Have you been sleeping? LOL

1. Yes, where have you been for the past month?
2. Yes and no it's sorta part of the expansion.

These events will be patched in before the expansion comes out. (even before patch 4.0 that will add in most of the expansion data that we'll need before we install cataclysm)

It will be part of the pre-cataclysm event leading up to it's release.

Remember the zombie invasion for Wrath? There will be something happening before Cataclysm too and this may be the beginning/part of it.

This event will occur in patch 3.9 or whatever, before the expansion is released. It's very likely that in the patch after that, 4.0, that gnomes and trolls will have access to their own 1-5 starter areas.

Lol

Oh I've known about this, I can't wait to see it. Maybe it's just semantic miscommunication on my part, but I interpret "with the expansion" as later than 4.0, I actually hoped this would go in 3.3.5ish, but 3.9ish makes more sense.

I just don't consider the expansion "here" enough to be "with" until I can make my Nelf Mage or ding 81, but that's just me :)