You Can Call Me Lorewalker Jo!

On Sunday I finally reached exalted status with The Lorewalkers! Grinding rep with them has been on my list of to do's for ages now but I think knowing that it required me to fly around looking for scrolls resulted in me keeping on putting it off. That was until this past weekend.

I had a really bad back all weekend and earlier this week (but it's much better now) which meant that I either had to keep moving or sit really still to be comfy. This meant nothing to serious (ie. dungeons or raid finder). I started off with some archaeology and then thought 'why not work on the lorewalkers'.

I managed to get multiple stories going at once :)

I started off by making a note of which scrolls I'd already found and was quite surprised at how mnay I'd found for myself (about 1/3 - 1/2). I then managed to find a couple of awesome guides on Wowhead. Wowheads own guide is brilliant as it has maps with pins marking each scrolls location - but I wasnted to cut corners and only go to the scrolls I needed. I then stumbled across a fan written guide - Exploration in MoP - All Lore Objects and Achievements. Again this included maps with pins but no details of what was where... until I read the comments.

 

One fabulous person had posted a comment detailing the name of each scroll and it's location (in co-ordinates). I don't think they listed every single scroll but there was enough to be able to work out which was where. So, I used this info along with the pinned maps in the two aforementioned guides.

It didn't take me long to do and I even took the time to read most of the scrolls. I'm not brilliant at lore but this will certainly have helped. Then ofcourse came the silver lining(s) - Lorewalkers Tabard and the fabled Disc of the Red Flying Cloud!

That's one rep grind ticked off the list with plenty more to go...

How Little Lore I Know

Last night the boyf was watching Conspiracy Craft Ep2: Alliance Story and it made me realise how little I know about WoW lore.

But to start with what exactly is lore? Google informs me that the meaning of lore is:

A body of traditions and knowledge on a subject or held by a particular group, typically passed from person to person by word of mouth.

Personally I like this as a definition of real-life lore (think folk-lore) but how does that equate to a virtual world? Well I guess it's the same - it's simply made up traditions etc. and a little more of storyline rather than factual events.

You may also be wondering what this Conspiracy Craft is all about. It is a new show on Gamebreaker TV (which also hosts Legendary). Whilst Legendary is mostly all things WoW Conspiracy Craft focuses more on storyline and lore.

If I'm honest I wasn't paying 100% attention to Conspiracy Craft as I was running dungeons but the bits that I did see/hear mostly equated to gibberish in my brain. Simply because I know very little WoW-lore. I know there's the Alliance and the Horde, several continents, wars and general drama. But [atleast] half the leading characters are no-bodies to me.

There was talk of a troll named Vol'jin whom the boyf informs me is leader of the Darkspears and son of Sen'jin. A what now!?! Searching for Sen'jin in Wowhead does however bring this title up. So yes my knowledge of WoW-lore is crap - there's no other way of saying it. If we were talking Star Wars lore I'm fairly confident I'd be well above the average persons knowledge but were not.

Lorewalker Cho praying for someone/thing to help me!

What exactly can I do to resolve this situation?

Well, I'm going to continue watching Conspiracy Craft with the boyf although I suspect it may be a bit over my head for a while yet. WoW Insider has a column named Know Your Lore which I'm going to endeavour to read more of. Additionally, over at To All The Squirrels Leo and Tor (and new to the blog Nak) write lorelettes (snippets of lore in 200 words or less) and I find these really good as they keep my attention! Maybe one day I'll get around to reading some WoW books but being an extremely slow/bad reader I'm not sure if it will be worth the effort and (minor) suffering! Oh and I'm going to try and absorb more from the game in general - like actually reading the quest text!

I'd love to hear where other people get their lore knowledge from and how your knowledge of Azerothian lore stands?