Originally Posted by
Dracyr
First don't flame me because I am a leecher, I don't visit the site often and usually don't have a reason to post.
I admire your effort to restore Azeroth to its former beauty, and hope you succeed.
Though when I read your lore "Wall of text" I just had to comment (I am way to much of a geek not to).
First you completely miss to mention the Sundering, the terrible event which split primordial Kalimdor into the present Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdom.
The trolls were fragmented and far from their former might true, but not scattered. Both the Amani and Gurubashi Empires still existed.
The Tauren were not simple "Bull-men" They looked then as they did now, and lived a nomadic life (Which they did until the
birth of Thrall's horde when they built Thunder Bluff).
Humans did exist as the more primitive Azotha who were hunters and also lived nomadic lives (And by the way Azeroth is named after the Azotha).
Next up, Dwarves and Gnomes. The Dwarves lived in large underground cities as Earthen (They had no flesh and were made of stone).
When the Sundering happened they felt they pain of the earth being torn apart and retreated back to their places of origin, Uldum, Uldaman and Ulduar and hibernated there for nearly eight thousand years.
When they awoke they were made of flesh as they are now.
200 years before the burning crusade the Dwarves found a small gnomish village. They were amazed at the technological level the gnomes were at and made an alliance.
The night elves were not "ran" by Cenarius and Azshara, Azshara was the queen of the Kaldorei (night elves) but Cenarius is the lord of the forest and a powerful demigod.
You got most of this right, but Xavius wasn't a satyr until Sargeras "granted" him that form so all could see what a demon he was.
The would-become-high-elves left because the other night elves didn't allow them to use Arcane magic, only nature magic.
And the Dreaenor part is not true, Sargeras would not begin to influence Ner'Zhul via Medivh untill way later, the orcs and Draenai lived in peace there.
This part is not that wrong, getting better! The city is called Zin-Azshari, and his name is Illidan.
Hmmm...
Note that the events happened in this order.
Xavius telling Azshara, and she and Sargeras making a deal > Sargeras and his demons came and the War of the ancients started (and there was war ALL over kalimdor, not just in the elven cities) > Malfurion starting a resistance > Illidan taking his vials from the well in secret > When Malfurion and his forces battled the Highborne at the well it set off a magic reaction making the well explode = the Sundering. > The High elves left.
Illidan was imprisoned for ten thousand years, you release him in WC3.
Last part now!
As there is no other solution then to create pre-War of the ancients Kalimdor than to create a completely new map, and a pre-first war kalimdor (time period you are changing Eastern Kingdoms to) would not have many differences to modern kalimdor except felwood,
I support this decision.
And I just have to say haha at the troll part, they existed way before the night elves.
They had their peak 16 000 years ago, which is 6000 years before the night elves, during which they ruled over nearly all of primordial Kalimdor.
I just had to points these things out, sorry. Spend a day or two reading ALL of wowwikis articles, and you will become much better educated in Azeroth's history, and be able to pwn all other who say otherwise.
On the Model edit side of things, Great Work! Though looking at the screenshots at the first page you need more time working on the ground textures (I have yet to take a look inside wow).
/Dracyr
(yes a leecher can sing his posts OMIGOD, yes I have no life, and sorry for bigger wall of text)