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Spoiler alert: This post contains fairly heavy lore spoilers for the Cataclysm expansion. If that's not your thing, you should stop reading now.

In Cataclysm, during the quests in Silverpine Forest, Horde players learn that human refugees from Hillsbrad have fled to Fenris Keep, and our glorious Banshee Queen Sylvanas sends us with a loyal val'kyr to kill and raise the poor humans as Forsaken, to bolster their forces in Silverpine. Using the new on-the-go questing feature, Sylvanas informs players to find and convert the human leaders inside their keep.

This is when things get a little hairy, as the keep is guarded by elite worgen guards. Battling through, the players find themselves arriving at the middle of a meeting between the big names of Southshore and Lord Darius Crowley.

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com's daily Q&A column, in which the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.

Today's edition of the Queue inspired me to show off the video of Lord Darius Crowley cleaving his way through a massive pack of worgen again. Really, I don't think you ever need a reason to watch that. It's just awesome.

richtoad asked:

"Is archaeology still in for Cataclysm? Or has it been scrapped like Path of the Titans?"

Last night's beta patch implemented a number of new sound files, but this is certainly the coolest: King Genn Greymane, leader of the Gilnean people, now has unique lines of dialogue. While working through the worgen starting experience, it's quite strange to hear King Greymane talking about [spoiler redacted] before you ever experience it first hand, but it's cool nonetheless.

Gilnean NPC Lord Darius Crowley has received a line of his own as well. He gives a hearty, "We will prevail." Sadly, that's the only line he has so far, and the sound quality on it is far worse than what we've heard so far in Cataclysm. He probably isn't finished and hey, that's OK! It's a beta.

The video after the break, for people who don't mind being spoiled.

The WoW.com crew has been hard at work on full walkthroughs of the worgen and goblin starting experiences in the Cataclysm beta, and in the process we've built up a few videos that we simply don't want to sit on any longer. You'll see these videos in our guides as planned, so consider this a sneak preview. Obviously almost every single one of these videos is heavy with Cataclysm spoilers. Don't want to be spoiled? Don't watch.

Embedded above is the quest The Great Bank Heist. You can head over to our YouTube channel (or click the links below) to see:

Worgen Starting Zone

• Meet Lord Darius Crowley
• Sacrifices
• Fun With Placeholders
• You Can't Take 'Em Alone
• Tunnel Rats
• Transformation Animation

Goblin Starting Zone

• Hot Roddin'
• The Great Bank Heist (embedded above)
• Monkey Business
• And more to come!

We've already said it a few times since the beta started, but we do strongly recommend subscribing to our YouTube channel. While most of the videos that are uploaded there will find their way here eventually, subscribing is a good way to get a sneak peek at upcoming features ... and catch the few videos that don't make it to our front page.