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by Matthew Rossi 
May 14th 2010 at 5:00PM
If you're a big ol' lore nerd like me, recent details released on the forums about the upcoming Twin Peaks battleground in the Twilight Highlands probably at least got a "Say what?" out of you.
Zarhym - Re: Captured Gronns in Grim Batol!Grim Batol was founded by the Wildhammers. The Wildhammers abandoned their new home after the war with the Dark Irons left the place tainted. The Dragonmaw clan later moved in and attempted to harvest the eggs of Alextrasza for sinister purposes, though they failed to fully satisfy Deathwing. With the four Dragon Aspects confronting both Deathwing and the Dragonmaws, Grim Batol was abandoned. Members of the Red Dragonflight stayed behind to guard its corridors in the Twilight Highlands. ...
That I can't say, but there will be a Twilight Highlands Battleground called Twin Peaks. The Alliance will be working with the Wildhammers in a struggle for land against the Dragonmaws backed by the Horde.
That I can't say, but there will be a Twilight Highlands Battleground called Twin Peaks. The Alliance will be working with the Wildhammers in a struggle for land against the Dragonmaws backed by the Horde.
The reason this goes into "Did you just say what I think you just said?" territory is apparent to anyone who did the Netherwing dailies in BC or read the novel Day of the Dragon (or our KYL feature on the Red Dragonflight). The Dragonmaw Clan are bad news. As Golluck Rockfist, the Horde Ambassador to the Wyrmrest Accord, so clearly put it, "In years past, the warlock Nekros Skullcrusher abused a powerful artifact to enslave Alexstrasza and much of the red dragonflight. Zuluhed and Nekros are dead, but the debt we owe to the reds is far from repaid."
Zuluhed and Nekros? Dragonmaw. The orcs hanging around in the Wetlands attacking people randomly? Dragonmaw. The toothy fellow above? An adventurer disguised as one of the Dragonmaw in the service of Illidan Stormrage himself. The same Dragonmaw clan that made a deal with Deathwing's consort thinking it was Deathwing himself they were working for, mind you. The news that the Dragonmaw are now pledging their allegiance to Garrosh's Horde is very, very interesting, to say the least.
Filed under: News items, PvP, Cataclysm
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 7)
BlazingSky May 14th 2010 6:51PM
Ahem, kia. Rule 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
Jack Miles May 14th 2010 6:53PM
Even when it's just a side effect of killing everyone in general.
And yet he still doesn't like the forsaken.
Artificial May 14th 2010 7:03PM
Someone doesn't need to be your friend in order to team up to accomplish a common goal, protect a common interest, etc. Strange bedfellows and all that.
And, as others have pointed out, the old Dragonmaw leadership is dead. It does make some sense that they'd turn to the new Horde and try to bury the hatchet (in something other than each others' heads). The orcs of the new Horde are former demon-blood drinking pawns of the Burning Legion themselves. People do change over time, and no one knows that better than the Horde.
loop_not_defined May 14th 2010 9:58PM
@BlazingSky
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates.
loop_not_defined May 14th 2010 10:00PM
Ack...doing the "heart" symbol (the arrow, apparently) cuts off the rest of the comment. I know you know where it came from, heart Schlock Mercenary. XD
Boobsh May 14th 2010 11:08PM
Schlock? My first thought was the Evil Overlord list, but 29 is "I will dress in bright and cheery colors, and so throw my enemies into confusion." Another reason to get around to reading Schlock at some point.
vinniedcleaner May 15th 2010 2:13AM
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
Ata May 14th 2010 5:14PM
I picked up on this some in the spoilerific world maps that were briefly up on MMO-Champion, a city on the map that had the name Dragonmaw attached to it that sure didn't seem like an enemy base. With Garrosh being as....violent, as he is, Im not surprised, but I really hope there's some lore in there that doesn't mess things up with the Red Dragonflight, -again-. A storyline as to the repentance of the Azeroth Dragonmaw at least, because while I try hard not to avoid doing things just because ICly my toon might not agree with it, I personally might have a very difficult time doing -anything- for this particular clan of Orcs.
jordan May 14th 2010 5:20PM
What the red dragonflight don't know can't make them mad, right?
jishdefish May 14th 2010 5:38PM
Exactly. Remember how we were helping the D.E.H.T.A. in Borean, then in the very next questing zone we went on a hunting trip with old Nessingwary himself? Yeah, same two-faced logic. Good thing I'm a rogue. XD
RogueJedi86 May 14th 2010 6:36PM
Speaking of mmo-champion leaks, the layout of Twin Peaks is superficially similar to WSG. I've been really hoping Blizz will end WSG with the timeline kicking forward, with either the Night Elves or Orcs winning(likely the Orcs, given their aggressiveness in Cat), and having Twin Peaks replace it. I'd like to see the other base game BGs replaced with more timely settings that have the exact same gameplay so the BG purists aren't left out.
Also, can we have a BG that takes place at night? Not pitch black, but darker with a bright moonlight, like Wetlands at night. Imagine AB in the night, it'd change the mood there entirely.
Gemini May 14th 2010 6:50PM
Considering the gloomy look that Gilneas has, I imagine that the Battle for Greymane City will be night-ish.
thegatherer May 14th 2010 5:14PM
It does make some sense, Garrosh is consolidating all the orcish power into on unit (the "True Horde") and will probably use it as violently as possible.
busuan May 14th 2010 5:16PM
"Ein Orc, ein Horde, ein Warchief"
Tomatketchup May 14th 2010 6:38PM
In patch 4.0.1. all Horde players will find the book "Meine Horde" in their mailbox.
Boobah May 14th 2010 11:12PM
Horde is a feminine noun? Or is he acknowledging that there are more than one?
It'd be better to just call it "My Struggle" and let people to figure it out.
zweitblom May 15th 2010 11:24AM
"Horde is a feminine noun?"
It is in German.
maniraptor May 15th 2010 9:23PM
Abesik Campfire would never stoop so low as to support the Dragonmaw.
Nagi May 14th 2010 5:16PM
I'm willing to accept this ONLY if Cataclysm involves some sort of Horde revolt against Garrosh and his new bedfellows. The Horde going to hell and allying with outright evil and sinister forces while under Garrosh's control? Fine, as long as it ends with us tearing the whole mess down in the end and the Horde returning to the same grey area neither-good-nor-bad entity it's been since WoW launched. Ditto the Alliance, which seems to get more impossibly squeaky clean goody-goody the more we hear about all the evil nonsense the Cataclysm-era Horde mires itself in. The appeal of both sides was how balanced they were in terms of the good and evil deeds they committed, and that neither one was pure one way or the other.
BUT if this goes unresolved and World of Warcraft degenerates into straightforward "good vs. evil," the game will have irrevocably lost a great amount of its appeal for me. No, I'm not going right to the "I'll quit the game" knee-jerk reaction, but it'll definitely be one step closer to that sort of decision.
Grovinofdarkhour May 14th 2010 5:21PM
The Alliance is adding a bunch of werewolves, whose leader is too proud and arrogant to ask for help until his people are foaming at the mouth, running around on all fours ripping each others' throats out...
And this constitutes getting "more squeaky clean goody-goody"?