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As Deserous flashbacks to his escape from the culling of Stratholme we see him in his former human life as Desmond, fleeing the city carrying ahold of his wife Katharine. After selling his soul to purge the plague from her body and taking it into his own, Desmond manages to escape the city and crawls to safety onto the river bank only to find the Old God and his new master N’Zoth awaiting to collect upon the debt of servitude incurred by the warlock in exchange for the life of his love.
What plans does the Elder God who’s responsible for driving Deathwing to madness have for Deserous, and what of Katharine’s fate after waking up alone on the riverbank outside of Stratholme? Tune in next week for these answers and more!
“Have you had the dream again? A black goat with seven eyes that watches from the outside…”
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The story is actually very well made and cool...
as a warcraft-lore Nerd, I'll just ask how did he manage to find N'zoth that easely? should it be more logicall to show him in a ritualistic circle, failling to bring her back and then, a voice came to promissing him power.....
or maybe we can assume that what you try to say but didn't show it for the sake of having a quick pacing here to quickly go back to the present.....
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The influence of N'Zoth touched Deserous long before the culling of Stratholme, and the Old God used these events to seal his fate.
Rewinding back to classic Cru the Dwarf, when the party traveled into the Deadmines and Deserous encountered the fortune-telling gnoll (whose true identity is not yet revealed) we learned on page 34 that Deserous' troubled past and his study of the arcane as a warlock attracted the attention of "evil forces": "whispers from the shadows and unseen hands guiding him toward forbidden magics" that fed his hate & resentment toward the world.
It was then that he met Katharine and his heart, which had grown cold and calloused, began to soften as he found a partner who had suffered much like himself in her. The dark forces guiding Desmond had split his psyche in two: one half cynical and bitter, the other half loving and empathetic. This is when N'Zoth set the events in motion that would lead Desmond and Katharine to Stratholme just before the plague struck, and the Old God allowed him to escape the city with Katharine in exchange for his servitude to act as a powerful servant to bring about a currently unknown end.
Could it be that N'Zoth seeks to escape his imprisonment within the depths of Azeroth, or could the resentful Elder God be plotting an even more devious end when his two servants Deathwing and Deserous meet? Possibly the end of not only the Titan's creations on Azeroth but the destruction of all worlds connected by the Twisting Nether - bringing about a chain reaction devastating enough to destroy all of creation?
lore, lol
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Oh my.... I think I met my master! ^^
a fortune Telling Gnoll? my my... I really should read your previous work
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Back in the day I studied the hell out of various Warcraft lore and managed to weave it all together to form the "Echoes Through Time" story arc. Even after returning to the comic after four years hiatus I'm still finding bits of the story that fall into place which I had setup in the beginning but forgot about. I'm still adding to it and making changes, but the skeleton I had created to support everything that would happen throughout has remained intact and connects WoW lore with my own story. Katharine was originally intended to be dead but I decided including her in the plot could make for some entertaining couples play between her and Deserous.
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Yeah..... I guess reusing old stuff than you work art on is alright
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