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In this World of Warcraft Fan Fiction epic, begun in March of 2006 and completed in April of 2011 (and resumed in August 2012, then ended once more in June 2013), Destron (a Forsaken mage who can still pass for a living human) sets out to explore. As he does so, he keeps a journal, offering wryly insightful commentary on each region and culture that he happens upon. The author attempts to stick with the setting's established lore as much as possible, while at the same time expanding and embellishing upon it.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })It's a very lengthy work, but is constructed in such a way that you don't have to read the whole thing, or even read it in order. If you do decide to read it in order, take care to pace yourself.Travels Through Azeroth and Outland is on our list of fan fiction recommendations. But it's actually hosted here. There's also a discussion forum.Here there be spoilers. While some of the bigger ones have been blanked out, keep in mind that Travels through Azeroth and Outland is a case where the journey is more important than the destination. |
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Dying Town: The Alliance base of Honor Hold becomes one of these. Its defenders are aging and cut off from the rest of the Alliance in Outland, after failing to maintain control over the expeditionary force. While actually playing WoW, players can see that the NPC guards in Honor Hold do look old. |
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A Form You Are Comfortable With |
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A Form You Are Comfortable With: This is seen a great deal in-game, especially with the dragons who frequently take human, elven, or gnomish form. The travelogue takes it a step further with Monkormi, a bronze dragon who prefers her gnomish form to the point of using a flying machine instead of her own draconic wings. Merun'khet, the nerubian vizier in a Forsaken body, might also be an example of this, though he would have been much happier in his previous form. |
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Bizarre Alien Biology: Frequently seen in Outland, especially with the sporelings and ethereals (to the extent that ethereals can be considered biological). While this is true in the baseline WoW setting as well, Travels goes into a lot more detail. |
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Noble Savage |
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Noble Savage: Played partly straight with the tauren, though they are shown to be quite ruthless to their ancestral enemies. For instance, one tauren is shown helping the centaurs fight each other to extinction. The tauren are also shown as being too conservative for their own good. Averted in most other cases. The above centaurs aren't shown as having much in the way of noble traits, though they may have possessed them in the past. The Broken tribes of Outland tend to be pretty cruel. Perhaps most notable is the case of the Mag'har, who are presented as a warrior culture invoking some of the worst excesses of The Spartan Way. In fact, Destron believes that the Mag'har bear some responsibility for the Horde's increasingly warlike behavior. In Northrend, the tuskarr are a somewhat straight example. The taunka, while ruthless, aren't any worse than most of their neighbors. Interestingly, the tauren tend to see the taunka as quite savage. The wolvar are an aversion, being extremely vicious (though this is believed to be partially biological). |
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Creator Cameo: Felya, the undead priestess in Booty Bay, and Aurelan, a human warlock in Northshire Abbey, are the author's 'World of Warcraft' characters. |
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Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate |
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Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate: Type 4. Prophecies are basically predictions that look at probable outcomes. If Monkormi the Bronze Dragon is to be believed, the universe is arranged like a layman’s version of M-Theory. |
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Cultural Rebel |
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Cultural Rebel: At one point, Destron meets a dwarf who chose to abstain from alcohol. When he announced this to his family, they disowned him. Alcohol is Serious Business to the dwarves. |
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Unreliable Narrator: The work is told from a limited first-person point of view. As a result, information given to the reader is occasionally incomplete, inaccurate, or filtered by the cultural and social views of characters. |
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The Sociopath |
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The Sociopath: Gul’dan comes across as one of these in survivors’ descriptions. So does Destron’s older brother, Torilun, though he died in a knife fight before he could really start doing harm. Other characters may also qualify. |
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Ancient Keeper |
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Ancient Keeper: Arkkoroc, a lonely sea giant in Azshara, is an example. He appears in-game, but Travels offers its own spin, in which Arkkoroc, who once controlled the tides but no longer does so, desperately wishes to be remembered by others, though he knows his time is long past. Destron agrees to tell others about him. One wonders what happened to Arkkoroc after Cataclysm… |
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Underestimating Badassery |
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Underestimating Badassery: Destron when he’s disguised as a human is a partial example. People in the Alliance are surprised that someone who looks so sickly is able to keep up with the strongest and healthiest of their number. Then again, it has less to do with badassery and more to do with the fact that Destron’s undead, and thus doesn’t get tired easily. |
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Human Resources |
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Human Resources: Iron dwarves are melted down upon death and recycled into new soldiers. The dead iron dwarf’s memories are scanned by their leaders, and those deemed useful are implanted into newly forged bodies. |
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Anti-Air: The Burning Legion’s failure to have this is one of the reasons they haven’t conquered Azeroth… yet. |
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Artificial Limbs |
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Artificial Limbs: Destron loses a hand fighting a frostwyrm in Icecrown. As of the epilogue, he's had it replaced with a magitek prosthetic. However, said prosthetic is itself a subversion, as it's explicitly stated to lack precision. |
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Crapsack World |
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Crapsack World: Even the regions that haven't been poisoned, polluted, tainted, war-ravaged, infested with sociopaths, and/or blown up are still pretty miserable. The places that are more habitable have got their own list of social problems. It says something that the single safest place to live is a refugee camp. |
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Fire-Forged Friends |
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Fire-Forged Friends: A cute example is seen in Tarren Mill, where a Forsaken warrior swaps old war stories with an elderly orc. Both are veterans of the Second War, but they fought on opposite sides. |
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Knight Errant |
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Knight Errant: Lentz Averlome, a crusading Forsaken knight dreaming of a new Lordaeron in which the undead act as gallant protectors for the living. No one really takes him seriously, though he’s at least strong enough to survive on his own in the Western Plaguelands. |
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Extremely Short Timespan: Apparently common in night elf novels. One extremely lengthy novel is described as taking place across a single second! These books are devoted to exploring a character’s psyche, rather than narrating events. |
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Genetic Memory |
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Genetic Memory: The sporelings get a bit of this. |
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The Drifter |
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The Drifter: Several characters, most importantly the narrator himself. |
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Awesome, but Impractical |
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Awesome, but Impractical: Both Orgrim’s Hammer and Skybreaker end up like this. While powerful, they’re such huge investments for their respective owners that they are basically forbidden from engaging each other in combat. |
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Asexuality: Pretty much all Forsaken, including Destron. And thank goodness for that. Sporelings and ethereals may also count. |
