Hello, a friend directed me to this forum. I figured that since there’s a fanfiction section, I would go ahead and share my own efforts in that area. This is a first-person, in-character travelogue for the World of Warcraft.
Much of the travelogue deals with my own conjectures about the cultures in Warcraft. I try to avoid contradicting canon. However much of the travelogue deals with issues that have never been explored in the actual game. For instance, I write about the differences between night elf and goblin literature, the economy of Andorhal during the Second War, obscure heresies of the Holy Light, among other things.
Please tell me what you think, either in this thread or on the blog itself. I’ll also check out the other threads here, and add commentary to those when I have time.
Note: I wanted to let everyone know that you don’t have to read the entire travelogue from beginning to end. I know it’s a very long work, so if you’re just curious about one or two zones, you can skip straight ahead and read what you want. There might be a little bit of confusion, but I think it will generally be comprehensible.
The part dealing with the taunka ended up longer than I intended, but I think it works out. Also, my earlier request regarding TVTropes still stands. Here are the relevant links for those who are interested.
If you are not a troper and you still want to add examples, please familiarize yourself with the site first. These might help:
I just finished the Tauren chapters and I like the legend of the lightening and copper you put in there. i never saw the parallels between Tauren and Native American culture until I read this.
Is the legend your original work or is it part of Tauren lore?
I just finished Silithus. I know this story isn’t meant to be linear but what happens to Destron? The travelogue just picks up again in Azuremyst Isle. How’d he get there?
There is actually a linear progression to the story, at least in the order of the zones visited. Exodar comes before Azuremyst, and the first few paragraphs of that chapter explain what the narrator did between Silithus and the Exodar. Sorry for the confusion.
I wrote the Exodar section at about the same time I transferred the travelogue from its original PDF format to the current blog format. I hadn’t yet started writing intervening chapters, like “Preparing for a Journey,” or “Return to Orgrimmar.”
Welcome to the board.