Great piece. I love all the little details Blizz sticks in the game - they increase the sense of a "real" world out there and I hope they do more. I think they really miss the boat in the cities, especially with the racial leaders. With such revered personages, you'd expect to see some more pomp and circumstance -- but they just stand around quietly with only a couple NPCs nearby. I think it would be very cool if we saw a largeer retinue with some royal guards, pages, advisors,etc and a regular trickle of NPC supplicants coming up with requests.

And speaking of strange NPC characters, I'd really, really love to see WowInsider do a piece on Natasha, the mysterious girl from "Eng-land" who fell out of the sky into the arms of Wildlord Antelarion in Evergrove, Blade's Edge Mountains.

She's the only NPC I've ever seen that seems to be explicitly from Earth.

And I think there's a clone of her in Old Hillsbrad called Natasha Morris.

I assume it's an in-joke involving on of the programmers' children, but two Natashas makes me wonder if there's more to it than that.

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