World of Warcraft: Burning Skies

by Blackdrag-rose

Stormheim: Into Hrydshal

Spitfire, Rainbow, Scarlet, and Vytheril followed Havi's ravens as they flew down the path that would lead them to where the Vault was located, even though that was when they noticed that there was another section of the path that they had likely missed while they were dealing with the Felskorn and the other groups that had been trying to get into the structure that Yotnar had been guarding since the Titans had constructed this place, though as they turned the corner all four of them came to a stop as they stared out at the open area that was in front of them. Hrydshal, as it turned out, was a rather massive city-like place that seemed to be resting at the base of a mountain, even though it looked like there was an equally sized ravine that had a few large wooden bridges that allowed someone to walk from the area that they had were standing in and walk over to a new area of the province, though the city itself seemed to have a number of chained Thorignir resting on some of the walls, even if the storm dragons were red colored. In fact, to even get close to their destination, the group had to walk over a bridge to access another part of the mesa that everything they had seen so far had been built on, even though it did look like there was a path up to their right that headed into the mountains, possibly heading all the way up to the province known as Highmountain, while to the immediate right of the city, from where they were standing, rested a second path that seemed to head right into Suramar, the final province that some of the heroes would be exploring once the time was right for them to begin the search for the fifth and final Pillar of Creation. Everything to their left seemed to be a sort of wide open area, one that had several important looking structures, even though that was hard to tell from the area that they were standing in, but all four of them were sure that the elegant bridge off in the distance had to lead right to the Halls of Valor, or at least the gate to the area in question.

It wasn't long before they found a camp resting near a bridge that seemed to lead right to the gates of Hrydshal, where a female human, wearing the attire of the soldiers that were on the airship Rainbow had ridden on, meaning she was likely a worgen who was using her human form, was standing near a female undead who had dirty blond hair and happened to be wearing the attire of Sylvanas' soldiers, though the human was accompanied by a black griffon that appeared to have light blue feathers on its head and the undead had one of the large red bats that the Forsaken used, but what interested the group was the fact that the pair seemed to be just fine with each other, possibly following Spitfire's suggestions for peace between the factions.

"It's good to see you again, Rainbow, not to mention your friends," the human said, though while she said that the group could see that the undead was in the middle of spying on the city that was resting across the ravine that rested near the area they had set their camp up in, possibly keeping track of everything the vrykul that called Hrydshal home did, just to make sure they knew what they were doing when they eventually invaded the city and made their way towards the area that would allow them to access the Trial of Will, before she realized something, "Sorry, I forgot to introduce myself the last time we met. I am Lorna Crowley, and this is Dread-Rider Cullen, though while Greymane sent me to scout out this village, to try and get you some more information on the Aegis of Aggramar, it seems that Nathanos sent Cullen to cause some chaos among his Lady's enemies, which apparently includes the vrykul that call the village home."

"Actually, this looks more like a city than a village," the undead, Cullen, commented, where she lowered the binoculars that she happened to be using at the moment and glanced at everyone that was standing at the camp, though it was incredibly easy for the group to determine that she didn't care about the vrykul all that much and was simply doing what her bosses had told her to do, as Spitfire had to imagine that Sylvanas gave the order herself and Nathanos went into more detail as she was leaving the ship, "but so far the vrykul haven't done anything since we've been here, save for saluting someone who has a lot of fel energy around one of his arms, who headed up to the mountain that the city is built below, meaning he has to be someone of great importance to these guys."

"Skovald, of course he'd be here. He's probably going to force the Thorignir to allow him to pass their trial," Rainbow said, showing that she had been listening to what they learned from the pair of terminals that rested outside the Vault, where the others nodded their heads to show that each of them understood what was going on and, more importantly, if these vrykuls were in league with Skovald, as it sure seemed to be, they needed to figure out how they were going to weaken all of their enemies as they made their way up the mountain.

