Gnomes in GNorthrend
by Mike Schramm 
Aug 9th 2007 at 4:07PM
Bijez from Zul'Jin asks on the forums whether there will be Gnomes in GNorthrend or gnot (ok, I'll stop). Neth hints at a positive answer, but we know for sure: yes, there will be! Not only do we already know that flying machines are coming to Engineers in Northrend, but in an ingame video of the Borean Tundra, shown during the Wrath of the Lich King demo panel, we saw a Gnome city, with a gigantic tower of some kind, and airstrips (!).Unfortunately, that's all we got so far. WoW Wiki claims it's an Alliance town, which is a pretty good guess, but not necessarily guaranteed-- it could be a neutral town. Or it could even be an evil Gnome town; you never know. And we don't yet know what it's called, either.
But yes, there will be Gnomes in GNorthrend. Fortunately, us Horde won't go completely hungry.
Filed under: Gnomes, Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Expansions
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
pokute Aug 9th 2007 4:11PM
evil gnome town... now there's an idea!
ericcst Aug 9th 2007 4:13PM
Gnomes pwn j00!
Faileas Aug 9th 2007 4:47PM
In the Howling Fjord zone, just outside the town, there's a Gnome called McGoyver with a wrench banging on a airplane. I got a picture of it, and I need to go through my photos and upload the decent ones online.
BrandonBa2 Aug 9th 2007 4:46PM
Air Strips to get to Northrend? Already got an airfield near Ironforge!
Ortai Aug 9th 2007 4:46PM
Gnome punting in the snow? Mmmmm.
Mark Aug 9th 2007 5:09PM
In the video he says the "Here we see a turskarr town, the Tuskarr starting town of.. " is that implying a new horde race of Tuskarr's?
Dabura Aug 9th 2007 5:29PM
Why would tuskarr be a horde race?
roguedubb Aug 9th 2007 6:42PM
Could be Goblins?
Baluki Aug 9th 2007 7:04PM
@6: No. He just misspoke. There are no new playable races in WLK.
Maybe it's an evil race of Snow Gnomes, like they have Sand Gnomes in Outland.
Zilog Instantaneously Mojo Aug 9th 2007 8:13PM
Lets have some serious gnome loving in the expansion, hmkay? Personally I would like to see some Gnomeregan Exile faction rewards of some type - perhaps a pet Tauren or something...
RogueJedi86 Aug 9th 2007 11:26PM
I kinda saw this coming. A few weeks back, someone on the boards asked about more Gnome hubs, since Toshley's is the only one, and a blue replied, saying they're working on making another one. I guess this is it.
Does this mean we'll be able to quest in Howling Fjord and North Gnome Outpost in Borean Tundra? Or restricted to questing in one at a time?