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Introducing: Maigrey

I have served the Lich King for ages, spreading the fear of his name far and wide.

People have cowered before my blade, crying for mercy.

The Vulkyr Battle Maidens have stood watch over me, lending me ever more strength.

My armour is usually drenched in blood, both guilty and innocent...

Even the crows, attracted by the scent of battle, kept their distance from me.

Yet here I am today on a nice sunny day, dodging rotten fruit and spittle to deliver a letter from Lord Tirion Fordring to the King of Stormwind. Why a Knight of my status should do such a menial little errand confounds me... 

Around me, the townspeople and guards of Stormwind were abusing me soundly - Oh, bugger off already! Your families were probably killed by me, yes, but I can't undo that can I? Unless you would like me to raise them from their pitiable remains and live with a ghoulish representation of what they were in life. Besides, if they were ever in my path they brought all that pain, torture and misery upon themselves.

Ah, the Keep. Just around this corner, according to this map I have. What? Of course it's clean, I simply can't abide by dirt and stains - unless it's the blood of my opponents. Now, where was I...

The guards forced me down from my deathcharger, and I was made to trek the rest of the inclined plane to reach the King, whose disdain for me was all very clear. As I handed the letter over, he made a great show of wishing as little contact as possible. Very well, dear king, very well... After you've read the letter - no doubt it's news of Lord Fordring turning against you - I'll drag you into my death gate and have as much physical contact squeezing your life out of you as possibl-

"Indeed old friend... Blood and honor," the King sighed, staring off into the distance. After a moment, his gaze affixed upon me once more. Where is the outrage and fury I was expecting?

Varian Wrynn spoke again, "Were it not for this letter from Tirion, you would be a stain upon my floor. Only an endorsement from one of the greatest paladins to ever live could have ensured your survival."

What? I need no such endorsement from some paladin! How dare you - I should raise my blade now and make short work of you, if I weren't so curious to know what on earth that endorsement of me entails.

"We..." the King's voice trembled slightly, but he steeled himself. "We... We will work together against the Scourge. Against the Lich King!"

"GLORY TO THE ALLIANCE!"

Oh dear.

What has Highlord Darion Mograine gotten me into?

Dalaran's Fountain - 3

Date: 20 January 2009
Time: Varied - approx 4-5 hours' worth of fishing

Copper Coins:

A Footman's Copper Coin
Alonsus Faol's Copper Coin
Attumen's Copper Coin
Molok's Copper Coin
Murky's Copper Coin
Squire Rowe's Copper Coin
Stalvan's Copper Coin
Vareesa's Copper Coin

Silver Coins:

Arcanist Doan's Silver Coin
Antonidas' Silver Coin
Khadgar's Silver Coin
King Varian Wrynn's Silver Coin

Gold Coins:

Anduin Wrynn's Gold Coin
Brann Bronzebeard's Gold Coin
Chromie's Gold Coin
Kel'Thuzad's Gold Coin
Prince Kael'thas Sunstrider's Gold Coin
Tirion Fordring's Gold Coin

Dalaran's Fountain - 2.5

Date: 18 January 2009
Time: 21:00

I only got two new coins today, mainly because I didn't spend much time fishing. About 10 minutes or so, judging from my magical fishing lure's fading...

Princess Calia Menethil's Copper Coin

Lord Prestor is the aspect of the Black Flight, "Deathwing", and Princess Calia Menethil is Arthas Menethil's older sister... She was meant to have been married to Lord Prestor, but he left before it happened. After that, Calia disappeared, but some say she's changed her name and blended in with the troops at Dustwallow Marsh.

How tragic.

Lady Katrana Prestor's Gold Coin

Lady Katrana my arse - her true face is Onyxia! I should know, I've seen her while I protected Reginald Windsor as he marched to the Keep to confront her.

Bless the Fountain's twisted sentience, for she has been rightly removed from her position, no longer able to influence the King of Stormwind!

Today, a few things happened.

A) I was offered a ring as part of a quest reward. Its name is curiously similar to that of a"C-ring"... and the name of the quest is [A Delicate Touch].

B) My Mysterious Egg, bought from the Oracles of Sholazar Basin for a measly 3 gold, hatched today, giving me a new addition to my personal pet zoo - a Tickbird Hatchling! (At least I didn't get some crummy Aged Yolk...)

C) Stoutfury has been up to no good in the guild bank again, this time in the shape of "^_^".