"Well, it seems that you have gained more information on our target than either of us have," Lorna said, her tone revealing that neither she or Cullen had really learned anything since their arrival in the area they had set up camp in, a temporary thing that would be dismantled once they figured out whatever there was to learn about the Aegis, even though now it did look like they would be tackling a trial of some kind and would be dealing with all of the enemies that were waiting on the other side of the gate, before she sighed for a moment, "however, based on what we've seen, our best course of action would be to sneak into the city and figure out our next move from there, and there just so happens to be an area off to the left of the main gate that should allow us to enter without being seen, as long as the guards outside don't notice us and all of the dragons remain silent while we sneak passed them. However, I have to ask this: are you sure that these trials will allow us to find and recover the Aegis?"

"It's what we were told by the Watcher that the Titans assigned to it," Spitfire remarked, though she couldn't fault Lorna for assuming that they might have been lied to, so none of them got their hands on the Aegis of Aggramar, but the look that graced Lorna and Cullen's faces confirmed something for her, lots of people in this world regarded the Titans as gods and if they did something for a reason that was usually enough to convince someone that it had to be the truth, so since she had revealed that the Titans set up the trials, to a degree anyway, it seemed to be enough to convince the pair that all four of them were sure that they were on the right track.

Lorna and Cullen glanced at each other for a moment, showing that the pair were surprised by what they were hearing at the moment and that there might be hope for the united front the Alliance and the Horde could present if they got over all of their differences and anger, before the six of them carefully walked over to where the bridge rested and started to walk over it, going slowly so they could see where all of the vrykul were positioned and found that the couple of storm dragons that were supposed to be watching the front gate appeared to be sleeping at the moment, or at least that was what the group hoped as they moved forward. One thing Spitfire and Rainbow noticed was that there were a few yak-like creatures that seemed to be beasts of burden for the vrykul that ruled over this city, musken as Vytheril called them, though for the most part the musken didn't seem to care that they were walking near the end of the bridge that was near the main gate, but once all six of them reached the other end of the bridge Lorna and Cullen headed to the left and the others followed after them as they walked along a path that seemed to lead to an outpost for a guard and a small farm for the musken, though there were no enemies for them to fight. Spitfire had to assume that the arrival of Skovald had caused this small opportunity to reveal itself and that whoever was supposed to be out here would be back as soon as the Fel-empowered vrykul leader was done with whatever he happened to be doing at the moment, though as they walked along the path the group also noticed that there was a worg resting nearby, but it didn't seem to hear them and remained resting where they had spotted it, allowing the six of them to reach an area that had a large stone that seemed to be a way to get into the city, even though Rainbow could tell it wasn't near the wall and a normal person would need a machine of some kind to launch themselves over the wall that was in front of them. Fortunately none of them needed something like that since both she and Spitfire could use their wings, so what the pair did was open their wings took a few moments to ferry the others over the wall so they could get a good idea as to what in the world they were dealing with and whether or not they should even disrupt the vrykul that were living throughout Hrydshal, though since they carried Lorna and Cullen first, as the pair had been staring at the city before the rest of the group had even arrived, that allowed the two ladies to jump down into the area that was below the wall they had been placed on and rushed over to a hidden area that was behind a pair of decent sized rocks, to prevent the vrykul from noticing them.

"Okay, so far so good," Cullen commented, where Lorna nodded her head in agreement, as while the two factions didn't get along most of the time they knew the danger that their world was in and were doing everything in their power to not attack their temporary allies, something that Spitfire hoped would carry on into the time that was after the Legion's total defeat, even though she knew time would tell on that matter, before the undead beckoned out to the area that rested just behind the city's front gate and drew their attention to where she was pointing, "now, while we were unable to gain any information on the Aegis, we were able to figure out that these vrykul have specialized gear that helps them on their trips up the mountain, so while two of you might be immune to the storms, or not, I would recommend that you look around this city and help yourselves to a few things: some climbing treads to help you keep your grip on the slopes, some oiled cloaks to keep the rain off of you, and some of the lodestones they use to keep the lightning at bay."

"There's also the fact that the vrykul are harvesting the scales off of these drakes so they can make armor and gear for all of their warriors, something we should take from them," Lorna added, where it was easy for the group to see that there were a few storm drakes that seemed to be in the middle of having their scales stripped from their bodies, or at least that was what it looked like might have occurred had Skovald not arrived when he had, to which she turned back to the group for a moment as she considered how they were going to go about liberating the scales, "Given what we can see, you might have to kill a few of the storm drakes and then destroy their bodies in some manner, to prevent the vrykul from getting at the scales they're after, not to mention open all of the cages and free the whelplings that are trapped inside, as I'm almost positive that none of the little blue guys are allied with these vrykul."

