Today in WoW: Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011

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WoW TCG Art Gallery Update
We've updated our Trading Card Game art gallery to feature ten new pieces. Each image is taken directly from the official World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. Be sure to give a shout-out to your favorite pieces in the comments.
Wolfheart Novel Released
Wolfheart, the latest World of Warcraft novel by New York Times bestselling author Richard A. Knaak, is now available in hardcover, audiobook, and eBook formats from retailers such as Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.
In the wake of the Cataclysm, conflict has engulfed every corner of Azeroth. Hungering for more resources amid the turmoil, the Horde has pressed into Ashenvale to feed its burgeoning war machine. There, acting warchief Garrosh Hellscream has employed a brutal new tactic to conquer the region and crush its night elf defenders, a move that will cripple the Alliance's power throughout the world.
Unaware of the disaster brewing in Ashenvale, the night elves' legendary leaders, High Priestess Tyrande Whisperwind and Archdruid Malfurion Stormrage, conduct a summit near Darnassus in order to vote the proud worgen of Gilneas into the Alliance. However, resentment of Gilneas and its ruler, Genn Greymane, runs deep in Stormwind's King Varian Wrynn. His refusal to forgive Genn for closing his nation off from the rest of the world years ago endangers more than just the summit: it threatens to unravel the Alliance itself.
Varian's animosity is only one of many unsettling developments in Darnassus. An uneasiness creeps over the once-immortal night elves as the first of them fall victim to the infirmities of age. While they cope with their mortality, tensions flare over the reintroduction of the Highborne, formerly the highest caste of night elf nobility, into their society. Many night elves are unable to pardon the Highborne for the destruction unleashed on Azeroth millennia ago by their reckless use of magic.
When a murdered Highborne is discovered on the outskirts of Darnassus, Malfurion and Tyrande move to stop further bloodshed and unrest by appointing one of the night elves' most cunning and skilled agents to find the killer: the renowned warden Maiev Shadowsong. Yet with all that is transpiring in Darnassus, the Alliance might be powerless to stop the relentless new warchief Garrosh from seizing the whole of Ashenvale.
You can read an excerpt from Wolfheart in our earlier blog entry, or head to Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, or your favorite bookseller to pick up your copy today.
In the wake of the Cataclysm, conflict has engulfed every corner of Azeroth. Hungering for more resources amid the turmoil, the Horde has pressed into Ashenvale to feed its burgeoning war machine. There, acting warchief Garrosh Hellscream has employed a brutal new tactic to conquer the region and crush its night elf defenders, a move that will cripple the Alliance's power throughout the world.
Unaware of the disaster brewing in Ashenvale, the night elves' legendary leaders, High Priestess Tyrande Whisperwind and Archdruid Malfurion Stormrage, conduct a summit near Darnassus in order to vote the proud worgen of Gilneas into the Alliance. However, resentment of Gilneas and its ruler, Genn Greymane, runs deep in Stormwind's King Varian Wrynn. His refusal to forgive Genn for closing his nation off from the rest of the world years ago endangers more than just the summit: it threatens to unravel the Alliance itself.
Varian's animosity is only one of many unsettling developments in Darnassus. An uneasiness creeps over the once-immortal night elves as the first of them fall victim to the infirmities of age. While they cope with their mortality, tensions flare over the reintroduction of the Highborne, formerly the highest caste of night elf nobility, into their society. Many night elves are unable to pardon the Highborne for the destruction unleashed on Azeroth millennia ago by their reckless use of magic.
When a murdered Highborne is discovered on the outskirts of Darnassus, Malfurion and Tyrande move to stop further bloodshed and unrest by appointing one of the night elves' most cunning and skilled agents to find the killer: the renowned warden Maiev Shadowsong. Yet with all that is transpiring in Darnassus, the Alliance might be powerless to stop the relentless new warchief Garrosh from seizing the whole of Ashenvale.
You can read an excerpt from Wolfheart in our earlier blog entry, or head to Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, or your favorite bookseller to pick up your copy today.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
xdudimus.maximus Sep 13th 2011 11:55PM
first!
Harvoc Sep 14th 2011 12:02AM
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Zapwidget Sep 14th 2011 12:05AM
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Harvoc Sep 14th 2011 1:03AM
With malicious intent...I mean with fluffy bunnies and rainbows.
Kurash Sep 14th 2011 12:43AM
"...acting warchief Garrosh Hellscream"? I'm glad that it implies that he's only there temporarily, but I had thought that Garrosh was the official, undisputed warchief of the Horde. Was I mistaken?
Cheeselandman Sep 14th 2011 2:50AM
Garrosh never actually succeeded Thrall. The one duel was interrupted by an assault on Orgrimmar by the Lich King. Garrosh was sent to Northrend, yadayadayada, and upon returning Thrall left the horde in Garrosh's hands to understand the elements before deathwing's arrival. Thrall trained extensively as a shaman, giving up his title of warchief (all but officially) leaving garrosh instated as the temporary ruler of orgrimmar....for about five years.
xdudimus.maximus Sep 14th 2011 3:31AM
thanks for the love guys :)
teejmorrison Sep 14th 2011 2:44PM
I knew when i took that screenshot that it was a keeper... glad to see WoW Insider is using it again :)
Witawit Sep 14th 2011 9:27PM
It makes me smile every time I see it, its very cute!