Sunstrider Isle to the Ghostlands

[MongoJerry]

THE ADVENTURES OF NERIAD: Ruins of Silvermoon

Last time, I forgot to mention some of the most important aspects of blood elves. First, you know how night elves every once in a while do a flip when they jump? Blood elves do a 360 twirl in the air. It's much cooler. Second, I gather that the female blood elf dance is based on an old Brittany Spears video. It's OK. It's better than the human female dance, after all, but it's no female night elf dance, if you know what I mean. (The early beta idea of using the Pulp Fiction version of the Twist would have been better). Finally, all the /silly comments are valley girl type jokes like, "You mean I'm stuck with this hair color?" and "Will the expansion make me fat?" The best one is, "So, I went to this troll spa the other day. I wound up with dreadlocks and a friggin' bone in my nose. I mean come on! Who pays for that?"



Where were we? Oh, yes, Neriad walked toward the ruins of Silvermoon and found Outrunner Alarion who told her that the road ahead in the ruins was crawling with Wretched -- blood elves who had been overcome by their addiction to magic. She asked Neriad to find traces of an outrunner who had gone missing.



"And the award for easiest quest ever goes to..."

And 20 feet up the road, Neriad found the Slain Outrunner without having had to fight a single mob. Neriad wanted to go back to Alarion and say, "Look, you fool! All you had to do was walk up the path a little ways and look!" Some NPC's just can't do anything for themselves.

Neriad found a package on the slain outrunner's body, returned it to Alarion, who then asked Neriad to deliver it to the innkeeper in Falconwing Square -- which was apparently somewhere inside of the ruins of Silvermoon.



Before walking into the main part of the ruins, however, Neriad decided to make a small detour along a side path. There was an ornate building with some wagons nearby off to the side, and she wanted to see if there were any quests given out there. There were none apparently for her, however. She found a gentleman by the name of Master Kelerun Bloodmourn who didn't seem very talkative to Neriad. However, his shouts, such as "Well done, Liranda! You have passed the second trial" could be heard periodically. I suspect that this guy is there for a paladin-only series of quests.



Neriad then entered the main section of the Ruins of Silvermoon City. The ruins were enormous, and the artwork was beautiful.



Blood elf buildings of varying styles lined the street on the right.



On the left, a large building dominated the scene.