"The blue ones must be the Thorignir then, and saving the whelplings might put us in their good graces for when we reach the top of the mountain," Vytheril commented, to which Spitfire, Rainbow, and Scarlet nodded their heads in agreement, as they had come to the same conclusion that he had, before bidding Lorna and Cullen farewell for a time as they headed down the path that they had walked over to reach the area that was hidden behind the boulders, though at the same time each of them readied their weapons as they walked, because there had to be a few vrykul who hadn't been called to the area that Skovald and would be standing in their way once they crossed paths.

One of the few things they discovered was that there were several buildings that were styled in the same manner as all of the vrykul structures they had seen since their arrival in Stormheim, meaning these were either houses or buildings that were supposed to hold supplies, though what they found was that the first house that was to the right of the section of the wall they had flown over happened to have two vrykul warriors and, more importantly, a sleeping storm dragon who woke up the moment it heard them coming. As such Rainbow rushed over to where the storm drake, as Vytheril revealed that it was more like a drake and less of a dragon, whatever that meant, and clashed with it as the rest of the group moved over to where the pair of warriors were standing, even though that was more along the lines of Spitfire and Scarlet parrying the incoming attacks and cutting their foes down while Vytheril walked over to the nearby cage and discovered that, while all of the openings in the cage were big enough for one of the vrykul to stick their hands through them, probably to feed the whelplings or whatever they did to the small dragons, they weren't large enough for the small dragons to slip through, so all he had to do was push open the gate and they flew out not a few seconds later. One thing Rainbow did was channel her power for a moment and released a small wave of Fel lightning at the storm drake, who just so happened to loose a burst of its lightning breath at her, so the two attacks collided in the middle of the area that they were fighting in and blasted a small home into the ground not a few seconds later, to which she rushed forward and parried the incoming attack with one of her warblades as she used the other to slice open part of her foe's neck and open the way for her to drop it to the ground, which was about the time that Spitfire and Scarlet disarmed and defeated their opponents. The interesting thing about these particular vrykul, as the group discovered over the course of their brief battle, was that neither of them had a trace of Fel energy, meaning that while they followed Skovald, and in term served the Legion by helping the demons get ever so closer to the Aegis of Aggramar, none of them appeared to have taken the Fel energy yet, either due to it not being offered to them or they needed to prove their loyalty to their new ruler before he allowed them to become more demonic and follow the Felskorn they had killed outside the Vault.

Once the storm drake was dead the group found something inside the area it had been sleeping in, a pair of oiled cloaks happened to be resting on a post that was near where the drake had been in, to which Vytheril stepped forward and took a moment to slip them into his bag, making sure to put them somewhere where the oil wouldn't get to everything else that was inside his bag, even though he informed Spitfire and Rainbow that he had his bag divided into sections by magic and anything he collected was stored into the appropriate area, where Scarlet simply shrugged for a moment as they headed down the rest of the path. Spitfire and Rainbow glanced at each other for a moment as they combined their Fel powers for a moment and loosed a blast at the storm drake's body, wiping it out in a few seconds, before doing the same to the main gate, a small one that opened a hole and, somehow, didn't alert the drakes that were positioned near them, meaning one or more of the vrykul must have knocked them out for scale harvesting at some point in the future, though while they did that Scarlet cut some of the ropes that were nearby and let the rams that the vrykul were keeping as food for the future out of the pen they were being kept in, though once that was done they turned towards the couple of structures that were nearby and kept their eyes open for any vrykul who might be lurking around the rest of this section of the city. One thing the group made sure to deal with were the other storm drakes, as in let Rainbow rush over to where each of them were resting and engage them in battle, which was when Spitfire, Scarlet, and Vytheril dealt with any vrykul that happened to be in the area, especially one that was guarding a crate full of blue stones that had a light blue rune etched into one of their surfaces, meaning they had to be the lodestones the group was looking for, which was why Vytheril blasted their magical foe in the chest with an arcane blast and drew him out of the building he had been standing in, opening the way for both Spitfire and Scarlet to ambush him and cut him down before he even had a chance to stand against their might. Spitfire, at the same time, also kept an eye on what Rainbow was doing and made sure to join her Fel powers with Rainbow's when she was done with the various storm drakes, obliterating all of the corpses so none of their scales could be taken by their enemies, especially since Skovald could be planning on assembling an army out of Stormheim's vrykul and using them to invade the other three provinces if he claimed the Aegis of Aggramar, which was more than enough reason to bring down his army and stop him from getting the Pillar of Creation.

