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Everyone loves trudging through empty swamps where the focal point is a labrynthine instance full of dead trolls. Right?..

Rofliron, on October 23, 2009 11:22:51   [ Reply ] 
 


   

I hate this place and I've never spent more time there than needed for the whelpling minipet and the fishing quest. One of which shall pull me back there.

Thyme, on October 23, 2009 01:31:11   [ Reply ] 
 


   

Originally, the Swamp of Sorrows was the northern part of an enormous swampland called the Black Morass. After the fall of the Gurubashi Empire, a renegade faction of trolls, the Atal'ai, fled into the swamp and built a large temple, the Temple of Atal'Hakkar. Ysera of the green dragonflight learned of their evil plans, drowned the temple into the largest bog, and sent several members of her flight to guard the ruins.

Then in the southern part the Dark Portal was opened, and the Horde invaded the Morass. The orcs built two settlements in the Swamp of Sorrows, Rockard and Stonard. These towns, and later Blackrock Spire farther north, were the Horde's main bases during the First War against the humans. During the war, Rockard was destroyed and Stonard severely damaged.

With the implosion of the Dark Portal during the Second war, the southern part of the morass was separated and transformed into the barren Blasted Lands. The implosion left some groups of draenei on Azeroth, forever changed by the disaster. Most of them went mad from homesickness and the separation from their land, forming the hostile Lost Ones. A small group, calling themselves Broken Exiles, managed to escape that fate and struggle along.

The northern part of the Black Morass is now called the Swamp of Sorrows and the southern part is the Blasted Lands.

After the Warchief, Thrall, assumed command of the Horde, the old outpost of Stonard was rebuilt by the orcs to its former glory. Researchers have come to study and exploit ancient magical artifacts, as well as the abundant flora and fauna of the swamp.

Tortus, on October 24, 2009 10:24:37   [ Reply ] 
 


   

Why oh why do mages need a portal to send us here?

Moroan, on November 9, 2009 01:55:14   [ Reply ] 
 
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