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OK they look really real. Very extremelly real. But come on, would Blizzard really release pictures? Perhaps they have read all these forums and decided to screw with us, release these pictures so we'd get all excited then, surprise the stuffing out of us with making the new races completly different, or non-existent.
Peace out, Ahldorn
It's not so much Blizzard releasing the pics, as someone who is beta testing it for them smuggling pics out. At this point, it would be a family member. Same thing happened when WoW itself was still in closed beta.
Aaron Keller.... "We're thinking about turning these arches into horse heads."
Twenty minutes of discussion ensued about animal heads carved into just a few spots of one segment of a tower that many users will never even see.
For 10 years, Mr. Metzen, 31, has been creating the rich stories and plotlines that have girded Blizzard's success. In his silver-rimmed sunglasses, shorts and hiking boots, he strode to the monitor as the others explained the concept of the horse heads.
"Well, I'm not so sure it makes sense just because it's a carriage house," Mr. Metzen said. "But check it out: in Warcraft 1 it said that Lothar was part of the Brotherhood of the Horse, and I thought that was kind of lame then, but maybe a horse head will work because of that. Yeah, that's hot."
Within a few minutes, Mr. Metzen determined that the history and culture of the tower's long-dead inhabitants decreed that the architectural animal motifs progress from horse heads at the tower's base to eagle heads a bit higher, culminating in lion heads at the grand opera house.
"But don't put these heads all over the place," Mr. Metzen told an artist. "Just sprinkling them in here and there will really sell the history to the players who are paying attention."
Wow, if those are fake, someone went to a whole heap of trouble to make 'em. I'm not a very good spotter of this stuff, but I think these look pretty darn real. That's a whole lot of detail in a whole lot of pictures for it to be fake.
I terrorize photoshop Forums like Digikitten on a daily basis, and from the looks of it, each photo looks to ba about 4-7+ hours of work if you are not professionally trained. If they are fake, the person(s) have WAY too much time on their hands.
I believe Blood elves will have some part of the expansion, don't know what though.
Mastgrr, that was a really keen observation. I even read that article and didn't even think of the relation. The arches in those pictures are indeed what they are discussing:
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From around a dark, windowless room, nine young men peered into the unfinished virtual interior of Karazhan, a haunted tower set in a forlorn mountain pass that will open later this year. "As you can see, the architecture is a little ornate, a little Gothicky,"
So Karazhan is a tower in some kind of mountain pass with a grand opera house at the top. We can now see that the article is referring to the expansion and not just bonus patch content, which suggests the expansion will come out later this year as they state (knowing Blizzard, though, I doubt it)
I doubt a "faker" would notice something this small in a New York Times article and try to reproduce it.
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The tower Medivh inhabited, near the Redridge Mountains on the continent of Azeroth. Existing long before Medivh inhabited it, it is unknown who these original builders were. It is also unknown who now resides within its walls
The Ruling Dynasty of Quel'thalas, descended from Dath'Remar Sunstrider the Highborne who led his people into exile to found Quel'thalas, his descendents include Anasterian Sunstrider the High King of Quel'thalas at the time of the Second War and Kael'thas, last of the Sunstriders and the leader of the Blood Elves
The only reference to an "island" with regards to the blood elves seems to be this one:
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The Sunwell was the source of the High Elves arcane power created from a vial of water from the Well of Eternity on a small island to the north of Silvermoon. The Sunwell gave the High Elves not only the power to cast their spells but also sustained their addiction to magic.
At the fall of Quel'Thalas from the dreaded Scourge, Arthas submersed the remains of Kel'Thuzad in the well, fouling the waters of eternity but resurrecting the dead necromancer as a lich. Recently the Red and Green Dragonflights have sent agents to the Sunwell to see if it can be restored.
Maybe the Sunwell is located on Sunstrider Isle?
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...dear f***ing god, they're going to be horde, won't they. Time to start leveling an NE warrior... I will not rest until every last one of the new Horde legolas-clones lies dead.
i am with you. the bodies will pile before my feet. :D
If those pictures are real, it still doesn't confirm Bloodelves as the new race. They all look like NPCs to me. There still hasn't been a picture of a player charecter Bloodelf. (at least a believable picture anyway).
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