With the lodestones claimed, and they made sure to take all of them so the vrykul of this city would have to create a whole new batch and would slow them down in the long run, the group headed over to where one of the warriors seemed to be in the middle of training, meaning it had to be an arena of some kind for the city, but since it appeared that the vrykul was busy, and those that were watching him were preoccupied with what he was doing, the group focused on walking up the earthen walkway that was nearby, which happened to be on the other side of the rocks that Lorna and Cullen were hiding behind, and they could see a blacksmith was hard at work making the shoes that the rest of his clan used to climb up the mountain... and, since he turned his back and didn't notice them, Vytheril was able to use his magic to turn the smith into a white sheep so Scarlet could collect two pairs of shoes before they headed back to the rocks.

"These guys are fearsome warriors? They barely noticed that there were intruders inside their city." Rainbow remarked, as she was slightly disappointed in some of the things she and the others had seen inside the city, because while it was easy to assume that Skovald's presence was causing the vrykul not to notice any potential intruders inside their domain, given the Fel-corrupted vrykul's importance to the other clans, it was hard to imagine that their enemies would ignore the more destructive attacks that she and Spitfire had created to deal with the corpses of the storm drakes, before she focused on Lorna and Cullen as the others moved themselves behind the rocks, which was when they found a pair of vrykul that were laying near the area the undead was standing in at the moment, "So, how are things on your end? We found several of the items you mentioned, killed some storm drakes and wiped out their bodies, released some of the whelplings that were in cages, and made decent time without anyone raising the alarms."

"We did some quick scouting while you were busy, not to mention the fact that we both killed a few vrykul that stumbled upon us, and found that these harpoon launchers can turn around in a perfect circle," Lorna commented, where she took a few seconds to beckon to the device that was resting on the wall above them, something that caused the group to glance up at the area she was looking at right now, while at the same time Cullen had her daggers at the ready in case more of the vrykul appeared and tried to attack this area, even if they weren't planning on staying in this spot for too much longer, showing the group that the pair was actually working together quite well, where it was easy for them to see some devices that had a large projectile inside it, and that there were a fair number of them scattered around the rest of the city, before she drew their attention back to her for a moment, "we're not entirely sure what sort of range these things have, since none of them have been fired since we infiltrated the city, but we shouldn't take any chances, since there's the possibility that the vrykul might fire them up at you guys when you start climbing up the mountain, so you should break as many of them as you can, before we do anything else."

"And while you do that, we'll kill some of the vrykul as we move to another part of this city," Cullen added, though it was in that moment that a vrykul warrior stepped into their view and she lashed out at it with her daggers before he even had a chance to fight back, cutting into her target's neck with ease, surprising the group was they watched what she was doing, before she moved herself around so she was on her foe's back and drove the vrykul into the ground, right on top of the other two that she and Lorna had killed so far, before she climbed off its back and cleaned her weapons as she glanced at the group for a few seconds, "Hopefully we'll take out a portion of this Skovald's army before we leave the city, as we'd be able to make things easier for our combined forces, not to mention any allies you find along the way to the Halls of Valor... you heroes always find allies, regardless of the situation or land you're thrown into."

