by Elizabeth Wachowski 
Mar 15th 2012 at 10:00AM
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| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Love Is In the Air | 2/2 - 2/15 |
| Blackrock Foundry Normal and Heroic open | 2/3 |
| Darkmoon Faire | 2/8 - 2/15 |
| Blackrock Foundry Mythic opens | 2/10 |
| Lunar Festival | 2/16 - 3/2 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 1 opens | 2/17 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 2 opens | 2/24 |
| Darkmoon Faire | 3/1 - 3/8 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 3 opens | 3/10 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 4 opens | 3/24 |
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
viciouspen Mar 15th 2012 10:03AM
!!!
Contact Harrison Jones immediately!
*blows the conch shell of the explorer's club*
Explorer's assemble!!!
HappyTreeDance Mar 15th 2012 11:01AM
No...Please don't tell Harrison Jones. I'd like to adventure through Pandaria without being forced to watch a "cinematic" of my character /cowering.
;)
Khoonda Mar 15th 2012 10:04AM
Its a panda-conspiracy! quick everyone man your harpoons and wear your armadillo helmets!
Spelio Mar 15th 2012 10:13AM
Easter Egg from Blizzard maybe? Hmmm?
Piers Mar 15th 2012 10:20AM
I read on wikipedia (which might not be entirely accurate - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft:_Mists_of_Pandaria#Pandaria) that it is Pandaria. As I said, possibly not entirely accurate, but it's a possibility.
pstjohn94 Mar 15th 2012 10:25AM
It's the Undermine. That's been in WoW lore for a while now.
Shinae Mar 15th 2012 10:47AM
I guess you have a point:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3217/2933821890_1cd11cb274.jpg
Then again, the map of Azeroth has been changed several times between all the Warcraft games and WoW.
Daedalus Mar 15th 2012 10:51AM
Undermine is under Kezan, and we know where that is on the map; near the center, close to the Maelstrom.
The map in the screenshot is showing a land mass that is the right size and in the right position to be Pandaria, as it's been described so far.
Elmo Mar 15th 2012 5:11PM
Its a Medieval fantasy world, its not unthinkable that the map is just wrong on the size of the lands.
just look at old maps of the world, they often show the land quite distorted in shape and size from the maps we use now.
Lizenz Mar 15th 2012 10:29AM
To all the people who think that Mists is a move out of desperation by Blizzard, if this is where Pandaria is it proves Blizzard has been planning this for a LONG time!
(My guess is at this point they already know every expansion they want to put out)
Strawder Mar 15th 2012 12:37PM
They do.
Emerald Dream is likely next. Right before they showed the MoP reveal trailer at Blizzcon 2011, some dude clearly screamed out "EMERALD DREAM EXPANSION!" during a quiet moment.
Metzen looked up, and calmly replied to the gentleman in question, "All in good time, my friend. All in good time." There's a video of it on YouTube.
The thing that sits in the back of my mind and bugs me is, they have probably saved Emerald Dream for last, given the depth and size that that expansion would require.
The Nightmare is sealed in the Rift of Aln (which is likely The Maelstrom in the mortal realm), but it is not defeated. Since the Emerald Dream is the entire world of Azeroth, carbon-copied right down to mountain ranges, etc, as it would have been had mortals never came, and thus no sundering, logically the expansion would be the collective sizes of Burning Crusade, Lich King and Pandaria put together.
That type of expansion would not be suited for a 1st expansion, a 2nd or even a 3rd. An expansion of that size, with story material of that importance, would likely be better suited to WoW's curtain call.
I know, I know, Sargeras would be the final boss in the final expansion, but maybe Blizzard's got a trick up their sleeves to tie it all together somehow? I'm not saying it's true, I'm just saying that that thought bugs me..... maybe we've never gotten it because at some point prior to vanilla launch, they decided that ED would be better as The End?
Daedalus Mar 15th 2012 10:54AM
@Shinae: as you mentioned, the map has changed since then, and even if the position of Undermine on it were correct for the current map, it still wouldn't make sense as being the land in the screen shot; that has a landmass due south of Northrend; your map shows undermine being more off-center.
Hob Mar 15th 2012 11:10AM
The same map is also in Rustberg Village, Tol Barad Peninsula. IIRC, it's in the building closest to Largo's Overlook.
Hal Mar 15th 2012 11:27AM
Looks like an Elder Scroll to me. Don't let the Old Gods get their hands on it, they'll write us out of existence!
Leviathon Mar 15th 2012 2:10PM
That southern island was meant to be Undermine not Pandaria.