Val has pride in his people. Pride in his cause. Pride in his studies. His war is over, he desires one thing: retirement in style! With no intention of sticking around on Azeroth, a small discovery while stargazing leads him to a peaceful land. There's a catch, there always is, he still requires magic to maintain his sanity. He found it simple to manage this magic intake by injecting mana every day. Fitting in couldn't be harder when you're shooting up a deadly poison, to ponies at least, every day and fighting literal voices in your head. What brings him to Equestria might be just as dangerous, if something followed him...
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I like the idea you have here Raven. You portray a blood elf as he should with the way he went through the world and the way a blood elf is actually portrayed in lore and not in the game itself at most times, A nice and respectful person. Not just a power hungry and evil person. Please do Continue as being an Avid WOW fan and lore reader I like how you go about this.
"These did have a way of complicating life on Azeroth, but that wasn’t my concern anymore." Your language started off a bit overly flowery, but after that gem of a line all is forgiven in my eyes.
472297 Thank you very much. I'm more of a lore person myself, always have been for whatever I get into. I don't just take something at face value when reintroduced.
472306 Thanks for the notice, I actually loved putting that line in. A little obsession with a side of insanity right?
472322 I'm pretty sure it's something in the water. I actually got an "I'm tired of all these petty squabbles, I'm moving on, goodbye Azeroth." Vibe from the whole thing, which I really empathized with as an ex-WoW player myself.
Also, you may want to check your title. I think you meant to type Sanctuary.
472360 whoops, thanks for that
472363 Anytime.
Your mentioning of the languages made me wonder about something, what language are they speaking now? Val was clearly fluent in it when he arrived, and it wasn't Thalassian, but I doubt they're speaking Orcish. Val apparently speaks Common, but it's only "very close" to Equestrian? That minor detail aside, I enjoy the interaction between the princesses and Val, and you seem to be setting up a decent plot. I hereby present you with one (1) moustache. Use it wisely.
476329 Yay, I have a mustache to give again! I think tyber zhan had a mention about that.
A high elf (Quel'dorei) that travels outside their lands learn other languages, ones regarding where they're going. Heading to Dalaran pre-Third War would be learning common and probably a bit of dwarven and gnomish. WoW simply shrugs off any other languages the character would know based on background. I'm running more on lore than game balance so I have to think a bit deeper than game mechanics.
This chapter feels incomplete, like something is missing from the end. Which Old God was he referencing, C'Thun or Yogg-Saron? Was he a (substitute) raid leader? And is he trying to recreate Kael'thas' magical balls? Wow that last part sounded way less perverse in my head.
486308 Relax, and get your mind out of the gutter. Take a deep breath. Maybe a few...
Stop thinking just the game. I was intending to just flat out say Yogg, but I also didn't want to come out and say "hey I did this raid and I'm projecting." At any rate, yes I'm projecting, and I won't just explain everything away by saying [insert thing in game] happened. The truth is someone who didn't get all their facts straight/didn't do it doesn't quite get it. Actually, a player walks in there knowing someone has something figured out. From a character's PoV there something in there, but they don't always know what it could be. They might know after the fact, or along the way, and some might not want to even say it again because of what they remember, once more from the character's point of view. I don't want to just bleed WoW (game) all over Equestria, but I'll fix it if someone else wants me to.
486417 Heh, sorry. I've read a bunch of the novels and stuff but I still think of the MMO when I hear "Warcraft." Please don't get the idea that I'm not enjoying this, it's just in my nature to ask a lot of questions like that.
487763 It's alright, and I'm actually sorry about all of that. I just sort of exploded, think of it like I was thinking too hard.
488015 No worries mate, we all have our ups and downs.
A warlock that knows how to blink?.... HAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!
491708 Actually I'd like to think it's more like this: Demonic Circle + a fair amount of experimentation (and time on their hands) = hax
I like how you write val very much. I know i said it before but you write him like he should be from a story point of view. Not full of himself and not extremely arrogant.
Please, do continue with this.
I have to wonder in a morbid curiosity kind of way, what would a Soul Shard formed from Twilight's soul look like? What with her being a pony and the Element of Magic and all.
780935 I had that thought eventually, I think it would be unstable at first than either eventually stabilize or make one hell of a bomb.
Sounds like she's going to go all "My little Portal" on him.
Very wellwritten -- too many WoW crossovers use technical game jargon. They also tend to write shopping lists of what the character is wearing. Yours is written naturally, with language that a NPC might use.
How long until he summons a Dreadsteed, by the way? I want to see the ponycrew's reaction to that.
Are you going to include the teleport-to-a-previously-laid-marker spell that Blizz included in Cataclysm?
940235 Probably not, I'm even throwing out the Hearthstone on general principal. I'm writing more of a lore/novel-esque character than a direct from game annoyance. He's done stuff, but doesn't talk a lot about serious boasting privileges. He does some history stuff in the presently written chapter and I have the whole "this is my dreadsteed" part written out for when I need it.
Coming up next: Twilight's Experiment in Psychology! -or- I Have a Problem…
"There is no problem"..... "YOU have the Problem!!!! Why can't you just leave me alone"..... Door slams.
dammit now you made me begin playing warcraft 2 and 3 again, good story even though i completely fucking hate wow
This is pretty awesome so far, I haven't read a crossover like this - I mean warcraft, and this is really well done, No errors or anything grammatically groundbreaking here or there, Cant wait to read some more magic stuff
"...it was the major hub of activity when there was the war against to undead legions of the Lich King."
Might be better as "when the war against the undead legions of the Lich King started." That one bothered me a bit. Otherwise, carry on good creature!
Please continue this soon. It's really bloody good.