Around Azeroth: Former monuments
by Elizabeth Harper 
Nov 16th 2006 at 10:00AM
Tsel of Agamaggan sent in this shot from Ashenvale of a ruined statue. And I agree with him -- it does feel fairly Planet of the Apes-esque. However, if there's any history or lore behind this, I don't know it -- anyone out there who can step up and tell us where this statue came from?
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Filed under: Odds and ends
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Kahja Nov 16th 2006 10:36AM
The thing on the left looks kind of like a pig.
You might have to try and see it...
Doodzin Nov 16th 2006 11:56AM
I always assumed those were leftovers from when the first Well of Eternity went and tore the continents apart.
Ryan Nov 16th 2006 12:32PM
It's a huge dildo... I checked in the lore encyclopedia.
Lex Nov 16th 2006 12:59PM
I think its feet are way out in the eastern part of Azshara, above the southern cliffs.
Ishi Nov 16th 2006 2:10PM
There are feet in Azshara, but I doubt they are of the same statue. This ruined statue (along with oh so many of those nelfish looking ruins, dontchaknow) are all part of the original nelf civilization before it went kaplooey when the original well of eternity blew up.
Tsel Nov 16th 2006 2:35PM
Would've been better if I had gotten my toon in it for scale... Ah well.
wild_thing Nov 16th 2006 5:13PM
Naming or telling the lore about a statue in ashenvale would be like telling "lore" about a hotdog stand in newyork :P
Decae Nov 16th 2006 5:59PM
What?! no clicky to make da pikturr biggah?! Decae is sad!
Super Guest Man 9000 Nov 16th 2006 8:24PM
After dredging through WoW Wiki the best I can come up with is that the state is there for enviroment and dosn't have much of a back story. It's obviously of a female night elf and its also obviously destroyed, or at least the core of it below ground. I would wager a guess that due to its suposed age the statue might be of Queen Azshara but thats just an educated guess.
Elizabeth Harper Nov 17th 2006 1:00AM
Sorry about that, folks! I forgot to link the larger image from the smaller image. Should be able to click it now though.
AngryLagomorph Nov 17th 2006 1:07AM
Its a reproduction of the 5 or 6 statues that exist in the world of Azeroth, in this case the female Elf Hunter-Archer which can also be seen in Stormwind, only this one is jumbo-sized and smashed. Its a little known fact that these statues are all the work of the mad Dwarven Statue-smith (who, coincidentally, was the only denizen in the planet's history to take Statue-Smithing as his profession) Darzan Hammertooth, of the Khaz Agar Hammerteeth. He, in fact, not only designed the 5 or 6 basic statue templates, but also built all the Night Elf stone structures that dot Kalimdor, having been hired by them during their Golden Age to design public buildings that wouldn't be decimated by Ashenvale's tenacious colonies of termites and pyromaniacal furbolgs. Unfortunately, they attempted to pay him with assorted leaves and berries, having no shiny metals of their own, and Darzan meted out his rage, in a bout of ill-humor, through his creations. This is why so many Night Elf ruins have high walls but no doors, and why, to this very day, the Night elves are condemned within their own lands to sleep out in the open or on what amounts to stacked balconies, exposed to the ravages of wind, rain, chill, and those dang Darnassian mosquitoes.