Spitfire and Rainbow glanced at each other for a moment, as that statement was certainly true in their case when both of them landed in Shadowmoon Valley all those years ago, when they first arrived in this part of the universe, before the pair jumped up the rocks that Lorna and Cullen were hiding near and landed on top of the wall, where they found that there were no enemies up on the wall, not even a slumbering storm drake, and that allowed them to walk over to the brass device that was resting nearby and studied it, finding that it was already loaded with one of its harpoons, meaning it was kept in a ready state in case the residents of the city needed it. From what Spitfire could tell most of the vrykul that were in this city, save for the ones they had seen and fought, were up near a structure that appeared to be massive, like the hall of a king or a leader, meaning she and Rainbow had to be fast before the ones who remained down here noticed that they were breaking the harpoon launchers, even though it did look like they might have to kill one or two enemies before either of them were able to reach the area that Lorna and Cullen were heading towards, something they would worry about as soon as they were done with their main objective. Of course that was when Scarlet and Vytheril revealed that they weren't going to follow the pair along the walls as they smashed the harpoon launchers, where the pair headed over to the area that the vrykul warriors were standing in and engaged them, meaning that they were leaving the harpoon launchers to them, which both Spitfire and Rainbow were fine with as they split from each other so they could cover more ground and not give their enemies a chance to realize what in the world was going on. This time around the pair kept their Fel powers in a smaller state than what they had done earlier, when they were wiping out the gate or the corpses of the storm drakes, so Spitfire used her powers to melt the insides of the harpoon launchers she targeted, something that interested her and made her wonder about her inner power, because at this point she was starting to wonder if she might have had some sort of magic that had been awakened by being sent to this part of the universe, or maybe it had been awakened after she underwent the Metamorphosis ritual back in Mardum, before she glanced out at the area that Rainbow was in and took a moment to watch as she placed what appeared to be a disc shaped charge of lightning inside her targets and let the Fel lightning ruin the devices she was targeting.

One thing that Spitfire was surprised by was how effective this strategy was, even despite the fact that Scarlet and Vytheril were in the middle of taking down any vrykul that might have noticed the invaders that were wrecking their city, but she wasn't about to complain about what was going on as she and Rainbow made sure to wipe out almost all of the harpoon launchers that were lining the walls of the city, where the only place they didn't head up to was the wall that rested right in front of the massive hall, since that would no doubt alert their foes as to what was going on, before they headed over to where Scarlet and Vytheril were standing... at the start of a path that had a tower to their right and a bridge that seemed to connect to part of the mountain, where they found that the bridge was broken and Skovald was riding a blue scaled storm drake, who had chains around its neck and looked like it didn't want to be here.

"You are too late, pitiful weaklings! Even now my forces are breaking the Thorignir, to make them serve the Legion and to kill anyone else who dares to follow in my footsteps," Skovald declared, his voice loud enough for the group to hear, while apparently not reaching the main hall that rested on the other side of where the tower rested, meaning they didn't have to worry about any foes coming at them immediately, though that didn't stop Spitfire and Rainbow from staring at him while both Scarlet and Vytheril readied their weapons in case their foe dropped down into the area to face them, "We will be the only ones to command the power of the Thorignir and you will never be granted their blessing, meaning the Aegis will be mine to claim... and once I have it I will crush you weaklings into the ground!"

"Great, he has a dragon... and he's smashed the bridge leaded up to the mountain," Cullen said, her tone revealing that she wasn't at all happy with what was going on at the moment, not that the group could blame her since Skovald and his allies were making this much more difficult than it had to be, before she turned her head to their right and stared at the tower that the group had noticed when they entered this area, where she glanced at the top of it for a few seconds as an idea came to her, or at least that was what the group was hoping had happened, before she noticed an armored vrykul who was standing in the middle of the path that lead to the tower's entrance, "Say, I think you guys can use the top of that tower to get over to the path the Skovald don't want you to access, though we'll have to take down that armored warrior first by the looks of things, as he seems to be the type to punch first and ask questions later."

