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by Mathew McCurley 
Aug 9th 2010 at 3:00PM
WARNING: This post contains spoilers about the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion Cataclysm. Do not read further if you do not wish to be spoiled on major plot points.
Cho'gall's sound files, in Dire Maul, indicate that there are two traitors, an Alliance and a Horde figure, who are working from within to give the Twilight's Hammer Cult a leg-up in recruiting. We can now surmise that those traitors are Archbishop Benedictus, now known as The Black Bishop, for the Alliance and Grand Magister Rommath for the Horde. Sound clips follow:
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 7)
Iirdan Aug 9th 2010 3:10PM
Millhouse Manastorm too. =(
Such a shame that we'll have to "light [him] up, sweet cheeks!"
feniks9174 Aug 9th 2010 3:12PM
The opportunity to kill a Gnome Mage is always a welcome one.
Utakata Aug 9th 2010 3:42PM
:(
...alas, my pigtails droop in sadness. /sigh
Jamie Aug 9th 2010 3:43PM
But the opportunity to kill a Gnome Warlock is always a welcomed with a world public holiday with hotdogs and ice cream for all.
Qot Aug 9th 2010 3:48PM
Noooo! My RP character Amy Manastorm (an old lady gnome looking for her husband, the one who always called her "Sweet Cheeks") will be crushed!
Ryan.Yeager Aug 11th 2010 8:56AM
Actually, things there are not what they seem.
ScorchHellfire Aug 9th 2010 5:30PM
Not to mention Rommath is done by the Uther/Lich King/Original Kel'Thuzad guy...
thepoisongod Aug 9th 2010 3:12PM
Awwwww, Benedictus was always so nice when you clicked on him. Sad face :[
Jack Miles Aug 9th 2010 7:36PM
Pleasant voice too. Apparently innitiation into the Twilight Hammer primarily involves eating gravel.
Bilirubin Aug 9th 2010 3:13PM
Wait, what?
The guy named Benedictus is a traitor?
My surprised face :|
zdave Aug 9th 2010 3:12PM
I never did trust that Benedictus, always sending toons to RFD even though it's crazy far away and horde territory. He was just sending us out to die so there would be less people in his way on his rise to power.
And what kind of a name is Jarl?
Eisengel Aug 10th 2010 9:47PM
Jarl is likely a reference to the Scandinavian word, which is where the title 'Earl' came from, a title of peerage regarded as roughly equivalent/subordinate to a Count. A Jarl was a trusted, loyal and well-known peer to a Scandinavian/Nordic lord who had risen above the rank of Huscarl (house man - roughly equivalent to a member of a lord's court) to be entrusted with running a town or hamlet as a chieftain in the lord's stead. Becoming a Jarl was mark of high distinction, since a Jarl was likely a young, popular, honored and respected warrior who could conceivably overthrow the aging local lord whose time of glory was past. Entrusting such a warrior with ruling in the lord's stead was dangerous as it put them a half-step away from declaring themselves lord of the land as they were also charged with raising and keeping a hird (armed band) for defense of the town. Less trusted warriors would receive individual tokens of reward or would be taken in as Huscarls.
blightmare Aug 9th 2010 3:13PM
not romath he had cool tatoos and benny was well a dick
Leonidus Aug 9th 2010 3:16PM
Rommath sounds like Professor Xavier from the old (90's) X-men cartoon. I'd almost wonder if it *was* him, except his voice would have to have changed a bit since then, it's been nearly 20 years.
awa64 Aug 9th 2010 3:24PM
Would it? Fred Jones from Scooby Doo hasn't had his voice change since 1969. (Frank Welker is awesome.)
zdave Aug 9th 2010 4:02PM
Neither has Shaggy. Casey Kasem is the man (when he not cussing out his producers).
RogueJedi86 Aug 9th 2010 6:09PM
Frank Welker isn't even fair, that's cheating. The guy has voiced every animal in every cartoon in the past 40 years. Even if his voice changed, he'd simply use one of his billion other voices to go back to Fred.
Casey Kasem doesn't voice Shaggy anymore. The most recent few animated Scooby-Doo movies have had Shaggy voiced by Matthew Lillard, his actor from the 2 big live-action movies. Plus I know someone else voiced him for a few movies in the 90's too.
Drakkenfyre Aug 9th 2010 10:32PM
Casey Kasem stopped doing Shaggy years ago, He refused to voice the character ever again, I think he was embarressed he did it.
And Frank Welker did the voice of Fred? I didn't know that.
They refused him from doing Megatron in the Transformers movie saying his voice "had aged too much", yet they were fine with him doing the voice for the game.
I think they wanted what's his name more than Frank Welker, which is a shame, because he IS Megatron.
Docp Aug 9th 2010 3:16PM
You only need fear the Black Bishop if you're standing diagonally to him.
Avan Aug 9th 2010 3:28PM
That would make for an interesting fight mechanic! Assuming we don't end up killing him in an anti-climatic fashion during a quest, anyways.