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Ax-Crazy: The satyrs, centaurs, Drakkari, and Frenzyheart wolvar are notable examples. For individuals, there's Alen-of-the-Gun, a psychotic Forsaken rifleman who rides with the Magram centaurs. |
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My Master, Right or Wrong |
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My Master, Right or Wrong: The attitude blood elves often hold towards their lieges. Travels through Azeroth and Outland has loyalty and obligation being huge parts of blood elf culture, far more important than the hedonism often associated with them. |
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¡Three Amigos! |
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¡Three Amigos!: Destron was part of one of these while a living student in Dalaran, along with Danner and Emette. |
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Cursed with Awesome |
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Cursed with Awesome: Arguably, Destron’s undeath. Travel is a lot easier when you don’t have to worry so much about exhaustion or finding clean food and water (in this interpretation, it seems like undead still need to eat, but only very little and the quality of the food doesn’t matter). |
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The City Narrows |
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The City Narrows: The Forlorn Cavern of Ironforge. This is where gnomish warlocks are told to practice their magic, so that if something goes wrong the only victims would be the undesirables who live in the neighborhood. The Lower City of Shattrath also used to be pretty rough, though has calmed down by the time Destron visits. |
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Even Evil Has Standards |
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Not even the warlocks like orcish magi. |
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Black Market |
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Black Market: Actually plays a pretty big role. The pirate base of Lost Rigger Cove is like a marketplace and networking center for every nasty group, where the Dark Horde buys lumber from the Venture Company, and the Defias Brotherhood hires Southsea Freebooters to ship goods. Later on, in Underbelly, Destron encounters the Red Market, which is the quasi-legal trade of demonic armaments. Partisans (read: players) kickstarted the Red Market after the events in the Burning Crusade, flooding Azeroth with corrupting materials. Governments look the other way, since these armaments can be useful. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!. |
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Humans Are Flawed |
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Humans Are Flawed: A big theme in the story. |
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Grim Up North |
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Grim Up North: The continent of Northrend is a pretty grim place, and gets even grimmer the farther north one travels on the continent. This culminates in the northernmost point of land, Ulduar, home to an Eldritch Abomination. The dismal Plaguelands are located in what was previously the northernmost traversable regions of the eastern world. In the West, the northern regions are Night Elf territory, which are rather grim in their own unique ways. |
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La Résistance |
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La Résistance: The Returners, a militia in Lakeshire that took to the hills after the First War and waged a guerrilla campaign against the Horde until the end of the Second War. |
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Mad Scientist |
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Mad Scientist: Plenty of Forsaken apothecaries fall into this category, but a special place has to be given to Narotta Casca, who transplanted a nerubian brain into a Forsaken body. She is weirdly reverent of her own creation, and seems to think that the nerubians would want the Forsaken as allies. The nerubian in question, Merun’khet, does not seem to agree. |
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Romanticism Versus Enlightenment |
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Romanticism Versus Enlightenment: Generally on the enlightenment side. While mages (like Destron) are typically on the “romantic” end of things in media, the story treats magic as being essentially scientific. Destron even describes one poor and ramshackle area as looking “medieval,” suggesting a more modern mindset. Organized religion tends to come across relatively favorably, however, so long as it’s for one of the good-aligned faiths. |
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Brilliant, but Lazy |
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Brilliant, but Lazy: Destron was apparently this while alive. |
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Defector from Decadence |
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Defector from Decadence: Destron himself becomes this over the course of the story. The Nerubians are an entire race made of this trope. |
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Floating Platforms |
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Floating Platforms: The blood elves use these to show off their magical ability (which is made possible thanks to their nation being located at a conflux of leylines). |
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Glory Seeker |
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Glory Seeker: Common enough in such a violent setting, but the partisans (independent warriors and mercenaries… in other words, the players’ in-game characters) of the Horde and Alliance are the worst examples. |
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Schizo Tech |
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Schizo Tech: A big part of the Warcraft universe, the fanfic tries to explore the inner workings of this with varying success. In general, Travels tends to skew much more to the modern than medieval aspects. |
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Humans Are Bastards |
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Humans Are Bastards: Nearly averted, as humans are treated rather fairly. Most humans, however, treat the Forsaken horribly, causing the Forsaken to reciprocate. |
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Strictly Formula |
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Strictly Formula: Though each section presents new and interesting ideas, they do follow a basic formula of: a) narrator visits place, b) narrator talks to people and learns stuff, c) narrator ruminates on what he's learned, with some combat thrown in from time to time. The writer breaks with the formula a bit in the Northrend sections, however. |
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To Hell and Back |
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To Hell and Back: In Duskwood, briefly, thanks to Morbent Fel. To a lesser extent, Destron's entire trip to Outland. |
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Wretched Hive |
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Wretched Hive: Destron seems to run into a lot of these during his travels. Ratchet is a dangerous and seedy seaport where murder is commonplace. Lost Rigger Cove is a haven for pretty much every kind of pirate and criminal. Underbelly is seething with intrigue and espionage, to the point where some spies can't even be sure who they're working for. Gadgetzan, with its smoggy noir-esque streets and the shady conflict between the Steamwheedle Cartel and the Water Company, may qualify. Zeth'kur and Shattrath's Lower City were apparently like this in times past. Averted with Booty Bay. Though founded by pirates, it's actually a really nice place. |
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Cold-Blooded Torture |
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Cold-Blooded Torture: Destron sees a gruesome example of this used against a necromancer in Dragonblight. He intervenes... by killing the necromancer before he can be tortured any further. Whatever the case, Scourge necromancers are incredibly dangerous, and Destron couldn't, in good conscience, free him. |
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Never Accepted in His Hometown |
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Never Accepted in His Hometown: Destron is pretty much an unknown in Undercity. While he has connections to important people in Orgrimmar, he’s still pretty far from the limelight (and to some extent prefers it that way). But he’s considered a hero in Stormwind for the good deeds he did traveling through there, especially in Redridge where he helped save the town of Lakeshire. Of course, none of them know he’s actually undead… |
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You Are a Credit to Your Race |
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You Are a Credit to Your Race: Destron gets this a lot. It doesn’t seem to bother him very much. |
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Military Moonshiner |
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Military Moonshiner: Drin Bessard, who distills a foul-tasting liquor in the Westfall Brigade Encampment. Though it’s against the rules, the officers let it happen so long as it doesn’t get out of hand. Drin’s also an unrepentant former Defias. |