The group nodded their heads in agreement and Rainbow enraged their foe by hurling one of her warblades through the air for a moment, where it spun around and struck her target in the side of his head, something that knocked it off course and allowed it to head back to where she was standing so she could grab it, but as that happened the vrykul growled as he stared at them for a few seconds and then charged down towards the area that they were standing in, where they dodged to the side, to avoid the attack, before lashing out with their weapons as Lorna and Cullen joined the battle. What Spitfire found was that their foe, possibly a champion of the vrykul that lived in Hrydshal from the way his armor looked, since his gear seemed above what the other warriors in the city had worn, had to be great in battles where he fought two or three enemies at the same time, just six of them at the same time, five warrior types and one ranged, was enough to push him back and even when he used a more devastating attack, a downward swing that could decapitate a normal foe, they made sure to dodge the attack, as none of them were dumb enough to stand in the way of the incoming attack, but that did give them a chance to attack their foe whenever his guard was open, since such an attack came with the consequence of such a powerful attack. Some of them had their attacks blocked by the large shield that their foe carried, which was fine with the group since it allowed the battle to be fair between both parties, though the incoming arcane blast from Vytheril caused the vrykul to stagger for a moment, opening the way for Spitfire and Rainbow to leap towards their foe's neck and take it clean off in a matter of seconds, dropping his body to the ground with a thud that would have alerted the other warriors of the city to what was going on, had any of them been in the area they were heading through. With the deed done the group headed into the tower that the warrior had been guarding and found that it was basically a bunch of wooden ramps that lead up to the roof, or, to be more exact, an observation area that made this more of a lookout tower, meaning someone could easily keep an eye on the mountain, the Thorignir, and could spot any enemies coming towards Hrydshal from the area the lookout was standing in, though that was when they noticed that the peaceful looking sky had shifted into what seemed to be the early stages of a storm, based on all the lightning that was dancing around the darkened clouds, before they spotted a side path that lead right to the main path.

"You know, I have no idea why the Dark Lady is so angry at you, as you two are skilled warriors," Cullen commented, as if she wanted to tell Spitfire and Rainbow that they were grand warriors and that the forces of Azeroth were lucky to have them on their side, something that was followed by Lorna nodding her head as well, even though they both knew that the leader of the worgen, Genn Greymane, was grateful to have them on their side and wasn't pissed off at them, unlike how Sylvanas was pissed off at Spitfire for telling her to focus on facing the Legion and their allies, before she and Lorna looked at the path that the others were staring at, "Lorna and I will return to our respective leaders and tell them that all of you are doing good work in tracking down the Aegis of Aggramar... and, hopefully, stop a pointless war from springing to life while you deal with whatever Skovald did to the Thorignir."

Spitfire and Rainbow nodded for a moment and that caused the pair of warriors, or maybe they were rogues based on the speed they both possessed, to head back down the ramps and leave the tower, to which the two of them carried Scarlet and Vytheril over to the path they had spotted, though as soon as they touched down all four of them moved forward and passed by some rams that were likely the food for the Thorignir, before finding a well worn path that was connected to the now destroyed bridge, hence the reason they followed it not even a few seconds later. What they found out was that there were a number of small wind gusts resting between them and the highest point of the path, as in they started beyond a small wooden bridge and went on for quite a while, along with several elemental creatures that looked like they were bolts of lightning given life, where Vytheril revealed that there were lightning and storm elementals standing in their way, or at least that was what it looked like from afar, because when they got closer it looked like all of the elementals were ignoring them or hadn't noticed them at all. As such that meant all the group had to do was move around the tornados that were in their way and kept their guards up in case some of the elementals decided to attack them, even though Rainbow was a little convinced that her affinity for lightning might be somewhat influencing the elementals in question, but she decided to ignore any funny ideas that were in her head and followed after the others as they made their way up to the highest point of the path they were following, before they found a wooden bridge that seemed to be leading towards a second one, or at least that was what they thought it was bringing them towards, though standing on a raised stone between the pair of wooden bridges was one of the storm drakes, though instead of the red, like those that had been scattered throughout all of Hrydshal, this one had blue scales, just like the one that Skovald had been rising on earlier, though from what they were seeing the dragon had been in the middle of a fight, as it seemed to be huffing as it stared down at three bodies, ones that were the vrykul that they had seen back at the start of this city, before they noticed that all of them were tainted by the fel energies that Skovald and his allies were using, which was when the storm dragon paused what it was doing and glared at them for a moment, to which Spitfire held her hand up.

