Grotnob
Fledgling Freddie
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2008
- Messages
- 154
Strange things occur to you while you're waiting for a scenario pop, but I daresay this is making a roleplayer or fluff-nazi somewhere weep bitter tears.
So the game's set in nebulous MMO-time-stasis, some time immediately after the invasion of Ulthuan, the High Elf island. I base this assumption on the various bits of quest guff I've actually read, the rough-and-ready defences around the Dark Elf camps in the starter zones, and so forth.
So you press onward into T2, and encounter your first Dark Elf keep, which isn't a captured High Elf keep with blood-soaked walls, Dark Elf banners, and other such changes of decor - It's a fully constructed Dark Elf keep with spikey bits and everything. I can't imagine they were built during the Sundering as the Elves probably had other things on their mind, like killing each other. I similarly can't imagine they were built pre-sundering because the architecture might've tipped the High Elves off that Malekith was, y'know, a little bit of a genocidal mass-murdering blood-drenched lunatic and not to be trusted.
This raises a few questions;
How did they get there? It takes years to build a castle. Are they plywood or something, held together with gaffa tape, cable ties and prayer?
Does IKEA really stock a "Fnørgen" range of flatpacked fortresses?
Inquiring minds demand answers to these and other questions...
So the game's set in nebulous MMO-time-stasis, some time immediately after the invasion of Ulthuan, the High Elf island. I base this assumption on the various bits of quest guff I've actually read, the rough-and-ready defences around the Dark Elf camps in the starter zones, and so forth.
So you press onward into T2, and encounter your first Dark Elf keep, which isn't a captured High Elf keep with blood-soaked walls, Dark Elf banners, and other such changes of decor - It's a fully constructed Dark Elf keep with spikey bits and everything. I can't imagine they were built during the Sundering as the Elves probably had other things on their mind, like killing each other. I similarly can't imagine they were built pre-sundering because the architecture might've tipped the High Elves off that Malekith was, y'know, a little bit of a genocidal mass-murdering blood-drenched lunatic and not to be trusted.
This raises a few questions;
How did they get there? It takes years to build a castle. Are they plywood or something, held together with gaffa tape, cable ties and prayer?
Does IKEA really stock a "Fnørgen" range of flatpacked fortresses?
Inquiring minds demand answers to these and other questions...