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Always Chaotic Evil |
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Always Chaotic Evil: Both played straight and averted. Positive examples of some mook races are never shown. Examples include troggs, harpies, and iron dwarves. But this doesn't necessarily preclude the existence of positive examples. Demons and qiraji are apparently all quite horrible. Surprisingly averted by the Cult of the Damned. Many were taken in by the Cult after Lordaeron fell into chaos. Some of the necromancers genuinely believe they are doing good. Another surprising aversion is seen in the Royal Apothecary Society. The apothecaries in the Ghostlands make some efforts to healing the forest, which the Cenarion Circle refuses to touch since it was initially grown with arcane energies. There are also apothecaries who are more interested in medicine than in creating new plagues. |
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Become a Real Boy |
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Become a Real Boy: Sporelings start out as clones of their parent, but some develop actual personalities. Those who do are immensely valuable to the community. |
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It's Always Spring |
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It's Always Spring: Lampshaded. The static nature of Azeroth’s seasons is explained by way of the planet having only a very slight axial tilt. Granted, this probably has some other implications as well… |
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Convenient Enemy Base |
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Convenient Enemy Base: Locations generally reflect their in-game locations, but sometimes the way Deston reaches them seems a little convenient (convenient from a narrative standpoint, not necessarily convenient for the character himself). |
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The Atoner |
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The Atoner: In the Swamp of Sorrows, Destron meets an orcish shaman named Thok'dan, who tries to help the mutated draenei living in the north. Back in the day, Thok'dan had been one of the first orcs through the Dark Portal. He feels great shame for the genocide that the orcs inflicted on the draenei, and wonders if his own actions against humans and draenic slaves in the past have put him beyond redemption. |
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Friend in the Black Market |
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Friend in the Black Market: Possibly Danner, who gives Destron the means of sneaking into Cabal-held territory. |
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Go Mad from the Isolation |
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Go Mad from the Isolation: Emperor Dan’jo. Much like his RL inspiration, however, his madness may have kept him sane… |
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Body Horror |
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Body Horror: Zandalari priests undergo extensive mutilation and scarification. Merun’khet, the nerubian forced into a Forsaken body, as an even more visceral example. Not to mention that poor orc kept by Lady Tsravash… |
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Fisher Kingdom |
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Fisher Kingdom: Duskwood. Also, Quel'thalas, specifically Quel'Danas and the Sunwell. |
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Our Demons Are Different |
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Our Demons Are Different: The writer adds a lot of strange details to the Mooks of the Burning Legion, perhaps to make them stand out. To give some examples, felguards are described as being sown into their armor with threads of pure gold, and the one dreadlord encountered by the narrator speaks through mouths in his hands in a voice that sounds like a full angelic choir. |
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Magic Versus Science |
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comment |
Magic Versus Science: Averted. They’re presented as complementary, arcane advances spurring scientific ones, and vice versa. Magic is generally approached in a scientific fashion, being the study of arcane energies. |
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Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu |
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Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: It is suggested that this happened to the people who defeated C'thun. |
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Bookworm |
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Bookworm: Destron and Daj’yah are the most notable, though there are many others. |
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Intelligence Equals Isolation |
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Intelligence = Isolation: Daj’yah, sort of. An as-of-yet unfinished short story with Daj’yah as the protagonist shows that her pride, itself a defense mechanism coming from the trope in question, plays a big role in her isolation, along with the fact that most trolls consider her ugly, and see her talents as being of questionable use. |
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Combat Breakdown |
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Combat Breakdown: What happens when Destron runs out of mana in a fight. |
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Corrupt Church |
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Corrupt Church: A few examples appear, like the Cult of the Forgotten Shadow followed by many Forsaken. The cult is sort of an umbrella group, and the most sinister faction is probably the Lamentation, which provides a religious justification for Forsaken atrocities. |
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Redshirt Army |
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Redshirt Army: The Burning Legion, whose generals were made lazy by an overwhelming numerical advantage. Some characters point out that, if the Legion starts using capable generals, Azeroth is doomed. |
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The Teetotaler |
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The Teetotaler: Emette, which Destron found surprising given her nationality (the Dalaranese love wine). |
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Fantasy Counterpart Culture |
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Fantasy Counterpart Culture: World of Warcraft itself uses this trope a great deal, though Travels expands on the concept and sometimes invents its own; Several human ethnic groups are introduced to flesh out the setting. Kirovi have a distinct Slavic/Russian flavor, particularly in their naming conventions. The Ralmanni are Romani in origin. There are also the Dromascoi, who were conquered by Lordaeron, and are loosely based off of Romania. However, very little information is given about the Dromascoi. Shadowprey Village has a Hawaiian feel, surfing and all. Tauren legends sound like they could have come straight out of Native American oral tradition. Stromgarde gets something of a German spin, while Dalaran is more French. The Tirasi names tend to sound Italian. The Dark Irons are apparently inspired by Stalinism. Similarly, the Defias take their cue from Maoists and Jacobins. |
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Reformed Criminal |
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Reformed Criminal: The biggest example is the Westfall Brigade encountered in the Grizzly Hills. Most of them are former Defias (who very often served the Defias as child soldiers) who were unable to fit into Westfall’s post-rebellion society. As a result, Stormwind sent them north to die or at least stay out of the way. |
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Artificial Intelligence |
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Artificial Intelligence: Destron learns about this concept from a gnome in the Borean Tundra, though it’s called Created Intelligence. The gnome concludes that, if a free-willed created intelligence equal to a sapient mind were ever created, it would have to be considered a legal equal to its living peers. |
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Death World |
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Death World: The Plaguelands, Silithus, Hellfire Peninsula, the Netherstorm, and most of all, Shadowmoon Valley. |
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Facial Horror |
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Facial Horror: The Forsaken are practically made from this trope, though some (like Destron) haven’t rotted much and can pass for human with some help. |
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Planet of Hats |