"Peace, Thorignir, we're not with Skovald or his allies," Spitfire said, because if she was right the reason the storm drake was staring at them was because she and Rainbow had demonic energies from what they had done to themselves in the past, when they truly became demon hunters and joined the Illidari, though she made sure that she and the others put their weapons away to show that they meant the storm drake no harm, even though she and Rainbow could see bits of Fel energy off on the other side of the second bridge, which further confirmed that the Legion, in some sense, was here and that there were Fel-corrupted enemies for them to deal with.

"You two... are not like the others. You have been touched by the Fel energies, but the air around you is different from the energy I felt earlier." the blue storm drake stated, showing that he, as it was easy to tell that it was a male dragon and not a female one, not that such a thing really mattered in the grand scheme of things, before he sighed for a moment as he took a moment to stare at the group and then glanced over at the area that was on the other side of the second bridge, which was enough to cause the others to do the same thing, "You are here for the Trial of Will... I'm afraid that you are too late for such a thing, as the battle with the Drekirjar has taken its toll on me, as I am too weak to grant any of you the power that you are seeking... but perhaps you may be able to help us with our situation."

At this point Spitfire and Rainbow weren't even surprised by what they were hearing, though they had to assume that the Drekirjar were either the clan that called Hrydshal home or they were another clan that lived in another part of the large province that they were in the middle of fighting their way through, though they were interested in what sort of help the storm drake might ask them for, even though it would include killing either demons or Fel-corrupted vrykul, before any of them even bothered to worry about the Trial of Will, as that would come once the Thorignir were ready to do whatever test they had in store for those that came looking for their blessing.

Comments

[zachary12]

nice work.

[Cyrus Colter]

Imma be honest, this is kind of accentuating the tedium that is out of raid MMORPG's. (at least I assume.)
Long chapters with not a lot happening.
It's still on my list of things to read as chapters come.
I still like this story.
But I'm starting to understand the potential reason for the 29 dislikes.
It's long winded and while it is an accurate portrayal of the game, I feel like that works to the story's detriment.

[Midnight Moon]

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That's BDR's writing style for you. I can understand it's not for everyone, though I'm surprised it ended up with more dislikes than likes. Maybe some of them didn't like all the deviations from canon, maybe some of them were diehard Sylvanas fans (I'll admit to being one myself) that didn't like her portrayal. Regardless, it's been interesting so far, and appears to be starting the path for peace on Azeroth much quicker than he did in his previous WoW crossover. Still looking forward to more.

[Cyrus Colter]

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That's the conundrum i'm going through.
I like BDR's style of writing.
I would not have stuck around through the Universe 13 saga if i didn't.
But in this particular story in the Demon War saga, i feel the action to exposition balance leans FAR heavier towards exposition than action.
Something that, thus far in my reading, is NOT an issue in their Spyro story, which mind you IS IN THE SAME SAGA.

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10563197 Part of what I'm doing in this WoW story is preventing the train wreck that is BFA (or Battle for Azeroth) from happening, and to do that I have to make some key changes to the canon events, such as stopping Genn from firing on Sylvanas' fleet at the start of the quest through Stormheim. (but hey, if people liked that expansion, more power to them... I'm resting in the disappointed camp myself).

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10563210 I can understand your point of view, and a lot of the exposition is mostly for Spitfire and Rainbow to learn things that the heroes of Azeroth have already learned in the past, though I'm planning on kicking up the action in further chapters.

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I agree that BFA didn't take the story in a good direction. Thing I hated most was how N'Zoth seemed downplayed. This was one of WoW's longest running antagonists who had ties to the creation of the Naga, the corruption of Deathwing, the Emerald Nightmare, the Hour of Twilight, etc. Yet, he didn't become a real factor until late in the expansion and was taken out in a disappointing fashion. They could have done so much more with the mythic version of that fight but all we got was a brief teleport to the chamber to fight someone before resuming the original fight.

BFA was mostly about Sylvanas doing whatever she wanted and the other leaders not doing anything to stop her while she burned down the Night Elves' home and the consequences that resulted from that. Suddenly, Azshara and N'Zoth jump in for a disappointing finish. Those two should have been their own expansion.