The Queue: Fear and Vengeance in Las Ravenholdt

Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Anne Stickney (@Shadesogrey) is holding this column hostage and talking Warcraft.
We were somewhere around Hillsbrad Foothills in a basement when the kid showed up. I remember saying, "I'm feeling a little threatened here; maybe I should vanish ..." And suddenly there was a terrible laugh all around us, and the egg that we thought was an egg wasn't really an egg anymore, and the laugh kept right on going, low and sinister. And a voice was screaming: "By Alexstrasza! What are these unholy rogues and brigands?" Then it was quiet again. The kid said he was a black dragon, the only uncorrupted dragon of his kind. "What is he yelling about?" he muttered, staring up the stairs with his eyes half-lidded, a clue to his true serpentine nature. "Never mind," I said.
"Good," he replied. Then he ordered his thug to break my benefactor's legs, just because he could. It turned out OK in the end, though; he gave me a couple of shanks for taking care of his business for him. What can I say? I'm a rogue.
I'm also an expert on obscure stuff, like time lines.
Batleth asked:
Time Travel makes my head hurt as well...however....
Wouldn't going back in time and taking the dragon soul/demon soul from 10,000 years in the past completely alter the Reds?
We were somewhere around Hillsbrad Foothills in a basement when the kid showed up. I remember saying, "I'm feeling a little threatened here; maybe I should vanish ..." And suddenly there was a terrible laugh all around us, and the egg that we thought was an egg wasn't really an egg anymore, and the laugh kept right on going, low and sinister. And a voice was screaming: "By Alexstrasza! What are these unholy rogues and brigands?" Then it was quiet again. The kid said he was a black dragon, the only uncorrupted dragon of his kind. "What is he yelling about?" he muttered, staring up the stairs with his eyes half-lidded, a clue to his true serpentine nature. "Never mind," I said.
"Good," he replied. Then he ordered his thug to break my benefactor's legs, just because he could. It turned out OK in the end, though; he gave me a couple of shanks for taking care of his business for him. What can I say? I'm a rogue.
I'm also an expert on obscure stuff, like time lines.
Batleth asked:
Time Travel makes my head hurt as well...however....
Wouldn't going back in time and taking the dragon soul/demon soul from 10,000 years in the past completely alter the Reds?
Hey Batleth, you're totally in luck -- Blizzard just released a short story that explains all that Well of Eternity Dragon Soul what about the time lines? nonsense that everyone's been having minor headaches over. It's called Charge of the Aspects, and it's an excellent read -- one of the better stories that's been done. In the event that this does not clear the matter up, perhaps this will help you:
Thanks, Doctor!
Zayd asked:
This has no doubt been asked/answered alredy but with ZA now only requiring a few bosses to be downed before tackling the last big bad does that mean no more bear runs?
Oh, gosh no. The bears haven't been removed, and if you complete the speed run of all four animal bosses, you can still get your fluffy and fierce teddy basket-head. It's just that you don't have to complete all four bosses to open up the way to the last two now -- you only have to clear two of the animal bosses to move on. So yes, you can still get your bear. However, it may be unlikely that you'll see random PUG groups that would like to do so.
Josh Pringle asked:
Do the Lieutenants that spawn for Strike at the Heart daily in the Firelands have an order? Or do they spawn randomly each day?
They are totally random, which is really annoying when you only need one more guy to get the achievement, and you don't see him for three weeks straight because your luck is terrible.
Puntable asked:
Does anyone have loot lists for the new 5-mans? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
Puntable, I'm going to introduce you to a great little site called Wowhead. Get comfortable, because much like TV Tropes, you're apt to be there all day.
Ellyon asked:
What can you put in Void Storage? I wanted to store all of my holiday clothes and tabards, but it would only accept 4 of the 20 items I'd hoped to store. Tabard of the Explorer: stored. Tabard of Ebon Blade: not accepted. I think the error message was "unique items cannot be stored".
Okay Ellyon, here's the deal with void storage: You can put soulbound items in it, and you can put unique-equipped items in it. So trinkets that you can only have one of? That's perfectly OK. Unique items that carry the unique tag cannot be put in void storage, nor can quest items or stackable items like gems and herbs.
The common misconception at this point with void storage is that people are considering it a second bank, and it definitely is not that. What it is is a place where you can store all that old gear you wanted to keep from your various travels across Azeroth. You can't put tabards in there, or holiday items, or those extra gems and herbs you've got sitting in your bank. What void storage is for is a space to store old gear that you may no longer wear but want to keep for sentimental reasons. By putting those items into void storage, you are theoretically opening up more bank space in your main bank for whatever you'd like.