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Planet of Hats: Sometimes averted, as the races are presented as having far more variety than outsiders might initially notice. The tauren who live in the Barrens and Mulgore differ from the relatively individualistic and aggressive tauren of the Thousand Needles (who became that way by repeatedly besting their centaur enemies), and from the reclusive and ultraconservative tauren of Feralas (who also defeated the centaurs, but ended up as hunter-gatherers instead of pastoralists). Human and dwarven cultures vary from nation to nation, though this is true in-game as well. Regional differences also play a part. The blood elves in the Ghost Lands (more specifically, Tranquilien) tended to be more accepting of humans. Humans in Silverpine were more reclusive than other Lordaeronians. There are also substantial differences between the troll groups. Forest trolls are extremely violent, and lethal duels are considered an acceptable way of settling disputes. The jungle trolls look down on this behavior as savage, and instead solve interpersonal problems with insult contests. The desert trolls are a strange bunch who follow the decrees of a mummified heretic, and have little in common with other trolls. |
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Animate Dead |
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Animate Dead: All of the undead and Forsaken, including the narrator. The Knights of the Ebon Blade are notable, animating mounts out of dead bones when needed. One of them, Lord Vadu, even keeps a ghoul, an animated corpse named Baneflight, as a personal butler. |
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Big Brother Instinct |
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Big Brother Instinct: Niddy and her brother, Yezz. They survived debt slavery under a brutal owner with each others’ help. Niddy came through okay, but Yezz lost his sense of self-preservation. Like most mentally disturbed goblins in this fanfic, he was encouraged to become a sapper. Niddy followed her brother wherever he went, to keep him from blowing himself up. |
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Seeker Archetype |
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Seeker Archetype: Destron travels for the sake of learning. As a living student, he risked severe punishment by sneaking into the library's forbidden books section, simply to see what was there. |
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Cosmic Horror Story |
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Cosmic Horror Story: The Twilight's Hammer Cult believes this is the true state of things, but they're quite happy about it. The arakkoa also think that they live in a horror world, and it scares them to the point of insanity. |
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Cynicism Catalyst |
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Cynicism Catalyst: Destron’s younger sister, Nadina, drowned. This frayed his family and caused them to become even more distant from each other. |
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Techno Babble |
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Techno Babble: The attempts to explain the Exodar’s mechanics fall into this, as do some of the discussions revolving around magic. |
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A Wizard Did It |
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A Wizard Did It: Though Destron usually explains said wizard’s motivations. For example, Queen Azshara used magic to put her namesake realm in a state of endless autumn, explaining its appearance in-game. This is also why it looks autumnal despite being a coniferous forest. The high elves did something similar to Quel’thalas, as a way of recalling the glory of their former home. |
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Fisher King |
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Fisher King: The Lich King is Fisher King to much of Northrend, the Plaguelands, and other nearby areas, while Ragnaros is to the Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes. |
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Religious Bruiser |
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comment |
Religious Bruiser: Ileana, the Argent paladin encountered in the Eastern Plaguelands, is an early example. Really though, pretty much any veteran in the Argent Dawn and Crusade, as well as a substantial portion of the draenei, qualify as this. |
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Culture Clash |
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Culture Clash: Happens a lot. Disagreements between orcs and tauren are difficult to resolve, since the two races use very different debating styles. Orcs are loud, brash, and even threatening, while tauren are self-effacing and polite. Basically, the orcs come across as fools to the tauren, and the tauren as timid to the orcs. In the end, neither side is convinced by the other. A surprising example occurs in the Grizzly Hills, when gnomes and dwarves argue about how to handle some unwelcome information about their racial origins. An iron dwarf prisoner says that the regular gnomes and dwarves suffer from the Curse of Flesh, and have gone astray from the Titans’ intent. The dwarves regard this as blasphemy, but the gnomes want to do more research to find out if this claim is true. They reach a sort of compromise, in which the gnomes will study iron dwarf “myths.” |
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Surreal Horror |
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comment |
Surreal Horror: For some reason, this appears a lot in the Stormwind zones. Sometimes it’s effective, like the Morbent Fel encounter and the Shadowsworn, but other times it feels more like weird for weirdness’ sake like the night spent at the Slaughtered Lamb tavern in Stormwind City. YMMV, as always. |
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Agree to Disagree |
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Agree to Disagree: Destron and an old tutor end up doing this after debating the merits of draconic elitism. |
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Easy Logistics |
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comment |
Easy Logistics: Often averted. The narrator sometimes studies the difficulties that remote outposts face in getting supplies, and details their ways of dealing with the problem. |
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Wallet of Holding |
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comment |
Wallet of Holding: Coins are heavy, but Destron always seems to have just enough. It’s also a mystery as to how he gets the money (admittedly, he’s far from a lavish spender, but you figure the costs would add up over time). |
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Scavenger World |
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comment |
Scavenger World: An interesting example appears early on in Tirisfal Glades. Here, daring Forsaken search abandoned towns for mementoes of past lives, which they then sell to their fellow undead. Destron encounters this again in Dragonblight. |
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Nostalgia Filter |
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comment |
Nostalgia Filter: Subverted. Destron expresses nostalgia for his life in Dalaran and for the world before the Third War. At the same time, he acknowledges that things were not as pleasant (and that he was not as happy) as he remembers them being, and even points out the danger of too much nostalgic thinking. |
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Hearing Voices |
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comment |
Hearing Voices: The Lich King's voice in Icecrown. |
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Obviously Evil |
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comment |
Obviously Evil: Generally the case for bad guys outside of the Horde and the Alliance. |
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Original Character |
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comment |
Original Character: Destron himself, and most of the people he encounters. Very few important lore characters make actual appearances in the story. Sometimes minor NPCs (who are just shopkeepers or questgivers in the game itself) are encountered and fleshed out. |
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NiceJobBreakingItHero |
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comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: As we all know from WoW, Azeroth and Outland are both full of loot-crazed adventurers killing each other and stealing powerful magical items. This fanfic examines some of the (mostly negative) consequences of these actions. |
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LargeHam |
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comment |
Large Ham: Destron, when he’s disguising himself as a lich. |
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Stepford Smiler |
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Stepford Smiler: The author's take on the draenei is reminiscent of Zilpha Keatley Snyder's Kindar. |
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Dystopia Is Hard |
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Dystopia Is Hard: Many of the nastiest societies have a tough time of it. The Defias are near starvation after burning most of the farms. The Illidari regime was basically broken from day one, and has no real hope of defying the Burning Legion or the armies of Azeroth. The Burning Legion itself is incredibly cumbersome and inefficient, though nigh-unstoppable by virtue of sheer momentum. The Scourge is steadily losing ground due to its aggressive policies turning the entire world against it. |
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Made a Slave |
