Stormwind

Yeah.

And so their accents are different from what we hear in Stormwind.

Just like, you know, in England, you have England, you have Britain, Great Britain.

Yep.

And you didn't have flight paths.

So I remember Theramore and I remember being a mage and somebody was like, can you send me to Theramore? And I'm like, Theramore? That's not a city.

I'm thinking because I'm thinking of Stormwind, Ironforge, you know, all that stuff.

And Theramore, I look and I'm like, oh, I do have a portal to Theramore.

Good morning, Azeroth.

Broadcasting live from the trade district of Stormwind.

Hey, who eroded our cane relay through

the coffee pot again? Coffee's

And shock and awe and wonder.

Like, imagine the first time you walked into Stormwind.

Or the first time you walked into Ironforge.

For me, it was the first time I walked into Orgrimmar because I played on the Horde.

Games were being released.

And it released into, effectively, the sequel, the canon storyline of the Warcraft franchise, following on from Arthas and following on from allowing Stormwind and Ironforge to get together, the Horde and the Alliance, this story that had been built up with a very successful game of Warcraft 3.

And then it released into what at the time was actually a relatively low spec requirement of home PCs.

We used to joke that the home PCs were tested if you could run Crysis or Crysis 2 on them.

We had the class fantasy really focusing together.

And what I really liked, and this was, I think, the moment that Warcraft Classic clicked for me.

I was simply running along a road through Elwynn Forest towards Stormwind, and another player ran.

passed me the other way and it was a priest and they they blessed me and then they ran off and i've got no idea who that guy was i'll never meet that person again but they did something that to them is one of their abilities and to me makes me better and that's when i realized that the whole point of warcraft was that players put together become more than the sum of their parts if you have three players you don't have one plus one plus one you have one player, two player, three player equaling five because all of them are supporting and strengthening each other.

The Pandaren had been found.

Their search carried them to Stormwind, and Lili entered the city with no inherited loyalty and no reason to divide its people into familiar categories.

She looks upon the statue of one Illyria Windrunner.

It was not just a monument from the Alliance to her, it was evidence that someone else had crossed into an unknown world and had never returned.

Same thing, yeah.

Whatever Lili was chasing, something far more dangerous, though, was now chasing her.

The word Thunderbrew led Lili and Bo to Stormwind's Cathedral of Light, then towards the brewfest going on in Ironforge.

Lili paused to read that the holy light shone upon every being in Azeroth, Bo wanted directions, Lili wanted to understand why strangers believed what they believe.

know what I mean?

And that's what I'm confused about, because from what I understand, classic players, part of it, they like the gameplay, right? They like the gameplay, and part of it is they really like the nostalgia of the experience, right? So all of a sudden you say, hey, everybody for classic, you guys are moving over to this new game that, like, you know how you all love doing your role-playing around Stormwind? Well, that's gone, right? Like, no more Stormwind.

Now we're hanging around in Lordaeron, right? I don't know if they'd change it that much, but...

That's what I'm saying, though.

Like, if it's a whole new game taking place in a different timeline, they have to change it, right? The world is a different place, right? Stormwind would no longer be, like, the main human hub.

It'd be like a Lordaeron would be the main human hub.

Yeah.

If you're interested in that, check it out in the description down below.

The noble humans of Stormwind are a proud, tenacious race.

Though the recent invasion of the demonic Burning Legion decimated their sister kingdom of Lordaeron, the defenders of Stormwind stand vigilant against any who would threaten the sanctity of their lands.

Nestled in the foothills of Elwynn Forest, Stormwind City is one of the last bastions of human power in the world.

Ruled by the child king Anduin Wrynn, the people of Stormwind remain steadfast in their commitment to the Grand Alliance.

Backed by their stalwart allies, the armies of Stormwind have been called away to fight the savage horde on distant battlefields.

With the armies gone, the defense of Stormwind now falls to its proud citizens.

You must defend the kingdom against the foul mongrels that encroach upon it, and hunt down the subversive traitors who seek to destroy it from within.

Without further ado, our favorite little aside quest has given us yet another question.

Scribbly, what would it take to get Anduin's tush back to Stormwind to, you know, rule for his city for longer than a hot minute? Personally, I would have liked to see a clearer through line from his story from The War Within into Midnight, because so much of his experience was memorable for me and seemed meaningful to his character.

So world-threatening danger levels aside, how might you envision his story returning him in his capacity as a present and active ruler in Stormwind? You know, I don't think we've talked nearly enough about Anduin recently.

We've, we've definitely talked about him, but, like, this is...

Scribbly brings up a good point, and I think I've heard this a lot more recently, uh, of when is this boy gonna go back to Stormwind and do something other than throw himself into danger? Do you guys have opinions on that? Like, what, what would you like to see with it? Do you think we're gonna get that before the end of this trilogy of apocalyptic, uh, expansions is over, or do we think that we are stuck with Anduin kind of just on the edge of danger and Stormwind possibly losing its bloodline?

You know, I always appreciate a leader of any kind who is willing to say, "I am not able to lead right now, so let's make a plan for that." And Anduin has had just trauma upon trauma.

The dude's haunted, and if you're just angling to get him back to be like, "Come tell us what taxes should go where," and he's like, "I need more time," I am on board with that.

Like, he, he's had his, you know, journey back at the last bit.