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Hmm my final post, I cant help but feel this location may have been chosen by the purple wench to lure me into some form of trap… oh well

The temple of the moon is the spiritual centre of the Night Elf capital Darnassus and is set imposingly on the banks of a lake within the city.

After crossing the bridge you find yourself confronted with the central chamber of the temple itself…

It is certainly an imposing sight, you have to hand it to the elves that they at least have an eye for the aesthetically pleasing, they even managed to fit in a fully working indoor swimming pool subtly into the design.

…damn Elves, “disrespectful” my hoof threaten to kick me out would they?

The temple is the spiritual home of the Sisterhood of Elune, the longest running priesthood devoted to the worship of Elune. The central statue is of Haidene, the very first High Priestess of the moon.

Around the balcony members of the priesthood can be seen including Tyrande Whisperwind, the current High Priestess and leader of the Night Elves.

To the left you can see fellow high ranking priestesses and to the right you can see two envoys of my people sent from the Exodar crash site, doubtless providing sage council.

That would seem to be it for the chill across the bones tour of Azeroth normal service will resume now that Elsen is returning from hugging trees or singing to deer or whatever druids do on their time off.

Good luck out there in Azeroth and pray to whatever gods you care to that you do not find yourself trampled underhoof.

Hmm Thrallmar today, an Orc stronghold established by the new horde on the shattered ruins of Draenor to act as their fortress in their battles with the fel orcs of the Hellfire Peninsula.

Here you can see the entrance to the stronghold from the ground backed by the shattered skyline of outland.

A view from the air shows that the settlement is fairly typical of Orc construction with their crude yet effective archtiecture of stone and wood.

A surveillance of the Orc defenses show their intent quite readily, although their war engines overlook the Fel Horde’s abominable Path of Glory, paved with the bones of the Draenei victims of the horde genocide and close down that path they also are aimed distinctly towards the Alliance bastion Honor Hold.

It would seem for the forces of the Alliance Thrallmar will need careful observation.

Good evening again fellow travellers. I am afraid first of all I must concede a failure on my part, the foul Ice Trolls repelled me from their capital before I could take a photo of the Pool of Twisted Reflections so instead today I will talk a little about Gundrak itself.

Gundrak as previously mentioned is the capital city of the Drakkari Ice Troll empire, sitting as it does at the very heart of Zul’drak.

As one approaches this imposing structure you will likely see ice trolls engaged in savage and ritualistic battles to the death against one another while their comrades look on cheering their favoured champion. These duels are a integral part of Drakkari culture allowing warriors to hone their skills in battle while culling off the weaker members of the tribe, an arrangement encouraged by their frost king.

The Drakkari are the first trolls in history to attempt to sacrifice their gods in an attempt to steal their power outside of the temple you can see Akali, the rhino god being drained of his power by the priest caste.

Hmm I think I have seen all I need to see here, perhaps its better to sneak off now before they notice me.

Tune in tomorrow for more WoW tourism.

Hmm I swear she is finding the most remote places to send me perhaps I have underestimated the purple wench and shes plotting something while my back is turned…

Deathknell is a town of the Forsaken located in the desolate pine forests of the Tirisfal Glades. Its name is somewhat unusual in that it no longer retains its original name from happier days having been renamed by the forsaken for reasons unknown.

The town itself is quite heavily fortified for such a small village as you can see…

Quite a few unfortunate guards had to be trampled underhoof for me to gain access to the town, I hope you appreciate these things I do for you.

The village itself is fairly unremarkable and one would call it peaceful but for the scourge over running large parts of the town and the dolts of the Scarlet Crusade carrying out frequent raids on the wretched inhabitants from their encampment nearby.

The most notable feature of the town is the crypt to the very north known to the locals as the “Shadow Grave”.

Here the Forsaken raise more of Lordaerons dead to serve their armies and hound the Alliance, fortunately most do not survive the process without being placed under the thrall of the Lich King and are obligingly burned by the Forsaken.

Hmm best leave before more of those guards come back cutting down even the Forsaken gets tiring after awhile.

Log on tomorrow for a continuation of our tour round Azeroth.

Greetings once again, according to the druids notes today I am to guide you around the great Wyrmrest Temple in the Dragonblight.

Quite the imposing structure isnt it?

Originally constructed by the Titans the Wyrmrest temple is rumored to be the place where the leaders of the five great dragonflights were first empowered as guardians of this realm. These days however the temple functions as the base of operations for the Wyrmrest Accord, A powerful union of the Red, Green, Black and Bronze Dragonflights against their blue brethern.

The temple is situated in the centre of the Dragonblight, an icy plain where the dragons of the world come to die when their time comes. Around the temple are several shrines, one belonging to each dragonflight each reflecting the flights purpose and nature for example the lush verdant emerald dragonshrine reflects the green dragons wardenship of nature while the magma and debris strewn black dragonshrine reflects that flights destructive nature.

The temple itself has many levels, the lowest of which is the chamber of aspects a grand chamber where the aspect of the Black Dragonflight Neltharion the earth warder tricked his brothers and sisters in the creation of a dark artifact known as the demon soul. The portals in this shrine lead off into five sub sections, each acting as a refuge and hatchery for its respective flight in the image below the portal to the Bronze Sanctum can be seen.

Above this is the ground floor where select visitors allowed within the temple walls by the accord may find their rest from the harsh cold of the Dragonblight.

Above this lies the midsection of the tower in which lord Afrasastrasz, the commander of the wyrmrest temple defense directs the battle against the besieging blue dragons outside.

At the very pinnacle of the temple the official representatives of the various flights stand in council led by the dragon queen herself Alexstrasza the life binder, if you find yourself in such auspicious company remember to show your manners, it is wise to afford dragons respect lest you draw their wrath upon you.

Here Alexstrasza is pictured with her lover, loyal second and consort Korialstrasz here using the name he adopts when in his elven form “Krasus”

Well that just about covers the Wyrmrest Temple, tune in tomorrow for another destination assuming I can find a way down from this pinnacle.

Greetings fool mortals! with the druid swept aside a new icy reign will sweep over this pitiful blog leaving only desolation in its wake!

*coughs* Sorry I get these little fits sometimes, its a death knight thing. Your usual host has taken a vacation away from the lands of Azeroth and has left me to pick up the slack lets check her notes….ah here…Bael Modan in the Barrens.

Bael Modan (Red Mountain in dwarvish, Imaginitive creatures these dwarves arent they?) is often heralded as the new home of Gnomes and Dwarves on Kalimdor. It is the Alliances largest settlement in the barrens boasting a population of 800.

As you can see from the steam tank parked at the entrance this settlement has a significant garrison in order to protect the settlement from raiding centaur, horde warbands, and to protect Alliance caravans traversing the Barrens.

To your right when travelling up the pathway to the main building you will see the locals working hard to unearth the ruins of a Titan research outpost dating back a hundred thousand years. They work hard to excavate the platinum disks the Titans stored their secrets upon. Its  a shame noone alive can still read them really.

This is the closest they would allow me to get they dont allow non dwarves into the ruins fearing bandits and thieves around the precious titan relics…they’ll get theirs treating ME like a suspicious character…

At any rate atop the red mountain itself lies Bael’dun keep an imposing fortress with a view far over the plains of the barrens affording the defenders early warning of any attack.

Hmm lets venture inside….

Ah the dwarven “morale officer” of the prestigous Barleybrew line, providing his family’s fine ales to the settlement. I think perhaps this place is not so bad after all.

What? dont look at me like that the dead are entitled to time off too you know oh leave me to my ale.

Check back tomorrow for another post on The Chill Across the Bones your one stop WoW tourism spot.