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Made a Slave: For a time, Destron was turned to one of the Hyldnir's slaves in the Storm Peaks. |
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Villain with Good Publicity |
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Villain with Good Publicity: Destron sees Orgrim Doomhammer as a posthumous version of this. |
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Absurdly Spacious Sewer |
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Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Undercity is an entire city built out of the sewers and crypts of an uninhabited city. The city of Dalaran is almost as large underground as above, and has entire towns, social systems, and even its own economy, all located out of sight of the world above. |
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Masquerade Ball |
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Masquerade Ball: Destron attends one of these in Silvermoon. In the past, masquerades acted as social levelers, a release valve for the highly stratified elven society. By the time of Travels through Azeroth and Outland, however, the masks are removed towards the end of the party in order to reestablish the social hierarchy, which was threatened by the devastation of the Third War. |
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Go Mad from the Revelation |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_89b8822f |
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Go Mad from the Revelation: This happened to pretty much the entire arakkoa race, which is why they come across as so decrepit and downright weird. |
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Mind Rape |
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Mind Rape: A nasty example of this is seen in Silithus. |
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Mr. Exposition |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_8cb844c6 |
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Mr. Exposition: Occasionally, one will show up to give the narrator the rundown. |
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Cliff Hanger |
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Cliffhanger: The Blade's Edge Mountains (Part 1), the Howling Fjord (Part 2), Dalaran (Part 1), and—most recently—Icecrown (Part 2). |
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Glamour Failure |
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Glamour Failure: This happens in Silvermoon City. Destron bumps into a bystander during a parade. Before he can apologize, he stumbles through the bystander, revealing her to be an illusion. It turns out that the blood elves use illusory citizens to make their city seem less empty after the decimation of the Third War. |
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Revenge |
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Revenge: Destron encounters a lot of people, even entire societies, motivated by revenge. He generally looks down on revenge, and criticizes it every time he encounters it, in what might be an Author Filibuster. |
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Aristocrats Are Evil |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_96144372 |
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Aristocrats Are Evil: Most of the human nations suffered from this at varying point, though Destron says that (in many nations) the nobility had lost much of its power by the time of the First War. |
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A Chat with Satan |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_9821d339 |
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A Chat with Satan: Due to his powers of disguise and simple good timing, Destron is frequently able to meet with his enemies, outright villains, and characters who come in all shades of grey. Most notable are his encounters with Dark Iron commanders in the Badlands, a demonic Dreadlord in the Blasted Lands, and a Twilight's Hammer cult leader in Silithus, as well as many Knights Templar around the world. The narrator occasionally bemoans his inability to speak with other, greater villains. |
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Humans Are Cthulhu |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_98c2a8f2 |
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Humans Are Cthulhu: This is how the iron dwarves see regular dwarves, humans, and other living entities. The poor iron dwarf prisoner is positively horrified by his captors. |
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Saintly Church |
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Saintly Church: The Church of the Light sometimes comes across like this, which feels a little out of place with the general tone of the story. |
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Creative Sterility |
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Creative Sterility: The travelogue version of the draenei (and to a lesser extent, the tauren) may have this. |
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Eldritch Location |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_9bee1a7f |
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Eldritch Location: The arakkoa city of Igeeak, which exists outside of normal time. |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_9c45b5a2 |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human?: For all of Destron’s curiosity and compassion, he doesn’t seem to care very much about mook races like the gnolls and murlocs. Granted, a few complex examples of the above do appear, but for the most part they come across as expendable. |
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Hyperspace Arsenal |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_9c7e3137 |
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Hyperspace Arsenal: Destron doesn’t usually carry weapons, but he never seems to have trouble storing his writing materials (which must be considerable). Likewise, his photo-recorder (camera) doesn’t get in the way or even suffer damage. |
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A Day in the Limelight |
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A Day in the Limelight: A curious example, in that entire cultures, rather than individuals, get featured. These are aspects that can't really be covered in-game, and rely heavily on the writer's own interpretation, though they (usually) don't contradict the actual lore. |
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CloudCuckooLander |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_9dd2cbc2 |
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Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Dan'jo, (self-proclaimed) Emperor of the Eastern Sea! Word of God says that he's based off of the real life Cloud Cuckoo Lander Emperor Joshua Norton. The Shadowsworn are an entire cult of these. |
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Evil Virtues |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_9eeb5455 |
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Evil Virtues: The Cabal, in Terokkar Forest and the Bone Waste. Though cultists of the Burning Legion, they are quick to kill anyone who summons a demon without their permission, knowing full well the dangers uncontrolled summoning can bring. They’ve created a ruthless but organized state that is able to provide for its citizens. They also seek to develop their economy and infrastructure by importing experts from Azeroth. Some of Kael’thas followers also apply, at least the lower-ranking ones. |
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Animals Hate Him |
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comment |
Animals Hate Him: Animals despise the Scourge, but are curiously indifferent to Forsaken. This is a convenient excuse that lets the writer take Destron into Alliance territory. Then again, the addition of Forsaken hunters in Cataclysm shows that there might be something to it... |
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Ye Goode Olde Days |
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Ye Goode Olde Days: Averted. The narrator claims that many of the previous eras regarded as idyllic golden ages were just as chaotic and fearful as the present era. In cases where they weren't, they still had serious problems that would eventually lead to their downfall (like the ancient elven empire's dependence on magic). This is lampshaded by the tauren, who refer to the present era as the Age of Peace. Why? Because, for the first time in thousands of years, they aren't being persecuted by the centaurs and quilboar. |
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The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_a0c55654 |
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The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: When writing about the Defias, the author took inspiration from various Maoist insurgency groups and the French Jacobins. The results, (mass murder of villagers, societal collapse and total warfare) are not pretty. |
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Black Sheep |
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Warlocks are treated as Black Sheep in orcish society, and are hated even by peons. |
