#eastern kingdoms

[oldeazeroth]

Goldshire, Elwynn Forest (42,64)

#World of Warcraft #WoW #Azeroth #Eastern Kingdoms #Elwynn Forest

[tastytofusoup]

Vanilla WoW (2004) ↠ Deathknell

#world of warcraft #gamingedit #dailygaming #dailyvideogames #wowedit #vgedit #retro gaming #deathknell #undead #forsaken #tirisfal glades #eastern kingdoms #wow classic #tofuedits #vanillawow

[heather-m-quigley]

oh the two heads facing each other, why this remind me of wow

#heather watches one piece #kalimdor #eastern kingdoms #wow #jaya #clean for years #havent played wow in so long but #world of warcraft #one piece

[findmeinshattrath]

You'd think that the Revantusk would get a little bit more acknowledgement in-game. We got some NPCs in Zandalar, but not really anything else outside of the Hinterlands. They're the only Forest Trolls in the Horde. Their geographically closest allies are the Forsaken, the Blood Elves, and the Frostwolves; the dynamic there has to be crazy. Also, in Cataclysm they apparently captured the city of Jintha'alor. That gives the Horde a city of pretty decent size in the Eastern Kingdoms; that feels like it should be more important than it has been.

#wow #world of warcraft #horde #revantusk #revantusk tribe #revantusk trolls #forest trolls #the hinterlands #eastern kingdoms #jintha'alor #I am slightly obsessed with the more 'minor' factions in Azeroth #if you couldn't tell

[wowlorecraft]

Kaldorei Worgen & Forsaken Elves

Two new race customization options are unlocked: For Worgen, their humanoid form can be either human or night elf; similarly, for the Forsaken, they can choose to be either human or high elf

#wow #races #theorycrafting #world of warcraft #quel'dorei #kaldorei #lordaeron #azeroth #eastern kingdoms

[wowscenery]

#world of warcraft #wow scenery #hillsbrad foothills #eastern kingdoms

[belastrastravels]

Shots from around Gilneas.

#Gilneas #Eastern Kingdoms

[breadknight-likes-things]

The Old World: Alterac Mountains.

Welcome to what I hope will get my game writing creative juices flowing, two subjects that are hard to go wrong for me: environment design, and World of Warcraft. To put it simply, in this (Hopefully) series of posts, I want to take a look back at some of the more notable zones in WoW Classic. Zones that changed heavily with Cataclysm, and thus no longer have the same feel, or design, as they once did, but are now preserved inside WoW classic, hopefully forever! To kick things off, I thought I'd start with a zone that has long fascinated me as a player. All the way back to when I first started playing World of Warcraft: Alterac Mountains. If you've only played World of Warcraft in the post Cataclysm Era, you may well be thinking "That isn't a zone", but here's the neat part, it never really was! Oh sure, Alterac Mountains had it's own map, and it's own set of neat things to find, but beyond five or six quests, that didn't even start in the zone itself, there really wasn't much to find there. That said, that's what made it so fascinating to me the whole time!

Of course Alterac has it's place in Warcraft Lore, home of the kingdom that betrayed The Alliance and was destroyed for it. Home to the original location of Dalaran (Still there, as of The Burning Crusade), and an important area of the kingdom of Lordaeron all the same. So somehow with all of that to work with, how is it that there's so little to actually do in the zone? It has a snowy mountain core, and some hilly grasslands, but not a whole lot to find in either place. There really aren't that many quests that have much to do with Alterac. You'll be sent to kill a few wizards, silence a few turncoat Forsaken, asked to steal some syndicate plans, but nothing with any kind of story through line, just scattered tasks. That lack of cohesion is, to me, what made this such a fascinating place to explore. It's like there was this whole grand zone, with so much to find, just left to rot on live servers with no real plan, or idea of what it's supposed to be.

The Lordamere Internment Camp is a fun example of everything WoW needing to be scaled down as an open world. I'll be honest, thousands of orcs probably didn't fit in those two buildings. Going there yourself reveals so many interesting sights even beyond the big points I've already touched. The claw like mountains overlooking Hillsbrad offer the best view a 2007 level of distance fog could handle. The southern shore of Lordamere Lake's long easy curve as it makes contact with the land, is a small little piece of natural beauty still left in a land that had been so thoroughly ravaged by the army's of the scourge. The farmstead in the northeastern corner of the zone that seems, against all odds, to actually be a functioning settlement so close to the Undercity. There's much to see, and more to find, even if nobody actually points you in it's direction. During Cataclysm, when the map was being changed, altered, and in some cases condensed: Alterac Mountains ceased to be. Obviously, it was still there, it never actually left the game, and many of the same sights I brought up in this post are still there for you to find. In reality, all that happened was the zone became combined with Hillsbrad Foothills. And frankly, it wasn't the worst idea. The two zones flow into each so naturally it's actually a bit a odd they weren't always just one place. After all, for a zone with the word "Hill" in it twice, it was always sort of odd that going uphill in any real way in Hillsbrad would invariably bring you to a different zone.

Alterac Mountains is an odd place. A full zone by name, the location of one a battleground entrance even, but still a little forgotten piece of one of the, at the time, biggest games around. I've imagined many more things that could have been done with Alterac, but of course, it's far from the most important place in the game. Until we get that Lordaeron revamp expansion of course, I'll just be over counting the days down to that theoretical beauty. Well that, and continuing to love Azeroth and everything in it.

