[Cairenn]

The quest/lore group at blizzard used to tape record all of their session. They had thought to go back to older discussions, use them as reference. There was a lot of adult humor and rather ribald references in them. The tapes have since been destroyed... and it seams to be a running joke among them... “burn the tapes”. Chris does the very top level, and the other quest designers do the details.

There is a couple challenges to make a Quest.

· make the quest fit
· craft an interactive story
· balance detail vs verbosity
· explore the lore and class at once

Quests are a “go to” for danger. The story line of the quests need to be cohesive. But you have to be careful not to go overboard.

The little things in the game is the fun part. The easter eggs, the references are fun because everybody working there are geeks them selves. “Being a geek is fun, express your self!”

“Why does the prince Kal'thalas fight the blood elves?”

The blood elves have been doing their own thing being trapped on our world for a while now... things have become very different in the outlands... and there will be a big surprise for the blood elves who make it there... things are not as they had hoped.

Are the titans the “zelnaga”? No! (I have no idea what the Zelnaga are)

What happened to the humans south of Silverpine forest, behind the wall.

“We forgot about them”

Chris has a bad memory.

Where does arcane magic come from, the twisting nether or from the universe?

“both”... the twisting nether is the physical manifestation of the arcane magic in the universe.

Is Illdian powerful?

He will not be easy. This is supposed to be a boss that will be difficult to repeatedly drop.

More raid quests?

In the future, all raid zones will be interwoven with quests. There will no longer be static zones like BWL or MC that are there for loot alone, quests will be involved in the zones. The raid zones need to be cool, and feel like they are part of the lore. ZG was quested out for this reason. AQ will have more quests.

The “Alliance race” will be baddass. “a feeling of Ohhhhh... but wow!”. Its supposed to be obvious once you know it..

Saragras (sp?), the corrupted titan will be back.

Chris lamented the druids in the game. If he had his way, only male night elves would be druids, and only female night elves would be the warriors, and no tauren druids. He likes the flavor of the night elf race where the men wore the skirts and the women had the swords. In the game, all NPCs follow this... every druid is a night elf male, and every sentinel is a night elf female.

“What is Arthas doing”

He is rebuilding his power base.

The floating necropolis above Stratholme is “named” for a reason... “why would we name it... if there was only one of them”

Kil'Jaden is still out there, and one day will need to be dealt with. He is the supreme leader of the burning legion with Saragras not available.

There will be a new book (or series of books?) dealing with the lore of wow before the game. The book(s) will deal with the 8 months before the game, how the alliances fell apart, how we got to this point from Warcraft 3.

Pandarans are a legitimate part of the Warcraft lore. They were originally an April fools joke, that has gone legit. They have no idea about the future of the Pandarens.

If you don't have the expansion pack you won't be able to access the outlands. There will be lots of solo content in the expansion pack.

There was some asking about “life quests”... or a long term quest that follows your character from level 1 to 60. There will be no life quests, but there will be more epic quests at the 60+ for characters.