With Varendil and I playing SWTOR, we haven’t had much chance to catch up on all the WoW news going on, but I still subscribe to a few Twitter and Facebook pages to try and keep up to date with things.

While scrolling through Tweetdeck, I see the MMO Champ post about NEW LORE for Lor’themar. The new short story has been posted! Excited, I alt tab from losing Warzones to overgeared Imps to read the story. Maybe there are some questions answered about the current state of Blood Elf lore. Maybe they talk about tearing down all those tacky Kael’thas statues, getting rid of the Fel Crystals, maybe some awesome High Elf/Blood Elf action, oh yeeaaahhh. Maybe this can be a chance for me to jump back into WoW-RP! Oh how I’ve missed Lanuria!

So, I get to reading and realize the title sounds awfully familiar.

And it’s based during Wrath?

And I coulda sworn I’ve…

“Lan, you do know this is the story that won the fiction contest in 2008, right?”

Varendil looks at me from across the bedroom, scrolling through his Googlereader. “Yeah, right here on WoWinsider, ‘While it is not a new story…’”

But..but..

IT SAYS NEW LORE RIGHT IN THE GODDAMNED TITLE.

This is just…awful, a spit in the face of RPers everywhere, honestly.

This story was written in 2008, during Wrath. Since then, we’ve had Arthas die, the Scourge basically destroyed, we’ve had the Horde taken over by Garrosh, we’ve have the world torn apart by dragons, our closest ally become a little crazy and we’ve had adventurers from Silvermoon go off to new places to defend their homeland that wasn’t even affected by the goddamned dragon and this is what you give us? A story from goddamned 2008?!

The first Leader Short Story was Garrosh’s, published on December 3rd, 2010. It has been over a year since we were introduced to new lore of our faction leaders and the goddamned Belf story is just a repost!?  Why the hell didn’t you just post this story when you introduced the Leader Short Story page, since it was already written?!

ARRRGGHH. I am just so utterly pissed right now. There have been a lot of developments with Blood Elves, but we don’t get a real story to help answer questions? What is going to happen to fel magic users in Silvermoon? How do they feel about High Elves now that the Sunwell has been reclaimed? How does a Blood Elf in the Horde Military feel about Garrosh being a complete and utter dick to anyone that isn’t an Orc? But I guess Blizzard doesn’t care about that part of the lore, since it isn’t about Thrall and his baby mamma or about LO’GOSH and awesome Mary Sue wolf powers~

Every. Single. Fucking. Race in WoW has gotten something new and improved in Cata, minus the Draenei and the Blood Elves. Sure, we got TBC, a whole expansion for our races, but it’s been since 2007, we deserve some goddamned  updated lore on those races. Just give us something, anything, please? We didn’t even get updated starter zones in Cata and now you do this?

I wonder what the Draenei story is going to be about, if they even write the damn thing. I’m sure it’ll be all about Anduin Wrynn’s super happy fun adventures with Velen just sitting in the corner, saying a few Yoda like things to the human kid. Because, ya know, those belfs and spacegoats had a whole damn expansion to themselves, they have enough lore already, right?

Right?

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Hey, guys! We’re on Google+ now, contributing to the lack of real content! At least we’re not posting reddit gif rehashes.

See, we need to stop assuming other human beings are decent people. That’s our problem.

As a commenter pointed out to us, and as was found on Reddit, this funeral drama might be more drama than funeral.

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Normally, I don’t like giving you all bad news, but I was informed today that Caritrina, the leader of Moon Guard’s Silvermoon Blood Knights, recently passed away.

I had the privilege of  roleplaying with ‘Carrot’ and the Blood Knights many moons ago and those times are always looked back on with a smile and a laugh. Caritrina was a fantastic roleplayer. She was always looked for ways to make her guild fantastic and ways to improve the image of it. She was also a fantastic person and it is such a shame to see someone like that leave this world.

Because I knew her and roleplayed with her and I am sure anyone who had a belf on MG had an encounter with the SMBK, I wanted to pass long that there will be a small funeral for her in game at 8 server time at the Shrine of Dath’Remar. I wanted to let you all know of this so you could pay your respects if you wished to do so.  EDIT: The funeral is a smaller occasion, so unless you knew her, feel free to pay respects on the realm forums or elsewhere in your own way. 

Things like this are always depressing. It’s always hard when you a character dies, but the person behind the screen is still there to make a new one, to continue on, or chat with you on vent or AIM or whatever.  But when a person is gone, both IC and OOC, there is no rerolling, it’s so real and you have to deal with the loss in two ways, through a character and through your own emotions.

It’s my hope, even if you didn’t know the person behind Caritrina, that we all take a few moments out of our day to enjoy not just the character your roleplaying with, but the person who developed that character. Take a few minutes to enjoy the company of those people in guild chat or vent and tell them how you feel. Life is much too short to hold it all in.

Light’s Blessings, Caritrina. Rest in peace.