For me, what this means is that I managed to stuff several sets worth of gear that I kept because it was pretty or because I had particularly memories associated with it into void storage. Now I have a bank that I can actually put gems or herbs or holiday items or whatever other little bizarre trinkets I happen to have into, instead of shunting everything that isn't soulbound off to a bank alt. This is, needless to say, something that makes me giggle with hysterical relief when I open my bank, because it has been in a state of full for years now.
If you were expecting to be able to put anything and everything into void storage as a second bank alt, you're mistaken; it's merely for storing old gear. As for tabards and other unique items, well ... Blizzard did say at one point in time or another that it is working on some sort of solution for tabards, like a tab or some other method of doing things. Whether or not we'll see that implemented in the near future is anyone's guess!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 13)
all8280bcc Dec 1st 2011 11:05AM
With the release of the new cinematic. Does this mean that the aspects will now be dying off? They were obviously not immortal because they could be killed in battle. However we will be seeing Alextrasa and the new Kalegos simply just vaish into thin air?
(cutaia) Dec 1st 2011 11:10AM
"They were obviously not immortal because they could be killed in battle."
I keep seeing this logic. Are vampires not immortal if you can stake them in the heart? Are highlanders not immortal because of that whole head thing?
Most fictional characters who are considered "immortal" can be killed under the right circumstances. It usually just means that they will live forever -- or even just super, super long -- under normal circumstances.
MattKrotzer Dec 1st 2011 11:14AM
Night elves were immortal, too, once.
alzeer Dec 1st 2011 11:16AM
i think they will be mortal in the NE sense, ie 10 thousand years before you see one wrinkle on Alexstrasza face.
Ostentaneous Dec 1st 2011 11:33AM
Not that I didn't watch it. But lets not make the first post on the queue so spoilerific, K?
ToxDrawace Dec 1st 2011 11:42AM
Immortal =/= Invincible
underground_slacker Dec 1st 2011 11:47AM
immortal means ageless, invincible means unkillable. There is a difference, i am surprised how many people playing a fantasy game dont know it.
(cutaia) Dec 1st 2011 11:53AM
By the way...all this talk lead to me discovering that there's a species of jellyfish, who could technically be immortal. In the real world...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula
Delphenus Dec 1st 2011 12:14PM
Draenei are also immortal, there's even this one guy in the starting zone that used to live on Argus pre-Sargeras corruption. That's tens of thousands of years ago!
poggg Dec 1st 2011 12:27PM
25,000 years ago or so, to be specific. And there's at least three Draenei who were around back then, that we know of. Velen himself, an NPC in Blood Watch, and an NPC in Wintergrasp. Draenei are either immortal or just INSANELY long-lived.
Killik Dec 1st 2011 12:34PM
@(cutaia) Lobsters also don't die of old age. Although their deliciousness means they don't get to live forever.
kyle Dec 1st 2011 12:37PM
I think the focus of this cinematic is being put in the wrong place. The Dragons have stated that the age of mortals has arrived. Its a torch passing more than anything else. The future of Azaroth is in our hands now, not theirs.
Erzfiend Dec 1st 2011 12:46PM
There's a difference between "immortal" and "invincible."
Immortal to me usually denotes long or "neverending" life, yet they can still be struck down by things like swords and stuff.
Invincible would be that someone just cannot be killed.
Killik Dec 1st 2011 1:47PM
Biological immortality is not quite the same thing as physical immortality. I presume the Aspects had the former, meaning they were ageless, but subject to death through physical means. I also presume that the cinematic would have been less popular if it featured the subsequent 30-minute discussion of semantics between the Aspects and Thrall, plus pregnancy tips by Alexstrasza.
Al Dec 1st 2011 2:27PM
They can't be invincible either, because we can see them.
(Sorry about that)
llcjay2003 Dec 1st 2011 7:45PM
Yeah I'm confused about this cinematic as well. And to be honest, it was very...meh. The LK one was very appropriate and set up future events as well as wrapping up Arthas' story. For this one, the only things that we know are: Deathwing is dead, Aggra is preggers, and the Aspects lost...something.
Murdertime Dec 1st 2011 9:11PM
It's probably more in the sense that they aren't god-things with an innate connection to the thing they're an aspect of anymore.
Just big Dragons.
kewl97 Dec 1st 2011 10:16PM
There are two more Draenei who came from Argus in the DK starting area, Valok the Argent Dawn member that the player kills, and the player him/herself. It's one of the things Valok tries to use to get the player to remember who they were.
Schadenfreude Dec 1st 2011 10:53PM
To be fair to the OP, the definition of immortal has kind of shifted due to video games. Previously I understood "immortality" to be eternal life, like the greek gods; you could not be killed even if you were maimed in various terrible ways. Eternal /youth/ conferred extremely long life unless you were killed violently. But now immortal = eternal youth.
Al Dec 2nd 2011 12:21AM
Eternal would be the correct word.