Sunstrider Isle to the Ghostlands

[MongoJerry]

THE ADVENTURES OF NERIAD: Night elves, trolls, and zombies, oh my!

It's a couple hours before the expansion, so I unfortunately can't give you all the details I want to give, but I will do my best to at least give you a flavor of what awaits you in the Ghostlands. (Note to any Blizzard folks reading this: Send me a beta key earlier next time!).

Neriad had discovered what the night elves were up to -- they were setting up moon crystals on key ley lines that would allow them to be able to spy on all blood elf troop movements. Neriad raced to An'telas, another key ley line, and was just in time to stop a night elf raid on the small encampment of blood elves there. Then, the leader of the blood elves at the camp sent Neriad to deactivate the last moon crystal on another key ley line just to the south. The night elf incursion was thwarted!



Next, Neriad was sent to Dawnstar Spire, where Dar'Khan had lived when he was still a blood elf himself, to search for clues involving his past. Neriad found a book.



Then came lots of excursions against the trolls in the area. This group was a relatively low level group of trolls to the north in an area called Zeb'Sora.



On the island in the middle of the lake was a ghost who asked Neriad to free his companions' spirits and defeat Aquantion, a water elemental who had enslaved the local blood elves. Of course, from Aquantion's point of view, the blood elves had only gotten their just deserts, since it was they who had chained Aquantion in the first place.



It was then learned that the local trolls were raising mummified trolls from the grave to attack the local blood elf town of Farstrider Enclave! Neriad was sent to burn the bodies of dead trolls so that they couldn't be raised.



Inside the mausoleum, Neriad and her party found a captured blood elf, and they escorted her back to Farstrider Enclave.



After that, there was a series of quests involving the bigger Amani trolls to the south.



Kel'gash the Wicked, the main troll boss, is supposed to need three people to kill, but Neriad and a paladin managed to kill him just fine.



The really exciting discovery here, though, was the discovery of Zul'Aman. It's a massive structure with a massive green portal behind the gate.



It's obviously intended to be a future instance of some kind, since it even has a waiting stone. Will this be Zul'Gurub II, perhaps?