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Bolt of Divine Retribution |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_a52f8fdf |
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Bolt of Divine Retribution: More like a giant tiger of divine retribution. Surrounded by the god-killing priests of Zul’drak, the Zandalari priestess, Mumbwe, calls down an avatar of her god. In minutes, the sanctuary is drenched with the blood and shredded flesh of her enemies. |
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Happiness in Slavery |
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comment |
Happiness in Slavery: Orcish peons are culturally conditioned to see themselves as worthless, and make no fuss with warriors casually abuse them. Peons who try to better themselves are condemned as not knowing their place by other peons. This really irks Destron. Later on, in the Borean Tundra, this gets turned on its head when Destron encounters Krug, a peon who has inspired his fellows to take pride in their work, giving them a motivation outside of pleasing the warriors. Krug even gets his own short story, which can be found on the forums. |
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Hidden Elf Village |
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Hidden Elf Village: The reclusive mok'nathal live in one of these. Destron's visit is claimed to have opened them up to being friendly to the Horde. |
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Luke Nounverber |
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comment |
Luke Nounverber: Lampshaded in Netherstorm, when a goblin makes a dismissive comment about the frequency of such names in many cultures. |
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Dramatic Irony |
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comment |
Dramatic Irony: Used a few times when Destron gets something wrong. Generally, these are things that someone in his position wouldn’t have any realistic way of knowing, but that the players know because they, well, played the game! Now for some (very minor) spoilers for WoW and WC3. He dismisses rumors of dragons being somehow responsible for the Defias. He thinks that Illidan killed Magtheridon. He recounts the official story of Arthas’ mercenaries destroying the human fleet during the Third War. |
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Deadpan Snarker |
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Deadpan Snarker: Daj’yah. Destron has his moments, though usually as asides to the reader and not in actual conversation. |
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Town with a Dark Secret |
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Town with a Dark Secret: Dalaran, what with the sleazy goings-on in the Underbelly, not to mention the conspiratorial and deeply nepotistic attitudes of the ruling magocracy. |
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Fate Worse than Death |
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Fate Worse than Death: Undeath under the Lich King is basically Hell. Free-willed undeath starts off quite horrible. Whether or not it stays that way depends on a number of issues, the most important of which is the attitude of the undead person in question. |
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I Did What I Had to Do |
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I Did What I Had to Do: Several examples. A significant one occurs in the Badlands. Destron sees a group of Dark Iron refugees turned away from the Horde outpost of Kargath. Vaska, the soldier who turned them away, explains that if he sheltered them, the Dark Irons would wipe Kargath off the map, which is against the Horde’s strategic interests. Vaska is deeply conflicted about this, however, and wonders if he should disobey his orders and lead his warriors to an honorable death against the Dark Irons. |
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Loophole Abuse |
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Loophole Abuse: The animistic faith of the Wildhammer dwarves has a great focus on prophecies (called Cycles) and it's blasphameous for a Wildhammer to write the Cycles down. However non-Wildhammers are perfectly free to write the prophecies down and that's why the libraries of Dalaran have about fifteen translations of the dwarven prophecies |
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Collector of the Strange |
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Collector of the Strange: Prewitt Hartley in the Underbelly lives in a shack filled with demonic curios. |
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Moral Myopia |
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Moral Myopia: A few of the orcs use this to justify their own actions. |
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Sense Loss Sadness |
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Sense Loss Sadness: This afflicts all Forsaken to some degree, though some are more bothered by it than others (the level of sense loss may vary for the individual). There are times when Destron is actually thankful for this, since it keeps him from having to smell the world's nastier odors. |
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Tragic Villain |
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Tragic Villain: Eteria Dawnwalker is a loyal minion of Kael’thas, and participated in the sabotage of the Exodar, which led to many draenic deaths. However, she feels great sympathy to humans, and risked her life to aid Lordaeronian refugees during the Third War. Despite this, mana addiction drove her into the ranks of the Sun King. |
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Scary Dogmatic Aliens |
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Scary Dogmatic Aliens: The draenei come off as this (the Red Scare variety, specifically) and as Lawful Good Stepford Smilers. But this being a work as involved as Travels, twists get put on it. (For example, Anchorite Kastoor doesn't really "get" humans, and is frustrated by the fact.) |
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Author Filibuster |
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Author Filibuster: Destron tends to do this when criticizing monarchic or despotic rule, which can be a bit jarring. To be fair, he respects relatively enlightened despots like Thrall, even though he thinks that they set bad precedents for future leadership by being dictators. |
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My Country, Right or Wrong |
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My Country, Right or Wrong: Plenty of people think this way. A bit surprisingly, so does Destron. He states that he will take the Horde’s side in a war against the Alliance, even if the Horde is at fault. His reasoning is that the Horde was the only nation to give the Forsaken a chance. This does not extend to Sylvanas and the Forsaken, however; in a hypothetical war between Undercity and the rest of the Horde, Destron would side with the Warchief. |
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Den of Iniquity |
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Den of Iniquity: Lost Rigger Cove is one of these for pretty much all of Azeroth. |
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Perky Goth |
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Perky Goth: Vasalyan, a draenei mage on Bloodmyst Isle, is a typical Travels draenei in most regards...who just so happens to like it dark and gloomy. Felya the cheery Forsaken priestess may also qualify. |
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Translator Microbes |
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Translator Microbes: A pretty much literal case in Sporeggar, where visitors must consume special spores in order to communicate with the natives. A weirder example occurs in Zul’drak, in the form of an invisible snake spirit that translates the Zandali spoken by the trolls. |
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The Spartan Way |
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The Spartan Way: This is how the Mag'har are portrayed, given that Nagrand is a tough place, for all its beauty. The Mag'har have to be tough to survive. |
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Unwanted Rescue |
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Unwanted Rescue: Corboran, the son of important Dalaranese mages, is believed kidnapped and brainwashed by the Blue Dragonflight. Because of his familial connections, the Kirin Tor send a partisan group called Dawn’s Grace (who are accompanied by Destron) to rescue him. Turns out that Corboran was never brainwashed, and joined the Blue Dragonflight willingly. |
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Science Fiction |
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Science Fiction: The fanfic has Science Fiction as a literary genre invented by goblins that’s referred to as speculative fiction (which is what sci-fi in RL is sometimes called). Azerothian speculative fiction even inspires the development of in-world technological and arcane advances (much as sometimes happens in RL). Dwarves, gnomes, humans, and Forsaken also write in the genre. |
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Evil Cripple |
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Evil Cripple: Harz Blacknail might be a partial example. Though he actually does some good, he is also a warlock, and is thus likely to end up corrupted. |
