconds "Corpse go Boom, ahah", until he was finished by players. It was very fun :-)

No, he's not the burning marrowgar, he uses the same model as Baron Geddon & shouts the same quotes all the time when you're over at Thunder Peak.

---------- Post added at 02:09 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:56 AM ----------

Just a curiosity: into this big cage in the middle of the Horde camp in what was known before as the Silverwing Refuge, are there prisoners to be rescued?

Here you are!

[Ikatsu]

I wonder how this ashenvale defense will be phased for horde characters.

[Dies Irae]

Probably it's still bugged.

This remind me something: I remember well that, in the first days of WotLK Beta, Trollgore (the first boss of Drak'Tharon Keep) spammed every 30 seconds "Corpse go Boom, ahah", until he was finished by players. It was very fun :-)



---------- Post added at 02:09 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:56 AM ----------

Just a curiosity: into this big cage in the middle of the Horde camp in what was known before as the Silverwing Refuge, are there prisoners to be rescued?

Well there are some Furbolgs in it & as part of the Dartol's Rod quest-line, you are required to convince them starting a riot against their orcish hostage-takers. A text about the whole quest-line follows in the next hour.

[Mechl]

No, he's not the burning marrowgar, he uses the same model as Baron Geddon & shouts the same quotes all the time when you're over at Thunder Peak.





a forgotten one & tendrils from below the ground. Seems as if there is indeed an old god beneath Ashenvale.

Tentacles summoned by a Faceless One doesn't mean a Old God is under Ashenvale.

[Dies Irae]

Oh, didn't know forgotten ones are able to summon those tentacles themselves, sorry. =o But as they're called "Tendrils from below" it seems like there's something beneath Ashenvale, pure speculation.