#world of warcraft #video games #bread's game journal #game journal #pc gaming #video game #wow #alterac valley #alterac #hillsbrad #eastern kingdoms #world design #game design #video game worlds #azeroth #warcraft #shadowlands #world of warcraft classic #wow classic #classic wow

[resto-druid]

#wow #eastern kingdoms

[autismworldofwarcraftamazement]

Breasts

#world of warcraft #eastern kingdoms

[chinesehanfu]

【Reference Artifacts】

Chinese Western Han Dynasty-Eastern Han Dynasty(202 BC – 9 AD, 25–220 AD) Murals and Stone Carvings

the court dress of Civil Officials during the Eastern Han(25-220)dynasty.

[Hanfu · 漢服]Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220 A.D.) Hanfu-Civil Officials Based On Han Dynasty Relics

【History Note】

 In the Eastern Han Dynasty, officials were divided into civil officials(文官) and military officials (武官),and civil officials usually wore black robes and a cloth crown called "Jinxian Crown/進賢冠" on their heads.

The military officer (武官) is different from the civilian officer. They wear red robes and wear a crown call” Wubian DaGuan/Huben crown(武弁大冠 or 虎贲冠)”,These crown is characterized by always having two feathers on it

Refer to the picture below to distinguish between civil officials and military officials in the Eastern Han Dynasty

pic from Romance of the Three Kingdoms (TV series in 1994)

During the Three Kingdoms period(220–280 AD) in China (the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty), Zhuge Liang(諸葛亮), a well-known Chinese military engineer, strategist, statesman, and writer should wear the above civil official clothes when meet the emperor instead of wearing the clothes like below:

・↑Portrait of Zhuge Liang in the China Ming Dynasty(1368-1644 AD).

・↑The image of Zhuge Liang produced by a Japanese game company

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The above image is the image of Zhuge Liang imagined by later generations combine with the actual costumes at the Song Dynasty(960–1279 AD) in China.

The Three Kingdoms game, including those made by the Japanese, is also based on the image of Zhuge Liang imagined and drawn by people after the Song Dynasty(960–1279 AD).

Which is not conform to the clothing that Zhuge Liang should have worn in  Three Kingdoms period(220–280 AD,the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty)

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#chinese hanfu #Eastern Han Dynasty #Three Kingdoms period(220–280 AD) #Civil Officials #military officer #Zhuge Liang #Jinxian Crown/進賢冠 #Wubian DaGuan/Huben crown(武弁大冠 or 虎贲冠) #皂緣中衣 #皂禪衣 #柿子菌stargazer #张宇莹-小花 #白人阿又 #hanfu #historical clothing #historical fashion #hanfu history #漢服 #hanfu accessories #hanfu artifacts

[oldeazeroth]

Loch Modan (32,48)

#World of Warcraft #WoW #Azeroth #Eastern Kingdoms #Loch Modan

[tastytofusoup]

Vanilla WoW (2004) ↠ Stormwind Dwarven District

#world of warcraft #dailygaming #gamingedit #wowedit #vgedit #dailyvideogames #wow #stormwind #eastern kingdoms #wow classic #retro gaming #shoni the shilent #gnome #tofuedits #vanillawow

[aquarius-cookie-jar]

Dragon Cacao Propaganda

Dragon Cacao Propaganda

#dragon cacao propaganda #people need to draw dark cacao as an eastern dragon more #not complaining of course! #i just think there's potential and stuff #cookie run kingdom #cookie run #dark choco cookie #dark cacao cookie #🌌🖌️ #cookie run kingdom fanart #cookie run fanart #🌌📝 #the tiny dragon is a sneak peak of an oc

[findmeinshattrath]

Something I wonder about...

The rest of the Horde as a whole has to have had serious opinions about the Forsaken just blighting healthy land all willy-nilly during Cataclysm, right?

I don't just mean a general outrage at plaguing the land and fucking up nature either. So much of the 'practical' motivations for the Horde's part in the war is a desire for land, food, and lumber. Plenty of potential for that in Lordaeron. Silverpine is, I think, partially plagued from the Scourge, but not enough that it couldn't be healed like the Western Plaguelands (another place of opportunity where they just blighted an already healed farm, Felstone Field), Tirisfal is still clinging to life if I recall correctly, but the Scarlet Crusade seem to be able to farm there. Gilneas and Hillsbrad were completely clean before use of the blight.

It just feels like it goes completely against the greater Horde's interests and we never eally see that taken into consideration. I know the Forsaken are mostly left to their own devices in Lordaeron, but that's also something I find kind of strange when part of the reason the were brought in to the Horde was to give it a foothold in the Eastern Kingdoms.

Like, the Horde's whole lumber thing is the main justification for why they keep going after Ashenvale, even after having basically brought Azshara under their control. The Bilgewater Cartel started a harvesting operation in freakin' Felwood of all places to get lumber. There are plenty of trees in Lordaeron and I can't recall ever seeing it considered as an option.

#wow #world of warcraft #horde #forsaken #undead #lordaeron #eastern kingdoms #tirisfal glades #silverpine forest #hillsbrad foothills #gilneas #western plaguelands #also re:Azshara - why didn't they target it more than Ashenvale when it's so much closer to Orgrimmar #blizzard's writing decisions haunt me

[hiddenromania]

The Sarmizegetusa Regia

Did you know that Romania is home to one of the oldest fortified settlements in Europe? The Sarmizegetusa Regia, located in the Carpathian Mountains, was the capital of the Dacian Kingdom and served as the residence of King Decebalus.

This ancient site, dating back to the 1st century BC, features impressive fortifications, megalithic walls, and a complex network of tunnels. Its strategic location made it a formidable stronghold against Roman invasions.

Photo by Cosmin Stefanescu via Wikimedia Commons

#romania #eastern europe #europe #history #dacia #dacian kingdom #romanian history #sarmisegetusa regia #fortified #fortifications #decebalus #carpathians #carpathian mountains #roman empire