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Tribal Carry |
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Tribal Carry: Destron falls victim to this, thanks to the Vilebranch trolls of the Hinterlands. |
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Big Heroic Run |
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Big Heroic Run: Taunka long runners, who can trek for days at a time across some of the meanest environments in Northrend, might be described as doing this. |
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Badass Bookworm |
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Badass Bookworm: The narrator may be a wandering scholar, but he has repeatedly proven himself to also be a dangerous warrior when necessary. |
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Time Dissonance |
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Time Dissonance: Immortal or long-lived races are suggested to perceive the passage of time differently from normal humans. This is seen in the night elves and draenei, who rarely know exactly how old they are. |
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Little Hero, Big War |
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Little Hero, Big War: The Northrend arc. While the Horde, the Alliance and Adventurers are fighting the Scourge and the Lich King, Destren travels across the icy continent |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: A list of them can be found on the blog itself. Some are very obvious, but others are easy to miss. |
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Cannon Fodder |
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Cannon Fodder: The Burning Legion. Averted in a big way by the Horde and Alliance, who tend to field well-trained troops with tactics that are far more modern than medieval. |
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Happiness Is Mandatory |
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Happiness Is Mandatory: Pretty much made explicit in tuskarr society, where expressing sadness is believed to attract malign spirits. The draenei are like this too, to a lesser extent. |
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Child Soldiers |
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Child Soldiers: The Defias make heavy use of these. |
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Canned Orders over Loudspeaker |
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comment |
Canned Orders over Loudspeaker: Encountered on Orgrim’s Hammer. A more primitive version (a guy on a wagon shouting to people) is seen in Westfall). |
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Officer and a Gentleman |
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Officer and a Gentleman: Dallard Corwyn, the brother of recurring character Alima Corwyn. |
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Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends |
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comment |
Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: An arguable case. In life, Destron was romantically involved with a Dalaranese woman named Emette. Throughout most of the travelogue, he has no idea whether she survived the Third War, and makes some attempt to find her during her travels. However, being undead, he is no longer romantically interested. Destron finally meets Emette (who has since married), and they have one last conversation before going their separate ways. This scene was a Tear Jerker for some readers. |
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Word of God |
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comment |
Dan'jo, (self-proclaimed) Emperor of the Eastern Sea! Word of God says that he's based off of the real life Cloud Cuckoo Lander Emperor Joshua Norton. |
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Sociopathic Soldier |
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comment |
Sociopathic Soldier: Tends to appear a lot in Northrend, especially in Wintergrasp. The brutalized Kirovi survivors who try to torture a necromancer to death might be another example. |
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Good Shepherd |
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Good Shepherd: Several, who often overlap into Church Militant. Torsen Velsemin is a courageous preacher helping the people of Westfall. Father Lacitus is the frail but charismatic priest who kept Honor Hold from completely falling apart. Father Vanya is the spiritual leader of the Kirovi in the Grizzly Hills who still follow the Light. Kastoor, a draenic anchorite who is the only one protecting the human inhabitants of Farshire. He doesn’t quite understand humans, however. |
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Lightning Gun |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_d0447c7b |
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Lightning Gun: The iron dwarf weapon of choice. |
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Patchwork Map |
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Patchwork Map: Attempts are made to explain Azeroth’s odd geographical arrangement. For instance, Un’goro Crater has ancient Titan machinery that attracts storms, explaining why a jungle lowland is surrounded by deserts. The Titans did this because they presumably wanted to study a jungle rather than a rocky waste. |
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Alchemy Is Magic |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_d251db87 |
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Alchemy Is Magic: The arakkoa claim to have been masters of this during their glory days. |
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Sympathy for the Devil |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_d3a4af1e |
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Sympathy for the Devil: Destron admires the Alliance (at least in the Eastern Kingdoms; he seems a bit wary about night elves and draenei) a great deal, and wishes the Horde would be more like it. Partial example, since the Alliance isn’t particularly devilish. |
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DeadlyDecadentCourt |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_d4f9a68f |
comment |
Deadly Decadent Court: Stormwind used to be this. |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_d4f9a68f |
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Un-person |
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Unperson: What is implied to have happened to Ulrecht, a Forsaken who helped the 7th Legion defend Wintergarde Keep from the Scourge. Destron also believes that this happened to Commander Stonefuse for implying that the Dark Iron supply lines were stretched, and thus indicating weakness. This is never confirmed, however. |
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I Am Legion |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_d5daa5ca |
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I Am Legion: Theka the Martyr, though he uses mummified corpses rather than living people. |
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The Dead Can Dance |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_d5f518d3 |
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The Dead Can Dance: Destron witnesses a macabre dance party in Undercity. It ends with the revelers tearing realistic dummies of Arthas, King Terenas, and Archbishop Alonsus Faol to pieces. |
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Driven to Madness |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_d6b5863 |
comment |
Driven to Madness: The process of becoming undead did this to many Forsaken. |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_d6b5863 |
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Friendship Moment |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_d6b5f05f |
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Friendship Moment: Destron and Daj’yah get one after he gets back from his first trip to Northrend. |
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type |
In Harmony with Nature |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_d6de6609 |
comment |
In Harmony with Nature: The story examines this trope a bit. While the night elves claim to be in harmony with nature, their attitude towards it is presented as paternalistic. Also, because of their special relationship with the natural world (like the wisps harvesting wood without damaging trees), one can argue that the night elves actually live apart from true nature, even though these benefits are given with nature’s consent. The tauren are closer to the actual ideal, and the mok’nathal closer still. |
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Cute Monster Girl |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_d9e946ae |
comment |
Cute Monster Girl: Examined. The troll mage Daj'yah, while somewhat attractive by human standards, is considered quite ugly by her own race. |
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You Can't Go Home Again |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_da12bcfb |
comment |
You Can't Go Home Again: Daj'yah killed an orc in Orgrimmar in self defense. Hellscream's Horde is notoriously racist however, and after fleeing the city she joins Destron on his travels through the post-Cataclysm Azeroth. |