D) I (belatedly) found a web-comic. It's called "Looking For Group", and so far (Page 29 of Vol 1) it has been a fun read!

E) Read the Common/Orcish dictionary in Dalaran today...


F) I wonder how I can make this blog's colours to be such that all item qualities from poor (grey) to legendary (orange) can be seen nicely without strain... Hmmm...

Dalaran's Fountain - 2

Date: 9 January 2009
Time: 20:40

More coins today, from the Fountain.

Ansirem's Copper Coin

Archmage Ansirem Runeweaver of the Kirin Tor. He was once their leader, but has since been replaced by Rhonin. I rememeber doing some little errand for him when he was in the Alterac Mountains, where Dalaran was just a huge sphere in the ground... wonder if he'd moved to this new, sparkling Dalaran? After all, the Runeweaver Square must be named after him... Anyways, that errand had led me to Catelyn the Blade.
Who was, surprisingly, his daughter -- she'd ran off and joined the Blackwater Raiders at Booty Bay.
Looking at the coin now, I wonder if Catelyn ever knew her father worried so much about her...

Danath's Copper Coin

Such hatred! This must be Force Commander Danath Trollbane. Some say Dungalion is his true last name, but I suppose we'll never really know... He is master of Honor Hold now, but he was Lord of Stromgarde before, in the Arathi Highlands before he was called to duty to reinforce Nethergarde Keep when the Horde reopened The Dark Portal. I seem to recall a proliferation of troll villages in the region...

Eitrigg's Copper Coin

Interestingly,Eitrigg is an Orc Shaman. Why a member of the Horde should be wishing Tirion Fordring luck is a little out of usual. Some friends of mine mentioned that Eitrigg is now in Zul'Drak, an area I haven't yet gone to... time for a trip I think!

Elling Trias' Copper Coin

I'd dealt with Elling Trias several times on a particular mission, and it was quite a surprise when I found out that the owner of a cheese shop in the Trade District of Stormwind City was a rogue. (I can say it now, right? After all, he's about made it public with his wishing coin...) I'd thought all along that the cheese shop was but a cover for his "real" passion - being a secretive rogue. Guess I was wrong!

Genn's Copper Coin

Gilneas? I'd never heard of that place! So, of course I asked around and it turns out that it's apparently, ::cough::, a nation. And this man is Genn Greymane, ruler of that nation.
How revealing his wish is of his foreign policies - if there're any...

Krasus' Copper Coin

I know I've heard that name Krasus around somewhere. He is consort of the dragon queen Alexstrasza, where they reside atop Wyrmrest Temple in the Dragonblight. Such a beautiful, calm man - that's all I remember of him.

Kryll's Copper Coin

Kryll? Whoever this is, it must be someone obsessed with explosives...

Private Marcus Jonathan's Copper Coin

Private? Wow! This must've been quite some time ago, seeing as he is now General Marcus Jonathan. Also, I happily took extra notice that he'd gotten his wish granted!

Salandria's Shiny Copper Coin

I've never met this Salandria person, but a close friend tells me that she's a Blood Elven Orphan. My friend'd met her during Children's Week, but I was away on holiday in Moonglade...
Children. Such dreamers...

Alleria's Silver Coin

Ranger-Captain Alleria Windrunner is no stranger to us Night Elves, for sure. She and Turalyon had a child - a half-elf son I heard. Which pricks my curiosity about that Arator chap in Honor Hold...

King Anasterian Sunstrider's Silver Coin

King Sunstrider, what would you say if I told you that the last I saw of your son was of him hiding in the back of an elaborate structure...?

King Terenas Menethil's Silver Coin

Here lies King Terenas Menethil II -- Last True King of Lordaeron.

Great were his deeds -- long was his reign -- unthinkable was his death.

"May the Father lie blameless for the deeds of the son.
May the bloodied crown stay lost and forgotten."

Medivh's Silver Coin

.. I have absolutely no idea what this dinging and donging is all about...

Archimonde's Gold Coin

The most amusing coin I've found yet. I think Archimonde had destroyed most of Dalaran, but somehow missed this fountain... One rumour has it that it is a second Eternity Well created by the Titans, and is sentient!

Arthas' Gold Coin

Arthas himself! Now, this wish of his... I wonder if a mispronounciation of the word "scone" led to his "frozen throne", or possibly it's the other way around...

Teron's Gold Coin

The "Eye" he referred to was probably the Eye of Dalaran, a magical artifact which he stole during the Second War... What a miser! A gold coin for that artifact!