Around Azeroth: Fava beans and a nice Chianti
by Elizabeth Wachowski 
Jan 28th 2009 at 10:00AM
"'Do you people eat human bodies?' said Gauvain one day, upon entering a troll village, and pointed to a vicious troll looking at him. 'KEK !?!' was the instant reply - 'Yes; don't you?' And a few minutes later the chieftain of the village came back with a club and then Gauvain lost his memory. He tried to wake up, but in his nightmare, all Gauvain was able to see was meat around him, which consisted of large and generous portions of flesh, only too obviously of human origin. Historically shrouded in mystery, myth, symbolism, fear and speculation, cannibalism remains one of the ultimate taboos inside every Alliance major city. At least they should let Master Taneus know how he just lost his devoted paladin Gauvain ..."
Not bad, although since trolls and humans are separate species, it really shouldn't be considered cannibalism. After all, apes kill and eat monkeys all the time. Mmm .... delicious monkey. If you'd excuse me, I need to make a sudden trip to the zoo.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
MechChef Jan 28th 2009 10:18AM
"cannibalism remains one of the ultimate taboos inside every Alliance major city"
You squares should come to Undercity sometime. It's the norm for us. /nomnomnom
Wistin Jan 28th 2009 10:25AM
Trolls eating humans is not cannibalism. Trolls eating trolls would be.
Balius Jan 28th 2009 2:23PM
They do that too.
Numb Jan 28th 2009 10:33AM
Just wanted to add that these Around Azeroth posts are a waste of time.
Robert Jan 28th 2009 10:35AM
^ This
Kajira Jan 28th 2009 10:44AM
I enjoy them and the creativity they spark.
agobelle Jan 28th 2009 10:49AM
Considering the feat of getting a human into the horde side of Dalaran without being punted makes the image that much more mysterious.
Keyra Jan 28th 2009 11:03AM
So is reading comments whose sole purpose is to complain about the article that you could just as easily skip over.
TheKarmaPolice Jan 28th 2009 11:57AM
Just wanted to add that that comment was a waste of time
AyaJulia Jan 28th 2009 12:04PM
I would normally disagree with you--usually the screenshots submitted in this column are interesting, creative, and cool. But this is something I see every single day... this is the guy I take my cooking dailies from. What gives? Yawn. :\
Kakistocracy Jan 28th 2009 2:16PM
agobelle, it's not hard at all to get to the back room of the horde inn as alliance, in fact, I have pretty much that same screen shot (only as a Gnome with the troll's cleaver through his neck).
Darkwind Jan 28th 2009 10:49AM
Hm, apparently Awilo has branched out from his normal gnome offerings!
Narlic Jan 28th 2009 11:24AM
It's still Gnome! Just... Long Gnome.
Jason Jan 28th 2009 11:47AM
I agree with agobelle - how DID this person manage to break through our iron defenses?
But I guess it wasn't that successful in the end...
ZUR13L Jan 28th 2009 12:27PM
TROLLS SHOULD HAVE CANNIBALISM, NOT THE FORSAKEN!!!
*runs away crying*
Cyrus Jan 28th 2009 1:07PM
"Not bad, although since trolls and humans are separate species, it really shouldn't be considered cannibalism."
Yeah, that's always confusing. Trolls and orcs and other fantasy races are generally called different races, but their origins, physical characteristics and lifespan are so different from each other and from humans that they basically have to be different species. But they can interbreed with each other, which is generally considered *the* defining characteristic of a species. (More or less; I'm not a biologist.) (Maybe the WoW races aren't all the same species, but Rexxar is an orc/ogre hybrid, Garona is orc/draenei and that guy in Honor Hold is elf/human, so there's a fair amount of possibility.) So is a troll eating a human cannibalism? Until a troll and something else produces viable offspring, we'll never know.
Balius Jan 28th 2009 2:26PM
I decree it to be thus: A wizard did it.
If half breeds are magical in origin, we don't have to fret the details.
Cyrus Jan 28th 2009 7:26PM
"I decree it to be thus: A wizard did it."
Well, granted it's all magic, but what do we call orcs and trolls and other nonhuman humanoids? Races? Species? Barimins?
Abor Jan 29th 2009 4:49AM
Did anyone notice that the character is Alliance and in the Horde Inn in Dalaran? That specific scene is from inside the inn where the Horde Dalaran cooking dailies are given..
How did he do that? Aren't you automatically teleported out when the opposite faction touches foot to the area?
Kajira Jan 29th 2009 3:41PM
You can fly straight in.