Guild Stories: Nobody Expects the Faithless Inquisition

Hello, my still faithful (I hope) blog readers. Since we’ve started the guild, I’ve been writing up summaries of our stories there on the guild Discord, but I never published them out to the public. I figured people would be interested in hearing what happened to Krasha since, so I’m sharing the Discord summaries here.

OOC

While Ethan’s old friend, the gnome agent Jeb Spoggins, was visiting, the grummle Pennywise who helped ferry us to Azj’Aqir seat in his mole machine, came to us asking for help. After Azj’Aqir couldn’t pay him after his failure to beat Skitra, Pennywise was let go and returned to his village, only to find it worshipping Mazu – and the iconography let him believe they were worshipping Azshara. At his behest and the promise of loot, we went to his village, where it turned out few people liked him, especially after he said their goddess was an evil monster. But we tracked down their religious leader, Goldfish, to a cave nearby where we found – to our surprise – a sethrak being sacrificed to power a demonic gate. Goldfish turned out to be a wyrmtongue and after we dispatched him, Pennywise and the sethrak, Torque, left to try to find the demon the grummles were unknowingly worshipping.(edited)

We followed the trail to an old troll ruin at the coast of Kun-Lai, where we found a couple of demons trying to corrupt a devilsaur with fel. After we killed them, and the devilsaur ran off, healthy, we found the alleged goddess – in fact, a shivarra who wanted to open a portal to free Sargeras from his prison. She escaped, but she sent a hulking eredar brute after us. Although he caused some damage, we killed him fairly quickly.

Following on the shivarra’s whereabouts, we encountered the Shado-Pan, and Master Snowdrift promised us his help in getting Pandaria rid of this demon. For an evening we strategized and came up with a plan to deal with her. At the same time, we found out she’s not as powerful as she claims to be and will be unlikely to successfully summon Sargeras.

Nevertheless, soon after we enacted the plan. We drove Pennywise’s mole machine into the temple where the demons were congregating and killed a few of them with that alone. Then, we finished the crowd, while the Shado-Pan were distracting other demons.
In the end, we confronted the shivarra Mazikeen as her spell failed and she blamed us for it. With the help of Shado-Pan and T’Paartos who came on behalf of Calaara, we dispatched the shivarra.
We brought her head to the grummle village to prove what they were worshipping and the village leader admitted to his wrong. He offered Pennywise the hand of one of his granddaughters for his help, but Pennywise refused on account of preferring men, which caused a lot of shock to the simple grummles.
Pennywise then left with the sethrak inquisitor Torque to hunt down the real Mazu.

Raelia’s Penance

It was an early evening on the Lehba Island. Sun has already set thanks to Anzulekk’s twin world, hanging in the sky right on the horizon. Despite that, it still wasn’t too dark. With his office awash in the twilight, Menrim was preparing to leave for his quarters when the doors opened. It was Raelia Sunspear, his felblood elf assistant. She was still calm and somewhat happy, not knowing what Verroak would soon want of her.

“Raelia,” Menrim said to welcome her, “I see you’re back from the mainland.” She spent most of the day commanding the Ivarindian peasants who were building the village where they would live together with the refugees Anzulekk would invite to flee from Azeroth’s certain and urgent doom.

“Yes. If you do not mind, I will just leave the documents and go back to my quarters.” She calmly walked to her desk, but before she could do what she planned, Menrim interrupted her.

“Actually,” he said, “boss wanted to talk to you.”

She sneered snidely. “What does the old coot want this time? Ran out of bird seed?”

Menrim wasn’t laughing at her jokes. He does not often joke, and he got tired of the bird jokes as well. “You’ll have to talk to him.”

“Fine,” she said putting down her paper stack, “I’ll go to his study right away.”

“Not his study,” Menrim said, pointing through the window. “He’s waiting for you at the world tree. Come.” He came out from behind the desk and grabbed his bag, putting it across his shoulder.

