The Queue: BlizzCon buddies
by Michael Sacco 
Oct 29th 2010 at 11:00AM
Gurky made some new friends at BlizzCon. One of them is all business, the other is more of the wild child of the group.
Loki asked:
Do we know the timeline for Gilneas? I play on an RP server and am heavily into the lore but I'm having trouble figuring out how long the Greymane wall has been up and also how far in the past that worgen players will be during the first few levels. The little movie they showed at BlizzCon shows the moon changing by what looks to be about a week and a half, so does that mean the human-based events take place that far back before the launch of Cata, or are we looking at months?
The Greymane Wall had been up for roughly 25 years, give or take a year or two, prior to Cataclysm. The opening events in Gilneas originally took place one year before Cataclysm, but now the length of time is indeterminate -- Blizzard removed the "one year later" reference some time ago.
However, in order for the timeline to make sense, there has to have been time for the Scythe of Elune to be rediscovered in Grizzly Hills and moved. You can assume that your character has had around a year to run wild while the Gilneans set up their worgen hunts.
Once you've got your human mind back, it's mere days or hours before the cataclysm officially hits.
WaterRouge asked:
WoW Insider-specific question here:
Any news on those WoW TCG writers? I had sent in my application but haven't seen anything regarding that. Sacco's recent review reminded me of it.
If you mean establishing a permanent/semi-permanent WoW TCG column, we're still considering it. If we green light it, we'll be sure to let people know that we're looking for writers.
Fleamo asked:
This has probably been asked, but is there any word on troll/worgen druid flight, travel or boomkin models?
Travel form remains the same for all races. Flight form remains the same for races in the same faction. Moonkin form gets a recolor for the more recent druid races.
RetPallyJill asked:
If Arthas was "sleeping," for lack of a better word, until the beginning of Wrath, why hasn't he got a beard? His hair grew down his back ... ? Even my brother (the least hairy guy ever born outside of Rivendell) would have at least peach fuzz after nearly a decade.
Dead people don't grow beards.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 9)
Adam Holisky Oct 29th 2010 2:44AM
Actually Michael,
Dead people do grow beards (and finger nails), and at faster rates than living people. Their skin sinks into their face/bone structure as their body decays, shooting out the slower-decaying hair, thus giving them the appearance of growing beards/finger nails/etc.
SCIENCE.
/YEAAAAAAAAAAAH
Michael Sacco Oct 29th 2010 2:45AM
Get out of my comments, you huge nerd! This post doesn't even go live for like twelve hours!
Elwoods Oct 29th 2010 11:09AM
At least his quickly killed of the attempted "first comments"
But did his hair grow while "having a kip"?
(the LKs not Holisky's)
Knob Oct 29th 2010 11:09AM
Where are the sunglasses Adam?!
sunetos Oct 29th 2010 11:10AM
Was this posted 3 hours early then? Or am I just bugging out?
Marshall Oct 29th 2010 11:11AM
Correction: SCOURGE don't grow beards. Unless they're turned Vrykul. Then it's magic.
Jack Miles Oct 29th 2010 11:13AM
Okay, so he shaves once, THEN he doesn't grow a beard.
Monato Oct 29th 2010 11:17AM
Actually no, hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.
http://www.snopes.com/science/nailgrow.asp
What happens is the skin dehydrates and shrinks, making it appear the nails and hair have grown after death.
Sorry, but this is SCIENCE.
Aaron Oct 29th 2010 11:19AM
I looked him up on the armory and he does in fact have the achievement: http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=545
(cutaia) Oct 29th 2010 11:20AM
Screw science. I learned everything I need to know about dead people growing hair from riding Pirates of the Caribbean. Every skeleton there has long, long hair, but no beard.
QED.
Snowfeather Oct 29th 2010 11:21AM
@Monato - reread what Adam wrote. Especially the "giving them the appearance of growing beards/finger nails/etc." part ;)
Shadowwind Oct 29th 2010 11:33AM
Regardless of whether or not dead people grow beards, Arthas was NOT dead (at least before we met him at the top of Icecrown Citadel). I can't seem to find the blue post I'm looking for, but I'm 90% sure that a blue confirmed that Arthas never actually succumbed to the Plague or anything else. He was possesed, and Frostmourne stole his soul, but that's not quite the same.
TD:LR Unless there was something else going on there, Arthas should have grown a beard, since he was technically still alive.
(Though come to think on it, there had to have been magic involved in keeping him alive in the freezing environment; why is it hard to extend that to him having some type of beard-suppressant spell?)
Grovinofdarkhour Oct 29th 2010 11:35AM
Best first-and-second-comment-combo EVAR.
Adrock with the buildup, Sackman with the punchline. That's how Friday is started right.
roseclown Oct 29th 2010 11:36AM
@Adam
/EPIC NERD HIGH FIVE
Admittedly, I know what you know because I studied vampires in folklore like a mofo for a bit. Bram Stoker ftw.
Aris Oct 29th 2010 11:41AM
Adam, your "SCIENCE" just brought this to mind...
http://xkcd.com/54/
Amaxe Oct 29th 2010 11:43AM
"Dead people don't grow beards."
From the WoW RPG book "Dark Factions" Page 57:
"Becoming a death knight does not, ironically enough, involve actually dying. Thus, most death knights resemble their living selves, though pale and with an unholy light that illumines their maleļ¬c eyes. However, as powerful and valuable agents of the Scourge, death knights are not freed from service to the Lich King when they die. They are simply raised into undeath to continue their grim work. As a result, the occasional death knight is undead and more closely resembles a zombie or skeleton, with rotting skin and protruding bones."
So first off, the question is: Where was it ever said canonically that Arthas was dead?
Supereuropa Oct 29th 2010 11:47AM
Arthas was frozen, when you're completely frozen your body has no functionality, beard wasn't able to grow if he was frozen.
Dan Oct 29th 2010 12:33PM
@Adam, I was going to post the same thing! I learned it from Bill Nye! 90's after school programming FTW!
Blackhaven Oct 29th 2010 12:09PM
A wizard did it
briker Oct 29th 2010 12:19PM
FROSTMOURNE HUNGERS!!! FOR WHISKERS!