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Torture Technician |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_db38d6ca |
comment |
Torture Technician: The naga, Lady Tsravash, claims that her society is full of these, and is very proud of this. The horribly mutilated orc she uses as her mouthpiece suggests she’s telling the truth. |
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type |
Inherent in the System |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_dcdde3b |
comment |
Inherent in the System: Destron often frets about the orcish fondness for violence, which is supported by many cultural elements. Events in Northrend show he was right to be worried. |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_dcdde3b |
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Ambadassador |
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comment |
Ambadassador: Pazshe, an etheral diplomat, is the very picture of polite restraint who can even make a declaration of war sound gracious. He's also a badass who can wield weapons with his mind and teleport at will. |
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Mama Bear |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_e13156e1 |
comment |
Mama Bear: Irianne Hollisworth is a peculiar, undead example. Don’t get between her and the sporeling infants she’s chosen to protect. |
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Tragic Monster |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_e35bc0f7 |
comment |
Tragic Monster: Believe it or not, the ogre-magi. Blessed with high intelligence, their creator (Gul’dan) also gave each of them two heads. The result? Two aggressive and combative personalities trapped in a single body. Most ogre-magi completely broke down after the Second War and Gul’dan’s death. The few who survived did so by one of the personalities achieving a decisive victory over the other. How was victory achieved? By driving the loser insane, which still means the winner has to share a body with a lunatic. Whatever chance the ogre-magi had to lead their race to something better is long gone. Only the ogre-magi in Ogri’la avoided this fate, but they had to pay a price of their own… |
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type |
Expy |
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comment |
Expy: The blind scholar Belgrano is an obvious expy of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Goblin science-fiction writer Artz Cyklurk in Area 52 is clearly meant to be Arthur C. Clarke, while Fil Kaydik (referred to but never actually encountered) is obviously Philip K. Dick. The crazy troll, Dan'jo, is a reference to Emperor Joshua Norton. Niharalath is presumably an expy of Nyarlathotep. |
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Ghibli Hills |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_e758e4d6 |
comment |
Ghibli Hills: Mulgore, for the most part. |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_e758e4d6 |
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Writer on Board |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_e88e8a8f |
comment |
Writer on Board: The author has implied as much. |
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type |
The Devil Is a Loser |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_e8f2d4f2 |
comment |
The Devil Is a Loser: The Lich King is a loser. Destron realizes that, for all the Lich King's power, he's totally alone. |
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type |
The Heretic |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_e905c892 |
comment |
The Heretic: Theka the Martyr, in Zul’farrak. Heretics from the early history of the Holy Light are also mentioned from time to time. There’s also the Order of the Mandible, a druidic sect that sided with the silithids, and the tauren shamans who followed the Stonemother (Therazane). |
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Hobbes Was Right |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_e96fe76d |
comment |
Hobbes Was Right: Destron expresses this sentiment (though not in so many words) after finding the aftermath of a Defias massacre. Other times he seems more optimistic about the nature of sapient beings. |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_e96fe76d |
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Who Wants to Live Forever? |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_ea39d156 |
comment |
Who Wants to Live Forever?: Destron's not worried about this, since he figures that his adventurous lifestyle will kill him before immortality gets too boring. |
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Swamps Are Evil |
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comment |
Swamps Are Evil: Averted. Destron’s relieved to reach the biologically rich Swamp of Sorrows after hiking through Deadwind Pass. Zangarmarsh also sounds fairly pleasant coming after Hellfire Peninsula. |
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Fantastic Caste System |
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comment |
Fantastic Caste System: The sporelings have a biological variant of this, with different castes working at different functions in their society. |
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Glowing Eyelights of Undeath |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_edd34386 |
comment |
Glowing Eyelights of Undeath: Much like in the game, some Forsaken have this, others don't. Destron doesn't. |
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Barbarian Tribe |
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comment |
Barbarian Tribe: The centaurs play this trope straight, as do the wolvar. The mag'har are only a little better. |
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Undying Loyalty |
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comment |
Undying Loyalty: A sad case is seen in the Storm Peaks. Tock, a mechagnome, is fulfilling the duties assigned to him by the Titan Watchers, fully expecting them to return. He’s been waiting for tens of thousands of years, continuing to toil as his companions broke down, leaving him totally alone. |
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type |
Got Volunteered |
| | Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_f329f2a2 |
comment |
Got Volunteered: Happens to Destron a few times. Also the fate of some Lordaeronian refugees who were forced to join the Southsea Freebooters or Defias Brotherhood. |
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type |
Mercy Kill |
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comment |
Mercy Kill: Destron does this to Festul. |
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type |
Fictional Holiday |
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Fictional Holiday: Bounty Day, which is celebrated by coastal human towns. There’s also the Festival of Nature’s Song, honored in Moonglade, which has the night elves return a piece of nature to the Emerald Dream. In Outland, Destron sees the Phoenix of Victory Rising from the Ashes of War, a high/blood elven holiday commemorating a victory over the trolls. |
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EarnYourHappyEnding |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: In Northrend Destron sees the Horde returning to its savage past, confronts the Scourge, loses his left hand, and suffers through a serious period of self-doubt. In the end, he returns to Orgrimmar, able to feel contentment in his life as a translator in the Valley of Spirits, though he is still troubled by the Horde's behavior. |
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The Remnant |
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The Remnant: In addition to the dozens of remnants described from the source material, the orcish town of Stonard is shown as one of these. Orcish fugitives resettled the abandoned town (which the Alliance had originally intended to preserve as a sort of museum, but eventually forgot about) after the Second War. Much later, they joined Thrall’s Horde. |
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Ascetic Aesthetic |
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Ascetic Aesthetic: Once you get beyond all the shiny crystals (which usually serve utilitarian functions), draenic cities are rather austere. |
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Master of Disguise |
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Master of Disguise: Destron is able to effectively disguise himself as a human named Talus Corestiam. The disguise was purchased from another Forsaken, known as The Masquerade, who makes a living selling human disguises. |
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Weaponized Animal |
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Weaponized Animal: A weird example pops up in Azshara, in which a naga uses a jellyfish attached to his arm as a weapon. |
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Death Seeker |
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Death Seeker: The demon hunter encountered in the Blasted Lands is an example of this, as is Vyldra. In both cases, Destron tries to talk them out of this course of action, citing it as selfish and useless. He fails. Augra, an old orcish warlock, may be a more sedate example of this. |
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