She chuckled. “You’ll be escorting me? My knight in shining armor. Only without the armor…” She looked across Menrim’s leonine centauric lower body. “But you got the horse parts alright.” They exchanged concerned looks after that last remark. “Not what I meant.”

“I know,” the tol’vir responded and came over to the door, waving to the felblood. “Come.”

Planet Aman’thul

Our boss’s latest project caused some consternation. After Jhuuton announced he found a way to the Titan Pantheon, we thought it would be something best to remain far away from. Alas, Verroak had to insist on actually going through it. He was giddy with anticipation of the things he could learn from the Titans. He was sure nothing could go wrong – that even if the Titans would prove hostile to us, we could just get away quickly and close the gate behind us and pray – his exact word – they do not follow. He was always possessed with the idea of gaining more knowledge but many of us thought knocking directly on the Pantheon’s doorstep was too dangerous. As it would turn out, all of us – those expecting the Titans to be hostile and those expecting them to be friendly – were proven wrong.

Worlds of the Nether: Irden Reichs

The Irden are today one of the greatest powers in our sector of the galaxy, but every great power must begin somewhere. It may be hard to imagine their beginnings seeing their influence, but once, a long time ago, the dwarves that became the leaders of the Irden Reichs did not even dominate their homeworld of Zvargoff. Over 3500 years ago, it was a world of giants. All of the dominant races were various kinds of giants, from fleshy hill giants, through mountain and stone giants, through the sea giants dominating the seas, through ogres and ettins stalking the valleys, through fire giants dwelling underground and coming up to gather more slaves, up to the rare cloud giants. That last race was in that ancient era the definite overlords of Zvargoff, then known as Tyrinsal.

Map of the Warcraft Galaxy – Update (NGC 6384)

Map of the Warcraft Galaxy (NGC 6384)

Binding a Gelugon – RP Thread

Binding a Gelugon – Thread on the RP forum

A Titanic Task

Who says only Titans can move and shape lands? Well, people who don’t know much, or who are dogmatically following some silly beliefs. For your information, ethereals can move lands. As I learned some time ago, they sometimes locate worlds shattered by the Burning Legion (or Old Gods, or other nasties – yes, there are more) and take whole chunks of those worlds, snap some magic technology to them and relocate those chunks elsewhere for easy harvest by their ethereal and grav crews. A lot of the minerals or items you may have purchased or otherwise acquired from ethereals come from these. So when I learned about an ethereal in deep debt who was willing to part with his land-moving devices, I was quick to jump on the occasion.

Worlds of the Nether: Svarloka

I am Karphat Preung, and I have the pleasure of introducing you to my world, Svarloka. I am very excited to represent Svarloka among a new group of arrivals. Since your people started appearing here a few months ago, many stories started crossing the Nether. Some say your world is “the First Ordering”. Some say it’s “the Last Light”, the final bastion standing against the Burning Legion. Well, when it comes to the latter legend, either that isn’t happening for centuries or someone failed to notice all of us here. And I wouldn’t be surprised if they did – if we can hide from the Burning Legion that well, we can hide from others. But do not fear, I see many opportunities for both our worlds – and for others as well. We are not as far apart as you might imagine.

Green Sun

One would expect that when someone says “impossible”, it would send a pretty clear message – something that’s impossible cannot happen, ever. Unfortunately, people have come to use the word rather frivolously, and therefore there is a plenty of things that are apparently impossible, but still happen quite frequently. For instance, it’s impossible to grab a glass by just wishing it happened… but we have magic for that. On a more further out range of “impossible”, it’s impossible to kill an Old God – but it appears the Titans actually did kill at least one. Frequently, the real meaning of “impossible” is “it cannot happen, unless you throw enough magic at it”. And even that has limits – because some feats require such incredibly large amounts of magic constantly defying a persistent force of nature that it appears truly impossible. No one would have that kind of power, and if he did he would have more important things to do with it. One such truly impossible feat is what one of our Eyes of Terokk discovered – a ruined, uninhabitable world with a green sun.